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The visit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Hungarian President Viktor Orban ended with glowing praise from both parties as Xi labeled his counterpart a “model” for diplomatic relations with Europe, while Orban endorsed Beijing’s Ukraine peace plan.”Today, Europe is on the side of war,” Orbán said Thursday during a joint press conference. “The only exception is Hungary, which calls for an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations and supports all international efforts that point towards peace. . . . We also support the Chinese peace initiative presented by Xi Jinping,” he added.Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto added that Hungary will “look at our co-operation with China as a huge chance and a huge opportunity.” US COMMITTEE PROBES GEORGIA UNIVERSITY’S ALLEGED TIES TO CHINESE MILITARY-LINKED RESEARCHChina has sought to reset its standing with Europe as it faces greater opposition and a worsening reputation throughout the bloc. Winning a kind word from Hungary, which is not only an EU member but a NATO member as well, would seem the kind of PR boost Beijing has wanted. Xi’s five-day stint in Hungary — just one of three visits Xi is making in Europe — ended with a proclamation of China and Hungary’s “all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership for the new era,” which officials claim will serve “more than mere semantic importance,” according to the Financial Times.  The “all-weather” designation indicates that Xi considers Budapest now a member of “those countries that do most to support China’s efforts to counter U.S. power and which are increasingly rewarded with investment, trade and diplomatic support,” the FT reported.  US OFFICIAL RAISES ALARM OVER FORCIBLE REPATRIATION OF NORTH KOREANS FROM CHINAThe two nations agreed to 17 deals that loop Hungary into China’s ongoing Belt and Road Initiative and involve investment in nuclear energy, supply chain improvements, green development and boosts to the finance and trade of Hungary, which will in return export agricultural products, technology and media services. Xi also lauded the deals as helping to bring cooperation between Beijing and Central and Eastern Europe to “a wider scope, a broader field and a higher level.” “China attaches importance to the China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership and considers Europe an important pole in the multipolar world,” Xi said of the agreements. “China supports Hungary in playing a greater role in the EU and promoting the new and greater development of China-EU relations.”The South China Morning Post noted that the “all-weather” partnership places Hungary in the company of such Chinese allies as Belarus, Pakistan and Venezuela. CHINA CONDEMNS US MILITARY SHIP’S PASSAGE THROUGH TAIWAN STRAIGHT WEEKS BEFORE NEW LEADER TAKES OFFICEThe Chinese Foreign Ministry last year posted a 12-point peace plan, which included a number of points that many agreed with, such as urging against the use of nuclear weapons, protecting civilians and POWs, facilitating grain exports and promoting reconstruction.However, the plan also called for the end of unilateral sanctions and “maximum pressure,” insisting that only sanctions authorized by the U.N. Security Council should go into effect. CHINA COULD ‘OVERWHELM’ US MILITARY BASES AS BIDEN SHOWS ‘ALARMING LACK OF URGENCY’: HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAIR”Relevant countries should stop abusing unilateral sanctions and ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ against other countries, so as to do their share in de-escalating the Ukraine crisis and create conditions for developing countries to grow their economies and better the lives of their people,” the plan said.                Foreign Policy last year published an op-ed by Jo Inge Bekkevold, a senior China fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, criticizing China’s peace plan as having “ulterior motives.”For example, China would seek to “position itself in the reconstruction of postwar Ukraine…. [it] explicitly states that it stands ready to provide assistance and play a role in post-conflict reconstruction,” though Bekkevold admits that “no other country is possibly better equipped than China to assist in rebuilding Ukraine.” “Welcoming Chinese assistance, expertise and investments must be a tempting proposition for Ukraine,” Bekkevold wrote. “Seen from Beijing, contributing to the reconstruction of Ukraine would strengthen China’s overall engagement with Europe.”



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Incorporate prime rib at the brunch table with this amazing recipe that’s sure to wow a crowd — whether for Mother’s Day or any gathering with loved ones.”Eggs Benedict has always been a special brunch recipe in my family, and this prime rib version makes it so much more amazing,” said Angela Latimer, a Minnesota-based cookbook author and the recipe developer/blogger behind BakeitWithLove.com. Latimer recommends using medium-rare prime rib leftovers and making them perfect by only lightly heating the beef when making this recipe. (Suggestion: Make the prime rib the night before Mother’s Day.)DELICIOUSLY CHEESY OMELET ROLL WITH HAM IS PERFECT FOR MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCHGet the Eggs Benedict recipe below and top with a sprig of parsley to complete this restaurant-worthy meal.Grab your favorite garnish, slice up some leftover prime rib and get cooking for the special woman in your life. Servings: 8
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutesMOTHER’S DAY BREAKFAST PANCAKE RECIPE FROM CELEBRITY CHEF HAS FRUIT FINISH TO MAKE MOM SMILEFor hollandaise sauceFor Eggs BenedictMOTHER’S DAY RECIPE FROM CHEF ROBERT IRVINE FEATURES BRUSSELS SPROUTS TO ‘FILL YOU UP,’ NOT ‘WEIGH YOU DOWN’Make the hollandaise sauce Start a water bath by adding about 1-inch of water to a saucepan and placing a stainless steel or glass bowl that fits inside without touching the water. Bring the water to a simmer.Pour the heavy cream, egg yolks, lemon juice, optional mustard, and optional cayenne pepper into the bowl. Let the mixture cook over the simmering water, whisking constantly, until it is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. It should be at least 160°F (71°C).Reduce the heat to low. Slowly drizzle the melted butter into the bowl, whisking constantly.Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper to taste. Transfer the hollandaise to a new dish and cover it to keep it warm. Set aside.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERPoach the eggsBring 3-4 inches of water and vinegar to a boil in a large frying pan. Crack the eggs one at a time into the boiling water, but no more than 4 eggs at once (you will do 2 batches).Let the eggs cook until the egg whites are set, but the yolk is still runny (usually 3-4 minutes). Remove the eggs from the water with a slotted spoon and transfer them to a paper towel-lined plate. Repeat with the remaining eggs.Heat prime rib and assembleToast English muffins in a toaster or on a baking sheet under the broiler, just until the top is golden-brown.Slice leftover prime rib into thin strips that will fold easily on top of your English muffins. Heat a skillet or grill pan over medium-high heat with a small drizzle of olive oil until the oil begins to shimmer.Heat the prime rib portions briefly on each side, about one-minute each, just enough to fully warm the leftover meat.Lay a slice of prime rib on top of the English muffin half. Then, top the prime rib with a poached egg and season with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon hollandaise sauce over the top of each egg. Garnish with fresh parsley or chives and a sprinkle of paprika.This original recipe is owned by BakeitWithLove.com and was shared with Fox News Digital.For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.



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For decades, Owen Elliot-Kugell had to put up with hearing a cruel rumor about how her mother died.”Mama” Cass Elliot, a singer in the ‘60s group The Mamas & The Papas, died after performing a series of sold-out shows in London in 1974. She was 32. For nearly 50 years, it’s been alleged that she died after choking on a ham sandwich.Elliot-Kugell was only 7 years old when she lost her mother. Now 57, she’s determined to set the record straight with her memoir, “My Mama, Cass,” now available in bookstores.THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS STAR’S ‘CRUEL’ CAUSE OF DEATH RUMOR ‘ANOTHER FAT JOKE,’ AUTHOR SAYS: ‘SIMPLY NOT TRUE'”I remember when I was younger, and I was in school,” Elliot-Kugell recalled to Fox News Digital. “I would go home with a kid and sometimes those parents would say to me, ‘Hey, how did your mom really die? Did she die choking on a ham sandwich?'””They would believe that she had died choking on a ham sandwich, which is what was released to the press immediately following her death, because she died in her sleep,” Elliot-Kugell reflected. “We didn’t know what was happening for a while and in the very beginning… paparazzi was just starting. I think that it was easier to make up that stupid story that was not true.”Elliott-Kugell admitted that the salacious tale haunted her.”It’s just such a gross rumor,” she reflected. “Even from the point of being overweight, and it’s somebody who dies of eating. All of those connotations that came along with that rumor were pretty hard for us. But I also knew how ridiculous they were. So I almost felt bad for people who really believed that. I’m like, ‘Wow, really? We really believe that?’ Mama says you can’t fix stupid.”Sue Cameron, a longtime columnist for The Hollywood Reporter who was friends with the late songstress, tried to clear up the rumor in her book, “Hollywood Secrets and Scandals.””Regarding the ham sandwich — I was the reporter who broke that story,” Cameron previously claimed to Fox News Digital. “I walked in after lunch and people in the newsroom told me she died. I was in a state of shock but stopped them from writing the obit. I called Cass’ apartment in London, and her manager, Allan Carr, was sobbing as he answered the phone. I was crying, too.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER”I asked what happened,” Cameron shared. “He said, ‘I need a favor and, since you’re Cass’ friend, you’ll do it. I’m looking at a half-eaten ham sandwich on her nightstand. Write the story that she choked on it and died. Do you hear me? Write that story now.’… I immediately wrote that story and kept my mouth shut for years about it.”Cameron claimed that Carr wanted “to save her reputation.””The death report said she died of a heart attack,” Cameron stressed. “That’s better for history.”For her book, Elliot-Kugell tracked down her mother’s last living confidantes. She also connected with Cameron. While no drugs were found in Cass’ system at the time of her death, many of her peers had died from drug overdoses. Both Elliot-Kugell and Cameron believed that Carr was worried the press would make the same assumption.New York Times bestseller Scott G. Shea also attempted to clear up the misconception in his 2023 book, “All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart.””After performing for two weeks and receiving rave reviews, she was at [singer-songwriter] Harry Nilsson’s apartment and died in her sleep,” Shea told Fox News Digital at the time. “It appeared she had fixed herself a late-night snack, which was a ham sandwich. It was placed on a nightstand. A doctor told a journalist that she might have choked on the ham sandwich. That reporter ran with that story.””There was a full autopsy investigation,” Shea continued. “They found it was heart failure due to a variety of things… She took a lot of LSD, and then she started on heroin. Now, she wasn’t on heroin at that point in her life, but that likely weakened her heart with time. And she was on a lot of yo-yo diets where she would lose 100 pounds, gain it back and lose it again for show business. All of those things together contributed to her heart failure.”Another rumor that Elliot-Kugell was eager to debunk in her book was the identity of her biological father. She learned that he was touring bassist Charles “Chuck” Day with the help of Cass’ former bandmate, Michelle Phillips.”I was 19… and I asked her if she would help me find my real biological father,” Elliot-Kugell explained to Fox News Digital. “She said she had her assistant or a friend of hers put an ad in a newspaper… One of his friends saw the ad in the newspaper and called the number that was part of the ad. The first thing that the guy said was, ‘Is this about the kid?’””Michelle had a plane ticket for me and said, ‘Go meet your biological father,'” she shared. “She helped end that mystery for me, which had been a mystery for a long time.”Day, who died in 2008, was eager to tell his daughter the truth.”I didn’t have to ask a lot of questions,” Elliot-Kugell explained. “He was more than happy to just be very forthcoming with most of the information… I was curious about how they [knew] each other. It turns out that he was the bass player in the band in the summer of 1966. They became friends that way, and I was the product of a one-night stand. They had actually been together one time.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS”In case anybody’s keeping score of what they tell you in health class… [it] just takes one time,” she chuckled.In 1967, Cass welcomed her only child. The identity of her child’s father was kept secret for the rest of the star’s life.”When she decided to have a child, when she realized that was something she wanted to do, one of the things that she said to her friends [who later told me] was… ‘I don’t need a man. I’m a rock star. I have plenty of money. I have everything I need. I can do this all myself,’” said Elliot-Kugell.”That’s the decision… she made, to have a child. I was born out of her wanting to have somebody in her life that wasn’t going to leave. She had had a string of relationships with men, and they weren’t always there because they loved her. They were there because she was a rock star… She really wanted somebody that was going to be there all the time. That’s why she named me Owen. She said, ‘She’s my very own.’”Elliot-Kugell said she still has vivid dreams of her mother. During the final months of Cass’ life, she kept busy performing and traveling. It was a triumphant, hopeful time for the singer, said Elliot-Kugell.”I remember her warmth,” she beamed. “I remember just how giving she was, how loving she was.”CHYNNA PHILLIPS LET HER FATHER WALK HER DOWN THE AISLE AFTER ‘EARTH-SHATTERING’ REVELATION BEFORE HER WEDDINGToday, Elliot-Kugell hopes to shed new light on her mother for both new and longtime fans.”There’s a whole story there about a family who, like many other families, immigrated to the United States,” she said. “A few generations later, [my mother] is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame… It’s the American dream. You can come to this country and make an honest living. You can do your thing, and you can end up making your dreams come true.”



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Former New York Knicks stars have been sitting courtside, cheering on their old team throughout the playoffs – but Charles Oakley has been absent.Oakley’s highly-publicized beef with the Knicks hit its peak in 2017 when Oakley was ejected from a Knicks game and hit a security official near owner James Dolan’s courtside seat.The incident remains a he-said, he-said – the team said Oakley was yelling continuously at Dolan, but Oakley has denied that, and instead said he was asked to leave the arena shortly after taking his seat at the game for no reason.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMWell, Oakley hasn’t been back to the Garden since, and even with the Knicks having their best season since Oakley’s playing days, he’s holding onto his boycott.Oakley was arrested for, but eventually cleared of, assault, but there is still an ongoing legal battle between the two of them.Despite that, Oakley says Dolan’s lawyers called his and invited him to a recent game. But it’s a hard no.”They’ve got to apologize,” he said to The Associated Press. “We’ll go from there. Can (Dolan) be man enough to say, mistakes happen. And he made one.”Oakley brought assault and battery claims against Dolan and an amended lawsuit was filed just last month. An order Thursday assigned it to Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron to handle going forward.COURT REINSTATES CHARLES OAKLEY’S ASSAULT CASE AGAINST MADISON SQUARE GARDEN; JAMES DOLAN POSSIBLY A DEFENDANTCAITLIN CLARK ATTENDS PACERS-KNICKS PLAYOFF GAME WITH FEVER TEAMMATES IN SUITE”Just be honest,” Oakley said. “Just be transparent over what you put someone through and how you changed their life. This definitely changed my life. My daughter Googled me, they show them pulling me out of the Garden, that’s bad. That’s hell for a kid to see that.”MSG has denied all claims.”There’s no kind of agreement. There’s no kind of, `Let’s make this go away,'” Oakley said. “They’re not being transparent about what happened.”Oakley “would love to go” to MSG to see a Knicks game – as long as Dolan made things right.”I think it’s a bad time to ask me to come to a game,” Oakley said. “The case is still going. You ain’t trying to settle a case. The case is still pending. Take care of your business with the case and let the game worry about the game, you know what I’m saying? You’re not doing anything special. If you were trying to do something special, you wouldn’t have done this.”Oakley did admit he is rooting for the Knicks – just from home.”I don’t want to get in their way, they’re playing great,” Oakley said. “I’m going to cheer at the guys to do well. I’m not mad at nobody on the floor.”The Knicks currently lead their series against the Indiana Pacers, two games to one. They are aiming for their first Eastern Conference Finals appearance since 2000.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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The campus police chief at Arizona State University has been placed on leave for his alleged actions during anti-Israel protests.Michael Thompson was put on administrative leave as university officials review complaints filed against him stemming from April 26 and 27, the school told Fox News Digital in a statement. “ASU Police Chief Michael Thompson has been placed on paid administrative leave, per university policy, pending a review of complaints filed related to his actions on April 26-27, 2024. Assistant Chief John Thompson has been named Acting Chief,” the statement said. COMER CANCELS DC ANTISEMITISM HEARING AFTER BOWSER, POLICE ‘FINALLY DISMANTLE GWU ENCAMPMENT”The ASU Office of General Counsel is directing a review of actions surrounding the establishment and removal of an encampment on the Alumni Lawn. Upon completion of the review, ASU will provide an update on its findings,” it continued. The nature of the complaints was not disclosed. Nearly 70 people were arrested between the evening of April and the early morning hours of the next day as anti-Israel protests raged on ASU’s Tempe campus.A list of demands from protesters promoting the demonstration on social media included the university ending all research exchanges and partnerships with Israel, abolishing ASU Police and the Tempe Police Department, and a call for the university’s president, Michael Crow, to resign immediately, FOX Phoenix reported. At a May 2 news conference, the protesters said the arrests were an example of police overreach. 



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