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LeBron James and Bronny James made history when they became the first father-son duo to play in an NBA game in the Los Angeles Lakers’ season opener against the Minnesota Timberwolves.On Wednesday night, when the Lakers take on the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bronny is once again expected to take the court with his dad in a homecoming moment for the family.LeBron James spent 11 seasons with the Cavaliers over two stints, including leading them to a title in 2016 with a 3-1 comeback over the Golden State Warriors.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMBronny grew up as a kid running around the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland while his dad played.”It’s definitely going to be very special to be back home and be able to run the floor with my son who spent a lot of time on that floor throughout my days when I played there for 11 years,” LeBron said following Monday’s game in Phoenix.LeBron was just beginning his second season with the Cavaliers in 2004 when he and his wife Savannah welcomed Bronny, the first of three children the couple has. 76ERS FINED $100K AFTER NBA INVESTIGATION FINDS IMPROPER STATEMENTS ABOUT JOEL EMBIID’S HEALTHThe only time LeBron and Bronny have played together this season was in the second quarter of the Lakers’ 110-103 opening win over the Timberwolves.Bronny played three minutes in the win, missing both of his shots and grabbing one rebound. The rookie has not played since and is expected to join the Lakers G-League team, the South Bay Lakers, once their five-game road trip ends on Nov. 6.Bronny will make his first appearance in Cleveland one day after the 21st anniversary of his dad’s pro debut.The Lakers are 3-1 this season, with their last game a close 109-105 loss to the Phoenix Suns.The Associated Press 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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Boeing overcharged the Air Force for simple spare parts on C-17 aircraft by $1 million over a four-year period, according to the Pentagon.The defense giant marked up the cost of soap dispensers by 8,000%, putting taxpayers on the hook for such items that cost 80 times more than market value. While the cost that Boeing charged per dispenser was redacted from a new audit released this week, in total, the Air Force overpaid for the dispensers by $149,072 from 2018 to 2022, according to Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch.”The Air Force needs to establish and implement more effective internal controls to help prevent overpaying for spare parts for the remainder of this contract, which continues through 2031,” said Storch.”Significant overpayments for spare parts may reduce the number of spare parts that Boeing can purchase on the contract, potentially reducing C-17 readiness worldwide.” PENTAGON LACKS COUNTER-DRONE PROCEDURE LEADING TO INCURSIONS LIKE AT LANGLEY, EXPERTS SAYAn anonymous tip about the exorbitant soap dispenser prices prompted the inspector general’s audit into spare parts. Boeing has a 10-year contract with the Air Force that allows it to purchase the spare parts needed for C-17s and the Air Force reimburses Boeing for the spare parts. 

The IG’s review of 46 spare parts revealed that only nine, or 20%, were purchased by the Air Force at “fair and reasonable” prices, totaling $20.3 million.The IG found that the Air Force did not pay “fair and reasonable” prices for about 26% of the spare parts reviewed, about $4.3 million worth of equipment. For another 54% of the spare parts, valued at $22 million, the IG was not able to determine whether the Air Force paid fair prices: the service branch did not maintain historical data on pricing and they were unable to obtain supplier quotes for similar products. The IG found the Air Force failed to validate the accuracy of data in contract negotiations for spare parts, review price increases during contract execution, and review invoices to determine whether prices were “fair and reasonable” before paying them. Boeing said in a statement it was reviewing the report but cautioned that it appeared to compare prices for the parts that met aircraft standards to “basic commercial items” that wouldn’t meet the qualifications for military aircraft.”We are reviewing the report, which appears to be based on an inapt comparison of the prices paid for parts that meet aircraft and contract specifications and designs versus basic commercial items that would not be qualified or approved for use on the C-17. We will continue to work with the OIG and the U.S. Air Force to provide a detailed written response to the report in the coming days.”Around 220 C-17s are in use by the Air Force, Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve Command. GOP SENATOR DEMANDS ANSWERS AFTER PENTAGON FINDS ARMY GAVE TAIWAN MOLDY GEAR, AMMO FROM 1983The Air Force calls the Boeing Globemaster C-17s “the most flexible cargo aircraft” in its fleet, capable of carrying people and cargo across a variety of distances. It’s become the primary aircraft used for evacuation and humanitarian missions. The Pentagon’s sprawling budget broke $900 billion last year, making overcharges by defense contractors a constant headache for internal watchdogs. Earlier this month, Raytheon agreed to pay $1 billion in a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) for defrauding the Defense Department and paying bribes to a government official in Qatar to acquire business in the country.The company was accused of inflating its costs by $111 million on missile systems and operation of a radar surveillance system it sold to the Pentagon. Raytheon allegedly lied about the cost of building three Patriot missile batteries, with the Army agreeing to a $619 million contract. 



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Olivia Rodrigo had a scary run-in with Border Patrol.While touring, the singer was nearly arrested when she tried to reenter the United States. The Disney Channel star turned pop star opened up about the terrifying experience on Tuesday. OLIVIA RODRIGO FALLS THROUGH HOLE AT CONCERT, JOINING MADONNA, LUKE BRYAN IN WILD STAGE MISHAPS”I got in trouble with the law for the first time in my life,” the 21-year-old confessed on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.”Rodrigo, who, since February has been making her rounds across the globe as part of her “Guts World Tour,” says the incident happened when she was leaving Canada.”We were going from Canada to like, Portland, or something. We were at border control. I give them my passport and they’re like, ‘OK whatever.’” But then things changed.”They knock on the door and they’re like, ‘We need Olivia.’”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSHaving recently performed a slew of shows, Rodrigo thought someone at border control might have a daughter who’d like her autograph. “I come out, it’s 3 a.m. and I’m delirious, and they take me to a room – and it’s an interrogation room,” she recounted, saying inside waiting for her was an armed officer. “And he’s like, ‘Have you ever been arrested?’ I’m like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested.’ And he’s like, ‘Are you sure?’”Rodrigo said the officer’s persistence made her start to question herself. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, maybe I was arrested and I didn’t know it.'”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER”He scared me,” she continued. “He’s like, ‘You know you could go to jail for lying to a federal officer like this. Like, this is really bad.'””I’m freaking out. I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna be let into America!'” the pop star recalled, saying she was “so scared” and “having a panic attack” at the time.”After 30 minutes of interrogation, he looks at me, and he goes, ‘What’s your name?'” “And I go ‘Olivia Rodrigo. R-O-D-R-I-G-O,’” she remembered. “He’s like, ‘Oh, there’s a girl who looks just like you, that’s your same age, that’s been arrested multiple times, and her name is Olivia Rodriguez.'”The “bad idea, right?” singer was not pleased.”I was pissed,” she admitted, questioning why border control hadn’t paid more attention to her name. “Crisis averted,” she concluded.A representative for Rodrigo did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for more information.This hasn’t been the only bump in the road for the singer during her tour. Earlier this month, while performing in Melbourne, Australia, the singer tripped and fell into a hole on stage.She told Fallon, who played a video of the accident for the audience, that “it was really scary.”WATCH: OLIVIA RODRIGO FALLS THROUGH TRAPDOOR DURING PERFORMANCE”Watching the video was pretty terrifying. I mean, show must go on. That’s showbiz baby.”Rodrigo, fortunately, had a positive outlook on the accident, saying she was actually “really happy it happened in hindsight.” The singer said she was taken to the hospital after her concert for precautionary reasons – to check for a concussion – and the nurse who was assigned to her was a Filipino man with the same name as her grandfather, who recently passed away. Prior to her shows in Australia, Rodrigo had been performing in the Phillipines, where her family emigrated from years ago.”I was like, ‘Wow, that was him looking out for me, making sure I didn’t get hurt.’ And so I’m really happy it happened. I think it’s a beautiful story.” 



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The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take up an emergency challenge from Virginia temporarily halting a federal judge’s decision that ordered it to reinstate hundreds of potential noncitizens to the state’s voter rolls. The decision is a victory for Gov. Glenn Youngkin, and comes just days after the state of Virginia filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to halt a lower court decision ordering it to restore the names of some 1,600 individuals to its voter rolls. At the heart of the case is whether Virginia’s voter removal process violates a so-called quiet period under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), or a federal law requiring states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance for a 90-day period before a federal election.That argument pitted the Department of Justice—which sued the state over its removal program earlier this month— against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who insisted the state’s process is “individualized” and conducted in accordance with state and federal law. With just days until the election, the court’s decision is expected to be under a microscope.26 REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS GENERAL JOIN VIRGINIA IN PETITIONING SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON VOTER ROLLVirginia’s voter roll maintenance program was implemented in August and compares the state Department of Motor Vehicles’ list of self-identified noncitizens to its list of registered voters. Individuals without citizenship were flagged and informed that their voter registration would be canceled unless they could prove their citizenship in 14 days.The Justice Department argued that the removals were conducted too close to the Nov. 5 elections and violated the NVRA’s quiet period provision, a decision backed by a U.S. judge in Alexandria, who ordered Virginia last week to halt its removals and to reinstate the registrations of all 1,600 removed individuals. Justice Department officials also cited concerns in their lawsuit that eligible votes may have incorrectly been removed from the rolls without adequate notice or with enough time to correct the mistake. In the state’s petition to the Supreme Court, Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares objected to the lawsuit and subsequent court ruling on several grounds. First, he argued, the NVRA does not extend to “self-identified noncitizens” in the state– adopting a more narrow reading of the law than the Justice Department, and one that he said could render the primary basis for the lawsuit obsolete. Second, he argued that if the NVRA does apply, the state still has an “individualized process” of removing voters that is conducted by the Department of Motor Vehicles and directly by local registration offices. Late Monday, attorneys general from all 26 Republican-led states joined Virginia in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, backing its assertion that the removal program was conducted on an “individualized” basis, and further, that the Justice Department’s reading of the protections granted under NVRA are overly broad and do not apply to noncitizens.Attorneys urged the court to grant Virginia’s emergency motion and “restore the status quo,” noting that doing so “would comply with the law and enable Virginia to ensure that noncitizens do not vote in the upcoming election.””This Court should reject Respondents’ effort to change the rules in the middle of the game and restore the status quo ante,” they wrote. “The Constitution leaves decisions about voter qualifications to the people of Virginia. And the people of Virginia have decided that noncitizens are not permitted to vote.”Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub. 



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FIRST ON FOX: Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America, a group that seeks to “end abortion” in the United States, has knocked on 4 million doors in swing states to reach voters they say can be persuaded to oppose candidates and ballot initiatives that would expand abortion access.Earlier this year, the group set out an ambitious goal of raising and spending $92 million to boost candidates for office who advocate for laws restricting abortion. Now, Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America representatives say they have met that goal and have a strong ground game in key battleground states, where volunteers are making the case that Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is too extreme on abortion.Rachel Schroder, a Hillsdale College senior who volunteered as a canvasser and deployed to Milwaukee, Wisc., for three days, told Fox News Digital in an interview that voters were open to changing who they support when engaged conversationally, face-to-face. “We know that Kamala Harris and [Wisconsin Democratic Senator] Tammy Baldwin both have refused to set any sort of limits on when abortions can be done in pregnancy, even when a baby is fully developed, can live outside the womb and can see and hear its mom’s voice,” said Schroder, adding that Baldwin voted against a GOP-backed bill to require medical care for babies who survive an attempted abortion. MAJOR PRO-LIFE GROUP LAYS OUT AGRESSIVE PLANS FOR 2024 ELECTIONS: LARGEST GROUND GAME YET'”This is way too extreme for Wisconsin. This is way too extreme for America. And we’re just here to inform voters so that they can make the commonsense choice when they go to the ballots in November.” Reached for comment, Baldwin spokesman Andrew Mamo said the Wisconsin senator is “proud to champion the Women’s Health Protection Act which would restore the protections afforded by Roe v Wade ensuring women, not politicians like Eric Hovde, can make their own decisions about their health care.” More than one million students like Schroder participated in Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s voter contact program, the group’s largest ever. National Field Team Director Patricia Miles said the group has reached more than 10 million low-turnout and persuadable voters in eight battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the aforementioned Wisconsin. Similar to that of other advocacy groups throughout the United States, SBA Pro-Life America has reached voters through a variety of means like digital, messaging, mail and phones. Abortion was tied with immigration for second-place as the most important issue for voters in the 2024 cycle, according to a recent New York Times/Siena College survey. Twenty-seven percent of voters said the economy ranked as their chief concern, and immigration and abortion followed at 15 percent each.2024 SHOWDOWN: HARRIS, TRUMP HOLD DUELING TEXAS RALLIES TO HAMMER HOME THESE KEY ISSUESThe stakes are high this November since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, permitting states to enact their own laws governing abortion. Republican lawmakers have sought to restrict the procedure, calling it immoral to kill an unborn baby. Several Democratic states have expanded abortion access, arguing that the government should not exert control over women’s bodies and that the decision to terminate a pregnancy rests solely with women and their doctors. Ten states have abortion-related ballot measures this year, including Arizona and Florida, where voters will decide if the right to terminate a pregnancy should be constitutionally protected. Support for expanding abortion rights has crossed party lines. Voters in red states including Kansas and Ohio have previously given majority approval to ballot measures that enshrined abortion rights, dealing stinging blows to the pro-life movement.TRUMP, HARRIS DEAD EVEN IN NATIONAL POLL, WITH JUST ONE IN FOUR SAYING COUNTRY HEADED IN RIGHT DIRECTION”When we see states like Kansas who are supporting abortion in their state constitutions, it’s deeply troubling because we know that every baby cradled in their mother’s womb deserves to be cradled in their parent’s arms,” said Schroder. But she remains hopeful that when women in crisis pregnancies are shown the resources available to them through groups like SBA Pro Life America, they will choose not to abort. “I see a pro-life future because I see so many other students like myself who are willing to sacrifice their school breaks to defend life. I see my community. I see my friends. I see my family saying this is important to us and it’s not just important to us, but this is an issue the American people are paying attention to. And I think the American people is a deeply compassionate people.”The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment. 



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