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Cam Ward issues blunt warning to NFL teams that pass over him draft

Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward has a message for any NFL teams that pass over him in this year’s draft: “I’ll remember that.”

Ward, who has been the subject of harsh criticism for his decision not to play in the second half of Miami’s loss to Iowa State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl in December, offered a blunt message to NFL teams that might question his dedication as a result of that decision.

Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward looks up at the scoreboard during the Iowa State Cyclones game at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, on Dec. 28, 2024. (Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images)

“OK, you’re either going to draft me or you’re not,” Ward said Monday, via The Associated Press.

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“If you don’t draft me, that’s your fault. You’ve got to remember you’re the same team that’s got to play me for the rest of my career, and I’ll remember that.”

Ward defended his decision not to play in the second half of the 42-41 loss, adding that it was predetermined.

“I just think we all got what we needed out of it. They seen things that they think they need to work on… for this season coming up. And they also knew, you know, what I had on the line,” he said.

Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward drops back to pass against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Hyundai Field in Atlanta on Nov. 9, 2024. (Brett Davis-Imagn Images)

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“We feel like we’re doing what’s best for the program and myself. I mean, it was a hard decision, especially when, you know, some guys on our team didn’t play who I thought should have played. It was also, you know, those guys thought about their future the same way I thought about mine.”

Miami head coach Mario Cristobal called the narrative that Ward quit “false.”

Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward on from the field after the game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons at Hard Rock Stadium on Nov. 23, 2024. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)

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Ward is one of the top quarterbacks in this year’s draft class. The winner of the Manning Award and the Davey O’Brien Award, Ward moves on to the NFL after finishing his college career with 18,189 passing yards and 158 touchdowns.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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February 18, 2025
San Diego fails to pass measure protecting girls from trans athletes despite pleas from parents

A middle school in San Diego has been thrust into local controversy because of a transgender student using the girls’ locker room.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted against a measure to carry out the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would prevent trans athletes from competing in girls’ sports or entering girls’ locker rooms.

Vice Chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors Jim Desmond brought forth the proposal at a San Diego Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday. However, the measure did not get any votes from other supervisors outside of Desmond.

“People came into the meeting with their minds already made up on the issue,” Desmond told Fox News Digital.

“The rest were mothers who just didn’t think it was fair or safe for males to be playing in girls’ or women’s safe. So the room was probably 60-40 in favor of letting them play, but I think that’s just the turnout of who was able to take the day off and come down here. I think the vast majority of the people in San Diego County agree that males should not be playing in women’s and girls’ sports.”

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Tuesday’s meeting featured several arguments from concerned parents who expressed their concern over their daughters being forced to share locker rooms with biological males.

The middle school where this controversy is taking place, San Elijo Middle School, provided a statement to Fox News Digital, crediting its enabling of the transgender student to access the girls’ locker room to the school’s obligation of following state law.

“Public school districts in California are governed by, and must act in accordance with, California state law and the California Education Code,” San Elijo Middle School’s statement reads.

“As a California public school district, we will continue to follow state law and guidance from the California Department of Education to ensure that all students are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness. Our district remains committed to upholding policies that support all students, in accordance with state protections and anti-discrimination laws.”

President Donald Trump signed the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order last Wednesday, which cuts federal funding for any educational institution that allows biological males to compete with girls and women.

However, multiple states, including California, have insisted they will not comply with Trump’s order. According to USA Facts, California public schools receive about $16.8 billion per year, which is 13.9% or one in every seven dollars of public school funding, which is well above the national average.

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it will continue to follow the state’s law that allows athletes to participate as whichever gender they identify as, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

“The CIF provides students with the opportunity to belong, connect, and compete in education-based experiences in compliance with California law [Education Code section 221.5. (f)] which permits students to participate in school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with the student’s gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the student’s records,” a CIF statement said.

Desmond said that many of his local constituents reached out to him expressing concern and disbelief about the state’s handling of the situation.

“They think it’s crazy, and I’ve heard questions of ‘is it even legal?’” Desmond said.

For Desmond, as a Republican, he sees the Democrat refusal to comply with Trump’s order as an issue that will continue to harm support for the party in his state.

“These people didn’t get the message in the last election and they’re just digging the hole deeper. They’re doubling down, digging their heels in the ground, ‘yes we’re right,’” Desmond said, adding that he thinks and hopes the trans athlete debate will strengthen Republican support in California.

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“I think it’s empowering us with the new administration to stand up and do what’s right. And that’s all we’re trying to do, we’re not trying to discriminate against anybody. If you want to be trans, if you want to identify as another [gender], fine, go for it, you have that right, but where do your rights end and somebody else’s begin? You can’t have one boy cause 30 girls to have to leave and go change some place else, that’s not right, we need a better system.”

The decision by California not to comply with Trump’s order has recently prompted backlash and even protests and threats of lawsuits by the state’s residents.

On Friday, residents gathered in Long Beach, California, to protest outside a CIF federated board meeting. The protesters then spoke at the board meeting, pleading with the CIF officials to follow the president’s order and threatening civil lawsuits against the CIF and state.

Currently, there is one lawsuit against the CIF and the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, over a situation at Martin Luther King High School involving a trans athlete on the girls’ cross-country team.

A recent school board meeting by the Riverside Unified School District on Dec. 19 featured a parade of parents berating the board for allowing a trans athlete on the Martin Luther King girls’ cross-country team. A lawsuit filed by two girls on the team alleges that their T-shirts in protest of that player were compared to swastikas simply because they said “Save Girls Sports.”

The father of a girl who lost her varsity spot to the trans athlete previously told Fox News Digital that his daughter and other girls at the school were told “transgenders have more rights than cisgender[s]” by school administrators when they protested the athlete’s participation.

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That is just one controversy in the state that has erupted over the last year from its laws that enable trans inclusion in girls’ sports.

Stone Ridge Christian High School’s girls’ volleyball team was scheduled to face San Francisco Waldorf in the Northern California Division 6 tournament but forfeited in an announcement just before the match over the presence of a trans athlete on the team.

A transgender volleyball player was booed and harassed at an Oct. 12 match between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, California, against Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay rostered the transgender athlete.

California State Assembly member Kate Sanchez announced on Jan. 7 that she is introducing a bill to ban trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.

Sanchez will propose the Protect Girls’ Sports Act to the state legislature. Currently, 25 states have similar laws in effect.

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Jackson Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He previously worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.

February 12, 2025
Tom Brady disagrees with referees on controversial pass interference call against Eagles in Super Bowl LIX

The officiating in Super Bowl LIX has been a hot-button topic in the weeks and days leading up to the big game in New Orleans.

Earlier this week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell dismissed claims that officiating crews are biased in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs. He described the allegations as “ridiculous.” It took just a few minutes to tick off the game clock on Sunday before the referees took the spotlight once again.

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni elected to go for it on fourth down in the first quarter. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts found wide receiver A.J. Brown far down the right sideline.

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Tom Brady on the field before Super Bowl LIX (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

But Brown’s catch was negated when referees threw a penalty flag. Brown was assessed with an offensive pass interference penalty.

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Replays appeared to show some contact between Brown and Chiefs defensive back Trent McDuffie, who fell to the ground during the play. The referee’s call sparked some controversy, with some arguing Brown’s actions did not escalate to the level of pass interference.

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown makes a catch against Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie during the first half of Super Bowl LIX. (Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images)

Seven-time Super Bowl winner and FOX Sports lead analyst Tom Brady was among those who took issue with the call.

“He’s a big, physical, strong receiver. Just getting off the press on McDuffie. Aw, don’t like that one bit. This is too critical of a game. The hand-fighting is going on down the field. What do you think, Mike?” Brady asked FOX Sports rules expert Mike Pereira, who is also a member of the broadcast team.

Mike Pereira (Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

“Certainly I agree when you look at, there’s hand-fighting. There’s a little bit of shove at the end and a trip. I think it’s one that did not need to be called,” Pereira explained.

Brady followed Pereira’s comments by asserting that type of call shouldn’t happen in a game of this magnitude.

“I always thought in these games you let the players play. It should be decided on the field. Don’t like that call to start the game,” Brady finished.

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The Eagles went into the locker room at the Caesars Superdome with a 24-0 halftime lead. Hurts rushed for a touchdown and threw another in the first half. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes ended the first two quarters with just 33 passing yards. He threw two interceptions, one of which Eagles defensive back Cooper DeJean ran back for a touchdown.

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Chantz Martin is a sports writer for Fox News Digital.

February 10, 2025
China-linked firm gets EZ pass contract in New Jersey; ‘worse’ than TikTok

Billionaire investor Frank McCourt explains the ongoing negotiations between US investors and TikTok due to security concerns with the platform on ‘The Big Money Show.’

The major U.S. tolling company that was sold to a Singapore-based firm under the Biden administration is reigniting national security concerns over its links to China, after it won the E-ZPass contract for the New Jersey Turnpike for $250 million more than the American company that has operated it for 22 years.

In September, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority awarded TransCore – owned by Singapore Technologies Engineering, known as ST Engineering – the full authority to run the operation for $1.73 billion, beating out Newark’s Conduent, Inc., whose final offer was $1.479 billion.

Cars pass through a toll plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike on August 29, 2019 in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images / Getty Images)

Now, Conduent is crying foul, questioning the reasoning behind TransCore winning the contract it held for over two decades – and the risks the decision could carry.

Conduent filed an appeal over Nashville-based TransCore’s award, voicing concerns that owner ST Engineering’s parent company, Temasek Holdings, is wholly owned by the government of Singapore, with substantial ties to China.

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Until recently, Fu Chengyu, a longtime chairman of state-owned Chinese oil companies – whom the protest points to as a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with connections to China’s United Front – was a member of Temasek’s board of directors.

Fu Chengyu, former Sinopec chairman, speaks during Caijing Magazine Annual Conference 2021 at Beijing International Fortune Center on November 26, 2020 in Beijing, China. A biography on Fu posted by Columbia University says he is “a member of the Sta (VCG/VCG via Getty Images / Getty Images)

In 2022, The Washington Free Beacon reported Fu “served on the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference…a major hub of China’s united front system, which carries out foreign influence operations for the Chinese Communist Party.”

Although Fu stepped down from the board about six weeks after Conduent’s initial protest, he remains influential within Temasek as a director of a China-specific subsidiary of the company, according to the investment firm’s announcement of his departure from the board.

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When ST Engineering was seeking approval from the Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to acquire TransCore in 2021, a spokesperson from the company insisted that it operates “without any interference from the government or Temasek,” but national security experts warned that if the deal went through, it could mean TransCore’s data could end up in the hands of Singapore, China, and potentially other nations.

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Individuals, businesses and government entities that sign up for automatic payments at toll booths provide sensitive information – including addresses, credit card numbers, driver’s license information and license plate numbers – to tolling operators such as TransCore, which, as of that time, handled some 70% of the tolls paid in the U.S. The company has won more U.S. contracts since its acquisition.

Exposing Americans’ data to foreign adversaries has become a greater concern since then. Last year, Congress passed a law ordering video sharing app TikTok, owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, to divest or shut down in the U.S. over security risks, given that the CCP requires companies to provide it access to their data.

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Former U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli (D, N.J.), who is a consultant to Conduent, said that the situation with a foreign-owned company like TransCore having access to America’s tolling systems is “worse” than the threat from TikTok.

“I don’t really understand why this hasn’t gotten a lot, frankly, a lot more attention,” Torricelli told FOX Business in an interview. “I would rather the Chinese knew what I was watching on TikTok than have the Chinese monitoring my car going up and down the New Jersey Turnpike. I don’t really understand why people aren’t more upset about it.”

The New Jersey Turnpike is one of the busiest highways in the U.S., and is a principal artery between the major cities on the East Coast.

Vehicles proceed towards the Holland Tunnel from the New Jersey Turnpike extension in front of the skyline of midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building in New York City on October 8, 2023, in Jersey City, New Jersey ( Gary Hershorn/Getty Images / Getty Images)

Torricelli warned that every major U.S. government official traveling between New York and Washington, D.C., could potentially have their transportation patterns monitored if TransCore secures the contract to run it. He said that important cargo like chemicals and even U.S. military equipment and movements could be routinely tracked.

“There has to be some national security concern here,” the former senator said. “It is enormously more important than whatever nonsense is going on with TikTok, but it largely has been under the radar.”

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The New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) declined to comment when asked by FOX Business whether the commissioners were concerned about the potential for E-ZPass customers’ data being obtained by the governments of Singapore and China, and the reasoning behind awarding TransCore a contract that cost $250 million more than their competitor’s lower bid.

A spokesperson for the NJTA noted that Conduent’s protest of the E-ZPass contract award is still being decided, and said the Turnpike Authority is not going to comment before the process is concluded and issued a final agency decision.

TransCore’s president and CEO, Whitt Hall, told FOX Business in a statement that the company has been based in the U.S. for its entire 85-year history. He said TransCore “has always been absolutely transparent about its ownership structure,” and “is the only toll system provider in the world to manufacture all of its tolling products within the U.S.”

Cash and E-Z Pass signs at the New Jersey Turnpike. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) / Getty Images)

“TransCore delivers the most secure toll systems in the U.S. through a multi-tiered approach of best-in-class system design, strict compliance with all state and agency-specific data and cybersecurity requirements, and its National Security Agreement (NSA) that is in place with the U.S. Departments of Justice and Treasury to assure that no personally identifiable information or protected data collected is ever accessible by or shared with any foreign entity or affiliate,” Hall said. “Any allegations to the contrary are false.”

When TikTok was trying to convince the U.S. government to allow it to keep operating in the U.S. despite its Beijing-based ownership, the social media company invested $1.5 billion in securing Americans’ data in the U.S. with backups in Singapore, vowing to fully pivot to U.S.-based data storage.

Despite that, Congress passed a law requiring them to divest or be shut down.

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Former Sen. Torricelli believes TransCore deserves further scrutiny.

“If, indeed, we ever got to a point of high tension with the Chinese, they would be monitoring our most important internal transportation,” he told FOX Business. “It would be inconceivable that an American corporation would be allowed to have access to the internal travel of Chinese government officials and sensitive information and goods – inconceivable. I don’t blame the Chinese, they’re not at fault. It’s us.”

February 5, 2025
Former Lia Thomas opponents share ‘abuse,’ push Georgia lawmakers to pass trans athlete in women’s sports ban

A Georgia state Senate committee passed the Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act Thursday after testimony from multiple female athletes who have competed against and shared locker rooms with transgender athletes.

The bill would require athletes to participate on teams that align with their biological sex at birth. If it is signed into law, Georgia would become the 26th state in the U.S. to have a law in place to prevent or restrict transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.

Georgia has been a prime frontier for this issue after the state hosted the 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships, which included transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.

Two of Thomas’ former opponents testified at Thursday’s state congressional hearing.

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Riley Gaines, a spokeswoman for the Independent Women’s Forum, tied Lia Thomas for fifth place in the 200 freestyle finals at the NCAA swimming and diving championships. (Brett Davis/USA Today Sports)

Former North Carolina State women’s swimmer Kylee Alons, a 31-time All-American and two-time NCAA champion, spoke about the experience competing against and sharing a locker room with Thomas.

“We all were just guinea pigs for a giant social experiment formed by the NCAA regarding how much abuse and blatant disregard women would be forced to take in silence,” Alons said.

Alons recounted the emotions she felt sharing competitive areas with Thomas, and how much sadness she felt watching women lose out on chances to compete fairly at the event. Alons even said she wanted to cry and leave the event after seeing Thomas win the 500-meter freestyle.

“It all just felt so off and wrong,” she said.

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Things got much more difficult for Lyons after she experienced sharing a locker room with Thomas.

“I go to the locker room that day only to see Thomas and realize there is no escape from this nightmare, no matter where I go. I had no idea he was going to be allowed in the women’s locker room as we did not consent to have a man in our locker room,” Lyons said

“I am immediately on edge every time I enter that locker room afterward, knowing at any moment a man can walk in on me changing.

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Lyons added she felt so uncomfortable she resorted to abandoning the locker room altogether and instead changed in a storage closet behind the bleachers.

Former University of Kentucky swimmer Kaitlynn Wheeler joined Lyons in recounting the experience of sharing a locker room with Thomas.

“Young women, teenage girls were forced to undress next to a fully intact biological male who exposed himself to us, while we were simultaneously fully exposed,” Wheeler said. “We were never asked. We were never given a choice or another option. We were just expected to be OK with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.”

Penn Quakers swimmer Lia Thomas prepares for the 200 free at the NCAA swimming and diving championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta March 18, 2022. (Brett Davis/USA Today Sports)

Wheeler and Lyons are plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit against the NCAA led by fellow former swimmer and 2022 NCAA championship competitor Riley Gaines over the NCAA’s policies on gender ideology.

Wheeler and Lyons shared their experiences with a message urging state senators at the hearing to pass the Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act.

The bill drew opposition from parents, physicians and others. Dr. Jodi Greenwald, a Roswell pediatrician, told the panel that transgender girls are not predators and warned that transgender youth are more at risk of suicide.

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The bill passed by a vote of 8-3 after a nearly two-hour hearing.

Lt. Gov. Bill Jones called the vote an important step toward one of his critical goals of the session.

“Biological men do not belong in women’s sports, period,” Jones said.

“This is common sense to everyone but the most radical liberals in Georgia. The Senate has always led the way on protecting women’s sports, and with Senate Bill 1, we will continue to be on the right side of this commonsense issue.

“I will never waver in the fight to protect our sisters and our daughters participating on equal footing in Georgia sports. I look forward to Senate Bill 1 becoming law and the protection of women’s sports becoming a reality for all female athletes in Georgia.”

A federal ban on transgender inclusion in girls and women’s sports is also moving through Congress.

The House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act Jan. 14, which would cut federal funding for any public educational institution that allows transgender athletes to compete against girls and women in sports.

Every Republican U.S. representative voted in favor of the bill. Only two Democrats, Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, both of Texas, voted to pass it. The remaining 206 House House Democrats opposed it. Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., voted “present.”

A recent New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don’t think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people polled, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.

Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.

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Jackson Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He previously worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.

January 31, 2025
Stadium-sized asteroid will pass relatively close to Earth, NASA says

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is monitoring a “potentially hazardous” asteroid that is moving past Earth on Tuesday.

NASA told Fox News Digital that the rocky object, which has been named 2024 ON, is 350 meters long by 180 meters wide, which roughly equals 1,150 feet by 590 feet – larger than previous estimates.

NASA has deemed the asteroid “stadium-sized” and reported it was 621,000 miles away from Earth on Tuesday morning, which is considered relatively close. Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Fox News Digital that an asteroid of this size coming this close to Earth only happens every five to ten years.

Farnocchia, who works at the laboratory’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, said that the last time a large meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere was in Russia in 2013. Earth has not been hit by a meteor of 2024 ON’s size since prehistoric times.

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NASA announced that a stadium-sized asteroid would be passing “relatively close” to Earth on Tuesday. (iStock)

Although the asteroid is close enough to Earth to be deemed a “potentially hazardous object,” Farnocchia said there is no chance the asteroid will hit Earth. The asteroid would need to be within a couple of hundred miles to be a concern.

“We actually check [about the possibility of collision], not just for the immediate future, but also for the next hundred years,” the engineer explained. “And there is no possibility of collision in the next hundred years.”

The asteroid is one of five that will pass by Earth over the next two days, but the other rocky objects will not come nearly as close as 2024 ON. The four asteroids will be between 1.1 to 3.9 million miles away from Earth, and three of the asteroids measure roughly 51 feet in diameter, which is the size of a house.

2024 ON will be 621,000 miles from Earth on Tuesday night, NASA says. (NASA)

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One of the asteroids, named 2013 FW13, measures around 510 feet in diameter and will pass by Earth on Wednesday.

NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard tracks “asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth.” According to a data table, 2024 ON was traveling at around 8.8 kilometers per second on Tuesday morning, which is nearly 20,000 miles per hour.

“The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter,” the organization’s website explains.

NASA announced that a stadium-sized asteroid would be passing “relatively close” to Earth on Tuesday. (iStock)

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“The dashboard displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object.”

Andrea Vacchiano is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Readers can send story tips to andrea.vacchiano@fox.com.

January 23, 2025