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San Francisco tight end George Kittle is not worried about being fined for pulling up his jersey and revealing a shirt disparaging the Dallas Cowboys on “Sunday Night Football.” 

San Francisco dominated the Cowboys in Week 5, moving to 5-0 in a 42-10 win. 

Kittle caught three touchdown passes from quarterback Brock Purdy but revealed the T-shirt he was wearing underneath his jersey after a fourth-quarter score by running back Jordan Mason.

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Kittle posted a photo on Instagram of the shirt he was wearing underneath his jersey that added the extra insult against the team’s NFC rivals.

“F— Dallas,” the shirt read.

On Thursday, Kittle said he has not heard from the NFL but does expect a fine. “Probably to get a fine,” Kittle said Thursday. “I wore a personalized T-shirt. Maybe an inappropriate word.” 

“It is what it is. It’s a decision I made,” he continued. “If they want to fine me, they fine me.”

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Per NFL rules, a player can be fined more than $10,000 for displaying a personal message. 

Kittle said he has no regrets over his decision to reveal the shirt even if he is fined. 

“100%. I’d do it again,” Kittle said.

Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons did not take the display as lightly, saying it made things “more personal than it had to be.”

“Kittle’s my guy but [I’m gonna] say this: laugh now, cry later,” Parsons said on “The Edge with Micah Parsons” podcast. 

“We got something for that, just trust. If we see them again, just trust. And we gonna put it just like that. I ain’t gonna put too much on it. You gonna make it personal? We can make it personal, that’s cool.”

The only way Dallas and San Francisco would meet again this season would be in the NFL Playoffs. 

Dallas was dominated by the 49ers Sunday night, losing the total yards battle 421 to 197 and turning the ball over four times. Quarterback Dak Prescott threw three interceptions as the Cowboys dropped their second straight game. 

Fox News’ Ryan Gardos and Chantz Martin contributed to this report

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“Love locks” – padlocks snapped onto fences and barriers at breathtaking locations by couples to symbolize the permanence of their bond – are apparently a threat to wildlife, per a social media post from staff at Grand Canyon National Park. 

“Love is strong, but our bolt cutters are stronger,” park staff wrote in a Wednesday Facebook post. “People think putting a lock on fencing at viewpoints is a great way to show love for another person. It’s not. Leaving padlocks is littering and a form of graffiti.”

Typically, lovers will throw the padlock’s key into the river or gorge behind the fence where they affix their lock – in this case the Grand Canyon. However, this step in the popular ritual is especially dangerous, park staff wrote. 

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“Condors are curious animals and much like a small child will investigate strange things they come across with their mouths,” read the post. “They will spot a coin, a wrapper, or a shiny piece of metal – like a key from a padlock that has been tossed into the canyon – and eat it.” 

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To illustrate their point, park rangers posted an X-ray image of a condor with coins lodged in its digestive tract. If the animal eats too many shiny metal objects, per the post, “it could die.” 

Despite posted warnings, objects are thrown into the canyon every day, staff said. Last year, TikTok influencer Katie Sigmond was fined $285 for lobbing a golf ball into the Grand Canyon, per the park’s social media. 

“Padlocks and trash are not anomalies limited to Grand Canyon,” park staff wrote. “Do your part to not contribute to these bad habits and inform others of what can happen to the wildlife if these behaviors continue.” 

The practice of padlocking monuments has posed an issue worldwide. In 2015, the weight of locks latched to the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris weighed a total of 45 tons – the same weight as about 10 adult male African elephants – compromising the integrity of the structure. 

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California condors are among the most endangered birds in the world, per the Arizona Game & Fish Department. They were placed on the endangered species list in 1967 and reintroduced in Arizona as a provision of the Endangered Species Act. In 1982, only 22 of the condors remained worldwide; in 2022, per the Grand Canyon National Park website, 92 inhabited the skies of Arizona and Utah.

More than 500 are currently living as a result of repopulation efforts, according to the American Bird Conservancy. 

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The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission is aiming to award licenses to growers and distributors by the end of the year after a bumpy roll out of the state’s medical marijuana program that has included multiple lawsuits over the selection process.

The commission on Thursday adopted an emergency rule approving a new process for selecting license winners. Companies will make presentations to the commission. Commissioners can also consider scores that were previously awarded to submitted applications.

“It kind of is a reset. We think we have a process to move forward, not ditching what we’ve already done, but making use of it as best as possible,” Commission Chairman Rex Vaughn said after the end of the meeting. The timeframe for selecting license winners will depend on ongoing litigation with applicants, but Vaughn said they hope that they have addressed concerns and awards can be made by the end of the year.

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Medical marijuana remains unavailable in Alabama more than two years after state lawmakers approved the creation of a program to allow marijuana to be used for certain medical conditions. The state had to develop rules and and attempts to award the licenses have been bogged down in lawsuits.

Losing companies have accused commissioners of using a flawed selection process that failed to consider how quickly a company could begin producing marijuana and also of improperly deliberating in private before selecting the winning companies for the lucrative licenses.

Will Somerville, a lawyer representing Alabama Always, said he believes the new process is a step in the right direction that will allow the company to make a presentation to commissioners. He said the previous license awards were made on “how pretty is your application and not whether you can really do it.”

“It will allow us to explain why we can commence cultivation faster than anybody else,” Somerville said.

The slow rollout of the state’s medical marijuana program has been a source of frustration for patients like Amanda Taylor who has multiple sclerosis. Taylor, who previously lived in Arizona, said marijuana can ease the spasms and pain brought on by multiple sclerosis, but it is unavailable in Alabama.

“It’s vital for patients like myself, who are suffering,” Taylor, 49, said. “It’s not about getting high. It’s about healing.”

Alabama lawmakers in 2021 ended years of resistance and approved the creation of a program to allow marijuana to be used for certain medical conditions.

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Pro-Israel college students at the University of Massachusetts were disgusted at the rhetoric used at a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus celebrating the “historic win” of Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel. 

“I was overwhelmed by how many people came out to support what I think is just terrible,” Olive, a Jewish college student, said. “It’s a massacre of innocent civilians, and it should be strongly condemned, and instead they’re here celebrating this.”

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Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protests and vigils have taken place in several major U.S. cities following Hamas’ deadly surprise attack on Saturday that’s led to at least 1,200 Israelis killed and many others taken as hostages, including soldiers, women, children and older civilians. The Israeli government declared war against Hamas and begun an assault on Gaza in response, killing at least 1,400 in the territory, according to Palestinian authorities. 

Many college campuses have held demonstrations for the Israel-Hamas war, including hundreds who gathered for a protest led by UMass Amherst students to support justice in Palestine on Thursday. The flyer posted on social media for the event told students to meet outside the college’s student union to stand in solidarity with Palestinians “breaking out of their open air prison.” 

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“It was a very peaceful protest,” Hakan, a pro-Palestinian supporter, told Fox News Digital during the event. “Palestine will be free.”

“A lot of people came to support,” he continued. “Some people came to try and make a scene.”

A small group of pro-Israeli protesters showed up to the event. Some students told Fox News Digital the demonstration was “disgusting” and “upsetting.”

“They are supporting a terrorist organization,” Milana said. “They are not supporting Palestinians who want peace with Israel. They are supporting a deep-rooted hate of Jews. It’s unjust.”

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Alyssa, a UMass student who lived in Israel for a year, told Fox News Digital she was very disturbed by the pro-Palestinian supporters’ rhetoric. She said some pro-Palestinian students cheered after someone said Hamas’ terrorists broke down the barrier into Israel. 

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“I know a lot of people who wanted to go to Israel to fight, and I would want to fight right now, frankly, looking at this is disgusting,” Alyssa said.

A speaker at the event said the organizers “stand in full solidarity with Palestinians as they resist over 75 years of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid.”

“Resistance is justified when people are occupied,” another speaker shouted. “What did you expect would happen when you besieged Gaza for all of these decades!”

Some Pro-Palestinian protesters could be heard chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – a chant that the Anti-Defamation League notes can be understood as a call for the elimination of Israel. Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine often use the chant as an anti-Israel rallying cry.

Many of the students told Fox News Digital they don’t feel safe on campus because of the violent, anti-Israel rhetoric heard at the protest.

“I don’t feel safe on campus right now,” Donna said. “I’m just so worried for the safety of my people.”

Olive waved her Israeli flag amid a sea of pro-Palestinian supporters marching around campus. The Jewish student said some opposing protesters tried to trip her. 

“I don’t know what the semester is gonna be like for me here,” Olive said. “I don’t feel safe at all.”

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The New York City Police Department told Fox News Digital Friday that it has arrested a Republican city councilwoman after she was spotted with a handgun protruding from her pants at a pro-Palestinian rally in Brooklyn. 

Authorities say Inna Vernikov, 39, was taken into custody around 3 a.m. and charged with criminal possession of a firearm following yesterday’s demonstration at Brooklyn College.

“The Councilwoman was at the location observing a pro-Palestine protest which was taking place, and in the course of doing so, the Councilwoman was observed with the butt-end of a firearm (handgun) protruding from the front portion of her pants,” the NYPD said. “This image was disseminated on social media, per photos taken at the scene by various individuals.” 

Vernikov, who represents southern Brooklyn, later turned herself into police “and both her firearm (which she is licensed to possess) and her permit license were surrendered,” the NYPD added. “At no point in time was anyone menaced or injured as a result of her possessing the firearm at the earlier protest.” 

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Vernikov recorded a video of herself at the rally, saying “If you are here today standing with these people, you are nothing short of a terrorist without the bombs.” 

“I’m here at the pro-Hamas rally in Brooklyn College. There is a ton of police, and we made sure that Jewish students feel safe today,” she said in a clip posted on X, during which a crowd behind her waving Palestinian flags could be heard chanting “Free free Palestine!” 

“This is what they are doing, protesting, supporting Hamas, asking to globalize the intifada, to bring the terror that the people of Israel are experiencing now, to bring it here to New York City,” Vernikov added. 

Vernikov did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday from Fox News Digital. 

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New York state law says “A person is guilty of criminal possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun in a sensitive location when such person possesses a firearm, rifle or shotgun in or upon a sensitive location, and such person knows or reasonably should know such location is a sensitive location.” 

The law identifies sensitive locations as including “any building or grounds, owned or leased, of any educational institutions, colleges and universities” and “any gathering of individuals to collectively express their constitutional rights to protest or assemble.” 

New York State Sen. Julia Salazar, a self-described Democratic socialist who represents Brooklyn, ripped Vernikov for her alleged actions, writing on X that “There is no excuse, none whatsoever, for an elected official to bring a firearm to a college campus in New York. 

“To go even further by allegedly brandishing the gun to intimidate Palestinian students is beyond anything I’ve seen before,” she added. “And I’ve seen some s—.” 

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A conservative political action committee has been fined $20,250 in Maryland for failing to include information in the text message to identify who was sending it during a school board election, officials said Thursday.

The 1776 Project PAC was fined for sending 13,879 text messages to Carroll County voters in last year’s school board election without noting it was the source of the message, according to a news release from f Prosecutor Charlton Howard and State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis.

Maryland law requires campaign messages sent on behalf of candidates to record who paid for the information to be distributed.

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Violations have traditionally been sanctioned with minimal citations, but Howard and DeMarinis noted that technology now allows candidates to reach thousands of people with the press of a button.

“Being able to identify the source of information for campaign material is essential to honesty and transparency in our electoral process,” Howard said.`

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A man was found shot to death inside a suburban Kansas City home after a police officer fired upon him.

The shooting happened late Tuesday in Olathe, Kansas. Police on Thursday identified the man killed as 33-year-old Dane Laing, of Olathe. Police have not yet said if the officer who fired at Laing struck hiam, the Kansas City Star reported. Sgt. John Moncayo, an Olathe police spokesperson, said further information about Laing’s death was not available.

Officers were dispatched to a report of an assault Tuesday afternoon. Police said that as officers were speaking to the person who reported the assault, Laing ran by with a handgun. Police said one of the officers shot Laing as he tried to get inside the neighbor’s home.

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Police later determined Laing was dead inside the home.

The Johnson County Critical Incident Investigation Team, which reviews instances of the use of deadly force, is investigating.

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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is back in the race for speaker after Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who the conference selected earlier this week, ended his bid for the job Thursday night. 

Republican lawmakers are meeting behind closed doors Friday morning trying to hash out a way forward. 

Jordan is now the only declared candidate in the race — but it is not a done deal for him yet.

Reps. Austin Scott, R-Ga., and Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., are committed to voting against Jordan on the House floor for now. 

“Look, if you listen to Kevin McCarthy’s words, he said he doesn’t want to be nominated, but he’s also said he was willing to abide by the will of the conference. It’s time for the conference to draft Kevin McCarthy,” Gimenez said on Fox Business on Friday morning. “We need our speaker back, and we need to move forward with the business of America.”

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However, Jordan reportedly spoke with holdouts against him between Thursday night and Friday morning’s meeting.

Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., who told reporters she was opposing Jordan on Thursday night, suggested on Friday she was just leaning against him. “I’m gonna listen to the rules change part, and I’ll make my decision,” she said.

Jordan scored another valuable endorsement on Friday morning in Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s campaign arm.

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“We must unite behind one leader with the integrity, the ability and the vision to lead us. I believe Jim Jordan is that leader,” Hudson said.

Before discussing new speaker candidates, House GOP lawmakers huddled to decide whether to change Republican conference rules to raise the threshold needed to elect a candidate for speaker. 

Scalise had won by a simply majority on Wednesday before dropping out on Thursday night.

Most of Jordan’s allies were for the rules change as of earlier this week, and many of them continued to support him despite Scalise being chosen.

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However, all four amendments were tabled on Friday, giving Jordan an easier path to victory in the conference.

Moderate Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., suggested on Thursday night that choosing Jordan would be “rewarding” people who further pushed the House GOP into chaos. He did not commit to voting for Jordan at the time.

“We had a lot of members today said they’d only vote for Jim. That bothers a lot of us. It’s not really Jim’s fault. But it bothers because you reward bad behavior. And so we pretty much have to grapple with that,” he said.

Jordan spokesman Russell Dye told Fox News Digital that the Judiciary chairman was confident. 

“Jim Jordan is the only person who can unite the conference and get 217 votes to become speaker,” he said.

Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report

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