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NFL quarterback Colin Kaepeick’s conversion to social activism coincided with his romancing of a hip hop DJ of Egyptian descent who has frequently spoken about perceived racial injustices and “Islamaphobia” in the U.S. Related Image Expand / Contract Nessa Diab, left, and Colin Kaepeick. (Twitter/AP) Kaepeick, 28, who has come under fire for his decision to remain seated during the playing of The Star-Spangled Baer before San Francisco 49ers games, reportedly began dating Hot 97 DJ and MTV host Nessa Diab in July 2015. A few months later, his social media posts began to reflect the Black Lives Matter and Muslim activism of Diab. "History!" Kaepeick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15, wh...

Michael Mancini, left, celebrates with Jude Abbadessa during the U.S. championship game of the Little League World Series. (AP) New York’s Maine-Endwell beat South Korea, 2-1, to win the Little League World Series on Sunday, becoming the first US team to win the title since 2011 and the first team from New York to win since 1964. Ryan Harlost allowed one run during a complete game effort, striking out eight. Harlost also scored the decisive run on a passed ball during a two-run fourth iing that provided Maine-Endwell with all the offensive support it would need. Coer Rush hit an RBI single to give New York its first run in the iing. South Korea struck back with a solo home run from Yoomi...

Trump campaign manager Kellyae Conway said Sunday that the Republican presidential nominee now plans to go directly into African-American communities to deliver his full-forced appeal to black voters, while also trying to explain Trump’s changing policies on illegal immigration. “These events are already being plaed,” the newly-promoted Conway told “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re fighting for every single vote. He’s going to take [his message] to where people vote.” To be sure, Trump over roughly the past two weeks has increased his efforts to appeal to black voters, arguing that the policies of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and those of other Democratic lawmakers have failed residents ...

Recently released emails appear to further show a direct coection between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, including efforts to get foundation donors seats to an official lunch with Chinese President Hu Jintao. In emails dated December 2010, Clinton State Department aide Huma Abedin and then-top Clinton Foundation official Doug Band discussed potential guests for the lunch with the Chinese president -- including three executives from groups that had donated millions to the foundation, according to an ABC News report late Saturday. Among the possible guests discussed were Bob McCa, then-president of wealth management at UBS; ...

The group dubbed "Veto Gunmageddon" made its presence known at a gun show in Costa Mesa, Calif., and at others around the state. Barry Bahrami went from incredulous to angry last month when Califoia Gov. Jerry Brown signed a batch of firearms control laws known collectively as “Gunmageddon.” Then, the San Diego-based CEO became determined to fight back against the laws, which take aim at so-called assault weapons, enforce ammunition background checks, mostly take effect Jan. 1and outlaw the possession of high-capacity magazines and ban the "bullet buttons" that already require a tool to release the magazine, instead advocating that the rifle is partially disassembled, and that any rifle ...

A green sea turtle is seen off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. (Reuters) President Obama, with the stroke of a pen, created the world's largest ocean reserve on Friday off Hawaii, days after designating a massive federal monument in Maine –moves that have angered local lawmakers who accuse the president of disregarding the impact on residents. Obama used a presidential proclamation to expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii by over 400,000 square miles. The preserve now stretches 582,578 square miles, the world's largest marine protected area. "The expansion provides critical protections for more than 7,000 marine species ... [and] will allow scientists t...

A green sea turtle is seen off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. (Reuters) President Obama, with the stroke of a pen, created the world's largest ocean reserve on Friday off Hawaii, days after designating a massive federal monument in Maine –moves that have angered local lawmakers who accuse the president of disregarding the impact on residents. Obama used a presidential proclamation to expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii by over 400,000 square miles. The preserve now stretches 582,578 square miles, the world's largest marine protected area. "The expansion provides critical protections for more than 7,000 marine species ... [and] will allow scientists t...

A green sea turtle is seen off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. (Reuters) President Obama, with the stroke of a pen, created the world's largest ocean reserve on Friday off Hawaii, days after designating a massive federal monument in Maine –moves that have angered local lawmakers who accuse the president of disregarding the impact on residents. Obama used a presidential proclamation to expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii by over 400,000 square miles. The preserve now stretches 582,578 square miles, the world's largest marine protected area. "The expansion provides critical protections for more than 7,000 marine species ... [and] will allow scientists t...

DEVELOPING:Explosions and gunfire rang out atAmerican University of Afghanistan in Kabul Wednesday in what a police commander described as "a complex attack." Photo attributed to the attack on American University of Afghanistan in Kabul pic.twitter.com/EVunzOpyd3 — KAZEMI, Mustafa (@CombatJouo) August 24, 2016 Reporters in the area said teachers and hundreds of students took cover in classrooms and safe rooms as police and special forces surrounded the campus on the weste outskirts of Afghanistan's capital city. A car bomb had exploded outside a school for the blind next door before at least one attacker fired at the university campus from that school building, a police officer at t...

Debbie Dorian (Fresno Police Department ) Two retired Califoia detectives are retuing to duty to solve a case that has haunted them for two decades: the savage rape and murder of a 22-year-old college student days before her graduation. Debbie Dorian, an econonics students at Fresno State University, was found gagged, raped and murdered inside her north Fresno apartment in 1996. DNA collected at the scene was later linked to similar crimes in the Visalia area -- which occurred between July 1999 and August 2002 -- but no arrests have ever been made in Dorian's killing. Now, 20 years later,Bob Schiotis and Vince Zavala, the two detectives who worked the case from the begiing, will review o...

The editor of the major Louisiana newspaper that urged President Obama to cut short his summer vacation to see the devastating flooding that has damaged roughly 40,000 home said Friday he’s pleased that the president will visit the state. “Our feeling is that this is a crisis that calls for presidential leadership, and we're glad to see the president is coming,” Advocate Editor Peter Kovacs told Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “The magnitude of the devastation is something you really have to come here to see.” An editorial in the newspaper, the largest in Louisiana, on Thursday asked that Obama visit the state before his vacation ends Sunday in Martha’s Vineyard, M...

A federal judge Friday ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from a conservative watchdog group about her use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued the order as part of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. The group had sought to question Clinton under oath and in person, but the judge ruled she would only have to answer questions in writing. FBI Director James Comey aounced last month that the agency would not seek criminal charges against Clinton after an investigation into her email use, although he concluded she been "extremely careless" in her handling of sensitive material. Judicial Watch's Direct...

As Father Josiah Trenham prepared to read the Gospel, several parishioners discreetly scooped up their babies, retreated up the aisles of St. Andrew Orthodox Church and out into the spring air, so as not to allow the crying of little ones to disturb the divine liturgy. The time-honored tradition was shattered when a car passed by the Riverside, Calif., church, slowing down as the front passenger leaned out of his window and bellowed menacingly through a bullho, according to witnesses. “Allahu Akbar!” the unidentified man repeated several times as the uerved parents drew their infants close and exchanged worried glances. Related Image Expand / Contract Members of the church were ga...

Paul Nehlen -- the Donald Trump-admiring Wisconsin businessman who tried to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan -- says he's not done with politics, or trying to oust Ryan. “We are absolutely going to make sure Paul Ryan is being held accountable to the people,” Nehlen told FoxNews.com after his loss Tuesday to Ryan in the Wisconsin GOP primary. “You’ll be hearing from me shortly.” Nehlen lost by roughly 70 percentage points in his bid to deny Ryan a 10th term in the state’s 1st Congressional District but not before attracting national attention to the race. Outside money and the national media, looking for an upset like GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s 2014 loss in Virginia, becam...

A new batch of emails released Tuesday is raising fresh questions about whether Clinton Foundation donors got preferential treatment from the State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure at the top. Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch released 44 new email exchanges which it says were not in the original 30,000 handed over to the State Department, despite the Democratic presidential nominee's claims she tued over all work-related emails amid the now-closed probe into her private server use. The documents, produced as a result of the group's FOIA lawsuit, appear to challenge Clinton's insistence that there is "no coection" between her family foundation and her work at the departmen...

Satellite photos released on Monday appear to show China making progress on construction of at least two dozen hardened concrete hangars suitable for housing Chinese air force planes, including strategic bombers and inflight refuelers, on disputed islands in the South China Sea. The photos were collected and studied...

The 10-year-old son of a Kansas state lawmaker died in an "apparent accident" Sunday on a water slide billed as the world's largest at a water park in Kansas City, Kansas, according to officials and the boy's family. Kansas City Chief of Police Terry Ziegler said on Twitter that his officers were working "an apparent accident death investigation." Authorities did not immediately identify the child who died at Schlitterbahn Waterpark, but state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife released a statement saying it was their son Caleb Thomas Schwab. "Since the day he was bo, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with," said the statement, which asked for privacy a...

The 10-year-old son of a Kansas state lawmaker died Sunday on a water slide billed as the world's largest at a water park in Kansas City, Kansas, according to officials and the boy's family. Authorities did not immediately identify the child who died at Schlitterbahn Waterpark, but state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife released a statement saying it was their son Caleb Thomas Schwab. "Since the day he was bo, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with," said the statement, which asked for privacy as the family grieves. Schlitterbahn spokeswoman Winter Prosapio said the child died on one of the park's main attractions, Verruckt, a 168-foot-tall water slid...

LONDON – Delta Air Lines has grounded flights scheduled to leave Monday after experiencing unspecified issues with its computer systems globally. Confirmation of Monday's troubles came in an official account that responds to customers via Twitter. The airline declined to immediately comment by phone and it was unclear whether all its flights were affected. "Delta has experienced a computer outage that has affected flights scheduled for this moing," the Atlanta-based company tweeted to customers affected by delays. "Flights awaiting departure are currently delayed. Flights enroute are operating normally. We appreciate your patience." The company said its IT systems were down "everywhere...

Aug. 7, 2016: A 12-year-old boy was killed in an accident on a ride at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas. (Fox 4) The 10-year-old son of a Kansas state lawmaker died Sunday on a water slide billed as the world's largest at a water park in Kansas City, Kansas,according to officials and the boy's family. Authorities did not immediately identify the boy who died at Schlitterbahn Waterpark, in Kansas City, Kansas, but Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife released a statement saying it was their son Caleb Thomas Schwab. "Since the day he was bo, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with," said the statement, which asked for privacy as...