Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck’s 4th of July holiday spent apart as split rumors swirl

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck spent the 4th of July holiday apart as rumors continue to swirl that their marriage is in trouble.

The "Accountant" star had his wedding ring on when he went to lunch with his child, Fin, in Los Angeles on Thursday. He wore a blue button down and tan khakis.

While Affleck was with his kids in L.A., Lopez was with friends in the Hamptons. 

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The "On the Floor" singer was also wearing her wedding ring on the trip, as she was seen spending time with her manager, Benny Medina, shopping for plants.

Lopez shared some photos of her Hamptons fun on her Instagram. In the carousel of photos, she's sitting on a fence smiling with rows of purple flowers behind her, posing among yellow flowers and standing by a fence with a sign that read, "NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE PROPERTY."

She captioned her post, "Happy Fourth," including a red rose and white heart emoji.

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The 54-year-old also showed her adventures on her Instagram Story, sharing a photo with friend Stevie Mackey in the car with flowers, as well as a selfie with animated fireworks.

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Fox News Digital has reached out to reps for Lopez and Affleck for comment.

Prior to 2024, Lopez and Affleck spent time together for the holiday. Last year, the two enjoyed a celebration hosted by billionaire sports merchandising magnate Michael Rubin. They were joined by tons of other stars, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Tom Brady, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber. 

In one group photo from the party in 2023, Lopez and Affleck were with his daughter, Violet.

Back in 2021, the actor and the singer were spotted looking very coupled up in the Hamptons. The two were photographed with their arms around each other, wearing matching ensembles while walking by the beach.

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The "Let's Get Loud" singer has been a big fan of spending time in the New York celebrity hot spot with her current flames for the 4th of July. Back in 2020, Lopez and her then-fiance, Alex Rodriguez, were photographed riding bicycles over the holiday weekend. Lopez and A-Rod started dating in 2017, got engaged in 2019 and split in 2021.

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In 2013, she and then-boyfriend, Casper Smart, were seen holding hands while out and about enjoying the Hamptons sunshine. The two had an on-again-off-again relationship from 2011 to 2016.

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However, this year the "Atlas" star was without her husband, Affleck, amid divorce rumors.

The two were married in July 2022, but now, Affleck has reportedly moved all of his belongings out of the home they share. Lopez and Affleck have been living separately, a source previously confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Lopez is living at the couple's $60.8 million Beverly Hills mansion, while the 51-year-old actor is staying in a rental a few miles away in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to People magazine.

According to a source close to the couple who spoke with People, the "Argo" star removed all of his personal items from the mansion ahead of Lopez's return from her solo vacation in Italy.

"He started moving out a while ago," a source told Fox News Digital. "The marriage is completely over, and Jennifer is heartbroken. She loves love and wanted this to work so badly."

Another source confirmed to Fox News Digital that Affleck has made work his main focus during his marital troubles.

"Ben has been working nonstop and spending a lot of time at his office," the insider said. "He has a lot of projects he’s working on that he’s excited about. He’s quite hands-on with his company (Artists Equity). He really wants to continue focusing on directing, acting and producing."

Affleck is starring in and producing the action thriller "The Accountant 2," which is in production in Los Angeles.

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Fox News Digital's Ashley Hume contributed to this report.

Iranian voters to choose between hard-line former negotiator and reformist lawmaker in presidential runoff

Iranians voted Friday in a runoff presidential election between a hard-line former nuclear negotiator and a reformist lawmaker, with both men trying to convince a skeptical public to cast ballots after years of economic woes and mass protests roiling the Islamic Republic.

The race between hard-liner Saeed Jalili and Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime member of parliament, comes after a first round of voting saw the lowest turnout ever for an Iranian election, leaving turnout Friday a major question.

Meanwhile, wider tensions have gripped the Middle East over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. In April, Iran launched its first-ever direct attack on Israel over the war in Gaza, while militia groups that Tehran arms in the region — such as the Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels — are engaged in the fighting and have escalated their attacks.

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Iran also continues to enrich uranium at near weapons-grade levels and maintains a stockpile large enough to build several nuclear weapons, should it choose to do so. And while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remains the final decision-maker on matters of state, whichever man ends up winning the presidency could bend the country's foreign policy toward either confrontation or collaboration with the West.

A heavy security presence could be seen on the streets of Tehran on Friday, as crowds appeared light at dozens of polling places. State television broadcast scenes of modest lines at polling centers around the country.

Both Jalili and Pezeshkian voted in southern Tehran, home to many poor neighborhoods, in a bid to boost turnout. Though Pezeshzkian came out on top in the first round of voting on June 28, Jalili has been trying to secure the votes of people who supported hard-line parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, who came in third and later endorsed the former negotiator.

One voter, 27-year-old Yaghoub Mohammadi, said he voted for Jalili in both rounds.

"He is clean, without depending on powerful people in the establishment," Mohammadi said. "He represents those who have no access to power."

Voter Samira Sharafi, the 34-year-old mother of a toddler, said she voted for reformist Pezeshkian, despite having voted for Qalibaf in the first round. She described him as "more experienced" than Jalili.

There have been calls for a boycott, including from imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, though potential voters in Iran appear to have made the decision not to participate last week on their own as there’s no widely accepted opposition movement operating within or outside of the country.

State television broadcast images of modest lines at select polling places around the country as polls opened Friday.

As has been the case since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, women and those calling for radical change have been barred from the ballot while the vote itself will have no oversight from internationally recognized monitors.

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, who is in charge of overseeing the election, announced all the polls had opened at 8 a.m. local time.

Khamenei cast one of the election’s first votes from his residence, television cameras and photographers capturing him dropping the ballot into the box.

"I have heard that people’s enthusiasm is more than before," Khamenei said. "God willing, people vote and choose the best" candidate.

However, Khamenei on Wednesday said that those who didn’t vote last week weren’t against the country’s Shiite theocracy.

"There are reasons behind this matter which should be examined by sociologists and those involved in politics," he said.

More than 61 million Iranians over the age of 18 are eligible to vote, with about 18 million of them between 18 to 30. Elections are scheduled to end at 6 p.m. local, but traditionally get extended until midnight to boost participation.

Friday’s election marks only Iran’s second presidential runoff since 1979. The first came in 2005, when hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bested former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Under Ahmadinejad, Iran faced international sanctions over its advancing nuclear program, as well as the 2009 Green Movement protests and the crackdown that smashed them.

Pezeshkian’s supporters have been warning Jalili will bring a "Taliban"-style government into Tehran, while Jalili has criticized Pezeshkian for running a campaign of fear-mongering.

The election comes after the 63-year-old late President Ebrahim Raisi died in a May 19 helicopter crash that also killed the country’s foreign minister and others. He was seen as a protege of Khamenei and a potential successor as supreme leader. Still, many knew him for his involvement in the mass executions that Iran conducted in 1988, and for his role in the bloody crackdowns on dissent that followed protests over the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman detained by police over allegedly improperly wearing the mandatory headscarf, or hijab.

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