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Outrage in Israel as hostage 'horror' videos emerge at decision time for Netanyahu's government

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Outrage in Israel as hostage 'horror' videos emerge at decision time for Netanyahu's government

Analysis by Matthew Chance, CNN Chief Global Affairs CorrespondentAugust 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM

"What I'm doing now is digging my own grave," says Evyatar David, as his fragile figure, weak with hunger, scrapes at the dirt with a shovel in a cramped Gaza tunnel.

"Every day, my body becomes weaker and weaker," the 24-year-old hostage adds, "and time is running out."

This is just one of the horrifying scenes recorded in the latest hostage videos released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad at the weekend showing two of the surviving Israeli hostages, kidnapped on October 7, 2023, sharply deteriorating in captivity.

Broadcast of the disturbing images across Israeli and international media was approved by the traumatized hostage families, who told CNN they wanted the plight of their loved ones to be witnessed.

"Evyatar was a young, healthy man before he was abducted, even a bit chubby. Now he looks like a skeleton, a human skeleton, buried alive," the captive's brother, Ilay David, told CNN in Tel Aviv.

The state of Rom Braslavski, still just 22, seems even more dire. In a video released by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group holding him, his emaciated body is shown writhing in pain on the floor of a makeshift Gaza prison as he tearfully pleads for relief.

"My foot doesn't look good and I can't walk to the bathroom. I've run out of food and water. I can't sleep, I can't live," he sobs.

His own mother says her son's weak voice sounds like he's accepted he may never come out alive.

The videos come amid a worsening hunger crisis in Gaza, with a UN-backed food security agency warning this week that the "worst-case scenario of famine" is unfolding in the territory. Health officials in Gaza say a further 13 people died from malnutrition over the weekend, including one child, bringing the total death toll from starvation since the conflict began in 2023 to at least 175.

Demonstrators take part in a protest to demand the immediate release of hostages held in Gaza since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas and to end the war, as a video released by Hamas of hostage Evyatar David is displayed, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on August 2. - Ammar Awad/Reuters

It all piles further pressure on the Israeli government, already facing growing international isolation over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, and now facing renewed calls for it to get the remaining 50 hostages back home from Gaza as soon as possible.

How best to do that is one of the key questions dividing Israeli opinion.

"The horror videos by Hamas stem from one goal – their attempt to pressure the State of Israel," said Itmar Ben Gvir, the right-wing firebrand, in remarks made during a controversial visit at the weekend to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem, known to Jews as Temple Mount.

"It is from here that a message must be sent: to conquer the entire Gaza Strip, declare sovereignty over all of Gaza, eliminate every Hamas member, and encourage voluntary emigration. Only in this way will we bring back the hostages and win the war," Ben Gvir added.

His calls to double down on Israel's already devastating military action in Gaza, and to essentially evict the local Palestinian population, might be dismissed as the ravings of a fringe radical.

But Ben Gvir is a senior minister in the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depends on him and other Jewish nationalist hardliners, who are against any kind of deal with Hamas, to keep his fragile governing coalition in power.

Furthermore, Israeli media reports suggest Netanyahu may indeed be leaning towards stepping up military operations in Gaza.

In the past, many Israelis, including many hostage families, have accused Netanyahu of deliberately prolonging the Gaza conflict in order to preserve his governing coalition, accusing him of essentially sacrificing their loved ones to cling on to power.

But the latest hostage videos, showing emaciated captives in a, frankly, appalling state have provoked shock and outrage across Israel.

With hostage families convinced time is running out for their loved ones to be rescued or returned, enormous pressure has been placed on the Israeli government to strike a deal with Hamas before it is too late.

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Mexican ranchers struggle to adapt as a tiny parasite ravages their cattle exports to the US

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Mexican ranchers struggle to adapt as a tiny parasite ravages their cattle exports to the US

FERNANDO LLANO and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ August 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM

1 / 5Pictures of the Week Latin America and Caribbean Photo GalleryVeterinarians examine cattle at a ranch that supplies livestock for export to the U.S., in Zamora, northern Mexico, July 28, 2025, as the U.S. border remains closed to Mexican cattle imports because of screwworm concerns. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — The United States' suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped to put his family on better footing selling his calves across the northern border.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Ibarra Vargas has raised cattle on the parched soil of Sonora, the state in northwestern Mexico that shares a long border with the United States, particularly Arizona. His family has faced punishing droughts before but has never before had to contend with the economic hit of a new scourge: the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite.

U.S. agriculture officials halted live cattle crossing the border in July – the third suspension of the past eight months — due to concerns about the flesh-eating maggot which has been found in southern Mexico and is creeping north.

The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters animals' skin, causing severe damage and lesions that can be fatal. Infected animals are a serious threat to herds.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture calls it a "devastating pest" and said in June that it poses a threat to "our livestock industry, our economy, and our food supply chain." It has embarked on other steps to keep it out of the United States, which eradicated it decades ago.

As part of its strategy the U.S. is preparing to breed billions of sterile flies and release them in Mexico and southern Texas. The aim is for the sterile males to mate with females in the wild who then produce no offspring.

The U.S. ban on live cattle also applies to horses and bison imports. It hit a ranching sector already weakened by drought and specifically a cattle export business that generated $1.2 billion for Mexico last year. This year, Mexican ranchers have exported fewer than 200,000 head of cattle, which is less than half what they historically send in the same period.

For Ibarra Vargas, considered a comparatively small rancher by Sonora's beef-centric standards, the inability to send his calves across the border has made him rethink everything.

The repeated bans on Mexican cows by U.S. authorities has pushed his family to branch into beekeeping, raising sheep and selling cow's milk. What he earns is just a fraction of what he earned by exporting live cattle, but he is trying to hold on through the lean times.

"Tiempos de vacas flacas" — times of the lean cows — as he calls them.

"At least it lets us continue" ranching, the 57-year-old said with a white cowboy hat perched on his head.

Reinvent to survive

Even as ranchers in Sonora intensify their efforts to make sure the parasitic fly never makes it into their state, they've had to seek new markets.

In the past two months, they've sold more than 35,000 mature cows within Mexico at a significant loss.

"We couldn't wait any longer," said Juan Carlos Ochoa, president of the Sonora Regional Cattle Union. Those sales, he said, came at a "35% lower price difference compared with the export value of a cow."

That's hard to stomach when beef prices in the U.S. are rising.

The U.S. first suspended cattle imports last November. Since then, more than 2,258 cases of screwworm have been identified in Mexico. Treatment requires a mix of manually removing the maggots, healing the lesions on the cows and using anti-parasite medicine.

Some ranchers have also started retail beef sales through luxury butcher shops referred to as "meat boutiques."

There are other foreign markets, for example Japan, but selling vacuum sealed steaks across the Pacific is a dramatically different business than driving calves to U.S. feedlots. The switch is not easy.

An uncertain future

With his calves mooing as they ran from one end of a small corral to the other waiting to be fed, Ibarra Vargas said he still hasn't figured out how he will survive an extended period of not being able to send them to the U.S.

The recent two-year drought reduced his cattle stocks and forced him to take on debt to save the small family ranch that has survived for three generations.

Juan Carlos Anaya, director of Agricultural Markets Consulting Group, attributed a 2% drop in Mexico's cattle inventory last year to the drought.

Anaya said Mexican ranchers who export are trying to get the U.S. to separate what happens in southern Mexico from the cattle exporting states in the north where stricter health and sanitation measures are taken, "but the damage is already done."

"We're running out of time," said Ibarra Vargas, who already laments that his children are not interested in carrying on the family business. For a rancher who "doesn't have a market or money to continue feeding his calves, it's a question of time before he says: 'you know what, this is as far as I go.'"

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Sánchez reported from Mexico City.

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Owners of cargo ship that crashed into Baltimore bridge sue company that built vessel

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Owners of cargo ship that crashed into Baltimore bridge sue company that built vessel

BRIAN WITTE August 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM

1 / 4Key Bridge DemolitionA slab of concrete is prepared to be removed from the remaining portions of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The owners of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge are suing the company that built the vessel, alleging negligence in the design of a critical switchboard on the ship.

Grace Ocean Private and Synergy Marine PTE Ltd, the owners of the Dali, filed the lawsuit last week against Hyundai Heavy Industries in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

"As a result of the defectively designed Switchboard, the Vessel suffered a power outage that led to the allision with the Key Bridge," Grace Ocean Private alleges in the lawsuit.

Hyundai Heavy Industries could not immediately be reached for comment. Court records in the case did not name legal representatives for Hyundai.

Grace Ocean Private contends the switchboard was defectively designed in a manner that wiring connections were not secure. The defect, the company alleges, "caused the switchboard and the vessel to be unreasonably dangerous ... when it left HHI's control."

"HHI's defective manufacture of the Switchboard and Vessel caused the signal wiring to come loose in normal operation, resulting in the power outage that led to the allision," the lawsuit says.

The Dali was leaving Baltimore bound for Sri Lanka on March 26 last year when its steering failed due to the power loss. It crashed into one of the bridge's supporting columns, destroying the 1.6-mile span and killing six members of a roadwork crew. Baltimore's port was closed for months, and increased traffic congestion remains a problem across the region.

The Justice Department last year filed a lawsuit seeking to recover more than $100 million that the government spent to clear the underwater debris and reopen the city's port. The owner and manager of the cargo ship agreed to pay more than $102 million in cleanup costs to settle the lawsuit brought by the government.

In that lawsuit, the Justice Department alleged the owner and manager of the cargo ship recklessly cut corners and ignored known electrical problems on the vessel. In particular, the Justice Department accused the ship owner of failing to address "excessive vibrations" that were causing electrical problems.

The National Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary report last year that the Dali experienced electrical blackouts about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore, and yet again shortly before it slammed into the bridge.

Last week, Maryland officials visited the site where demolition crews are using giant saws, backhoes and other heavy equipment to remove large sections of the remaining pieces of the bridge. Its replacement is expected to open in 2028.

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I Climb Skyscrapers with My Bare Hands. It Relieves My Anxiety.

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I Climb Skyscrapers with My Bare Hands. It Relieves My Anxiety.

As Told To Sean EvansAugust 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM

What It Feels Like to Climb a Skyscraper Illustration by Andy TurnbullAlexis Landot, 25, Paris

I'm terrified of death. Especially death I can't control. Cancer, car accidents, random violence. I'm anxious about walking in Paris, where I live. I believe highway driving to be extremely dangerous. My mind constantly races through Final Destination death scenarios. What if that bike swerves? What if that truck driver falls asleep at the wheel? These possibilities eat at me.

The irony isn't lost on me. I'm an urban free soloist. For the uninitiated, I climb skyscrapers without ropes, including the Burj Khalifa, the Montparnasse Tower, and buildings across La Défense. I dangle from my fingertips thousands of feet above the ground—sometimes I do pull-ups—and yet I am absurdly anxious about risks I can't control.

On the ground, I'm a bundle of anxiety, helpless against these various risks. I've been this way forever; I had to go to extensive therapy as a child about my fear of death. But when I'm one thousand feet up the side of a building, gripping a minuscule ledge with my fingertips, I'm finally relaxed.

Alexis Landot

Welcome to the paradox of my existence: the only time I feel truly okay is when I'm risking everything.

The minutes before a climb are hell. Picture a drug addict receiving the worst news imaginable; that's how I look and sound to my friends who help me prepare. My words tumble out fast and incoherent. My hearing shuts off. My peripheral vision narrows to a tunnel. My shoulders and arms feel like they're made of lead. My knees go weak. I get goosebumps—what we call "chicken skin" in French.

The worst part? Cottonmouth. No matter how much I hydrate, my mouth goes completely dry. (I can't drink too much water because I don't want to pee midclimb.) In the final few moments before I start up any building, my entire body screams no. I have to force myself to override every survival instinct to step into that vertical world.

For the first forty or fifty feet, I feel like this. Then, once I leave the horizontal world and enter the vertical world—the point past which any fall will mean death—something magical happens. The tunnel vision clears. My shoulders lighten. My brain stops searching for phantom dangers because the danger is right here, real and immediate. This clarity is intoxicating. My mind can focus on one thing: keeping me alive.

My anxiety vanishes. I'm calm, peaceful, and present.

Climbing, my body operates on heightened autopilot. I'm acutely aware of every sensation. Am I getting tired? Is sweat about to drop onto my fingers? Is this window ledge solid enough for my full weight? But largely, I have few thoughts outside these. Just pure presence. Just the vertical world: holds, balance, breath. It's the closest thing to meditation I've ever experienced, but it's meditation with ultimate stakes.

People ask me what I remember most from various climbs. The truth is that I remember very little. When I watch GoPro footage of my climbs later, I'm often surprised by what I see. It's as if another part of my mind takes over—a part that's been training for years, that knows exactly which three fingers to place on which tiny ledge, that can read the building's geometry like a language.

Alexis Landot

My grip strength isn't superhuman. I've been tested; it's good for an average human, but nowhere near a powerlifter's or arm wrestler's. What's different is the specificity of that strength. I'm not making a fist; I'm using the tips of two or three fingers on holds that barely exist. It's about technique, about understanding exactly how to distribute force across micro-surfaces.

This flow state breaks when I can see the top. Those last few meters are the hardest, not technically, but mentally. Suddenly I'm thinking again: What will I say to the police who are waiting for me? What will happen next? The floating, flowing feeling is gone, replaced by the return of ordinary consciousness. And it's very intense.

When I choose a building to climb, height is irrelevant. What matters is whether I know myself well enough to complete it, whether I understand the building's geometry, and whether there are rest points. Is this going to be a sprint or a marathon? Some buildings you can even sit on halfway up. Others require you to complete the entire climb without stopping. Only then does height matter, because you need to calculate your energy.

Critics call what I do reckless, and they're right. It's the most dangerous sport in the world. But these same critics take risks they're not aware of every single day—drinking, doing drugs, driving carelessly—while being frightened of death. Being so scared of death, yet living as though you are immortal is a contradiction I'll never understand.

Alexis Landot

Some things you may think are risky, I think are normal. I started doing one-arm pull-ups as a means to get as strong as possible without gaining much muscle mass. Now I can do six on each arm. I've never felt as strong as when I do a one-arm pull-up in a death drop, 650 feet high. I've trained for years and, because there's nothing above or below or around me, it feels like floating in space.

I'm incredibly cautious in daily life. I'm sober. I check multiple times before crossing the street. I see danger everywhere, but I choose to engage with it on my terms. I'd rather risk my life doing something that requires total presence and control than lose it to something random and meaningless.

People say I'm addicted to adrenaline, but that's not it. I'm addicted to clarity. To be exactly where I am, when I am, with no room for my mind to wander into its catalog of catastrophes. For those precious and precarious minutes, suspended between earth and sky, I'm exactly where I need to be, doing exactly what I was meant to do.

I'm already planning my next climb.

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NCAA: No expansion of basketball tournaments beyond 68 teams this season, talks ongoing about 2027

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NCAA: No expansion of basketball tournaments beyond 68 teams this season, talks ongoing about 2027

The August 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM

FILE - A basketball with a March Madness logo is seen going through a net prior to a second round of the NCAA college basketball tournament between Notre Dame and Michigan, March 23, 2025, in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/John Mersits, File) ()

The NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments will not expand beyond 68 teams in 2026, but future growth remains on the radar.

"Expanding the tournament fields is no longer being contemplated for the 2026 men's and women's basketball championships," Dan Gavitt, NCAA senior vice president of basketball, said in a statement on Monday. "However, the committees will continue conversations on whether to recommend expanding to 72 or 76 teams in advance of the 2027 championships."

NCAA President Charlie Baker has said adding teams could add value to the tournament, and he said the NCAA already has had "good conversations" with TV partners CBS and Warner Bros., whose deal runs through 2032 at the cost of around $1.1 billion a year.

The NCAA Tournament expanded from 64 to 68 teams in 2011. The change introduced the First Four round, a set of pre-tournament games in which the four lowest-seeded at-large teams and four lowest-seeded conference champions compete for spots in the traditional 64-team bracket.

Baker indicated in May that the current formula has flaws and said it would be beneficial to give more opportunities to worthy teams.

"If you have a tournament that's got 64 or 68 teams in it, you're going to have a bunch of teams that are probably among what most people would consider to be the best 68 or 70 teams in the country that aren't going to make the tournament, period," Baker said then. "The point behind going from 68 to 72 or 76 is to basically give some of those schools that were probably among the 72, 76, 68, 64 best teams in the country a way into the tournament."

Coaches have expressed different opinions about an expanded bracket. Tom Izzo, Nate Oats and Dan Hurley have indicated they like the field at 68 but Texas coach Sean Miller told CBS Sports he wouldn't mind expansion.

"Never before has the tournament felt more even, with few exceptions," Miller said. "On any given night in a 40-minute game, it's just amazing what can happen. I think adding depth to that will only make what's already good even better."

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said the league backs expansion "but you just don't jump into it."

"So, if there are reasons from a broadcast point, a financial point, logistics point or competitive realities that don't support expansion, again, we're going to be fine," he said at SEC football media days last month." But I think this is the right direction to at least explore."

Kansas coach Bill Self said fellow Big 12 coaches seem to favor an NCAA tourney expansion. The Big 12 had seven bids in 2025, half the total of the SEC.

"There was a little bit that was brought forth and the consensus among the coaches, even though it was very little, would be in favor of that," he said earlier this year. "I don't know if you could make it where it was totally equitable all the way across the board for everybody."

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Former NBA player's pregnant wife attacked by shark

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Former NBA player's pregnant wife attacked by shark

Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY August 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM

A former NBA player's pregnant wife suffered injuries in a shark attack while vacationing in Puerto Rico, according to information from the woman and local authorities.

In a post on her Instagram account, sports journalist Eleonora Boi, former New York Knicks forward Danilo Gallinari's wife, wrote she was recovering after being bitten by a shark near the shore of a crowded beach in Carolina.

The municipality is in the northeastern part of the U.S. territory, just east of San Juan.

Carolina Municipal Police Commissioner Captain Ruben Moyeno confirmed to local media outlet GFR Media that the 39-year-old woman was bit by a shark on July 31.

Boi, who is pregnant, was wading in the water when the attack occurred, according to the outlet's Aug. 4 report.

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The Italian journalist was transported to a medical center in Río Piedra, where she snapped a selfie for the social media post that shows her tongue sticking out as she rests in a hospital bed.

The territory's Department of Natural and Environmental Resources confirmed on July 31 the woman's bite was compatible with that of a shark, GFR Media reported.

Eleonora Boi 'Doing fine' after surgery

The soon-to-be mom called the event the worst day of her life in her post, but wrote she was recovering after surgery.

"My baby and I are fine," she wrote. "I was rescued promptly and the surgery to put my poor bitten leg back in place went well."

Boi did not release details about the leg injury or expand on the rescue.

USA TODAY has reached out to police and local officials in Carolina.

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Boi then playfully mentions plans to civilly confront the fish responsible for her injuries.

"Now I just have to recover from the huge scare and try to forgive the great friend who betrayed me," she continued in the post. "Regarding the shark, you will soon hear from my lawyers."

Bio also thanked her husband "for all his love and courage," the post, and said the couple missed attending a Bad Bunny concert due to the incident.

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Gallinari is an Italian professsional baskeball player who played in Italy prior to being drafted by the Knicks in 2008.

He currently plays for Italy's men's national basketball team.

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According to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), 47 people were bitten in unprovoked attacks last year. Four people died, including one person in the U.S.

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Border agents directed to stop deportations under Trump's asylum ban after court order, CBS News reports

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Border agents directed to stop deportations under Trump's asylum ban after court order, CBS News reports

Christian MartinezAugust 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM

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(Reuters) -U.S. border agents were directed to stop deportations under President Donald Trump's asylum ban, CBS News reported Monday citing two unnamed Department of Homeland Security officials.

The direction comes after a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit on Friday partially granted an order that limited the asylum ban, saying it cannot be used to entirely suspend humanitarian protections for asylum seekers, according to CBS.

Officials at Customs and Border Protection were instructed this weekend to stop deportations Trump's asylum ban and process migrants under U.S. immigration law, CBS said.

Last month, a lower court judge blocked Trump's ban on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that Trump had exceeded his authority when he issued a proclamation declaring illegal immigration an emergency and setting aside existing legal processes.

The American Civil Liberties Union brought the challenge to Trump's asylum ban in February on behalf of three advocacy groups and migrants denied access to asylum, arguing the broad ban violated U.S. laws and international treaties.

Trump has stepped up arrests of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, cracked down on unlawful border crossings and stripped legal status from hundreds of thousands of migrants since January 20. He has vowed to deport millions of people in the country illegally even as the administration has faced dozens of lawsuits across the country for its tactics.

(Reporting by Christian MartinezEditing by Humeyra Pamuk and Lincoln Feast.)

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Saquon Barkley 'shocked' to be named to Donald Trump's presidential sports council, says he won't be participating

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Saquon Barkley 'shocked' to be named to Donald Trump's presidential sports council, says he won't be participating

Jason OwensAugust 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM

President Donald Trump's White House announced Friday that Saquon Barkley would be a member of his newly formed council on sports, fitness and nutrition.

It appears that was news to Barkley.

Barkley said Monday that he was "shocked" that his name was included as a council member and that he will not be participating. The All-Pro Philadelphia Eagles running back addressed the subject with reporters at training camp Monday.

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"A couple of months ago, it was brought to my team about the council," Barkley said. "So, I'm not really too familiar with it. I felt like that I'm going to be super busy, so me and my family thought it probably was in our best interest to not accept that.

"Was definitely a little shocked when my name was mentioned, but I'm assuming it's something great. So I appreciate it. But was a little shocked when my name was mentioned."

The White House previously issued a news release about the council that named several prominent athletes and sports figures who would participate, Barkley included.

"The council will include executive director Catherine Granito, chair Bryson DeChambeau, Saquon Barkley, Gary Bettman, Nick Bosa, Harrison Butker, Cody Campbell, Roger Goodell, Wayne Gretzky, Nelly Korda, Paul "Triple H" Levesque, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Mariano Rivera, Tony Romo, Annika Sörenstam, Tua Tagovailoa, Lawrence Taylor, Matthew Tkachuk, and Mariano Rivera," the statement reads.

None of the other athletes named have said that they won't be participating. Taylor and "Triple H" flanked Trump during a news conference addressing the council.

Saquon Barkley says that he will not be participating in President Donald Trump's council on sports, fitness and nutrition. (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect / Reuters)

Barkley, a three-time Pro Bowler who earned NFL Offensive Player of the Year in 2024 during Philadelphia's run to the Super Bowl championship, has previously made public appearances with Trump.

Barkley golfed with Trump in April in New Jersey, then flew with Trump to Washington D.C. and visited the White House ahead of the Eagles' official visit to commemorate their Super Bowl victory. Barkley's visit prompted criticism, to which he responded on social media that he respects the office of the president.

"lol some people are really upset cause I played golfed and flew to the White House with the PRESIDENT," Barkley wrote. "Maybe I just respect the office, not a hard concept to understand. Just golfed with Obama not too long ago … and look forward to finishing my round with Trump! Now ya get out my mentions with all this politics and have amazing day."

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Pamela Anderson; Sylvester Stallone

Pamela Anderson is doubling down on her documentary claim that Sylvester Stallone once offered her a Porsche and a condo in exchange for being his "No. 1 girl."

During her visit toWatch What Happens Live on Sunday, the Naked Gun actress, 58, was asked to share her thoughts on Stallone, 79, denying that he'd ever made such an offer to her following the release of her 2023 documentary, Pamela, a Love Story.

"Well, how could you make that up?" Anderson replied. "You know? I mean, that was pretty specific."

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Pamela Anderson on 'Watch What Happens Live'

Host Andy Cohen followed up by asking if there was another car that could've potentially swayed her decision. "Maybe like a Shelby Cobra or something?" she teased, before adding, "No, no, no, no, no."

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A representative for Stallone not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.

Anderson said in Pamela, a Love Story that Stallone once offered her the luxury incentives to become his "No. 1 girl."

"I remember talking to Sylvester Stallone one time and he offered me a condo and a Porsche to be his No. 1 girl," she recalled. "And I was like, 'Does that mean there's No. 2? Uh-uh.' He goes, 'That's the best offer you're gonna get, honey. You're in Hollywood now.'"

She continued, "I wanted to really be in love. I didn't want anything less than that."

Stallone's rep later denied that the actor ever made such an offer in a statement to PEOPLE.

"The statement from Pamela Anderson attributed to my client is false and fabricated," the rep said at the time. "Mr. Stallone confirms that he never made any portion of that statement."

Stallone and Anderson have both found love since the alleged offer. The Rocky actor has been married to model Jennifer Flavin since 1997, while Anderson recently sparked romance rumors with her Naked Gun costar, Liam Neeson.

"It's a budding romance in the early stages," a source close to their new film told PEOPLE, adding, "It's sincere, and it's clear they're smitten with each other."

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Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson on 'Watch What Happens Live'

Cohen also brought up the pair's relationship during their visit to Watch What Happens Live.

"The question that I'm not asking the two of you tonight is what's going on between the two of you," he said as Anderson laughed. "But I do want to say, as a very old friend of yours [Liam], all of your friends are very much stanning this relationship, as the kids say. Just wanna say that!"

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Late Shannen Doherty's Longtime Home Lists for $10M 1 Year After Her Death at Age 53

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Shannen Doherty (left) and her longtime Malibu home (right)

Shannen Doherty's longtime Malibu home is coming to the market for $9.45 million

The late star's close friend, Chris Cortazzo of Compass, currently holds the listing

The listing comes one year after the actress died from breast cancer in July 2024 at age 53

Shannen Doherty's longtime Malibu home is officially headed for the market, PEOPLE can confirm.

The listing comes one year after the late actress died on July 13, 2024 at age 53 after years of living with breast cancer.

Her close friend, Chris Cortazzo of Compass, currently holds the listing. The asking price is set at $9.45 million, and all proceeds from the sale will go to Doherty's estate.

The Beverly Hills, 90210 star purchased the 5,360-square-foot property for $2.56 million in 2004. It features five bedrooms, five full bathrooms, and is located just minutes away from Malibu's famous beaches.

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Exterior shot of Shannen Doherty's longtime Malibu home

In a statement shared with PEOPLE, Cortazzo says, "I was fortunate to share an incredibly close bond with Shannen, whose deep and lasting friendship meant the world to me. When I sold her the property, she fell in love with it instantly. It was everything she wanted: a private compound with ocean views, a flat piece of land, a lush hedge for seclusion, and a stunning open floor plan."

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"She transformed the home with her signature touch, turning it into one of the most beautiful and inviting spaces for entertaining," he continues. "The open-concept kitchen flowed effortlessly into the dining and family rooms, framed by glass, all reflecting her love for connection. Shannen cherished a close-knit circle of loved ones, and this home became a sanctuary for her friends and family."

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Shannon Doherty's longtime Malibu home

Looking inside, the property's modern structure is softened by oak floors, wood-beamed ceilings and antique doors.

The great room features a fireplace and a wall of retractable glass doors that open up to create a sense of indoor/outdoor living.

In the dining room, additional oversized windows offer sweeping views of the property's surrounding greenery. Meanwhile the large, barn doors that lead directly into the kitchen bring added warmth into the space.

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Shannen Doherty's longtime Malibu home

An expansive center island with stone countertops can be found in the kitchen. One side has barstool seating, while the opposite end offers access to the built-in sink and other amenities.

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The kitchen

The primary bedroom offers direct access to the pool deck, while the bathroom features dual sinks, a soaking tub and a standing shower.

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The primary bedroom

Looking outside, a lap pool surrounded by lounge chairs offers a serene place to relax. A thick line of hedges creates added privacy.

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The pool

For enjoying meals outside and having extra seating space to entertain, an additional dining terrace is located on the property.

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The terrace

The listing comes weeks after Doherty's close friends paid tribute to her on the one-year anniversary of her death.

Among her loved ones who remembered the late star were Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rose McGowan, Tori Spelling and Holly Marie Combs, who each shared their touching tributes on social media.

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Shannen Doherty in October 2019

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Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, she first shared with PEOPLE at the time. The Charmed star then had a mastectomy and underwent chemotherapy and radiation.

After revealing on Instagram that she had gone into remission in April 2017, she announced her diagnosis of stage 4 cancer three years later in February 2020.

The actress' longtime publicist Leslie Sloane confirmed her death in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, noting that Doherty "was surrounded by her loved ones, as well as her dog, Bowie," at the time of her death.

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