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Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales that stranded on a remote beach on Australia’s island state of Tasmania, officials said on Wednesday.Experts including veterinarians were at the scene near the Arthur River on Tasmania’s northwestern coast where 157 whales were discovered on an exposed surf beach on Tuesday afternoon, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment said.Unfavorable ocean and weather conditions, which prevented the whales from being rescued on Wednesday, were forecast to persist for days, incident controller Shelley Graham said.'I THOUGHT I WAS DEAD': KAYAKER GETS SWALLOWED BY HUMPBACK WHALE IN

Kim Jones, a former All-American collegiate tennis player and co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), had a message for President Donald Trump amid criticism that the NCAA’s new policy on transgender athletes still has loopholes.The president signed an executive order prohibiting biological males from competing in women’s sports. The NCAA followed up the next day, reversing its policy on trans inclusion in women’s sports.Jones called on Trump to get the NCAA to rewrite its policy again.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"Call the NCAA back to the table and tell them to put the policy in

Samantha Busch, the wife of NASCAR star Kyle Busch, was in tears on Tuesday as she learned President Donald Trump signed an executive order to "aggressively" make in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other treatments more affordable.For Busch, the order hit home for her.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMShe and her husband run the Bundle of Joy Fund, which attempts to help families remove the financial burdens of getting fertility treatments. The organization has awarded 144 grants with nearly $2 million in funds granted and 100 babies born.Busch expressed her excitement in an emotional video posted on Instagram."I’m in

Pope Francis slept well and ate breakfast on Wednesday morning after he was diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs, according to the Vatican.Matteo Bruni, a spokesperson for the Vatican, said Francis had a peaceful fifth night in Rome's Gemelli hospital."He had a tranquil night, woke up and had breakfast," the spokesperson said.The Vatican said Tuesday that Francis, who had the upper lobe of his right lung removed when he was young, had been diagnosed with pneumonia in both his lungs and that laboratory tests, chest X-ray and the pope's clinical condition "continue to present a complex picture."POPE FRANCIS DIAGNOSED WITH

All eyes were on Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds as they hit the red carpet Sunday for the "Saturday Night Live" 50th anniversary special.The Hollywood power couple had not been publicly spotted out together, let alone on a red carpet, since she filed her sexual harassment lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, her "It Ends With Us" co-star and director, on Dec. 21.While Lively and Reynolds appeared to be in good spirits for the star-studded night out in New York City, body language expert Nicole Moore exclusively told Fox News Digital that it was Lively who stood out with a "power position"

Nearly everyone agrees that the federal government has become this bloated monster that needs to be cut down to size.The massive bureaucracy, attacked by some as evil, is absurdly overstaffed and wastes massive amounts of money.What President Trump is doing in trying to shrink the size of government is popular – even if his billionaire budget-slasher, Elon Musk, is not – and many of the court battles are likely to be resolved in his favor.But the equation is turned on its head when actual people feel the impact. And the media start highlighting sad cases of devastated folks. And Republican

The Senate voted Tuesday along party lines to advance the nomination of Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick for FBI director, clearing a procedural hurdle to set up a final vote on the controversial Trump ally to lead the federal law enforcement agency.Lawmakers in the Upper Chamber voted 48-45 to advance Patel's nomination, as Democrats hold concerns that he would operate as a loyalist for the president and target the administration's political enemies.This sets up a final confirmation vote later in the week. Some of Trump's other more controversial picks — including new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National

DOGE's Elon Musk opened up in an interview alongside President Trump with Fox News Sean Hannity about a dinner party where he said he realized how "real" Democratic animosity toward Trump can be."I happened to mention the president's name and it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies," Musk said in the Tuesday night interview while recounting a situation where he mentioned Trump's name at a dinner party and quickly received pushback.Musk imitated people at the party going crazy and questioned why they couldn’t have a normal conversation."It's like they've