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A bipartisan group of senators is urging Donald Trump to scrap his recently announced diesel deal with Russia, warning it could help President Vladimir Putin finance his war against Ukraine and calling the agreement “a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies.”

“The Treasury Department’s General License No. 135, which lifts sanctions on Russia’s diesel exports, only provides Putin with more fuel to finance his war machine and enables Russia to continue its brutal attacks on Ukrainian civilians. Granting Moscow the ability to sell Russian diesel freely in global markets damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine, who continue to defend themselves from Putin’s murderous, illegal war. This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies; it should be rescinded,” the senators asserted in the missive.

The letter, which also includes a note of cc to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is signed by GOP Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Alan Stuart Armstrong of Oklahoma, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John Cornyn of Texas, as well as Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Chris Coons of Delaware.

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“We also recognize the urgent need to lower energy costs for American families and address the disruptions caused by the war with Iran. However, allowing Russian-origin diesel into global markets will offer limited to no relief to Americans. It will have a negligible impact on fuel prices, but the revenues the Kremlin will receive from this agreement will undoubtedly finance its desired war of attrition and advance its security cooperation with China, Iran, and North Korea. It will also endanger servicemembers operating overseas in support of Operation Epic Fury,” the senators declared in their message.

“Putin is a tyrant. Withdraw from this agreement, rescind General License No. 135, and execute the authorities provided under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. Maintain our legacy – and the duty America holds – as leader of the free world,” they urged.

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The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s comment request on Wednesday.

The senators’ message to the president comes after Trump, in a Truth Social post on Friday, announced, “I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel.

TRUMP SAYS RUSSIA HAS AGREED TO DELIVER MILLIONS IN DIESEL FUEL AFTER ‘HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL DISCUSSION’

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“Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon!” the president declared in the post.

Amid growing concerns that the Iran war is drawing away critical U.S. defenses from China’s doorstep, the Army’s top commander in the Pacific says the forces are using this unexpected opportunity to modernize.

Gen. Ronald Clark, commander of U.S. Army Pacific, provided his assessment that diverting Patriot missile defenses to the Iran war has not increased risk to forces in the Indo-Pacific despite concerns about deployments impacting America’s readiness for potential conflict with China.

“Actually, it’s given us an opportunity to modernize our systems here,” Clark told Fox News Digital during a small-group interview at the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

Patriot systems have been redeployed from the Indo-Pacific to support operations in the Middle East, while U.S. forces in South Korea have also sent Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors to the region.

An October Congressional Research Service report cited estimates that U.S. forces had expended roughly 1,700 Patriot and 200 THAAD interceptors during the conflict, while the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the military had used between half and two-thirds of certain interceptor inventories. The Pentagon’s inspector general has cited strategic inventory shortfalls and manufacturing bottlenecks stemming from the conflict, raising questions about how quickly the U.S. could replenish its defenses in the event of another major confrontation.

Clark said the deployments are giving Patriot crews firsthand experience defending against enemy attacks, while equipment upgrades are expanding what individual batteries can accomplish.

He said an upgraded Patriot battery can now provide coverage that previously required an entire battalion, though he did not specify whether he was referring to geographic coverage or the number of threats the system can engage.

Asked whether recent diplomatic progress between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had changed his assessment of the threat from China, Clark said he believes the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is continuing its build-up.

“Well, I believe they’re continuing to prepare,” Clark said.

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The assessment comes weeks after Trump welcomed Xi to Washington for a high-profile state visit that produced new trade agreements and commitments to improve military communications. But the diplomatic progress has not resolved tensions over Taiwan and China’s growing military reach across the Indo-Pacific, where American commanders continue preparing for a potential conflict.

Clark did not say whether China’s military preparations had accelerated or whether diplomatic outreach had changed Beijing’s intentions. He emphasized that the U.S. military’s responsibility is to remain ready for a potential conflict while working to prevent one.

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“Hopefully my legacy in this job is that when we walk away from command of USARPAC, that the deterrent posture of our command is such that we have not just prevented war, but we’re preventing war in the future,” Clark said.

Clark said Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, recently discussed reviving disaster-management exchanges between the U.S. Army and China’s PLA during talks with his Chinese counterpart.

The exchanges would provide an opportunity for American and Chinese military personnel to work together on disaster response, restoring a channel of direct engagement that Clark said he hoped to see revived.

“If you’re able to have a conversation with your adversaries, you’re able to share information with them in a way that makes them not want to fight,” Clark said.

He said U.S. Army Pacific would be responsible for coordinating the exchanges with its Chinese counterparts if the effort moves forward. He did not announce a date or say that Beijing had formally agreed to resume the program.

The U.S. and Chinese militaries have periodically conducted disaster-management exchanges in the past, including an event hosted by the Army at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state in 2017.

“The cost of going to war is just so high that it’s our duty to, one, be absolutely prepared for that eventuality, but two, to prevent that from happening,” Clark said.

The diplomatic outreach comes amid continued confrontations between Chinese and Philippine forces in the South China Sea. As Fox News Digital previously reported, the Philippines tracked 101 Chinese navy and coast guard vessels around disputed waters in September, nearly double the number recorded in August. More recently, Philippine authorities accused Chinese forces of obstructing maritime operations and carrying out dangerous maneuvers near Philippine aircraft.

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Meanwhile, the Army has been expanding its capabilities across theIndo-Pacific, positioning additional forces and equipment closer to potential flashpoints as part of its effort to deter Chinese aggression.

Clark said the Army now has more resources committed to the region than at any previous point in his career, including additional divisions, a corps headquarters and specialized formations designed to conduct long-range strikes and operations across multiple domains.

“The Army is now better resourced in the Pacific than I’ve ever seen it,” he said.

He pointed to the Army’s growing ability to support naval and air operations, including land-based weapons capable of striking targets at sea.

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Clark said recent military war games have demonstrated the importance of those capabilities, including one maritime scenario in which the addition of Army forces changed an unfavorable outcome.

“It’s really tied to existing capabilities we have,” Clark said, citing the Army’s ability to detect targets, conduct strikes, protect military assets and sustain operations from land.

Former federal prosecutors are pushing back on Democrats’ accusations that the Trump administration violated Justice Department policy by searching the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., just weeks before an election.

“It’s difficult to not point out the dirty hands of the people that might complain about election interference,” Jim Trusty, a former federal prosecutor, said, pointing to former special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of President Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election.

“Democrats definitely can’t contend that it’s a politicized investigation after everything that happened in the Trump era,” Abhishek Kambil, a former federal prosecutor, told Fox News Digital.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a lengthy statement alleging that the Justice Department violated protocol by conducting “overt actions in politically-sensitive matters in the 60 days before an election.”

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“Just 22 days before the elections, this is blatant political intimidation and an attempt to interfere with the Congresswoman’s reelection,” Raskin wrote in his press release.

But Kambil pointed out that the U.S. Department of Justice Manual, which outlines procedures for federal criminal investigations, does not explicitly impose a 60-day period before elections in which investigative actions can’t be conducted.

“The 60-day requirement is not something that’s in the justice manual,” Kambil told Fox News Digital. “That’s basically an unwritten practice of what DOJ typically does, and the justice manual itself does not have the time frame on that.”

Kambil said that any actions which could be perceived as influencing an election will require prior approval from either the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General.

The Justice Department has long followed an unwritten practice known as the “60-day rule,” which discourages politically sensitive investigative actions close to an election. The practice came under scrutiny in a 2018 DOJ inspector general report examining former FBI Director James Comey’s decision to notify Congress of new developments in the Hillary Clinton email investigation just 11 days before the 2016 presidential election. The watchdog concluded that Comey had disregarded longstanding department policy and practice, calling his decision a “serious error of judgment.”

“It doesn’t create a ban; it just creates effectively a consultation requirement to higher level leadership before it can happen, but there is no statute or anything else preventing this,” Kambil told Fox News Digital.

The Justice Department also was accused by President Donald Trump of ignoring its “60-day rule” when special counsel Jack Smith filed a revised indictment against Trump just 70 days before the 2024 presidential election. Weeks later, Smith submitted a 165-page brief outlining evidence against Trump in the federal election interference case, which was made public just 34 days before the election. Trump and Republican lawmakers accused Smith of attempting to influence the election, but Smith maintained that his office followed DOJ policy and complied with a court-ordered filing schedule.

“For 60 days prior to an election, the Department of Injustice is supposed to do absolutely nothing that would taint or interfere with a case,” Trump posted in all capital letters to his Truth Social. “They disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference.”

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“Going back to Jack Smith, obviously trying to get a case tried — the January 6th case before the election — to affect the electorate,” Trusty said.

Trusty pointed out that the Justice Department needed approval from a magistrate judge in Washington, D.C., before executing its search warrant.

“There’s at least probable cause,” Trusty said. “It’s a long way off from proving a case at trial.”

“But keep in mind, in D.C. President Trump and his administration don’t always have friendly treatment from the judges there,” Trusty continued. “So this was a magistrate judge who looked at the sworn statement, said there’s enough to justify a raid, and now we’ve had a raid.”

A judge can reject a search warrant application if investigators fail to establish probable cause. But approving a warrant does not necessarily resolve questions about whether the search complied with the Justice Department’s election-year policies.

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“When you see Democrats challenging the warrant or what happened, they’re not really going after the merits,” Kambil said. “They’re challenging the timing.”

The Homeland Security Investigations raid stems from an investigation into immigration paperwork Omar’s father completed when she was a child. Omar, who fled Somalia’s civil war, immigrated to the United States with her family in 1995 at age 12 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000.

In response to the raid on her home, Omar accused Trump of engaging in “political intimidation” against her.

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“This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies,” Omar posted on X. “For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security for comment.

As former Vice President Kamala Harris weighs another White House run in 2028, a longtime advisor is firing back at Democratic strategists and donors who argue she has squandered an opportunity to politically reinvent herself following her 2024 election defeat.

Veteran Democratic strategist Maria Cardona, an outside advisor to Harris, pushed back against the criticism highlighted in a new Politico report, defending Harris’ policy proposals and campaign activity as Democrats debate whether the former vice president deserves another shot at the White House. Cardona argued the story was “infuriating in its silliness.”

The report, based on interviews with nearly 20 California-based Democratic donors and strategists, highlighted growing skepticism among some party insiders about Harris’ political future and whether she has done enough to distinguish herself from her unsuccessful 2024 campaign.

Longtime Democratic strategist Doug Herman, a veteran of former President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, told Politico that Harris “totally blew it… She hasn’t gotten into the mix.”

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Former Gov. Jim Hodges of South Carolina, the lead off state in the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominating calendar, told Politico, “I don’t see anything different myself. It seems like more of the same to me.”

But Cardona, a veteran of the Bill Clinton administration, the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama presidential campaigns who currently serves as a member of the Democratic National Committee, disagreed that Harris had failed to spell out what she would offer Democrats anxious for change.

“How can you state that she hasn’t done anything new or groundbreaking or talked about new initiatives or policies and then layout exactly those policies – like proposing an expanded Supreme Court, lowering the voting age to 16, making DC and Puerto Rico states. Those are pretty groundbreaking policies!” Cardona told Fox News Digital, as she pointed to some of Harris’ moves since the end of former President Joe Biden‘s administration.

Harris, the nation’s first Black vice president, has also said that Black people should be “transactional voters,” instead of automatically supporting Democratic candidates.

“She’s damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t,” Cardona argued, adding that Harris “is still the most qualified person to be president of the United States that is mentioned as a possible candidate for 2028.”

Harris has been crisscrossing the country this year, first on a book tour for her best-selling campaign memoir “107 Days” and currently to support fellow Democrats running in the midterm elections.

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While Harris has teamed up with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan and congressional nominees in her home state, some Democratic nominees running in red states made headlines in recent weeks by asking the former vice president not to campaign with them.

But Cardona said, “Harris has been out there nonstop talking to young voters, women voters, black voters, Latino voters, and she has been asked by many candidates to come and campaign with them. She has focused her energies on winning the midterm elections. Can you imagine the backlash if she was out there focusing on herself and how she can remake the Democratic Party?”

Harris replaced Biden as the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee after he ended his re-election bid following a disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump. Her truncated three-month presidential campaign ended in defeat, with Trump narrowly sweeping all the key battleground states as he won back the White House.

If she runs a third time for president, Harris will enjoy instant name ID and plenty of goodwill from within her party. But she would also face a Democratic base trying to move past the 2024 election setbacks, and she would likely be part of a very crowded and competitive 2028 primary field.

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A Democratic consultant, who asked for anonymity to speak more freely, told Fox News Digital that “voters feel like they haven’t heard much from Harris, which means bad memories from her 2024 election loss remain fresh in their minds.”

But longtime Democratic strategist Michael Ceraso said that consultants “are not voters.”

“I just don’t trust that the consulting class really has a finger on the electorate,” he told Fox News Digital. “To listen to consultants saying Harris has blown it – presidential politics hasn’t really even started yet.. These consultants are just getting soundbites.”

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Ceraso noted that it took Biden three runs to win the White House.

“The third time was the charm and everybody said to Biden when he ran the third time, ‘why are you running.’ Well guess what, he ended up becoming the nominee and the president,” he said. “Why can’t Harris look at that template and say ‘that can apply to me too.’”

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that “massive” oil, gas and mineral exploration was expected to begin in Greenland.

“Massive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration is getting ready to begin in our new and beautiful Greenland!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“There are Experts that are saying that the amount of easily available Oil is far greater than that of almost any land, anywhere in the World and, even more importantly, from a Security Purpose in the Defense and Offense of both the United States of America, and Europe, is second to none,” he continued.

“Any future attack on the United States will have to come across Greenland, where our Defense will routinely knock down drones, missiles, or any other form of weapon not yet even conceived,” Trump added.

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Trump said Greenland “gives us time, location, and sightline, like nowhere else in the World!”

Trump did not immediately provide additional details about when or how the exploration would begin.

Greenland’s government stopped issuing new oil and gas exploration licenses in 2021, citing environmental and climate concerns. Some previously issued licenses remain valid, although drilling requires additional government approvals. Greenland is believed to hold significant untapped oil and gas resources, but commercially recoverable reserves have not been established.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.

Trump’s comments come after the U.S., Denmark and Greenland signed a new security agreement last month expanding U.S. military access to the strategically important Arctic island.

While the U.S. already had extensive military rights in Greenland under a 1951 defense agreement, the new arrangement expands Washington’s ability to establish additional military facilities, subject to consultation and procedures outlined in the agreement.

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The agreement also restricts military installations by non-NATO countries and establishes safeguards against potentially threatening foreign investments in sensitive sectors, including natural resources and critical infrastructure.

Although Trump had sought to acquire Greenland, repeatedly arguing that U.S. ownership was necessary for national security, the new agreement did not grant U.S. sovereignty over the island.

Greenland is a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, with Copenhagen retaining authority over foreign, defense and security policy while Greenland controls many of its domestic affairs, including mineral resources.

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Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips and Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.

The Trump administration is adopting a new rule that would shorten the time refugees have to challenge the termination of their legal status, marking another restriction on legal immigration pathways as the White House continues its immigration enforcement crackdown.

The new policy, which takes effect Wednesday without undergoing the usual advance public notice-and-comment process, reduces the time refugees have to respond to a notice of intent to terminate their status from 30 days to 10.

According to the new rule, the administration is aiming to “mitigate potential risks” linked to people who were admitted as refugees but were not eligible for refugee status.

The documents pointed to refugees admitted during the Biden administration, claiming there was an “alarming erosion of the integrity” of the refugee program during those years, although refugee advocates dispute that allegation.

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“A review of refugee processing policies and procedures implemented under the Biden administration indicates an alarming erosion of integrity leading to aliens being admitted to the United States as refugees when their identities, eligibility for refugee classification, and admissibility were determined based on incomplete records,” DHS’ document reads.

“The priority of expediency over quality encouraged a lack of robust interviews,” it added. “Certain questions to ensure that aliens were eligible for refugee status prior to admission to the United States were omitted and this increased the risk of ineligible aliens being approved for refugee classification and subsequently admitted to the United States.”

A spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Services, Zach Kahler, similarly said the agency has found “an alarming erosion of screening and vetting measures” during the Biden administration to “rush processing and maximize the number of refugees admitted.”

The Trump administration is “ensuring that refugee status is reserved only for those who were eligible under the law,” he said in a statement to The Associated Press.

This comes after the Trump administration ordered the review of at least 185,000 refugees admitted during the Biden administration who still have pending green card applications.

The U.S. refugee admissions program has historically enjoyed bipartisan support since Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980. Refugees undergo extensive security screenings and background checks before being approved for resettlement. Many spend years waiting in refugee camps before they can be admitted after undergoing multiple rounds of interviews and screenings.

With the Trump administration’s new rule, critics argue tens of thousands of people who fled persecution and wars in their home countries could be forced into deportation.

“These families did everything asked of them,” Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president of Global Refuge, said in a statement. “They submitted to interviews, background checks and years of waiting abroad, only setting foot on U.S. soil once government officials approved their applications.”

She said the Department of Homeland Security now wants to “revisit those decisions on a 10-day clock, a notice period wholly insufficient to find a lawyer, translate documents or get records out of a country they were forced to flee due to conflict or persecution.”

“In some cases, refugees may not even receive the notice before their ten days are up, effectively eliminating their only chance to respond,” she added. “If the government’s case for termination is truly strong, it can afford to give people a meaningful chance to challenge it.”

HIAS, a major refugee aid group, also warned that refugees who have fled violence, persecution and displacement will be at risk of being deported to countries where they could be subject to persecution and torture.

“They are trying to upend the core principle that refugee resettlement represents permanent protection,” HIAS Vice President Naomi Steinberg said in a statement.

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The Trump administration has significantly overhauled the U.S. refugee admissions program, sharply restricting overall admissions while prioritizing the resettlement of white South Africans.

Last month, the Trump administration established a ceiling of 17,500 refugee admissions for fiscal year 2027, with most slots allocated to Afrikaners, a predominantly white ethnic group in South Africa.

During his first term, President Donald Trump reduced the number of refugees approved every year. The Biden administration reversed that trend, setting a refugee admissions ceiling of 125,000 for fiscal year 2025.

When Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he immediately suspended the refugee program, stranding people around the world who had been set to come to the U.S. The administration later reopened the program but limited it mostly to white South Africans.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was captured on camera by Fox News Digital entering their shared Washington, D.C., residence the day after it was raided by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents.

Tim Mynett, a political consultant, was walking with a yellow Labrador dog on a leash Tuesday afternoon before entering the home that was searched early Monday morning amid a federal investigation into Omar’s immigration status. 

His outing came the same day U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced her office is investigating Omar’s financial disclosures about reporting of the couple’s shared worth.

Two sources close to HSI’s investigation say the raid was part of a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman’s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.

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Omar’s husband is at the center of one of the congresswoman’s most prominent controversies after her financial disclosure filings decreased significantly in reported worth within the span of one filing period.

Pirro revealed her office is now investigating Omar’s financial disclosures after the Office of Congressional Conduct in September dropped its misconduct investigation into the congresswoman. Tuesday’s announcement opens a new chapter of investigations into the Minnesota Democrat.

The controversy surrounding Omar’s finances began when a 2024 financial report estimated that Omar and Mynett possessed between $6 million and $30 million in assets, all while the Minnesota fraud scandal within the Somali community was beginning to come to fruition.

The largest change in the documents was from Mynett’s assets. His reported ownership interests in both his winery and venture capital advisory firm, which were previously valued in the millions of dollars, are listed with no value now.

In Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure records, Mynett’s share in his winery was valued between $1 million and $5 million, and his share at the venture capital advisory firm was valued between $5 million and $25 million. Now, his equity interests are both listed at $0.

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Omar’s office previously told Fox News Digital that Mynett has partners in both businesses and said the earlier disclosure mistakenly reflected the businesses’ total equity rather than his ownership interest. The office also said the original filing listed assets without accounting for liabilities.

Mynett was a partner of a firm that worked on Omar’s 2020 re-election campaign. The two announced their marriage in March 2020.

This is Omar’s third marriage, but not her most controversial. The “Squad” Democrat has also come under fire for her first marriage to a man many alleged to be her brother. Critics and skeptics claim the two married as part of an immigration scheme.

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When White House border czar Tom Homan first announced a criminal investigation into Omar, many speculated it would be related to the allegations that she married her brother to evade United States immigration laws. But a former federal prosecutor recently confirmed to Fox News Digital that the statute of limitations would make opening an investigation into the matter difficult.

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A Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the judicially authorized search warrant for the raid of Omar’s house Monday was obtained by the DOJ as part of an ongoing federal investigation.

Fox News Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca and Amanda Macias contributed to this report.

President Donald Trump announced pardons for two Alaska diesel mechanics during a midterm rally Tuesday night in Wasilla, bringing the men onstage to sign clemency documents as he highlighted major energy investments and infrastructure projects in the Last Frontier.

Trump identified Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming, two co-owners of an Anchorage diesel repair shop who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act in 2022.

“I’m giving each one of the three an unconditional pardon,” Trump told supporters, also referring to an earlier pardon for Mackenzie “Mac” Spurlock, a Wasilla diesel shop owner.

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The president defended the men, saying their work helped keep trucks operating in Alaska’s extreme cold and arguing that their Biden-era prosecutions were unfair.

According to the Biden Justice Department, Czubak and Fleming were among three co-owners of “Arm Rippin Toys” who admitted removing federally required emissions-control equipment and tampering with monitoring devices on at least 37 diesel vehicles between July 2019 and September 2020.

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The shop collected approximately $100,000 for the modifications, federal prosecutors said at the time.

As he signed the clemency documents, Trump took a jab at former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen.

“So I’m going to sign this now, something that Joe Biden would be unable to do because he was unable to sign his signature,” Trump said.

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He also shared candidly the privilege of the presidential pardon power with the crowd.

“What an honor. I love doing this stuff,” Trump said.

One of the men thanked the president from the stage, describing the personal impact of the prosecution.

“It really did destroy us. It destroyed friendships. It destroyed families,” he said.

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The pardons came during a rally in which Trump made a series of major announcements about Alaska’s energy future, including declaring that a long-awaited 800-mile natural gas pipeline had secured every necessary federal permit.

“Every single permit that you need, you can start tonight,” Trump told the crowd. “Every single permit that you need has been granted.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for additional details on the project’s federal permitting status.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday he has “no plans” to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, pushing back against calls from his democratic socialist allies to remove the city’s top cop following protests over an ICE-involved shooting in the Bronx.

Ahead of a ceremony Tuesday honoring fallen NYPD officers, Mamdani was asked about Tisch’s future as head of the department.

“Jessica Tisch is the police commissioner. I have no plans to change that,” Mamdani told reporters.

“The reason that I made the decision to have Jessica Tisch as the police commissioner was because of her record of uprooting corruption from the upper echelons of the NYPD while lowering crime across our city,” he continued. “And over the last 10 months that we’ve worked together, we have delivered the lowest recorded number of murders in our city’s history, the lowest recorded number of shootings as well as shooting victims.”

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The mayor’s comments came after the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) called for Tisch’s removal following last week’s ICE shooting and demanded that Mamdani use his authority to drive ICE out of New York City.

The demand followed last week’s shooting of Oscar Belgal during a federal immigration operation in the Bronx.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Belgal, a 28-year-old Dominican national, was shot after allegedly refusing to comply with officers’ orders during a targeted ICE operation to arrest him.

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Following the incident, a City Hall spokesperson said Mamdani was reviewing the circumstances surrounding the shooting but had no plans to remove Tisch.

Scott Munro, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association — the union representing active and retired NYPD detectives — was also asked by reporters Tuesday about the DSA urging Mamdani to fire Tisch.

Munro said he believes Mamdani supports the police commissioner, noting that crime was down and Tisch was “doing her job.”

Mamdani and Tisch appeared together Tuesday at the New York City Police Memorial, where they honored 42 fallen NYPD members, including 41 who died from illnesses related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath. The ceremony also honored Detective First Grade Didarul Islam, who was killed in a Midtown Manhattan mass shooting in 2025.

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The mayor paid tribute to the fallen officers and their families during the ceremony, which Tisch also attended.

“While we cannot feel the silence they left behind, we will refuse to let their memory fade,” Mamdani said.

Earlier this week, Mamdani directed the NYPD to conduct a comprehensive review of its use-of-force policies and practices.

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He also announced reforms aimed at strengthening accountability when police officers are accused of serious misconduct.

A firefight involving U.S. Coast Guard personnel along the Mexican border has sparked a dispute between Washington and Mexico City over where the gunfire originated, even as the two countries continue coordinating border security operations.

The Coast Guard told Fox News Digital that personnel conducting joint interdiction operations near Garceno, Texas, came under fire from the Mexican side of the border Sept. 26 and returned fire. No injuries or damage to Coast Guard vessels or equipment were reported, and the incident remains under investigation.

After U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson publicly announced that Coast Guard personnel had come under fire, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum demanded evidence that the shots originated from her country’s territory.

“We asked for all the evidence ​ because we have no evidence,” Sheinbaum told reporters in Mexico City, saying Mexican security forces had not detected shots originating from their territory.

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The State Department, however, told Fox News Digital that information about the shooting had been shared with Mexican authorities.

“U.S. Coast Guard personnel were fired upon from Mexican territory on September 26, and we have shared the available information with the Government of Mexico through official channels,” a State Department spokesman said.

The department did not specify what was shared or when, and U.S. officials have not publicly identified the shooters or detailed how they determined the gunfire’s origin.

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The incident occurred amid Operation River Wall, a Coast Guard initiative launched in October 2025 to deter illegal migration, drug smuggling and other threats along approximately 300 miles of the Rio Grande.

“Over the past year, the Coast Guard has expanded operations in the region, deploying more than 1,000 personnel and more than 30 assets,” a Coast Guard spokesperson told Fox News Digital, referring to “Operation Sable”.

Separately, Mexico’s Navy Ministry, led by Secretary Raymundo Morales-Angeles, said 159 “Naval elements”, 11 vehicles and two drones were deployed to the Tamaulipas sector.

U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) separately told Fox News Digital that American troops are being repositioned to the Rio Grande Valley in anticipation of a seasonal increase in attempted illegal border crossings.

Asked whether Mexico had received evidence from U.S. authorities or launched its own investigation, a representative for Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Roberto Lazzeri Montaño referred Fox News Digital on Monday to Sheinbaum’s more recent remarks addressing the incident.

Sheinbaum said Mexico’s military ministry “maintains” communication with NORTHCOM and the Coast Guard and that a “mirror operation” coordinated with the U.S. remains active.

“We want to have a good relationship with the United States within the framework of our sovereignty, our territorial integrity, mutual trust, and coordination without subordination,” she said.

Her response did not explicitly confirm whether Mexico had received the information Washington says it shared.

Fox News Digital also contacted Sheinbaum’s office for comment.

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Santiago Vidal Calvo, a Venezuelan-born immigration analyst at the Manhattan Institute, told Fox News Digital that Sheinbaum’s approach to border security is shaped by pressure from Washington and a broader Latin American shift toward right-wing governments.

“She has that regional pressure [and] she has the international pressure from the United States” to cooperate on security matters, Calvo said.

He suggested Sheinbaum’s demand for evidence of the Coast Guard shooting could reflect pressure within her own political coalition to justify working with the Trump administration.

“She has a high bar to meet if she wants to ally with the Trump administration internally within her own party and her own government,” Calvo said.

“We’ve got to understand this through the lens of what is going on in Latin America. I do think that Sheinbaum’s position is substantially different today than it was when Trump got elected,” Calvo said.

His assessment reflects Sheinbaum’s ties to the left-wing Morena Party and the political legacy of her predecessor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO.

Calvo characterized Sheinbaum as the “last bastion of Latin American socialism,” arguing that she could face additional regional pressure if Flávio Bolsonaro defeats President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s upcoming presidential runoff.

Calvo suggested that the rightward shift among South American governments could increase pressure on Sheinbaum to cooperate with Washington on security matters.

He said she may face questions about whether “you’re the only president of Latin America who’s not cooperating with the United States in terms of security?”

“Both of those things do lead to a more serious border campaign for both countries,” Calvo said.

“I have no doubt that the change in South America from left-leaning governments to right-leaning governments has to do with the Trump administration’s policy in Latin America,” he added.

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Border security policy analyst Simon Hankinson told Fox News Digital that gunfire near the Rio Grande is not unprecedented, citing accounts he heard during previous visits to the border.

Hankinson said cartel involvement was possible but expressed doubt that Mexican military personnel would deliberately fire across the border unless they were acting against orders.

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“I think these two politicians can cooperate, they can agree on some things, even if they don’t agree on socialism versus capitalism and some other ideological issues,” he added.

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The Coast Guard said the circumstances surrounding the incident remain under investigation.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s, D-Minn., immigration history is facing fresh scrutiny after federal agents searched her Washington, D.C., home, with new reports detailing subpoenas to relatives and a request from her congressional staff to change the birth year listed in public biographies.

Federal investigators have subpoenaed Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, and at least one other person in her family circle as they examine possible fraud and false statements in immigration paperwork, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the investigation.

Fox News has also learned that subpoenas have been sent to multiple family members of Omar. 

Separately, the New York Post reported that Omar’s staff asked the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library in May 2019 to change her listed birth year from 1981 to 1982, a discrepancy a former political opponent has questioned while challenging the Minnesota Democrat’s account of how she became a U.S. citizen.

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The reports come one day after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents searched Omar’s Washington, D.C., home. 

Two sources familiar with the probe told Fox News Digital the search was part of an ongoing criminal investigation involving her immigration paperwork.

The Justice Department confirmed that agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.

Omar has repeatedly denied immigration wrongdoing and accused the Trump administration of using federal law enforcement against her.

“I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” Omar, a member of DC’s progressive “The Squad,” wrote Monday on X.

“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” she continued. “I will not be silenced.”

According to emails reviewed by the Post, Omar’s congressional staff contacted the Minnesota library months after she entered Congress to request the birth-year correction.

“On May 17, 2019, Library staff were informed by Rep. Omar’s congressional staff that her birth year was incorrect and requested that we change it to 1982,” the library’s director wrote in a May 24, 2019, email, according to the outlet.

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The director also said Omar’s staff were working with Wikipedia, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and other sources to correct the year.

But the library’s original entry was not based on a birth certificate or other supporting documentation. In another email cited by the Post, the director said the 1981 date had been drawn from other reference sources and added “without documentation.”

The discrepancy does not establish that Omar falsified immigration records, and neither report established that the biography change prompted Monday’s search.

Omar has said she became a citizen through her father’s naturalization in 2000, before she turned 18.

“I became a citizen actually before I turned 18,” she told The Intercept in a September 2018 interview, according to the Post. “My father became a citizen and so I got my citizenship through that process.”

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AJ Kern, who unsuccessfully challenged Omar in the 2022 Democratic primary, has questioned whether Omar was still a minor when her father became a citizen, the Post reported.

Kern told the outlet that she filed a Federal Election Commission complaint and sued to demand proof of Omar’s citizenship. A state judge dismissed the lawsuit for lack of jurisdiction, according to the Post.

The Times reported that investigators have been examining the immigration history of Omar’s family, including whether her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, lied or omitted information on immigration forms before becoming a citizen.

The precise scope of the investigation remains unclear. Grand jury subpoenas seek evidence and do not, by themselves, mean the recipients are suspected of wrongdoing. 

The Times reported that previous federal inquiries into Omar’s immigration history have not resulted in charges.

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The immigration developments also come as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro disclosed a separate examination of Omar’s financial disclosures.

Speaking Tuesday on Fox News’ “America Reports,” Pirro said her office was investigating the filings, which previously showed that the combined reported value of two businesses tied to Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, climbed from approximately $15,000 to $51,000 in 2023 to between $6 million and $30 million in 2024.

Fox News Digital previously examined the disclosures involving eStCru LLC, a California winery, and Rose Lake Capital LLC, a Washington-based venture capital firm.

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Omar amended the filings in April, reducing the couple’s combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000. Her office said the original disclosures failed to properly account for business liabilities. Financial disclosures list assets in broad ranges and do not establish an exact net worth.

In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations related to the disclosures, finding no substantial reason to believe Omar reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules.

That review is separate from the federal investigation Pirro described. It remains unclear whether the financial inquiry is connected to Monday’s search.

President Donald Trump renewed his criticism Tuesday in a statement shared by the White House on X, questioning the change in Omar’s financial filings.

“America wants answers, and we want them, NOW!” Trump said.

Vice President JD Vance, who previously accused Omar of immigration fraud, said Tuesday that he had no advance knowledge of the search, according to the Times.

“If there’s a real case there, we’re going to follow the facts,” Vance said. “If there’s not a real case there, then we won’t.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Justice Department, Omar’s office and the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library for comment.

Fox News Digital’s Amanda Macias contributed to this report.

As the U.S. works to refill its missile stockpile, it is also looking to develop new weapons for its arsenal.

“We’re going to need all three tiers of missiles. The cheap ones, the ones that are now the high-end like Patriot and then maybe some hypersonics,” said Mark Cancian, a retired U.S. Marines colonel and senior advisor with the CSIS Defense and Security Department.

The U.S. military is taking an increasing interest in hypersonic weapons, which are maneuverable and travel five times faster than the speed of sound.

“These hypersonic systems are now seen as the novel revolutionary system and the ballistic missile is seen as the archaic one,” said UC Berkeley Senior Research Scholar Cameron Tracy.

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But the weapons the military has traditionally invested in could come at a cost. Estimates from the Government Accountability Office show missiles for the Army’s long-range hypersonic weapon, the Dark Eagle, could cost more than $40 million each. As the Navy works to equip its Zumwalt Destroyers with hypersonics, the GAO puts estimates at $70 million per missile, which includes costs to develop and incorporate the necessary technologies. The GAO also notes the modernization project is two years behind schedule.

“In the long run, for example, the Army thinks that the long-ranged hypersonic weapon will become cheaper as production ramps up,” said Xiaodon Liang, arms control association senior policy analyst for Nuclear Weapons Policy and Disarmament.

Tomahawk missiles cost around $2.6 million, according to the U.S. Navy. Army budget documents show Patriot missiles cost nearly $4 million. Precision Strike Missiles or PrSMs cost $1.6 million per unit. The U.S. Navy could buy almost 27 tomahawks for the price of one hypersonic missile aboard the Zumwalt Destroyers. The Army could buy around 25 PrSMs for the price of one Dark Eagle hypersonic weapon.

“The U.S. has invested in recent years in several of the programs that are starting to become into fruition,” said Liang. “These are exquisite weapons. And I think that the military is acquiring them for exquisite purposes.”

Hypersonic weapons travel up to 20 times faster than traditional missiles and an adversary’s reaction time is thought to be six times shorter. Hypersonic speeds are also vital for both evading enemy defense systems and executing strikes. The Atlantic Council estimates 75% fewer hypersonic weapons would be needed for a mission.

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Startups are hoping to bring down some of the costs to produce hypersonic weapons with more affordable missiles and increased testing capabilities.

“The weapon itself is under $500,000, which, if you know about munitions, that’s incredibly cheap,” Castelion co-founder and CEO Bryon Hargis said.

The Army and Navy are investing in Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic weapon, which the company says is designed for mass production.

“It is a story about hypersonics and what they can provide in terms of a weapon, but it’s really a story of American manufacturing,” Hargis said. “The company is focused on providing America options to have that middle deterrence layer, and we’re doing that through production.”

This year, Castelion began building what it says will be the largest dedicated hypersonic weapon production factory in the U.S. Project Ranger is expected to produce thousands of Blackbeard weapons annually. Those will eventually be used to fill Castelion’s various contracts, such as integrating the weapons into the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Jets, incorporating the system into the U.S. Army’s HIMARS and deploying Blackbeard on unmanned surface vessels.

“The advantage of a hypersonic system is that it goes very far, it gets there quickly and it’s highly survivable because of that maneuverability. And that’s important for achieving deterrence because it’s hard to shoot down,” Hargis said.

Hypersonic weapons remain mostly in Earth’s atmosphere. The missiles are maneuverable during flight and can strike a target quickly, in 15-30 minutes from around 1,725 miles away.

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“If you don’t know what the target would be initially, unlike a ballistic missile where you can calculate where it’ll land, you might misinterpret, for example, an incoming strike as a decapitation attempt. And that would be very concerning,” Liang said.

Developers say the U.S. speaks with other countries about missile launches and what the intended targets are. But there are other concerns that hypersonic maneuverability could lead to inaccuracy.

“Technologies do tend to improve over time as testing and especially as experience with use builds up, but there are pretty important physical constraints on the performance of these systems,” said Tracy.

Defense contractor Rocket Lab is working with the War Department to improve hypersonic missile capabilities through an increasing number of test launches.

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“With our HASTE program, what we have enabled is low-cost, high-frequency hypersonic and missile defense testing. And when you can say that you can get that cheaper and faster, now you’re looking at more of a shots on goal approach to demonstrating capability of the technology insertion cycle,” Rocket Lab Vice President of Global Launch Services Brian Rogers said.

Rocket Lab’s HASTE is a suborbital test bed launch vehicle that provides flight test opportunities for the government to advance hypersonic and suborbital system technology development. The vehicle is derived from Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket, which has launched nearly 100 missions.

“Rather than saying we need to be stuck in an analysis environment, and then it’s a very rigorous test campaign that costs a lot of money and involves a lot people, now you can say we’re planning 12 tests this year. We don’t have to bet the farm on any one of them, which allows us to take more risk and really move the needle in terms of technology development,” Rogers said.

The U.S. military has never used a hypersonic weapon but has explored deploying its Dark Eagle to the Middle East.

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“I would be very surprised if we used them and would be even more surprised if we used it extensively because of the small number of missiles that exist and the concerns already about the munitions stockpile,” Liang said.

An illegal immigrant couple dubbed “Bonnie and Clyde” by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allegedly turned strangers’ kindness into a payday, stealing necklaces from elderly victims in a jewelry theft spree stretching across four states.

Rudi Lacatusu, 28, and Mirabela Lacatusu, 26, Romanian nationals accused of targeting victims on Long Island, are now in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, DHS announced Tuesday.

The pair allegedly carried out at least 14 jewelry thefts across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland, according to DHS, which cited local reporting. 

The stolen necklaces were valued between $2,000 and $3,000 each.

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One alleged encounter began with a seemingly innocent request for directions.

A 73-year-old woman was standing outside her Valley Stream, New York, home Oct. 5, when a gold Mitsubishi with a man and woman inside pulled up, Nassau County police said. The female passenger asked how to get to BJ’s Wholesale Club.

After the woman helped, the passenger stepped out, asked to hug her and placed two gold-colored necklaces around her neck, according to detectives.

A short time later, the woman realized her own gold necklace, worth approximately $2,000, was gone.

Investigators linked the suspects to similar thefts in Franklin Square and East Meadow. Each faces three counts of fourth-degree grand larceny, police said.

DHS said Nassau County authorities turned the couple over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after their arrests. Both entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown time and location, according to DHS.

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“This ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ illegal alien couple from Romania has been charged with grand larceny after allegedly carrying out more than a dozen jewelry thefts across four states,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said.

“Thanks to local partners in New York, these illegal aliens are in ICE custody and will be removed from our country.”

Mullin also took aim at Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, arguing that sanctuary policies put Americans at risk.

“If it were up to sanctuary politicians like Governor Kathy Hochul, these criminals would be back on the streets to rob more Americans,” he said.

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DHS used the arrests to renew its criticism of New York’s sanctuary policies, calling the state a “hotbed of illegal alien crime” under Hochul. DHS also argued those policies have had “disastrous consequences” beyond New York’s borders.

The announcement follows Operation Rotten Apple, an ICE crackdown that ran from July 27 through Aug. 29. 

DHS said officers arrested 2,197 illegal immigrants across New York during the operation, including people the department described as murderers, rapists, child predators, drug traffickers and violent assailants.

Nassau County police initially issued the suspects appearance tickets directing them to court in Hempstead Oct. 20, according to the department’s arrest announcement. DHS’ statement Tuesday did not specify when ICE took custody of them.

The case prompted police to warn residents about distraction scams targeting elderly people, including strangers offering jewelry or gifts, asking to pray together, requesting change or seeking help with a flat tire.

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While a victim’s attention is elsewhere, the thieves can remove jewelry directly from their body, police warned.

Authorities urged residents to stay alert in parking lots and outside grocery stores and call 911 to report suspicious activity. 

Anyone who has been targeted in a similar theft can contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS.

A Democrat running for county council in eastern Indiana was ridiculed Tuesday after critics claimed she appeared “s— faced” and slurred her way through attacks on Republicans during a televised candidate forum.

During the forum, Fayette County Council candidate Jaime West said she would “fire all Republicans” if elected, railed against “MAGAs” she called “racist” and unintelligent, and alleged that a sheriff’s nephew had threatened to kill her. Asked for a final message to voters, West responded: “We have guns too.”

“This is not a skit,” said LibsOfTikTok, a popular conservative punditry account run by commentator Chaya Raichik.

“Jaime West, a Democrat running for Fayette County Council in Indiana, gave an embarrassing interview where she appears to mumble and rant the entire time. Is she intoxicated?” Raichik asked on X.

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Former litigator Viva Frei tweeted that the video initially appeared to be a “skit [or] high school video project.”

“I had to make sure she did not have a neurological disorder that could account for the slurred speech and insane rambling. She doesn’t. And even if she did have a diagnosed neurological disorder, ‘we have guns too’ after talking about firing all Republicans would ordinarily be disqualifying,” Frei said.

When asked one decision she would make if elected that constituents would find unpopular, West told the moderator “fire all Republicans.”

“I wouldn’t let them — I don’t even talk to them, I don’t like them. They voted against — their own state representative voted against her own party,” West continued while also pledging not to raise taxes.

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“Y’all did this to us… you made this happen. This ICE coming into our communities, stealing people’s jobs. I mean I’ve been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA; we’ll call them, because there’s Republicans who actually get it, you know there are good Republicans out there, but then there’s these MAGAs who are just racist and aren’t very intelligent at all,” West continued.

“They call you names. The sheriff’s nephew threatened to blow my head off. But, you know, what are you going to do?”

The moderator paused before asking West for a final message to voters:

“We have guns too,” West said, as the moderator pivoted to informing viewers about how to vote in the Hoosier State’s elections this year.

West could not immediately be reached for comment. While it was not immediately clear which Indiana sheriff West was referring to, Zac Jones — who leads the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office where she is running, was stunned by the remark:

“I don’t know Jaime West and she obviously doesn’t know me. I have 5 nieces and 0 nephews. I’m not sure what she is talking about and I’m certain she has no idea what she is talking about either,” Jones told Fox News Digital.

“It’s a sad day when this is the best the Democrat Party can get to run for this important local office.”

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West is running against Republican Gary Keener Jr. in Fayette County, which is anchored by Connersville.

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., formally introduced sweeping legislation to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and eliminate Customs and Border Protection (CBP), advancing a radical proposal that would fundamentally overhaul federal immigration enforcement.

The progressive “Squad” member’s “Reimagining Safety Act” would replace DHS with a new “Department of Community Safety,” while preserving several existing federal agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The legislation would eliminate CBP, including the Border Patrol, toppling the federal agency currently responsible for securing America’s borders and screening travelers and goods entering the country.

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While certain customs and immigration functions would be transferred to other federal departments under Ramirez’s legislation, the proposal would eliminate CBP’s existing enforcement structure.

The bill’s original cosponsors include fellow “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., along with Reps. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Jim McGovern, D-Mass., according to Ramirez’s office.

The legislation would also prohibit federal funding for border walls beginning in fiscal year 2027, and require the closure of the military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay within 60 days of enactment.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin previously blasted the proposal in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital last month.

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“Radical leftists are calling to defund the police and abolish DHS. It’s NEVER going to happen. Our 270,000 DHS patriots are keeping Americans SAFE— unlike this open-borders politician who refuses to prioritize Americans over illegal aliens,” Mullin said.

A DHS spokesperson also criticized Ramirez, saying she “should be thanking our law enforcement for removing these dangerous criminals from her district—NOT vilifying law enforcement.”

Ramirez previously defended her proposal in a statement to Fox News Digital, arguing that the current department should be dismantled and replaced with an agency focused on community safety.

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“Every day, Americans wake up with a new reason to dismantle DHS, reimagine safety, and build something that honors our shared humanity,” Ramirez said.

Under the legislation, the TSA and Coast Guard would be transferred to the Department of Transportation, while FEMA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would move to the proposed “Department of Community Safety.”

Customs functions would hypothetically move to the Treasury Department, while certain immigration functions would transfer to the Justice Department.

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The legislation would need to pass Congress and be signed into law before taking effect. None of its proposed changes to immigration enforcement are currently in force.

Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this reporting.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed Tuesday that her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures, opening a new chapter in the controversy surrounding the Minnesota Democrat’s previously reported multimillion-dollar assets.

Speaking on Fox News’ “America Reports,” Pirro said her office was examining Omar’s financial disclosures, which previously showed that the reported value of businesses tied to her husband, Tim Mynett, had surged from as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024.

The latest development comes one day after federal agents searched Omar’s Washington, D.C., home as part of an ongoing criminal investigation involving her immigration paperwork, two sources familiar with the probe told Fox News Digital.

The Justice Department confirmed that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant Monday as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. It remains unclear whether the search is connected in any way to the financial disclosure investigation described by Pirro.

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The disclosures drew scrutiny from congressional Republicans, including House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., who requested financial records from two companies tied to Mynett in February.

The original filings, examined by Fox News Digital earlier this year, showed millions of dollars in newly reported assets associated with two of Mynett’s business ventures — a California-based winery and a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm.

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The winery, eStCru LLC, saw its reported valuation jump from between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024. Rose Lake Capital LLC showed an even sharper increase, rising from a reported value of between $1 and $1,000 in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million the following year.

Combined, the businesses had reported values ranging from approximately $15,000 to $51,000 in 2023, compared with between $6 million and $30 million in 2024.

Financial disclosure forms report assets in broad ranges rather than exact dollar amounts, meaning the filings did not establish the couple’s precise net worth.

In February, Comer requested documents and communications related to the finances of eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital LLC, raising questions about the dramatic increase in their reported valuations.

Omar subsequently amended her financial disclosures in April, reducing the couple’s combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000. The revised filing listed her husband’s two businesses as having no net value after accounting for liabilities.

Omar’s office, at the time, said the original disclosures had failed to properly account for liabilities associated with her husband’s businesses, creating what it described as a misleading picture of the couple’s finances.

The congresswoman has repeatedly maintained that she is not a millionaire.

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In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations stemming from the financial disclosures.

The congressional watchdog found there was not substantial reason to believe Omar had reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules.

Omar’s office characterized the findings as vindication, maintaining that the congresswoman had done nothing wrong.

The congressional watchdog’s review is separate from the federal investigation described by Pirro on Tuesday.

Omar’s latest annual financial disclosure, filed in May, listed assets totaling between approximately $20,000 and $125,000, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune analysis. The filing also reported student loan and credit card debt associated with her husband.

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The Somali-born congresswoman has denied allegations of wrongdoing and has accused the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons — especially after Monday’s raid of her Washington, D.C., residence.

The Minnesota Democrat has been a frequent target of criticism from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.

Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat currently running to regain a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio after losing his 2024 re-election bid, has indicated that he would not support impeaching President Donald Trump.

If Democrats win the House majority during the midterms this year, they could seek to impeach the president along party lines next year — if that were to happen, the matter would then head to the Senate.

“I can’t speak for everybody else, but I would not support an impeachment of Trump. There’s just simply no reason for that, no matter what happens in the midterms,” the former lawmaker told The Columbus Dispatch on Oct. 9

Brown’s campaign and the White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment on Tuesday.

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The Democrat, who previously served in the Senate from early 2007 until early 2025, lost a 2024 Senate contest to Republican challenger Bernie Moreno.

Brown is currently facing Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, in the Buckeye State’s special U.S. Senate election.

In a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, a Husted campaign spokesperson said, “Sherrod Brown sided with his party twice to impeach President Trump during his first term. Now he’s masquerading as a moderate, despite a career aligning himself with Bernie Sanders and AOC. Don’t be fooled; when radical Democrats call, Brown always toes the line.”

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Gov. Mike DeWine last year tapped Husted to fill JD Vance’s Senate seat, after Vance relinquished his legislative post in preparation for transitioning to the role of vice president.

During Trump’s first term, Brown voted to convict the president after both House impeachments. Though in both cases, the Senate’s votes fell short of the threshold necessary to convict, and by the time the Senate voted on the House’s second impeachment effort, Trump was no longer in office

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While Trump has endorsed Husted, former President Barack Obama is backing Brown.

Democratic lawmakers erupted online on Monday after news that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had raided the Washington-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., blasting the development as an effort by President Donald Trump to intimidate a longtime political adversary.

“The Trump administration’s raid on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home is deeply disturbing and raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump’s adversaries,” U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., wrote in a statement.

The Justice Department confirmed that agents of Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative arm, executed a court-authorized search warrant as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Two sources close to the investigation say the search stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman’s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.

The Minnesota Democrat has repeatedly denied allegations of immigration fraud and claims that she is in the country unlawfully.

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To Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a fellow member of the progressive group known as the “Squad,” the development is a clearly personal one.

“Donald Trump has been obsessed with Rep. Omar. He has gone after her repeatedly, causing her severe harm and going after the entire Somali American population,” Jayapal said, referencing Trump’s wariness of Somali fraud rings in Minnesota that became a national focus earlier this year.

“This is his way of bullying his way back into power. This is what authoritarians do,” Jayapal added.

Democrats online similarly observed the immigration-related focus of the raid, affirming Omar’s status as a citizen of the U.S.

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“This raid on Rep. Omar’s home is an outrageous abuse of power by ICE. Rep. Omar has been a U.S. citizen for 26 years. She came to the United States as a child and was legally admitted as a refugee,” Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., wrote.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., echoed Lieu.

“Ilhan Omar came to America legally as a child refugee fleeing civil war, became a citizen and was elected to Congress. Trump is weaponizing the federal government to silence opposition,” Sanders said in a post to X.

But Republicans pointed out that the public hasn’t had an opportunity to review the details of Omar’s naturalization paperwork either — something that Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said she had wanted to see for herself but was blocked from using congressional authority to secure.

“I tried to subpoena Ilhan Omar and her brother-husband’s immigration records. Both parties blocked it in Oversight,” Mace wrote, referring to the powerful oversight committee, the body of lawmakers charged with ensuring the government lawfully carries out its duties. “If the fraud is proven, she should be denaturalized and deported home to Somalia.”

Omar has faced long-standing political pressure stemming from her previous marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, a marriage that critics claim was to her biological brother in order to commit immigration fraud. Omar has denied that Elmi is her brother, and no charges related to that marriage have been brought against her. Omar and Elmi divorced in 2017.

Additionally, Mace pointed out that accusations of politically motivated investigations mirror the raid on Trump’s personal residence in Florida in 2022.

“All those who celebrated the raid of Mar-a-Lago don’t get to cry over the raid at Ilhan Omar’s home. Trump’s political enemy raided his home. Democrats set the precedent,” she added.

Other Republicans, like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., argued that the moment has highlighted the need to especially scrutinize the citizenship credentials of lawmakers before they arrive in office — calls shared by other fellow members.

“If these allegations are true, then it needs to be dealt with legally. But ultimately, this is exactly why myself, members like Kat Kammack and Randy Fine have pushed for there to be a disclosure at least for people to know whether members of Congress are dual citizens,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said in an interview with Fox News.

Fine agreed.

“If Ilhan Omar lied on her immigration paperwork, she should be denaturalized and deported — the same as anyone else. No more special treatment,” Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., said.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., didn’t speculate as to why the ICE raid had taken place, but quickly affirmed his view that even lawmakers could be subject to scrutiny.

“Nobody is above the law. HSI just executed a search warrant at Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C. home. We look forward to learning more details about this raid and investigation. ACCOUNTABILITY IS COMING!” Emmer wrote.

Notably, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as of Tuesday morning, had not issued a statement on the raid on Omar’s residence. Neither had Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Republicans in Congress have investigated Omar in the past, evaluating her net worth and the business ties of her husband, Tim Mynett.

“Trump is grossly abusing his power to raid the home of Rep. Omar,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a fellow member of the progressive group called the Squad, said in a post to X on Monday.

“He has repeatedly attacked her, Somali Americans and Minnesotans. [Omar] has done nothing to justify a pre-dawn raid ahead of the election. I stand with my sister always.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., another Squad member, agreed in a post of her own.

“For years, the Trump admin has launched slanderous attacks against Rep. Omar. This morning, the administration sent federal officials to raid her home. We cannot and will not accept this unprecedented abuse of power,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

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“Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our election,” Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., said.

The raid comes less than a month before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. According to the Minnesota secretary of state website, absentee voting by mail and in person began Sept. 18, while the state’s new early voting process, which allows voters to cast ballots directly into voting machines, begins Friday.

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The office of Ilhan Omar did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report. 

Americans are overwhelmingly against the Pentagon’s decision to livestream the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan later this year.

Those who spoke with Fox News Digital blasted the broadcast as “a shame” and “just weird.”

“I think that’s absolutely absurd,” Anya from Virginia said when asked about the livestream announced by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “I think they should keep that discreet and off of the public news.”

“It’s an abomination. It should not happen,” Paul from Illinois definitively stated. “And I’d hate to be one of the soldiers that’s tasked with the job of pulling the trigger.”

Hegseth announced last Thursday the decision to make viewing the execution publicly available. It is set to be the first U.S. military execution in over six decades.

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The execution of the mass shooter who killed 13 people and injured 32 in 2009 at Fort Hood, is scheduled for Dec. 3, 2026. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist at the time of the shooting, is now 56 years old and is wheelchair-bound after he was left partially paralyzed after being shot by police officers during his arrest almost 17 years ago.

Several Americans interviewed by Fox News Digital supported Hasan’s death sentence but drew the line at broadcasting his execution, warning it could turn capital punishment into a public spectacle and could be particularly dangerous in today’s political climate.

“I’m not necessarily against giving him the death penalty, but I feel like livestreaming for people’s entertainment is just weird,” Nick from Virginia said.

“I agree with the sentence,” Bobbie from Massachusetts said. “I don’t agree with televising it.”

He added, “Especially given the climate of today, I’m not sure it’s something we need to see.”

“It’s not a practice we should be doing in modern society,” Reid from Ohio said. “It’s rather medieval, in my opinion. I’m certainly pro-death penalty for heinous crimes such as that, but I think that … turns it into something of a spectacle that it really doesn’t have any business being.”

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But one Virginia man took a drastically different position, suggesting the government should charge Americans to watch the execution and donate the proceeds to the family of U.S. service members who died in the line of duty.

“I think they’re missing an opportunity,” Jason from Virginia said. “It should be pay-per-view and all the proceeds should go to Gold Star families.”

He continued, “You have someone who was a murderous traitor to our country. And there’s not a lot of coverage about that. So I think the public needs and deserves to know the consequences to, well, FAFO.”

Some raised concerns that the execution leaves children vulnerable to possibly accessing or being exposed to watching Hasan die on livestream.

“We have enough violence in our society,” William from Virginia said. “I’m pretty sure he’s guilty, but it doesn’t need to be public. Children could be watching that.”

“I just don’t think that stuff like that should be put on the mainstream,” Ferris from Massachusetts said. “Especially considering that children may have access to seeing it.”

Another pointed out Hasan’s health status, arguing the issue could be approached differently if he was “up and around” but citing the shooter’s well-being as a reason he sees the livestreamed execution as that much more wrong.

“You’re executing somebody who’s not mentally stable, who is in this wheelchair situation,” one respondent told Fox News Digital.

The Trump administration’s announcement of the livestream was largely widely seen as a power play for the United States, demonstrating the consequences of committing such an act of terror on American soil — particularly committing violence toward members of the U.S. military.

“I think they’re trying to make an example out of him, you know?” Nick said. “I think it’s like a show of power. They’re trying to be like … ‘Don’t mess with us.'”

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“I think it’s a message that we’re big and tough, and we don’t have much humanity left,” Paul said.

Trump said Saturday that he will make the decision of whether to livestream Hasan’s execution, acknowledging that he knows “what the military would like to do” following Hegseth’s confirmation.

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Vice President JD Vance also said Friday that he was not sure that the federal government will be livestreaming the execution, also adding that he would not personally view the livestream.

“The world’s gone crazy,” Anya said. “We need Jesus.”

A top elections group affiliated with President Donald Trump is halting spending planned in two key congressional districts held by sitting House Republicans as Election Day looms less than a month away.

MAGA Inc. is reallocating its planned investments in districts represented by Rep. Tom Kean, R-N.J., and Rep. Marianette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, for the remainder of the midterm election cycle, a source familiar with those plans confirmed to Fox News Digital.

A super PAC aligned with House GOP leadership, the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), is also pulling its cash from those districts to reroute into other races, a source familiar with those plans said.

Both groups will instead route those funds into other House races across the country. It comes after recent polling data signaled the two incumbents’ chances for re-election have grown slim.

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Republicans’ uphill battle to keep control of the House of Representatives is getting tougher by the day, according to various projections. The latest Fox News Power Rankings show Democrats having an edge in 219 House seats — enough to clinch a majority — while Republicans are projected to keep 198. Nineteen seats are still up in the air.

Kean’s 7th Congressional District is one of the wealthiest in both New Jersey and the U.S. as a whole, encompassing suburbs and exurbs of New York City to the north.

A source close to Kean’s campaign told Fox News Digital that “the race is fully funded down the home stretch.”

Kean’s campaign and House Republicans’ campaign arm “have major reservations on broadcast,” the source said, adding that his Democratic opponent Rebecca Bennett “has no soft dollar reservations on her behalf.”

He and Miller-Meeks represent two of the most purple districts in the country.

Kean won his House seat in 2022 after defeating incumbent former Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., by less than 10,000 votes. His 2024 re-election margin was wider, winning by just over 5%, or 23,000 more votes than his Democrat challenger.

Miller-Meeks, meanwhile, is seeking a fourth term against Democrat Christina Bohannan, whom she defeated twice by roughly 20,000 and 800 votes in 2022 and 2024.

She first won in 2020 by just six votes — earning her the nickname “six-pack” among fellow House Republicans and GOP leadership.

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Miller-Meeks represents Iowa’s 1st Congressional District in the state’s southeast, encompassing the cities of Davenport and Iowa City.

The New York Times first reported plans by “top Republican super PACs aligned with President Trump and congressional Republican leadership” to pull funding from Kean and Miller-Meeks’ districts over concerns about their polling.

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CLF is reportedly pulling the funding as part of a wider reshuffling of its war chest into other districts that Republicans are more confident in.

That includes battleground Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, The Times reported.

The source familiar with CLF’s planning told Fox News Digital the group was also pulling funding from Michigan’s 8th Congressional District and Ohio’s 1st Congressional District, where Republicans were hoping to unseat Reps. Kristen McDonald Rivet, D-Mich., and Greg Landsman, D-Ohio.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Miller-Meeks’ campaign but did not immediately hear back.