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DON’T MISS IT: Vance vs. Walz this Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET. What might set this VP debate apart from the rest?1. Deadly Helene made landfall over Florida late Thursday evening as a devastating Category 4 storm. 2. Eric Adams’ indictment is political retaliation, a criminal defense attorney claims.3. Simple activity could be key to more restful sleep.CONFRONTING THE CRISIS – Trump hits ‘czar’ Harris on border ahead of VP’s stop in battleground Arizona. Continue reading …QUESTIONABLE CONDUCT – Company believes work done on Navy submarines and carriers may be intentionally faulty. Continue reading …TIGHTENING RACE – Voters’ choice flips in battleground state as VP Harris loses ground. Continue reading …’SO GLAD I DIDN’T GO’ – Actress who was invited to one of Diddy’s ‘freak offs’ when she was a teen speaks out. Continue reading …AMERICA’S TEAM – Last-second Hail Mary attempt decides Cowboys-Giants divisional rivalry. Continue reading …–‘A HUGE ISSUE’– Trump-endorsed House candidate sounds alarm about China’s growing influence in battleground state. Continue reading …NOT-SO-SUBTLE SHIFT – Kamala Harris isn’t alone: Vulnerable Dems want the current filibuster gone. Continue reading …HIGHLY REGULATED – Newsom sifts through more than 800 bills as legislative session comes to a close. Continue reading …FOREIGN INTERFERENCE – Armed Services Republicans, White House push back against claims that Zelenskyy’s PA visit was ‘political.’ Continue reading …Click here for more cartoons…
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Travis Kelce’s slow start to the season has been an underlying storyline to start the 2024 NFL season, but Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is unconcerned.Even as Kelce has yet to find the end zone, Elway said the Kansas City Chiefs are still in a pretty good spot with three straight wins to start the season.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”I think the one thing Travis Kelce can say is they’re 3-0,” Elway told Fox News Digital. “That’s the bottom line, as I’m sure that’s what would be his first answer, too, having known Travis and the fact that he’s a great player and has been for a long time. Now, we all get older, too, right? In our career, I think he’s 35 maybe now or somewhere in that area, bodies don’t react as well as they used to.”The legendary former Denver Broncos quarterback, who spoke to Fox News Digital after he was eliminated from “The Masked Singer,” said the Chiefs tight end is likely the last player the Chiefs need to worry about.NFL LEGEND JOHN ELWAY TALKS BRETT FAVRE’S PARKINSON’S DIAGNOSIS: ‘IT’S SAD NEWS TO HEAR'”I think Travis is one of those guys, he’s going to be there in the end,” Elway added. “Ultimately, they’re 3-0, and I think he’s probably the last guy they need to worry about because he’s been a great player, knows how to do it, plays great in big games, and they just continue to win.”I’m sure that he is happy with his role where he is. I’m sure he’d probably like to catch more balls, but it’s hard to argue when you have a 3-0 start.”Kelce has another opportunity to get back in the end zone on Sunday when the team takes on the Los Angeles Chargers.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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Restful sleep could be a few squats away.Participating in evening exercise could help promote better rest at night, according to new research published in the journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.In particular, short bouts of resistance or strength training at night — including exercises like squats, calf raises and standing knee raises — were found to have a positive impact on sleep quality and quantity.LACK OF SLEEP POSES CONCERNING RISK FOR KIDS, STUDY FINDSIn the randomized trial, 28 participants each completed one of two four-hour sessions. One consisted of prolonged sitting. In the other session, the participants sat but took breaks every half-hour to complete three minutes of bodyweight resistance exercises.The regular activity breaks were shown to increase average sleep period time and time spent asleep by nearly 30 minutes.‘NAPUCCINO’ TREND: CAFFEINE BEFORE A NAP COULD BE KEY TO BETTER SLEEPThe New Zealand-based researchers did not note a significant effect on mean sleep efficiency (the ratio of total sleep time to total time in bed), wake after sleep onset (the total amount of time that a person is awake after having initially fallen asleep) or the number of awakenings during the night.”Performing bodyweight resistance exercise activity breaks in the evening has the potential to improve sleep period and total sleep time, and does not disrupt other aspects of sleep quality or subsequent 24-hour physical activity,” the researchers concluded.Sleep expert Dr. Wendy Troxel, a senior behavioral and social scientist at the Rand Corporation in Utah, called this study “really exciting” in an interview with Fox News Digital.Troxel considered the findings “particularly notable,” as there has been “controversy” surrounding the optimal timing and intensity of exercise in relation to sleep.”These are very short bouts of relatively low-intensity physical activity that anyone could do in their evening hours,” she said. “And I think it really speaks to the potential harms of extended periods of sedentary activity.”Being excessively sedentary comes with a “number of health consequences,” the expert warned, including a 30% increased mortality risk.”So, this suggests that just little bouts of physical activity in the evening hours, to get you off the couch and moving … could have benefits for your sleep and your health more globally,” Troxel added.Celebrity personal trainer Kollins Ezekh in Los Angeles confirmed that evening exercise can help promote better sleep by reducing stress and anxiety.”Physical activity triggers the release of endorphins and serotonin, which naturally helps to calm the mind and body,” he told Fox News Digital.GOING TO BED AFTER THIS TIME COULD LEAD TO POORER MENTAL HEALTH, A STANFORD STUDY FINDSExercising before bedtime can also lower the body’s core temperature, signaling that it’s time for rest, according to the fitness expert.”Plus, the natural fatigue from a good workout makes it easier to fall asleep,” he added.In addition to improving sleep, evening exercise can also reduce stress levels, boost metabolism and improve digestion, according to Ezekh.Troxel agreed that engaging in small exercise breaks can tire out the body without causing pain or overstimulation.”It helps to prepare your body and your brain by reducing stress and expending some energy for a good night’s sleep,” she said.SLEEPING LONGER ON WEEKENDS COULD LOWER HEART DISEASE RISK BY 20%, STUDY FINDSSmall bouts of activity will also help the brain separate pre-bedtime activities from actual bedtime, she added.”If you’re just sitting on the couch doing nothing for hours prior to bedtime, it’s hard for the brain to distinguish, ‘OK, bed is the time for real rest and restoration,” she said.To avoid overstimulation, Ezekh recommends choosing low- to moderate-intensity exercises in the evening.These might include yoga or Pilates that focus on mindful breathing, stretching and relaxation, “which can help you unwind before bed,” he said, as well as light cardio.”A brisk walk or easy cycling can help burn off energy without making you too energized before sleep,” the trainer added.For more Health articles, visit foxnews.com/healthBodyweight exercises like squats, lunges or push-ups are also a great option, Ezekh said.Dr. Tina Sadarangani, nurse practitioner and assistant professor at the NYU College of Nursing, told Fox News Digital that everyone should engage in low-impact exercise, like brisk walks, after the last meal of the day.”Whether you’re old or young, we see benefits of exercise after dinner in particular,” she said. “We get steadier blood sugar, smoother digestion and a happier mood, and I can’t think of a single population that wouldn’t benefit from that.”In addition to movement before bed, Sadarangani recommends avoiding screen exposure before bedtime, along with stimulants like caffeine, alcohol, or tobacco and nicotine products.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTERIt’s also important to create an environment that’s conducive to slumber, she added. “We have to give our bodies the signal that it’s time to sleep.”Fox News Digital reached out to the study researchers for comment.



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Unidentified flying objects soared into American popular culture with the dawn of the jet age in the 1940s.UFOs, it turns out, have mystified Americans since the earliest days of colonial settlement. The first known UFO encounter in America was recorded in 1639 by pious Puritan and prolific journal-keeper John Winthrop. He is a foundational figure in the national pantheon and leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as it settled Boston. Winthrop’s sensational account of “a great light in the night” was witnessed by a group of “sober, discreet” and “credible persons” over Muddy River in Boston — a trickle of a creek that today wraps around American sports landmark Fenway Park. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FIRST PLANTED APPLES IN THE COLONIES: WILLIAM BLAXTON, ECCENTRIC SETTLERWinthrop’s leadership of the fledgling Massachusetts colony shaped the destiny of the United States, established more than a century after his death. He has serious street cred in academia, making his spectacular record of unexplained phenomena all the more remarkable. “John Winthrop’s journal has long served as a cornerstone of Massachusetts historical scholarship,” the Massachusetts Historical Society writes in a recent look at the Puritan’s UFO sightings.”He diligently recorded the events of his life, along with the trials and tribulations of the people of the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the first 19 years of its existence.”Winthrop’s incredible tales of aerial phenomena in early America, long unknown, generated sudden interest in recent years, after federal government and military officials admitted that it’s been studying UFOs for decades. Stories of paranormal and unexplained phenomena were effectively mainstreamed for academics and serious analysts. Few Americans were more serious than Winthrop.He was a devout Christian and an industrious nation builder. Despite the hardship of carving a new civilization from the wilderness, and governing a new society, he dutifully kept almost daily records of life in the colony for nearly two decades. One 2005 biography is titled “John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Founding Father.””His energies seemed prodigious and inexhaustible,” PBS Frontline said of Winthrop. “Repeatedly elected governor, he was chiefly responsible for maintaining civic and social order.”John Winthrop was born on Jan. 12, 1587 or 1588, in Edwardstone, Suffolk County, England, to Adam and Anne (Browne) Winthrop.Both his parents came from prosperous families, according to various accounts. He began journal-keeping in 1605 while still a teenager, chronicling his growing devotion to Christ. His faith was increasingly at odds with national sentiment after King Charles I, an Anglican sympathetic to Roman Catholicism, gained the throne in 1625.Winthrop departed for the New World in the spring of 1630 aboard the Arbella with an expedition of Puritans to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony, about 35 miles north of the Plymouth Colony settled by the Pilgrims in 1620. Winthrop issued a message on the ship that has echoed through American history.It’s remembered today as the “city upon a hill” sermon — inspired by several biblical passages and delivered to a daring people fleeing decrepit old Europe to create a New World in service of Christ.”For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us,” Winthrop said. “So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.”The “city upon a hill” sermon helped establish the concept of American exceptionalism — a new society that would be a “model of Christian charity” for the world to admire and emulate. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO INSPIRED THE NATION IN TWO WORLD WARS: CHRISTIAN SOLDIER SGT. ALVIN YORKThe phrase “a city upon a hill” has been widely quoted by following generations, most notably by President Ronald Reagan, who cited Winthrop by name in his farewell address. “I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life,” Reagan said to the nation on Jan. 11, 1989. “In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace … That’s how I saw it, and see it still.”Winthrop was God-fearing, intrepid, faithful, hard-working and diligent — serious in faith and deed. Few people in American history had less time, inclination or motive to devote to fantasy or foolishness.Winthrop’s report of an eerie UFO encounter on a winter night in Boston is sandwiched between perfunctory passages about business dealings with the natives. The subject turned suddenly. “In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River,” Winthrop wrote on March 1, 1639. “When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran it was contracted into the figure of a swine.”Winthrop went on, “It ran swift as an arrow toward Charlton [Charlestown] and up and down about two or three hours. They were come down in their lighter [a small barge] about a mile, and, when it was over, they found themselves carried quite back against the tide to the place they came from. Divers[e] other persons saw the same light, after, about the same place.””That’s stunning,” UFO researcher Nick Pope told Fox News Digital after hearing the story for the first time. Pope is a former UFO investigator for the U.K. Ministry of Defense and contributor to “Ancient Aliens” on The History Channel. Several sources say ignis fatuus, a spark of swamp gas, is the likely cause of the strange light. ANGELS IN OUR MIDST? ONE SCIENTIST EXPLAINS WHY THE BIBLE SUPPORTS EXTRATERRESTRIALSBut that doesn’t explain how the phantom light raced across the river — or why Everell and the other men in the boat wound up a mile downstream. “Some researchers would interpret this as a possible alien abduction if it happened today,” authors Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck wrote in “Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times.”Winthrop reported two more UFO sightings in 1644, the first on Jan. 18. “About midnight, three men, coming in a boat to Boston, saw two lights arise out of the water near the north point of the town cove, in form like a man, and went at a small distance to the town, and so to the south point, and there vanished away.”MEET THE AMERICAN WHO ROWED WASHINGTON ACROSS THE DELAWARE ON CHRISTMAS: SAILOR-SOLDIER JOHN GLOVERA week later another supernatural encounter was “seen by many,” he wrote.”A light like the moon arose about the N.E. point in Boston, and met the former at Nottles Island, and there they closed in one, and then parted, and closed and parted diverse times, and so went over the hill in the island and vanished. Sometimes they shot out flames and sometimes sparkles.” Winthrop never mentioned the events again. His journal was not published until 1825. The mysterious passages were ignored amid the insight into colonial history culled from his voluminous writings. The eerie objects remain unidentified today, yet come from one of the most trusted sources in American scholarship. “I think it speaks to the fact that those skeptics don’t like to admit, but most UFO witnesses, like Everell or Winthrop, are serious, sober individuals,” said Pope. For more Lifestyle articles, visit foxnews.com/lifestyle”It doesn’t surprise me you have these very historical figures seeing these things. It’s vindication of what we see today. If you look at modern [UFO] accounts, very often they’re [from] police officers, pilots, military personnel, radar operators.”John Winthrop died of natural causes on March 26, 1649. He was 61 or 62 years old. He’s buried today in King’s Chapel Burying Ground in the heart of downtown Boston. Established in 1630, it’s one of the nation’s oldest cemeteries. Boston to this day comprises the bulk of Suffolk County, Massachusetts — the area still carrying the name of Winthrop’s homeland in England, some 400 years later. The town of Winthrop, next to Boston, juts proudly out into the harbor today. Winthrop Square is a landmark in downtown Boston. The Puritan leader is the namesake of schools, squares, communities and memorials around Massachusetts and in other parts of the country. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERMore importantly for human events, the city he established and nurtured would, 145 years after he settled it, lead the charge for independence in the American Revolution.Winthrop helped build a mighty “city upon a hill” — even while recording ephemeral mysteries that defied logic in 1639 and still defy it today. “People have this misconception that this all started with flying saucers and Roswell. It goes back to the dawn of time,” said Pope.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP”What we’re just beginning to realize is that people have always seen these strange things. We have fiery chariots in the Bible and we have strange images in medieval and renaissance paintings and in old petroglyphs.”To read more stories in this unique “Meet the American Who…” series from Fox News Digital, click here. He added, “There’s no smoke without fire. And the believers only have to be right once.” 



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Newport News Shipbuilding informed the Department of Justice that there may be intentionally faulty welds on non-critical components located on in-service submarines and aircraft carriers, according to a report by USNI News Thursday.The faulty work was discovered by internal quality assurance systems and early indications show that some of the welding errors were intentional, according to a statement to USNI News.”We recently discovered through internal reporting that the quality of some welds did not meet our high-quality standards. Upon this discovery, we took immediate action to communicate with our customers and regulators, investigate, determine root cause, bound these matters and insert immediate corrective actions to prevent any recurrence of these issues,” the statement reads. It continues: “Newport News Shipbuilding is committed to building the highest-quality aircraft carriers and submarines for the U.S. Navy. We do not tolerate any conduct that compromises our company’s values and our mission of delivering ships that safeguard our nation and its sailors.”NAVY WARSHIP PRODUCTION HITS 25-YEAR LOW, FALLS BEHIND CHINA: REPORTThe Navy is now investigating the allegations and are attempting to measure how much has been affected by the faulty work.US NAVY UNDER SECRETARY ERIK RAVEN ON THE AUKUS AGREEMENT”The Navy is aware of the issue and a thorough evaluation is underway to determine the scope. The safety of our Sailors and our ships is of paramount importance. We are working closely with industry partners to address this situation and will provide additional information when available,” reads the statement.Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), is one of two nuclear shipyards in the U.S. and is currently working on building the Ford-class aircraft carrier and parts of the Virginia-class attack submarine.



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