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The legacy of the NYPD officers who ran toward danger on Sept. 11, 2001, continues to shape the department a quarter-century later, Chief of Department Michael LiPetri said during a ceremony dedicating a memorial wall to members who died in the attacks and their aftermath.

"None of us gets here alone," LiPetri said. "Whatever rank we reach, whatever command we lead, we are standing on the foundations other people built."

"We inherit their lessons, their example, and eventually it becomes our responsibility to pass those things forward," he added.

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The NYPD has lost more than 469 members to illnesses connected to their service after the attacks, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. More than 1,700 members have retired from the department with World Trade Center-related disabilities, LiPetri added.

"We are still losing members to illnesses caused by their service after the attacks," LiPetri said. "All these years later, we are still standing with families as they bury loved ones whose lives were forever changed by the work they did after Sept. 11."

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The memorial wall at One Police Plaza honors the 23 NYPD officers killed at the World Trade Center that morning, along with members who later died from illnesses linked to their rescue and recovery efforts.

"Sept. 11 did not end on Sept. 11," NYPD Chief Chaplain Rev. A.R. Bernard said during the invocation. "For many, the costs continued for years, illness endured, families impacted and lives ultimately lost."

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani recalled the story of Officer John William Perry, who was at One Police Plaza preparing to resign and begin a career as an attorney when the first plane struck the North Tower. Perry asked for his shield back and rushed to the World Trade Center.

"There he was confronted with unimaginable suffering, but he did not stop with the same immense bravery and courage that was commonplace among so many that day, the kind that has long defined this department," Mamdani said.

"Officer Perry ran into the fire. The last time he was seen he was helping a woman out of the South Tower before rushing back in to save as many others as he could. Officer Perry and 22 of his fellow officers, each with their own stories, were killed that morning. That includes 14 members of the emergency service unit, who were among the first to enter the towers."

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Mamdani noted that the sons of officers Ronnie Klopfer and Joseph Viviano "now carry on his legacy of bravery as valued members of this very department."

"Every officer present that day embodied the NYPD’s creed that the duty to protect is not a job that one clocks out of, but a calling," Mamdani said. "One answers until the very end.

"In the days and months that followed Sept. 11, thousands of NYPD officers and staff from across every precinct and every borough heeded that same call. They took on that same heavy and incalculable risk."

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Their sons play on the same lacrosse team Klopfer founded before the attacks.

"Their fathers are gone, but the team that Ron built is still here," LiPetri said. "Their sons are wearing an NYPD uniform, and a connection that began years before Sept. 11 continues inside the department."

Tisch said thousands of current NYPD officers were children on 9/11, while many others had not yet been born. She said preserving the memories of those who served is becoming increasingly important as the generation that responded to the attacks retires.

"The faces in this building will be different, but these names will still be here," Tisch said. "The example of the men and women behind them will continue to shape the department."

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"Republicans buy sneakers, too."

Those famous words came from Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. He was also the athlete most responsible for transforming Nike from a shoe company into a global sports empire.

Jordan made the comment during the 1990 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, after his mother urged him to support Democratic candidate Harvey Gantt and record a public-service announcement. Jordan confirmed in ESPN’s "The Last Dance" that he made the remark jokingly on a team bus.

Maybe so. But the line endured because it captured a basic business lesson in four words. Republicans buy shoes. Democrats buy shoes. Most companies benefit when both groups want to buy theirs.

Nike stopped listening.

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After spending much of the past decade injecting left-wing politics into its brand, Nike is now set to be removed from the S&P 100, ending a run of nearly 18 years in the blue-chip index. S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the move Friday, and Nike will come out before trading begins Sept. 21.

S&P isn’t kicking Nike out because the index committee hated the Kaepernick ad or saw Dylan Mulvaney in a sports bra. Nike is getting kicked out because its value collapsed.

The politics didn’t wipe out $200 billion by itself. But Nike volunteered to alienate customers while it was already losing ground everywhere else.

The sports apparel giant reached a market value of approximately $281 billion near its November 2021 peak. Nike shares closed Tuesday at $38.10, giving the company a market capitalization of roughly $56.5 billion. The stock was about 79% below its Nov. 5, 2021 intraday record of $179.10, and more than $220 billion in market value had disappeared.

Getting removed from the S&P 100 won’t put Nike out of business. It will still sell billions of dollars in shoes and sign some of the biggest athletes in the world.

But Nike used to look untouchable. Now it’s worth about one-fifth of what it was five years ago and no longer has a spot in one of America’s premier blue-chip indexes.

China is where this story gets really good.

Nike made Colin Kaepernick the face of its 30th-anniversary "Just Do It" campaign after he refused to stand for the national anthem, saying he wouldn’t show pride in a country that "oppresses Black people and people of color."

Nike apparently thought that was a message worth putting on billboards across America.

Contrast that with how the company publicly talked about China.

In 2021, Nike faced backlash from Chinese consumers after the company expressed concern about reports of forced labor involving Uyghurs in Xinjiang. During an earnings call a few months later, then-CEO John Donahoe made Nike’s priorities clear.

"We’re a brand of China and for China," Donahoe said.

Quite a difference, isn’t it? Nike had plenty to say about oppression when the target was the United States. But when the company’s business in an actual communist country came under pressure, its CEO reminded everyone that Nike had been investing there for more than 40 years, operated thousands of stores and remained committed to the Chinese market.

Nike was perfectly willing to embrace anti-American messaging at home while continuing to grow in China by assuring Chinese consumers that the company was "of China and for China."

It didn’t work.

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When Donahoe made that declaration in 2021, Nike generated $8.29 billion in Greater China. Five years later, that number is down to $5.85 billion. Nearly 30% of the business disappeared, including an 11% drop in the past year.

So much for being "of China and for China."

In 2019, Nike pulled a Fourth of July-themed Air Max sneaker featuring the Betsy Ross flag because it said the design could "unintentionally offend." A year later, the company launched its "For Once, Don’t Do It" racial-justice campaign and publicly embraced Black Lives Matter messaging.

Then Nike partnered with Dylan Mulvaney in 2023 for a paid promotion of women’s leggings and sports bras. Also, OutKick reported that researchers and a Boston Children’s Hospital publication had described Nike as supporting a proposed study involving transgender youth athletes. A Nike executive, speaking to OutKick on background, later said the study "was never initialized" and was "not moving forward," while researcher Joanna Harper subsequently said Nike had pulled out after critics learned of it.

Nike made left-wing politics part of its identity and repeatedly dared customers to object.

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Now Nike is leaving the S&P 100, its stock is down nearly 80% from its peak and its executives are trying to rebuild the product innovation and marketplace relationships that once made the company dominant.

Michael Jordan understood that Republicans buy sneakers, too.

He also understood something Nike forgot: They don’t have to buy yours.

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Craig Carton scorched Michigan Wolverines fans for celebrating the team’s controversial victory against the Western Michigan Broncos on Saturday night.

There’s no argument that Michigan needed a little bit of luck to get past Western Michigan 13-12. Bryce Underwood received a second Hail Mary opportunity as officials determined that a Western Michigan defended touched his first throw in the final moments with one second left on the clock. Underwood found J.J. Buchanan for the game-winning score.

Is that a real reason to storm the field and act like you beat Ohio State? An emphatic no, says Carton, whose "Craig Carton Show" premieres on OutKick on Tuesday. Carton put it better than I could.

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"The thing that bothers me more than the hubris of adding a second to the game and giving Michigan another opportunity to win that game was the fact that there was 110,000 people at Michigan for that game and at the end of the game they stormed the field like they were Western Michigan knocking off a Big Ten team on the road," Carton said. "And it just was a good reminder to me that even though Michigan is thought of as a top educational experience for the kids that take the six years they normally take to graduate, the reality is that they’re a bunch of morons.

"Now, we already know that Michigan is a corrupt athletic program. We know that it’s a dirty athletic program. We know that coaches like to sleep with coeds there. Coaches like to steal signs there. Coaches like to cheat there. But what I didn’t know as a fact until Saturday night is that that 18-27 year olds that call Michigan their undergraduate home are morons. The fact that you would storm the field when barely beating and, let’s be honest, needing the Big Ten to cheat for you to win the game, the fact that you would storm the field when you won by a single point because you were given an extra second of time while 27-point favorites tells me everything I need to know about the type of kid that goes to Michigan."

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Remember, it’s not as though Michigan was unranked (they were 16th going into Saturday) and were up against Ohio State or Texas or Alabama or Oregon or even Rutgers for that matter.

The Wolverines were playing Western Michigan that plays in the Mid-American Conference and have been an FBS program since 1962. The Broncos have never beaten an opponent inside the top 20 of the Associated Press poll.

"That’s not a game to be celebrated if you’re a Michigan fan or a Michigan alumni," Carton added. "That’s a game to give you a warning about what’s to come for the rest of this season. Michigan football is dead. Michigan football is an embarrassment. Michigan football pays their quarterback $10 million a year and I would be better.

"So, just remember what you saw Saturday night. You saw a Wolverine program that needed cheating and needed secretive clocks to beat a MAC team while favored by 27 points. And the kids there are either so drunk, so high or so stupid that they stormed the field like they had accomplished something. You didn’t accomplish a damn thing but embarrassing yourselves on Saturday night."

Western Michigan has been ranked in the AP poll once ever – that coming in 2016 when they were 13-1 under P.J. Fleck. A victory over a blue blood would have been the biggest win in the program’s history.

The Big Ten and Mid-American Conference both released statements on the clock controversy after the game, reiterating that a Broncos defender touched the ball while out of bounds with one second left.

Michigan fans’ celebration was certainly silly and they will be needled for it until the next cray thing happens.

For now, the team itself has to prepare for noon ET showdown with Oklahoma on Saturday as questions surround Underwood about his status as QB1 for the future.

Michigan and Oklahoma will battle in Ann Arbor. The game can be seen on FOX.

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Two men died within roughly 24 hours at Burning Man as tens of thousands of "burners" gathered in the Nevada desert for the final days of the famed festival.

One of the men, identified as 60-year-old Craigh Mann, was found dead by campmates Saturday afternoon, festival organizers said. Another participant in his mid-50s died after suffering a medical emergency a day earlier.

Mann was found at his camp in Black Rock City at about 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, according to the Burning Man Project.

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"Burning Man Project is saddened to share that a second Black Rock City participant, Craigh Mann, a 60-year-old man, was found deceased by campmates in his camp," organizers said in a statement.

"Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the participant’s family, friends, campmates, and all those affected by this loss," the statement said.

Festival organizers announced the first death Friday evening.

The man who was in his mid-50s suffered a medical emergency and received lifesaving measures before being taken to the festival’s onsite emergency care center, according to the Burning Man Project.

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He was pronounced dead at the center. Organizers did not provide further details about the type of medical emergency.

His name was not released because his family had not yet been notified.

"The safety and well-being of our community and staff remain our highest priority," organizers said after the first death. They said support resources were available around the clock for people in Black Rock City, the temporary city built each year to host the event.

The Pershing County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

The annual Burning Man festival began Aug. 30 and was scheduled to conclude Monday.

The sprawling desert gathering draws as many as 80,000 people, known as "burners." The festival is best known for the burning of a large wooden effigy.

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Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Cait Conley told CNN's "State of the Union" that she would not campaign alongside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., but did not directly answer whether Democrats should reject the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

The group's influence in New York has become an issue in her bid to unseat Republican Rep. Mike Lawler. Anchor Dana Bash asked Conley whether she would campaign alongside Mamdani or Ocasio-Cortez after noting Lawler has sought to link his opponent to the Democratic Party's socialist wing.

"No, Dana, I‘m good up here making the case to the voters in the New York 17th Congressional District," Conley said.

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Lawler's campaign manager, Ciro Riccardi, told Fox News Digital on Sunday that Conley's appearance demonstrated why the campaign has criticized her over debates and accused her of failing to distance herself from the DSA.

"Now everyone is seeing why Cait Conley has ducked and dodged debate challenges with Congressman Lawler. She’s incapable of answering direct questions without showing her true colors," he said. "Cait Conley’s refusal to disavow Zohran Mamdani and the DSA is disqualifying. She is just as extreme as the rest and that was exposed today for all to see, including embracing impeachment."

Lawler previously told Fox News Digital that he challenged Conley to six debates after her Democratic primary victory, while Conley's campaign said she agreed to two debates hosted by local networks.

Bash separately pointed to Rep. Tom Suozzi’s, D-N.Y., calls for his party to confront the DSA and asked Conley whether she agreed. Conley did not directly state whether she believed Democrats should reject the organization, instead discussing political division within both parties.

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"I look at what we’re trying to do, which is unite this country where we have seen partisanship to include partisanship within our own party — absolutely divide people to render government dysfunctional," Conley said. "What we have to focus on is how do we bring people together, and right now, what I see coming out of Washington is corruption on both sides, extremism on both sides that is fueling hate, fueling dysfunction."

Suozzi has taken a more explicit position toward the socialist organization, telling Fox News Digital in August that Democrats would have to address the DSA's influence and reject its policy positions.

"I don't ascribe to any of those ideas at all, and I think that there's very little support for those ideas," Suozzi said.

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The DSA's national program calls for abolishing ICE and ending detention and deportations. It also advocates redirecting police funding as steps toward "fully abolishing the police and prison system," universal rent control, publicly owned social housing and universal government-funded healthcare.

Lawler’s campaign has previously pressed Conley over her relationship with the Democratic Party’s progressive wing after Ocasio-Cortez congratulated Conley on winning the Democratic primary in June. Riccardi at the time challenged Conley to state whether she rejected Ocasio-Cortez and other candidates associated with the party’s left flank.

"Which is it, Cait: do you reject AOC and the candidates who want to abolish ICE, defund the police, and tear down our borders, or do you embrace them?" Riccardi said.

Conley, a 16-year Army veteran who served on former President Joe Biden's National Security Council, won a crowded Democratic primary in June and is challenging two-term incumbent Lawler in a closely watched Hudson Valley contest that could determine control of the House.

Fox News Digital reached out to Conley for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.

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A detransitioner’s malpractice lawsuit against doctors she says counseled her for years to undergo a double mastectomy and begin hormone therapy was initially dismissed as untimely, but a new North Carolina law has allowed her to appeal. The state Court of Appeals will hear arguments on Sept. 29.

Prisha Mosley, now 28, was first prescribed hormones at 17 and underwent a double mastectomy at 18. She later sued the doctors and other medical providers for fraud and malpractice, alleging they misled her about the treatment and its effects.

"I'm a mammal, a human, so I wasn't able to change sex. I didn't need to change sex because that's not possible and nothing was ever wrong with my body. Destroying it with hormones and surgery did not make me happy or well," she told Fox News Digital in an interview.

A trial court in North Carolina initially dismissed Mosley's lawsuit on the basis of the statute of limitations. But, as Mosley explained to Fox News Digital, a law passed in North Carolina in 2025 extended the statute of limitations for medical malpractice lawsuits specifically for people who have undergone gender transitions.

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"During the process through which my lawsuit was going through the courts, North Carolina passed HB 808, which was previously HB 805, which is something along the lines of the Protect Children and Women's Act," Mosley explained.

"[The law] extended the statute of limitations for anyone bringing forward a civil case, and even had a line which said that this includes cases that have already been brought forward or even pending in the courts now," she continued.

Legislators in North Carolina passed the bill in 2025, overriding a veto from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.

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Though the bill was passed in July 2025, a North Carolina trial judge still dismissed Mosley's lawsuit in August 2025, denying her lawyers' motion to reinstate her medical malpractice claims during a special session and granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs.

"Despite this, my claims were dismissed with prejudice, even though they had been previously found to have merit for fraud. The malpractice was still in question due to the statute of limitations, and then after the passage of the law, the entire case was dismissed," Mosley told Fox News Digital.

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Mosley was initially encouraged by the judge's decision to deny the defendants' motion to dismiss, taking it as a signal her fraud accusations could have merit.

"The judge actually originally found that my case did have merit for fraud, and that was on the basis that I was told that I could actually change sex, which is not possible, and I was not only told that I could change sex, but that I needed to do so in order to survive and that doing so would ensure I had a good life. All of these claims are false," she told Fox News Digital.

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But after her lawsuit's final dismissal in August, her lawyers appealed, leading to the upcoming Sept. 29 appellate court oral arguments.

Mosley is arguing that the doctors who counseled her into the double mastectomy and hormone therapy misled her by telling her she could become a man and go through male puberty, which she says was a lie.

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"I consented to quote unquote top surgery, and I was under the impression that top surgery was the surgery that turned a female chest into a male chest, and that's simply not what happened to me. In fact, I had complications related to my surgery," she told Fox News Digital.

"Clearly I didn't have a male chest, and the guarantees weren't promised that way. But it's also impossible to induce puberty of the opposite sex because it's impossible to change sex. I wasn't going through male puberty. I was being put through menopause as a teenager, and while inducing all of these medical issues and problems for me, my doctors just covered it up with these fraudulent terms that made it seem like something good and medically sound was happening to me when it was not. Even when I complained about side effects and said that I was suffering from pain and acne and other issues, they told me that this was because of male puberty," she explained.

Mosley said that she realized she had been lied to when, though she was still identifying as a male at the time, her fiancé's young daughter kept referring to her as "mommy."

"Despite the fact that I still had a beard at the time and I was wearing male clothes and all of that, this little girl started calling me mommy, and that's just where everything fell into place for me," she told Fox News Digital.

Mosley said she was encouraged by a recent ruling in New York, where 22-year-old detransitioner, Fox Varians, sued the psychologist and plastic surgeon who counseled her to undergo a gender transition, winning $2 million in a judgment.

Mosley pointed out that no detransitioners suing their medical providers for malpractice have ever lost their cases in trial.

"I think it's clear to people that this type of medicalization is wrong, and it points to the fact, you know, Fox Varian's is the only detransitioner case that's ever made it to court. None of our cases, not mine, not anyone else's, have ever failed in court. We're being stopped by strange policies and statutes of limitations before we ever go before a jury. But the general public knows that what happened to us is wrong and that we deserve justice for what happened to us," she told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital contacted Stein's office and legal representatives for each of the defendants listed in Mosley vs. Emerson for further comment.

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