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FOX 24 US As Republicans came before the Supreme Court Tuesday to get rid of one of the last regulations governing our wild west campaign finance system, the colloquies fell flat.  Justice Sonia Sotomayor took on the “slippery slope” role. She reminded listeners of the Watergate-era corruption that gave rise to the regulation that the petitioners in this case, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and JD Vance, want to do away with, and how little will be left if the limits on these donations to parties are wiped away too. But it had the feel of a skirmish after the…

FOX 24 US This story first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive ProPublica’s biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry. With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks and President Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program, a panic set in among the more than 40 million people who rely on it. Families skipped meals, and babies went unfed. Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster…

FOX 24 US Who Was Sheinelle Jones’ Husband? The same ingenuity that guided Jones’ career had her thinking fast when she first spied her future husband. “I was a fake tour guide,” she recounted to Northwestern Magazine of leading the then-high school senior through the lakeside campus. Though she was en route to class, “I told him I would take him around because he was cute.”  From there, they mapped out a decades-long journey. After eight years of dating and two false starts (she previously thought he was proposing when he gifted her a Tiffany’s box with a bracelet inside and…

FOX 24 US Emilia Clarke’s Brain AneurysmEmilia Clarke filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, but in 2019, she published an essay in The New Yorker titled “A Battle for My Life.”Having a bad headache at the gym, “I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill,” the actress wrote. “Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused…

FOX 24 US Joan Vassos wants you to know that she’s still very much alive. The Golden Bachelorette cleared the air after online rumors said she had died in an accident. “First of all, I didn’t die,” Joan quipped to host Ashley Iaconetti during the Almost Famous podcast on Dec. 8. “There were rumors that I was in a tragic accident. So, I didn’t die.” The 62-year-old also addressed the rumor mill’s concerns about the status of her and fiancé Chock Chapple’s relationship, to whom she got engaged at the end of her Bachelorette season in November 2024. “I also didn’t breakup with Chock,” Joan clarified. “So,…

FOX 24 US The one where fans had no idea their favorite Friends couple actually had feelings for each other. During the iconic NBC series’ HBO Max reunion special, Aniston and Schwimmer admitted they nursed crushes on each other during the first season. As Schwimmer explained, “Yeah, the first season we—I had a major crush on Jen.” Aniston countered, “It was reciprocated.” So why didn’t Ross and Rachel’s real-life counterparts ever officially get together? “At some point, we were both crushing hard on each other,” Schwimmer explained, “but it was like two ships passing because one of us was always in a…

FOX 24 US Inside Maria Shriver’s Bond With Katherine Schwarzenegger & Chris Pratt’s Son FordArnold Schwarzenegger is back…with his sons.  The Terminator star attended the Sun Valley Film Festival Dec. 6, where he made a rare joint appearance alongside Patrick Schwarzenegger, 32, and Christopher Schwarzenegger, 32.  In a photo from the event, Arnold, 78, sported jeans with a black quarterzip sweater and T-shirt, along with black shoes. Patrick, who was also honored with the Rising Star award at the event, went slightly more elevated with a gray suit, including a double-breasted jacket, paired with a black turtleneck. Christopher, meanwhile, sported…

FOX 24 US Zooey Deschanel hasn’t been able to take her family through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, past the sea of twirly-swirly gum drops. Especially because her kids Elsie, 10, and Charlie, 8—who she shares with ex-husband Jacob Pechenik—aren’t exactly the biggest fans of their mom’s 2003 hit film Elf. “They’ve seen part of it,” Zooey explained to E! News’ Will Marfuggi during an exclusive interview alongside Merv costar Charlie Cox, “but they weren’t really that into watching it.” As for why her children couldn’t get into the Christmas classic? As she put it, “I think…

FOX 24 US All the Actors Who Turned Down Brokeback Mountain”I was working on it, and I felt like we needed a really strong cast, like a famous cast,” Van Sant told Indiewire in 2018. “That wasn’t working out. I asked the usual suspects: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ryan Phillippe. They all said no.” In hindsight, he wasn’t sure why he was so stuck on casting big stars, concluding he was “not ready” to helm the movie at the time. “There was something off with myself, I guess,” he said, “whatever was going on.” Mark Wahlberg later had a meeting with Lee,…

FOX 24 US We all know someone whose whole personality is being a dog mom (or dad)— and honestly, we totally get it. People are obsessed with their dogs, so it only makes sense that this holiday season, you give the dog owner in your life something that they and their dog will cherish. But instead of just getting the dog parent in your life another dog toy, try these unique gifts from Anthropologie, Etsy, Quince, and more instead. A personalized gift always feels special, which is why baseball caps or tote bags with a custom embroidery of someone’s furry…