Josh Duhamel prefers to raise his sons in his rural cabin in Minnesota rather than in the hustle and bustle of Hollywood.During an interview with Fox News Digital, the "Ransom Canyon" star said his 11-year-old son, Axl, is able to get to work in Minnesota, which isn't possible in Los Angeles."I think it's really about the memories that we make as a family. My parents love coming out here to hang out. My wife's parents love hanging out here. My son, Axl, my 11-year-old … L.A., there's a lot of good things about L.A., but it's good for him to get his hands dirty and come out into the woods and help dad with whatever," Duhamel said.He shared a story about a time that Axl had to help his dad, which he wasn't too happy about. JOSH DUHAMEL'S ‘DOOMSDAY CABIN’ AWAY FROM HOLLYWOOD ALLOWS HIS KIDS TO BE KIDS"We had a tree that fell over in the winter. We had to go out there and cut it up and put it in the back of the side-by-side and go stack the wood. He's not doing that in Los Angeles, you know, and he sort of does it begrudgingly, but he's going to be grateful because one day he's going to have to do all this stuff, you know, and I think that it's these little lessons."WATCH: Josh Duhamel says Midwest lifestyle allows him to teach kids lessons they can't learn in LADuhamel shares Axl with ex-wife, Fergie. The actor married Audra Mari in 2022 and the couple share one-year-old Shepherd."Shepherd is 15 months, he's going to be doing the same thing, and I think that these things just help contribute, because we're 40 miles from anything here, there's nothing. We have to pretty much fend for ourselves when we're out here. So these kids need to learn how to do this stuff, and they're not going to get to do that in L.A. "So, for that reason alone, I think it's great. Plus they just love it. They have buddies out here, they get to, you know, go jet skiing and tubing and all those things that you do on a lake," Duhamel said.Since Duhamel has spent time off the grid in Minnesota, he has been able to become detached from a lot of things. "Something happens as soon as I get out here, my blood pressure drops. It's not about my phone. It's not about anything else other than making sure we got what we need to survive. It's not like we're living hand to mouth. We make sure we have enough groceries and stuff. Yesterday, we came out here, the septic tank was frozen. We had to figure out how to get it unfrozen so that we had water. I can't just call up some dude to come out and do it. It's just us. So we got to figure it out," Duhamel said.He continued, "I think it's those kinds of things that I really like about it because it's back to the basics. It's making sure you got enough food, enough water, you're warm enough and then, from there, we just start to have the fun. So it's not taking advantage of or taking for granted those luxuries and amenities that I think we all grow accustomed to."LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLiving off the grid is not just a personal choice for Duhamel and his family; he actually encourages everyone to give it a try.WATCH: Josh Duhamel finds similarities in his 'Ransom Canyon' character"It's always fun because I love having friends come out here. First, it's a lot when you first get out here, but then after two or three days, they just love it. Like I said, we're not living in tents out here, but it takes a day or two to get accustomed to it because you're away from all those things. I do think that it's good for people to get a taste of it. I think that we're missing a lot of that. I think we're sort of floating a lot with getting so caught up in our phones and what's being fed to us. I think if you can just step away from that, you get a new perspective on things," Duhamel said.On April 16, Duhamel jokingly told Country Living that he referred to his property as his "doomsday cabin," which is located up a two-mile dirt path.JOSH DUHAMEL BLAMES HOLLYWOOD FOR FERGIE DIVORCE, SAYS IT CAN ‘SUCK THE SOUL OUT OF YOU’Duhamel purchased some land and spent the last 15 years building a rustic cabin. He eventually added a second parcel that came with a hunting shack and a third parcel that came with a home. "It’s a cute little red cabin with a stone chimney that sits right on the water; it’s basically a Terry Redlin painting," he told the outlet, referring to the famous artist's scenic work.APP USERS CLICK HEREIn Duhamel's professional life, the rom-com icon has taken to the small screen to star in Netflix's "Ransom Canyon." In the series, Duhamel plays Staten Kirkland, who is fighting to protect his land in a small town in Texas.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER"I think Stan and I, I really related to this dude from the very beginning because of the things I mentioned before with having grown up in North Dakota, having a property out here at the cabin that I have a lot of pride in. I've spent a lot of years shaping and building this place out. And I don't have cattle or horses, but I do have tractors and all the other stuff that I think you need to run a ranch. APP USERS CLICK HERE"And that's really what I think drew me to this guy on the outset. I really sort of felt like it was something I could dig into and that he just lost his wife and his son a year to the day we start the show. So he's really starting from a dark place and sort of, how do I navigate that? How do I pull this guy out of this thing? And he's sort of back into the real world for the first time in years," Duhamel said."It was just a lot of fun. I love this world. I love his character. And we have a great cast and a great team of writers and a crew that helped make it all come to life," he concluded.The "Ransom Canyon" cast also includes Minka Kelly, James Brolin and Jack Schumacher. It's streaming now on Netflix.

A Rhode Island beach town police department searched for clandestine graves following rumors of a New England serial killer spreading like wildfire on social media.The rumors stem from the discoveries of eight bodies across Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts between March and April, fueling hysteria of a potential New England serial killer on Facebook, TikTok and other social media. So far, however, local and state police have not linked any of the eight deaths, and it is unclear how many of the victims, if any, died by homicide."During the past week, the Narragansett Police were made aware of concerning posts circulating online where the author posted anonymously in a Facebook group dedicated to New England Serial Killers," Narragansett police wrote on Facebook on Thursday. "Only the group administrator could see the actual user name of the individual. The post alluded to the possibility that multiple bodies were buried in Black Point area of Scarborough Beach."A private Facebook group previously dubbed "New England Serial Killer," which has since lost its name due to Facebook policies, has more than 65,300 members. Last week, an anonymous member of the group made an eerie confession that prompted the Narragansett police to investigate.NEW ENGLAND SERIAL KILLER FEARS HEIGHTEN AFTER EIGHTH IDYLLIC TOWN ROCKED BY GRUESOME DISCOVERY"It looked like someone was trying to get a rise. I mean, he referenced Rick Rolling the group, he referenced this being prose. One of his poems actually spelled out the word ‘hoax’ if you spelled out the first letter of the paragraphs," Det. Sgt. Brent Kuzman told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "So, it seemed pretty obvious that this was kind of a nothing thing, but I never want to be the person that didn't do something."His fellow officers agreed, and they expensed some resources for searches on Monday and again on Tuesday with cadaver dogs."It was negative," Kuzman said of the post.NEW ENGLAND SERIAL KILLER: CT RIVER VALLEY SURVIVOR STABBED 27 TIMES WARNS LOCALS TO REMAIN ‘VIGILANT’The Narragansett PD said in its Facebook post that "detectives, along with two RISP cadaver K9s conducted an extensive search of the area with negative results for any clandestine graves. Narragansett Detectives have also been in communication with the FBI regarding this matter.""Obviously, you can look at it as a waste of resources, but we were making sure it was completely not true. So, it's that double-edged sword. It's like responding to a fire alarm at a high school," Kuzman said. "You always gotta do it, and you don't want to make it a reaction where it's a benefit to the person doing it, but you also want to do your due diligence and make sure there is nothing to worry about.""As we know…a nosy neighbor has solved multiple crimes," Kuzman said.Over the last two months, eight bodies or sets of human remains have been located in New Haven, Norwalk, Groton and Killingly, Connecticut; Foster, Rhode Island; and Framingham, Plymouth, and now Springfield, Massachusetts. Some social media sleuths say these discoveries of human remains — particularly, female remains — across the three neighboring states may indicate a serial killer, but police have made no indication of that being the case.NEW ENGLAND SERIAL KILLER FEARS MERIT ‘REVIEW AND INVESTIGATION’ AFTER REMAINS FOUND ACROSS 3 STATES: EXPERTThe Facebook group has garnered more than 15,000 new members over a few weeks.Kuzman noted that within the Facebook group, "there must be some sort of confirmation bias, because you're in the group for that reason," and members may be making connections between cases that are not relevant.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPSearches for "New England serial killer" on Google spiked around April 7, according to data from the search engine.

China is steadily expanding in the Bahamas through projects that blur economic development and geopolitical aims, an expert warned. "The People's Republic of China has been making diplomatic, economic and even military and quasi-military inroads into the Caribbean, South and Central America for the past couple of decades," retired Rear Adm. Peter Brown, former Homeland Security advisor to President Donald Trump, told Fox News Digital.Brown pointed to the rise in dual-use infrastructure projects along the Bahamas coastline, which is located just 50 miles off the coast of Florida. "It doesn't take a lot of imagination for the People's Republic of China to use its commercial footprint in the Bahamas to monitor, exploit and perhaps even do worse to [the] U.S.," he said. VACATION HOT SPOT USED AS ‘SPRINGBOARD’ FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: EXPERTPointing to the Chinese-controlled British Colonial Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas, Brown said that its location directly across from the U.S. Embassy could give way to intelligence gathering on U.S. personnel."It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to think that additional electronics were put in there with the purpose and the task of keeping an eye not only on the U.S. Embassy itself, but also the U.S. Embassy visitors," he said.The hotel is owned by a Chinese company, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, which has raised geopolitical concerns given its location. Fox News Digital has reached out to the British Colonial Hotel for comment.China has invested heavily in the Bahamas through a range of additional high-profile projects, including a $40 million grant for a national stadium, a $3 billion mega-port in Freeport, and $40 million for the North Abaco Port and Little Abaco Bridge.Additionally, China EXIM Bank provided over $54 million in loans to construct a four-lane highway and nearly $3 billion to finance the development of the Baha Mar Resort.Many of these strategic investments came in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Dorian in 2019 that left much of the archipelago nation decimated.GORDON CHANG: REMOVE CHINA FROM WESTERN HEMISPHEREIn 2019, now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned in a Miami Herald op-ed that the devastation caused by the natural disaster could create an opening for the People’s Republic of China to use aid as a Trojan horse to gain a foothold near American shores."By targeting the Bahamian government in this period of crisis, Beijing would be making the same opportunistic play to access critical foreign infrastructure," Rubio wrote in 2019. "But in this case, the national security threat is especially perilous, as it would give China a foothold just 50 miles from the coast of Florida."In addition to growing Chinese infrastructure influence, Brown highlighted the Bahamas' role in U.S. military testing and its position under key space launch paths.FLORIDA OFFICIALS DIVIDED OVER ICE DEPORTATION DEAL AIMED AT CRIMINAL ALIENS: ‘EMBARRASSED FOR OUR CITY’"The U.S. Navy has an underwater testing facility, called Autech, that does very significant and sensitive submarine and anti-submarine warfare work," he said. "[And] the Bahamas are right in the flight path of many space launches."Brown said that the biggest benefit that the U.S. gets from an ongoing collaborative relationship with the Bahamas is security."The better relationship we have, the more secure we can be, because we can detect and deal with issues when they're still kind on the Bahamas side of the Straits of Florida," he said."From an economic standpoint, the huge gain for the Bahamas is that trade and tourism transportation with the United States," he said. "So, it's in our mutual interest for us to have a good relationship with the Bahamians."CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAs China increases its presence in the region, the U.S. risks losing influence if it fails to remain the Bahamas' primary ally, Brown said."If we're not the Bahamas' best friend, somebody else will be—and we don't want that somebody to be China."

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Sunday that comments from U.S. officials about the Arctic island have been disrespectful and that the island cannot be purchased, in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly floated the idea of buying the strategic territory.Nielsen said Greenland "will never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just anyone" as he stood by Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during a joint press conference at Frederiksen's Marienborg official residence in Lyngby, Denmark.The Greenlandic prime minister was meeting with Frederiksen on the second day of a three-day official visit to Denmark. Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark."The talks from the United States have not been respectful," Nielsen said. "The words used have not been respectful. That’s why we need in this situation, we need to stand together."TRUMP SAYS HE WASN'T 'TROLLING' ABOUT ACQUIRING GREENLAND, CANADA AS 51ST STATEPolitical parties in Greenland recently agreed to form a broad-based new coalition government amid Trump’s targets on the territory.This, as the island has for years been leaning toward eventual independence from Denmark.Nielsen’s three-day visit seeks to address future cooperation between the two countries."Denmark has the will to invest in the Greenlandic society, and we don’t just have that for historical reasons. We also have that because we are part of (the Danish) commonwealth with each other," Frederiksen said."We of course have a will to also continue investing in the Greenlandic society," she added.Nielsen is scheduled to meet Denmark's King Frederik X on Monday before returning to Greenland with Frederik for a royal visit to the island.Frederiksen and Nielsen were asked whether a meeting had been planned involving them and Trump.TRUMP REMAINS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ODDS OF ACQUIRING GREENLAND: 'I THINK IT'LL HAPPEN'"We always want to meet with the American president," Frederiksen said. "Of course we want to. But I think we have been very, very clear in what is the [Danish commonwealth’s] approach to all parts of the Kingdom of Denmark."The Associated Press contributed to this report.