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President Donald Trump scolded the European nations during his United Nations address on Tuesday morning, specifically over immigration policies in several countries.

Europe has dealt with a major influx of people coming from Africa and the Middle East in recent years, with critics raising concerns about everything from resources to cultural assimilation.  

“The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them,” Trump said.

TRUMP SLAMS UN FOR ‘CREATING NEW PROBLEMS,’ QUESTIONS ITS ROLE IN FIERY UNGA SPEECH

“You’re destroying your countries. They’re being destroyed. Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe. Nobody is doing anything to change it to get them out. It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it,” he added.

Trump compared the situation to the United States’ own border crisis under the Biden administration, which led to millions of people entering the country illegally. 

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The high number of people crossing the southern border led to a strain on resources in border communities and major cities across the U.S. As part of Trump’s agenda, mass deportations continue.

TRUMP TO GIVE ‘TOUGH TALK’ ON GLOBALISM ‘FAILURES,’ WHILE HIGHLIGHTING ‘RETURN OF AMERICAN STRENGTH’ AT UNGA

“In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime and deplete our social safety net. We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people, and I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens as well,” the president said.

In a May letter, several European countries slammed the European Court of Human Rights for restricting the ability to deport migrants who have committed crimes, saying that it hurts individual countries’ ability to make their own choices on immigration policy.

“Many have come here via legal pathways. They have learned our languages, believe in democracy, contribute to our societies and have decided to integrate themselves into our culture,” the letter signed by Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy and Poland stated.

TRUMP IS TARGETING NONVIOLENT AND LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. AMERICANS ARE STARTING TO NOTICE

The letter noted that some migrants have opted “not to integrate” and live in “parallel societies” with values aside from “equality, democracy and freedom.”

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“In particular, some have not contributed positively to the societies welcoming them and have chosen to commit crimes,” the letter continued.

‘Squad’ member and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is reportedly eyeing a potential 2028 presidential run as the Democratic Party finds its footing following President Donald Trump’s decisive win at the ballot box in 2024, according to a recent report. 

Ocasio-Cortez’s team is preparing her to run for president or the U.S. Senate in 2028, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is up for re-election and Democrats can next run to reclaim the White House, Axios reported Friday, citing sources familiar. 

The New York congresswoman has not officially made a decision on a Senate or presidential run, but has hired former senior advisers from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ orbit as she navigates her political future, the outlet reported. She notably has joined Sanders on a national tour, called “Fighting Oligarchy,” in recent months that aims at combating Trump administration policies. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s office for comment on the report she’s teeing up a 2028 run for higher office but did not receive a reply. 

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Fox News Digital spoke to Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Shasti Conrad Thursday, ahead of Axios’ report on Ocasio-Cortez’s alleged 2028 aspirations, to discuss Harris’ book as well as top Democrats eyeing serving in higher offices. 

Conrad, who is also the chair of Washington State’s Democratic Party, told Fox News Digital that the party needs “hundreds of leaders,” listing off names such as New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, to Ocasio-Cortez and former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. 

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“We need Mamdani to Pete to Kamala to (Minnesota Gov. Tim) Walz to (California Gov.) Gavin Newsom … to (Kentucky Gov.) Andy Beshear to, you know, AOC,” she said. “We need messengers across this country talking about what Democrats stand for, what we will do when we get back in power, how we will make a difference in people’s lives.” 

She added that these leaders must also bring attention to “what Trump is doing, calling that out every single day, holding the Republicans’ feet to the fire,” she added. 

2028 LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE FOR DEMOCRATS — AND REPUBLICANS ARE POISED TO CAPITALIZE

Conrad argued that Harris’ book allows the former vice president to “speak her truth” on the 2024 campaign cycle, which included Harris reporting that she did not feel supported by the Biden team. 

The book argued the Biden team rarely defended her from negative press, and called Biden’s decision to run for reelection at the age of 81 as an example of “recklessness.”

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“’It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris wrote in the book, according to the excerpts. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”

The excerpts set off condemnation from former White House staffers who told Axios that Harris was allegedly trying to scapegoat Biden instead of owning up that she “was simply not good at the job.”

Democrats are now jockeying to lead the party in the Trump era. Conrad said the book tees up Harris potentially running for president again in 2028, or a potential Buttigieg run, while also celebrating other high-profile names could step up. 

“This is the thing that happens when you don’t have the White House, the presidency, is that there isn’t one leader of the Democrats,” she said. “We need, you know, hundreds of leaders.” 

The report comes as the Democratic Party maps out its future following Trump’s November 2024 election win. 

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris is launching a book tour after her memoir reflecting on her 107-day presidential campaign was released Tuesday. 

FIRST ON FOX: A conservative climate policy group is urging House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to subpoena records from the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project as part of an ongoing probe into the influence of climate advocacy groups in climate policy litigation. 

Hon. Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, a conservative pro-U.S. energy production policy group, wrote a letter to Jordan last week pointing to evidence from a Sept. 12 Multnomah County v. ExxonMobil et al. court filing that he says suggests “covert coordination and judicial manipulation.”

“This new evidence raises serious red flags about the credibility of both the so-called science being used in climate lawsuits and the judicial training programs behind the bench,” Isaac told Fox News Digital. 

According to Isaac’s letter to Jordan, the court filing submitted by Chevron Corporation earlier this month reveals that “one of the plaintiffs’ lead attorneys, Roger Worthington, had undisclosed involvement in at least two so-called scientific studies that the county is presenting as independent, peer-reviewed evidence.”

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One of those studies “acknowledged funding from the Climate Judiciary Project in a draft version, but that disclosure was inexplicably removed from the final publication,” Isaac said in the letter. 

Earlier drafts of the study, labeled “DO NOT DISTRIBUTE,” were found on Worthington’s law firm website, the letter revealed. 

TOP ENERGY GROUP CALLS FOR PROBE INTO SECRETIVE ‘NATIONAL LAWFARE CAMPAIGN’ TO INFLUENCE JUDGES ON CLIMATE

According to the American Energy Institute, the study seeks to “attribute global economic losses from climate change to specific oil companies.” The website also included a “pre-publication draft of a CJP judicial training module” with internal editorial comments, according to the letter. 

Isaac told Jordan this mark-up raises “serious questions about how and why a plaintiffs’ attorney had early access to, and possibly editorial influence over, materials being presented to state and federal judges as ‘neutral’ science.”

Another module was designed to “educate” participant judges on how to apply “attribution science” in the courtroom, according to Isaac. 

Attribution science seeks to measure how much human-caused climate change is responsible for certain extreme weather events, per Science News Explores’ definition. 

“The Environmental Law Institute has claimed neutrality, yet documents suggest coordination with plaintiffs’ counsel who stand to profit from the outcomes,” Isaac told Fox News Digital. “If the same lawyers suing energy companies are shaping the studies and educating the judges, that is not justice; it is manipulation. Congress is right to dig deeper, and the American Energy Institute is proud to support that effort.” 

Isaac is requesting that Jordan formally request “communications, draft documents, funding agreements, and internal editorial notes related to the scientific studies and CJP curriculum.”

While commending Jordan’s leadership, Isaac said, “Judges and the public deserve to know whether the courtroom is being quietly shaped by coordinated climate advocacy posing as neutral expertise.”

Isaac said the Environmental Law Institute and Worthington should answer several questions about their involvement in the studies, including the “judicial education module on attribution science.”

“Does ELI regularly seek input from plaintiffs’ attorneys on its judicial education modules?” Isaac questioned. 

“ELI did not fund the Nature study, and the Climate Judiciary Project has not coordinated with Mr. Worthington,” Environmental Law Institute spokesman Nick Collins told Fox News Digital in a statement. 

“CJP does not participate in or provide support for litigation,” Collins added. “Rather, CJP provides evidence-based continuing education to judges about climate science and how it arises in the law. Our curriculum is fact-based and science-first, grounded in consensus reports and developed with a robust peer review process that meets the highest scholarly standards.”

When 23 Republican state attorneys general sent a letter last month to Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin calling on him to cancel funding to the Environmental Law Institute, Collins told Fox News Digital that the Climate Judiciary Project’s projects are far from “radical.”

“The programs in which the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) participates are no different than other judicial education programs, providing evidence-based training on legal and scientific topics that judges voluntarily choose to attend,” Collins said.

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Fox News Digital has reached out to Jordan and Worthington for comment on the letter but did not immediately hear back. 

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this story. 

Former Vice President Kamala Harris detailed her running mate Tim Walz’s debate performance in her new book and recounted a showdown with then-Sen. JD Vance, which ultimately left her disappointed. 

Harris writes in her new book, “107 Days,” that she needed the Minnesota governor to be the “closer” at the October 1, 2024, debate given that she was not going to have another opportunity to debate Trump. But during the debate, she turned to her husband in frustration.

“When Tim fell for it and started nodding and smiling at J.D.’s fake bipartisanship, I moaned to Doug, ‘What is happening?'” Harris wrote, explaining how she believed Walz was duped by Vance’s “mild-mannered aw-shucks” attitude. 

“I told the television screen: ‘You’re not there to make friends with the guy who is attacking your running mate.’”

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Harris, who lamented that there was “more riding on Tim’s debate than there should have been,” said that being the “closer” and debating on such a large scale was “not a comfortable role” for Walz. 

“He had fretted from the outset that he wasn’t a good debater,” Harris wrote. “I’d discounted his concerns. He was so quick and pithy in front of the crowds at our rallies, I thought he’d bring those qualities to the podium.”

Harris referred to Vance as a “shape-shifter” and said he “complained petulantly,” along with more critiques of Walz. 

“Tim fell into a pattern of defending his record as a governor,” Harris wrote. “Then he fumbled his answer when the moderator, predictably, questioned why he had claimed to be in Hong Kong during the democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.”

KAMALA HARRIS SAYS SHE ‘HAD NO IDEA’ SHE ‘PULLED THE PIN ON A HAND GRENADE’ WITH ‘THE VIEW’ ANSWER ABOUT BIDEN

“Tim had been on his way to teach in China that summer but hadn’t yet left the United States on the date of the massacre. Instead of simply stating that he’d gotten his dates mixed up, but that being in China during a period of human rights oppression had profoundly influenced him, he talked about biking in Nebraska.”

Harris mentioned a Saturday Night Live skit after the debate that depicted Harris and her husband Doug watching the debate and spitting out wine in shock. Harris wrote that while she did not actually spit out wine while watching, “it was otherwise uncanny in its portrait of our evening.”

“Tim felt bad that he hadn’t done better,” Harris wrote. 

“I reassured him that the election would not be won or lost on account of that debate, and in fact it had a negligible effect on our polling. In choosing Tim, I thought that as a second-term governor and twelve-year congressman he would know what he was getting into. In hindsight, how could anyone?”

Harris wrote that she encouraged Walz to be “resilient” during the campaign and suggested that he struggled with the “unfair” attacks on his record and that it took a toll on his family. 

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“For the candidate, the family that is your source of strength can become your weakness in a presidential campaign,” Harris wrote, adding that Tim was “outraged by the unfairness.”

“When I was a newly elected DA, an elderly gentleman in Atlanta pulled me aside with a bit of advice: ‘Baby, you be sure and don’t make it look too easy,’” Harris wrote. “He knew it was not. And the higher you rise in the political food chain, the harder it gets. This is not a genteel profession. You must be ready to brawl.”

Harris also detailed in her book the decision process she used to ultimately choose Walz over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Harris made a point of noting that her senior staff “strongly favored Tim” and that her godson, along with her sister and brother-in-law, also preferred Walz.

“Doug and I went back and forth,” Harris wrote. “He had known Josh longer and leaned that way. It was always going to have to be my decision. I told my staff and family that I didn’t want any more input, and I went to do something practical: I made a tasty rub and seasoned a pork roast. By the time I went to bed, I’d decided on Walz.”

President Donald Trump sharply criticized a wave of European nations that recently recognized a Palestinian state, warning that such moves reward Hamas and encourage continued conflict in Gaza.

“As everyone knows, I have also been deeply engaged in seeking a cease-fire in Gaza. Have to get that done. You have to get it done,” Trump said. 

“Unfortunately, Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace. We can’t forget Oct. 7, can we? Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state… this would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including Oct. 7.”

His remarks came one day after French President Emmanuel Macron announced his nation would recognize a Palestinian state, hosting a meeting at the United Nations General Assembly along with Saudi Arabia on a two-state solution. 

ISRAEL CALLS UN PUSH FOR PALESTINE STATEHOOD A ‘CHARADE,’ WARNS OF ‘CONSEQUENCES’ FOR RECOGNITION MOVES

Several other longtime Israeli allies — the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada — did the same on Sunday, citing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and expanding settlements and violence by settlers in the West Bank.

The U.S. remains squarely on the side of Israel, and Trump said such recognition undermines efforts to free hostages held in Gaza and risks emboldening Hamas.

“Even while they refuse to release the hostages or accept the cease-fire, instead of giving to Hamas and giving so much because they’ve taken so much, they have taken so much. This could have been solved so long ago,” Trump said. “Instead of giving in to Hamas as ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message: release the hostages now. Just release the hostages.”

Trump said he always knew the last 20 remaining hostages would be “the hardest” to get back — but said the bodies of the deceased were just as important to reclaim.

“Those parents came to me and they want them back… as though they were alive. They want them every bit as much as if their son or daughter were alive.”

On Monday, France became the first major Western nuclear power and a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council from the G7 to formally recognize Palestine.

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Macron said: “The time has come to no longer talk about the existence of Israel — it’s self-evident. The time has come to do justice to the Palestinians, to recognize the state of Palestine.”

“We must do this to save lives.”

Meanwhile, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon warned there will be “consequences” for nations that recognize Palestine. 

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On Tuesday, Trump will hold a closed-door meeting with Arab leaders who are expected to implore him to urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do more to end the war in Gaza.

Trump is expected to present his Middle Eastern counterparts with the U.S. outlook for peace and post-war governance in Gaza.

Jurors in Fort Pierce, Florida, began deliberations Tuesday in the federal criminal trial of Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at his Palm Beach golf course last year.

Routh, 59, faces five federal charges, including attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, and multiple firearms offenses. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. If convicted, he could face life in prison.

Prosecutors used their closing arguments Tuesday to emphasize both the digital and forensic evidence presented at trial and what they described as Routh’s clear intent: to kill Trump. 

“This was not a publicity stunt,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Browne told the jury. “The evidence has shown one thing and one thing only — the defendant wanted Donald Trump dead,” Browne said, adding that the worst part was that he “almost got away” with it.

Browne told jurors that Routh “excessively” stalked Trump’s locations and whereabouts in the weeks before the alleged assassination attempt on Sept. 15, 2024. 

He noted that Routh allegedly traveled on 17 separate occasions to scope out the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach. These were “reconnaissance” missions, Browne argued.

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Browne reminded jurors that there were 19 rounds found in the magazine of the SKS rifle recovered at the scene, including one in the chamber. 

There is “no doubt, no reasonable doubt, no doubt whatsoever that it was the man,” Browne said, pointing at Routh, “who was hiding” in the sniper’s nest. 

Browne told jurors that his motives were also on clear display, pointing to lyrics from a rap song Routh wrote about killing Trump with a sniper rifle — one he penned after he was caught and arrested by the FBI. 

“It’s not every case where the defendant writes down his intent on a piece of paper,” Browne said.

The prosecution spent most of its time Tuesday focusing on count one of the five federal criminal charges Routh is facing: Attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate. 

Roughly five minutes were allotted for counts two through five. 

JURY SEATED IN TRIAL OF MAN ACCUSED OF TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

The contrast between Routh’s defense and federal prosecutors is a dynamic that has been on stark display throughout the trial. 

Federal prosecutors spent roughly two weeks walking jurors through hundreds of exhibits and testimony from 38 witnesses to make their cas against Routh.

They built and presented the arguments carefully, introducing cellphone data to tie Routh to the location of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, where they said he made a “sniper’s nest” near the sixth hole; and bank records, burner phones, and DNA evidence tie him to the purchase and handling of an SKS rifle found at the scene.

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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has grown increasingly frustrated with Routh’s decision to represent himself without a law degree or formal training. Before adjourning Monday, she warned him that any arguments must be “reasonably tied to the admitted evidence.”

Routh confirmed he understood and told Cannon he would not testify on his own behalf, despite her repeated offers for him to reconsider and consult with standby counsel.

Fox News’s Samantha Daigle and Jennifer Johnson contributed to this report.

President Donald Trump canceled a meeting with top congressional Democrats on Tuesday over “unserious and ridiculous demands” as the deadline to fund the government fast approaches.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., were set to meet with Trump on Thursday to discuss a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown before the Sept. 30 deadline.

Lawmakers are still away from Washington, D.C., this week to observe the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Senate is expected to return on Sept. 29. Meanwhile, the House is expected to be out until the deadline passes.

THUNE SLAMS DEMOCRATS’ ‘COLD-BLOODED PARTISAN’ TACTICS AS FUNDING DEADLINE NEARS

But Trump nixed the meeting in a lengthy post on his social media platform Truth Social, where he blasted the duo for pushing “radical Left policies that nobody voted for.” 

“I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive,” Trump said. 

The now canceled meeting with Trump came on the heels of a letter from Schumer and Jeffries sent over that weekend where the top congressional Democrats laid the possibility of a shutdown on his and Republicans’ feet.

They argued that the Trump-backed short-term extension was “dirty,” which would mean it had partisan policy riders or spending attached to it, and panned it for continuing “the Republican assault on healthcare,” ignoring expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium subsidies, and possibly leading to the closure of hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the country.

“With the September 30th deadline fast approaching, Republicans will bear responsibility for another painful government shutdown because of the refusal of GOP congressional leadership to even talk with Democrats,” they wrote at the time.

But Trump argued that their bill would allow for the nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts in his “big, beautiful bill” to be repealed, and also blasted the Democratic continuing resolution (CR) for ending his megabill’s $50 billion rural hospital fund. 

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“We must keep the Government open, and legislate like true Patriots rather than hold American Citizens hostage, knowing that they want our now thriving Country closed,” he said. 

“I’ll be happy to meet with them if they agree to the Principles in this Letter,” Trump continued. “They must do their job! Otherwise, it will just be another long and brutal slog through their radicalized quicksand. To the Leaders of the Democrat Party, the ball is in your court. I look forward to meeting with you when you become realistic about the things that our Country stands for. DO THE RIGHT THING!”

Schumer and Jeffries last month demanded a meeting with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to strike a deal, given that Thune will need Democratic support in the Senate.

However, that meeting has so far not come to fruition — though Thune has pushed back on Schumer’s characterization and argued that if the Democratic leader wants to talk, it’s on him to make it happen.

“After weeks of Republican stonewalling in Congress, President Trump has agreed to meet this week in the Oval Office,” they said in a joint statement. “In the meeting, we will emphasize the importance of addressing rising costs, including the Republican healthcare crisis. It’s past time to meet and work to avoid a Republican-caused shutdown.”

The last time Schumer went to negotiate with Trump at the White House ahead of a looming deadline in 2018, the government shut down for 35 days, which marked the longest partial closure in history. At the time, Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., were at odds with Trump on a deal to fund construction of a wall on the southern border.

Prior to the meeting being announced, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued that if the government shuttered, it “would be the fault of the Democrats.”

“We want a clean funding extension to keep the government open, that’s all we’re advocating for,” she said.

SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK DEMOCRATS’ ‘FILTHY’ COUNTEROFFER AS SHUTDOWN DEADLINE LOOMS

However, the House Republicans’ bill is relatively “clean,” save for tens of millions in spending for increasing security measures for lawmakers in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Congressional Democrats’ counter-proposal, which also failed last week, included more funding for member security, but also sought to repeal the healthcare portion of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” claw back billions of canceled funding for NPR and PBS, and permanently extend the expiring ACA credits.

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Thune noted last week that CRs “aren’t places to load big health policy changes in.”  

“I think that we are open to the conversation about what we do with the ObamaCare premium tax credit,” Thune said. “Is that something in which members, Republican senators, and I think, for that matter, Republican House members, have an interest, as well.”

“But this isn’t the place to do that,” he continued. “This is the place to fund the government, to allow our appropriations process to continue that issue.”

In her new book, former Vice President Kamala Harris indicates that President Joe Biden’s unpopularity harmed her 2024 presidential bid, suggesting that among the issues was the president’s “perceived blank check to [Israeli leader] Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza,” Axios reported.

“I had pleaded with Joe, when he spoke publicly on this issue, to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians,” she wrote, according to the outlet. 

“But he couldn’t do it: While he could passionately state, ‘I am a Zionist,’ his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced.”

KAMALA HARRIS SAYS SHE ‘HAD NO IDEA’ SHE ‘PULLED THE PIN ON A HAND GRENADE’ WITH ‘THE VIEW’ ANSWER ABOUT BIDEN

Trump trounced Harris in the 2024 contest — she lost the Electoral College and the popular vote.

Harris claimed in her book that Netanyahu “wanted [Donald] Trump in the seat opposite him. Not Joe, not me,” according to Axios.

The former vice president’s book about her whirlwind presidential campaign, “107 Days,” was released on Tuesday.

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“I believe Israel was right to respond to the atrocities of October 7,” she wrote, according to Axios. 

“But the ferocity of Netanyahu’s response, the number of innocent Palestinian women and children killed, and his failure to prioritize the lives of the hostages had weakened Israel’s moral position internationally and created angry dissent within Israel itself.”

HARRIS OFFERS TIMID ENDORSEMENT OF MAMDANI, QUICKLY PIVOTS TO OTHER ‘STAR’ DEMOCRATS

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A December 2023 Politico article titled “Kamala Harris pushes White House to be more sympathetic toward Palestinians” quoted Harris press secretary Kirsten Allen claiming that “there is no daylight between the president and the vice president, nor has there been” and they “have been clear: Israel has a right and responsibility to defend itself; humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow into Gaza; innocent civilians must be protected; and the United States remains committed to a two-state solution.”

With six weeks to go until Election Day 2025, Zohran Mamdani remains far ahead of his rivals for New York City mayor, according to a new public opinion poll.

Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from Queens who shocked the political world in June with his convincing win over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic Party’s mayoral nomination, holds a 20-point lead over Cuomo.

Mamdani grabs 45% support in the Suffolk University CityView poll of New Yorkers very or somewhat likely to vote in November’s general election for mayor. 

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Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 amid multiple scandals and who is running as an independent candidate in the general election after losing the primary, stands at 25% support in the survey, which was conducted Sept. 16–18.

Guardian Angels co-founder Curtis Sliwa, who for a second straight election is the Republican mayoral nominee in the Democrat-dominated city, stands at 9%. And embattled incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent after deciding to skip the Democratic primary amid anemic polling, grabbed 8% support in the survey.

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Three other candidates on the ballot combined for 1% support, with 9% undecided.

Suffolk highlighted that theirs is the first public poll that includes all seven candidates listed on the official ballot, and the nine affiliated political parties or designations.

“The official ballot lists Mamdani and Sliwa twice each because they represent multiple political parties or designations,” Suffolk University Political Research Center director David Paleologos said. “This helps Mamdani because he is listed first on the ballot as the Democratic Party nominee, and then again fourth on the ballot as the Working Families Party nominee.”

Cuomo is listed once and is the eighth selection out of nine ballot choices.

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The Suffolk poll is the latest to show Mamdani remains the clear frontrunner in the Democrat-dominated city. Four other surveys conducted earlier this month indicated Mamdani’s lead over Cuomo and the rest of the field ranging from 15 to 22 points.

Both Sliwa and Adams have repeatedly committed to staying in the race in recent weeks amid multiple reports that President Donald Trump’s advisors floated administration roles for both mayoral hopefuls if they dropped out.

Trump, a native New Yorker who now calls Florida home, has urged that the field narrow in order to offer Cuomo a better chance at possibly defeating Mamdani, whom the president repeatedly derides is a communist.

The Ugandan-born Mamdani, if elected, would become the first Muslim and first millennial mayor of the nation’s most populous city.

Mamdani surged to the Democratic primary victory thanks to an energetic campaign that put a major focus on affordability and New York City’s high cost of living. It was fueled by a grassroots army of supporters and backing from top national progressive champions, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Mamdani made smart use of social media platforms, including TikTok, as he engaged low-propensity voters. He proposed eliminating fares to ride New York City’s vast bus system, making CUNY (City University of New York) “tuition-free,” freezing rents on municipal housing, offering free child care for children up to age 5 and setting up government-run grocery stores.

Mamdani has been heavily criticized by his rivals not only for his far-left proposals, but also for his criticism of Israel, his past negative comments regarding the New York City Police Department (NYPD), and his proposal to shift certain responsibilities away from the NYPD and focus on social services and community-based programs. 

The new poll indicates affordability, at 21%, is the top issue on the minds of New York City voters, followed by crime at 20%, economy/jobs at 14%, and housing at 9%.

The survey also indicates voters are debunking much of the negative social media narratives about Mamdani and Cuomo.

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According to the poll, 59% of those questioned or disagreed that Mamdani is antisemitic. And 52% disagreed that Mamdani, if elected, would raise taxes, causing businesses to flee the city.

Additionally, 53% disagreed that Cuomo, if elected, would continue the unwanted touching and groping that were among the controversies that caused him to resign as governor.

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is putting newfound urgency in the push for Congress to streamline the permitting process for new energy projects.

Permitting reform, which refers to efforts to streamline the approval of new energy projects, is one of the rare issues in Congress that still has bipartisan backing.

But the exact details and scale of permitting reform, including deregulatory efforts, have been subject to contentious debate.

“What we’re seeing right now in China is a historic build-out of their grid. Of course, adding nuclear, adding a lot more oil and gas, but in addition to that, they’re adding a lot of coal as well. That is a country that is really focused on using all the energy that they have to build out, to supply the AI future and a growing citizenship,” Mike Sommers, CEO of the American Petroleum Institute (API), told Fox News Digital.

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“What we don’t see at the federal level or at the state level in the United States is that same kind of effort. And the first key to that is to get a permitting reform bill done that gives our private sector the ability to actually build things.”

Global electricity demand for AI data centers is projected to double between 2022 and 2026, according to the International Energy Agency.

In the U.S. alone, AI data centers accounted for more than 4% of all U.S. electricity use in 2023, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, and could more than double to 9% by 2030. One AI data center could use as much power as 50,000 U.S. households.

It’s part of what’s driving the House Committee on Natural Resources to advance bipartisan legislation, led by Chair Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., and Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, to make the permitting process easier.

“We’re seeing unprecedented demand for electricity in particular. It was kind of flat. And now the year-over-year increase, we’re seeing a three-fold uptick in the demand for electricity. And the numbers that I’m being told almost seem irrational – like a data center that’s close to my district…they’re talking about three gigabytes of power from one data center,” Westerman told Fox News Digital.

“To put that in perspective, I’ve got nuclear power plants in my district, each reactor is a gigabyte. So you’re talking about three nuclear reactors to power one data center.”

He said the U.S. has “gotten way behind the eight-ball in being able to meet the demands that are out there.”

Sommers warned that a failure to act soon could lead to skyrocketing costs for everyday Americans.

“If we can’t figure out a way to get more energy on the grid, when we expect energy demand to go up by 35 to 40% by 2040, consumers are going to revolt,” he said. “And if they revolt, what that means is that there’s going to be fewer data centers, fewer investments in AI, and that makes America at an economic disadvantage to China.”

Earlier this month, API released a policy roadmap with recommendations for Congress to create “durable, comprehensive solutions that cut red tape, sets clear deadlines and provides legal certainty” in unleashing American energy, according to a memo viewed by Fox News Digital.

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Sommers also described a “full-throated effort” by API to get their plan into lawmakers’ hands, including in-person advocacy on Capitol Hill and a “major seven-figure” advertising campaign inside Washington.

“We’re not seeing a crisis now, but there is a crisis coming. And if we can get permanent reform done now, it’ll clear the way for that dominance in both energy and in AI that’s going to be required if we’re going to win the future,” he said. 

Meanwhile, the current U.S. energy grid and permitting process was not designed to take the skyrocketing use of AI into account, Westerman said.

“It was done 50-some odd years ago, when it was put in place,” he said.

The Arkansas Republican conceded the National Environmental Protection Act and other similar pieces of legislation were critical when they were passed in the early 1970s.

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“All of those were put in place with the right motives, but over time, they’ve been weaponized and politicized, where they’re used more to stop projects than they are to benefit the environment,” Westerman said. “I contend that we’re hurting the environment by having a poor permitting process.”

He emphasized, however, that any solution needs to be bipartisan, pointing to the Senate’s 60-vote threshold for any successful legislation.

“There’s a lot that agree it needs changing, and the challenge is to find out where we all agree on the same things, how it needs to be changed,” Westerman said. “I think for the benefit of the country, we have to work together in a bipartisan manner.”

The special election on Tuesday in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District is widely expected to narrow the GOP’s already slim majority in the U.S. House.

Democrats enjoy a nearly two-to-one voter registration advantage over Republicans in southern Arizona’s left-leaning congressional district, which stretches from Yuma to Tucson and includes almost the entire length of the state’s border with Mexico.

Democratic Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late congressman, is facing off in the special election against small business owner and contractor Daniel Butierez, the Republican nominee, with two third-party candidates also on the ballot.

“In Congress, I commit to fight Trump’s cruel agenda, like the Big Ugly Bill that took away coverage from nearly 383,000 Arizonans and 142,000 children,” Grijalva pledged in a social media post, as she took aim at President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans, and their sweeping domestic policy measure.

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Butierez, meanwhile, has been promoting himself as the change candidate in a district controlled by Democrats since the seat was created over two decades ago.

“This is your chance to actually get a Representative who will represent everyone. If you vote we win, if you don’t only the radicals will have representation,” he wrote on X.

The winner will serve out the remaining 15 months of the term of the elder Grijalva, who died in March following complications from cancer treatment.

Republicans currently control the House 219-213, with three vacant seats. 

Besides Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, there’s also a vacancy in the Texas 18th Congressional District, a heavily Democrat-dominated district in Houston, following the March death of Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner. The special election to fill the seat will be held on November 4, which is Election Day 2025.

Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, a right-leaning seat where Republican Rep. Mark Green stepped down in July to take a job in the private sector, is also currently vacant. The special election to fill the seat will be held on December 2.

In Arizona, the younger Grijalva, thanks in part to her family name and her support from national progressive rock stars Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, grabbed over 60% of the primary vote this summer in a five-candidate showdown.

Progressive activist and social media influencer Deja Foxx came in a distant second.

Grajalva, if elected, would become Arizona’s first Latina in Congress.

Butierez, who as the 2024 GOP congressional nominee lost to the elder Grijalva while Trump narrowly carried the southwestern battleground state at the top of the ballot, easily won this summer’s Republican primary in the special election.

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While Trump carried Arizona last year after losing it in 2020, 2024 Democratic presidential nominee and then-Vice President Kamala Harris won the district by 23 points. 

EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump will highlight the “return of American strength” in his second administration during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, while delivering “blunt” and “tough talk” about the “failures of globalism,” a White House official told Fox News Digital.

The president is scheduled to deliver his first address of his second administration at the UN General Assembly in New York City Tuesday just before 10 a.m.

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A White House official gave Fox News Digital an exclusive preview of the president’s address.

“President Trump has effectively restored American strength on the world stage,” a White House official told Fox News Digital. “His historic speech at the United Nations General Assembly will highlight his success in delivering peace on a scale that no other president has accomplished, while simultaneously speaking bluntly about how globalist ideologies risk destroying successful nations around the world.”

The president is expected to highlight his successful efforts to negotiate peace around the world—specifically, Armenia and Azerbaijan; Thailand and Cambodia; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; among others.

The president is also expected to highlight his strikes against narcoterrorists from Venezuela.

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Earlier this month, a U.S. military strike blew apart a Venezuelan drug boat in the southern Caribbean, leaving nearly a dozen suspected Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists dead. And last week, the president announced that the U.S. military had carried out its second kinetic strike on Venezuelan drug trafficking cartels.

Also last week, the president announced that he ordered a lethal strike on a vessel allegedly linked to a designated terrorist organization conducting narcotrafficking in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility. That strike left three narcoterrorists dead.

“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage en route to poison Americans,” Trump posted to his Truth Social announcing the strike.

The president is also expected to highlight his “Operation Midnight Hammer,” which marked the largest B-2 operational strike in history and represented the United States’ move to deliver a decisive blow against Iran’s nuclear program back in June.

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Trump’s historic precision strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites hit their targets and “destroyed” and “badly damaged” the facilities’ critical infrastructure—an assessment agreed upon by Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Israel, and the United States.

Trump is also set to detail his work to “deliver historic peace deals in decades-long conflicts,” the official told Fox News Digital.

Meanwhile, the president’s speech will also feature “some blunt, tough talk about the failures of globalism.”

“This will include the global migration regime, energy and climate, and how these ideologies pushed by globalists are on the verge of destroying successful nations,” a White House official told Fox News Digital.

The president is also expected to discuss America’s position as a “defender of western civilization.”

“As the president delivers peace in major conflicts around the world, what has the United Nations been doing?” the official said.

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After his speech at the United Nations, the president is expected to have meetings with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; the president of Argentina, Javier Milei; and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

The president is also scheduled to have a multilateral meeting with leaders from Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.  

President Donald Trump announced that taking the common pain relief drug Tylenol during pregnancy can lead to an increased risk of autism for unborn babies, due to the drug’s active ingredient acetaminophen. 

“Today we’re delighted to be joined by America’s top medical and public health professionals as we announce historic steps to confront the crisis of autism,” said Trump. 

Speaking from the White House on Monday, the president said that Tylenol taken during pregnancy “can be associated with a very increased risk of autism.” 

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“The meteoric rise in autism is among the most alarming public health developments in history. There’s never been anything like this,” he said. 

“So taking Tylenol is not good,” he said. “For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary.”

Trump also warned against over-vaccinating babies and children, saying, “It’s too much liquid, too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number the size of this thing. When you look at it, it’s like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines, 80, and you give that to a little kid.” 

The Trump administration said in April it would kick off a massive research initiative to understand the cause of autism by September, and the president hinted at the announcement Sunday at the memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “Tomorrow we’re going to have one of the biggest announcement(s) … medically, I think, in the history of our country. I think you’re going to find it to be amazing,” he said.

Tylenol manufacturer Kenvue has said it strongly disagrees with the administration’s assessment and said that “acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women.”

“We believe independent, sound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism,” a company spokesperson said. “We strongly disagree with any suggestion otherwise and are deeply concerned with the health risk this poses for expecting mothers.”

Speaking during the Monday press conference, however, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said that “we now have data we cannot ignore.” 

Makary said that a collection of studies, including from the Boston Birth Cohort, the Nurses Health Study and Mount Sinai-Harvard have established that there is a “causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder.”

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Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said that the NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS are “turning over every stone to identify the ideology of the autism epidemic and how patients and parents can prevent and reverse this alarming trend.”

“We have broken down the traditional silos that have long separated these agencies, and we have fast-tracked research and guidance,” said Kennedy. “Historically, NIH has focused on almost solely on politically safe and entirely fruitless research about the genetic drivers of autism. And that would be like studying the genetic drivers of lung cancer without looking at cigarettes, and that’s what NIH has been doing for 20 years.”

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a survey in April that found that autism prevalence is on the rise and said the increase “might be due to differences in availability of services for early detection and evaluation and diagnostic practices.”

Specifically, the survey found that one in 31 8-year-old children were diagnosed with autism in 2022 — up from one in 36 in 2000.

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Kennedy has also pointed to environmental factors as the root cause of autism. 

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“This is coming from an environmental toxin, and somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin into our air, our water, our medicines, our food,” Kennedy said in April at an event related to the CDC’s report. “And it’s to their benefit to say ‘Oh, to normalize it, to say all this is all normal, it’s always been here.’ That’s not good for our country.”

Elon Musk amplified a post from Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, weighing in as transgender bathroom policies again take center stage in the state’s off-year election.

Musk alleged Spanberger “tr[ied] to weasel out” of a question from ABC Washington reporter Nick Minock about whether the former congresswoman supports biological males using women’s locker rooms as the Department of Education scrutinizes five major school districts.

“Spanberger obviously does shamefully support boys in girl’s sports and is trying to weasel out of the question by blaming the president,” Musk said, retweeting Spanberger’s response to Minock – who encountered her after she visited an early-voting poll.

Minock mentioned the Trump administration is investigating potential Title IX violations in allowing students to use their desired restroom or changing facility, for which Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington, Alexandria and Prince William County schools under scrutiny. 

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Spanberger replied that court cases brought on the matter of transgender students’ restroom use have already played out, including the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who challenged the local school’s bathroom policy in Grim v. Gloucester County School Board, arguing it violated equal protection and Title IX.

In that case, the Richmond-based Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court’s judgment against the school district and ruled its biologically-based restroom policy led to discrimination against Grimm.

“In fact, the argument is the assessment is there needs to be much clearer guidance in terms of what is an executive order’s binding assessment of Title IX versus what has been a decision of a court,” Spanberger said.

“But ultimately, the real impact here is, once again, it is the Trump administration taking dollars away from Virginia. Threatening education dollars to our public schools is an attack on Virginia’s kids. It’s an attack on our economy. It’s an attack on Virginians.”

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Spanberger said her priority is making Virginia schools the best in the country and painted President Donald Trump as an official who is “coming after Virginia.”

When Minock asked again whether Spanberger specifically supported such policies, she did not respond.

However, in comments to Fox News Digital, a Spanberger spokesperson rebuffed Musk, saying the Democratic nominee is a mother of three Virginia public schoolchildren and a former federal law enforcement officer who investigated child predators.

“Nothing is more important to her than the safety of all of Virginia’s kids,” the spokesperson said.

“Ultimately, Abigail believes that these are decisions between parents and local schools — and she believes that politicians need to stop politicizing Virginia’s public schools.”

Fox News Digital also reached out to Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears – the Republican nominee for governor – for comment.

In 2021, the issue of transgender bathroom policy in schools loomed large in the gubernatorial election. Current Gov. Glenn Youngkin was credited with pulling off an upset win against former Gov. Terry McAuliffe by making the overarching issue of “parental rights” front-and-center in the campaign.

Many of the individual cases affected schools in heavily-Democratic areas like Loudoun County, where McAuliffe still won, but Youngkin mildly increased expected margins. A case in Loudoun involving a transgender student allegedly assaulting another student also made headlines during the campaign.

At present-day, the issue – as well as Washington, D.C.-metro school systems like those mentioned are again front-and-center.

Earle-Sears has called for requiring students to use the restroom assigned to their biological sex as “common sense,” and recently appeared alongside demonstrators outside a Loudoun school board meeting in Ashburn earlier this month.

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Appearing at an Arlington school board meeting, where a protester held up a sign telling Earle-Sears – who is Black – she should not share her water fountain if people can’t share bathrooms, the Republican said the continuing trend is “dangerous, insane and has to stop.”

“Here’s the truth. There are two sexes: boys and girls.”

Musk’s former DOGE counterpart, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, headlined a rally on Friday to endorse Earle-Sears, lieutenant governor candidate John Reid and Attorney General Jason Miyares.

Reid, who approached and embraced Spanberger at her recent appearance in Henrico, highlighted Musk’s comments and said both sides of the aisle “can and should be polite to each other – but also must clearly highlight the differences between the candidates…”

“Abigail Spanberger is dodging the trans in the girls locker room issues because she’s smart enough to know it’s a big loser for her,” Reid said.

“No boys in girls’ sports. No boys in girls’ locker rooms and vice versa. No medical engagement with minors without parental consultation and consent. No underage surgical or hormonal procedures on anyone,” Reid said.

“We should do our best to let adults make their own decisions as long as they fully own the costs and consequences.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempt to block authorities from wearing masks during immigration enforcement operations is facing legal scrutiny as critics push back on the governor’s effort to assert power over federal officers.

Newsom, a Democrat, signed a bill over the weekend that bans state and federal law enforcement from wearing masks on the job, a move that Trump administration officials decried as illegal and vowed to ignore. The bill is set to take effect in January. 

“We don’t need to abide by this garbage,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said on social media.

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Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli of the Central District of California said on “Fox & Friends” on Monday he did not think Newsom’s bill was enforceable. Essayli, who has been in lockstep with the Trump administration on its aggressive immigration enforcement tactics in California, predicted Newsom would sue.

“I think what the governor might do is he might file a lawsuit,” Essayli said. “He might run to a judge to try to get some sort of order, but we’re very confident. The State of California does not and cannot have jurisdiction.”

Newsom’s measure was part of a string of bills the governor signed to counteract the Trump administration, which has, since the summer, been carrying out controversial immigration raids across California. The Supreme Court recently temporarily cleared the way for ICE authorities to continue conducting immigration stops at farms, car washes and other places where they suspect illegal immigrants might be. But the high court did not weigh in on the authorities’ garb, which at times has included identity-concealing masks and neck gaiters, according to videos.

“Unmarked cars, people in masks, people quite literally disappearing, no due process, no rights,” Newsom said, adding, “I’ll be signing a bill, the first in the nation, saying, ‘Enough, ICE, unmask, what are you afraid of?'”

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California-based attorney Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, told Fox News Digital that if courts end up weighing in on Newsom’s bill, they will likely raise the separation of powers and the supremacy clause, the part of the Constitution that says federal law trumps state law.

Rahmani said that while states can impose “reasonable restrictions” on federal law enforcement, such as traffic violations, dictating what the officers wear is different.

“You have the state imposing restrictions on the federal government, and those restrictions can really unduly interfere with their law enforcement functions, right?” Rahmani said. “The state is saying that unmasking these federal officials is necessary to restore public trust, but really it’s a safety issue, right? They can be doxed. Their families can be put at risk, so I can easily see this specific regulation being struck down by the courts.”

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Essayli accused the governor of using what he described as a “silly” bill to try to “inflame the public.”

“You have this narrative that people are out there being kidnapped. It’s not true,” Essayli said. “They’re federal agents. They’re acting under federal law, and if he doesn’t like it he should change the law.”

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani announced on Monday that he is withdrawing from an upcoming WABC town hall to protest Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension. 

The town hall, hosted by ABC News’ New York affiliate, was scheduled for Thursday, one week after a Disney spokesperson told Fox News Digital, “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely.”

“It is not the government’s job to bully talk show hosts off of the air,” Mamdani told reporters on New York City’s Roosevelt Island on Monday. “It is not the government’s job to tell us what we can and cannot talk about.”

The White House fired back against Mamdani’s “authoritarian” accusations on Monday. “It’s not surprising that the Little Communist is too scared to defend his absurd policy positions on live TV,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital. 

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The socialist candidate, who could become New York City’s first Muslim and first millennial mayor if elected this November, joins a chorus of late-night talk show hosts, celebrities and lawmakers who have criticized Kimmel’s indefinite suspension. 

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“We cannot understand this moment of authoritarianism as solely coming from the White House, when it is also characterized by the cowardice of those in response to it,” Mamdani said Monday. 

Mamdani delivered his remarks at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island, where he invoked the former president’s 1941 State of the Union address, when the United States was on the brink of joining World War II. 

“A moment similar to now, when tyranny was spreading across the globe,” Mamdani said. “And he articulated a thesis of democracy built around four freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear. And all of our freedoms are currently under attack from this federal administration.”

Mamdani said Trump’s “authoritarian” administration has “showcased, once again, an attack on the First Amendment.”

“ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air after the FCC sought to pressure them. And the parent companies, Nexstar and Sinclair, put the decision of their merger, the factors that they are considering as part of that, in front of those very freedoms and that very First Amendment right,” Mamdani said.

The 33-year-old mayoral hopeful said his withdrawal from the WABC town hall is not an “indictment of the local affiliate or the hard-working journalists there, but rather, in response to the corporate leaders who have put their bottom line ahead of their responsibility in upholding the freedom of the press.”

In the next several weeks ahead of the November election, Mamdani vowed to participate in another town hall featuring questions from the public. 

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“We are living in a moment where Donald Trump’s actions are the ones which determine whether or not we can enjoy that which we have taken for granted for so many years,” Mamdani said. 

ABC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

NEW YORK, NY – New U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz warned Monday the U.S. and its allies will defend “every inch” of NATO territory after Russian fighter jets violated Estonian airspace.

“The United States stands by our NATO allies in the face of these airspace violations, and I want to take this first opportunity to repeat and to emphasize the United States and our allies will defend every inch of NATO territory,” Waltz said during opening remarks of the United Nations General Assembly high-level week. “Russia must urgently stop dangerous behavior.”

The warning marked one of Waltz’s first public statements since winning Senate confirmation Friday. It came days after three Russian MiG-31 jets flew deep into Estonian airspace — the closest such incursion to the Baltic nation’s Parliament building in years — raising fears Moscow is testing NATO’s resolve.

Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna revealed Monday morning that the jets were armed. The jets were in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes.

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Tsahkna noted that Russia remains a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council even as it continues its war on Ukraine and now pushes into NATO territory.

Article 5 of the NATO treaty states that an armed attack against one or more NATO members in Europe or North America is considered an attack against them all. In practice, this means that if any member nation is attacked, the others are committed to take action.

Waltz, a former House member from Florida, served as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor until May. His confirmation to the U.N. was held up in the Senate until last week, when a 47-43 vote confirmed him as U.S. permanent representative to the U.N. Security Council.

A separate vote to confirm him as U.S. representative to the General Assembly did not come up — it’s unclear whether that will have any effect on his participation at UNGA. 

The Estonia incursion followed an incident where at least 19 Russian drones entered Poland’s airspace just one week after Polish President Karol Nawrocki met with President Donald Trump at the White House. Last week, Romania reported a Shahed drone of Russian origin was found in its territory. 

Russia called reports of the incursions “groundless accusations.” 

“There is no proof except the Russophobic hysteria coming from Tallinn,” said Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N., referring to Estonia’s capital. 

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“There was a time when Europe was associated with the renaissance, enlightenment cutting edge of philosophy, culture and science. Yet today unfortunately all of that is gone and it’s gone for good,” the representative went on.

Polyansky claimed the “only ideology” of European states is “primitive hatred” for Russia. 

“Any events are immediately interpreted through an anti-Russian prism,” he said. “The idea that war with Russia is unavoidable is being frantically pounded into the heads of the European populace.”

On Monday, the U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting on the jet incursions into Estonia at Tallinn’s request. 

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“Russia’s reckless actions represent not only a breach of international law, but also a destabilizing escalation that brings the entire region closer to conflict than at any time in recent years,” Tsahkna said. 

“Such a provocation is profoundly disrespectful towards the collective and tireless efforts of the international community to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war and to restore peace and stability in accordance with international law.”

The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate joined with a high-profile member of the Republican caucus, among others, to launch a bill protecting more than a quarter of a million people who arrived in the U.S. as children of visa-holding foreign nationals.

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., who co-authored the original, ultimately unsuccessful DREAM Act with the late Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, announced Monday that he and several lawmakers would lead the America’s CHILDREN Act to protect so-called Dreamers from deportation by the Trump administration.

The acronym formally stands for “America’s Cultivation of Hope and Inclusion for Long-term Dependents Raised and Educated Natively Act.”

Durbin was joined by Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in the upper chamber, to support the newest iteration of legislation offering a “pathway to citizenship” for long-term U.S. residents who were dependents of migrant parents.

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“Dreamers are some of the hardest working people I’ve met, and as American as all of us,” Durbin said in a statement.

“Their patriotism and dedication to our country inspires me, fuels our economy, and makes our nation stronger. Documented Dreamers are young people brought to the United States lawfully, but they face the risk of losing their status due to backlogs in our outdated immigration system.”

The Illinois Democrat, whose state has clashed with President Donald Trump over his mass deportation agenda, said the administration has made legal immigration “all but impossible” and that the bipartisan nature of the bill shows the American people demand solutions.

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Dreamers can remain a dependent of a migrant worker until they are 21, according to Rep. Deborah Ross, D-N.C., who described the intended beneficiaries of the American CHILDREN Act in a previous attempt to pass similar legislation.

“Sadly, due to decades-long backlogs and problems with the Child Status Protection Act, many of these young adults turn 21 before a visa number for a green card finally becomes available,” said Ross, who also co-sponsored the current bill.

Padilla, who was detained by federal agents when he disrupted a briefing by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in California earlier this year, said the people described in the bill are “Americans in every way except one – their parents’ green card is tied up in red tape.”

Paul, along with Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Illinois — the two most prominent Republican co-sponsors — said Dreamers are contributing members of their communities and the U.S. economy.

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“They shouldn’t be penalized by the government’s failures in addressing green card backlogs. The America’s Children Act provides targeted relief for these children of merit-based immigrants who are at risk of ‘aging out’ of their lawful immigration status, and I’m pleased to join Sen. Padilla in introducing this bill,” Paul said in a statement.

A handful of other Republicans signed onto the bill, including Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska – a frequent Trump critic – along with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, John Rutherford of Florida; Sens. John Curtis of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine.

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The House of Representatives censured the late Roderick Butler, R-Tenn., in 1870 for taking a bribe for a military academy appointment. 

The House also censured late Rep. Thomas Blanton, D-Texas, in 1921 for inserting a document into the Congressional Record which contained obscene language.

And late Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass., faced censure in 1983 for having sex with a 17-year-old page. 

Those are three of the 28 Members ever censured by the House.

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 Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., did not become the 29th Member slapped with censure recently.

That’s probably because Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., was one of four Republicans who joined Democrats to block a censure of Omar. And in so doing, Mills may very well have prevented himself from becoming the 30th House Member to be censured.

Censure is the second-highest form of discipline in the House. It falls between a reprimand and expulsion. Censure is more than a regular foul in a soccer game. Kind of like a yellow card, which serves as a caution. But it’s not a red card, either, which triggers ejection.

That said, censure has become a “thing” in recent years on Capitol Hill. If the House were to ever consider censuring any Member, such an inquest would go behind closed doors with the Ethics Committee. An inquiry may take months.

No more. “Snap” censures are now fashionable in the House of Representatives.

Here’s how it works:

Someone thinks someone says a colleague says something outrageous. So they just prep a censure measure, go over the head of the Congressional leadership by making their resolution privileged (meaning the House must consider it within two days) and, if the House votes in favor of your gambit, that Member is censured.

Done.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., crafted a resolution to censure Omar and strip the Minnesota Democrat from her committee assignments. Mace accused Omar of using inflammatory rhetoric in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

During an appearance on the news outlet Zeteo, Omar claimed “there is nothing more effed up, than to completely pretend that his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so.” Mace’s resolution quoted from a profane social media video not produced by Omar — but reposted by her — which fired invective at Kirk.

Mace’s maneuver came as leaders from both sides tried to urge calm at the Capitol amid the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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“Every leader has an obligation to lower the temperature right now,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. “I disagree with the retweet of one of our one of our colleagues.”

Aguilar said that Mace’s resolution to sanction Omar was not “helpful.”

“Every member of Congress, and certainly the President of the United States, have a responsibility to take the temperature down,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. “Nancy Mace wants to lecture Ilhan Omar and Democrats about civility? Are you kidding me? It’s not a serious effort. It’s an effort to drive donors into her gubernatorial campaign.”

For his part, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., didn’t try to sidetrack Mace. He declared that “Members have a prerogative to file privileged motions.” 

“What she did was outrageous and dangerous. And there has to be accountability in the House for these kinds of activities,” said Johnson. “I don’t understand why she uses that kind of language.”

Mace and Omar wound up tangling over the censure resolution on X. 

“One-way ticket to Somalia with your name on it, Ilhan Omar,” posted Mace.

“I am going soon, so please drop off the tickets on your way to your office. I am next door,” retorted Omar. 

The Minnesota Democrat added that Mace was either not “well or smart.” She added “you belong in rehab, not Congress.”

Democrats defended Omar.

“When we are all trying to take the political temperature down, when we are all trying to work to be able to approach our differences with humanity and stand out against political violence, this is the wrong move,” said House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass.

But lawmakers from both sides are growing weary of the censure trap.

“Every time a Republican in this House is offended, they pile on censure resolution,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. “I’m not here to be fighting over whatever people’s schoolyard thing is for the day.” 

“It’s escalation,” said Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., of Mace’s maneuver. “You’ve got to remember, we’re going to be in the minority someday. We’ll be on the receiving end of this.”

Bacon added that Congress is now “better at shaming people versus legislating.”

Ultimately, the House never took a direct vote on sanctioning Omar. Democrats instead moved to “table” or kill the resolution. That blocked an actual up/down vote on disciplining Omar. The House then voted 214-213 in favor of tabling Mace’s measure. All 210 Democrats who cast ballots voted to table. But four Republicans joined Democrats: Reps. Mike Flood, R-Neb., Jeff Hurd, R-Colo., Tom McClintock, R-Calif., and Mills.

A ballot by Mills against tabling would have reversed the final tally to 214-213. That means the House would have proceeded immediately to the actual vote to censure Omar. But Mills’ vote with the Democrats froze Mace’s effort.

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It’s unclear if Mills based his decision on self-preservation. But had the House censured Omar, it would have undoubtedly triggered a resolution by Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, to sanction Mills.

Casar’s resolution accused Mills of assault – which Casar denies. It also alleged that Mills improperly received the Bronze Star when he served in the Army. But once the House diffused the Omar measure, Casar withdrew his plan for Mills.

Flood explained his vote to table.

“I’m going to vote in ways that support the Ethics Committee,” said Flood. “If we were to pursue a censure action against this Representative, that should be referred to the Ethics Committee. It should be investigated. There should be due process. There should be a back and forth before you issue a censure.”

Mace excoriated her Republican colleagues who voted to table.

“They didn’t stand with Charlie Kirk. They didn’t stand with the millions of Americans mourning his death. They stood with the one who mocked his legacy. They showed us exactly who they are. And we won’t forget,” said Mace in a statement.

But censure is now en vogue.

The House censured no members between Studds in 1983 and late Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. in 2010. But five Members have felt the weight of censure since 2021.

The House voted to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., for posting a cartoon video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez.

Republicans then began returning the favor.

The House voted to censure former Rep. and now Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for how he handled the Russiagate investigation. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., faced censure for her comments after Hamas attacked Israel. The House censured former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., for pulling a false fire alarm. And the House voted earlier this year to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for heckling President Trump during his State of the Union speech. 

Members have embraced censure lately. Those censured have characterized it as a “badge of honor.” They’ve fundraised off censure. Their colleagues have even engineered a pep rally in the well of the chamber to drown out the House Speaker when he issues the censure.

This probably won’t be the House’s last dalliance into the realm of censure.

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“It just seems like every week or so we want to censure somebody for something,” lamented Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Tex., who is no fan of Omar. “A lot of people say a lot of stupid stuff around here.” 

This is Congress. So you can bet that someone will say some “stupid stuff” soon. And unless lawmakers can restore some calm, there will be another effort to censure someone else any day now.