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Pro-life crisis pregnancy centers have been labeled as villainous, but their work is anything but. Fox News Digital spoke with two centers in DC and Virginia to learn about their work.

Republican Rep.-elect George Santos is facing criticism over suspicious FEC campaign filings that his team says were the result of a "database error."

Jenni Reid / CNBC : A look at ABBA Voyage, the hit London concert performed by 3D digital avatars of the band created from motion capture, as its producers plan a global expansion   —  - ABBA Voyage, which sees digital avatars of the four-piece Swedish band ‘perform’ a 90-minute concert created from motion capture …

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak : Leaked screener copies of big movies tend to surface at year's end, but didn't in 2022, probably due to more security, streaming, and shorter release windows   —  Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voters for review.

Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Katie Couric were among the many celebrities who honored Barbara Walkers after the legendary news anchor died on Friday at the age of 93. The trailblazing TV journalist was the first woman to co-host a morning show during her tenure at NBC News and later became the first female anchor of an evening news program after joining ABC News in 1976.  Renowned for her interviewing skills, Walters hosted the primetime news program "20/20" and created the women's talk show "The View." After the news of her death broke on Friday night, fellow TV icon Winfrey paid tribute to Walters on Twitter, whom she credited with paving the way for herself and other female journalists. "Without Barbara Walters there wouldn’t have been me—nor any other woman you see on evening, morning, and daily news," the former talk show host wrote on Instagram, sharing a throwback photo of herself with Walters. BARBARA WALTERS, JOURNALISTIC PIONEE...

Lily Hay Newman / Wired : A look at 2022's worst breaches, leaks, ransomware attacks, state-sponsored hacking campaigns, and digital takeovers, including at least two Twilio breaches   —  The year was marked by sinister new twists on cybersecurity classics, including phishing, breaches, and ransomware attacks.

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : Meta buys Netherlands-based Luxexcel, which uses 3D printing to make prescription lenses for smart glasses; Meta reportedly worked with Luxexcel on Project Aria   —  As Meta faces antitrust scrutiny over its acquisition of VR fitness developers Within, the tech giant is making another acquisition.

Wall Street Journal : Source: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to plead not guilty to eight counts of fraud at a hearing next week   —  Created with sketchtool.  —  FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to plead not guilty to eight counts of fraud at a hearing next week, according to a person familiar with the matter.

"Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice and her husband Luis "Louie" Ruelas are not shy about sharing their passion for each other.  Back in August, Giudice revealed she and her man were having sex five times a day during their honeymoon, and it seems that sexual spark is still very much alive, four months later. "That was on our honeymoon. You figure morning, afternoon, nighttime and in between," Giudice told People magazine. "But I mean, listen, my point is, if you don't do that, then that's not normal. That means you love the person you're with and want to be with ... I mean if not, then why be with that person?" "It's a normal thing when you love someone," the 50-year-old reiterated. TERESA GIUDICE REVEALS LUIS RUELAS REACHED OUT TO HER EX HUSBAND JOE, MADE KIDS ‘HAPPY’ AMID SPLIT Her husband agreed, commenting that during their European honeymoon there was little need for all the items they had pac...

Democratic Rep. GK Butterfield has resigned early from public office in North Carolina, several days before his scheduled end of term on Tuesday.

Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance   —  On Oct. 25, Bloomberg Businessweek published “The Crypto Story,” a cover-to-cover issue of the magazine that I wrote about what crypto is and what it all might mean.

Republicans who won Biden-supporting districts in 2022 vowed to support House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy for Speaker, pledging to vote as many times as needed to get him in charge.

Journalist Leighton Woodhouse believes social media has become one big social status competition that has gone off the rails and bled its way into the real world.

Rep.-elect George Santos will enter Congress with an ignominious history, but the Republican Party's incoming House majority already has issues and a rocky path ahead.

Courtney Love is reflecting on the moment she lost her role in the 1999 movie " Fight Club " because she claims she had gone "nuclear" on lead actor Brad Pitt. On the "WTF" podcast with Marc Maron, Love explained that she had secured a role in David Fincher's film as Marla when things took a turn.  "We'd done all these table reads, I'd gone and worked privately with David, and I get this phone call, and it's from Gus Van Sant . . . and Gus is having lunch with Brad Pitt," she says of the famed movie director. Love alleges that it was Pitt's interest in portraying her late husband Kurt Cobain in another film project that set her off. COURTNEY LOVE SAYS JOHNNY DEPP SAVED HER LIFE AFTER OVERDOSING IN 1995 OUTSIDE THE VIPER ROOM While on the phone, she says Van Sant told her, "Brad really wants to do a movie about music," to which she assumed he might be referencing Chet Baker. "Then they both get on the phon...

Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis : A look at India's plan to build a semiconductor supply chain, including via a ~$10B incentive program, issues with the Foxconn-Vedanta joint venture, and more   —  Overview of incentive program, 3 major proposals feasibility  —  With the politicization of the semiconductor industry reaching …

Democrats are calling on GOP Rep.-elect George Santos to resign for lying about his resume even though they previously endorsed President Biden despite his long history of fabrications.

New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a noted critic of US immigration policy, has not visited the southern border since President Biden took office.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch : India says it will prioritize the development of global regulation of unbacked crypto assets, including their possible prohibition, under its G20 presidency   —  India said on Thursday that under its G20 presidency, it will prioritize the development of a framework for global regulation …

Kate Hudson is part of Hollywood's elite, acting since the late 1990s and currently starring in the smash Netflix hit "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."  She was also raised by two of Hollywood's biggest stars: mother Goldie Hawn and stepfather Kurt Russell, whom she affectionately calls "Pa." Some might call her a "nepo-baby," but Hudson doesn't really care how you categorize her. "The nepotism thing, I mean... I don’t really care. I look at my kids and we’re a storytelling family. It’s definitely in our blood. People can call it whatever they want, but it’s not going to change it," she told The Independent regarding the widely circulated "nepo-baby" term used to describe the children of successful actors and actresses. The conversation about nepotism in Hollywood has heated up since New York Magazine published its cover story last month on the industry's biggest nepotism babies, which included Dakota Johnson, Mau...

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it is implementing pre-departure testing and requirement to show a negative COVID test to travelers from China.

Nearly half of Americans think the United States' influence on the rest of the world has declined in recent years, according to a new Pew Research Center poll.

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk : An anonymous Twitter user leaks an alleged list of API keys belonging to crypto trading service 3Commas' users, after 3Commas said its users had been “phished”   —  The leak comes after 3Commas repeatedly told users that they had been “phished” after widespread hacks.

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters : Court records: SBF is expected to enter a plea before a new judge on January 3, after the original judge recused herself as her husband's law firm advised FTX   —  Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to enter a plea next week to criminal charges he defrauded investors and looted billions of dollars …

Chelsea Handler opened up in a recent interview about why her relationship with fellow standup comedian and actor Jo Koy ended over the summer.  Before committing to a relationship, the two comedians had been longtime friends for years , but their romance only lasted for less than a year before the two called it quits. Handler reflected on the relationship during an episode of "Now What?" published this week with host Brooke Shields.   "I really believed that this was my guy. I thought, 'Oh my God, I won.' Like I got everything. I have my career, I have respect, I have my family, I have so many friends, I have all of these things. And then I thought this was gonna be the person I spend my life with," Handler said, noting that she even considered the possibility of marriage. "I'm not that hard up to get married, but I was open to the idea of it, and we definitely discussed it at length because it was important to him," she added. "And...

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : CCS Insight: global shipments of VR and AR devices fell 12%+ YoY to 9.6M in 2022; NPD Group: US sales of VR headsets fell 2% YoY to $1.1B as of early December   —  - Sales of virtual reality headsets in the U.S. declined 2% year over year to $1.1 billion as of early December, according to NPD Group.

Gisele Bündchen gave fans a peek into her first Christmas holiday following her divorce from Tom Brady. Bündchen, 42, shared a handful of photos to Instagram from time spent in Brazil. The supermodel tagged the location of the post as Rio Grande do Sul. "Always so good to be back home," she captioned the photo carousel. In the photos, Bündchen can be seen enjoying a bike ride, riding horses, being outside and singing karaoke in front of a Christmas tree. TOM BRADY'S EX-WIFE GISELE BÜNDCHEN IS ‘RECHARGING’ IN BRAZIL AFTER THEIR DIVORCE The end of the year has seen many firsts for Bündchen. The supermodel attended her first red carpet event sans her ex-husband on Dec. 12. Brady and Bündchen officially announced their divorce in separate Instagram posts at the end of October.  The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback and the supermodel had been fielding divorce rumors since the start of the 2022 NFL season. "In recent days my wife and I finalized our divorce from...

John Aniston literally sailed off into the sunset during his final episode of " Days of Our Lives " on Monday.  The Christmas-themed episode on Peacock concluded with a montage of memorable flashbacks of Aniston's time on the show, before showing his character Viktor Kiriakis on his yacht. The screen then read, "In loving memory of John Anthony Aniston 1933-2022. Good night, Sweet Prince; and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest…" Aniston was on "Days of Our Lives" on and off for 37 years. The legacy soap actor passed away on Nov. 11 at the age of 89. His daughter, actress Jennifer Aniston , paid tribute to her father after his death, writing on Instagram in part, "You were one of the most beautiful humans I ever knew. I am so grateful that you went soaring into the heavens in peace - and without pain." JOHN ANISTON, JENNIFER ANISTON'S FATHER, DEAD AT 89 In addition to his decades long tenure on the soap opera, Aniston starred ...

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters : Filing: US prosecutors charge a man with fraud and manipulation, accusing him of trying to steal ~$110M in October by rigging the DeFi platform Mango Markets   —  U.S. prosecutors have filed criminal charges of commodities fraud and manipulation against a man accused of trying to steal …

House Democrats are calling for incoming GOP Congressman George Santos to resign or be kicked out of Congress after he admitted to lying about his work experience and education.

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post : Social media shadowbanning is real and tech firms should be more transparent about it; survey: ~1 in 10 US social media users think they've been shadowbanned   —  Social media companies all decide which users' posts to amplify — and reduce.  Here's how we get them to come clean about it.

Welcome to the Fox News Entertainment Newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your email, subscribe here. BEACH BODY - Jerry Seinfeld's beach body is no laughing matter while on vacation in St. Barts. Continue reading here… MODEL SECRETS - Paulina Porizkova poses topless on the beach, shares her superpower: ‘You make other women feel beautiful.’ Continue reading here… CHRISTMAS WITH A ‘K’ - The Kardashians' annual Christmas Eve party is extravagant and full of celebrities. Continue reading here… ‘I DIDN’T KNOW' - ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ star Donna Reed quietly kept WWII letters from soldiers for decades, daughter says. Continue reading here… LOOK WHO'S HERE - Prince Andrew surprisingly attends Christmas service with King Charles III, Prince William. Continue reading here… ‘SEPARATE WAYS (WORLD'S APART)’ - Journey's Jonathan Cain responds to cease-and-desist order, says band mate should ‘look in the mirror.’ Continue reading here… ‘BOW OUT QUIETLY...

Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg : Source: the DOJ launches a criminal investigation into $370M+ in assets stolen from FTX as the exchange collapsed, separate from its fraud case against SBF   —  Federal prosecutors are investigating an alleged cybercrime that drained more than $370 million out of FTX just hours …

Christmas 2022 may be over, but some stars in Hollywood are sharing a glimpse into their holiday weekend festivities. Reese Witherspoon wished her 28 million Instagram followers a Merry Christmas and Victoria Beckham revealed that she got exactly what she wanted this year. Here's a look at how the stars celebrated. The "Legally Blonde" star took to Instagram on Sunday to share a picture of her children, wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas. REESE WITHERSPOON'S DAUGHTER PENS TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO MOM: 'SHE INSPIRES ME' "Wishing all of YOU a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our family to yours," she captioned her post. Witherspoon shares Ava, 23 and Deacon, 19 with actor Ryan Phillippe. Her youngest son, Tennessee, 10, she shares with Jim Toth. Reese married Jim in 2011. She shared another Instagram post during her family's Christmas dinner celebration. "Christmas dinner with the fam!" she captioned the festive post. ...

Iris Deng / South China Morning Post : Chinese government data for January to October 2022 shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY from 275.3M to 214.5M units   —  Smartphone shipments in China slumped 22 per cent in the first 10 months of the year, according to latest government data, as the industry's largest market …

Timmy Shen / Forkast : IntoTheBlock: the Bitcoin network hashrate dropped by 38.8%+ on December 24 from its December 21 peak as many US-based miners paused operations due to blizzards   —  The Bitcoin network hashrate has dropped by more than 38.8% from its peak on Wednesday, as many U.S.-based miners have been forced …

Texas governor Greg Abbott is facing criticism from Democrats for the late-night drop off of over 100 migrants in freezing temperatures in Washington, D.C., on Christmas Eve.

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : Research into the global GPU market shows 18 companies develop GPUs globally; eight out of 11 PC and data center GPU designers are based in China   —  There are 18 GPU developers worldwide today.  —  The number of GPU startups in China is extraordinary as the country tries to gain AI prowess …

Cher has sparked engagement rumors on social media after she tweeted a picture with her boyfriend, Alexander "AE" Edwards, and a large diamond ring. "THERE R NO WORDS, ALEXANDER,A.E," Cher, 76, captioned the post. In the post, Edwards, 36, was holding a pear-shaped ring. Shortly after sharing the image, Cher shared the same picture of the ring, seemingly clarifying the engagement rumors. "I posted this cause his nails are so cool," the music icon wrote. CHER, 76, SAYS SHE AND BOYFRIEND ALEXANDER EDWARDS, 36, ARE ‘PERFECTLY MATCHED’ Fans quickly left comments, questioning if Edwards proposed or if the ring was simply a Christmas gift. "Did he propose or what..??" one user wrote. Another added, "Wait wait wait hold uppp!! Is that a diamond ring or a ring with diamonds???? What does it meeeaaaan?????????" Cher, 76, and Edwards, 36, debuted their relationship in November. Since then, the two have been spotted holding hands on multi...

Beto O'Rourke is among this year's biggest political losers following a third unsuccessful and highly publicized campaign for higher office. Stacey Abrams also made the cut.

Financial Times : Internal memo: Xiaomi President Wang Xiang and co-founders Hong Feng and Wang Chuan step down, as the company battles slowing sales amid COVID-19 disruptions   —  China's leading handset maker has suffered Covid disruption at home and regulatory woes abroad  —  Three top executives …

Thomas Claburn / The Register : Study: programmers who use AI tools like GitHub Copilot produce less secure code than those who don't while making them believe their code has no safety issues   —  At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound

Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired : A look at Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing tool for hackers of all levels to intercept and replay signals from IoT sensors and more   —  Don't be fooled by its fun name and Tamagotchi-like interface—this do-everything gadget is trouble waiting to happen and a whole lot more.

They spell Christmas with a "K!"  The Kardashians swung and did not miss on their annual Christmas Eve party, full of lavish decor and famous friends. Held at eldest sister Kourtney Kardashian Barker's home, the party was once again put on by celebrity event planner Mindy Weiss and ornately adorned with flowers by famous floral designer Jeff Leatham. Kim Kardashian sparkled in a silver glittery dress that contrasted nicely against her newly-dyed dark hair.  KIM KARDASHIAN, KANYE WEST TO VICTORIA BECKHAM, NICOLA PELTZ: A LOOK AT HOLLYWOOD'S FAMILY RIFTS AND RUMORS Family friend and Grammy-nominated singer Sia was also seen at the party, as she has been in years past. This year, she put on a special performance of her song "Snowman" alongside Kim's daughter, North. A TikTok captured the two singing inside a life-sized present. In photos shared to her Instagram story, Kim posed alongside two longtime friends, Jennifer Meyer and Sarah Howard. How...