NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! With the Olympics over, it is not out of the realm of possibility that some dirty work went on behind the scenes — there were rumors about male ski jumpers potentially inflating their private parts for better hang time. In the Enhanced Games, though, as counterintuitive as it may sound, there is no such thing.The Enhanced Games have long been labeled the “Steroid Olympics” by critics. The event doesn’t have its name by accident, as performance-enhancements will be allowed.However, CEO Max Martin believes that such an event actually champions fairness, honesty and, most importantly, safety.  “I would say the biggest [misconception] is that athletes are putting their health at risk with what they’re doing, and they’re just doing it for the money. It’s actually quite the opposite,” Martin said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.”Saying that enhancements are dangerous, in some circumstances, is true, yes. It can be completely abusive — too high of dosing, bad drug-on-drug interaction, because it’s unsupervised and unmonitored, that can be very dangerous, yes. But that is exactly what we stand against and exactly what we’ll be able to circumvent by being transparent and allowing…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! America is in the midst of kicking the snot out of an enemy that has dominated Middle East headlines for nearly 50 years. Naturally, some in the press are targeting… President Donald Trump with ridiculous new allegations buried in the depths of the Epstein files. Why? Because journalists still believe they can drag Trump through the mud, even in the middle of a war, and win elections for the D team.If this sounds familiar, it sure as heck should. This has been the media strategy since Trump first decided to campaign as a Republican and ruin the left’s plans for global domination. The press has run with every phony claim it could find: the Russian collusion allegations, “mostly peaceful” riots, and claims that the Hunter Biden laptop was 100% fake. Remember this Politico headline from Oct. 19, 2020, just in time to influence the presidential election? “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”Now we know the laptop was real and full of scandalous information about President Biden and his family — which is why the truth was buried under a mountain of lies from Trump haters and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When Benny Sabti was a child growing up in Iran, he remembers receiving an unusual prize at school. “For being an excellent student, I received a Persian translation of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler,” Sabti told Fox News Digital. “They translated Hitler’s book into Persian and distributed it to students.”The experience stayed with him. Looking back, Sabti, now an Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel, says it reflected a broader effort by Iran’s ruling clerical establishment to shape how young Iranians viewed politics, religion and the world around them.Schools, mosques, workplaces and media all became part of an ideological ecosystem designed to reinforce loyalty to the regime. But critics of Iran’s leadership say religion itself was often not the ultimate goal.”Faith for them is their tool,” Banafsheh Zand, an Iranian-American journalist and editor of the Iran So Far Away Substack, told Fox News Digital. “It’s not the end all to be all. It’s a tool that they can hide behind so that they can carry out all their criminalities.” Religion and powerThe Islamic Republic was founded on the doctrine of velayat-e faqih, or “guardianship of the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cleanliness may soon come at a price for Southwest travelers, and passengers are blasting the proposed policy.The Dallas-based airline is considering bringing in cabin cleaners between flights to clean only the premium extra legroom seat areas of the aircraft, according to reports. Coach cabins will reportedly not receive the same treatment.”Southwest Airlines flight attendants tidy every aircraft between every flight today,” a Southwest spokesperson told Fox News Digital Friday when asked about the reports.  “That will continue, and, in addition, we are looking at potentially bringing in additional cleaners when needed, at certain airports to supplement — not replace — our standard cleaning efforts. “We will continue to make sure our aircraft are ready for every customer, regardless of where their seats are on the plane,” the spokesperson added.An airline flight attendants union board member posted a since-deleted video for crew members, saying he was concerned about the experiment the airline was trying in which premium cabins would be cleaned between every flight but not the whole aircraft.PASSENGERS REFUSING TO WEAR HEADPHONES ON FLIGHTS COULD BE KICKED OFF AIRCRAFT: ‘IT’S ABOUT TIME’The individual claimed he got a memo from Southwest Tuesday about the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! San Jose State University President Cynthia Teniente-Matson announced Friday that the school and the California State University (CSU) system are suing the federal government to challenge the U.S. Department of Education’s recent determination that SJSU violated Title IX in its handling of a transgender volleyball player. The department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced at the end of January that an investigation into the university for its handling of a trans athlete and other players concluded that the school violated Title IX and gave the school an ultimatum to resolve the violation by agreeing to a series of conditions. But now, instead of complying like the University of Pennsylvania did last summer related to its handling of trans swimmer Lia Thomas, SJSU and CSU are suing to prevent potential federal funding cuts.  “Because we believe OCR’s findings aren’t grounded in the facts or the law, SJSU and the CSU filed a lawsuit today against the federal government to challenge those findings and prevent the federal government from taking punitive action against the university, including the potential withholding of critical federal funding,” Teniente-Matson said Friday.”This is not a step we take lightly. However, we have…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Vermont Democratic Sen. Peter Welch praised Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Friday, arguing he will be confirmed as the new DHS secretary because he’s a “respected” lawmaker.President Donald Trump recently nominated Mullin to take the top post at the Department of Homeland Security in a high-profile personnel shakeup. CNN host Kasie Hunt asked Welch whether he would consider supporting Mullin’s appointment to the role.”Yeah, he‘ll be confirmed. The question is whether there‘ll be bipartisan support for him,” Welch replied. “Markwayne Mullin is competent, and he‘s honest. So, those are two good things that Kristi Noem did not have. “This is going to give us an opportunity to have a real discussion about what‘s going on with the Department of Homeland Security. No. 1, what we saw with that rampage in Minneapolis cannot ever happen again. You had Kristi Noem, who essentially was calling two people who got killed domestic terrorists. Are we going to continue to have raids on churches, on farms, on work sites? Are we going to be threatened with election interference?”We‘re going to have an opportunity to speak with Sen. Mullin and go to the heart of some of these questions that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Aaron Judge wasted no time clubbing his first World Baseball Classic homer. Judge, the Team USA captain, hit a first-inning two-run home run, while Brice Turang had three hits and four RBI to lead Team USA to a whopping win over Brazil in its World Baseball Classic opener Friday night. There was one out and one on in the first when Judge, the first player to commit to the team last April, connected off Bo Takahashi at Houston’s Daikin Park.Lucas Ramirez homered twice for Brazil with his father, 12-time All-Star Manny Ramirez, in attendance. He cut the lead to 2-1 with his leadoff homer, and his solo shot in the eighth got Brazil within 8-5. At 20 years, 49 days, he became the youngest player in WBC history with a multi-homer game.Byron Buxton was hit by a pitch in the fifth to push the Americans’ lead to 4-1. Turang cleared the bases with his double to left field two pitches later to make it 7-1. Brazil is in the WBC for just the second time and first since 2013. The team fell to 0-4 all-time in the tournament after losing to Japan, Cuba…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. is “doing very well” in Iran, nearly a week after the military coordinated with Israel on airstrikes in Tehran that left its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dead.”Somebody said, ‘How would you score it from zero to 10?’ I said, ‘I’d give it a 12 to a 15.’ Their army is gone. Their navy is gone. Their communications are gone. Their leaders are gone,” Trump said. “Two sets of their leaders.”The president made the remarks after Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked at the end of a White House college sports roundtable what was motivating Trump to hold the roundtable “because there is a lot of other stuff going on in the world.””That’s right,” Trump agreed, adding that Iran’s air force has been “wiped out entirely. Think of it. They have 32 ships. All 32 are at the bottom of the ocean. Other than that, they’re doing very well.” “Our military is doing phenomenally,” he said. “The situation with a very bad and very sick group of leaders who were killing a lot of people. A lot of our people were…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chaos erupted in Washington Square Park in Manhattan as a vigil mourning the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei descended into violence Friday, with video capturing a man being pummeled to the ground while attempting to tear down a poster of the late Iranian leader.Video showed a man attempting to pull down a poster of the dictator — killed last week in an Israeli airstrike — when a man wearing a SpongeBob sweatshirt punched him in the face, sending him to the ground.Others began fighting, prompting New York City Police Department (NYPD) intervention.As the brawl unfolded, the crowd could be heard shouting profanity. Multiple people were captured on video being detained by police.The vigil featured a makeshift memorial table covered with Palestinian keffiyeh scarves, candles and photos of Khamenei, with an observer describing the scene as the “People’s Republic of New York.”Meanwhile, nearby counter-protesters waved Iranian, American and Israeli flags while chanting “U.S.A.” In a flyer announcing the event, organizers called Khamenei’s death an “assassination by U.S. government forces.”Saturday’s downtown Tehran strike that killed Khamenei and other regime leaders was carried out by the Israeli military.U.S. officials have denied any involvement.”Throughout his…