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Pentagon condemns Netflix's gay military series 'Boots' as 'woke garbage'
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Pentagon condemns Netflix's gay military series 'Boots' as 'woke garbage'

A Pentagon spokesperson denounced the Netflix gay military series "Boots" as "woke garbage" in a statement on Thursday. "Boots," which premiered on Oct. 9, follows the story of closeted gay teenager Cameron Cope, played by Miles Heizer, joining the military during the 1990s under the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy. The "don’t ask, don’t tell" approach barred openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people from joining the armed forces and was official U.S. policy from 1993 until 2011. EXCLUSIVE: GROUP LAUNCHES TIP LINE FOR DOD EMPLOYEES TO REPORT DEI, 'WOKE' OVERREACH In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson condemned the show’s depiction of the military, saying officials "will not compromise our standards to satisfy an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and feeds woke garbage to their audience and children." "Under President Trump and Secretary [Pete] Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to restoring the warrior ethos. Our standards across the board are elite, uniform, and sex-neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn't care if you're a man, a woman, gay, or straight," Wilson's statement read. HEGSETH VOWS TO RESTORE WARRIOR MENTALITY AND RAISE STANDARDS IN SWEEPING MILITARY TRANSFORMATION Fox News Digital reached out to Netflix for comment. The show premiered a little over one week after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced new personnel standards for service members during a speech at Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia last month. "No more identity months, DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction or gender delusions," Hegseth said. "As I've said before, and I'll say again, we are done with that s---." HEGSETH INSTATES 'HIGHEST MALE STANDARD ONLY' FOR COMBAT, OTHER CHANGES, DECLARING DEPT OF DEFENSE 'IS OVER' Throughout his speech, Hegseth decried politicized military leaders lowering standards and installing diversity programs for the sake of meeting quotas rather than "preparing for war and preparing to win." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "We became the woke department. But not anymore," Hegseth said, declaring the "Defense Department" to be "dead."

Lindsay Kornick
White House considers cash rewards for Gazans aiding search for slain hostages
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White House considers cash rewards for Gazans aiding search for slain hostages

The U.S. is planning to offer rewards to Gazans who help locate the bodies of the deceased hostages who were held by Hamas, a pair of senior White House advisors told reporters Wednesday evening. "We're probably going to put together some sort of program where we're going to ask people to see if they can help us to locate bodies. And we're going to pay rewards for that type of good behavior," one advisor said. As part of the ceasefire agreement, all 20 living hostages have been returned to Israel, along with nine bodies of the deceased. Nineteen more bodies have yet to be located. Hamas claims it does not know the location of the other bodies, and "significant efforts and special equipment" would be needed to locate them. IDF SAYS BODY TURNED OVER BY HAMAS DOESN'T MATCH ANY HOSTAGES An advisor tamped down accusations that Hamas had violated the ceasefire agreements, insisting the terms of the agreement prioritized living hostages, and they expected bodies to be difficult to locate in a war zone. Still, they added, "I can tell you that we're not going to leave here until everybody comes home." "We've heard a lot of people saying well, you know, Hamas violated the deal, because not all the bodies have been returned. I think the understanding we had with them was we'd get all the live hostages, out, which they did honor that." EXCLUSIVE: ISRAELI AMBASSADOR SAYS NO PEACE IN GAZA UNLESS HAMAS HANDS OVER ALL 48 HOSTAGES, DISARMS Israeli intelligence and Turkish retrieval experts, trained for Turkey’s frequent earthquakes, will aid the effort to locate the 19 remaining bodies. "You have to understand the complexity of the conditions on the ground," an advisor said. "The entire Gaza Strip has been pulverized. It looks like something out of a movie. And there's very, very little buildings left standing." The advisor equated the debris levels to those seen after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. "This is, I don't know, it feels like multiple times more." Amid the debris are unexploded ordnance, further complicating body retrieval. An advisor also detailed plans for "safe zones" behind the Yellow Line — the area still occupied by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza — for Palestinians looking to flee Hamas as the militant group conducts executions across the strip. "Israel is very committed to creating safety for the people of Gaza who want to live in peace. And so this is a new line of effort that we requested. And that it was met with a lot of enthusiasm from Israel to try to set this up." Violent clashes between Hamas and rival groups have been reported in areas across Gaza, and videos circulating across social media appear to show executions. An advisor told reporters it had told Hamas to stop the killings. "There have been a lot of reports in Gaza of Hamas killing and going after Palestinian civilians. That's something that we've been working with the mediators to send a message to say we'd really like to see that stop." "We are seeing different actions on all sides that, obviously, that President Trump and his team are working very hard to minimize." An Israeli military official told Fox News Digital the killings are "Hamas’s deliberate attempt to show the killing publicly and reestablish its rule by terrorizing civilians." Trump earlier this week suggested Hamas was conducting police activities and those who were killed were gang members. "[Hamas] do want to stop the problems and they've been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time," he told reporters on Monday. "You have close to 2 million people going back to buildings that have been demolished, and a lot of bad things can happen. So we want it to be — we want it to be safe." The president added on Tuesday: "They did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad gangs, very, very bad." CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP "And that didn't bother me much, to be honest with you," he added. On Monday, Hamas returned all living hostages, showing a positive sign for the historic but tenuous ceasefire agreement with Israel. The IDF, in turn, pulled back in Gaza to behind what’s known as a "Yellow line," part of Phase One of the agreement. Fox News' Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.

Morgan Phillips
Teen street musician jailed for leading anti-Putin song performance in St. Petersburg: report
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Teen street musician jailed for leading anti-Putin song performance in St. Petersburg: report

A teenage street musician has been jailed and charged with leading a public gathering in which she led a crowd in singing an anti-Putin rock song in St. Petersburg, a rare act of defiance, according to local reports. Diana Loginova faces a single administrative charge for organizing an unauthorized public gathering and has been jailed for 13 days, The Moscow Times reported. After serving her sentence, Loginova will face an additional administrative offense of "discrediting" the Russian military, Reuters reported. NURSING HOME RESIDENT, 95, CHARGED WITH BEATING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ROOMMATE TO DEATH WITH WHEELCHAIR PEDAL Loginova, who performs under the name Naoko with the band Stoptime, was arrested Tuesday after being filmed earlier leading a crowd in singing the lyrics to exiled rapper Noize MC’s hit song "Swan Lake Cooperative." Noize MC, the musician who wrote "Swan Lake Cooperative," is openly critical of the Kremlin and left Russia for Lithuania after the start of the war in Ukraine. CNN'S BRIAN STELTER SAYS 'PRO-TRUMP ACTIVISTS' SEIZED ON CHARLOTTE STABBING, RIPS 'BALDLY RACIST' COMMENTS For its part, Moscow has added him to its list of "foreign agents," which includes hundreds of individuals and entities accused of conducting subversive activities with support from abroad, Reuters reported. The song doesn’t reference Russian President Vladimir Putin or mention the war in Ukraine. It is a reference to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which was played on television after the deaths of Soviet leaders and during the 1991 coup attempt against President Mikhail Gorbachev. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP In May, a St. Petersburg court banned the song on grounds it "may contain signs of justification and excuse for hostile, hateful attitudes towards people, as well as statements promoting violent changes to the foundations of the constitutional order."

Louis Casiano
Who Are Mason Heintschel’s Parents? All About Eric Heintschel And Cyndi Heintschel
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Who Are Mason Heintschel’s Parents? All About Eric Heintschel And Cyndi Heintschel

Mason Heintschel has recently been making headlines with his first two starts at Pitt. The Panthers look much more dangerous with him as the starting QB. In his first start, the 18-year-old true freshman not only defeated one of the league’s weakest teams, but he really overwhelmed Boston College 48-7, passing for 323 yards, four […]The post Who Are Mason Heintschel’s Parents? All About Eric Heintschel And Cyndi Heintschel appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Anusha Singh

Retired military leaders condemn Trump effort to deploy National Guard in Chicago

A group of retired military leaders on Thursday joined Gov. JB Pritzker’s call for President Donald Trump to back off his administration’s effort to send National Guard members onto the streets of Chicago.The attempted deployment that remains stalled by a federal judge would violate “the Constitution of this great nation,” according to Major Gen. William Enyart, who led the Illinois National Guard from 2007 to 2012.“It is imperative that we as citizens, not just as officers, but as citizens, stand up to the overreach of the federal government today in Illinois, in California and...

Mitchell Armentrout
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