Republicans feature 9/11 conspiracy theorist in South Texas ads
The small business owner featured in the ad previously shared memes calling 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic inside jobs and mocking U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
Illegal immigrant bites Border Patrol agent in the face amid ‘significant rise’ of attacks on CBP
An illegal immigrant coming across the U.S. border bit a Border Patrol agent in the face while being taken into custody, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to Fox News on Friday. The agency said that on Thursday an agent encountered a group of illegal immigrants who had crossed the border near Sunland Park, New Mexico. While taking them into custody, one agent “was physically assaulted and bitten” by one of the illegal immigrants. The agency said that one subject had been arrested for assault and taken to a hospital for medical evaluation. CAUGHT ON CAMERA: FENCE-CUTTING MIGRANTS BUSTED BY FEDS CBP later confirmed to Fox News that the agent had been bitten in the face by the illegal immigrant, and that three of the four migrants in the group had crossed back into Mexico. The agency says that Mexican officials were nearby and grabbed the group as they came across, taking them to the edge of the border for the Border Patrol agents to identify. Customs and Border Protection recently warned in a press release that it has seen “a significant risk in attacks on Border Patrol Agents recently.” In the El Paso sector of the border, where the latest assault took place, 66 agents have been assaulted so far this fiscal year. Last fiscal year, 104 agents were assaulted. Sunland Park has been a key crossing area for migrants at the southern border. But apprehensions in the sector are down this year, compared to last year, something agents have put down to an increase in technology and surveillance, as well as existing border barriers. EX-BORDER PATROL CHIEF RIPS BIDEN ADMIN FOR ALLEGEDLY SUPPRESSING INFO ON MIGRANTS WITH POTENTIAL TERROR TIES Immigration and border security have become top issues in the U.S. ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The Biden administration has pointed to a recent drop by more than 50% in border apprehensions since President Biden signed an executive order in June limiting arrivals. It has also called for Congress to pass a bipartisan border security bill to provide additional funding and resources to the border. Republicans have accused the administration of causing the historic border crisis in the first place, arguing that the ending of Trump-era policies and expansion of “catch and release” encouraged millions of migrants to travel to the border and be released into the interior. Get the latest updates on the ongoing border crisis from the Fox News Digital immigration hub.
Secret Service overhaul talk hits Capitol Hill after Trump assassination attempts
The recent attempts on former President Trump’s life have left some House Republicans questioning whether the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) should remain under the control of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “I think that’s something that we should look at — if we need to remove them from Homeland, make them a standalone agency or answer to someone else. I mean, their mission, I think, is entirely different than a lot of the agencies under that Department of Homeland Security umbrella,” Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., vice chair of the Committee on Homeland Security, told Fox News Digital. The Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau of the Treasury Department to tackle counterfeiting and was authorized by Congress to provide full-time protection to the president in 1913, according to the agency’s website. It was transferred from the Treasury Department to the newly created DHS in 2003. The agency has faced a barrage of scrutiny after two assassination attempts against Trump. In July, Trump was injured after a 20-year-old gunman opened fire on his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one attendee. Last weekend, officers arrested a 58-year-old man who appeared to have been waiting for Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course with an AK-47. WATCH ON FOX NATION: THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIONS OF DONALD TRUMP No legislative proposal has surfaced on this specific issue, but several GOP lawmakers told Fox News Digital the incidents spurred wider conversations among some members about DHS in general. “I think what this opens up is the extent to which, 20 years later, the wisdom of creating the Department of Homeland Security in the first place should be questioned,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. “Frankly, DHS is failing as a whole, on multiple levels. “That’s not a testament to any of the line folks. … But the top folks in the bureaucracy, it’s killing us. … Secret Service would be a step.” Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., said DHS being “a catch-all agency” was “not working.” “I just honestly feel that the Secret Service isn’t getting the sunshine or the attention it needs from [Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas], simply because his agency is massive. And I think there’s nothing wrong with us breaking that up,” Donalds said. “And it’s not just Secret Service. It’s border security. It’s immigration processes and all the other stuff.” TRUMP BLAMES BIDEN-HARRIS ‘RHETORIC’ FOR LATEST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, SAYS HE WILL ‘SAVE THE COUNTRY’ Donalds added that it would likely not feasibly be done this year, but he suggested there could be a more serious push if Republicans kept the House majority in November. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, recalled that, during his time in the White House medical unit, there was some discontent among agents about being moved to DHS. “For a while, when it first happened, I know for a fact — because I was around these guys every day being at the White House 14 years — they weren’t big fans of it. … They were kind of a big fish in a little pond when they were with Treasury, and then when they got rolled into this massive, you know, bureaucracy of DHS … they felt like it kind of downgraded their importance and their abilities,” Jackson said. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., similarly told Fox News Digital he “wouldn’t be opposed” to looking at breaking up DHS. NEW WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS ON FIRST TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ‘HIGHLY DAMAGING’ TO SECRET SERVICE: HAWLEY And Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., wrote on X in recent days, “We don’t need to throw more money at the U.S. Secret Service — we need new leadership. “I believe we should move the USSS back under the Treasury Department, away from Homeland Security — which has become a political tool under the biggest liar since Pinocchio, Alejandro Mayorkas,” Alford said. Several other House Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital, however, were either skeptical of the idea or said they had not had such discussions. “People say a lot of things that, I don’t know if it’s just off the cuff, but they say things are – it’s just a thought process that they’re going through,” said House Trump shooting task force chairman Mike Kelly, R-Pa. “There’s a structure in place right now.” Fox News Digital reached out to the Secret Service and DHS for comment but did not receive responses prior to publication.
DNA TV Show: What role does politics play in Tirupati laddoo row? Is this battle for ownership of temple trust?
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday, alleged that substandard ingredients and animal fat were used in making the Tirupati laddu, a consecrated sweet, during the previous YSRCP government.
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Biden holds first Cabinet meeting in nearly a year, first lady joins for first time
President Biden convened his Cabinet on Friday for the first time in nearly a year – this time with First Lady Jill Biden joining him for the meeting. It was the first time the Cabinet has met since Oct. 2, 2023. Jill Biden spoke about a White House initiative on women’s health research before the president fielded a question about the escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon. “We’re continuing to try to do who we’ve tried from the beginning. To make sure that both the people in northern Israel, as well as southern Lebanon, are able to go back to their homes and go back safely,” Biden said. “And the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, our whole team is working with the intelligence community to try to get that done. We’re going to keep at it till we get it done. But, we’ve got a way to go.” FLASHBACK: BIDEN’S CABINET DOUBLES DOWN ON SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT FOLLOWING DEBATE Biden, when asked about the chances of an Israel-Hamas cease-fire in Gaza, responded “If I ever said ‘it’s not realistic’ we might as well leave.” “A lot of things don’t look realistic until we get them done. We have to keep at it,” Biden said. SECRET SERVICE, HOMELAND SECURITY SUED OVER FIRST TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT Biden also highlighted during the meeting the need for Congress to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government. At the last Cabinet meeting in October 2023, Biden said he was convening the gathering “to get an update on the progress we’re making on pressing priorities for our country” — specifically the “promise and peril of artificial intelligence” and “taking action on gun violence.”
Tirupati Laddoo Row: Rahul Gandhi reacts to alleged use of ‘animal fat’, says ‘this issue will hurt every devotee…’
He urged prompt action, saying, “Authorities across India have to protect the sanctity of our religious spaces.”
House passes bill blocking Biden admin attempt to require two-thirds of new cars to be electric within years
The Biden administration’s attempt to set new emissions standards on electric vehicles was blocked by a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Friday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule in March under the Clean Air Act to set new emissions standards that would require up to two-thirds of new cars sold to be electric vehicles by 2032. The new standards would affect “light-duty vehicle manufacturers, independent commercial importers, alternative fuel converters, and manufacturers and converters of medium-duty vehicles,” according to the EPA’s final rule. The House passed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution on Friday, introduced by Rep. John James, R-Mich., to block the “out-of-touch regulation” from being enacted. BIDEN-HARRIS’ TAXPAYER-FUNDED ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUS PROGRAM IS ‘ENRICHING’ THE CCP: HOUSE REPORT The amendment was passed with bipartisan support, with eight Democrats voting for the bill. Democrats who opposed the bill argued that the EPA’s rule was “very important” in reducing emissions, but James, speaking on the House floor ahead of the vote, called the Biden administration’s new standards “catastrophic.” 5 INSANE BIDEN-HARRIS APPLIANCE REGULATIONS HEADING YOUR WAY “The Biden-Harris Administration’s EPA tailpipe emission rule is another out-of-touch regulation that will crater the Michigan auto industry and decimate our middle-class and most vulnerable,” James said in a press release after the bill passed. “This is a de-facto electric vehicle mandate that will put all 77,580 manufacturing jobs in MI-10 at great risk of extinction. I am grateful that the House passed this measure to prevent the Biden-Harris administration’s rule from ravaging the livelihoods of thousands in Michigan and across the country.” “Vice President Harris made it clear from the start that one of her top priorities is mandating electric vehicles and getting rid of combustion engines, and like she said, her values haven’t changed. The Biden-Harris EPA continues to place extreme standards on pollutants and greenhouse gasses for vehicles in an attempt to make Americans to switch to EVs, taking away consumer choice, forcing unaffordable options on American families and workers, and crushing jobs,” Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a press release following the vote. The bill’s passing comes just one day after the American Energy Alliance and over two dozen energy groups sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to pass the CRA. “This rule on tailpipe emissions standards is a massive overreach, using a novel application of EPA motor vehicle authorities in an attempt to force a transition in the motor vehicles market to products that align with the ideological preferences of the Biden administration,” the groups wrote in a letter to lawmakers on Thursday. The bipartisan legislation is being mirrored in the Senate by Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., who introduced the chamber’s CRA version in May.
Harris-Trump Showdown: Presidential nominees hit key battleground states as election approaches
With just over six weeks to go until Election Day on November 5, and early and absentee voting now underway in an increasing number of states, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are not letting up as they campaign in the key battleground states. After a stop Thursday evening in Michigan, Harris heads to Georgia on Friday afternoon for a reproductive rights event before heading to a rally later in the day in Wisconsin. Trump, who campaigned in Michigan earlier in the week, returns to the campaign trail on Saturday with a rally in North Carolina. TRUMP MAKES A BOLD PREDICTION ABOUT THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Those four states, along with Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada, had razor-thin margins that decided President Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump. And those seven swing states will likely determine whether Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election and succeeds Biden in the White House. Harris will keep the spotlight on the combustible issue of abortion during her Atlanta area stop. The issue has been a winning one for the Democrats at the ballot box since the conservative majority on the Supreme Court in a blockbuster decision two years ago overturned the landmark nearly half-century-old Roe v. Wade ruling, which had legalized abortion nationwide. WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLS SHOW IN THE HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN “Trump Abortion Bans have criminalized reproductive care,” Harris said on social media Thursday night after spotlighting the issue during a live-streamed forum in Michigan with one of her best known surrogates, Oprah Winfrey. Biden narrowly edged Trump in Georgia four years ago to become the first Democrat to carry the state in a presidential election in over a quarter-century. Harris returns to Georgia after making a campaign swing in the southeastern part of the state earlier this month. Trump, amid strained relations with Gov. Brian Kemp, the state’s popular two-term conservative governor, hasn’t returned to Georgia since holding a large rally in Atlanta on August 5. DOES TRUMP OR HARRIS HAVE THE EDGE IN THESE KEY BATTLEGROUNDS? The latest public opinion polls in Georgia conducted entirely after the first and potentially only debate between Harris and Trump indicate the former president holding a slight lower-single digit edge over the vice president. Harris later on Friday headlines a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, for her fourth visit to the Midwestern battleground since replacing Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket over two months ago. The most recent surveys in Wisconsin also show a margin-of-error race, with Harris holding a razor-thin lower single digit edge over Trump. Wisconsin, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, is part of the Democrats’ so-called Blue Wall of Rust Belt states that the party reliably won in presidential elections for a quarter-century until Trump narrowly captured all three states en route to a White House victory in 2016. But four years ago, Biden edged Trump in all three states to win the presidency. Trump on Saturday returns to North Carolina, a state he won by roughly one-point over Biden four years ago. The state is a must-win for the GOP presidential nominee, and his campaign is now spending big bucks to run ads in North Carolina. The latest polls suggest a coin-toss race, with the former president holding the slightest edge. Trump’s visit comes two days after a bombshell report rocked the state’s governor’s race, with allegations that GOP nominee and controversial Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson posted disturbing and inflammatory statements on a forum of a pornographic website. Robinson has denied the allegations. A source familiar with Trump’s rally Saturday in Wilmington, North Carolina, told Fox News that Robinson would not be attending the event. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Issa rips State Department for spreading ‘knowingly false’ info on funding migrant counseling to enter US
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, slammed President Biden’s State Department for being caught with its hands in the “cookie jar” over taxpayer dollars going toward counseling migrants on how to use the asylum process to enter the United States. “Your department is responsible for giving us knowingly false information,” Issa told Julieta Valls Noyes, assistant secretary for Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) at the State Department, during a Thursday hearing, referencing the department’s PRM program funding a nonprofit organization known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). “We were told…PRM has not funded and does not fund legal representation or counseling related to immigration proceedings,” Issa explained, referencing a letter from the State Department to the committee. “Again, later, in December, from the government of Mexico, PRM does not fund legal representation or counseling related to U.S. immigration proceedings and legal assistance provided to those in Mexico is solely for the Mexican legal processes.” Issa continued, “Under the rules of US 18 Title 1001, is that a true statement? Either of those?” EX-BORDER PATROL CHIEF RIPS BIDEN ADMIN FOR ALLEGEDLY SUPPRESSING INFO ON MIGRANTS WITH POTENTIAL TERROR TIES “Congressman, the U.S. funds,” Valls Noyes responded before Issa interjected and said, “It’s a yes or no. It really is.” “Yes,” Valls Noyes responded. Issa then presented a series of slides from HIAS that showed the group explaining in Spanish the best ways to use the asylum system to enter the United States and detailing the legal process to enter the country. “Are you aware of this packet that was used throughout 2023,” Issa asked, to which Valls Noyes responded, “Yes.” “Does it limit to legal activities in Mexico or does it on pages 9, 10, and 11 clearly advise people on how to get asylum in the U.S.?” Valls Noyes responded by saying “this packet of information was not funded by PRM” and instead by the “U.N. refugee agency.” BIDEN-HARRIS’ RECKLESS RESTART OF A FRAUD-RIDDEN IMMIGRATION PROGRAM “Was this organization at this time under funding from the United States,” Issa asked. “The organization was, this packet was not,” Valls Noyes responded. Valls Noyes said that she was not “aware” of the packet until the department was gathering documents to comply with House oversight, but said again that it was “not funded” directly by PRM. “Ma’am, I’m going to make something very clear to you,” Issa said. “The intent of Congress is not to use the fungibility of money to give to an organization that goes out with the people that you are funding and those people and that organization do something inconsistent with what you tell Congress your mandate is.” “Money is fungible. As long as you give to this organization, which I understand you’re still funding around the world, and they have a dual purpose, and they use that dual purpose to do something that Congress clearly doesn’t want. Nowhere in this deck, we’ll call it U.N. funded for a moment just to humor you, nowhere in this deck does it suggest you can seek refuge in Mexico, which under international law you have not only a right to but an obligation to.” Issa went on to explain that the State Department was effectively encouraging migrants to avoid seeking asylum in Mexico and instead enter the United States at the “federal taxpayers expense.” “If you fund the meeting, and you use the deck, how is it that you can say you’re telling us without trickery or any kind of misleading that this wasn’t funded, or at least enabled by the United States government, maam?” Issa asked later in the hearing. NEARLY 530,000 MIGRANTS CAME TO US ‘LEGALLY,’ PAROLED INTO US UNDER CONTROVERSIAL BIDEN PROGRAM: CBP “Again, congressman, we did not fund the production of the deck, but it is accurate that the deck was used in briefings where we were also informing migrants about the ability to seek asylum in Mexico,” Valls Noyes said. “You’re a great diplomat,” Issa responded. “Because diplomats tell people to go to hell and make them pack and look forward to the trip I guess because there is no truth to what you just said. It is extremely clear that if a group, I don’t care who printed it or handed it out, a group you were funding waters and transportation and everything else to bring to an event, host the event, under the color of the United States of America. Not the United Nations. And then you say ‘Oh we didn’t fund it. They got the money fungibly from somewhere else.’ Ma’am, there’s not one American that would believe that.” Valls Noyes went on to say that the State Department ceased funding HIAS in 2023 and is in fully in compliance with the law and similar slides are not currently being passed out. “HIAS is the world’s oldest refugee protection agency, working to provide vital services to refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced and stateless persons around the world as a longstanding partner of the U.S. government and the American Jewish community,” a HIAS spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “HIAS complies with U.S. law and our grant agreements, including those applicable to the HIAS project that was discussed at yesterday’s hearing.” Issa spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital after the hearing and said the exchange represented an “outright lie” from the State Department, who as recently as this year, in a letter to committee Chair Matt McCaul, distanced itself from the slides arguing that PRM did not directly fund the creation of the actual slideshow, but acknowledged funding the session it was used at. “When you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, the first thing you do is to deny the cookie jar,” Issa said. “The next thing you do is deny the hand and that’s really what she did. Confronted with a document that clearly said this organization was advocating on how to circumvent being rejected at the border. She said