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Black Friday is behind us, but holiday shopping season is still in full swing.Winter holiday spending is expected to grow between 2.5% and 3.5% compared to 2023, according to the National Retail Federation. "That equates to between $979.5 billion and $989 billion in total holiday spending in November and December, compared with $955.6 billion during the same timeframe last year," the same source stated.In addition to having to navigate crowds, consumers can face some health challenges during the hectic retail season. 6 WAYS TO PREVENT HOLIDAY ILLNESS: ASK A DOCTORTo help ensure safety during long shopping stints, Fox News Digital asked a

Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban took aim at strength of schedule being a true factor when it came to rankings and seeding for the College Football Playoff on Sunday.Saban watched as his old team was left out of the 12-team field while SMU was able to get into the bracket despite losing the ACC Championship to Clemson. Alabama was seeded No. 11 in the penultimate rankings but failed to find its way into the final bracket reveal.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMAlabama athletics director Greg Byrne pointed out late Saturday that the Crimson Tide were No. 3

President-elect Donald Trump’s allies are expected to ramp up criticisms against Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst as she stalls on offering support to Trump’s secretary of defense pick, Pete Hegseth. "It's really this simple: If you oppose President Trump's nominees, you oppose the Trump agenda and there will be a political price to pay for that. We are well aware that there are certain establishment Senators trying to tank the President's nominees to make him look weak and damage him politically, and we're just not going to allow that to happen," a top Trump ally told Fox News Digital. ​​Trump nominated Hegseth,

President-elect Donald Trump's border czar has a "clear message" for sanctuary cities bucking up against the incoming administration's toughened border stance – get on board or get out of the way.The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tom Homan joined "Sunday Morning Futures" this week, where he laid out the incoming administration's prospective plan to cut back on illegal migrant crime and make communities safer across the U.S., despite blue city pushback."You've got San Diego writing legislation. You've got Colorado and other states and other cities saying they're going to prevent us doing what I'm doing. I want to

"Saturday Night Live" swung at and missed with some of their audience this weekend. The sketch comedy show came under fire after spending nearly a minute and a half of its "Weekend Update" segment discussing the recent murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, including America's fascination with the alleged gunman's appearance."The manhunt continues for the assassin who gunned down the CEO of United Healthcare on Wednesday, and it really says something about America that a guy was murdered in cold blood and the two main reactions were, ‘Yeah, well health care stinks!’ And also, ‘Girl, that shooter hot,'" co-host Colin Jost

Students at Columbia University are distributing an antisemitic newspaper called "The Columbia Intifada," and one New York lawmaker is calling for consequences.Copies of the newspaper launched by students who are part of an anti-Israel club were handed out on campus. They contain articles with the titles "Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood" and "The Myth of the Two-State Solution," the New York Post reported, noting that the authors' identities are not disclosed."If @Columbia cannot protect Jewish students on their campus, they should lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked," Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., posted to X. "And for those

Georgia Bulldogs quarterback Gunner Stockton was on the receiving end of a brutal hit in the team’s SEC Championship win over the Texas Longhorns on Saturday night.Stockton was thrust into the game after Carson Beck’s injury. In overtime, with the Bulldogs trailing by three points, Stockton had the team on the Longhorns’ 12-yard line. He took the snap and ran a quarterback draw up the middle of the field.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMStockton got to the first-down marker and was met by two Texas defenders. He received a huge hit and saw his helmet fly off his

Comedian Jon Stewart questioned how Democrats walk the "tightrope" when they agree with the other side on certain issues, saying during his show on Friday that there's a gag reflex when they agree with RFK Jr. on certain issues."How do you walk that tightrope? Because what I find is there is a gag reflex from, and I think both parties have it, a gag reflex on Robert Kennedy says ultra processed foods are killing Americans, and I’m like, ‘yeah, God awful. That’s got to change,’" Stewart said during an interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT.Stewart spoke to Sanders during "The

The nationwide manhunt for the gunman suspected of murdering UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson entered its fifth day Sunday.Police released the latest photos of the suspect late Saturday night, appearing to show the man in the back of a taxi. Police also recovered a backpack they believe is linked to the killer that contained a jacket and Monopoly money, but no gun. Police believe the gunman fled New York City on a bus shortly after the shooting.A New York Police Department dive team also trawled a Central Park pond Saturday, near where the backpack was found.The divers were seen behind an area cordoned