Kimberly Van Der Beek posted a supportive message for her husband, actor James Van Der Beek, after he revealed Sunday that he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and was undergoing treatment for the condition.
“I love you baby," Kimberly posted with a heart after "baby" in a show of support for her famous husband.
Van Der Beek said in the post that he hadn't planned to reveal the diagnosis publicly, but that media outlets got wind of the news and threatened to go public with it against his objections.
He apologized for not telling everyone in person because of the media threats to take the news public.
“Apologies to all the people in my life who I’d planned on telling myself. Nothing about this process has occurred on my preferred timeline,” Van Der Beek said. “But we roll with it, taking each surprise as a signpost, pointing us toward a greater destiny than we would have discovered without divine intervention.”
He concluded, “Please know that my family and I deeply appreciate all the love and support.”
Colorectal cancer occurs when growths in the colon's lining become malignant, the Cleveland Clinic said. While Van Der Beek said in his post that 2 billion people worldwide are diagnosed with the cancer each year, the actual number is more like 1.9 million.
The Van Der Beeks have been married since 2010 and have six children ages 14 to 3.
James is not the only one in his family who has suffered a major health issue.
Kimberly suffered miscarriages in 2019 and 2020 before their youngest child, Jeremiah, was born.
She said in 2019 that she "almost lost her life" while miscarrying their son late in the pregnancy.
Just days before James announced his cancer diagnosis, Kimberly posted a throwback photo of the couple on Instagram, captioned, “We were babies. So much life lived since then. Grateful for it all.”
James is best known for playing Dawson Leery on the popular teen show "Dawson's Creek" from 1998 to 2003.
The couple moved their family to Texas from California in 2020.
A video of Tim Walz calling Elon Musk "gay" produced yet another PR gaffe for the Harris campaign in the last stretch before Election Day.
While stumping for Kamala Harris in Michigan, Walz seemed to have a slip of the tongue while doing his folksy shtick bashing billionaires.
"If you're a billionaire, Elon Musk for example," Walz said. "That guy, that gay guy...." he trailed off, before stopping himself.
"Michigan knows that word," Walz said.
The Harris campaign said Walz was stuttering after someone in the crowd threw him off track.
“In the video, you can hear someone in the crowd yell ‘dips–t! when the governor brings up Musk,” a campaign spokesman said. “The governor started laughing and stuttered while trying to say ‘that guy got’ — he did not refer to Elon as a gay guy.”
“He got stuck on the G in that guy got while trying not to laugh at the remark from the crowd," the campaign said.
While the campaign says Walz misspoke, the insult that a Harris supporter cried out was one that Walz previously used against Musk deliberately.
Walz - who has attracted notice for his theatrical mannerisms - faced an incredulous reaction when he accused Musk of skipping around "like a dip---."
Musk, who is backing President Trump, shrugged off Walz's latest remark, stating on X, which he owns, "I have no problem being called gay."
As Americans anxiously await the results of the presidential election on Tuesday, some of her supporters have pre-emptively begun to blame a Harris loss on her choice in running mate.
Walz's critics say that Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, would have been more of an asset for her campaign. Pennsylvania is a must win for Harris, who has essentially no path to the presidency without sweeping the "blue wall" of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Since he became Harris' running mate in July, Walz has been at the center of numerous scandals. He has repeatedly claimed to "misspeak" when confronted for lying about various aspects of his personal life, including his military service and overseas travel to China.
The governor famously called himself a "knucklehead" during the vice-presidential debate, and was recently mocked for misusing football terminology, undermining his image as a folksy high school coach.
"Tampon Tim is such a dork. You’d think a so-called football coach would be aware that you don’t run a pick 6!" the Trump campaign wrote in response.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson is now going in-depth with a disturbing personal account of an attack by what he says is a demonic entity, clawing him in his bed to the point of drawing blood.
Carlson has given a series of interviews on the matter, describing the terrifying incident "about a year and a half ago."
He told John Heers of the "Christianities?" YouTube channel: "In my bed at night and I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs in the bed and mauled, physically mauled."
"Yeah, by a demon," Carlson replies.
"I had these terrible pains on my rib cage and my shoulder," Carlson continues, noting he had "four claw marks on either side, underneath my arms and on my left shoulder and they're bleeding … actual claw marks."
"I sleep on my side, so I wasn't clawing myself. I don't have long nails. And [the marks] didn't fit my hands anyway. But yeah, that happened."
"I knew it was spiritual immediately," Carlson added, saying "to this day" he still does not understand what took place. He initially thought it was a dream until he discovered blood on his sheets. He says he was "seized with a very intense desire to read the Bible."
During an interview Monday morning on Steve Bannon's "War Room," Carlson indicated: "I think it was just a momentary glimpse of something that's happening at all times, which is again, this war between forces that we can't see, but that has been ongoing and has been in fact described by every culture … every culture that we know about has described this battle."
"The big change in the moment that we're living in is that people are awakening to this fact that we've been on this vacation from reality. A vacation from spiritual reality."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
'As patriarchal structures continue to evolve, women and girls in sport are experiencing new forms of discrimination based on their sex. One glaring example is opening the female category of sports to males, further undermining their access to equal opportunities and the right to participate in safety, dignity, and fairness
Led by the work of the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the transgender ideology has exploded in recent years.
A decade ago the issue hardly was known: Now it engulfs nightly newscasts and online publications.
It's an ideological battle that pits a small minority of individuals with gender dysphoria against the majority of the population.
But now there's new documentation of the huge impact of men, or boys, competing in events created for women or girls.
And "winning."
It is in a report from CBN News that the details are available.
It cited statistics from the United Nations showing that males have won nearly 900 medals when they compete against women or girls.
The report is called "Violence Against Women and Girls in Sports" and reveals more than 600 female athletes missed medaling 890 times because boys or men finished ahead of them.
"The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals when competing against males," according to the report.
CBN explained the report also documents how Reem Alsalem, a U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women, informed the assembly that males in women's sports have "created higher instances of sexual harassment, assault, and voyeurism not only in competitions but in locker rooms and bathrooms."
Alsalem said, "As patriarchal structures continue to evolve, women and girls in sports are experiencing new forms of discrimination based on their sex. One glaring example is opening the female category of sports to males, further undermining their access to equal opportunities and the right to participate in safety, dignity, and fairness."
CBN documented its reporting about injuries suffered by girls and women who encountered males in their competitions. And there has been a multitude of lawsuits over the issue.
The report noted, "San Jose State player Brooke Slusser has joined in a lawsuit against the NCAA in recent weeks claiming she had to share a court, locker room, and even a room on overnight trips with her teammate Blaire Fleming without having ever been told that Fleming was a biological male."
By now, teams representing Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming, and Utah State all have refused to play against San Jose State, because of the presence of Fleming, a male, on the women's team.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A now-viral video reveals Vice President Kamala Harris has confirmed she would be willing to breach the U.S. Constitution to confiscate the guns of Americans if she wins the election.
Posted on to X by the social media platform's owner Elon Musk, Harris tells reporters if Congress fails to do something about gun control within the first 100 days of her administration, then she will take action.
"I think it's a great idea, but I mean listen, I don't think we lack for great ideas, as I've said many times, we've been having great ideas for decades, the problem is Congress has not had the courage to act. That is why from the beginning I have said, my agenda includes attempting to get Congress to act, but if they don't in the first 100 days of my administration, I'm gonna take executive action. What we need is action,"
" Harris said.
When hurricanes Helene and Milton hit Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee in recent weeks, Republicans worried that the dismal conditions would keep voters from getting to the polls.
But the larger impact of the hurricanes on the latest jobs report may be much worse for Democrats than any loss of votes from the residual hurricane damage, and former President Donald Trump was quick to label the economy "a disaster" based on the terrible numbers.
Only 12,000 jobs were created in October, far lower than the 100,000 expected by experts and the lowest in four years. Besides the hurricanes, the port strike and other labor problems are being blamed.
“What timing, four days before the election, they have among the worst numbers ever in history,” Trump said. “It is hundreds of thousands of jobs less than it should be.”
“I stand here as the only candidate who can rescue our economy from total obliteration,” he said at the rally. “The economy is now a disaster.”
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said right away that "this jobs report is a catastrophe and definitively reveals how badly Kamala Harris broke our economy."
"Working families are being ripped off by the Harris-Biden economic agenda. Kamala broke the economy. President Trump will fix it," Leavitt claimed.
He and Democrat nominee Vice President Kamala Harris both held rallies in Milwaukee County on Friday. Both reportedly drew about 12,000 attendees, although Harris had to feature rapper CardiB in order to get that many people to come.
Many attendees at Trump's rally wore garbageman outfits in reaction to a comment from President Joe Biden that Trump supporters are "garbage."
“I don’t want your money. I want your damn vote,” Trump said during the rally. “The fate of the nation is in your hands.”
The stock market didn't react to the lower numbers, which bolsters the claims that it was an artificially low number for the reasons given above.
But Trump used it to drive home his point that his opponent and her administration have not done a good job on the economy, which is true even if the number is temporary.
Unemployment was the same at 4.1% despite the low job numbers.
Polling indicates that Tuesday's race is on a knife's edge, with Trump ahead by less than 1 point in many crucial swing states.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Cops who blasted the wrong Texas house with a SWAT raid, then denied any liability for their assault, may be going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It is the Institute for Justice that is asking the high court to take up the case of Karen Jimerson, and her partner, James Parks.
"Qualified immunity has run amok," said IJ Attorney Dylan Moore. "The Supreme Court must ensure that victims of obvious constitutional violations, like Karen and James, are not denied a day in court."
The legal team, on behalf of the couple, has filed a petition asking the justices to overturn a lower court's ruling granting qualified immunity to the SWAT commander who ordered the raid of the wrong home.
"On a quiet night in March 2019, a SWAT team from the Waxahachie Police Department, and officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), attempted to execute a search warrant on a suspected methamphetamine stash house at 573 8th Street. When the team arrived on the scene, however, they nearly raided 583 8th Street. Realizing the first mistake, SWAT Team Lieutenant Mike Lewis ordered them to 'go to the house just to the left' and conduct the raid there. But the house to the left was also the wrong house. Rather than ordering officers to raid 573 8th Street, Lewis directed them to 593 8th Street, which belonged to Karen," the IJ said.
The court filings charge that Lewis never even bothered to check the address listed on the warrant.
"Even worse, the houses had obvious physical differences. Lewis knew that the target house was surrounded by a fence, had a large garage behind it (that police planned to search), and had its address posted on the front porch. Karen's house had no porch, fence, or garage. What it did have was an impossible-to-miss wheelchair ramp that officers had to ascend on their way into the wrong house," the legal team said.
The SWAT team, with no announcement, broke all the windows in the front of the home and covered Karen's three young children with glass. She had just gotten out of the shower when a flash-bang exploded, and was forced to the ground, where she was held for several minutes.
Then it was oops!
"The SWAT team then left and conducted its raid at the correct home, two doors down," the IJ reported.
"This raid was a traumatizing experience for me, and my kids still have flashbacks to the raid," said Karen, who was taken along with her daughter to the hospital following the raid. "We hadn't done anything wrong, and suddenly, we're being held at gunpoint and having parts of our home destroyed. I couldn't believe what was happening."
A police review found "reasonable and normal protocol" was ignored, and confirmed the mistake never should have happened.
Karen and James sued Lewis, but he denied responsibility and the lower courts granted him a free pass.
After enjoying a childhood that was largely kept out of the limelight, former first son Barron Trump has been making headlines lately for the noteworthy influence he has had on a key aspect of his father's presidential campaign strategy, namely, his appearances on several popular podcasts.
With that notoriety has come more frequent mentions by Donald Trump of his youngest son, with one recent chat focusing on the amusing -- and rather sweet -- explanation he gave for the 18-year-old's impressive height, as Inquisitr reports.
Typically reported as somewhere between 6' 7” and 6' 8” inches, Barron Trump's height is truly something to behold, and while both his parents are taller than average, the young man has exceeded expectations in this key physical metric.
Earlier this year, Donald Trump mused on what could possibly explain his son's outlier status when it comes to height, and his explanation was a mix of humor and admiration for a recently departed member of his family.
According to the former president, Barron's height was solely attributable to the culinary talents of his Slovenian maternal grandmother, Amalija Knavs, who passed away early this year, and to whom the young man was extremely close.
“That's how he got so tall, he only ate her food,” Donald Trump joked.
His commentary on Barron's stature did not stop there, as he recalled once suggesting that his son take up basketball as his sport of choice, noting that the young man rebuffed the notion, saying, “Well, I like soccer, dad.”
Little has been known about Barron Trump's life until quite recently, as the young man entered the spotlight not just as a result of his father's presidential campaign, but also because he graduated from high school and began studies at New York University this fall.
With an increasing presence in the public eye, speculation about his height continues apace, with essayist Nicholas Russell – himself a tall man – offering some insight into the situation, as Slate noted.
“To me, it's pretty apparent that [Barron] is still getting used to it and is not super comfortable. But that could also be an artifact of just not liking being in front of the cameras and freezing up a little bit.”
Russell went on, “His height is sort of just an added layer of surreality to his existence. He's still Donald Trump's son. He's probably got a very cushy life.”
Professor Tim Cole, who studies such matters, has suggested that Barron may not have even reached his final adult height yet, adding to what is sure to be an ongoing public interest in the young man's development over the next few years.
Regardless of whether Barron Trump stays at his current height or grows a bit more, it is apparent that he beginning to define himself both inside and outside his famous family, with seemingly limitless opportunities ahead.
As senior Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller recently observed about Barron's assistance in shaping his father's media approach, “hats off to the young man. Every single recommendation he's had has turned out to be absolute ratings gold that's broke the internet,” and that is an undeniably promising start, indeed.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A special program set up in the state of Illinois to provide scholarships to aspiring teachers, to use for tuition, fees, commuter allowances, and room and board, is under a new court challenge because of its racist foundation.
It excludes students if they are white.
It is the Pacific Legal Foundation that is pursuing a civil rights complaint on behalf of the American Alliance for Equal Rights, which is fighting the precedent of the Illinois Student Assistance Corporation.
"The Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship Program awards scholarships of up to $7,500 per year for tuition, fees, commuter allowances, and room and board for up to four academic years of full-time college enrollment. With Illinois facing a severe teacher shortage, the MTI Scholarship Program is designed to encourage qualified Illinoisans to join the teacher ranks," Pacific Legal Foundation's report explained.
"Students must meet residency, academic, and financial standards," the legal team explained. But, it noted, the recipients are decided based on race.
"Illinois can offer assistance to young, aspiring teachers, but not when they exclude a significant number of applicants based on their skin color," said PLF attorney Erin Wilcox. "The exclusion of non-minority applicants not only misses the mark on providing an equal opportunity for all future teachers, it violates the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause."
The racism dates back to 1992 when state lawmakers created the program.
"Its purported aim was to alleviate a teacher shortage by recruiting minority students to pursue teaching careers at Pre-K through high school levels," the report said.
However, recipients are limited to students who are "African American/Black, Hispanic American, Asian American or Native American origin, or a qualified bilingual minority."
The report said, "It's wrong for the government to deny individuals access to government 0benefits based on race. Moreover, it's unconstitutional. The equal protection guarantee of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment protects individuals from government discrimination due to arbitrary classifications like race. Excluding students from a state-funded scholarship program because of their race blatantly violates the Equal Protection Clause."
The complaint in court explains, "The Scholarship Program's statutory racial exclusion is embedded both in the application process and the qualification considerations for the award. First, only minority students who have graduated from high school or have received a State of Illinois High School Diploma maintained a cumulative grade point average of no less than 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and are enrolled or accepted on at least a half-time basis as an undergraduate or graduate student at an Illinois institution of higher education are eligible to apply for the Scholarship Program."
And, it contends, "Eligible applicants must then satisfy the following requirements to receive a scholarship: (i) be a resident of the State and a citizen or permanent resident of the United States; (ii) be a minority student; (iii) as an eligible applicant, have made a timely application; (iv) be enrolled on at least a half-time basis at a qualified Illinois institution of higher learning to become a licensed teacher; (v) maintain a grade point average of no less than 2.5 on a 4.0 scale; and (vi) have continued to advance satisfactorily toward the attainment of a degree."
The filing in court explains, "Under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, '[n]o State shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.' [E]very person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State …, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured …."
The Arizona Superior Court ruled that Maricopa County must provide the names of 218,000 voters who registered to vote without proof of citizenship, Just the News reported. Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes admitted that a glitch allowed for the error but was cagey about releasing a full list.
Conservative public interest group America First Legal brought the lawsuit against Fontes after he failed to furnish the list of voters affected. The organization argued that his office intentionally held back on releasing the list.
This came after a public records request was rejected, suggesting that Fontes was unwilling to share the information as required by law and necessitating further legal action. The court sided with the AFL in Thursday's ruling.
The secretary of state's office must turn over the names one day before Election Day. "Defendants shall release to Plaintiff no later than noon on Monday, November 4, 2024, any other datasets, compilation of information, lists, or communications from MVD containing personally identifying information (PII) about Affected Voters," the court said.
This case underscores an ongoing struggle for citizens who feel disenfranchised by voters on the rolls who are ineligible. James Rogers, AFL senior legal counsel, blamed Fontes for undermining trust by not doing something once he knew about the problem.
"A majority of Arizonans no longer trust the election system of our state. One of the reasons is the lack of transparency from our state’s elected officials," Rogers said in a statement following the ruling.
"When Secretary Fontes discovered the glitch that allowed 218,000 individuals to register without providing proof of citizenship, he should have immediately shared the list of affected individuals with Arizona’s county recorders, who are in charge of verifying the citizenship of voters. Instead, he has jealously guarded the list, refusing to share it with anyone," Rogers charged.
"This suit was about restoring transparency and ensuring that county recorders can do their jobs by verifying the citizenship of voters. It is unfortunate that Secretary Fontes so aggressively opposed our common-sense efforts to help restore trust in our state’s election system," Rogers added.
"This was a case we never should have needed to file," Rogers said. This glitch impacted so many registrations because the state's voting system requires proof of U.S. citizens to register to vote in Arizona elections but has no requirement for federal elections, allowing some to cast only ballots in national elections.
According to the Arizona Gazette, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer claims that despite the glitch, "the vast majority of these voters are United States citizens who can provide documented proof of citizenship." He added that citizens who lie about their eligibility are subject to perjury laws.
Still, this insistence that elections are secure and fair in the face of evidence to the contrary is what fuels suspicion. Former President Donald Trump and his supporters have been railing against this since the 2020 presidential election.
Last week, Trump pointed out that in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, fraudulent ballots were showing up, demonstrating exactly the kind of activity that could sway an election. NBC News reported his remarks but downplayed the significance of the fraud.
"Really bad 'stuff.' WHAT IS GOING ON IN PENNSYLVANIA??? Law Enforcement must do their job, immediately!!! WOW!!!" Trump posted to his Truth Social.
The voting system needs a serious overhaul, but there's no appetite for it from the leftists who likely benefit. These ineligible people in Arizona and elsewhere should not be casting ballots in American elections.