England selection should no longer be restricted to players based at domestic clubs, according to cap centurion Courtney Lawes.
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Monday, September 7, 2026
Erika Kirk reflects on first year of grief after Charlie Kirk's assassination in NYT essay
Erika Kirk explained why simply getting "through the next 15 minutes" has been a critical step in getting through the first year since the tragic assassination of her husband Charlie Kirk.
Kirk, who took over leadership of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) following the fatal shooting of her 31-year-old husband at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, penned a New York Times guest essay headlined, "What I’ve learned about grief," that was published on Monday.
Kirk said the first 24 hours after her husband was assassinated felt "like a fever dream," and she told second lady Usha Vance that she didn’t know how she would move forward. The wife of Vice President JD Vance then offered words that are now "seared into" Kirk’s heart.
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"You know when you’re on an airplane with your kids, and you’re going to land in 15 minutes, but the kids are going crazy, screaming, throwing things, and then the plane lands, and the kids relax, and everything is fine again? That’s how it will be. Just get through the next 15 minutes," Vance told Kirk, according to Kirk’s guest essay.
Kirk explained that things like seeing his toothbrush and towel in their shared bathroom were tough, but she constantly thought of Vance’s advice.
"I stood in the doorway of our bedroom. I turned on the light and walked toward his side of the bed. I stared at his pillow and wondered how long a person’s scent can last in sheets. I stood there in silence, replaying all of the completely ordinary mornings we woke up there together. I wasn’t ready to be there, so I turned off the light and crawled into bed with my 3-year-old daughter. Just get through the next 15 minutes," Kirk wrote.
"For months, I avoided my bedroom. I told myself it was OK to confront the pain gradually and to sit with each memory as it came to me," she continued. "The first Saturday without a love note from him passed. His 32nd birthday. My birthday. Thanksgiving. When I put the Christmas tree together wrong, it made me realize that being a widow means old traditions will need to make room for new ones. The wave crashes on me again and again. Every time, just get through the next 15 minutes."
The CEO of the conservative nonprofit listed other family milestones that her beloved late husband had missed, and she eventually realized their young daughter was also "surviving her own little crashing waves."
"Grief is strange. Time continues even when every part of you wants it to pause or, better yet, rewind. But the people we love who have passed on would not want us to spend the rest of our lives trying to rewind. At first, I needed to survive the next 15 minutes. Over time, I’ve realized that Charlie would want me to live them," Kirk wrote.
"Occasionally, I’m asked whether I’m angry at God. I say no. My husband was one of one. I was blessed to be his wife, and I understood his assignment here on Earth, which he more than fulfilled. He wanted people who felt lost to know the everlasting hope he found through faith and the sense of meaning and purpose that can fill the deeper longings we so often try to satisfy elsewhere," she added. "To the world, he was Charlie Kirk. But to me, he was the love of my life. To our children, he was the center of their world."
Kirk believes that it’s easy to struggle to understand God’s plan after losing a loved one and faith is truly tested when "bad things happen."
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"True faith means accepting that we won’t get every answer and finding peace in that," Kirk wrote. "I have seen extraordinary good born out of something unimaginably evil. I have watched people return to faith in droves, reconcile with their families and forgive old wounds because of Charlie. I know my husband is in heaven, but I ache for him to be here. Still, I can stand and say without a shadow of a doubt that God is good."
She wrote that the wave still comes, but it is different a year later, and she even welcomes it, as "a moment the grief makes Charlie feel impossibly close." Kirk believes grief is universal," doesn’t care whom you voted for" and never truly goes away.
"I am learning that grieving Charlie and living life at the same time are part of the rhythm of grief. I can miss him with every part of me and still laugh with our children. I can have a broken heart and still experience joy," Kirk wrote.
"If you are living through grief, I won’t tell you what to feel or that tomorrow will be better than today. I will tell you what a dear friend told me: Just get through the next 15 minutes," she continued. "One day, maybe when you least expect it, you’ll start to see that those 15 minutes hold more than just grief. The grief is there, always, but so is the beautiful gift of life."
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Psychotherapist and author Jonathan Alpert told Fox News Digital that the second lady provided strong advice.
"One of the hardest parts of grief is that your mind races ahead, filling you with anxiety. How am I going to do this for the next year? How am I going to raise my kids without this person? What are holidays going to look like? How do I build a life I never expected to be living? Suddenly you’re trying to solve the rest of your life at the worst possible moment.
Sometimes you really do need to shrink the window and just get through the next 15 minutes," Alpert said.
"Resilience isn’t pretending you’re fine. It’s being able to hurt and still live your life," he added. "Erika’s piece shows that those two things can exist at the same time."
TPUSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Charlie Kirk founded TPUSA to promote conservatism on college campuses nationwide. He was speaking before more than 2,000 people at a TPUSA event in Orem, Utah, where he was assassinated, leaving behind Erika and their two children.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report.
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Sunday, September 6, 2026
Virginia mom placed on child abuse registry for 7 years after letting 5-year-old walk alone
A Virginia mom is appealing a criminal charge and her placement on the state’s child abuse and neglect registry after her 5-year-old son was stopped by security while walking alone through their gated community.
Karyann Parkinson said her son, Sam, had been walking along a familiar neighborhood path past a pond to collect goose feathers when a security guard encountered him and brought him home.
Police and Child Protective Services became involved, and Parkinson, who was eight months pregnant at the time, had her six-month jail sentence suspended, but the charge remains.
She was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a first-degree misdemeanor, and was also placed on Virginia's Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry for seven years.
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Parkinson said she understands the shock people feel hearing about a child alone near a body of water, but sought to clarify what happened that day.
"I didn't send him to play at the pond," she told "Fox & Friends Weekend." "I sent him down the path that happens to go past the pond to collect goose feathers... I know that a lot of people have seen the headlines and seen '5-year-old alone at a pond.' And I think if I saw that in isolation, I'd probably be alarmed, too."
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"But what this was, was a 5-year-old on a pathway that he's very familiar with in his neighborhood that he loves, the only place that he can remember ever living. And it just got turned into this whole situation where a lot of people were suddenly intervening and feeling like this was a really drastic parenting choice," she said.
The most difficult part for Parkinson is being on the Child Protective Services registry for so long, she told Fox News. That means she won't be able to volunteer in Sam's classroom until he enters sixth grade.
"We need to stop parenting from a place of fear and a place, you know, of obsessing over the unknown or some boogeyman who's going to jump out from behind a bush," Parkinson said.
She said her son was "pretty shaken up" after the incident but has since recovered.
"We had to do a lot of reassuring him and telling him, 'You didn't do anything wrong,'" Parkinson said. "He would ask me, 'Mom, am I allowed to ride my bike to swim practice? Am I allowed to ride my back to the tennis courts?'"
"Now it's just a blip on his radar. It's not really a part of his life anymore," she added.
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Democrat challenging Mike Lawler won't commit on campaigning with AOC, Mamdani or rejecting DSA
Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Cait Conley told CNN's "State of the Union" that she would not campaign alongside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., but did not directly answer whether Democrats should reject the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
The group's influence in New York has become an issue in her bid to unseat Republican Rep. Mike Lawler. Anchor Dana Bash asked Conley whether she would campaign alongside Mamdani or Ocasio-Cortez after noting Lawler has sought to link his opponent to the Democratic Party's socialist wing.
"No, Dana, I‘m good up here making the case to the voters in the New York 17th Congressional District," Conley said.
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Lawler's campaign manager, Ciro Riccardi, told Fox News Digital on Sunday that Conley's appearance demonstrated why the campaign has criticized her over debates and accused her of failing to distance herself from the DSA.
"Now everyone is seeing why Cait Conley has ducked and dodged debate challenges with Congressman Lawler. She’s incapable of answering direct questions without showing her true colors," he said. "Cait Conley’s refusal to disavow Zohran Mamdani and the DSA is disqualifying. She is just as extreme as the rest and that was exposed today for all to see, including embracing impeachment."
Lawler previously told Fox News Digital that he challenged Conley to six debates after her Democratic primary victory, while Conley's campaign said she agreed to two debates hosted by local networks.
Bash separately pointed to Rep. Tom Suozzi’s, D-N.Y., calls for his party to confront the DSA and asked Conley whether she agreed. Conley did not directly state whether she believed Democrats should reject the organization, instead discussing political division within both parties.
"I look at what we’re trying to do, which is unite this country where we have seen partisanship to include partisanship within our own party — absolutely divide people to render government dysfunctional," Conley said. "What we have to focus on is how do we bring people together, and right now, what I see coming out of Washington is corruption on both sides, extremism on both sides that is fueling hate, fueling dysfunction."
Suozzi has taken a more explicit position toward the socialist organization, telling Fox News Digital in August that Democrats would have to address the DSA's influence and reject its policy positions.
"I don't ascribe to any of those ideas at all, and I think that there's very little support for those ideas," Suozzi said.
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The DSA's national program calls for abolishing ICE and ending detention and deportations. It also advocates redirecting police funding as steps toward "fully abolishing the police and prison system," universal rent control, publicly owned social housing and universal government-funded healthcare.
Lawler’s campaign has previously pressed Conley over her relationship with the Democratic Party’s progressive wing after Ocasio-Cortez congratulated Conley on winning the Democratic primary in June. Riccardi at the time challenged Conley to state whether she rejected Ocasio-Cortez and other candidates associated with the party’s left flank.
"Which is it, Cait: do you reject AOC and the candidates who want to abolish ICE, defund the police, and tear down our borders, or do you embrace them?" Riccardi said.
Conley, a 16-year Army veteran who served on former President Joe Biden's National Security Council, won a crowded Democratic primary in June and is challenging two-term incumbent Lawler in a closely watched Hudson Valley contest that could determine control of the House.
Fox News Digital reached out to Conley for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
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Saturday, September 5, 2026
A list of the best College Gameday signs at LSU during show's 500th episode
One of the best Saturday morning traditions during college football season is not only watching ESPN's best program on the network, College Gameday, but seeing the hilarious, savage, and unique signs fans put together each week. For the historic 500th episode of Gameday at LSU, Tigers fans did not hold back. They poked fun at former QB and Heisman winner Jayden Daniels, the legal battle of allowing NFL players to come back to play for LSU, mascots caught some shade, and more.
Here are some of the best from this morning's program:
Clemson Head Coach Dabo Sweeney was on the receiving end of some savage signs, including a brutal declaration by an LSU fan as it pertains to the Lindsay Clancy case. I wouldn't take Sweeney as someone to be dressed in pink and joining forces with left-wing feminists outside the courthouse, but this shows that almost nothing is off limits during Gameday.
The worst thing a golfer can be known for is being a constant three-putter on the green. LSU fans just hitting Sweeney where it hurts.
Former LSU transfer, Heisman Trophy winner, and current Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels also caught some friendly fire from LSU fans, including a young fan who poked fun at Daniels and his lawyer, Adam Kenner, sending a cease-and-desist letter to LSU, demanding that the school not assign the number 5 to anyone else.
Another Daniels specific sign was caught in 4K omitting the "5" from "Happy 500th Gameday" in honor of the show's historic episode and showing sarcastic respect to Daniels. Well played, young man.
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LSU Head Coach Lane Kiffin is no stranger to controversy. He left Ole Miss in rough fashion and now he's leading the #1-ranked transfer class into more controversy as local courts have opened the door for mutiple NFL players to return to college football. Two of those players were not added to the LSU roster before Saturday's game against Clemson.
In a similar vain, a fan poked fun at the NCAA's eligibility rules as it pertains to their other sign that unfortunately didn't make the cut.
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Last but not least, LSU fans humorously highlighted the ongoing controversy and legal battle about eligibility for NFL players returning to play for LSU.
Personally, this is always a fun "Where's Waldo"-type of entertainment on College Gameday, which I look forward to weekly. As for today's edition, well done, LSU.
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Detransitioner takes malpractice fight to appeals court after North Carolina law change
A detransitioner’s malpractice lawsuit against doctors she says counseled her for years to undergo a double mastectomy and begin hormone therapy was initially dismissed as untimely, but a new North Carolina law has allowed her to appeal. The state Court of Appeals will hear arguments on Sept. 29.
Prisha Mosley, now 28, was first prescribed hormones at 17 and underwent a double mastectomy at 18. She later sued the doctors and other medical providers for fraud and malpractice, alleging they misled her about the treatment and its effects.
"I'm a mammal, a human, so I wasn't able to change sex. I didn't need to change sex because that's not possible and nothing was ever wrong with my body. Destroying it with hormones and surgery did not make me happy or well," she told Fox News Digital in an interview.
A trial court in North Carolina initially dismissed Mosley's lawsuit on the basis of the statute of limitations. But, as Mosley explained to Fox News Digital, a law passed in North Carolina in 2025 extended the statute of limitations for medical malpractice lawsuits specifically for people who have undergone gender transitions.
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"During the process through which my lawsuit was going through the courts, North Carolina passed HB 808, which was previously HB 805, which is something along the lines of the Protect Children and Women's Act," Mosley explained.
"[The law] extended the statute of limitations for anyone bringing forward a civil case, and even had a line which said that this includes cases that have already been brought forward or even pending in the courts now," she continued.
Legislators in North Carolina passed the bill in 2025, overriding a veto from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.
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Though the bill was passed in July 2025, a North Carolina trial judge still dismissed Mosley's lawsuit in August 2025, denying her lawyers' motion to reinstate her medical malpractice claims during a special session and granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs.
"Despite this, my claims were dismissed with prejudice, even though they had been previously found to have merit for fraud. The malpractice was still in question due to the statute of limitations, and then after the passage of the law, the entire case was dismissed," Mosley told Fox News Digital.
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Mosley was initially encouraged by the judge's decision to deny the defendants' motion to dismiss, taking it as a signal her fraud accusations could have merit.
"The judge actually originally found that my case did have merit for fraud, and that was on the basis that I was told that I could actually change sex, which is not possible, and I was not only told that I could change sex, but that I needed to do so in order to survive and that doing so would ensure I had a good life. All of these claims are false," she told Fox News Digital.
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But after her lawsuit's final dismissal in August, her lawyers appealed, leading to the upcoming Sept. 29 appellate court oral arguments.
Mosley is arguing that the doctors who counseled her into the double mastectomy and hormone therapy misled her by telling her she could become a man and go through male puberty, which she says was a lie.
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"I consented to quote unquote top surgery, and I was under the impression that top surgery was the surgery that turned a female chest into a male chest, and that's simply not what happened to me. In fact, I had complications related to my surgery," she told Fox News Digital.
"Clearly I didn't have a male chest, and the guarantees weren't promised that way. But it's also impossible to induce puberty of the opposite sex because it's impossible to change sex. I wasn't going through male puberty. I was being put through menopause as a teenager, and while inducing all of these medical issues and problems for me, my doctors just covered it up with these fraudulent terms that made it seem like something good and medically sound was happening to me when it was not. Even when I complained about side effects and said that I was suffering from pain and acne and other issues, they told me that this was because of male puberty," she explained.
Mosley said that she realized she had been lied to when, though she was still identifying as a male at the time, her fiancé's young daughter kept referring to her as "mommy."
"Despite the fact that I still had a beard at the time and I was wearing male clothes and all of that, this little girl started calling me mommy, and that's just where everything fell into place for me," she told Fox News Digital.
Mosley said she was encouraged by a recent ruling in New York, where 22-year-old detransitioner, Fox Varians, sued the psychologist and plastic surgeon who counseled her to undergo a gender transition, winning $2 million in a judgment.
Mosley pointed out that no detransitioners suing their medical providers for malpractice have ever lost their cases in trial.
"I think it's clear to people that this type of medicalization is wrong, and it points to the fact, you know, Fox Varian's is the only detransitioner case that's ever made it to court. None of our cases, not mine, not anyone else's, have ever failed in court. We're being stopped by strange policies and statutes of limitations before we ever go before a jury. But the general public knows that what happened to us is wrong and that we deserve justice for what happened to us," she told Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital contacted Stein's office and legal representatives for each of the defendants listed in Mosley vs. Emerson for further comment.
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Friday, September 4, 2026
Rock concert at Virginia's Wolf Trap canceled after worker is crushed to death beneath tour bus
A rock performance at a venue in Virginia was canceled Thursday after a man working on a tour bus in a nearby parking lot was crushed underneath it hours before the show, according to authorities.
U.S. Park Police told FOX 5 DC they responded to the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts at 5 p.m.
The English rock band "Squeeze" was scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. that night.
The worker was under the tour bus when officers arrived. Park Police said a supporting apparatus failed, causing the bus to come down on him.
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"There was an accident involving a member of the community at Wolf Trap National Park," the venue said in a social media post. "Out of respect, tonight's show has been canceled."
"Squeeze are deeply saddened and shocked by an incident that occurred at the venue earlier today, which resulted in the loss of a life," the band said in a statement to Rolling Stone. "We will work with the promoter and venue regarding the possibility of rescheduling the show and will communicate further information to ticket holders as soon as it is available. Our thoughts remain with everyone affected by this tragic event."
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The worker's identity has not been released by Park Police.
News of the accident prompted some fans to leave, but many lingered in the parking lot, shaken by the death of the worker.
"It was horrible when we found out that happened," Debbie Daniel told FOX 5 DC. "We saw the emergency vehicles come in, figured something serious had happened because there was like 15 or more vehicles. But, yeah, it was very tragic."
Eric Anderson, another fan, empathized with the man's colleagues and agreed with the decision to cancel the show.
"Especially from what we're starting to understand about the circumstances, the show can't go on. And we understand that," Anderson said.
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