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Todd Chrisley’s new year is off to a rough start. The reality TV star will report to prison on Jan. 17 and will serve his time at the minimum-security prison Federal Prison Camp Pensacola, according to multiple reports.

Todd and his wife, Julie Chrisley, were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison during a hearing in November, after the two were convicted of federal tax evasion.

On an episode of the “Chrisley Confessions” podcast, Todd revealed that both he and Julie appealed their tax fraud conviction but are “not allowed” to discuss any further details.

“We cannot discuss the case because the appeal has now been, however they do it, I think it was filed yesterday or the day before yesterday,” Todd shared. “Our attorneys noticed [sic] the courts that they were appealing this.”

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Todd was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Julie was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States. She was also hit with wire fraud and obstruction of justice charges.

Celebrity attorney James Leonard Jr. noted that celebrities can sometimes be used by the criminal justice system as an “example.”

“I think that the criminal justice system sometimes dishes out a very heavy hand when the offender is someone of note, whether that be someone that is on television, an athlete or someone that is known to the general public,” he said. “I believe that oftentimes, and it’s unfortunate, but oftentimes the criminal justice system seeks to make an example of individuals like that.”

Leonard Jr. also noted that time behind bars can be “extremely difficult” for celebrities.

“It’s extremely difficult because you are away from your loved ones,” he told Fox News Digital. “You are away from the amenities that you have grown accustomed to, your lifestyle, and it’s very difficult in that sense.”

“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah will learn her fate later this week. Shah’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 6.

Shah pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing. In turn, count two, conspiracy to commit money laundering, was dropped.

“Jennifer Shah was a key participant in a nationwide scheme that targeted elderly, vulnerable victims,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a press release.

“These victims were sold false promises of financial security but instead Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their savings and left them with nothing to show for it,” the statement continued. “This Office is committed to rooting out these schemes whatever form they take.”

Here are other stars who have served time behind bars:

Martha Stewart spent five months in the minimum-security Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia in 2004.

The celebrity chef was accused of insider trading after she sold off her shares of ImClone Systems stock just one day before the stock plummeted. She was accused of receiving insider information regarding the company’s failure to gain an approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

She was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction and two counts of lying to federal investigators.

Following her prison time, Stewart also spent five months under house arrest and two years of probation.

“Dance Moms” star Abby Lee Miller spent eight months in prison in 2017 after she was convicted of hiding parts of her income.

Miller was charged with 20 counts of bankruptcy fraud, concealing assets and making false bankruptcy declarations. The dance coach apparently hid nearly $775,000 of her income while applying for bankruptcy.

Miller was sent to a correctional facility in California following her conviction. Her sentence was cut short after the reality TV star was diagnosed with spinal cancer.

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Robert Downey Jr. was arrested in 1996 for speeding. The actor was charged with driving under the influence. Police also found heroin, cocaine, crack and a .357 magnum in his vehicle.

Downey Jr. spent time in jail before being released but was later sentenced to federal prison for skipping out on probation.

The actor served one year of his three-year prison sentence.

Lori Loughlin spent two months behind bars due to her involvement in the 2019 college admissions scandal.

Loughlin served her time at a prison in Dublin, California after being convicted of paying $500,000 to have her two daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as rowing recruits.

The “Full House” star’s husband was also convicted in the scandal that included roughly 60 parents, collegiate coaches and more.

“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days behind bars for her role in the same scandal.

Tim Allen spent two years and four months behind bars after he was found at Michigan’s Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport with more than a pound of cocaine in his possession.

“I just shut up and did what I was told,” he said about serving time during an episode of “WTF with Marc Maron.” “It was the first time ever I did what I was told and played the game… I learned literally how to live day by day. And I learned how to shut up. You definitely want to learn how to shut up.”

Allen claimed he got “used to” the conditions he faced in prison by the eight-month mark.

“I don’t say this lightly and anybody who has been incarcerated [knows], it’s surprising what the human being will get used to,” the comedian continued. “Eventually after eight months, I got used to it. There were okay times. Saturday we got better food. Eventually, I went from a holding cell arrangement to my own cell.”

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CBS rang in the new year Sunday night with “The Population Bomb” author and biologist Paul Ehrlich continuing to warn Americans about the threat of “mass extinction” on “60 Minutes.”

Journalist Scott Pelley spoke with Ehrlich on the subject of sustainability as Ehrlich repeated his claims that humanity is no longer sustainable as a species due to our increasingly high population. 

“The rate of extinction is extraordinarily high now and getting higher all the time,” Ehrlich said.

He explained, “Humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths. Not clear where they’re gonna come from.”

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In Ehrlich’s 1968 book, he originally predicted widespread famine and the overall end of civilization within the next decade. Although Ehrlich was wrong on several accounts, the program continued to present him as a reputable source.

“The alarm Ehrlich sounded in ’68 warned that overpopulation would trigger widespread famine. He was wrong about that. The green revolution fed the world. But he also wrote in ’68 that heat from greenhouse gases would melt polar ice and humanity would overwhelm the wild. Today, humans have taken over 70% of the planet’s land and 70% of the freshwater,” Pelley remarked.

The segment also included a comment from Ehrlich’s colleague Tony Barnosky claiming that there isn’t a scientist who would state that “we’re not in an extinction crisis.”

“I was alarmed. I am still alarmed. All of my colleagues are alarmed,” Ehrlich said.

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Ehrlich’s comments and “60 Minutes” itself were ridiculed well into Monday for continuing to push the same incorrect predictions after several decades.

Pluribus editor Jeryl Bier tweeted, “even spelled “Ehrlich” wrong…”

“Is this archive footage from the 70s or is Ehrlich still around? Is CBS really this stupid???” American Commitment president Phil Kerpen remarked.

Club for Growth senior analyst Andrew Follett wrote, “’Biologist’ Paul Erlich has been consistently wrong about every prediction he has ever made…And yet media outlets keep having him on…”

Media strategist Gabriella Hoffman commented, “Preservationist environmentalism like this poses a grave threat to people and nature. This thinking undergirds most climate alarmism too. Giving credence to Paul Erlich should instill doubt in one’s credibility.”

“90 years old and still crazy (60 Minutes spelled his last name incorrectly, of course, their usual attention to detail). Ehrlich said humanity was done in the 1970s. We were not done. We will not be done anytime soon, either,” Washington Examiner columnist Nathan Wurtzel tweeted.

“When a 90-year-old man tells you there are too many people, you’re allowed to ask why he’s still sticking around,” Substack writer Jim Treacher joked.

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Ehrlich continued to lament the lack of political action to act on the extinction crisis.

“I know there’s no political will to do any of the things that I’m concerned with, which is exactly why I and the vast majority of my colleagues think we’ve had it; that the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to,” Ehrlich said.

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As the 117th Congress came to a close, Americans witnessed the swamp in action as leaders in both parties ignored the will and best interests of the American people by passing a 4,000-page $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill with little to no debate. 

Sixty-eight U.S. senators – including 18 Republicans – paved the way for the massive and fiscally irresponsible measure. This happened despite the fact that voters handed the GOP a House majority on Election Day in part to rein in spending.

Watching out-of-touch career politicians reach into the cookie jar one more time before House conservatives take control is just the latest reminder of why Congress has a 27% approval rating. However, tone-deaf legislating by the uni-party in Washington gives the incoming Republican majority in the House an opportunity to present a bold contrast to this reckless behavior. 

Here are five big things House Republicans can do to get off on the right foot in 2023 by simply displaying core competency and listening to the American people.

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Be the party of fiscal responsibility 

Hardworking citizens understand that federal spending has been out of control for a long time. In 2001, the last time America had a balanced budget, our national debt was $5 trillion. Now, a short two decades later, we’re at an alarming $31 trillion and climbing. 

To be sure, the COVID-19 economic rescue packages exploded government spending, but President Biden and the Democrats refused to pull back. This pivotal decision caused the current inflation crisis. The next Congress must get back to basics by passing budgets and returning to a transparent appropriations process that respects taxpayer dollars. 

The issue of fiscal restraint is there for the taking for the GOP – it just takes some hard work, leadership and the courage to admit we’re in the midst of an unsustainable debt emergency.

Be the party of reform

It’s not hard to see that government is in dire need of some common sense reforms. Sixty-three percent believe that America is on the wrong track because they see the obvious: Washington is broken and its leaders are making bad decisions.

After the 2020 election, the arrogant triumvirate of Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., abused power, ignored the people and plowed forward as managers of the failed status quo. Now Republicans have a clear opening to pick up the mantle of reform and run with it.

In the first hundred days, the House GOP should make the case for why congressional term limits and balanced budgets are so important and hold votes to get every member of Congress on the record. The American people deserve to know who wants to change Washington and who is content with just managing America’s economic decay.

Be the party of border security 

President Biden’s careless policies opened the border and caused the current crisis that is getting worse by the day. Biden’s allies in the mainstream media refuse to cover the issue honestly and have become accomplices of the human catastrophe we’re all seeing on our phones every day.

Now that Republicans are in power, they can do something about it by sparking a much-needed national debate. Every country in the world prioritizes border security and sovereignty except the United States under total Democrat control – this must change immediately as a matter of national security.

House Republicans must adopt a do it all, do it now approach and not relent until the fentanyl that’s killing our citizens stops pouring in from across the border. Holding weekly field hearings at the border could be an effective way to highlight the most alarming issues, and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should be invited to testify.

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Be the party of accountability 

For the past two years, the American people witnessed an unhinged federal government under one-party control and were reminded of why the Founding Fathers set up our system of checks and balances. 

And just in the nick of time, House Republicans can start asking the Biden administration some long overdue questions. Every American – regardless of party affiliation – should want to know if President Biden is compromised due to his family’s long-term foreign business deals. Similarly, Americans are entitled to a full accounting of the origins of COVID-19 and an exhaustive investigation of our government’s response to the pandemic – the good, the bad, and the ugly. 

Lastly, an inquiry must be launched to review the activities of the January 6 Select Committee. The American people deserve to know if a taxpayer-funded congressional committee was operating as a secret Liz Cheney 2024 presidential campaign in disguise as some J6 committee staff members told The Washington Post recently.

Be the party of the forgotten men and women

During the Obama-Biden administration, there was a palpable feeling across the country that the federal government was prioritizing everything but American citizens who work hard and play by the rules. Whether it was amnesty for illegal immigrants, bad trade pacts with foreign adversaries, nuclear deals with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, or obeying every command of mega donor George Soros, Americans grew sick and tired of out-of-touch left-wing elitists. Unfortunately, the Biden White House has learned nothing from recent history. House Republicans should make clear that they will draw a line in the sand and not allow our country to go down the road of socialism any longer.

January 2023 must be a new beginning for America and the blueprint for success isn’t rocket science. House Republicans can start strong just by listening to the American people.

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At least 18 people were injured when a vehicle slammed into a restaurant in Manhattan, an FDNY spokesperson told Fox 5 NY.

At around 9 p.m. Monday evening, emergency workers rushed to West 204th Street and Broadway, where an SUV was seen idle on the sidewalk.

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Pictures from the scene showed an SUV crashed into the side of Inwood Bar & Grill.

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At least 18 people were taken to an area hospital after the crash, but the fire department said none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.

Police said the SUV ended up crashing into the restaurant after it was either hit by another car and pushed into the building or swerved into the building to avoid a crash, the New York Post reported.

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Damar Hamlin’s terrifying situation on Monday night had a ripple effect across the NFL and into the league’s front office as he collapsed on the field during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Troy Vincent, the NFL’s senior vice president of football operations who played in the league for years, said in a conference call with the media early Tuesday that players, coaches and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell were impacted by what they saw go down on the field.

“I’ve never seen anything like it since I’ve been playing,” Vincent said on the call.

The league offered no medical update on Hamlin. The league said in a statement late Monday that Hamlin was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The league added that some Bills players chose to stay in Cincinnati while others geared up to go back to Buffalo.

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Vincent explained the decision-making process as medical staff worked on Hamlin and officials made the determination on what to do with the rest of the game. It was temporarily suspended in the first quarter.

“It was really about Damar and making sure — look, I’ve never seen anything like it since I’ve been playing, so immediately my player hat went on,” Vincent added, via Pro Football Talk. “How do you resume playing when such a traumatic event occurs in front of you in real time? And that’s the way we were thinking about it, the commissioner and I.”

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Vincent said the notion that players and coaches were given five minutes to warm up to get ready and play again was wrong.

“Frankly, there was no time period for the players to get warmed up,” he added. “Frankly, the only thing that we asked was that [referee] Shawn [Hochuli] communicate with both head coaches to make sure they had the proper time inside the locker room to discuss what they felt like was best. So I’m not sure where that came from. Five-minute warmup never crossed my mind, personally.

“And I was the one that was communicating with the commissioner. We never, frankly, it never crossed our mind to talk about warming up to resume play. That’s ridiculous. That’s insensitive. And that’s not a place that we should ever be in.”

NFL vice president of communications Jeff Miller added there was no timetable on whether the game will resume. Both teams are locked in the playoffs already.

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The scary incident occurred with 5:58 remaining in the first quarter and Cincinnati leading the game, 7-3. The Bengals were on their second drive of the game when quarterback Joe Burrow threw a pass to Tee Higgins. Bills safety Hamlin came over to make a tackle to end the play.

Hamlin got up from the ground and took a few steps backward before he collapsed to the Paycor Stadium turf. Medical personnel came over to Hamlin to attend to him as the ESPN broadcast went to commercial. A stretcher and backboard came out and later the ambulance.

Hamlin was on the ground for a while and multiple reporters indicated he was receiving CPR from the medical staff on the ground before he was put into the ambulance.

The Bills selected Hamlin with the No. 212 overall pick in the sixth round of the 2021 draft. He played in 14 games last season – mostly on special teams – in his rookie season.

Hamlin, 24, was playing his 16th game of the season. He had seen more time on the field as he recorded 91 tackles and 1.5 sacks.

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(CNN) — Egyptian authorities announced the recovery of a heavy sarcophagus lid from the United States on Monday at a ceremony in Cairo.

The sarcophagus, which at 500 kilograms (about 1,100 pounds) is one of the biggest, dates back to the Late Period of Ancient Egypt (747-332 BC), said Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities at Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

Ahmed Issa, Egypt’s minister of tourism and antiquities, said the lid “was looted and smuggled from Egypt to the United States a few years ago.”

The recovery came as a result of the collaboration with US authorities and an investigation spanning over two years, Issa added.

Mostafa Waziri of the Supreme Council of Antiquities takes a look with a magnifier at the ancient wooden sarcophagus during a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry in Cairo on Monday.

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“The sarcophagus is very thick, which pushed looters to steal the sarcophagus’s lid without the base,” Waziri added during the news conference, saying it is known as the “Green Sarcophagus” because of the green face on top of it.

“Our sincere thanks to USA authorities for their cooperation in returning this precious piece,” the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted on Monday.

Over the past 10 years, Egypt has recovered around 29,300 ancient pieces smuggled out of the country, according to Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, who attended the ceremony.

Over 110 of those were recovered in 2022 from the United States, New Zealand, France and other countries, according to the minister of tourism and antiquities.

Top image: The “Green Sarcophagus” is displayed after it was returned from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences. (Khaled Elfiqui EPA-EFE/Shutterstock 13691837h)

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Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals fans joined hands in prayer outside the University of Cincinnati Medical Center as they awaited a further update on the condition of Damar Hamlin on Monday night.

Fans appeared to come over from Paycor Stadium to show support for the young defensive back after he collapsed on the field during the game. The Bills safety appeared to make a tackle on Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins, got up for a moment and took a few steps backward before collapsing.

Hamlin needed CPR and an AED on the field before he was rushed to the hospital.

Fans were outside the hospital to show support.

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Janet and Chuck Kohl were among the fans to come to the hospital after watching the game on TV.

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“Least we could do is come down and pray,” they told Fox News Digital. “Reminds you of the humanity of it all.”

One Buffalo Bills fan at the hospital, who goes by Jason or “Dia Billo”, told Fox News Digital he traveled to the game from San Antonio, Texas and was sitting in the first row.

“I just saw a player collapse,” Jason said. “It didn’t look right. It was a shock everyone trying to figure out who it was, what player it was. After that it was just silence.”

The NFL postponed the game after Hamlin was taken to the hospital.

The Bills selected Hamlin with the No. 212 overall pick in the sixth round of the 2021 draft. He played in 14 games last season – mostly on special teams – in his rookie season.

Hamlin, 24, was playing his 16th game of the season. He had seen more time on the field as he recorded 91 tackles and 1.5 sacks.

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Aretha Franklin, whose booming vocals and powerful personal presence made her one of the great entertainers in global history, became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on this day in history, Jan. 3, 1987. 

“Aretha Franklin was an artist of passion, sophistication and command, whose recordings remain anthems that defined soul music,” the Rock Hall writes in its biography of the performer. 

She “was only 25 when she clinched the title of Lady Soul with her unforgettably proud, sexy, candid and confident 1967 version of Otis Redding’s ‘Respect.’”

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Franklin’s version of “Respect” and other hits such as “Think” captured the unique force of her voice and made her an icon of both female empowerment and the civil rights movement. 

Her incredible range as an artist was expressed in vocally tender and more personally vulnerable tunes such as “Say a Little Prayer” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.”

Franklin, also popularly known as the Queen of Soul, topped the list of the “200 Best Singers of All Time” that Rolling Stone just released on January 1.

“A force of nature. A work of genius. A gift from the heavens. Aretha Franklin’s voice is all that and more, which is why she remains the unchallenged Queen, years after her final bow,” Rolling Stone said of the performer who died in 2018 of pancreatic cancer.

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The publication also said, “Her singing is the most magnificent sound to emerge from America — more universal than Coltrane’s horn, bolder than Hendrix’s guitar.”

Another Rolling Stone — guitarist Keith Richards of the band The Rolling Stones — had the honor of inducting Franklin into the Rock Hall in 1987.

“The dictionary has been used up. There’s no superlatives left,” Richards said at the ceremony.

Franklin entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame after the organization was criticized for introducing male performers only in its debut class of 10 artists of 1986.

The group boasted a broad cross-section of talents from several genres — James Brown, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers, among them. But there were no women. 

The criticism has continued even in more recent times.

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“People have lambasted the hall for this chauvinism for years,” Billboard wrote in 2019. “When Steve Miller was inducted in 2016, he called the Hall a ‘private boys club.’”

Aretha Franklin busted down the door of the club. 

The performer was born in Memphis in 1942 to the Reverend Clarence L. Franklin and Barbara V. Siggers. Her family moved two years later to Detroit, where her father ministered at New Bethel Baptist Church to many of the Motor City’s most celebrated performers. 

“Living in the church parish house on Boston Boulevard and Oakland Avenue, Aretha was exposed at an early age to such music legends as Art Tatum and Nat King Cole, when they visited her father,” the Detroit Historical Society notes.

“When she was 17, Franklin’s father decided that after five years of singing with his traveling gospel show, she was ready to pursue her singing in New York City. In 1967, the year ‘Respect’ hit the charts, Franklin was crowned ‘Queen of Soul’ by Chicago DJ Pervis Spann. From there Aretha would come to have 20 number-one R&B hits and garner more than 20 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994.”

Though she was raised and then also died in Detroit, Franklin never recorded for Motown Records. 

She was instead represented by major labels including Columbia, Atlantic and Arista records.

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Her honors extended far behind the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Franklin performed at three presidential inaugurations. She was inducted into the U.K. Music Hall of Fame in 2005, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012 and the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2020. 

She earned a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2019 honoring “her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades”

President George W. Bush presented Franklin with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2005. 

“Aretha was a woman of achievement, with a deep character and a loving heart,” the president wrote in a letter of condolence to Franklin’s family upon her death in 2018. 

“She made important and lasting contributions to American music, with her Gospel-inspired style and distinctive voice. Her remarkable talent helped shape our nation’s cultural and artistic heritage,” he also wrote.

“I am proud to have met Aretha, and am grateful that her music will continue to bring joy to millions for generations to come.” 

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