Jennifer Garner’s child, Fin Affleck, displayed their distinctive edgy style while running errands with the actress this week.

Fin, 17, wore a graphic Bob Marley T-shirt with cut-off shorts, while their hair was styled in a ’90s-inspired curtain cut for the casual outing.

Garner, 54, embraced a natural look without makeup, pairing a blue shirt with leggings during the day out.

The 13 Going on 30 star shares Fin, daughter Violet, 20, and son Samuel, 14, with ex-husband Ben Affleck, 54. The former couple were married from 2005 until 2018.

Fin came out as non-binary and publicly introduced their new name at a memorial service for Garner’s father in April 2024, the Daily Mail reported.

Dressed in a black pantsuit and sporting a buzz cut, Fin introduced themselves by their new name before reading a Bible verse to the congregation at Christ Church United Methodist in Charleston, West Virginia.

Fin had been photographed with their closely cropped hair as early as February 2024, but the memorial service marked the first public occasion on which the child of the two actors introduced themselves using their new name.

After his marriage to Garner ended, Good Will Hunting star Ben Affleck rekindled his romance with former fiancée Jennifer Lopez in 2021. The pair had initially split in 2004.

Affleck and Lopez married in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022, before holding a larger wedding ceremony at the actor’s Georgia property the following August. Family members and close friends attended the celebration.

Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck on the second anniversary of their Georgia wedding. Their divorce was finalized in early 2025.

Although their marriage ended, the former couple appear to have maintained an amicable relationship and continued working together on projects, including the 2025 film Kiss Of The Spider Woman.

They reunited on the red carpet at the film’s New York City premiere in October last year.

In a previous interview with Entertainment Tonight, the Gone Girl actor also spoke about Lopez’s relationship with his children following their divorce.

“For the record, Jennifer Lopez is spectacular. Great to my kids, great ongoing relationship with them,” Affleck said.

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He added: “I love her kids. They’re wonderful. She’s an enormously important, tremendous person of a lot of integrity who I adore and am grateful to.”

The On The Floor singer is the mother of 18-year-old twins, whom she shares with her former husband Marc Anthony.

Affleck recently admitted that his children don’t want relationship advice from him following his failed marriages to Lopez and Garner. 

The star made the comments while stopping by an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! 

‘I’ll say, “You know, well the thing about that relationship there…” and the 17-year-old turns to me and goes, “Oh, like you’re the expert on relationships?”‘ he said. 

‘I give advice and try to talk to them, parent them as you do. What I found is that now it’s not only one teenager rolling their eyes.’

Affleck added: ‘I’ll kind of launch into something at the dinner table and I’ll catch them giving each other looks and I realize I’m the caricature in this story.’

The actor explained that he thought of himself as being a ‘cool dad.’

But with his children now growing up, they often offer their famous dad sarcastic one-liners.

Affleck and Garner had initially been slated to co-star in his new film Animals, with Kerry Washington later being cast to replace Garner. 

The former couple would have portrayed a rocky marriage on the screen.

‘I talked to Jen, and she was like, “We don’t wanna do that. You just get baggage,”‘ he said of their conversation during an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

However, Affleck shared how he does want the chance to collaborate with his ex-wife in the future. 

‘I would love to work with her, frankly. She’s fabulous, and we’re really good friends, and I’m profoundly grateful to her, and we have a great thing.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal brought by two Michigan middle school students who were barred from wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts because of the slogan’s vulgar reference to President Joe Biden.

The justices left intact an October 2025 decision by the Cincinnati-based Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. That ruling concluded the school could reasonably ban the sweatshirts because the phrase constituted vulgar speech.

The Supreme Court did not explain its decision not to take up the case.

The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” became widely popular in the fall of 2021 as a substitute for the chant “F— Joe Biden.” The slogan emerged after NBC reporter Kelli Stavast mistakenly interpreted the profane chant during an interview with NASCAR driver Brandon Brown following that October’s Xfinity Series Sparks 300.

“Here, the school administrators reasonably interpreted the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ slogan as being vulgar speech that ‘a school may categorically prohibit’ despite its political message,” the Sixth Circuit said in a 2-1 ruling. “Requesting that students remove clothing with that slogan didn’t violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”

“In the schoolhouse, vulgarity trumps politics,” Judge John Nalbandian, an appointee of President Trump, wrote for the majority.

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Judge John Bush, another Trump appointee, dissented. “If we allow schools the power to censor political speech by recharacterizing it as vulgarity, we risk turning disagreement with political speech into justification for its censorship — something the First Amendment flatly forbids,” he wrote.

The mother of the two middle school students sued the school district in 2023, arguing that the sweatshirt ban violated her sons’ First Amendment rights.

According to an attorney for Tri County Middle School in Howard City, located about 35 miles north of Grand Rapids, administrators prohibited the sweatshirts because their message violated the school’s dress code—not because of its political content.

An assistant principal and a teacher told the brothers to remove the sweatshirts after determining that the slogan was “equivalent to the f-word,” according to the lawsuit.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, filed the lawsuit on the mother’s behalf. The organization advocates for free speech and provides legal representation in such cases.

“Criticism of the president is core political speech protected by the First Amendment,” FIRE attorney Conor Fitzpatrick said in a statement at the time. “Whether it’s a Biden sticker, ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirt or gay pride T-shirt, schools can’t pick and choose which political beliefs students can express.”

Russian officials have quarantined a hospital and placed dozens of people under observation after a 28-year-old employee of a Siberian anti-plague institute died from pneumonia with no confirmed cause. The circumstances have raised unverified concerns that she may have had pneumonic plague.

Darya Shipilova was employed by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East. Russian health authorities say extensive tests found no indication that her illness was caused by pathogens handled at the facility, though officials have not publicly disclosed the cause of death.

The sweeping precautions have intensified speculation in Russia and abroad. Reuters reported Oct. 5 that officials had identified all known contacts, placed them under medical supervision and found no additional cases among institute employees.

“We’re watching and monitoring it closely,” Rubio said Monday. He added that the situation was not, in his view, “cause for alarm,” but warranted attention and continued observation.

Rubio said reports from Russia indicated that a laboratory employee had become infected and that officials were concerned about possible transmission within the institute. Although travel between Russia and the United States is limited, he warned that an infectious disease can spread rapidly once it escapes an initial setting.

His remarks came after the State Department told Fox News on Oct. 4 that it was coordinating its monitoring efforts with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. The department said key details had not been verified and called on Moscow to release reliable information without delay.

East2West news agency reported Monday that more than 60 workers were still confined inside the Irkutsk institute and that nearly 200 people who had been in contact with Shipilova were under observation. Those numbers have not been confirmed by Russian authorities. The agency also said Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan had strengthened health screening measures at their borders.

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The infectious-disease hospital in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk, where Shipilova received treatment, was quarantined and temporarily stopped admitting or releasing patients, according to The Associated Press. Irkutsk Gov. Igor Kobzev referred to the illness as a suspected “particularly dangerous infection.”

The response escalated further when Anna Popova, head of Russia’s consumer and public health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, traveled to Irkutsk for an emergency meeting following Shipilova’s death, Reuters reported. A nearby aluminum plant also instructed its employees to wear masks as a precaution.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged people to follow official updates and avoid relying on “rumors or speculation.”

Rospotrebnadzor said Sunday that Shipilova had been diagnosed with “pneumonia of unknown etiology.” The agency said testing found “no microorganisms associated with the patient’s professional activities” and that investigators had uncovered no incident at the laboratory involving pathogenic organisms.

Pneumonic plague is a serious form of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It can pass between people through respiratory droplets during close contact, but prompt antibiotic treatment can be effective.

Russian officials continue to say there is no evidence of a plague outbreak and that local health conditions remain stable. Still, the cause of Shipilova’s fatal pneumonia remains unknown, as does the reason authorities adopted such extensive containment measures despite reporting that no dangerous pathogen had been found.

CHICAGO (WLS) — The mother of Shavon Gayden, who is accused in the fatal stabbing of 7-year-old Eddimar Hernandez, says she is devastated by the child’s death and believes years of attempts to secure mental health care for her daughter went unanswered.

Speaking by phone and requesting that her name and photograph remain private, Gayden’s mother offered her condolences to Eddimar’s family.

“I am deeply sorry for that family. That little girl did not deserve this,” she said, adding that her daughter had not been mentally well.

Police said Gayden encountered Eddimar near 86th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue Saturday morning and stabbed the child several times in the back.

Investigators said surveillance footage shows Eddimar walking with her older sister before bystanders intervened. The witnesses restrained Gayden until police reached the scene.

Paramedics transported Eddimar to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she later died.

Gayden’s mother said she had seen her daughter’s mental health deteriorate for more than 10 years while repeatedly struggling to find meaningful assistance.

She said she felt abandoned by the system because Gayden was an adult and authorities told her there was little she could do to intervene.

Court records show Gayden has been involved in four earlier cases, including two that involved domestic battery allegations.

In 2023, she assaulted a CTA bus operator and received a two-year probation sentence.

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Her mother said she attended court proceedings in that case and raised concerns with Gayden’s public defender.

Another case, filed in 2024 and involving two people at a shelter, led to an alleged probation violation.

Court records indicate that a warrant was issued in February 2025 after Gayden failed to appear. Records do not make clear whether police ever carried out the warrant.

Gayden’s mother said she remains convinced that more intervention was possible before the fatal attack.

She apologized again to Eddimar’s loved ones, saying her daughter had struggled for years and that she had tried to get help but could not obtain the support their family needed.

On Sunday, relatives and neighbors gathered at a vigil for Eddimar. Family members remembered her as a joyful child who enjoyed drawing, playing with her siblings and watching from the window for her parents to return home.

Gayden has been charged with first-degree murder. Although a detention hearing was set for Monday, she remains hospitalized, and a full hearing will be held at a later time.

Mayor Brandon Johnson posted the following statement Sunday:
Johnson said he was heartbroken by the killing of a 7-year-old Chicago girl who was walking with her family. He offered condolences to Eddimar’s loved ones and the Chatham community, saying no child should fear for her life while walking through her neighborhood. Johnson said the city would continue working with the Chicago Police Department and support the family and community as the investigation continues.