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WASHINGTON (AP) — The agreement by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harm done by opioids could help combat the overdose epidemic that the painkiller triggered. But that does not mean all the victims are satisfied. In exchange for giving up ownership of drug manufacturer Purdue Pharma and for contributing up to $6 billion to fight the crisis, members of the wealthy Sackler family would be exempt from any civil lawsuits. At the same time, they could potentially keep billions of dollars from their profits on OxyContin sales. OXYCONTIN MAKER PURDUE PHARMA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR OPIOID VICTIMS TO FILE CLAIMS The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Dec. 4 over whether the agreement, part of the resolution of Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy, violates federal law. The issue for the justices is whether the legal shield that bankruptcy provides can be extended to people such as the Sacklers, who have not declared bankruptcy themselves. The legal question has resulted in conflicting lower court decisions. It also has implications for other major product liability lawsuits settled through the bankruptcy system. But the agreement, even with billions of dollars set aside for opioid abatement and treatment programs, also poses a moral conundrum that has divided people who lost loved ones or lost years of their own lives to opioids. Ellen Isaacs’ 33-year-old son, Ryan Wroblewski, died in Florida in 2018, about 17 years after he was first prescribed OxyContin for a back injury. When she first heard about a potential settlement that would include some money for people like her, she signed up. But she has changed her mind. Money might not bring closure, she said. And by allowing the deal, it could lead to more problems. “Anybody in the future would be able to do the exact same thing that the Sacklers are now able to do,” she said in an interview. Her lawyer, Mike Quinn, put it this way in a court filing: “The Sackler releases are special protection for billionaires.” Lynn Wencus, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, also lost a 33-year-old son, Jeff, to overdose in 2017. She initially opposed the deal with Purdue Pharma but has come around. Even though she does not expect a payout, she wants the settlement to be finalized in hopes it would help her stop thinking about Purdue Pharma and Sackler family members, whom she blames for the opioid crisis. “I feel like I can’t really move on while this is all hanging out in the court,” Wencus said. Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin, a powerful prescription painkiller that hit the market in 1996, is often cited as a catalyst of a nationwide opioid epidemic, persuading doctors to prescribe painkillers with less regard for addiction dangers. The company pleaded guilty to misbranding the drug in 2007 and paid more than $600 million in fines and penalties. The drug and the Stamford, Connecticut-based company became synonymous with the crisis, even though the majority of pills being prescribed and used were generic drugs. Opioid-related overdose deaths have continued to climb, hitting 80,000 in recent years. That’s partly because people with substance abuse disorder found pills harder to get and turned to heroin and, more recently, fentanyl, an even more potent synthetic opioid. Drug companies, wholesalers and pharmacies have agreed to pay a total of more than $50 billion to settle lawsuits filed by state, local and Native American tribal governments and others that claimed the companies’ marketing, sales and monitoring practices spurred the epidemic. The Purdue Pharma settlement would be among the largest. It’s also one of only two so far with provisions for victims of the crisis to be compensated directly, with payouts from a $750 million pool expected to range from about $3,500 to $48,000. Lawyers for more than 60,000 victims who support the settlement called it “a watershed moment in the opioid crisis,” while recognizing that “no amount of money could fully compensate” victims for the damage caused by the misleading marketing of OxyContin. In the fallout, parts of the Sackler family story has been told in multiple books and documentaries and in fictionalized versions in the streaming series “Dopesick” and “Painkiller.” Museums and universities around the world have removed the family’s name from galleries and buildings. Family members have remained mostly out of the public eye, and they have stepped off the board of their company and have not received payouts from it since before the company entered bankruptcy. But in the decade before that, they were paid more than $10 billion, about half of which family members said went to pay taxes. Some testified in a 2021 bankruptcy hearing, telling a judge that the family would not contribute to the proposed legal settlement without being shielded from lawsuits. Two family members appeared by video and one listened by audio to a 2022 court hearing in which more than two dozen people impacted by opioids told their stories publicly. One told them: “You poisoned our lives and had the audacity to blame us for dying.” Purdue Pharma reached the deal with the governments suing it — including with some states that initially rejected the plan. But the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee, an arm of the Justice Department responsible for promoting the integrity of the bankruptcy system, has objected to the legal protections for Sackler family members. Attorney General Merrick Garland also has criticized the plan. The opposition marked an about-face for the Justice Department, which supported the settlement during the presidency of Donald Trump, a Republican. The department and Purdue Pharma forged a plea bargain in a criminal and civil case. The deal included $8.3 billion in penalties and forfeitures, but the company would pay the federal government only $225 million so long as it executed the settlement plan. A federal trial court judge in 2021 ruled the settlement should not be allowed. This year, a federal appeals panel ruled the other way in a unanimous decision in which one judge still expressed major concerns about the deal. The Supreme Court quickly agreed to take the case, at the urging of the administration of President Joe Biden, a Democrat. Purdue Pharma’s is not the first bankruptcy to include this sort of third-party release, even when not everyone in the case agrees to it. It was specifically allowed by Congress in 1994 for asbestos cases. They have been used elsewhere, too, including in settlements of sexual abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America, where groups like regional Boy Scout councils and churches that sponsor troops helped pay, and against Catholic dioceses, where parishes and schools contributed cash. Proponents of Purdue Pharma’s settlement plan often assert that federal law does not prohibit third-party releases and that they can be necessary to create a settlement that parties will agree to. “Third-party releases are a recurring feature of bankruptcy practice,” lawyers for one branch of the Sackler family said in a court filing, “and not because anyone is trying to do the released third parties a favor.”



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The Slovak government signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday with Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Gotion High-Tech and its local partner, InoBat, to build a car battery plant in Slovakia. SLOVAK PM LOOKS TO CURB MIGRATION BY DEPLOYING FORCES TO HUNGARIAN BORDER The two companies formed Gotion InoBat Batteries, a Chinese-Slovak venture to build the plant in the town of Surany, about 60 miles east of Bratislava. It should create about 1,500 jobs and become operational in 2026 with an initial production of 20GWh. Financial details about the investment were not given. German car giant Volkswagen is the largest shareholder in Gotion High-Tech with a 24.77% stake. Volkswagen has a car plant in Slovakia. Gotion High-Tech began production in its first European plant in Göttingen, Germany, in September.



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An Israeli government spokesman is going viral for his gobsmacked reaction to a media question about the value of Palestinian versus Israeli lives based on the Israelis receiving back fewer hostages in a potential swap with Hamas. Eylon Levy was astonished as Sky News interviewer Kay Burley suggested that because Israel would get back 50 hostages taken by Hamas last month in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners in the agreed-upon temporary cease-fire deal, it placed less value on Palestinian lives.  “I was speaking to a hostage negotiator this morning. He made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas promised to release, as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians that Israel has said that it will release,” Burley said. “And he made the comparison between the numbers and the fact that does Israel not think Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?” Levy’s eyes popped open before he responded, saying, “That is an astonishing accusation.” ZELENSKYY TALKS ISRAEL, US ELECTIONS WITH FOX’S BENJAMIN HALL, AND UKRAINE’S PLACE AMONG ‘GLOBAL RISKS’ “If we could release one prisoner for every one hostage, we would obviously do that. We are operating in horrific circumstances,” he said. Levy said the Palestinian prisoners who could be released included those who have been convicted of violent attacks, as opposed to the hostages held by Hamas, who comprise innocent civilians. “Notice the question of proportionality doesn’t interest Palestinian supporters when they are able to get more of their prisoners out,” he said. “It is outrageous to suggest that the fact that we are willing to release prisoners who are convicted of terrorism offenses, more of them than we are getting our own innocent children back, somehow suggests that we don’t care about Palestinian lives? Really, that’s a disgusting accusation.” Burley appeared unfazed by his response and immediately pivoted to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and whether his career would survive the war. Netanyahu has come under domestic criticism for the security failures around the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas, which killed more than 1,200 people and was the single worst slaughter of Jewish people since the Holocaust. YOUNG PEOPLE TURN ON ‘GENOCIDE JOE’ OVER HIS CEASE-FIRE STANCE: ‘BIDEN ABSOLUTELY SUCKS’ Levy posted the exchange on X, saying it left him “speechless” for a moment. The clip has already received over 2 million impressions on the platform. Another user said that it was life imitating satire, as he had previously quipped that foes of Israel would criticize the cease-fire deal despite Palestinians getting back more people. He predicted they would claim that three Palestinians per Israeli hostage suggested their lives meant less. At one point during the interview, Levy held up the photo of an orphaned 3-year-old girl who is being held hostage in Gaza, calling the crisis “intensely personal” for the entire State of Israel. “We are committed to the pledge that we will bring all of them back and there will be nobody left behind,” he said. Qatar, which is acting as a mediator in the war, said the first group of hostages would be turned back over to Israel on Friday, after the cease-fire begins at midnight tonight, ET. The first group to be freed will include 13 women and children. Levy said it was a product of the successful Israeli military operation to squeeze Hamas into submission. Sky News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.



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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has concluded that Russian support likely enabled North Korea to put a spy satellite into orbit for the first time this week, and it should be clear in several days whether it is functioning properly, officials said Thursday. The launch has deepened regional animosities, with both Koreas threatening to breach a past reconciliation deal and take hostile actions along their heavily armed border. NORTH KOREA SPY SATELLITE IS LATEST SURVEILLANCE THREAT TO US, ALLIES – WITH KIM THREATENING MORE LAUNCHES After two launch failures earlier this year, North Korea said it successfully placed its “Malligyong-1” satellite into orbit on Tuesday night. South Korea’s military has confirmed that the satellite entered orbit, but said it needs several more days to verify whether it is working properly. In a closed-door briefing, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday that Russian assistance was likely the main reason the launch was successful, according to lawmakers who attended the meeting. The National Intelligence Service cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s earlier mention of a promise to support North Korea’s satellite program. It said it also obtained intelligence that North Korea had sent Russia the design and other data for its new “Chollima-1” rocket used in the two previous failed launches. The intelligence showed that Russia returned its analysis of the North Korean data, according to lawmaker Yoo Sang-bum, who attended the NIS briefing. South Korean Defense Minister Shin Wonsik told a separate parliamentary committee meeting Thursday that Russia appears to have been providing technological assistance for North Korea’s satellite program. The same satellite and rocket were used in all three launches. The two earlier attempts in May and August failed due to technical problems with the rocket. There has been speculation that Russia is providing technological support for North Korea’s satellite and other programs since leader Kim Jong Un traveled to Russia to meet Putin and visit key technology and military sites in September. The Kim-Putin summit was held at Russia’s main space launch center. Asked whether Russia would help North Korea build and launch satellites, Putin told Russian state media at the time that “that’s why we have come here.” “The (North Korean) leader shows keen interest in rocket technology. They’re trying to develop space, too,” Putin said. The U.S., South Korea and Japan accuse North Korea of seeking to obtain high-tech Russian military technologies in return for supplying conventional arms for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Both Russia and North Korea have denied the alleged deal. North Korea said its Malligyong-1 satellite will begin its official mission on Dec. 1. But it said the satellite has already transmitted images of military facilities in the U.S. territory of Guam and that Kim saw them. North Korea hasn’t released the images. Many foreign experts are skeptical about the satellite’s ability to take high-resolution images and whether it is militarily meaningful. After recovering debris from the first failed launch attempt, South Korea’s military said the satellite wasn’t sophisticated enough to perform military reconnaissance. Defense Minister Shin said he worries that Russia could help North Korea produce higher-resolution satellite photos. Shin said South Korean, U.S. and Japanese authorities will be able to determine whether the satellite is functioning normally as early as this weekend or early next week. South Korea, the U.S. and Japan strongly condemned the satellite launch, saying North Korea is using it to improve its missile technology as well as acquire a space-based surveillance system. U.N. Security Council resolutions ban any satellite launches by North Korea, viewing them as disguised tests of long-range missile technology. North Korea says it has a sovereign right to launch spy satellites to cope with what it calls U.S.-led military threats. It says spy satellites would allow it to better monitor its rivals’ moves and enhance the precision-strike capability of its nuclear-capable missiles. In response to the satellite launch, South Korea said it has partially suspended a 2018 agreement to reduce tensions with North Korea and will resume flying surveillance aircraft and drones along their border. North Korea’s Defense Ministry slammed the South Korean decision on Thursday, saying it will deploy more powerful weapons at the border in a tit-for-tat measure. It said it won’t be bound by the 2018 deal any longer and will reverse all the steps it has taken to ease front-line military tensions under it. South Korea’s military replied that it would “strongly punish” North Korea if it acts provocatively. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on Wednesday, but the launch likely failed. It was North Korea’s first known weapons launch in more than two months. Kim has publicly vowed to acquire spy satellites and other high-tech weapons systems. Since last year, North Korea has test-fired about 100 ballistic missiles in an effort to expand its nuclear arsenal. Experts say Kim ultimately wants to use his enlarged arsenal to wrest greater concessions from the United States if they resume diplomacy.



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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, suffered a damaging setback Thursday when nine lawmakers quit the party in protest against its newly elected leadership. Miami-based businessman Stefanos Kasselakis, 35, stunned party veterans when he won the leadership in late September in a primary-style contest. But he has failed so far to halt the party’s decline in popularity in the wake of a crushing general election defeat in June. GREECE’S PRIME MINISTER PLEDGES TO KEEP UP MILITARY SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES Syriza has since dropped to third place behind Socialist opponents in opinion polls, boosting the dominance of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative government. On Thursday, Effie Achtsioglou, a former Syriza labor minister, led the walkout as nine lawmakers declared themselves independent. They joined the former finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos and another colleague who quit on Nov. 11 – reducing the number of seats held by Syriza in the election from 47 to 36 in the 300-member parliament. Critics of the new leader have described him as intolerant of dissent and unable to reach a policy consensus in the historically fractured party. Under the charismatic former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, Syriza’s was transformed from a small political organization to a governing party during a major financial crisis in the previous decade that brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy. Tsipras, who led the country between 2015 and 2019, railed against harsh policies imposed by international bailout lenders but fell out of favor with voters as the country climbed out of recession. He resigned following his third successive general election defeat.



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A wanted Florida woman lost a game of hide-and-seek Tuesday night after deputies captured her hiding inside a couch, authorities said. Stacy Usher, 39, had been evading authorities in Citrus County since early November, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office said. Usher had allegedly violated her probation for the sale of fentanyl and unlawful use of a two-way communication device, according to the sheriff’s office. Officials shared a photo of a deputy pulling Usher out from inside her couch, where she had attempted to hide underneath the cushions. FLORIDA MAN HITS MAN WITH LEAF BLOWER AFTER FENDER BENDER: ‘IRATE’ Following Usher’s capture, the sheriff’s office made her arrest their “Warrant of the Week” on its social media pages. It was unclear how Usher violated her probation. ESCAPED TENNESSEE INMATE, SUSPECTED SERIAL SEX OFFENDER, CAPTURED NEAR TAMPA Usher is a convicted felon in Citrus, Manatee and Pasco Counties, FOX35 Orlando reported, citing authorities. She also has a criminal history of fraud, grand theft and obtaining property by writing a bad check, the report said.



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Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans remarked how targeted Black leadership appeared to be while addressing federal investigations against her on Wednesday. During one of the mayor’s latest press conferences, Cantrell, a Democrat, was asked whether she received a target letter related to ongoing investigations against her for ethical violations. While she did not respond to the question directly, she commented on her history of investigations. “What I will say, as it relates to investigations, targeting all of that, and as I’ve given it thought… when I came in, even being elected mayor and even prior to that, the city council, I’ve been a center of countless investigations,” Cantrell said. “I have always complied, and that’s what I will continue to do.” “I do know that this seems to be kind of prevalent relative to Black leadership and I think that I’m not exempt from that,” the mayor continued. “But relative to investigations, I’ve been in them. I’ve been through them, and I’ll continue to comply however they come. That’s all I have to say on that.” DEMOCRAT MAYOR UNDER FIRE FOR RACKING UP $30K IN FIRST CLASS TRAVEL FOR ‘SAFETY’ PURPOSES The Louisiana Board of Ethics on Oct. 31 accused Cantrell of upgrading to first-class on city-funded flight tickets during her flights in 2022, which violates state law and city travel policy. According to New Orleans city policy, government employees are required to purchase the lowest airfare possible or reimburse the city for accommodations considered deluxe. The charges aren’t criminal. When these allegations were first introduced in 2022, Cantrell argued the COVID-19 threat caused her to fly first-class in some instances and also cited security concerns. “Anyone who wants to question how I protect myself just doesn’t understand the world Black women walk in,” Cantrell said previously. When pressed on the issue Wednesday, Cantrell said, “In terms of me looking, again, as a councilmember and even as mayor, there’s been countless and then… you’re told that’s either confidential and that something happens. Many have been confidential, but also makes you kind of like ‘Whoa, what’s going on?’ I have no idea what’s going on.” NEW ORLEANS MAYOR FACES RENEWED CRITICISM DESPITE SURVIVING RECALL ATTEMPT “So I’m really not clear on those charges specifically,” she added. “I’m definitely not in favor of them at all. But I will comply. I’ll do the right thing. But I’m definitely not in favor of it at all.” Fox News Digital reached out to Cantrell’s office for a comment. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Cantrell was the first Black woman to be elected mayor of New Orleans in 2018 and won re-election in 2021. Following the original accusations of her ethics violations, Cantrell faced a recall effort by citizens who questioned her leadership. However, the recall failed in March after a majority of the signatures were considered invalid.



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Young Democratic Party voters are reportedly reconsidering supporting President Biden’s re-election in 2024 thanks to his commitment to support Israel’s war effort against Hamas. The Washington Post recently spoke to several University of Michigan voters who claimed they might support a candidate other than Biden due to the issue, with one voter telling the outlet that she and her friends now refer to the world leader as “Genocide Joe” because of his support for Israel.  One voter the Post spoke to was Bhavani Iyer, a senior at the school who supports abortion access, but is now conflicted over the idea of voting for Biden in 2024.  BIDEN ALLIES CONDEMN FAR-LEFT CALLS FOR CEASE-FIRE IN ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR: ‘AMERICANS REMAIN PRO-ISRAEL’ The Post reported: “… she said she doesn’t know if she will support President Biden’s reelection bid next November. One of her top priorities is protecting access to abortion, but her disapproval of Biden’s handling of the Israel-Gaza war and his decision not to call for a full cease-fire weighs just as heavily on her mind these days.” “In past elections, I voted a straight ticket. But in this one, I feel like it’s probably not going to be that way,” Iyer told the paper. The Post described her friends’ positions on the issue as being similar.  Nineteen-year-old Andrea Gonzalez told the Post that Trump’s “controversial rhetoric” about women, immigrants and people of color are disdainful, but Biden’s lack of support for a cease-fire makes it “difficult” where she leans.  Pakistani-American student Humza Irfan said the war caused his support for Biden to diminish.  The Post noted this feeling is “emblematic” of many Gen Z and millennial Democratic Party voters now.  “But conversations with more than a dozen students here underscore that Biden’s handling of the war threatens to diminish enthusiasm for him among young voters ahead of the 2024 election, with many students and other young people divided on how they will use their vote and their organizing power,” the article noted. The article pointed to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll that found 48% of Gen Z and millennial respondents considered Israel’s military response to be “too much.” Overall, 38% of the public shared the same sentimient.  REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN TAKES HEAT FOR SAYING SUPPORTING A CEASE-FIRE IS ‘WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS TO BE JEWISH’ It also cited FOX News, Marist College and Quinnipiac University polls showing disapproval of Biden’s management of the situation among a majority of young adults.  “After what’s happening right now in the Middle East, it’s a very difficult decision for people from my background who we’re going to be voting for,” Irfan told the Post.  Another student, Breah Marie Willy, told the outlet she had been excited to vote for Biden in 2024, but his reneging on certain climate initiatives and resistance to an Israel-Hamas cease-fire changed her mind. The president’s latter position led to her and her friends calling Biden “Genocide Joe,” she told the Post.  “I just can’t see how I can ever muster up the courage a year from now to walk to a ballot box and vote for this person that has directly been responsible for so much harm,” former “Bernie Bro” Joesph Fisher reportedly told the Post.  Twenty-two-year-old student Zaynab Elkolaly added: “The general sentiment [on campus] towards Joe Biden is that he absolutely sucks. But we have to put up with him because his alternative is even worse.” Gen-Z for Change mobilization coordinator Jack Petocz commented on this growing displeasure with Biden among youth, telling the Post: “I’ve never seen this kind of frustration and energy from my generation before.” However, some believe young voters will still turn out for Biden, despite his commitment to Israel. University of Michigan College Democrats member Nate Aurbach said: “I think that a lot of young people are stepping back and taking a break and don’t necessarily want to say right now that they’d support Joe Biden, but I think as 2024 comes around, they’ll be forced to see what Donald Trump is saying.” “And I think that that will genuinely scare a lot of people, as it should because what he’s saying is scary,” he added. The Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 



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For Joan Collins, the fifth time’s the charm. The “Dynasty” star married husband no. 5 – producer Percy Gibson – in 2002. And after kissing plenty of frogs, Collins believes she has finally found her prince. “First of all, we were great pals before we got married,” the actress explained to Fox News Digital. “We worked together on a play… We enjoyed each other’s company. We hung out together. And we saw each other the following year. We wrote love letters – it was a gradual thing. And we realized that we were very much on the same wavelength.” JOAN COLLINS SAYS ‘DYNASTY’ CO-STAR MADE HER BLEED DURING ROUGH KISSING SCENE: ‘HE WAS SO ENTHUSIASTIC’ “He is a really nice, kind, grounded person,” the 90-year-old shared. “Many of the people that I’ve been with – and I’m not going to specify which ones – have been either neurotic, slightly unbalanced, or gotten into different things.” Collins recently shared her love story with Gibson, 58, in a new memoir, “Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends.” It details her decades-long career in Hollywood. Critics have previously pointed out the couple’s 32-year age gap. But for Collins, it’s “just a number.” She noted that it’s “never too late” to find love at any stage in life. “That’s how we both feel,” she explained. “And we were friends first, above anything else.” She noted that they both share the same drive, which has been part of the secret behind their lasting union. “I was born with a tremendous enthusiasm for life,” she said. “My mother used to say that I never kept still when I was a child. I used to do five different things at once. I would be doing a crossword puzzle, making a doll’s house, reading, painting, trying to become a detective – all at once!” CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER “Life is a gift,” she stressed. “That’s why they call it the present – it’s a gift. And so many people waste it. It’s so sad. It’s a gift, and it does not last for a long time.” In the book, Collins wrote that Gibson wasn’t concerned about the age difference because “I have great vitality and enthusiasm for life and all it has to offer.” “Percy often admits that I can wear him out!” she wrote. Today, Collins has no regrets – even after she and her former fiancé Warren Beatty called it quits. Collins and Beatty began dating in 1959 and were engaged a year later before splitting. “We were both too young, too selfish, too ambitious,” Collins reflected. “It just wasn’t right. I mean, I’ve had a lot of relationships. I had a lot of marriages. They don’t last. Luckily, you get older, and I met the man who’s the right person for me for the rest of my life. We’ve been together ever since. And we’re very, very happily married.” “Breakups happen,” Collins shrugged. “It can happen based on different things.” LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS In the book, Collins claimed that when she told Beatty she was pregnant, her then-beau told her she needed to get an abortion to protect their Hollywood careers. Even though they were already engaged, Collins said she wasn’t a fan of shotgun weddings. “He was only 23, a struggling wannabe actor with a potentially great career as a sex symbol ahead of him if the future movies he was angling for came to fruition,” Collins wrote. Collins said she did get an abortion – and there are no hard feelings against Beatty, 86. Collins admitted she wasn’t ready for motherhood either. “He was absolutely right,” she told Fox News Digital. A spokesperson for Beatty didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Collins went on to have two children with her second husband, actor/singer/songwriter Anthony Newley, and another child with her third husband, businessman Ron Kass. “Motherhood has been wonderful,” said Collins. “I’m very close to my children. We talk all the time. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”



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Plucky little cranberries have grown for millennia amid sandy soils and short summers of southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod. The Pilgrims explored and then settled this same area in 1620 — and celebrated the first Thanksgiving the following year.  “When the Pilgrims first set foot on Cape Cod, even before they saw Plymouth Rock, they may have well stepped on the American cranberry,” Richard S. Cox and Jacob Walker write in their book, “Massachusetts Cranberry Culture: A History from Bog to Table.”  Their 2012 book is a romantic ode to the quirks of New England history, geography and culture — and of its low-growing fruit. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO GAVE THE NATION OUR THANKSGIVING ORIGIN STORY: PILGRIM EDWARD WINSLOW It “seems doubtful,” however, that the Pilgrims even noticed the cranberries. “For all its tasty charms, the cranberry is hardly the sort to attract attention,” Cox and Walker say in their book. The tart, colorful cranberry’s native habitat around the Pilgrim settlement in Plymouth, and its ascension to a uniquely vibrant place on America’s Thanksgiving dinner table, are something of a coincidence — and a 20th-century phenomenon.  Credit cranberry king Marcus Urann, a true innovator of American agriculture.  Urann, most notably, invented cranberry sauce — at least the commercial canned cranberry jelly central to Thanksgiving celebrations nationwide today.  The bookish boy from Maine became an influential college scholar and then a Boston attorney before giving up the bar for the bogs. Urann purchased cranberry farms in Massachusetts early in the 20th century. He introduced a way to put cranberries in a can in 1912.  Cranberries are one of the few fruits native to the northern United States. But they have only a brief autumn harvest from late September to early November and a short shelf life. Fresh cranberries were known only in a few areas of the nation that possess the right combination of sandy soil, long summers days and long winter dormancy. SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN ON THANKSGIVING BLESSINGS, INCLUDING FAMILY, FOOD, COUNTRY: ‘TIME TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE’  Urann turned this hyper-local fruit into an international industry — and changed the flavor of gratitude in the United States. “Marcus Urann was very influential in expanding the cranberry market,” Brian Wick, executive director of Massachusetts Cranberries, told Fox News Digital. “And that influence is still felt today.” His influence is also felt today far from the soil and of the cranberry bog — in the halls of American academia. Marcus Libby Urann was born on Oct. 3, 1873, to Marcus M. and Chestina Urann in Sullivan, Maine, a tiny Downeast town on Bar Harbor.  MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FOUNDED THE AMERICAN LEGION, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR., PRIVILEGED TO FIGHT AND TO SERVE He described himself as a “bookworm” in one letter. He attended the University of Maine, where he became an undergraduate scholar of great renown and great vision. He was apparently aware of the gift of his intellect at a young age. He was also raised to believe, or grew to believe by college, that those born with great gifts were also born with great responsibility to the nation. He founded a society of elite students at the University of Maine to charge the school’s best and brightest with using their intellect for the wider good.  It’s known today as Phi Kappa Phi, a nationwide honor society of the nation’s best students. “Under the leadership of student Marcus L. Urann, who created the bylaws and constitution for the organization, the group formed the Lambda Sigma Eta Society,” Phi Kappa Phi states today — recognizing Urann, more than 125 years later, as the father of the program while a student. “Upon Urann’s graduation, the school’s president Abram Harris led the way for promoting the Society.”  His society was renamed Phi Kappa Phi in 1900, from the letters of the Greek words forming its motto, Philosophía Krateítõ Phõtôn – “Let the love of learning rule humanity.”  ‘BEST HOMEMADE’ THANKSGIVING TURKEY GRAVY THE WHOLE FAMILY WILL LOVE: TRY THE RECIPE The group soon found advocates at Pennsylvania State College (now University) and the University of Tennessee, before spreading nationally and internationally. Phi Kappa Phi chapters are found at more than 325 campuses in the U.S. and at schools as far away as the Philippines. It remains true to Urann’s mission to “engage the community of scholars in service to others.” “An analysis … of the men in my class convinced me that some of our brightest men were in danger of contributing less to society, to the university and to the state, than their ability justified us in expecting,” Urann wrote of his endeavor in 1924. “I wanted the ability of the high-rank man to be made most useful to society; also, I was looking for something which would be an inspiration to all students to work for high rank and I believed that uniting those men who were interested would be helpful.” Urann himself became an attorney in Boston after graduation. But in 1906, he decided to give it up to buy cranberry bogs in and around Cape Cod and Plymouth.  Pilgrim Edward Winslow provided our only contemporary account of the first Thanksgiving. He mentions only fowl and deer, and “our harvest being gotten in.” The harvest certainly included corn, scholars believe.  The rest of the “harvest” upon which they feasted is unknown. “But there is no evidence the Pilgrims had cranberries at the first Thanksgiving,” said Wick of Massachusetts Cranberries, despite the fact they are one of the few fruits native to North America that grow in the northern United States. It might have just been overlooked — as authors Cox and Walker suspect.  They cite colonial settler John Josselyn, who wrote in 1672 that the cranberry is nothing but “a small trailing plant” and a humble vine “that grows over Salt Marshes that are overgrown with moss.” Benjamin Eastwood, touted by Cox and Walker as one of the cranberry’s “greatest promoters,” spoke only in humble terms of his beloved fruit.  He called the cranberry a “simple, insignificant-looking plant” and a “stunted barren thing.” Urann saw the cranberry differently. He saw a global industry crawling along the bogs of Massachusetts.  “After he set up cooking facilities at a packinghouse in Hanson, Massachusetts, he began to consider ways to extend the short selling season of the berries,” Smithsonian Magazine reported in a 2013 history of cranberries. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO INVENTED THE SHOPPING CART, SYLVAN GOLDMAN, OKLAHOMA SUPERMARKET MOGUL “Canning them, in particular, he knew would make the berry a year-round product.” In 1912, Urann began processing gelled cranberries in cans — cranberry sauce. “As modest as this seems, Urann’s maneuver was revolutionary,” write Cox and Walker. “For a fruit that had been marketed almost exclusively as a fresh product, it was a radical proposal to cook and to can.” Most importantly, cranberries could now be sold to consumers far from where they were grown.  Urann pioneered other innovations in cranberry farming, too, including the process of wet-harvesting cranberries.  The tiny berries were usually plucked from dried vines by migrant workers. But cranberries, each filled with four chambers of air, float easily.  Urann realized the bog could be floated, the berries agitated from their vines, and easily rounded up while floating in the water.  Urann teamed up with fellow leaders of cranberry farming John Makepeace and Elizabeth Lee to create Ocean Spray, still headquartered in Massachusetts to this day. The name is synonymous with cranberry juice and cranberry sauce.  Ocean Spray is one of the world’s most successful farming cooperatives. It’s helped spread cranberry farming around the country and around the world — and put cranberry juices and sauces in international markets.  Ocean Spray cranberry sauce remains its signature product. The company first sold its cranberry sauce nationally in 1941 — its ridged cranberry gel a familiar site on Thanksgiving tables around the United States. Marcus L. Libby died on April 1, 1963 in Hanson, Massachusetts, where he rests in a family plot in Fernhill Cemetery.  “I do believe that anyone can do anything that he really desires to accomplish,” Urann wrote as a young man 1924, explaining the history of Phi Kappa Phi.  He lived by that example throughout his life. “A recognized giant of the cranberry industry,” The Boston Globe wrote in his April 4 obituary, dubbing Urann the “Cranberry King.” “He bought his first cranberry bog on [Cape Cod] in 1906. During the next 30 years, he built his bog holding into a complex throughout southeastern Massachusetts.” MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FIRST PLANTED APPLES IN THE COLONIES: WILLIAM BLAXTON, ECCENTRIC SETTLER The report of his death added, “He formed a cooperative which eventually dominated the industry, and organized a canning operation which grew into the industry’s single biggest buyer and distributor.” Cranberries were available only in the autumn and only fresh when Urann bought his first cranberry bog in 1906. Ocean Spray reports today that fresh cranberries account for only 5% of the fruit’s production — a testament to the exponential explosion of the industry inspired by Urann. They are sold internationally as sauce in juice, much as Urann first conceived in 1912. The United States is easily the world’s largest grower of a fruit essential to the flavor of its national holiday dinner table.  CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER American farmers grow twice as many cranberries as No. 2 Canada and about 20 times the production of third-place Chile, according to data from the Cranberry Institute in Carver, Massachusetts, next to Plymouth.  The state of Wisconsin, meanwhile, surpassed Massachusetts decades ago as the nation’s top cranberry grower.  Six out of 10 Americans say that cranberry sauce has and always will be on their Thanksgiving table, while more than one third say they “can’t live without” cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving, according to Ocean Spray.  Cranberry bogs remain a signature of the landscape in the land of the Pilgrims. “For Massachusetts and for this region, they’re so much a part of our history and our culture,” said Wick. “They’ve been part of a fabric of our region from Indigenous people until today.” Urann saw what cranberries could be far beyond the land of the Pilgrims. “I felt I could do something for New England,” Urann told the Associated Press in a story that ran around the nation on Thanksgiving in 1959.  CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “You know, everything in life is what you do for others.” To read more stories in this unique “Meet the American Who…” series from Fox News Digital, click here.  For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.



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To infinity and beyond? A NASA spacecraft has beamed a near-infrared laser nearly 10 million miles into space breaking new ground for the agency. The laser, which is encoded with test data, was fired from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft and then sent back to Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the agency said.  The test data was transmitted about 40 times farther than the distance between the moon and the earth, which NASA says is about 238,900 miles. The SpaceX Starship, for context, traveled around 93 miles into space last week.  NASA PLANS TO BUILD A SUBDIVISION OF HOMES ON THE MOON, AND IT MAY BE SOONER THAN YOU THINK The successful laser transmission, which NASA describes as a “first light,” took place in the early hours of Nov. 14, when Psyche’s laser transceiver — a cutting-edge instrument capable of sending and receiving near-infrared signals — locked onto a powerful uplink laser sent from a telescope at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Wrightwood in California. The uplink laser helped the flight transceiver aim its downlink laser back to Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. Automated systems on the transceiver and ground stations then fine-tune its pointing. The first flight is a significant steppingstone toward increasing the amount of data that can be transmitted throughout the solar system, NASA said. NASA CAPTURES STUNNING PHOTOS OF SUN’S RAYS OVER EARTH: SEE THE JAW-DROPPING IMAGES The space agency says it has long been able to communicate with spacecraft using radio frequencies, but has never been able to send information using lasers from that far into space. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft was launched in October on SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and is on a larger mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid that may shed light on earth’s formation. The mission is part of NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment. “Achieving first light is one of many critical DSOC milestones in the coming months, paving the way toward higher-data-rate communications capable of sending scientific information, high-definition imagery, and streaming video in support of humanity’s next giant leap: sending humans to Mars,” said Trudy Kortes, NASA’s director of Technology Demonstrations. Test data was also sent simultaneously via the uplink and downlink lasers, a procedure known as “closing the link” that is a primary objective for the experiment. The DSOC experiment aims to demonstrate data transmission rates 10 to 100 times greater than the state-of-the-art radio frequency systems used by spacecraft today.  Both radio and near-infrared laser communications utilize electromagnetic waves to transmit data, but near-infrared light packs the data into significantly tighter waves, enabling ground stations to receive more data, the agency said. This will help future human and robotic exploration missions and support higher-resolution science instruments, NASA said. The new comes just weeks after NASA released X-ray images of a dead collapsed star that looks eerily like the bones of a cosmic hand.



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Mac Jones’ NFL career has been considerably rocky as of late. Following a solid rookie year, that ended with Pro Bowl honors, he was benched last season in favor of Bailey Zappe. He finished the 2022 season with 14 touchdowns against 11 interceptions. The New England Patriots offense has been a point of contention this season, and the team is coming off 10-6 Week 10 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. Jones was benched once again during that game, and there is now even more uncertainty surrounding the quarterback position heading into Sunday’s matchup with the New York Giants. Longtime Patriots head coach Bill Belichick did not provide much insight earlier this week on whether Jones would be relegated to the backup role this weekend. Nevertheless, Jones appears to be doing what he can to show Belichick and the rest of the coaching staff that he is ready to start if he is called upon. “Hope so. I mean, that’s the plan,” Jones said when asked directly if he will start. “A lot of that decision-making is things I can’t control, but I can control my attitude and my effort.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Jones is also aware that certain things are simply beyond his control. “We’ve had good conversations,” Jones said. “Really what I’ve been focusing on is what I can control. Put a lot of thought into that, the things that I can control. … That’s what I can do, control what I can control.” PATRIOTS LEGEND ROB GRONKOWSKI SAYS MAC JONES SHOULD ASK FOR RELEASE NOW: ‘HE’S NOT RESPECTED’ Jones went for X-rays for an undisclosed injury after the loss in Germany. He also said that he had some bumps and bruises but isn’t limited in participation coming out of the bye week. “I have things that I’m working through; everybody does. You’re playing NFL games every week. Every week’s a car crash in its own way, so you’re trying to get back from that,” he said. “The bye week definitely helped get the body back, and I’m looking forward to finishing this thing strong.” Jones has started each of the first 10 games this season, but he has been pulled three times – twice for blowouts and once, in the Week 10 loss to the Colts, after throwing a fourth-quarter interception near the end zone.  With a chance to rally the Patriots, Bailey Zappe was 3 of 7 for 25 yards and finished by throwing an interception on a fake-spike play to seal the game. Zappe, a fourth-round draft pick in 2022, appeared in four games, starting two — both wins — last season. The Patriots also have Will Grier, who started three games for Carolina in 2019, on the roster and rookie Malik Cunningham on the practice squad. FROM OUTKICK: JETS AND FALCONS MAKE QUARTERBACK CHANGES WITH TIM BOYLE AND DESMOND RIDDER Earlier this week, offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien said Jones, Zappe and Grier all took reps in practice with the first team during the off week. Jones said he wouldn’t let that derail him. “You take advantage of the reps you’ve had, right?” he said. “I’ve played a good amount of snaps in the NFL, I feel confident that I can go out there, feel prepared based on my preparation, film study and all those things.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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By now you’ve heard the phrase Trump derangement syndrome, but maybe it’s time you graduated from syndrome to disease, because while a syndrome refers to symptoms, a disease refers to an established condition, and Trump derangement is just that. It’s a disease much like alcoholism, where what defines it is an incapability to process booze, and that delicious MAGA-martini is Trump. No pill can stop it. No therapy dog or therapy llama can alleviate it. Those who have it are already paranoid, but they’re also loons with annoying wives who are most susceptible.  The most recent victim: Joe Scarborough, who was left emotionally Scarborough’d by the 2016 election. Joe wasn’t always like this. He used to look like a normal person, but now he has the same eyes as the kid playing the banjo in “Deliverance.” It’s amazing, could be the same person, same age, really. And as you’ll see, eventually your mental functions totally deteriorate to a point where even “The View” is over your head. So, as a public service, here’s what a Trump-aholic sounds like. TRUMP VS. BIDEN: A DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE IN HOW THE MEDIA TREAT EACH CAMPAIGN JOE SCARBOROUGH: He’s not a normal candidate. He is running to end American democracy as we know it… He will imprison, he will execute whoever he’s allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read. I just keep wondering what she’s thinking while he’s doing that. Sorry, Beavis. We are looking at Trump’s path, and it’s pretty easy given he’s the most investigated, transparent political leader in history. And I said transparent, not translucent like Biden’s see-through skin. And so far, there’s no imprisonings, executions, no ending a democracy in sight. But it’s clear how the ugliness of addiction could sap your memory and reasoning ability.  As you heard, Joe believes that if Trump becomes president, he’s going to execute those who don’t agree with him, but when Trump was president, he executed exactly no one. Well, except for Soleimani, and that guy didn’t have to watch “Morning Joe” to wake up to a bomb. Joe also claims it’s Trump’s mission to replace American democracy with a dictatorship. Now, as the commander-in-chief, Trump controlled all of America’s armed forces, even the nukes. Yet hostile nations like Russia, North Korea and Canada are still standing. Also, actual dictators usually die in office, or are assassinated, or take a helicopter full of money to Europe. Instead, Trump gave up power to a senile guy who sniffs little girls. And then Donald happily went back to his golf game, and now he just does stand-up. RAMASWAMY CLASHES WITH CNN ANCHOR PRESSING HIM ON TRUMP’S ‘VERMIN’ COMMENTS: ‘GIVE ME A BREAK!’ DONALD TRUMP: He’s not into golden showers, as they say… I don’t like that idea… Adam “Shifty” Schiff with a neck like a pencil, he’s got. I said, how does he hold up that fat, ugly face with a neck… Pencil neck. TRUMP: Did anybody ever hear of Alphonse Capone? He was so mean, if you looked at him in the wrong way, he’d blow you away… He was only indicted once, I got indicted four times in a matter of seconds. You know, he sounds less like a dictator and more like Don Rickles. But you see how bad it is. You hallucinate, you start seeing all sorts of stuff that just never occurred. They should change the name from “Morning Joe” to “Morning Sickness.” What do you say? But sadly, it’s now running rampant at MSNBC. SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL: A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler and the use of the terminology like vermin… The difference though, I think, makes Donald Trump even more dangerous, and that is, he has no philosophy he believes in… All he wants is to look in the mirror and see a guy who’s president… All he cares about is selfish self-promotion. I’m beginning to think there’s something in the water over at MSNBC besides antidepressants. They got Trump on the brain and almost nothing else, apparently, including history. When you say Trump is worse than Hitler, what you’re saying is what Hitler did, killing 6 million Jews among others, wasn’t nearly as bad as mean tweets and jokes about Rosie O’Donnell. No wonder you see young leftists brandishing swastikas in protest. ‘THE VIEW’ WANTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAR DONALD TRUMP FROM PRESIDENCY: ‘CANNOT BE IN JAIL AND BE PRESIDENT’ Apparently, Hitler is just some guy who did stuff. This is next-level antisemitism, Claire. Meanwhile, back on Earth, normal Americans are concerned with what we all know is common reality. Here in the U.S., 70% of Americans are worried about the economy, which they see getting worse. On crime, according to a recent Gallup poll, 40% of Americans are afraid to walk home alone at night, although some are used to the loneliness… Over a third are afraid to drive in areas of their communities.  These are not hallucinations. These are the real experiences of the American people. So it’s no wonder Americans have bought more guns than you’ll see in Judge Jeanine’s rec room. Fifty-two percent of voters say they or someone in their household owns a firearm. Just a decade ago, 42% said they owned a gun. Kat, that’s 10 points. Fear of crime is at its highest point since 1993. Why is that? Well, it demonstrates another reality the addicts can’t see: That what they accused Trump of is in fact going on right now in the current administration. Like most addicts, they live in denial and will lie to your face about what you and I can clearly see with our own two eyes, and in San Francisco — smell with both nostrils.  For instance, it wasn’t dictator Trump who weaponized the Department of Justice with a conga line of special prosecutors, wasn’t Trump who sic’d the FBI on parents, wasn’t Trump who raided an innocent anti-abortion protester’s home with guns drawn, wasn’t Trump that prosecuted Trump for having documents he was allowed to have? Although that trial would be hilarious. Wasn’t Trump who used DOJ to get Twitter and other social media to do its bidding on COVID. It wasn’t Trump who set up a select committee that buried important videos to fashion a pre-ordained verdict regarding Jan. 6. See, what “Morning Joe” did is what shrinks call projecting, or as most of us call it, **** ****. Thank you. And for those of you who are nonbinary: bull-she-it. That way they can’t bleep it. See, they can’t bleep it if I say bull-she-it. Yeah, but to the Trump addicts on the left, little things like the well-being of the American people don’t register. It means about as much to them as personal hygiene means to somebody holed up in a crack house. According to The New York Times, the Democratic Party that tried to quit Donald Trump for three years has fallen off the wagon.  Now they’re looking to put Trump front-and-center at every opportunity. Of course, they wouldn’t do that if they actually feared he’d execute him or them, but now they long for the days when cable networks carried Trump’s rallies live. And why? Well, they need something to deflect us from what they’ve done to the country. Without Trump around, then all you got filling the airwaves is this… Is it any wonder America’s Dems have decided the best way to win next year is to lean into their addiction to all things orange. They know this country is not going to vote for the guy in the basement again. Hell, he might not even survive the stairs down to the basement. So they want their obsession to become your obsession. Forget the economy, forget crime, forget nuclear war — focus on Trump, which may not be a bad idea. The way the polls are looking, they may not have a choice. 



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Legendary western outlaw Billy the Kid was allegedly born in New York City on this day in history, Nov. 23, 1859. One of the Wild West’s most wanted men was most likely born in a poor Irish neighborhood on the east side of Manhattan, although much of the Kid’s early life is unknown or unverified, according to History.com. Billy the Kid’s original name was thought to be Henry McCarthy — but he called himself William H. Bonney. The name Bonney was his mother Catherine’s maiden name, while William was the name of her longtime companion, William Antrin. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY. NOVEMBER 22, 1963, JOHN F. KENNEDY, 35TH PRESIDENT, IS ASSASSINATED Antrin stepped in as Billy’s father figure after his biological father disappeared. It was believed that Billy first traveled west around 1865 when he and his brother — along with Antrin and the boys’ mother — moved to Indiana and then to Wichita, Kansas, in 1870. In 1873, legally married Catherine and William Antrin showed up on record in New Mexico, as History.com reports. The following year, Catherine Antrin died of lung cancer in Silver City, according to reports. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 21, 1864, ABRAHAM LINCOLN ‘PENS’ LETTER TO MRS. BIXBY After his mother’s death, Billy abandoned his brother and stepfather and became a ranch hand, History.com has noted. He reportedly killed his first victims, a group of Apache Indians, in the Guadalupe Mountains in 1876. Not long after, Billy killed a blacksmith in Camp Grant, Arizona, according to legend. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 17, 1871, NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION FOUNDED BY CIVIL WAR VETERAN OFFICERS The outlaw then took a job as British rancher John Tunstall’s bodyguard in Lincoln, New Mexico. Billy and several other gunmen were hired to protect Tunstall and his property from a rival cattle gang known as “The House.” In February 1878, Tunstall was gunned down by a posse organized by Sheriff William Brady, who supported The House. In pursuit of revenge, Billy and other former Tunstall employees started the vigilante group known as “The Regulators,” History.com also notes. The new gang murdered Sheriff Brady and spent the following weeks in shootouts with forces of The House. This became known as the Lincoln County War, which concluded after a fatal, five-day firefight in July 1878 and ended in a peace agreement as The Regulators left town. The war branded Billy as one of the west’s “most skilled gunmen,” according to history.com, but he remained wanted for the murder of Sheriff Brady. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 18, 1883, NORTH AMERICAN RAILROADS CREATE TIME ZONES, RESHAPE GLOBAL LIFE For this, he’d spend the rest of his young life running from the law. Two years later, Lincoln Sheriff Pat Garrett — a former friend of his — arrested Billy the Kid. The Kid was found guilty of the murder of Sheriff Brady in April 1881 and was sentenced to hanging.  But two weeks before his scheduled execution, the outlaw outsmarted the law. On April 28, he wrangled a gun from a jailer, shot him dead and escaped his confines in a maneuver that received national attention.  A few months later, on July 14, 1881, Garrett found Billy the Kid at a ranch near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where he was visiting a girlfriend. Garrett surprised him in the dark of night and fired a bullet through the Kid’s chest. Billy the Kid was dead at just 21 years old. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER In the four-year span from 1877 to 1881, the Kid was involved in at least nine murders, History.com reports. This includes a legendary gunfight in a New Mexico saloon in January 1880, when Billy shot Joe Grant dead for terrorizing the bar in a drunken stupor. Unlike other outlaws, Billy the Kid never robbed a train or a bank — but his first arrest occurred for stealing clothes from a Chinese laundry. Many people have theorized that the legendary gunslinger never really died by Garrett’s bullet and instead went on to live under an alias. Ever since Billy the Kid left his mark on the western frontier, the outlaw has been the subject of more than 50 films and several TV series. For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.



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A former Obama administration official has been arrested after he was seen in now-viral videos spewing racist remarks at a food cart vendor. Stuart Seldowitz, who was acting director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate from 2009 to 2011, was seen on a video posted to X on Tuesday mocking a halal vendor’s citizenship status, English-speaking skills and Islamic religion. A spokesperson for the New York City Police Department told Fox News Digital that Seldowitz was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment 2, hate crime/stalking, stalking-cause fear and stalking-at employment. “A 24-year-old male victim stated to police that an individual approached him at his work place multiple times and made anti-Islamic statements multiple times on different dates causing the victim to feel afraid and annoyed,” the police spokesperson said. VIRAL VIDEOS SHOW FORMER OBAMA OFFICIAL LAUNCH RACIST RANTS AGAINST NEW YORK CITY FOOD CART VENDOR “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?” Seldowitz can be seen asking the vendor, referring to the Prophet Muhammad. The vendor responded that he doesn’t speak English, asking Seldowitz to leave. The former Obama administration official appears to take a picture of the vendor and threatens to send it to “friends in Immigration,” as well as the Mukhabarat, Egypt’s intelligence agency. Seldowitz then said the agency would torture his family by removing their fingernails. Another video shows Seldowitz asking the vendor on a separate occasion if he has a permit allowing him to sell food on the street and if he has a visa. When Seldowitz was asked to leave, he appeared to accuse the vendor of supporting Hamas. MARYLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL SUSPENDS HATE CRIME TASK FORCE MEMBER CLAIMING BABIES MURDERED BY HAMAS WERE ‘FAKE’ “You support killing young children,” Seldowitz said.  “You kill children, not me. Go,” the vendor responded. “I didn’t kill children… If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” Seldowitz responded. Seldowitz told City & State he regrets the incident. “I regret the whole thing happened, and I’m sorry,” Seldowitz said. “But you know, in the heat of the moment, I said things that probably I shouldn’t have said.” “If I had to do it all over again, I would not have raised the religious aspect,” he said. “I don’t think I’m an Islamophobic guy. … I’ve spoken up for equal treatment of Muslims on numerous occasions with numerous different people.” Seldowitz was employed as a consultant at New York City-based lobbying group Gotham Government Relations, but has been let go. “Gotham Government Relations has ended all affiliation with Stuart Seldowitz, an individual who hasn’t contributed to our work in years,” a statement on the firm’s website read. “The video of his actions is vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm.”



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