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California mayors duel on social media over law enforcement response to UC Irvine anti-Israel protests
Two California mayors clashed on social media after law enforcement was called to confront anti-Israel agitators on the University of California, Irvine campus. While replying to a UC Irvine public announcement to students on X, Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan and former Newport Beach Mayor Will O’Neill shared their competitive perspectives as law enforcement swarmed onto the California campus after protesters set up barricades. “It’s a shame that peaceful free speech protests are always responded to with violence,” Khan wrote. “Taking space on campus or in a building is not a threat to anyone.” “UCI leadership must do everything they can to avoid creating a violent scenario here. These are your students w/ zero weapons,” she added. POLICE ON UC IRVINE CAMPUS AFTER ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS SWARM BUILDINGS; STUDENTS TOLD TO ‘LEAVE AREA’ Following the Irvine mayor’s comments on law enforcement, the former Newport Beach mayor slammed Khan’s “careless wording,” saying that she “preemptively accused officers” of violence. “Police officers from Newport Beach are currently in Irvine providing assistance at the request of a mutual aid call. Your careless wording makes it appear that you are preemptively accusing our officers, and officers from the many law enforcement agencies who responded, of violence,” O’Neill replied. O’Neill called for the current mayor to “clarify” her message. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN HANDCUFFS RIPS UP DIPLOMA ON COMMENCEMENT STAGE IN ACT OF PROTEST “If that’s what you meant, then your message is beneath the office of Mayor. If it is not, then clarify immediately,” he wrote. The dueling comments came after UC Irvine was swarmed by anti-Israel agitators on Wednesday afternoon. In a statement to Fox News Digital, a UC Irvine spokesperson said that the campus erupted into chaos after several hundreds of protesters entered the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall and began to barricade the building at 2:30 p.m. PST. The university said that it put out a call to local law enforcement and received immediate assistance from the Irvine Police Department and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. At least one protester was seen being arrested in livestream footage of the anti-Israel agitators’ confrontation with police. Authorities said that the protesters who entered the campus on Wednesday afternoon joined the established encampment that has been occupying the campus since April 29. Fox News Digital has reached out to Khan and O’Neill for comment.
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‘We will provide…’: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on supporting INDIA Bloc if it wins Lok Sabha polls
Expressing skepticism about the BJP’s ambitious target of achieving 400 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said people will reject them totally.
New York Senate Democrat allegedly shoved lobbyist before committee meeting, had to be restrained
A New York state senator had to be held back after he allegedly shoved a lobbyist in the capital building in Albany before a committee meeting on energy and telecommunications. Michael Carey, a lobbyist seeking support for a 911 civil rights bill, told Fox News Digital he was speaking with Democratic Sen. Kevin Parker before the Standing Committee on Energy and Telecommunications on Wednesday, when the altercation took place. Carey had been seeking a piece of legislation, and he approached Parker ahead of the meeting and asked for his support. NEW YORK SENATE DEM FACES RAPE ALLEGATIONS IN LAWSUIT: ‘EXTREMELY DISTURBING’ Specifically, Carey has been calling for a change in state developmental disabilities systems. Carey’s son died in 2007 while he was being cared for by the state. Carey allegedly tried to explain the situation to Parker ahead of the meeting, which the latter yelled back, “I don’t care,” the lobbyist claimed. The two men were standing about 15 feet away when Carey questioned Parker, saying, “You don’t care my son died?” Parker, for a second time, said, “I don’t care,” Carey said. Carey then claims he turned around to the others in the room and said, “You heard it, everybody. He doesn’t care.” The next thing Carey knew, Parker was allegedly in his face. Parker allegedly lunged toward Carey after he called the senator out for not showing remorse for his dead son. Onlookers then reportedly pounced to hold Parker back. NEW YORK SENATE DEM APOLOGIZES FOR SUGGESTING GOP STAFFER KILL HERSELF, THEN BLASTS HER AS ‘TWITTER TROLL’ Fox News Digital reached out to Parker and the state police for comment, but did not immediately hear back. Still, Carey said he has filed charges against Parker. He said he is not sure how the senator reached the level of assaulting him, but he hopes Parker gets help for his anger. “That’s my hope,” Carey said. “I don’t wish the senator ill will.” Charges have not been filed against either man. After the altercation, Parker was seen taking his seat at the beginning of the committee meeting video and joking about the matter. “There’s always lots of excitement in this committee,” Parker said. “I don’t know. Someone said my committee meetings are boring.” BLUE STATE POL WHO BACKED LAW ENABLING TRUMP SUIT NOW SAYS IT’S ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL’ AMID RAPE CLAIM He then proceeded to say he hoped Wednesday’s meeting would “be as exciting as the pregame.” Last year, Parker was accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman early in his legislative career, when he went to her home to discuss disaster relief efforts for Haiti. The lawsuit filed in November 2023 claims Parker assaulted the woman in 2004. She claimed they were working on providing aid to Haiti, and after finishing a discussion about her work, she stood up and said goodbye. The woman alleges that Parker then grabbed her wrists, took her down a hallway to her bedroom, made a sexual comment and raped her, according to the lawsuit. In 2005, Parker was arrested and charged with third-degree assault after punching a traffic agent who gave him a ticket for double-parking, according to news reports from that time. In that same year, a former aide accused Parker of threatening her after she publicly complained that he shoved and hit her when she worked for him. Parker was also convicted of misdemeanor criminal mischief charges in 2010 after he chased a New York Post photographer and damaged their camera. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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148 House Democrats vote against bill to deport migrants who assault cops
A bill aimed at booting illegal immigrants out of the U.S. if they assault a police officer passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening. It’s one of several pieces of legislation that House Republican leaders are putting up for a vote this week as part of national Police Week. The bill passed in a 265 to 148 vote with 54 Democrats voting with the GOP. VULNERABLE HOUSE DEM COMPARES SUPREME COURT PRAYER DECISION TO TALIBAN, CALLS FOR COURT-PACKING The bill is called the Detain and Deport Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops Act and is led by Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J. He said in February when the bill was being introduced, “There is no reason that an illegal alien who attacks our law enforcement should remain in our country; that shows zero respect for our rule of law or our institutions, and they will not be positive contributors to society.” The bill would require undocumented migrants be detained by federal authorities until they can be deported. It would also “create a new category for migrant inadmissibility” specifically dealing with migrants who were accused of assaulting police, Van Drew said. GOP HOPES FOR HOLDING HOUSE COULD COME DOWN TO 6 RACES IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE The No. 3 House Republican, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital when the bill passed, “House Democrats just voted to protest violent, illegal immigrants over our brave law enforcement officers. Once again, the Democrat Party proves they are the most anti-law enforcement party in history.” It comes after several instances of migrants attacking police have gained national attention recently, as the country continues to grapple with the ongoing migrant crisis at the southern border. ONE OF NATION’S MOST VULNERABLE DEMOCRATS COZIES UP TO BIDEN FOR PENNSYLVANIA RALLY A group of migrants were caught on video violently attacking two New York City police officers in the heart of its tourist industry, Times Square, in late January. And in early March, a man who came to the U.S. illegally was accused of killing a Washington State Patrol Trooper when he crashed into him on an interstate highway, according to Fox 13.
Michael Cohen once swore Trump wasn’t involved in Stormy Daniels payment, his ex-attorney testifies
A lawyer who formerly advised Michael Cohen claims the ex-Trump attorney said the former president had nothing to do with a hush money payment made to pornographic performer Stormy Daniels and that Cohen took care of the arrangement himself. Robert Costello, an attorney who advised Cohen after Cohen was hit with federal charges in 2018, testified before the House Weaponization Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday during the same week Cohen has been testifying against his former boss in a Manhattan courtroom. Costello, a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, explained he is able to discuss his interactions with Cohen because he “waived the attorney-client privilege and the duty of loyalty of a lawyer to a client.” FLASHBACK: TRUMP-MANHATTAN DA CASE: BOB COSTELLO TESTIFIES TO GRAND JURY, SAYS MICHAEL COHEN IS A ‘SERIAL LIAR’ Costello testified before the grand jury for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Trump. Costello testified in March 2023, just weeks before Bragg’s grand jury indicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges. Costello recalled an interaction with Cohen in 2018, during which he said the ex-Trump attorney was “suicidal and desperately looking for an escape route” after being indicted. “I advised him that the SDNY thought he had committed crimes and that he might have evidence they could use for a prosecution of President Trump,” Costello testified Wednesday. “I explained to Cohen how he was not the target of the investigation but was a bump in the road and that the U.S. Attorney’s Office would run over him if it led them to Donald Trump.” Costello testified that he explained to Cohen that if he had “truthful information that would implicate Donald Trump, I could get him out his legal trouble by the end of the week — if he cooperated against Donald Trump.” “I emphasized that any information Cohen could give would have to be truthful, otherwise it was useless,” Costello testified, saying he did this “numerous times” during their first meeting. NY V. TRUMP: AS ‘STAR WITNESS’ MICHAEL COHEN TESTIFIES, TRUMP ALLIES FLOCK TO COURT TO ‘SUPPORT THEIR FRIEND’ “Each time, Cohen said to me, ‘I swear to God, Bob, I don’t have anything on Donald Trump,’” Costello recalled Cohen saying. “Cohen must have said this at least ten times because I kept coming back to it from different approaches.” During the conversation, Costello said, Cohen told him he would do “whatever” he had to do to not spend even one day in prison. Costello then referred back to a conversation he had on the phone with Cohen days earlier, saying Cohen indicated he was “seriously contemplating jumping off” the roof of the New York City Regency Hotel because he “couldn’t handle the pressure of the upcoming criminal case.” Costello said he pressed Cohen to reconsider. “Isn’t it easier to cooperate against Donald Trump if you have truthful information, than it is to kill yourself?” he asked. Costello also testified that he was involved in a non-disclosure agreement with adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Costello said Cohen told him he was approached by her attorney, who said she would allege she had a sexual encounter with Trump unless Trump was willing to “buy her silence.” Costello on Wednesday said Cohen “decided that while he didn’t believe the allegation, he thought the story would be embarrassing for Trump, and especially for Melania, so he decided to take care of it himself.” Costello testified that Cohen’s “motivation for this became obvious” amid Cohen’s alleged desire to work in the Trump administration after the 2016 election. Costello testified Cohen thought Trump would make him attorney general “or at least chief of staff to the president.” “Cohen then explained that, for that reason, he negotiated the sum of $130,000 in exchange for the NDA. When asked if Trump had any knowledge of this, Cohen told me no. When asked whether Cohen got the $130,000 from Trump or any Trump entity or friend, Cohen again said no,” Costello testified. “When asked if this was from Cohen’s own money, Cohen said no. He was asked where, then, did he get the money, and Cohen explained he took out a HELOC Loan because he didn’t want anybody to know where the money came from.” MICHAEL COHEN TESTIFIES HE SECRETLY RECORDED TRUMP IN LEAD-UP TO 2016 ELECTION Costello, echoing what Cohen testified to during Trump’s trial this week, said Cohen told him he didn’t want his wife to know, since she handled the family’s finances. So far, Cohen has testified in Trump’s criminal trial that he personally paid the $130,000 payment to Daniels using a home equity line of credit in an effort to conceal the payment from his wife. Cohen said he did this because Trump told him to “handle it” and prevent a negative story from coming out ahead of the election. Cohen testified that he was “reimbursed $420,000” for the $130,000 he paid to Daniels. Cohen said former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg suggested he “gross up” the payments, and that Trump himself was aware of the reimbursments. But Cohen also testified at trial he didn’t tell Costello that Trump knew of the reimbursements because he was still loyal to Trump. He also said he “believed, based upon all of our conversations, that [Costello] would immediately run back to Mr. [Rudy] Giuliani and that communication would be divulged to President Trump.” Costello stressed Wednesday that “the point” of his testimony is that “when Michael Cohen was presented with the opportunity to implicate Donald Trump in exchange for eliminating his own enormous legal problems, he repeatedly said he had nothing truthful on Donald Trump. NY V. TRUMP: COHEN TESTIFIES TO PAYING STORMY DANIELS FROM HIS OWN POCKET “Now, after going to jail, Michael Cohen is on a revenge tour because he blames Donald Trump for the loss of his law license and the fact that