A Pennsylvania woman, 26, says she only vaped for one year before her lungs collapsed. Petrea Mckeithen was 21 when she took up the habit, she told Fox News Digital during an on-camera interview. (See the video at the top of this article.) "Everybody warned me about it, but I didn't listen — I wish that I did," she said. SMOKING AND VAPING CAN HAVE THESE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ON FERTILITY, DOCTORS WARN Mckeithen quickly became addicted to vaping, primarily due to the flavor. "It’s really, seriously addicting," she said. "You get addicted to the vape clouds and the flavors — it's themed, it's cool. It's like a rebel type of thing, I guess you could say."
Family, faith and a love of dressing up are all a major part of one centenarian's life — but her years on this Earth have produced a few surprises as well. A great-great-great-grandmother whose life has been described as "a testament to resilience, adaptability and love" recently celebrated her 107th birthday surrounded by her family and friends. Mary Thomas, born on Feb. 14, 1918 — while World War I was still raging — celebrated her birthday at home recently in Stonebridge, in the London borough of Brent.
Social media posts showcasing the use of red light therapy devices at home are sparking interest in this trendy skin treatment — but does it deliver on its promises? While some studies have shown that the practice can have some health benefits, experts agree that more research is needed. Dermatologists shared their expert perspectives about red light therapy with Fox News Digital.
Fans at WWE Elimination Chamber in Toronto booed "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of the event Saturday night. American singer Elizabeth Irving performed the U.S. national anthem as a chorus of boos rained down. Irving also sings the national anthem ahead of Vancouver Canucks and Vancouver Whitecaps games. Star sports commentator Pat McAfee loudly lambasted the Canadian fans for booing, and the country as a whole, in response during the Peacock broadcast. "It kind of sucks that it's in the terrible country of Canada that booed our national anthem to start this entire thing," McAfee shouted at the broadcast table.
New FBI Director Kash Patel has a willing participant, UFC fighter Justin Gaethje, to help improve agents' fitness. In a teleconference with the FBI’s 55 field offices on Wednesday, Patel said he wants the FBI and UFC to form a relationship that would lead to programs to enhance fitness among the agents, ABC News reported. UFC fighter Justin Gaethje is down to help Patel achieve that goal.
The national anthem wars between the United States and Canada are not over yet. While it has been faint, playful sports banter in the past, things took a serious turn last month amid political tensions between the two countries. It began at an Ottawa Senators game on Feb. 1, when the fans booed the "Star-Spangled Banner" upon the Minnesota Wild's visit. The next day, Toronto Raptors fans booed the anthem when the Los Angeles Clippers came to town.
Saturday marks one month to the day that 67 people were killed after a commercial plane collided with a helicopter while landing at the DCA airport in Washington, D.C. Among those were members of the figure skating community, coming back from a tournament in Kansas. During their home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Washington Capitals will honor the victims with a decal on their helmets; Tampa Bay players, too, will wear them.
LeBron James has been the face of the NBA for his entire 22-year career and knows the territory that comes with it. James, 40, said that he understands players not wanting to succeed him because of the media attention that comes with it. "Why do you wanna be the face of a league when all the people that cover our game and talk about our game on a day-to-day basis s--- on everybody?" James asked reporters after the Los Angeles Lakers win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday. "That responsibility — it’s just weird. It’s weird energy from the people that … I don’t know." Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards recently said he does not want to be the next face of the NBA and just wants to focus on basketball.
President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post late Friday night that he will "be signing a complete pardon" of MLB's all-time hit king, Pete Rose. Rose died last year before ever seeing himself make the Hall of Fame; writers have never been given the option to vote for him, as the Baseball Writers Association of America and Hall of Fame followed suit with MLB's lifetime ban of Rose in 1989 for gambling.
This week’s close call at Chicago Midway Airport between a Southwest aircraft and a private jet is the latest in a string of incidents that have many air travelers on edge. In the US alone, it follows the deadly midair collision over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, a Medevac jet crash in Philadelphia and a regional airline crash off the coast of Nome, Alaska, that killed 10 people.