One of America's most iconic designers is helping celebrate the nation's 250th birthday through a new partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.View the full article

Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic said he will forgo playing with the Slovenian national team to focus on his daughters as he’s been locked in a custody battle with his former fiancé Anamaria Goltes. Doncic said in a post on Instagram early Tuesday that he will take the summer to spend time with them. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! "I love my daughters more than anything, and they will always come first in my life," a message posted to his Instagram Stories read. "As I continue working toward joint custody of my daughters, I have been forced to make a difficult decision between traveling and playing for the Slovenian national team and being with my daughters this summer. Unfortunately, it has been made extremely difficult for me to see them over the past eight months. "I have given everything to representing Slovenia and I am disappointed that I will not be able to play for my country this summer. But right now, my daughters and my responsibilities as a father are my priority." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Doncic said earlier this year he ended his engagement with Goltes because he was unable to have his daughters with him for the season in the U.S. They became engaged in July 2023, and their daughters were born in November 2023 and December 2025, when Doncic left the Lakers to travel to Slovenia when his younger daughter was born. Goltes filed a petition for child support and attorneys’ fees in California, TMZ Sports previously reported. "I love my daughters more than anything, and I’ve been doing everything I can for them to be with me in the U.S. during the season, but that hasn’t been possible, so I recently made the tough decision to end my engagement," he told ESPN in March. "Everything I do is for my daughters’ happiness, and I will always fight to be with them and give them the best life I can." Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report. View the full article

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Senate Republicans are taking stock of their relationship with the House GOP as they gear up for another key test of their unity across chambers. Dysfunction, miscommunications and wasted time have dotted the last few months of Republicans' control of Congress, particularly during the longest government shutdown on record. Republicans in the upper chamber aren’t singling out others in the House who should bear responsibility, but they do agree that something needs to change as they plow forward to fund immigration operations for the next few years. TRUMP SAYS HE 'CAN'T STAND' SOME REPUBLICANS FOR REFUSING ONE KEY MOVE FOR HIS AGENDA "I think we all need to get in a room and figure out what's our plan," Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., told Fox News Digital. "And how are we going to get things done for the American people? That has to be the goal, and right now something needs to change." Republicans are readying to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years through budget reconciliation, which will require near-perfect unanimity in both chambers to work, given that Democrats are getting cut out of the process. But divisions between the chambers were laid bare during the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, when House Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., refused to consider the Senate’s compromise plan to reopen the agency. That decision prolonged the shutdown for nearly a month, and spurred the necessity to turn to reconciliation. It also fostered frustration between the Senate and House at a time when leadership and President Donald Trump are calling for unity. JOHNSON SCRAMBLES AS TRUMP, SENATE REPUBLICANS PRESSURE HOUSE TO FUND DHS Both Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., have thin majorities to work with — Johnson more so than Thune. That reality isn’t something that’s lost on Senate Republicans, particularly on legislation that Democrats won’t support, and is so far preventing the knives from coming out in the upper chamber. "I mean, I think we understand the challenges that Mike has over there. He's not king. He's the speaker of the House," Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital.
"And their margin of error is less than ours, proportionately. So I can't imagine. I think he's doing the very best he can." Some Republicans argue that it’s more of a communication issue between the chambers than unfettered dysfunction in the House. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital he didn’t buy the "whole House’s dysfunction" argument, and instead said it was incumbent on senators to make more of an effort. "I think we have to take a little bit of ownership ourselves here in the Senate, and that's certainly not [just] the leadership, but all of us," Moreno said. "Because when we're working on bills, we should have total, complete synchronicity with the House." 'SHIRTS AND SKINS': HOW ONE REPUBLICAN BRIDGED THE GAP TO PASS TRUMP'S 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL' House Republicans, for example, contended that they were blindsided by the Senate deal to reopen the bulk of DHS earlier this year that carved out funding for ICE and Border Patrol. "We've got to be able to make sure we're communicating better and working through the issues," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital. "The House isn’t our enemy. We gotta be able to resolve all the issues on a piece of legislation. We have differences of opinion. OK, let's work them out." The issue of communication is one that, since Republicans took control of both chambers last year, was largely handled by DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the former GOP senator who acted as a de facto liaison between both chambers for major legislative pushes. When asked if Republicans needed a Mullin 2.0, Lankford said that the main points of communication fell on Thune and Johnson. And Thune has not been quick to criticize Johnson or House Republicans publicly and noted that the nature of both chambers and how they operate would lead to issues along the way. "We obviously have a 60-vote threshold," Thune said.
"We need Democrats. You know, he doesn't need Democrats, but he needs every Republican, and that's a real challenge on a good day. And, you know, sometimes there aren’t a lot of good days around here." Conversely, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., argued that despite the issues, if Democrats were in control of the chambers, Americans would have been hit with the largest tax hike in decades had Republicans not mustered a unified front to pass Trump’s "big, beautiful bill." "All of that would have been in the opposite if the Democrats had been in the majority and been able to do what they wanted to do to raise taxes," Barrasso told Fox News Digital. View the full article

Queen Camilla didn’t always think Kate Middleton was suited to be with a future king. The claim comes from author Christopher Andersen, whose new book "Kate!" explores the Princess of Wales’ rise from commoner to the heir’s wife and mother of the next in line. Andersen’s account is based on his reporting and sources and has not been independently confirmed by the palace. "In the beginning, Camilla was one of Kate’s fiercest critics," Andersen told Fox News Digital. "She did not think she was up to snuff, as it were. She was below the salt. She had no aristocratic blood." QUEEN CAMILLA AND KATE MIDDLETON’S ROYAL BATTLE OVER BLUE SPARKED PALACE TENSION: EXPERT "Camilla always saw herself as the mistress of a king, not a queen," Andersen claimed. "And she picked [Princess] Diana to be [King] Charles’ bride. So, she was very cognizant of the fact that a future king of England should have, she believed, a marriage to a royal personage, or at least a British aristocrat." "Kate was none of those things, but she quickly became popular," Andersen added. He noted that Camilla’s early skepticism stemmed from concerns about royal tradition and social class. WATCH: KATE MIDDLETON WON OVER QUEEN CAMILLA AFTER EARLY TENSIONS: AUTHOR Fox News Digital reached out to Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace for comment. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson previously told Fox News Digital, "We don’t comment on such books." Kate grew up in a quiet village near Berkshire, England, the daughter of a commercial airline pilot and a former flight attendant who later built a successful party supplies business. She went on to study art history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she met Prince William in 2001. After years of an on-and-off relationship, the couple got engaged in 2010 and married the following year. According to Andersen’s book, Camilla "did object" to Kate’s "working-class roots" for a reason. Camilla is the granddaughter of a baron and a descendant of the Stuart bloodline, which ruled England from 1603 to 1714. Her great-grandmother, Alice Keppel, was also King Edward VII’s mistress, "an intimate connection to the royal family that Camilla had always taken immense pride in," Andersen wrote. Unlike Kate, Camilla moved in royal circles throughout her life. "Camilla had long lobbied on behalf of the highborn beauties with hyphenated names who swarmed around the heir," wrote Andersen. "It was she, after all, who, along with another of Charles’ mistresses, Baroness Tryon, handpicked Lady Diana Spencer to become Charles’ bride," Andersen wrote. He also claimed that an aristocrat with "homegrown blue blood" would be preferable than "a descendant of coal miners whose mother had grown up in public housing and once worked as a flight attendant." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER Camilla wasn’t the only one who questioned whether Kate could handle life behind palace doors. "[Kate] has been with William for 25 years," said Andersen. "People forget that. Don’t forget the ‘Waity Katie’ 10-year period there, where she put up with the slings and arrows of outrageous [comments] coming from every angle. "The palace didn’t really want her. People like Camilla didn’t want her because they felt that she was too common to be the wife of a future king. And, of course, the press was vicious in England, portraying her family as a bunch of louts and criticizing [her mother] Carole Middleton for doing such horrible things as chewing gum while she was quitting smoking." According to Andersen’s book, Camilla was also wary of Carole, who was portrayed in the press as "a gauche opportunist," a mother willing to do anything to ensure her daughter would marry a future king. "Camilla, who felt she knew a schemer when she saw one, feared her mother," wrote Andersen, referring to Carole. One former mistress of Charles also told Andersen that for Camilla, "it’s really all about [keeping] your friends close and your enemies closer. It’s her way of keeping her eye on you." LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Andersen wrote that William, who is fiercely protective of his wife, was reportedly "offended" by a request Camilla made. "Charles and Camilla each had a royal monogram that consisted of interlocking Cs beneath a crown, and they expressed concern that a third royal cypher with a C was overkill," Andersen wrote. "Would Kate mind if she changed the spelling of her full name from ‘Catherine’ to ‘Katherine?’ Camilla pointed out that such a change also made sense on the grounds that, to most of the world, she was known simply as ‘Kate.’ "Offended by yet another command … essentially aimed at placating Camilla, a fuming William replied on his wife’s behalf. The request was nothing less than ‘insulting,’ he told his father, not only to Kate but to her entire family. The bizarre suggestion that ‘Catherine’ become ‘Katherine’ simply to make Charles and Camilla happy was summarily dropped." Andersen told Fox News Digital that Camilla wasn’t prepared for how popular Kate would become as a member of the royal family. "I think within a matter of a couple of years, it became pretty clear to Camilla that she would have to contend with [Kate]," said Andersen. "…She somehow, as the Brits like to say, never put a foot wrong. And today, as a result, she’s pretty much universally admired." "…It’s just astounding that she’s been able to not only survive all this, but also flourish within the royal family," Andersen noted. Andersen claimed that even after marrying William, Kate was quickly put to the test. "Even after April 2011, when Kate and William married, there was a lot of sniping from the sidelines, much of it coming from Camilla’s camp," he said. "During the first few years of William and Kate’s marriage, Kate got a lot of criticism fed to the press for not working as hard as the rest of the royal family. And the reason for that, of course, was that she put her own family and her own children first. She made it very clear that that was the way she would proceed, and that’s what she’s done." Andersen said that after battling cancer in 2024, Kate has "cut way back" on royal duties "for her own health and her own wellbeing and to spend time with the family." "The aftermath of chemo is quite tough," he said. "She has good days, she has bad days. She sometimes gets tired easily and unexpectedly. She has cut way back on her schedule. But again, it’s because she’s made it clear that [her children] come first. And William." A St. James’ Palace staffer told Andersen about Camilla, "Maybe she felt threatened by Kate, or perhaps more by William and Kate as a team." KATE MIDDLETON WON OVER QUEEN ELIZABETH DESPITE CAMILLA’S INITIAL DISAPPROVAL, EXPERT CLAIMS "…Charles and Camilla needed to be the stars of the royal show, but that was not going to happen as long as the public was consumed with the ongoing saga of the young prince and his romance with a dazzling commoner," Andersen wrote. Royal reporter and Diana’s friend Richard Kay also told him, "Members of the royal family simply cannot stand being upstaged." After Kate announced her cancer diagnosis, Camilla’s feelings softened, Andersen claimed. The mother of three revealed she was officially in remission in January 2025. "Camilla had a change of heart [after] her husband’s [cancer] diagnosis [in 2024]," Andersen explained. "Charles and Kate were always fond of each other, but in the wake of being told that they had cancer, they really bucked up each other’s spirits. And Camilla recognizes that and has said that Kate is really the one who can make Charles laugh, and she appreciates that. …They’re always hugging and kissing, laughing and joking. …They’re very, very close. And Camilla is grateful for all that Kate has done to lift her husband’s spirits." Still, Andersen claimed to Fox News Digital that the rivalry between the royal wives isn’t quite over yet. "…There’s still competition," he said. "…That is really what makes the whole show. That’s how the monarchy functions: this competition among all the competing camps. Their staffs are constantly feeding information to the press, constantly trying to grab the spotlight for their particular royal. And Camilla and Charles do not want to be upstaged by William and Kate. William and Kate do not want to be upstaged by [Prince] Harry and Meghan [Markle]." "That’s the kind of creative tension that might surprise a lot of people — they’re competing," he added. View the full article