Lucky encounter: WATCH viral video of a rare clouded mother leopard playing with her cubs in Northeast Indian forests
Viral: The number of clouded leopards is rapidly declining. With fewer than 10,000 worldwide, clouded leopards are officially classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
Phansi Ghar row: Mysterious chambers in Delhi Assembly building used for executions? Historians say this
The structure was renovated and inaugurated in 2022 by then CM Arvind Kejriwal as a phansi-ghar. But when was the Delhi Assembly originally built?
Abbott’s bid to expel the House Democratic leader goes to a court filled with his appointees
The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Abbott wants them to reconsider.
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Cornyn says FBI will help locate absent Texas Democrats, but scope of feds’ role unclear
The Republican senator, who is facing a tough primary challenge, previously asked FBI Director Kash Patel for the agency’s help in tracking down the House lawmakers.
FBI agrees to help locate Texas Democrats who fled state to sabotage GOP redistricting plan, Cornyn says
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced Thursday that the FBI has granted his request for federal agents to help locate Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to stall a GOP redistricting vote. Cornyn said the FBI agreed to assist Texas law enforcement in locating members of the Texas House of Representatives “who have fled the state in a shameful attempt to thwart the legislative process.” “I am proud to announce that Director Kash Patel has approved my request for the FBI to assist state and local law enforcement in locating runaway Texas House Democrats,” Cornyn said in a statement. “I thank President Trump and Director Patel for supporting and swiftly acting on my call for the federal government to hold these supposed lawmakers accountable for fleeing Texas. We cannot allow these rogue legislators to avoid their constitutional responsibilities.” DEM GOVERNOR DEFIES FBI: ‘UNWELCOME’ TO PURSUE TEXAS DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS The FBI declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital. In Texas, more than 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state earlier this month to prevent a necessary quorum in the Texas House, which requires at least 100 members of the 150-member body to be present. Democratic Govs. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gavin Newsom of California and Kathy Hochul of New York have offered sanctuary to those Texas Democrats, championing the gridlock they’ve caused as a fight to save democracy. Cornyn sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday asking the bureau to help locate or arrest “potential lawbreakers” who fled in a maneuver to avoid legislative responsibilities “in violation of their oath of office.” COLBERT CONFRONTS JB PRITZKER WITH MAP SHOWING ILLINOIS GERRYMANDERING “Out-of-state actors have made public comments about protecting the Texas legislators who are currently hiding out of state from any accountability for their actions,” Cornyn wrote. “I request the FBI’s assistance, as federal resources are necessary to locate the out-of-state Texas legislators who are potentially acting in violation of the law. The FBI has tools to aid state law enforcement when parties cross state lines, including to avoid testifying or fleeing a scene of a crime.” The letter cited concerns that legislators “who solicited or accepted funds to aid in their efforts to avoid their legislative duties may be guilty of bribery or other public corruption offenses.” “Governor Abbott and Texas state law enforcement officers are doing what they can within the confines of the law, but federal help may be necessary,” Cornyn wrote. “These legislators have committed potential criminal acts in their rush to avoid their constitutional responsibilities and must be fully investigated and held accountable. I urge you to work with Texas public officials to provide them the support they need.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott convened a special session to try to advance a congressional redistricting plan which could add five new Republican-leaning House seats before next year’s midterm elections. Abbott on Tuesday also filed an emergency petition with the state Supreme Court asking to remove State Rep. Gene Wu from office, categorizing him as the “ringleader of the derelict Democrats who fled the state to break quorum.” President Donald Trump is pushing Republican states to open the process for redistricting mid-cycle to give the GOP a better chance of maintaining control of the House. Meanwhile, Texas state Republicans voted to issue civil arrest warrants and $500 daily fines for Democratic colleagues who abandoned their duties.
DHS scoops up criminal illegal immigrant suspected of killing man on lawnmower: ‘Senseless tragedy’
FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has lodged an ICE detainer on an illegal immigrant suspected of driving drunk and killing a man using a lawnmower in Louisiana. DHS announced in a Thursday press release that a detainer has been lodged against Roberto Romero-Hernandez, who they say is a criminal illegal immigrant from Mexico, after he was arrested by the Louisiana State Police after 59-year-old Rickey G. Maddox was struck and killed by a car in Alexandria, Louisiana. Police say Romero-Hernandez was driving that car while intoxicated and without a license. “An arrest detainer was immediately issued following his arrest to ensure he is not released back into the community following any local proceedings,” DHS said. DHS SCOOPS UP TRANS ILLEGAL ALIEN CHARGED WITH HEINOUS CRIME ON CHILD IN SANCTUARY CITY: ‘WORST OF THE WORST’ Romero-Hernandez, according to local media outlets, was driving a Chevrolet Silverado on the night of Aug. 3, before he left the road on Highway 1 and struck Maddox on his 2013 Kubota lawnmower on the northbound shoulder. Maddox was taken to the hospital with severe injuries where he later died. 16 IN CUSTODY AFTER IMMIGRATION RAID AT LA HOME DEPOT, DHS SAYS “This criminal illegal alien’s reckless decision to drink and drive killed an innocent man. The senseless tragedy should have never happened because Romero-Hernandez should have never been in our country,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Illegal aliens drinking and driving and killing American citizens happens far more often than the media wants you to know about. Just over the past two weeks, an illegal alien driving under the influence killed a mother and her 11-year-old daughter in New Jersey and two high school sweethearts in Wisconsin. Every death caused by an illegal alien is preventable.” This comes as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing intense criticism for its crackdown on illegal immigration and as officers are dealing with an 830% increase in assaults. While the agency has said it will not back down from arresting any immigrants who are in the country illegally, the new DHS statement says that the vast majority of those arrested thus far have criminal charges or convictions. Despite claims by some Democrats that ICE is targeting innocent immigrant communities, 70% of the agency’s arrests have been of illegal immigrants convicted or charged with crimes. The country has seen an influx of ICE detainers under the Trump administration and Fox News Digital previously reported that in the sanctuary city of New York, ICE has already issued 400% more detainers on illegal immigrants than former President Joe Biden did during his entire term. Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo contributed to this report
FBI ousts former acting director, agent involved in J6 prosecutions, with more expected
The FBI on Thursday is ousting at least three officials, including the former acting director and an officer involved in the January 6 investigations, Fox News has learned. Former FBI acting director, Brian Driscoll, is among those being forced out of the bureau, sources familiar with the matter told Fox News, along with Walter Giardina, a special agent at the bureau who played a role in the investigation of Trump trade advisor, Peter Navarro, and Steven Jensen, the acting director in charge of the Washington Field Office. Driscoll, for his part, served as acting director of the FBI prior to the confirmation of FBI Director Kash Patel, and Jensen played a key role in the January 6 investigations. Senior FBI officials told the agents in question that they needed to leave by Friday, with no specific reason given to them individually. One individual with knowledge of the removals described it as “retribution.” DOJ DIRECTS FBI TO FIRE 8 TOP OFFICIALS, IDENTIFY EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN JAN. 6, HAMAS CASES FOR REVIEW The FBI did not respond to Fox News’s request for comment. This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
Charleston bishop rebukes Trump’s ‘harsh’ deportations, cites George W Bush’s ‘acceptable’ plans
President Donald Trump received a rare rebuke from the Catholic Church after the Bishop of Charleston released a lengthy public statement condemning the U.S. immigration system, slamming the president’s mass deportation efforts while crediting former President George W. Bush‘s “acceptable” plans. Bishop Mark Brennan, who presides over the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston encompassing all of West Virginia, said America was “built on the backs of men and women who came from other countries, whether freely or in chains.” “Now we see our government adopting harsh measures to deport as many immigrants as possible, often without distinguishing between true criminals and law-abiding persons.” “A government that says it wants to help families is willing to separate immigrant parents from their children. A government that oversees the economy wants to expel millions of workers upon whom the economy depends,” Brennan went on. DEMOCRATS ATTEMPTING TO VISIT BROOKLYN ICE FACILITY REPORTEDLY TRAPPED AFTER BEING REBUFFED BY AGENTS The prelate said some parishioners have spoken to him about their support for Trump during the 2024 campaign over his pledge of a secure border that is now waning due to a “wholesale assault on the majority of immigrants…” “You expected a laser beam approach, not a floodlight,” Brennan said. The bishop compared some immigrants’ plight to Matthew 2, which describes how Mary and Joseph fled Israel with an infant Jesus Christ. “Get up and take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you. For, Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him,” that Scripture reads. “Our Church looks at the person, not his or her legal status, and, following Christ’s teaching and example, reaches out to help the immigrant,” Bishop Brennan continued. DEMS WANTED TO DRAW EVERY REPUBLICAN OUT OF MARYLAND BUT NOW LAMBAST TEXAS REDISTRICTING “A person is more important than legal status. Even prisoners in jail are fed, clothed and have their health problems addressed, at least in well-run prisons.” He went on to praise the work Catholic Charities does to help migrants, adding that illegal entry into the U.S. is on the same misdemeanor statutory level as loitering and shoplifting. Hearkening back to the 19th century, Brennan noted the Fugitive Slave Act had been used to “calm tensions” between the states and that the northern states refused to cooperate because they saw it as an unjust law. “It is Catholic teaching that an unjust law does not bind in conscience. But one must be willing to accept the consequences of civil disobedience. Martin Luther King, Jr., was willing to go to jail rather than acquiesce in unjust laws, a willingness shared by pro-life activists and people protesting nuclear arms,” Brennan added. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The bishop, however, added that both political parties have failed to substantively address immigration reform. “Republican President George W. Bush presented an acceptable if imperfect plan to reform immigration laws, but his own party shot it down,” he said. “Democratic President Barack Obama said he would act on immigration reform but, with Democrats in control of Congress his first two years, he did not do so,” Brennan added. “Our politicians have failed us.” The White House called the statement “rife with inaccuracies and misinformation. It’s wrong and offensive to conflate ILLEGAL (sic) immigrants with legal immigrants who have followed the law and entered the country the right way.” “Anyone who has broken the law and entered the United States illegally is, by definition, not a ‘law-abiding person.’ President Trump is keeping his promise to the American people to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in history, and unlike prior failed leaders like Joe Biden, he is empowering federal law enforcement officers to do their job and enforce the law. And without laws we are not a nation at all,” said White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson.
Business owner behind mysterious ‘Remember Hiroshima’ protest doll at Disneyland’s ‘Small World’ ride revealed
Baffled Disneyland visitors at the “It’s a Small World” attraction were greeted by a protest doll holding a sign reading “Remember Hiroshima” over the weekend, sparking questions and speculation online as videos of the doll spread. Videos began circulating on TikTok and Reddit Monday showing a woman carrying a female doll holding a sign reading “Remember Hiroshima” while walking around Disneyland. Another photo online showed the doll within the “It’s a Small World” exhibit, strategically positioned next to one of the tunnels that the boat ride traffics. Speculation mounted as the videos spread and earned hundreds of thousands of views and social media users questioned the meaning of the political stunt, while others questioned how the doll made it through the park’s tight security. Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen revealed he was behind the stunt Thursday, telling Fox News Digital in a phone interview that he’s in the midst of a campaign against the U.S. government’s stockpile of powerful weapons as part of his “Up in Arms” campaign against the Pentagon’s spending budget. Cohen said that while the campaign targets current policies under the Trump administration, the matter of Pentagon spending is “disgustingly bipartisan” and stretches long past the current administration. CALIFORNIA BEACH ‘RESIST!’ PROTEST PUSHES ‘KINDNESS’ WHILE CALLING TO ‘86 47’ IN ANTI-TRUMP MESSAGE “The whole idea of the Small World exhibit is that it’s a small world after all,” Cohen told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. “You got all the children from the different countries around the world being together, loving each other. And we put a doll in there that says, ‘Remember Hiroshima.’ I mean, that’s what was supposed to happen after the bomb in Hiroshima. We were supposed to remember what we did there and say, ‘Never again.’ And we’ve, we’ve ignored that.” The political protest was launched just ahead of the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Hiroshima bombings Thursday, when an atomic bomb killed more than 100,000 people in the Japanese city during World War II. Cohen specifically took issue with the ongoing war in Gaza, which he called the “moral issue of our time,” when speaking with Fox Digital, as well as the Pentagon’s nearly $900 billion budget. “They’ve turned us all into murderers, and they’re taking our money, buying bombs with it, and giving it to Israel to slaughter people in Gaza,” he said of the war that has raged since the Biden administration. “And a whole lot of them are kids, just like that little girl that we placed in Disneyland.” Cohen said his criticisms of the U.S.’ military budget and push to build stockpiles of weapons is “disgustingly bipartisan,” stretching back long before the Trump administration. “Trump is the current president. He’s responsible, but I can tell you that all the presidents before him were responsible as well,” he said, referring to the U.S.’ nuclear weapons program across the decades. DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR BOMB 24 TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN HIROSHIMA’S IS ‘SIGNIFICANTLY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE’ Trump repeatedly has championed his “peace through strength” vision for the U.S. military, citing that a powerful U.S. military will keep other nations from sparking wars. “For at least two decades, political leaders from both parties have dragged our military into missions it was never meant to be,” Trump, for example, said during his speech to the graduating class at West Point Military Academy in May. “They sent our warriors on nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us, led by leaders that didn’t have a clue in distant lands, while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home.” He added that those days are over via his peace through strength mission for the military, adding at the time, “My preference will always be to make peace and to seek partnership, even with countries where our differences may be profound.” A Disneyland spokesperson told Fox Digital, when asked about the protest doll, that a cast member swiftly removed the doll from the ride attraction when it was first spotted, and reminded the guest of park rules. The activist who placed the doll within the attraction left without incident, according to Disney. Ben & Jerry’s, which Cohen and co-founder Jerry Greenfield sold in 2000, has a long history of left-wing politics and social justice activism, including rolling out ice cream flavors such as “Pecan Resist” in 2018 to protest the first Trump administration, and “Change the Whirled” in 2021 that was crafted with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who was the first sports player to popularize kneeling during the national anthem back in 2016. Cohen, specifically, also has not shied away from participating in public protests, including in May when he was detained after interrupting a Senate hearing focused on aid to Gaza. DISNEY’S ‘IT’S A SMALL WORLD’ RIDE TO GET NEW SONG LYRICS Cohen said he is just beginning a four-year campaign protesting the U.S.’ military budget in an effort to get the funds “toward the things that people really want.” “Americans are compassionate,” he said. “We don’t want to kill families just like ours in other countries, we just want a good life for ourselves and our kids. People want a decent place to live that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, good schools, affordable childcare, but they say there’s not enough money, and what they don’t say is that they’re spending it all on preparing to kill literally millions of people around the world.”