Jennifer Lopez offered another glimpse of her impressive fitness as she was seen leaving a gym in Santa Monica, California, after a workout on Wednesday.

The 57-year-old actress showcased her sculpted physique, toned midriff and defined muscles while sipping coffee on her way out of the gym.

Lopez’s latest workout came shortly after her ex-husband, Ben Affleck, spoke candidly about their brief second chance at romance. He also suggested that her acting performances have been unfairly “overlooked” by awards voters during her career.

The Daily Mail has contacted Lopez’s representative for comment but has not yet received a response.

Lopez highlighted her athletic figure in a cobalt green sports bra, which drew attention to her muscular arms and flat stomach.

She completed the gym outfit with matching high-waisted leggings, white athletic shoes and tall white socks.

The Hustlers star smiled as she walked into the sunshine, shielding her eyes behind stylish aviator sunglasses fitted with lavender-tinted lenses.

The glasses were framed by Lopez’s long caramel-colored hair, which she swept back to show off her gold earrings.

While Lopez concentrated on her fitness that day, Affleck was discussing their relationship and her career in a newly published interview.

The 54-year-old Oscar winner worked with Lopez on Kiss of the Spider Woman after their divorce. The remake was released last year, seven months after their divorce was finalized.

Although Lopez earned praise for her performance, she received little awards-season attention after also being left out of the Oscar nominations for her role in the 2019 drama Hustlers.

In an interview with Variety , Affleck was asked why he believed his former wife had been “overlooked.” He responded with strong admiration for Lopez, saying: “I’m biased. I have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for what she can do.

“What I’ve found with awards is that sometimes the degree of commercial success for things doesn’t always correlate to my taste. It’s a part of this weird, subjective business that people bring a lot of their own stuff to.”

Affleck, who has received two Oscar nominations and won both times, added that he does not always believe the right person receives the right award.

He continued: “But guess what? I don’t think you die and go to heaven, and God says, ‘This was the actual best picture in 1986.’ At the end of the day, it’s just a bunch of people voting on movie prizes.”

The Good Will Hunting actor rekindled his romance with Lopez in 2021, after the couple had originally split in 2004.

The two stars went on to say ‘I do’ in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022 and took part in a larger ceremony in August 2022 at the actor’s Georgia property in front of family as well as close friends.

Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck on the two-year anniversary of their Georgia wedding. The divorce was finalized in early 2025.

Despite the split, the pair seemingly have remained on good terms as they reunited on the red carpet at the premiere of the aforementioned Kiss of the Spider Woman in NYC last year in October. 

Affleck also shares children Violet, 20, Fin, 17, and Samuel, 14, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. The former couple were married from 2005 through 2018. 

As the A-lister has been at the center of several memes including smoking, dropping his entire Dunkin’ delivery, and sad Batman, he revealed that his eldest daughter gave him the hilarious nickname of ‘the beleaguered man.’

As he did numerous advertisement campaigns with his favorite donut and iced coffee chain Dunkin’ after his memes went viral, he told Variety: ‘You have to recognize the value there. That’s the spirit and nature of media and celebrity interaction now. 

‘You have to have a sense of humor and be in on the joke with people. Like how I became a meme for “the beleaguered man,” as my daughter calls it.’

He went on to talk about the iconic ‘smoking Ben’ meme where he was photographed in London back in 2016 as his eyes were rolling in the back of his head while having one hand on his pocket and the other holding a cigarette. 

Affleck said: ‘That’s how I was feeling. Does anyone have any idea what I had to deal with by 11 a.m. that morning? 

‘All of us have moments — you’ve got to be willing to let your guard down about it. It’s about fairness.’

He compared it to the production company he founded with Matt Damon in 2022 named Artists Equity.

Affleck said: ‘It’s why we have the word “equity” in the company name. I can’t change the world, but I can change the nature of commerce or the way we work and operate. 

‘If you want more control as an artist, you’ve got to be willing to take more responsibility. Even if that means how you’re exploited, on your own terms.’

Artists Equity is an artist-led production studio and content company that reimagines the relationship between talent, studio and distributor as it reimagines traditional Hollywood economics by sharing revenues, profits and performance-based bonuses directly with above-the-line creators and below-the-line crewmembers. 

Affleck has had a tough year as he lost both of his parents. 

It was revealed in July that mother Chris Affleck died on June 2 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Then, Ben’s brother Casey Affleck, 51, revealed in early September that their father had died earlier this year. 

Of the death of his parents he said: ‘One of the things you grapple with at my age when parents die is there’s a comfort and awareness in knowing this is how it’s supposed to go. When I go, it will be hard for my children, but none of us want it any other way. 

‘My mom said to me at the end of her life: “God, I thought 84 years would seem longer.” And I thought, “I bet, because I thought 54 would seem longer.”

‘That’s what we get. We get this much time, and it’s a reminder not to put anything off or fix it later. It’s more about how you show up every day with everybody else. I’m lucky my mom didn’t pass away younger of something more painful.’

His mother Chris was an inspiring woman as she graduated from Harvard and spent 35 years as a public school teacher until her retirement in 2008.

Of his mother’s inspiration, Affleck said: ‘My gosh, yeah. She’s an amazing woman. Going through her stuff, you see this woman lived an entire lifetime that had nothing to do with me. 

‘We got to have this nice adult relationship; we were really honest, and I was [able] to have discussions with her that I didn’t even imagine I would be able to when I was younger.’

The A-lister also praised his late mother for how she lived the final few months of her life.

Affleck told Variety: ‘She had this cancer diagnosis, and a great lesson was the proactive way she said, “I’m going to make a decision about how much treatment I want to do and how that’s going to impact my life.” 

‘She made her choices. She wanted to see her friends. She really committed to being a great-grandmother. [We tried] to get her to move to L.A. She had her friends and her thing. She shoveled her own walk. But she would get on a plane for any of her five grandkids.’

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has opened an investigation into nine prominent universities over allegations of visa fraud, accusing the institutions of improperly profiting from the recruitment and employment of foreign nationals.

Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State University and MIT are being scrutinized by federal officials. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the schools may be misusing the J-1 visa program to bring in lower-cost international students while avoiding obligations to hire American workers.

“Something unusual is happening at these universities,” Vance said. He alleged that the schools are relying on J-1 visas too heavily, using the program to drive down pay for American graduate students and researchers. “That simply has to stop,” he added.

As part of the inquiry, the Labor Department is forming a specialized visa fraud task force. Investigators have already issued subpoenas to the universities under review.

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“No institution will receive special treatment simply because its name is engraved on an expensive building,” said Labor Department watchdog Anthony D’Esposito. He noted that international students account for 61% of post-graduate enrollment at US universities.

D’Esposito also argued that American taxpayers, who provide billions of dollars in funding for university research and innovation, deserve a clear accounting of how that money is spent and whether the funds are being used legally.

A California real estate agent accused of collecting intelligence on a relative of Taiwan’s president on behalf of China asked a federal court Wednesday to release her from custody. She offered more than $800,000 in property equity and financial guarantees, while challenging prosecutors’ contention that she might flee.

Wanying Zhang, 34, of Irvine, said through her attorney that her U.S. citizenship, family connections and record of returning from international travel showed she would attend future court hearings, according to a nine-page defense filing obtained by News Media.

Zhang was arrested Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport as she prepared to board a flight to China. She has been charged federally with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.

Her lawyer, Craig Harbaugh, told the court that Zhang arrived in the United States in 2014, became a naturalized citizen in 2020 and has worked in Orange County’s real estate industry for about 10 years.

According to the defense filing, Zhang lives with her husband and their two daughters, who are 8 and 5 years old.

As part of its proposed release plan, the defense offered an Irvine home with at least $700,000 in equity as security. Zhang’s husband, his sister, his father and a family friend also agreed to provide a combined $120,000 in financial guarantees.

Harbaugh proposed placing Zhang under GPS-monitored home detention, requiring her to surrender her travel documents and allowing authorities to monitor her electronic devices. The plan would also bar her from entering airports or contacting people tied to the case.

The defense filing acknowledged that Pretrial Services had recommended detention because of concerns Zhang might not appear in court. Her lawyers argued, however, that the proposed restrictions would sufficiently address the risk.

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Zhang’s attorneys also downplayed the importance of the one-way ticket to China that she held when she was arrested. They said she routinely arranged international travel by purchasing outbound and return tickets separately.

The filing said Zhang had traveled to China, France and Japan over the previous year and returned to the United States after each journey.

Her lawyers said the October trip was planned so she could visit her mother, but that it had been delayed until after her daughters’ birthdays.

The criminal complaint alleges that Zhang took part in a surveillance operation in September 2025 outside the Seattle-area home of a close relative of a Taiwanese government official.

An FBI affidavit says investigators examined security-camera footage that allegedly showed Zhang and another person photographing the individual and family members near their residence.

Federal authorities further allege that Zhang sent photographs, video and vehicle details to a suspected Chinese government official through electronic communications.

Investigators also said Zhang studied at China’s University of International Relations in Beijing, a school the FBI characterized as closely linked to the country’s intelligence apparatus.

Zhang’s attorneys deny the allegation and say she plans to prove her innocence.

If convicted, Zhang could receive a maximum federal prison sentence of 10 years.

Prediction markets are gambling platforms and should be regulated by individual states, the NFL argued in a legal filing submitted to the Supreme Court and reviewed by The Daily Mail.

Backing New Jersey regulators’ petition for authority over prediction-market operator Kalshi, the NFL said these platforms limit its ability to protect consumers. The league argued that customers remain vulnerable under oversight from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

An NFL source told The Daily Mail that the league’s position is not opposition to prediction markets themselves. Instead, the source said, the amicus brief represents another effort to secure stronger consumer protections through state-level oversight.

Prediction markets classify themselves as “exchanges,” not “sportsbooks,” because they act as intermediaries between two traders rather than taking the opposing side as the house. That distinction allows them to face fewer taxes and operate more broadly, since many states have neither prohibited nor regulated them. Instead, they fall under the supervision of Donald Trump’s CFTC, a system the NFL is challenging.

The league source said the dispute would be less significant if the CFTC adopted many of the safeguards already used by state regulators. The NFL said in its filing that it has repeatedly urged the commission to implement those measures.

“If the Commission and DCMs did so, this case would present a largely academic question with little practical consequence,” the brief stated. “But that is not what has happened. Despite the NFL’s repeated overtures, the Commission and [prediction markets] like Kalshi thus far have resisted the commonsense measures that the NFL has requested.”

The NFL’s central concern involves wagers it believes are especially vulnerable to manipulation.

According to the league, online sportsbooks and partners such as FanDuel and DraftKings have accepted certain customer-protection measures, while prediction markets have not made the same commitments.

“The NFL has made clear – to states, the Commission, and operators like Kalshi – that certain categories of sports event contracts that are highly susceptible to manipulation or otherwise inherently objectionable threaten game and market integrity and should be prohibited,” the brief stated.

Potentially manipulable markets could include bets on field goals, player or fan misconduct and even the timing of penalties.

The NFL also urged the Supreme Court to act quickly, saying the game’s integrity and consumer safety are at stake.

“It is important that this Court grant cert now to provide clarity before another NFL season goes by,” the brief stated. “Billions of dollars will be bet on NFL games through prediction markets each season and any delay from SCOTUS will result in increasing consumer harm and risk to game integrity.”

The filing also said Kalshi has generated substantial revenue without the level of state oversight the NFL considers necessary.

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Kalshi “cleared” more than $173 billion in total trading volume from January through August, according to the NFL. The league claimed a significant share of that activity, saying more than half of the $3.3 billion traded across prediction markets on the opening Sunday of the NFL season came from football-related markets.

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Kalshi and fellow prediction-market operator Polymarket for comment.

Federal appeals courts have issued conflicting rulings on whether states can enforce their gambling laws against prediction markets and override the CFTC’s authority. Some decisions have favored state regulators, while others have supported prediction-market operators.

The NFL’s filing urged the Supreme Court to preserve the approach that existed before prediction markets emerged.

“It is well established, however, that regulating gambling is among states’ sovereign police powers,” the NFL brief stated. “What constitutional power allows Congress to override states’ traditional police powers to regulate intrastate gambling?”

Prediction markets have faced significant pushback in recent years.

The divisive industry favored by Trump’s White House operates similarly to online sportsbooks by offering futures contracts with prices and returns that fluctuate like betting odds (i.e. underdogs pay off better than favorites).

Customers are given binary choices (‘yes or no’ or ‘one or the other’) on any number of positions, from gas prices to Trump’s next turn in Iran, and of course, sports: Will the Dodgers win the upcoming World Series? Etc.

Prediction markets can also access customers below the age of 21, which is typically the minimum for sports gambling in approving states.

‘The NFL has urged the Commission to adopt that same age limit, given the unique dangers of gambling to young Americans,’ read the league’s brief. ‘But the Commission thus far has declined, instead allowing 18-year-olds to place sports wagers on [prediction markets]. The Commission’s insistence that its rules preempt state gambling laws anomalously means that, in almost every state, an 18-year-old could not bet on a game through Caesars Sportsbook, but could bet on the same game through Kalshi.’

Prediction markets have been received more warmly in other areas of American sports.

While the NFL remains a notable holdout, leagues such as the NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS and UFC have embraced prediction markets. In fact, fans at Yankee Stadium will see Polymarket LED branding in the South Bronx when the team returns to action following Wednesday’s season-ending playoff loss in Tampa.

There will even be some exclusive fan experiences from Polymarket.

‘We are proud to become a partner of one of the most iconic teams, not just in baseball, but in all of sports,’ Ari Borod, President of Sports Business Development at Polymarket, said when the deal was announced earlier this season.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dined at a Palestinian restaurant chain that critics previously condemned as “openly genocidal” toward Jews on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.

Mamdani ate at Ayat Hinds Hall on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, one location in a restaurant group whose Brooklyn counterpart drew criticism after featuring a menu section titled “From the River to the Sea” following the 2023 attacks.

The restaurant’s name honors Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by IDF forces in Gaza in January 2024. It also references anti-Israel demonstrators at Columbia University, who renamed Hamilton Hall “Hind’s Hall” after occupying the building.

The Middle Eastern restaurant made national headlines in December 2023 when critics accused its menu of being “openly genocidal.” Owners Abdul Elenani and Ayat Masoud rejected that characterization, saying they were not advocating the elimination of Israel.

The Anti-Defamation League describes “From the river to the sea” as an antisemitic slogan calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. The phrase is also frequently used at anti-Israel demonstrations.

Elenani told The Post at the time that the slogan had appeared on the menu for months before the Oct. 7 attacks. He said he had received death threats every day since then.

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Elenani also said he supported a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine and condemned violence committed by both sides.

It was not immediately clear who accompanied Mamdani to dinner. The meal came after the mayor faced a barrage of boos and heckling from anti-Israel protesters who accused him of abandoning the Palestinian cause.

“Zohran, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” protesters chanted in unison at the stone-faced mayor during a vigil honoring Jewish victims killed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, as well as Palestinians killed during the war that followed.

The confrontation continued after Mamdani left the restaurant Wednesday night.

A masked activist waiting outside rushed toward the mayor’s car and shouted, “Stop being a f—king traitor.”

Another demonstrator called Mamdani a “boot licker” and urged him to “stand up for people [facing] genocide.”

Mamdani’s security detail stepped in to keep the angry protesters away from him.