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Davante Adams may have just told everyone his next destination.The Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver has reportedly requested a trade from the team amid their quarterback issues and struggles.Reports have surfaced that he wants to be reunited with either Aaron Rodgers or Derek Carr, but if his Instagram Story is any message, those reports were wrong.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMOn Friday afternoon, Adams posted a still photo of poet Edgar Allan Poe.Poe, of course, is most notable for his poem “The Raven.” Poe was a Baltimore native, and the Ravens got their team name from the writing.Later on, he posted a quote attributed to the poet that read, “Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.”The 31-year-old receiver was rumored to be traded last season as the Raiders struggled under former head coach Josh McDaniels, and the Jets were on the list then with Rodgers, his former quarterback with the Green Bay Packers, on the roster. While the Raiders balked on real trade talks for Adams last season, they have reportedly told teams they would “consider” Adams if a second-round pick were involved in a package, as well as additional compensation, according to ESPN.CHIEFS PLACE RASHEE RICE ON INJURED RESERVE; SEVERITY OF KNEE INJURY STILL UNKNOWNAnd this comes after Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce was spotted liking an Instagram post suggesting that Adams has played his final game with Las Vegas. Adams wasn’t available for the Raiders this past Sunday in the win over the Cleveland Browns, as he is considered week-to-week with a hamstring injury. He’s been declared out this week, as well.As the Raiders employ Gardner Minshew at quarterback this season after a carousel in 2023, which included Jimmy Garoppolo and Aidan O’Connell, Adams has 18 receptions for 209 yards and a touchdown through three games. Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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A close House race in New York was rocked by an October surprise when photos surfaced of the incumbent Republican congressman in blackface as part of a Halloween costume years ago.Rep. Michael Lawler, R-N.Y., who is white, is pictured dressed like pop sensation Michael Jackson, complete with bronzer to darken his face in an October 2006 photo reported by the New York Times. Lawler does not dispute the photo’s authenticity and has issued an apology to anyone who has taken offense, though he said it was not his intention to dress in blackface.”As has been well-documented – most recently by the Daily Beast – I was a so-called ‘Super Fan’ of Michael Jackson, so much so that I was mentioned by name in his biography for my outspoken support of him and the Jackson Family.  I loved Michael’s music, was awed by him as a performer, and by his impact on pop culture,” Lawler said in a statement. “One of my greatest memories is attending his concert at Madison Square Garden before his untimely death.  “When attempting to imitate Michael’s legendary dance moves at a college Halloween party eighteen years ago, the ugly practice of black face was the furthest thing from my mind. Let me be clear, this is not that. Rather, my costume was intended as the sincerest form of flattery, a genuine homage to one of my childhood idols since I was a little kid trying to moonwalk through my mom’s kitchen.  FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS: HARRIS TICKS UP AND SENATE REPUBLICANS TAKE CHARGE”I am a student of history and for anyone who takes offense to the photo, I am sorry.  All you can do is live and learn, and I appreciate everyone’s grace along the way,” he said. The 38-year-old Lawler, a moderate first-term lawmaker from the Hudson Valley, is seen as a rising star in the GOP conference who is running for re-election in a suburban swing district. His Democratic opponent in New York’s 17th Congressional District is former Rep. Mondaire Jones, a Black man. The Jones campaign did not respond to a request for comment.The race is one of 22 toss-up contests that may well determine which party controls the House of Representatives next year, according to Fox News’ Power Rankings.  Lawler is not the first politician to be wrapped up in recent controversy over a costume that resembled blackface. Former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, faced calls to resign after a photo from his medical school yearbook surfaced which pictured men in Ku Klux Klan robes and blackface. Northam denied he was in the photo but admitted he once used shoe polish to darken his face for a dance contest in the 1980s in which he too dressed like Jackson.NEW YORK REPUBLICAN WRANGLES WITH CNN HOST HITTING TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIESCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also faced controversy in 2019 when photos surfaced of him wearing blackface in 2001. The prime minister said in an interview after the fact that he could not give a definitive number on how many times he had worn blackface. Lawler was photographed in his Jackson costume in New York City when he was a sophomore at Manhattan College, now Manhattan University, a Catholic school in the Bronx where only three percent of the student population is Black, according to the New York Times. Lawler, who was class valedictorian in 2009, was well-known for his love of Michael Jackson, the paper reported.When Lawler was a high school senior in 2005, he flew from New York to California to attend parts Jackson’s criminal trial. The musician had faced allegations of molesting a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Ranch, though Jackson was eventually acquitted. FORMER DEMOCRATIC REP MONDAIRE JONES LAUNCHES COMEBACK BID FOR CRUCIAL SEAT THAT HELPED GOP TAKE HOUSEJackson biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli recounted in his book how he helped get Lawler into the courtroom, according to the Daily Beast. Taraborrelli wrote in “Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story” that the teen had been “so disgusted” by testimony against Jackson “that he couldn’t help but mutter something derogatory under his breath.” In Taraborrelli’s account, Lawler was overheard by court officials and “tossed right out of the courtroom.” The photos in question were posted to Facebook and depict Lawler dressed in a jacket reminiscent of the one Jackson wore in the “Thriller” music video. The New York Times cited a person familiar with the costume who said that Lawler had used bronzer borrowed from female classmates to darken his skin. Lawler’s 2022 victory was one of several Republican victories in crucial New York districts, despite the state’s status as reliably blue overall. The 17th includes stretches through four suburban counties outside of New York City: Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester.Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton and Emily Robertson contributed to this report.



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Taiwan’s de facto U.S. ambassador is warning that China, Iran and Russia are forming an “alliance” that the rest of the world should be ready for.It comes days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the three autocratic countries were working together but not an “axis,” as they have so often recently been called.”They’re working together, that’s for sure, whether that’s an axis or an alliance” Alexander Yui, Taiwan’s representative to the U.S., told Fox News this week.”And as you know, it’s up to anyone to define it. But there were certainly there are symptoms, signs that they’re working together.”BIDEN ADDRESSES UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR LAST TIME AS DICTATORS, DESPOTS COME TO NEW YORKDuring the interview, Yui also suggested that Taiwan’s government was in touch with both Vice President Harris and former President Trump’s circles to be prepared for whatever comes next in U.S. relations.”The whole world is watching, and I’m sure the diplomatic community here in Washington, D.C., is also watching closely and [trying] to reach out to both candidates or to the people around the candidates,” Yui said.Blinken penned an op-ed in Foreign Affairs Magazine on Oct. 1 that said world powers were in competition to set the stage for a “new age” of international relations.HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF US RESEARCH DOLLARS MAY HAVE AIDED CHINESE MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, GOP-LED REPORT SAYS”A small number of countries — principally Russia, with the partnership of Iran and North Korea, as well as China — are determined to alter the foundational principles of the international system. While their forms of governance, ideologies, interests, and capabilities differ, these revisionist powers all want to entrench autocratic rule at home and assert spheres of influence abroad,” the Biden administration official wrote.”While these countries are not an axis, and the administration has been clear that it does not seek bloc confrontation, choices these revisionist powers are making mean we need to act decisively to prevent that outcome.”Meanwhile, national security hawks on the right and left have warned that those four regimes were forging an unholy alliance not seen since WWII.Both House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called them a new “axis of evil.”Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., House Democrats’ former majority leader, said after President Biden’s address on Israel and Ukraine in October 2023, “We face a new axis of evil today. The dictators, despots, and dealers of destruction leading Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Iranian proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah stand together in their assault on democracy.”



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Elon Musk says he will “be there to support” Donald Trump on Saturday when the former president returns to Butler, Pennsylvania to hold a rally at the site where the first assassination attempt against him unfolded earlier this year. The Republican presidential nominee is slated to speak on Oct. 5 at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds in the suburb north of Pittsburgh.  “I will be there to support!” Musk wrote on X late Thursday in response to an image Trump shared promoting the upcoming event. “Butler on Saturday – historic!” Trump wrote on X alongside an image of him raising his fist that was taken on July 13, moments after he had been shot. OBAMA TO CAMPAIGN FOR HARRIS IN PENNSYLVANIA, OTHER KEY STATES Musk had said following that rally that “I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery.” Trump’s campaign said last week that “President Donald J. Trump will return to Butler, Pennsylvania, to hold a rally on the very same ground where he came within a quarter of an inch of losing his life less than three months ago.” During a rally last Wednesday in North Carolina, Trump said that he wanted to return to the venue in Butler to “finish our speech.” “As you know, there have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of… and the first case in Butler, Pennsylvania, great place, and we’re going back to Butler,” he said. “We’re going to go back and finish our speech.” HARRIS LEADS TRUMP BY 2 IN NATIONAL POLL, BUT SHOWS VULNERABILITIES WITH NON-WHITE VOTERS Trump’s campaign said that the former president would honor those lost in the assassination attempt during the rally. Corey Comperatore, 50, was a firefighter and a father of two daughters. He “historically sacrificed his life to shield his wife and daughters” during the assassination attempt against Trump, the campaign said. Trump will also recognize the two other Americans who were wounded by the shooter, David Dutch and James Copenhaver.  “He will express his deep gratitude to law enforcement and first responders and thank the entire community for their outpouring of love and support in the wake of the attack,” the campaign said. “And when a shooter attacked our democracy and tried to end this movement, President Trump will return to the site, joined by tens of thousands of proud citizens, and together, they will celebrate a unifying vision for America’s future in an event like the world has never seen before,” his campaign added. Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. 



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Kim Kardashian believes the Menendez brothers should be freed from prison. The reality star is the latest person to weigh in on the controversial pair of convicted murderers. Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence to determine whether the siblings should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city’s district attorney said on Thursday.The case is being highlighted in a new Netflix scripted series and an upcoming documentary.”You think you know the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez,” Kardashian wrote in her opinion essay for NBC News published on Thursday. “I certainly thought I did.””In 1989, the brothers, aged 21 and 18, respectively, viciously shot and killed their parents in their Beverly Hills home,” she wrote. “In 1996, after two trials, they were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. As is often the case, this story is much more complex than it appears on the surface.”Kardashian is a prison reform advocate who previously worked with the Trump White House to reduce sentences for several convicts found guilty of non-violent offenses. She also spoke at the White House earlier this year about criminal justice. The mother of four centered the argument in her essay mainly on the brothers’ claims that they were emotionally, physically and sexually abused by their parents and feared for their lives. MENENDEZ BROTHER, WHO GUNNED DOWN PARENTS, SLAMS NEW SHOW FOR ‘DISHONEST PORTRAYAL’ “Following years of abuse and a real fear for their lives, Erik and Lyle chose what they thought at the time was their only way out — an unimaginable way to escape their living nightmare,” Kardashian wrote. She said that after the jury was deadlocked in their first trial, the judge decided many of their abuse claims were inadmissible in the second trial. “Their only way out of prison now is death,” Kardashian said, writing that their first televised trial became “entertainment for the nation,” and that they were portrayed as “monsters and sensationalized eye candy” by the media, “two arrogant, rich kids from Beverly Hills who killed their parents out of greed.””There was no room for empathy, let alone sympathy,” she noted.DO MENENDEZ BROTHERS STAND A CHANCE AT FREEDOM?”Erik and Lyle had no chance of a fair trial against this backdrop,” the 43-year-old claimed, adding that there was a stigma on male victims of sexual abuse at the time. “Can anyone honestly deny that the justice system would have treated the Menendez sisters more leniently?” she postulated, adding, “Many people believe the crimes the brothers committed are unforgivable — but what about the decades of alleged abuse they suffered as children?”WATCH ‘MENENDEZ BROTHERS: MONSTERS OR MISUNDERSTOOD?’ EXCLUSIVELY ON FOX NATIONShe said she had recently spent time with the brothers, who she said have “exemplary disciplinary records” in prison.They “are not monsters. They are kind, intelligent, and honest men,” she argued. Kardashian also said that one of the prison wardens told her he would be comfortable having the brothers as neighbors. While Kardashian called the murders of their parents “inexcusable,” she said the brothers were treated more like “serial killers” than two men who had “endured years of sexual abuse by the very people they loved and trusted.”She added, “I don’t believe that spending their entire natural lives incarcerated was the right punishment for this complex case. Had this crime been committed and trialed today, I believe the outcome would have been dramatically different. “I also strongly believe that they were denied a fair second trial and that the exclusion of crucial abuse evidence denied Erik and Lyle the opportunity to fully present their case, further undermining the fairness of their conviction.”However, not everyone agrees with Kardashian’s assessment. “If they were brought to trial again today, they would be found guilty,” Clark Fogg, a retired senior forensic specialist with the Beverly Hills Police Department who investigated the murders, told Fox News Digital this week. Fogg believes the brothers’ motive for the murders had to do with “greed and money.”LISTEN TO MENENDEZ BROTHERS JAILHOUSE PHONE CALL:”Why did they even have to kill their mom in the first place?” Fogg said. “If you killed Mr. Menendez separately from her, she would end up getting the inheritance, right? So they had to eliminate both of them in order to have the inheritance.”Fogg investigated the Menendez brothers’ case in 1989. He took photos and preserved evidence at the crime scene, attended the autopsies and took the stand during both trials. When speaking with Fox News Digital, he painted a horrific picture of the crime scene. “One of the detectives had to actually hold a golf umbrella over my head as I was taking photos because, every so often, things would be falling from the ceiling,” Fogg said. “It comes down to one thing. The reason why they’re in jail is that they killed their mother and father brutally, not poison them, but shotgun them to death to a point that they were all over the ceiling. … That’s how brutally they were murdered.”Fogg said it appeared their mother was trying to escape when she was killed because there was blood on the soles of her shoes. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP”Even at that point, they kept on killing her with… gunshot blasts, one after another,” he told Fox News Digital. 



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