A new era has begun in North Carolina, and one former Tar Heel student is looking to make big bucks because of it.

Bill Belichick was introduced as UNC’s head football coach on Thursday – initial reports were scoffed at, but alas, it is all real.

Well, now that Belichick is wearing the light blue, a UNC alum has filed a trademark to commemorate the historic moment.

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Anthony Proscia, who graduated in 2000, has filed for a trademark for the term “Chapel Bill,” of course, a play on the location of the school, according to TMZ.

The school actually used the phrase on X on Thursday when Belichick arrived at the facility for his press conference.

Proscia told TMZ that he would allow the school or Belichick to have the trademark or license apparel under it, but he will most definitely be using it for merchandise himself.

North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Bill Belichick, left, poses with Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham during a press conference on Dec. 12, 2024 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

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It is Belichick’s first college gig after spending nearly 50 years on NFL sidelines, and despite winning eight Super Bowls, he called the UNC gig a “dream come true.”

“​​I’ve always wanted to coach in college football,” Belichick said. “It just never really worked out. Had some good years in the NFL, so that was OK. But this is really a dream come true.”

North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Bill Belichick answers questions during a press conference at Loudermilk Center for Excellence. (Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images)

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Belichick interviewed for at least two NFL jobs this past offseason after he and the New England Patriots parted ways after 24 years – Belichick won six Super Bowls with the Pats.

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Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway shredded a Never Trump activist and argued that movement helped cost Democratsthe election.

During the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, a large panel of political figures offered their autopsies of why the Harris campaign failed and how the Trump campaign successfully tapped into changes reshaping American culture in 2024.

“The Democratic Party right now, every day they wake up it’s still January 6, 2021, on the calendar,” Conway said. “You’re out of touch with the public. This election was a rejection of wokeness, and people – every state went more red except Nebraska and Washington state. That is a sweep. That is a mandate. That is President Trump coming into office and the American people saying, ‘Please make my life safer, more secure, more affordable, please get us out of these foreign engagements.’”

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But the anti-Trump Republicans, she said, were on another trajectory. 

“I think the always-wrong Never Trumpers, who had unlimited money, cost the party, cost the Democratic Party, which they say they’re not even a member, another presidential election,” she said.

Sarah Longwell, publisher of Never Trump news outlet The Bulwark and host of “The Focus Group” podcast, began to respond and got into a back and forth with Conway.

“You have stage 5 Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Conway charged. 

Longwell replied, “I think you guys are bad people who are bad – yes – who are bad for the country – yes – who attacked the Constitution,” while Conway continued talking and asking, “Who’s ‘you guys’? The country?”

“Stop, please, stop,” host Maggie Haberman pleaded as the women talked over each other.

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a reception at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after being named TIME’s “Person of the Year” for the second time on December 12, 2024, in New York City. Trump followed the event by ringing the opening bell on the trading floor.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Longwell did acknowledge some of the Democrat Party’s flaws in this election, ranging from arguing that President Biden should not have run for reelection to how “Democrats have no answer, no plan on immigration, and voters really care about it.”

Nonetheless, she went on to argue that Republicans won partly because they “lie to people all the time, Donald Trump is a professional liar, and as a result they are better at working the media channels.”

“So the people are stupid, you’re sitting here saying the American people are stupid?” Conway asked. 

“No, I’m saying you guys are better at talking-,” Longwell started to respond as Conway again asked what she meant by “you guys.” 

“The Trump campaign,” Longwell responded and the pair continued.

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Conway was Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, but did not have a role in the Trump-Vance 2024 campaign. 

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office again, many Democratic leaders are vowing to resist the incoming administration’s immigration plans.

While some leaders, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have shifted their attitude toward Trump’s upcoming agenda, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick sent a warning to other blue city and state leaders. 

“Every blue state governor and mayor who does this: You better buck up, buttercup. I don’t care if you’re male or female. We mean business in Texas, and Tom Homan means business and President Trump means business,” Patrick said Thursday on “The Ingraham Angle.” 

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Although a number of Democratic leaders vowed to resist Trump’s immigration agenda, top party names including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and New York City Mayor Eric Adams seemed to change their tune on the president-elect’s plans. 

Adams revealed he has the “same goal” as Trump when it comes to illegal immigration. 

“His goal is the same goal I have,” Adams said. “We cannot allow dangerous individuals to commit repeated violent acts of violence in our cities across America. This can’t be a safe haven for violent individuals. You have a right, a privilege, to live in this country, and those who want to commit acts of violence — they are violating that privilege.”

Pritzker said he agrees with one part of “border czar” appointee Tom Homan’s historic mass deportation campaign under the incoming Trump administration.

“Violent criminals who are undocumented and convicted of violent crime should be deported,” Pritzker said at a news conference, FOX 32 Chicago reported. “I do not want them in my state, I don’t think they should be in the United States.”

Despite comments from Pritzker and Adams, a slew of Democratic lawmakers and officials across the country have promised either not to cooperate with the incoming Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations or to resist them entirely. 

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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said in November he was willing to go to jail over opposition to the deportations. 

Homan had responded to the statement by saying he was willing to jail him, noting the same statutes he pointed to when speaking to “Hannity.”

“I’m absolutely disgusted by every act of this administration and every act of every Democrat in every blue state and blue city,” Patrick said, claiming the blue leaders are “undermining the will of the people” and “putting their people in harm’s way.”

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Patrick also torched the Biden administration and President Biden’s “legacy.”

“He lets off his son. He’s letting off all these criminals. He’s doing everything he can with these blue state governors and mayors to destroy this country. They are traitors to this country, leaving terrorists, leaving murderers, leaving rapists in this country, and now he wants to sabotage this president before he takes off. It is disgraceful and disgusting,” he said. 

“[Biden] will go down as the worst, most despicable president in the history of this country because no one has done more to damage this country and hurt American citizens.”

Fox News Digital’s Pilar Arias and Adam Shaw contributed to this report. 

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is putting himself forward as a contender to be the next chair of the House Rules Committee, an influential panel that acts as the last gatekeeper for most bills before they get a House-wide vote.

“I will defer to the speaker on that,” Roy said when asked about the chairmanship on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast this week. “Obviously, I have put my name out there.”

It would be an astonishing ascent for a lawmaker who has been a vocal critic of House leadership on certain issues, particularly on government spending.

More recently, however, the GOP rebel – and current policy chair of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus – has gained a reputation for being a conduit between GOP leaders and the lawmakers usually known for bucking their directives.

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Roy got a seat on the House Rules Committee as part of a deal with ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in January 2023 to expand conservative representation – a piece of a wider compromise for McCarthy to win his short-lived House speakership.

The Texas Republican was not one of the eight Republicans who later voted to oust McCarthy despite his early criticism – and was even publicly skeptical of his colleagues’ decision to do so.

The House Rules Committee is the final stop for bills before a House-wide vote. The committee and its chair are responsible for dictating the terms of debate on a bill and what, if any, amendments will also get a vote.

After a bill passes the House Rules Committee, it is then subject to a House-wide “rule vote” to allow for debate on the legislation before a vote on final passage.

In his two years on the committee, Roy has voted against several House rules, which could put his hopes for the role in jeopardy.

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That decision is up to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

He’s scored support from multiple colleagues, however – Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital on Thursday, “He’d be great. I support him 100%.”

Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, wrote on X that Roy “will build the conservative coalition in the House needed to support President Trump’s priorities as Rule Committee chairman.”

But unlike other committees, whose chairpersons are selected by a wider group of lawmakers, only the House speaker gets a say for the House Rules panel.

“I think it’s important to have a rules chairman, whoever that may be, that will support leadership,” one GOP lawmaker granted anonymity to speak freely said about Roy’s bid. 

“The speaker is going to get his agenda passed one way or the other, and so whoever he appoints to that – that’s going to be the deal. Because he can remove them and then replace them.”

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Current House Rules Committee Chairman Michael Burgess is retiring at the end of this year (Getty Images)

Another GOP lawmaker said, “He’s one of the brightest and knows procedure, but most won’t trust him in that role.”

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Rumors are swirling that current House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., is also in contention for the role.

Current House Rules Committee Chairman Michael Burgess, R-Texas, is retiring at the end of this year. 

A New Jersey lawmaker says he “can’t believe” how the government is wording its investigation into recent drone sightings across northeast America.

State Assemblyman Paul Kanitra joined “Fox News @ Night” on Thursday to discuss the bipartisan outrage at how the government is handling the drone sightings.

“We’re a polarized society, but I can tell you when we were in ‘The Rock,’ our security building in New Jersey, and we had a hundred state legislators from across the political spectrum – upper house, lower house – everyone was equally angry at this situation,” Kanitra said.

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The first drone sighting took place in New Jersey on Nov. 18, the Federal Aviation Administration said earlier this month, prompting the agency to issue two temporary flight restrictions.

Kanitra said he learned during an intelligence briefing for state legislators on Wednesday that there have been confirmed drone sightings “every night since then.”

In a Facebook post, Kanitra said he implored the Department of Homeland Security during that briefing to “take swift and decisive action” against the drones, describing the situation as “infuriating.”

Photos taken in the Bay Shore section of Toms River in New Jersey appear to show large drones hovering above the FAA’s 400-feet regulation on Sunday, Dec. 8. (Doug Hood/Asbury Park Press)

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On Thursday, the White House said an investigation is in its beginning stages, but nothing, thus far, has revealed malicious or criminal intent, or a national security threat.

“If these are foreign adversaries with these drones, and we’re a month into this already and we haven’t done nearly enough, I can’t believe that our government is wording this the way that they are,” he said on “Fox News @ Night.”

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Kanitra took a picture from a distance of apparent drones in the New Jersey sky on Thursday night.

New Jersey State Assemblyman Paul Kanitra took a photo of what appears to be multiple drones hovering in the New Jersey sky on Thursday, Dec. 13. (Paul Kanitra / “Fox News @ Night”)

He said “these are not hobbyist drones” and the military should have the technology needed to get quality photos.

Lisa Kudrow fears an uncertain future as artificial intelligence becomes more and more prevalent in Hollywood. 

During a recent appearance on the “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard” podcast, she discussed the recent film, “Here,” directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. The movie used AI to allow the stars to play the same characters all the way from their teen years to old age.

“They shot it, and they could actually shoot the scene and then look at the playback of them as younger, and it’s ready for them to see,” Kudrow said.

She continued, “And all I got from that was, this is an endorsement for AI and oh my god. It’s not like, ‘Oh, it’s going to ruin everything,’ but what will be left? Forget actors, what about up-and-coming actors? They’ll just be licensing and recycling.”

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Kudrow also worried about the impact of AI outside the entertainment industry.

“Set that completely aside, what work will there be for human beings? Then what? There’ll be some kind of living stipend for people, you won’t have to work? How can it possibly be enough?”

Hanks confirmed the use of AI in the film last month when he appeared on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast. 

“You go and you do a data scan, and then they match it with every photograph that exists of me and they go back and find as many photographs of me at the age of 17, 18, 19 . . . my entire life. Then they jam those in using, are you ready for it, the scary word? They use AI in order to do all the work and make it happen faster,” he said.

Tom Hanks confirmed AI was used to make him and co-star Robin Wright appear younger and older throughout the film.  (© 2023 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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The “Forrest Gump” star continued, “We would have two monitors while we were shooting. One monitor was the way we really look, and the other monitor with just about a nano second’s lag time was us in the deep fake technology. So on one monitor, I’m a 67-year-old man pretending he’s in high school, and on the other monitor, I’m 17.”

Hanks didn’t seem as worried by AI, saying “All it is, is a movie-making tool.”

“It’s not like, ‘Oh, it’s going to ruin everything,’ but what will be left?” 

— Lisa Kudrow

He noted that to do the kind of work seen in “Here,” playing characters at different ages, “we still had hours in the makeup trailer, because we had to have wigs and hair.”

Instead of the motion capture dots often seen on actors’ faces in behind the scenes images, Hanks revealed that technology used on “Here” was able to use “the pores of your face just to match it like that.”

Hanks didn’t express fear of AI, saying, “All it is, is a movie-making tool.” (© 2023 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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The Oscar-winner also noted another impact AI had on their performances.

“Because we also had to look at the timing and the cadence of it and stuff like that, there is a factor . . . we thought that we were speaking at a very realistic cadence, and then we’d go and watch a playback and it was as slow as molasses,” he explained.

“All it is, is a movie-making tool.”

— Tom Hanks on AI

The “Captain Phillips” star added, “It didn’t make it any more fun to sit there and look at ourselves dressed up as we were.”

Hanks has had to warn fans about fake ads using his name, likeness and voice via AI to promote products.

Hanks has appeared in several projects that use artificial intelligence, including “The Polar Express” and “Here.”  (Chris Hyde)

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In August, he posted a statement on Instagram, saying, “There are multiple ads over the internet falsely using my name, likeness and voice promoting miracle cures and wonder drugs. These ads have been created without my consent, fraudulently and through AI.”

He continued, “I have nothing to do with these posts or the productions and treatments, or the spokespeople touting these cures. I have type 2 diabetes, and I ONLY work with my board certified doctor regarding my treatment. DO NOT BE FOOLED. DO NOT BE SWINDLED. DO NOT LOSE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.”

The Oscar-winner has had his likeness used in several AI scams.  (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

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Hanks’ likeness was also used in a dental company scan last October, when he issued a similar warning to fans.