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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt discusses the Iran War and Saudi Arabia during a July 23, 2026, press briefing in the Brady Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Lenin Nolly/NurPhoto via AP).
A Florida nurse appears poised to face financial consequences over vulgar remarks she directed at former Trump White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Alexis Lawler, a labor and delivery nurse, invoked her medical role in January while saying she hoped Leavitt would suffer severe, lasting injuries during childbirth.
The allegations and procedural details are outlined in an 18-page recommended order issued earlier this month by Administrative Law Judge Robert Cohen of the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings.
“As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear,” Lawler said. “I hope that you f—ing rip from bow to stern and never s— normally again, you c—.”
At the time of those comments, Leavitt was several months pregnant.
Also at that time, Lawler was employed at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Boca Raton. She was licensed in 2014 and previously worked at St. Mary’s in West Palm Beach.
The video eventually went viral after it was posted by Chaya Raichik, a far-right commentator who posts on social media as “Libs of TikTok.” Later, Lawler’s place of employment was also posted online.
After the video went viral, Lawler received “death threats and other negative comments,” according to the judge’s order. The hospital, meanwhile, received complaints from two patients.
An investigation ensued. One of the patients had Lawler as her labor and delivery nurse and only saw the video after she gave birth, the judge recounts. Another patient saw the video before she gave birth but did not have Lawler as her labor and delivery nurse.
Lawler’s patient described the comments in the video as “just inappropriate, specifically coming from someone whose job is to take care of you at one of your most vulnerable moments,” the order notes.
The patient who did not receive Lawler’s services said she overheard co-workers of Lawler describing the video. Those nurses allegedly said “they couldn’t believe somebody in, you know, as a nurse would speak that way about anybody, whether it was a patient or not.” The second patient said she agreed with those sentiments, according to the order.
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In issuing his findings, Cohen said Lawler “has learned from this experience, a costly one in terms of her losing her employment of many years.” The judge also noted Lawler’s lack of any other previous trouble, professional or otherwise — aside from “a minor parking violation.” All things considered, Cohen said, “a penalty at the low end of the range should be imposed.”
To that end, the judge recommends the Florida Department of Health fine Lawler $250, reprimand her, and require her to take a continuing education class which includes “at least one course in the appropriate use of social media and the pitfalls associated with its abuse.”
But Cohen still had harsh words for the nurse.
“As an experienced labor and delivery nurse, she knew exactly what she was wishing upon Ms. Leavitt, and it was something pretty horrific for any woman experiencing labor and delivery,” the order reads.
The administrative law judge elaborates:
Probably the most naïve or outright untrue statements made at the final hearing by Respondent were that she was attacking Ms. Leavitt, not because she was both pregnant and the White House press secretary, but because she was part of “our government [that] commits human right’s [sic] violations on a daily basis by locking up women and children in concentration camps.” I sincerely doubt the “fourth-degree tear” statement would have been made if the subject of the Video was President Trump or Vice President Vance or any other male or a non-pregnant individual. The vile statement made in the heat of the moment, when Respondent was clearly angry, was targeted at the press secretary, a pregnant mother, and no one else.
Cohen also took Lawler to task for her First Amendment defense.
“Respondent is attempting to hide behind the internet,” the order goes on.
In that vein, the judge also rejected an argument that the cited administrative rule does not apply here because Lawler did not make the anti-Leavitt comments in front of a patient.
“It would be absurd to think a rule that can only be read to contemplate a statement (here, the Video which makes a crystal-clear statement) must be uttered by the nurse to the patient’s face while standing in front of that patient,” Cohen opined.
Lawler’s legal team plans to file exceptions to the recommendation, according to Miami-based NBC affiliate WTVJ.
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A North Carolina State Highway Patrol sergeant has been indicted on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s captain, a case authorities say grew out of a long-running romantic conflict involving a woman both law enforcement officers had dated.
Sgt. Nekime Matu Oxendine, 44, is accused of shooting Cumberland County Sheriff’s Capt. Adam Bean on March 27 outside a woman’s home in Hope Mills after the two men got into a confrontation, according to authorities and CityView.
When police arrived, they found Tara Lynn Whitman performing CPR on Bean while Oxendine remained at the scene, search warrant records state. Officials said Bean was pronounced dead there.
State investigators said in court filings that the deadly encounter came after years of mounting tension tied to Whitman’s relationships with both men.
Cumberland County Sheriff’s Capt. Adam Bean was fatally shot on March 27 after a domestic confrontation. (Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office)
According to investigators, Oxendine had displayed persistent jealousy and insecurity over the years regarding Whitman’s connection to Bean.
According to the warrant, Whitman began dating Bean in 2022 after ending a long-term relationship with Oxendine. She eventually ended that relationship and returned to Oxendine.
While Whitman was with Bean, Oxendine appeared to exhibit increasingly concerning behavior, according to text messages cited in the warrant. Whitman and Bean had described some of his behavior as “stalking,” documents reported.
“I seen u have been talking to Adam!!! Best wishes!!!” Oxendine wrote in one message.
“Better tell that Mother F—er to get ready too!!! ” he added.
Oxendine also sent messages questioning Whitman’s decision to stay with Bean, demanding to know the truth and claiming he knew where Bean lived, according to the warrant.
In December 2025, Whitman eventually resumed her romantic relationship with Oxendine, moving out of the home she shared with Bean.
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FILE — The Cumberland County Jail building is pictured in North Carolina. Cumberland County Sheriff’s Capt. Adam Bean was fatally shot following a romantic dispute, authorities said. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
For the next three months, however, Oxendine continued to show insecurity over Bean, asking Whitman whether Bean was more attractive and accusing him of having the power to “lure u in and out of my life on demand.” He also sought continued reassurance about Whitman’s commitment, according to the warrant
Then, on the night of March 27, Bean asked Whitman to come to his residence after work to talk. Whitman initially agreed but later stopped responding to his messages.
When Whitman did not show up, Bean messaged her, “F— it, I’ll come to you,” and threatened to blow his car horn and cause a scene if she did not come outside.
When Bean arrived, he became irate after seeing Oxendine’s vehicle parked outside, according to the warrant.
Oxendine stepped outside and fired about two warning shots into the ground. Bean continued advancing toward him, and Oxendine then opened fire two to three more times, according to the warrant.
Bean collapsed onto his back in the yard, according to the warrant. Police said they found a handgun and magazine nearby.
Oxendine has been charged with first-degree murder.
FILE — A North Carolina State Highway Patrol vehicle drives through high water. Sgt. Nekime Matu Oxendine, a state highway patrol sergeant, was indicted in Bean’s killing. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Bean had served with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office for 20 years and most recently served as assistant chief of detectives with the rank of captain.
He was posthumously recognized with the Merit Award for his outstanding service, forward-thinking leadership, initiative and lasting contributions to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.
A juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial has offered a rare look inside the tense deliberation room, saying the lone panelist who blocked an acquittal spent much of the discussions admonishing others about “respect” while repeatedly zeroing in on the blood found in the bedroom where Clancy killed her three young children.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Paula Devlin, 65, said the 11 jurors who were prepared to find the former nurse not guilty of murder or manslaughter were left feeling a mix of “defeat” and “anger” after the judge declared a mistrial because one male juror refused to join them.
Devlin, a government contractor, said the unidentified holdout juror struggled to explain the reasoning behind his vote when challenged by the rest of the panel, describing his arguments as making “no sense.” She added that he remained mostly quiet through the week of jury deliberations.
According to Devlin, the married juror also kept largely to himself during the trial, seldom socializing with the other jurors and instead spending breaks talking with his wife or watching videos on his phone.
Once deliberations began, Devlin said, the holdout seemed more intent on monitoring the tone of the room than clearly laying out why he believed Clancy was guilty, creating mounting frustration among the other jurors in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy case.
‘The main thing he focused on is sometimes we would all want to talk at once, and that was very upsetting to him.
‘He would get upset and say, ”Listen to what she’s saying, listen to what he’s saying, be respectful”.’
‘We were trying to say to him, that sometimes somebody says something and they get lost in their thought or they can’t find the right word, and somebody else puts that word in there for them or finishes their thought, that’s how normal conversation works.
‘But when that would happen, he would get upset and just take all this time lecturing us about not being respectful.’
Paula Devlin, 65, told the Daily Mail how the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial lectured his peers about ‘respect’ and focused on the amount of blood found in the bedroom
Eleven of the 12 jurors reportedly wanted to find Clancy, 36, not guilty of murder or manslaughter but a mistrial was declared after a lone male juror refused to acquit her
But she said the holdout was less forthcoming about his refusal to acquit Clancy.
‘We asked the lone juror, what are the things that are making you think that she’s guilty, and we asked him, and he didn’t want to write on the board.
‘He didn’t say a word, and so one of the jurors jumped up and said, ‘I’ll write for you,’ and then he said the things that he said, and then we talked about each one of those things.’
Devlin revealed one of the man’s concerns centered on the amount of blood found in the bedroom of the Clancys’ upmarket home in the suburb of Duxbury, Boston, shortly after Lindsay used exercise bands to kill her three children – Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months.
On January 24, 2023, Clancy’s now ex-husband Patrick, 36, a software sales employee for Microsoft, had gone out at her request to pick up their kids’ medicine and takeout for the family.
He returned less than an hour later at around 6pm and went upstairs to find his wife.
But when he got upstairs, he found their second-floor bedroom door locked.
After forcing his way in, he discovered blood on the floor, a bloody knife on the nightstand and a wide-open window.
Clancy has not denied that she killed her three children, but argued she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity as she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time
Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months, were found strangled to death at their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023
He ran downstairs to find Clancy on the ground outside, with her wrists and neck cut. She told him she’d tried to kill herself and revealed that their children were in the basement.
Her suicide attempt failed but left Clancy paralyzed and permanently confined to a wheelchair.
‘He [the holdout juror] thought there was too much blood in the bedroom,’ revealed Devlin.
‘We had lots of testimony around the blood. We had a blood expert that was very compelling and she was really good at how she described it to us.
‘He said that he thought there was too much blood for the wounds that she had.
‘We all asked him what he meant by that, because we heard experts talk about the blood spatter and explain to us how it all was what it was supposed to be.’
But when quizzed by his fellow jurors, the lone holdout refused to elaborate or reveal how it linked to why he wouldn’t acquit the former labor and delivery nurse, Devlin said.
‘I feel that he didn’t make any sense. I feel like if he could have pointed to one specific thing to show us, to back up what he was thinking or why he was thinking it, then all of us would have a different feeling.
‘We never would have sent the information to the judge that we did, because that’s part of the process. It’s okay to disagree.’
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial last week after the jury failed to reach a consensus
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington is pictured reacting to the judge’s decision to declare a mistrial
But she insisted: ‘I absolutely believe he [the holdout] did not follow the law when it came to reasonable doubt.
‘If you say you have doubt, then you have to follow the law. And if you don’t follow the law, that’s not right.
‘Can I say whether he understood that or not? I don’t know, because we didn’t have him explain it back to us.’
Jurors spent more than 37 hours deliberating five-and-a-half weeks of highly complex and distressing evidence.
But judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court last Friday afternoon after the holdout refused to side with the other 11 twice, late Thursday and early Friday.
Devlin added: ‘I don’t want to bash anybody, even that person.
‘They did whatever they did for their reasons, and we will never know, and we will never understand.
‘That’s what hurts so much.’
Devlin told of the tense moments in the jury room during the trial, which would hit a crescendo during deliberations.
Devlin told the Daily Mail how she felt the one holdout juror ‘didn’t make any sense’
‘There were days when we were absolutely quiet, where nobody said a word, because we had a lot of emotion in that room, and we had to say out loud that we needed to give ourselves a timeout.
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‘Most everybody got along really well the majority of the time.’
She said during the more heated discussions, ‘there was a lot of emotion and a lot of opinions’.
‘One of the jurors did an interview and said there were strong personalities. I think I was one of those strong personalities.
‘I think we got loud sometimes because we all were trying to get our point across before we settled in during deliberations.’
She revealed the most hotly debated pieces of evidence amongst the jurors were Patrick Clancy’s harrowing 911 call, the evidence over how his wife went out their bedroom window and the medications she was on.
‘I will never forget the sounds that Patrick made when he found his children’, added Devlin.
Devlin, a mother herself, said watching Lindsay Clancy during the trial, she was struck by how many people loved her and how deeply she loved her children
Devlin, a mother herself, said watching Lindsay Clancy during the trial, she was struck by how many people loved her and how deeply she loved her children.
‘I think we all expected the prosecution to bring people onto the stand that were gonna say negative things about her and they never did.
‘I don’t think I’ll ever forget the tone in the prosecutor’s voice talking to Patrick, trying not to be too forceful because that was her witness, but trying to coax him into saying something negative about Lindsay, and he would not do it.
‘He just would not do it, and that really sits with me now.’
She recalls there was ‘something about Lindsay that makes you really want to like her’.
‘We could see a different view than all of you could, so there were times where she was crying, and there were times where she was being affected by evidence, testimony, the same as we were.’
She noticed how during the trial, Clancy tried to keep a ‘stoic face’ and avoid eye contact with the jury and others in the courtroom.
But Devlin said she would never forget Clancy’s utter devastation on hearing the coroner’s testimony about the autopsies on her children’s tiny bodies.
‘Will I ever forget the sobs that came out of Lindsay just hearing someone talk about the autopsy and the things that they had to do and the things that they found?
‘No, but I couldn’t let that be the control of what I was doing in that room,’ added Devlin.
Supporters of Lindsay Clancy are pictured holding signs outside Plymouth Superior Court on August 26
The supporters, in pink, are pictured yelling words of encouragement to Reddington during the trial
‘The judge instructed us that we’re supposed to keep emotion separate, and we did.
‘We kept trying. You know, as a human being, you can do the best that you can.’
Devlin said she had no idea of the immense national and international interest in the case during the trial.
But she said the jurors ‘did feel the weight of what we were doing’.
‘We knew that this was a topic that needed more discussion, and we knew that whatever it was that we decided would perpetuate that somehow, or we hoped that the focus would be on making it so that this could never happen again.
‘That when somebody asks for help so many times, when somebody says twice they called a suicide hotline and told them that they want to take their life, that just because they don’t have the exact plan of how they want to do it shouldn’t be a reason not to be taken seriously.’
Asked how the group felt when they realized they weren’t going to reach a unanimous verdict, she said many of the group were heartbroken and felt like they had failed.
‘We felt defeated, and I can’t lie, there was definitely anger.’
Reddington has since pleaded with President Donald Trump to pardon the mother-of-three
Since going public, fellow jurors and their families and friends have been threatened and targeted by cruel online trolls, Devlin said.
The husband of one juror told the Daily Mail his wife had received death threats after she gave a TV interview.
Devlin added: ‘We didn’t know what was happening on social media or any of those things.
‘I know that within our group, there’s a TikTok video of three of us [jurors] dancing with Kevin Reddington-that’s all AI.
‘But then somebody posted something they found that is a picture of the three of us in the the scariest ugly faces.
‘There’s a lot of negativity about things and people take things out of context.’
Clancy has admitted to strangling her children with exercise bands but denies it was murder.
The former nurse said she was overmedicated while suffering from postpartum depression and that the cocktail of drugs she was prescribed brought on psychosis.
Asked for her reaction to the news Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington has filed a motion asking a judge to dismiss the case, Devlin replied: ‘We never wanted a dismissal. We never wanted her to be found not guilty.
‘We wanted her to be found not guilty by reason of mental illness.
‘Everybody wants justice for the Clancy children. They deserve justice.’
Little Cora, Dawson and Callan now lie together in St Mary’s Cemetery, Scituate, in Plymouth, with a black marble gravestone emblazoned with their names and tiny handprints marking their final resting place.
That justice, according to Devlin, is Clancy ‘getting the help that she needs’ and ‘more people understanding what postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis is and what a misdiagnosis of a mental illness does to a person, a family, a community, and right now, a nation.
‘Look at how divided this is.’
Each year, Americans pause to reflect on the devastation and lasting impact of September 11, 2001. In Jacksonville and across the surrounding First Coast communities, remembrance ceremonies are planned to honor the lives lost and the heroes who responded.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Few dates in American history carry the weight of Sept. 11, 2001, a day that forever changed the nation and remains deeply embedded in collective memory.
That morning, terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners. Two were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, another struck the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers and crew fought to regain control.
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Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks, making 9/11 one of the deadliest days in United States history and reshaping the country’s approach to national security, emergency response and foreign policy.
Here are the First Coast events scheduled to commemorate September 11 and honor the memory and legacy of those who died.
Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has issued a blunt warning to Pauline Hanson, telling the One Nation leader to “leave veterans alone” after a video shared by the party branded Liberal frontbencher and former SAS soldier Andrew Hastie a traitor.
Lambie, who also served in the military, said the attack — delivered through a satirical cartoon posted to Hanson’s social media — amounted to a serious smear not only against Hastie but against veterans around Australia.
The political clash has its roots in Hastie’s evidence during the high-profile defamation case involving accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith, a former SAS colleague of Hastie’s.
Speaking on Thursday, Lambie accused Hanson of lacking courage and demanded she apologise to Hastie, saying the One Nation senator should “show some bloody courage” and take responsibility for the post.
“I’m on to you now,” Lambie told News24, staring directly into the camera as she delivered the warning.
‘I warned you years ago to leave my bloody veterans alone. Well, now you’ve got Lambie, and I’m absolutely fuming. That woman is disgusting.’
Lambie also called the One Nation leader a ’10-second grub of rubbish’.
‘She has never achieved one bloody thing up here. What have you actually done up here? Have you actually got anything through Parliament and been able to achieve anything with it?
Independent senator Jacqui Lambie slammed Pauline Hanson as a coward after the One Nation leader labelled Andrew Hastie a traitor
Hanson is facing blowback from across the political spectrum for the controversial cartoon (pictured with One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce)
As of Friday morning, the cartoon sketch still remains pinned to the top of Hanson’s X account
‘She has no idea of patriotism. You don’t attack veterans, and you don’t stand like a coward behind your goddam cartoons,’ she said.
‘How they are allowed to go out over social media is beyond me because they incite hatred. They are vile. They are disgusting.
‘Show some bloody courage and apologise to that veteran, Andrew Hastie, right now. I tell you what, these men from the Special Air Service made the SAS. Only the best of the best get in there, and, by God, they’ve got to be the toughest. And the country asks them to do so much more than anybody else can imagine.’
Lambie’s comments come after politicians of all stripes closed ranks around Hastie this week.
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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor was the most prominent figure to spring to Hastie’s defence on Thursday, touting his colleague’s military record and again demanding the One Nation leader remove the video.
‘Andrew Hastie has served this country with distinction as an officer in the SAS. She should take it down,’ Taylor said.
Later, during a speech before Question Time commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Liberal leader again alluded to Hastie’s service during the global War on Terror.
‘I take this opportunity to acknowledge all our warfighters who served … in that necessary and noble cause over many years, patriots like the member for Canning (Hastie),’ he said.
Hastie retaliated to the cartoon by calling Hanson ‘glass-jawed’, branding her and One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce ‘lying cowards’ after she refused to take down the sketch
An unlikely coalition of politicians, including staunch adversaries, has also stepped up to defend the conservative Liberal frontbencher.
‘I think how Pauline Hanson has treated Andrew Hastie is appalling,’ Labor minister Madeleine King told News24 on Thursday, echoing calls for the senator to take down the video.
The attack on a decorated member of the Australian Defence Force was ‘despicable’, she said.
King condemned the One Nation leader for backing away from the traitor label on Wednesday, when she said the cartoon was satire and accused Hastie of ‘making a mountain out of a molehill’.
‘She’s just got this habit of gaslighting … What she is doing is accusing someone of one of the most serious things you possibly can,’ she said.
Greens senator David Shoebridge, who declared he would ‘go out and fight Hastie on pretty much every one of his political opinions’, also delivered an impassioned rebuke of Hanson.
‘I can’t work out how any political party can stand by an attack on somebody because they go into court and tell the truth as they understand it,’ he told News24.
‘It’s actually pretty f***ing disgraceful.’
The spat comes as the Coalition seeks to neutralise a surge in support for Hanson’s populist party, which has captured a significant share of the right-wing vote, particularly in regional and rural Australia.
The WA state seat of Secret Harbour, which sits within Hastie’s federal electorate, was the latest seat to flip to One Nation at an August by-election, as the anti-immigration party targets Coalition-held electorates.
Beth Stern is sharing her first reaction to husband Howard Stern’s new HBO Max venture, following the announcement that the radio legend’s show will stream on the platform each week.
Beth, 54, spoke to The Daily Mail on Thursday at New York Fashion Week, where she attended the Alice + Olivia show held at 583 Park Avenue.
Asked about the HBO Max project, the Pittsburgh-born model, author and animal rights advocate praised the move, saying, “Oh my gosh, it’s such a wonderful [thing] – I mean, so Howard!”
She was also asked how the latest changes to Stern’s work schedule might affect their life at home. The broadcaster is set to host one new live show each week on his Sirius XM channel Howard 100, after Andy Cohen took over his 101 channel.
“It’s actually great for me, because he’s now going to start only working one day a week – so I get more Howard at home and he’s still connected to the world, so it’s a win-win for all of us,” Beth said.
Stern, who has reduced his weekly episodes from two to one, will add new shows on HBO Max each Thursday.
Howard Stern’s wife Beth Stern, 54, spoke for the first time about his new HBO Max endeavor, after the recent announcement the radio icon, 72, will be streaming his program on the platform every week. Pictured 2025 in Amagansett, New York
Beth spoke with The Daily Mail on Thursday while attending the New York Fashion Week show for Alice + Olivia at the venue 583 Park Avenue
SiriusXM’s President and Chief Content Officer Scott Greenstein said in an August 31 news release of the new endeavor: ‘There’s simply no one like Howard, and the start of his new season is another exciting chapter in an extraordinary run.’
Greenstein said the company was ‘proud … that Howard, HBO Max and SiriusXM have now teamed up to create a compelling new video version of his show.’
The drop down to a weekly show and one channel – and resultant lack of need for content – led SiriusXM to lay off a reported 12 staffers this past summer, including longtime writer Benjy Bronk.
Stern will continue working from a studio in his Hamptons home, as he has primarily done since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Beth on Thursday said she and her spouse ‘pretty much stay’ in the Hamptons, ‘but we have to come back-and-forth sometimes.’
She told The Daily Mail that Howard continues to shower her with romantic gestures, as he’s always painting pictures for her.
Beth said, ‘They’re usually of our animals, and so he’s now going to be working on a butterfly for me because I love butterflies.
‘I saw him taking pictures of a butterfly – I think he’s going to be painting me a butterfly.’
Stern is slated to broadcast one new weekly live show on his Sirius XM channel Howard 100, after Andy Cohen took over his 101 channel
Beth told The Daily Mail that she was happy to support her friend, Alice + Olivia CEO Stacey Bendet, at Thursday’s fashion showcase
Beth said it was fun putting on Alice + Olivia fashion and getting her makeup, hair and lashes done, adding, ‘It’s such a New York day for me’
Beth told The Daily Mail that she was happy to support her friend, Alice + Olivia CEO Stacey Bendet, at Thursday’s fashion showcase, which she was juggling with her cat fostering activities.
‘I have 37 foster kittens in the foster room, so I’m literally coming to this and rushing right back to the house because there are kittens that need me,’ Beth said.
She said it was fun putting on Alice + Olivia fashion and getting her makeup, hair and lashes done, as she said she doesn’t ‘have makeup on in the house ever when [she’s] caring for all the fosters.’
Beth added, ‘It’s such a New York day for me.’
Stern is slated to return to his SiriusXM show Monday, and the debut episode of his HBO Max show drops on September 17, with new shows coming out each Thursday.
Sean McVay refused to point to the Rams’ travel schedule as a reason for their 27-7 collapse against the 49ers.
“Sometimes sports can humble you, and today was one of those days,” McVay said afterward. “I make no excuses.”
The one-sided loss quickly fueled debate across social media, with many wondering whether Los Angeles’ tight travel window played a role in the team’s flat showing. The Rams arrived in Melbourne roughly 24 hours before kickoff, while San Francisco had been on the ground for a full week to adjust.
McVay, however, made it clear he was not buying into that narrative.
The final stats told a harsher story: a Rams squad widely discussed as a Super Bowl contender and potential “super team” was simply beaten in every meaningful way.
Los Angeles’ seven points were its fewest in any game started by Matthew Stafford. The 20-point margin represented the Rams’ first double-digit loss since 2024.
Myles Garrett finished without a tackle or quarterback hit for just the fourth time in his career. That disappearance was particularly jarring because Garrett generated at least one pressure in all 66 regular-season games he played from 2022-25.
The physical cost also mounted. Kam Curl departed with an ankle injury, while Davis Allen and Nate Landman also left the game.
The Rams arrived carrying an offseason’s worth of championship expectations. They left with questions about their travel, conditioning and preparation — but McVay permitted only one explanation.
The Rams were not good enough.
Dylan Efron Shares New Look at Lake Getaway With Brother Zac Efron
Zac Efron is making the most of the final stretch of summer.
The High School Musical star offered fans an uncommon peek inside his off-duty life, sharing a series of photos and videos from a recent visit to California’s Lake Nacimiento with his younger brother, Dylan Efron.
In one Instagram photo posted Sept. 10, the brothers showed off their toned physiques while relaxing on the back of a boat. Another image captured Zac, 38, riding across the water on a small surfboard, while a third featured the Iron Claw actor and Dylan, 34, enjoying the sunny lake day alongside friends.
Zac kept his caption simple with a peace sign emoji. Dylan, who posted a similar set of images from the Lake Nacimiento trip on his own Instagram account, summed up the laid-back outing with the caption, “Taking it easy.”
Indeed, Zac has been breaking free away from spotlight, making just a handful of public appearances in recent years. That’s why when he made his long-awaited entry into the Dancing With the Stars ballroom in November to support his brother, it “meant everything” to Dylan.
“I’m getting out. I’m coming home.”
They were the last words William Lawrence Fallon Jr. spoke before he was killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center 25 years ago.
Fallon, an IT manager at Cantor Fitzgerald, was 38 when he died in the attack.
A family photo shows Kayla Smith and her sister with their father, William Lawrence Fallon Jr. (Kayla Smith)
His daughter, Kayla Fallon Smith, was just 8 years old when she learned her father would never make it home.
Before the attacks, Smith, now 33, said her father – who always commuted into work early – would call the house phone in the morning to wish her and her sister well before they would head to school.
He went in early so he could leave earlier in the afternoons to take her to dancing school after her school day.
“That was the kind of man he was. I remember he would get up and work out in the morning before even going to work, so you’d hear the weights dropping in the house. I do remember that as a kid,” Smith said.
Those quick and light-hearted morning phone calls to his daughters set the tone for the day.
Kayla Smith and her late father pose for a photo on the beach. (Kayla Smith)
“He would tell us what the skyline looked like. Sometimes it would be cloudy below him and he couldn’t even see the street, but it’d be sunny up there,” she said.
Smith remembers hearing her father’s voice for the last time on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
Kayla Smith and her father pose for a lakeside photo on a boat. (Kayla Smith)
“I spoke to him on the house phone that day, as I always did,” she said, to which he said on the phone, “Have a good morning,” she said.
“I’m sure I said something like, ‘I love you, have a great day’,” Smith said.
Her dad called again that fateful morning – sometime after the first tower was hit.
This time, her mother answered the phone.
“He said something to the degree of, ‘I’m getting out, I’m coming home,’ and that was it,” she said.
Smith’s mother replied and said, “What are you talking about?” He responded and said, “Turn on the news.”
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After that he hung up.
His family never heard from him again.
William Lawrence Fallon Jr., 38, was an employee at Cantor Fitzgerald when he was killed. (Getty Images: MediaNews Group; Kayla Smith)
“Those words haunt me a little bit,” Smith said. “Every year, grief is different. It doesn’t go away. It’s a myth when people say that time heals all wounds; it doesn’t.”
In the last 25 years of growing up without her father, Smith has turned her pain and grief into purpose. She’s devoted her life to helping others living with grief and mental struggles.
Smith is a licensed mental health counselor who founded Trails of Purpose – a nonprofit organization that provides free mental health counseling and equine-assisted therapy to military members, veterans, first responders and their families.
“As I was getting my graduate degree, I started to experience equine-assisted therapy, and I really—it just clicked for me,” she said.
William Lawrence Fallon Jr. holds his daughter Kayla Smith. (Kayla Smith)
She went on to say, “I never experienced that as a kid, and I had a lot of trauma therapy growing up. The resources were abundant for 9/11 victims, and I never experienced equine therapy.”
She started her organization in 2019.
“I needed a place to just be when my brain always felt on fire. I think I’ve created that, and it’s seeming to resonate with other people.”
William Lawrence Fallon Jr. is one of the thousands of names engraved at the National September 11th Memorial reflecting pools. (Kayla Smith)
Trails of Purpose has offered 30,000 hours of free mental health counseling and equine-assisted therapy to military members and first responders.
“The horses, and the connection that they have when when words don’t seem to to come, the horses can just be with you,” she said.
“I created the thing that I think I needed: community and understanding, and a place that’s safe, and quiet, and a respite,” she said.
As she helps others heal, Smith said she’ll never stop sharing her father’s story.
“If we can remember the feeling that we had on September 12th, I think that would be my biggest point of education for the next generation.”
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