Former Navy SEAL and ‘political outsider’ announces GOP campaign for Wisconsin governor
FIRST ON FOX: Bill Berrien, a Wisconsin manufacturing executive, former Navy SEAL and self-described political outsider, announced his Republican campaign for governor of Wisconsin on Wednesday. In the Republican’s first national exclusive interview since announcing his gubernatorial bid, Berrien told Fox News Digital, “We [have] to get away from the six years of Tony Evers, where we’re going in the entirely opposite direction. This race is extremely winnable. I can win it. I can be the conservative governor that is going to make this the Wisconsin century.” Berrien said Democrat Gov. Tony Evers’ tenure has felt like the “gears in reverse” of any gains made by former GOP Gov. Scott Walker. The Republican hopeful called Evers a “tax and spend” Democrat who isn’t moving the state forward. “I’m an outsider. I’m a businessman, just like President Trump,” Berrien said. “He’s taking back Washington. We need to take back Madison for Wisconsinites.” FORMER NAVY SEAL MOUNTS SENATE BID TO ‘CRUSH THE WOKE AGENDA’ AS TUBERVILLE SEEKS GOVERNORSHIP Berrien is the CEO of manufacturing companies Pindel Global Precision and Liberty Precision and served as a Navy SEAL for nine years. According to his campaign website, his top priorities in the race are revitalizing Wisconsin manufacturing, restoring law and order and strengthening Wisconsin families. FORMER TALK RADIO HOST DIALS INTO ALASKA’S RACE FOR GOVERNOR, SAYS ENERGY IS KEY “Wisconsin is the best of the country,” Berrien said. “We make things, we build things, we work with our hands. My vision is we can be the manufacturing powerhouse of the world again. We can be ground zero for the success of the Trump-driven re-industrialization.” President Donald Trump campaigned on unleashing American manufacturing as president and, through his often controversial trade and tariff policies, seeks to return business to the United States. Trump’s win in battleground Wisconsin landed him the White House in 2024. Berrien called his win “historic” and said it reflected a “shift across the board” among the Wisconsin electorate. “It is the Republican workers’ party – that’s due to his leadership. I think we’re gonna be building on that through this campaign,” Berrien said. While Trump secured Wisconsin in 2024, a liberal Democrat-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate, Susan Crawford, won a contentious multimillion-dollar election over conservative Brad Schimel earlier this year. When Elon Musk was still in Trump’s good graces, he invested millions to support Schimel, but Democrats from across the country threw their political weight behind Crawford, and she was ultimately elected to the open seat. “It means all the more that we need to have a Republican in the governor’s mansion,” Berrien said before asking, “How do we apply a military leadership-type mindset across all 72 counties, winning up and down the ticket?” And when asked about Democrats’ early 2026 midterm messaging about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Medicaid cuts, Berrien said he supports Medicaid work requirements and called Trump’s megabill “wind in our sails for creating the Wisconsin century, making Wisconsin the manufacturing powerhouse to the world again.” “When you look at the business incentives for factory construction, investing in technology, investing in people, it’s like a Black Friday sale or factory expansion, no coupons required.” Berrien announced his candidacy in a campaign video released Wednesday morning. Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann announced his own Republican gubernatorial campaign in May. Evers has yet to announce whether he will seek re-election in 2026. He did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. “When we think about the last 10 years, there has only been two candidates that have been successful on a statewide basis, [Sen.] Ron Johnson and Donald Trump. We have on my team, leaders who’ve been part of both of those races, and we have the team to win this. We have resources, and we have a clear lane and opportunity. Let’s make this the Wisconsin century,” Berrien said.
SCOTUS denies Florida AG request to enforce controversial immigration law
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected Florida’s emergency bid to let it enforce a controversial immigration law that would ban illegal immigrants from entering the state — leaving in place a lower court’s pause on immediately enforcing the measure. Justices on the 6-3 conservative majority Supreme Court did not explain their decision, and there were no noted dissents. At issue was Florida’s Senate Bill 4C, which would make it a crime for undocumented migrants to enter the state if they had been previously deported or previously denied entry into the U.S., regardless of their history, and even if they had since gained lawful status in the country. Re-entering the state after being deported would be considered a felony under S.B. 4C, and individuals suspected of violating the law would be jailed, without bond, until their cases can be heard in court. FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS RETURN OF DEPORTED MIGRANT TO US, REJECTING TRUMP REQUEST Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the Supreme Court late last month to intervene and block a preliminary injunction handed down in April by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams. Uthmeier argued that, barring intervention from the Supreme Court, Florida and its citizens will “remain disabled from combatting the serious harms of illegal immigration for years as this litigation proceeds through the lower courts.” Its position was backed by 18 states, which submitted an amicus brief to the high court backing the law in question. The ACLU, which filed a motion opposing the law, argued in a motion of its own that these laws risk undermining federal immigration enforcement and underscore that a stay of Florida’s law would “lead to an unmanageable patchwork of varying state criminal regulations of immigration.” JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TELLS FEDERAL JUDGE IT MIGHT INVOKE STATE SECRETS ACT ON HIGH-PROFILE DEPORTATION CASE The Justice Department, for its part, also weighed in, filing a 33-page amicus brief on behalf of Florida to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Trump administration officials told the appeals court that the law in question did not “preempt” federal supremacy over existing immigration law, arguing that Florida’s S.B. 4C “is in harmony, not conflict, with federal law.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ultimately declined to pause the lower court’s injunction, clearing the way for the case to be appealed to the Supreme Court. Florida’s attorney general included the administration’s amicus brief in a supplemental motion filed to the high court, though the justices did not make note of it in denying the state’s request. Florida is not the first state to try to stand up controversial legislation blocking illegal immigrants from entering the state, according to the ACLU. At least six others, including Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma, have attempted to pass similar legislation in recent years, it said in a court filing of its own. All remain blocked by the federal courts.
Suspect in anti-ICE Texas shooting granted green card under Biden administration
FIRST ON FOX: One of the suspects charged with ties to the anti-ICE attack at the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, was granted a green card under the Biden administration and is a prior recipient of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada, 38, is the husband of one of the alleged attackers. He is referenced in the unsealed criminal complaint lodged against 10 individuals who allegedly attacked the detention center over the weekend, which resulted in an Alvarado police officer being shot in the neck. The officer is expected to recover. The 10 suspects are facing federal charges, including multiple counts of attempted murder of a federal officer and “discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.” ICE AGENTS TARGETED IN 2 AMBUSH ATTACKS IN RECENT DAYS Sanchez-Estrada was part of a separate criminal complaint, as he was arrested by the FBI on Monday on a felony charge of “conspiracy to tamper with evidence” as they were executing a search warrant. The unsealed complaint alleges that Sanchez-Estrada was seen “carrying multiple packages from his residence to his truck.” The box included “anti-government propaganda,” including one entitled “Organising for Attack! Insurrectionary Anarchy.” The term “insurrectionary anarchy” is explained as a “subset of anarchism that stands out for its commitment to violence and revolutionary insurrection,” according to a Perspectives on Terrorism journal article, which is part of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, from March 2024. The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point also had a journal article in March 2023 that explained “insurrectionary anarchism is regarded as the most serious form of domestic (non-jihadi) terrorist threat.” According to ICE sources, he was born in 1986 and arrived in the United States with a Border Crossing Card at the Laredo, Texas, port of entry in 2001, when he was a teenager. He was granted DACA status in 2013, and he filed for renewals for DACA in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022. Sanchez-Estrada was also arrested by local Texas police for alleged possession of a controlled substance in 2020, but the charge was dismissed two months later. He was granted a green card in April 2024 after applying in September 2023. GUNMAN AMBUSHES BORDER PATROL AGENTS DAYS AFTER HOUSE DEMS REJECT RESOLUTION CONDEMNING ANTI-ICE VIOLENCE On Friday, a heavily armed group allegedly lured two unarmed ICE agents into a parking lot by firing a barrage of fireworks at their door, and spray-painting graffiti on their personal cars with the words “traitor” and “Ice Pig,” which agents could see from the cameras inside, last Friday. At around the same time, a police officer responded to their 911 call for two men firing rounds from a nearby tree line, and an officer was hit in the neck, which forced the agents to take cover. A July 7 criminal complaint filed by the U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas alleges that assailants shot 20 to 30 rounds from an AR-15-style rifle before it jammed, causing it to malfunction. Suspect Bradford Morris was arrested while trying to flee from the scene in a red Hyundai van. While in custody, he told an FBI agent he had been “part of a Signal Group Chat for a while and that he had been invited to the group chat years ago after attending a protest.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE He allegedly drove to the incident with another suspect and two people he only knew by their nicknames, “Champagne and Rowan.” Inside Morris’ van, police found a revolver, two AR-15 rifles, two Kevlar vests, a ballistic helmet and a loaded magazine. According to the criminal complaint, Morris “claimed that he met some people online and transported some of them down from Dallas” to the center in order to “make some noise.” 4 ARRESTED IN ALLEGED BORDER PATROL OPERATION SABOTAGE ATTEMPT NEAR LA AS ATTACKS ON IMMIGRATION AGENTS SURGE Police also found seven suspects in black military fatigues wandering in a field 300 yards away, some of whom were covered in mud from trying to escape on foot. Police said they also had weapons, vests and radios. The attack comes amid rising concerns about hostilities toward ICE and Border Patrol agents amid left-wing criticisms of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. This week, a gunman was killed ambushing Border Patrol at an annex facility in McAllen, Texas. A McAllen police officer was shot in the leg and two Border Patrol personnel were injured, according to the Department of Homeland Security. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “They vandalized vehicles and security cameras at the detention center and slashed federal vehicle tires. Responding officers made arrests. ICE is actively working with the FBI and the Texas Rangers regarding the incident,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday. “Threats or acts of violence toward law enforcement officers will NOT be tolerated. Secretary Noem has made it clear: If you threaten or attempt to harm a law enforcement officer, we will find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,” the statement continued.
Red state will require new teachers pass PragerU ‘America First’ test to keep license
FIRST ON FOX: The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) is partnering with pro-Trump educational nonprofit PragerU to develop an “America First” assessment for new teachers coming into the state. The state Department of Education is currently working with PragerU to develop the assessment for teachers “relocating from states with progressive education policies,” which they must take in order to get a license to teach in Oklahoma. The new assessment will evaluate educators on three main aspects: knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, “understanding of American exceptionalism” and “grasp of fundamental biological differences between boys and girls,” according to a news release about the new assessment. The goal of the new assessment is to ensure educators align with OSDE’s commitment to an education “rooted in truth, patriotism and core values,” and aims to instill “pride” in the nation’s history among students. ARIZONA LAUNCHES PARTNERSHIP WITH PRAGERU TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT AMERICA’S ‘RICH HISTORY AND VALUES’ “We’re sending a clear message: Oklahoma’s schools will not be a haven for woke agendas pushed in places like California and New York,” said Superintendent Ryan Walters. “If you want to teach here, you’d better know the Constitution, respect what makes America great, and understand basic biology. We’re raising a generation of patriots, not activists, and I’ll fight tooth and nail to keep leftist propaganda out of our classrooms.” OSDE said it was still assessing which states of origin will be required, but said California and New York would be included. The exact makeup of the test is also still under development but will be finalized in the coming weeks. The assessment will then be implemented immediately upon completion, according to OSDE. “We’re thrilled to join Oklahoma in answering parents’ urgent call against senseless woke indoctrination,” said PragerU CEO Marissa Streit. “This assessment will stop extreme leftist ideologues from harming children and ensure teachers champion America’s greatness and future potential.” HOW TRUMP’S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ WILL IMPACT K-12 EDUCATION Fox News Digital reached out to multiple Oklahoma teachers unions for comment. The Association of Professional Oklahoma Educators got back, but they declined to comment, citing the fact they had not been notified of the details of this new teacher assessment yet. The Oklahoma chapter of the National Educators Association also declined to comment. OSDE’s new assessment for new teachers is not the first reform Walters has ushered in over the last several months to ensure students get a pro-America education in the state. About six months ago, Walters released updated social studies standards aimed at strengthening civics and constitutional studies across every grade that “upholds pro-family, pro-America values.” Under Walters’ leadership, OSDE has also instituted lifetime teaching bans for serious sexual misconduct and other violations of professional standards, taken steps to address antisemitism and moved money from administrative budgets to pay for all students’ lunches across the state.
Sotomayor breaks with Jackson in Supreme Court decision over Trump cuts to federal workforce
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in a Supreme Court order handed down on Tuesday stood out enough that it prompted one of her liberal colleagues to voice disagreement with her. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said in a brief concurrence that the high court’s 8-1 order clearing the way for President Donald Trump to continue downsizing the government was the right decision. “I agree with Justice Jackson that the President cannot restructure federal agencies in a manner inconsistent with congressional mandates,” Sotomayor wrote. “Here, however, the relevant Executive Order directs agencies to plan reorganizations and reductions in force ‘consistent with applicable law’ … and the resulting joint memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management reiterates as much.” WHY JUSTICE JACKSON IS A FISH OUT OF WATER ON THE SUPREME COURT Sotomayor’s remarks were included as part of a short two-page order from the Supreme Court saying the executive order Trump signed in February directing federal agencies to plan for “large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), consistent with applicable law” was likely lawful. The Supreme Court said it had no opinion at this stage on the legality of any actual job cuts and that that question was not before the high court. But Jackson felt differently, according to her 15-page dissent affixed to the order. Jackson, the most junior justice and an appointee of former President Joe Biden, said a lower court judge was right to pause any further reductions to the federal workforce. Jackson lectured her colleagues for thinking otherwise. FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS HALT TO TRUMP ADMIN’S CFPB TERMINATIONS “That temporary, practical, harm-reducing preservation of the status quo was no match for this Court’s demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture,” Jackson said. Any future government downsizing would come on top of thousands of government employees already losing their jobs or opting to accept buy-out plans as part of Trump’s stated goals to scale down the federal government and make it run more efficiently. The Supreme Court’s order arose from a lawsuit brought by labor organizations and nonprofits, who alleged that the president’s decision to dramatically slash the federal workforce infringed on Congress’s authority over approving and funding government jobs. The order was issued on an emergency basis and is only temporary. It will remain in place while the Trump administration appeals the lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Biden doctor dodges questions in speedy House closed-door interview
Former White House physician Kevin O’Connor’s closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee ended after less than an hour on Wednesday morning, with the doctor giving investigators virtually no new insights. O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment to multiple questions about his time with former President Joe Biden during his sit-down. It resulted in a hasty end to what could have been an hours-long deposition. “I’m going to read the first two questions that were asked. ‘Were you ever told to lie about the president’s health?’ He pleaded the Fifth Amendment. He would not answer that question. The second question, ‘Did you ever believe President Biden was unfit to execute his duty?’” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters after the meeting. “Again, President Biden’s White House physician pled the fifth. This is unprecedented, and I think that this adds more fuel to the fire that there was a cover-up.” The doctor’s lawyers said O’Connor’s refusal to answer questions on Fifth Amendment grounds was not an admission of guilt, but rather a response to what they saw as an unprecedented investigatory scope that could have violated the bounds of patient-physician privilege. “This Committee has indicated to Dr. O’Connor and his attorneys that it does not intend to honor one of the most well-known privileges in our law – the physician patient privilege. Instead, the Committee has indicated that it will demand that Dr. O’Connor reveal, without any limitations, confidential information regarding his medical examinations, treatment, and care of President Biden,” the attorney statement said. “Revealing confidential patient information would violate the most fundamental ethical duty of a physician, could result in revocation of Dr. O’Connor’s medical license, and would subject Dr. O’Connor to potential civil liability. Dr. O’Connor will not violate his oath of confidentiality to any of his patients, including President Biden.” The House Oversight Committee has been investigating whether Biden’s former top aides covered up evidence of his mental and physical decline while in office. Biden’s allies have denied such allegations. But Comer suggested to reporters that O’Connor’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment could have been evidence to the contrary. “Most people invoke the fifth when they have criminal liability. And so that’s what would appear on the surface here,” he said. “We’re going to continue to move forward. Obviously, I think his actions today speak loud and clear.” But O’Connor’s lawyers wrote in their statement, “We want to emphasize that asserting the Fifth Amendment privilege does not imply that Dr. O’Connor has committed any crime. In fact, to the contrary, as our Supreme Court has emphasized: ‘One of the Fifth Amendment’s basic functions is to protectinnocent men who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.’” Meanwhile, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who made a surprise appearance at the interview and was the only lawmaker there, save for Comer, defended O’Connor’s use of the Fifth Amendment. “As someone who has served as a criminal defense attorney and actually been in courtrooms, it’s kind of astounding to hear someone say, if you invoke the Fifth Amendment, that is only because you are guilty,” Crockett said. “We have a constitutional right that anyone who may be under fire can invoke. And unfortunately, with this rogue DOJ, it has decided that it wants to run a contemporaneous investigation, criminal investigation, involving the doctor – I think he did what any good lawyer would advise him to do.” O’Connor’s lawyers have asked the committee to pause its investigation while the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe is underway.
Dems say their increasingly ‘frustrated’ base is mobilized in the fight against Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
MANCHESTER, N.H. – The all-Democrat congressional delegation in swing state New Hampshire is teaming up to target President Donald Trump‘s “big, beautiful bill” that he signed into law. “The big beautiful betrayal of the American people” is how longtime Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the dean of the delegation, described the sweeping Republican-crafted domestic policy package. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., charged that the tax cuts and spending measure, which passed the House and Senate last week by razor-thin margins along nearly party-line votes in the GOP-controlled chambers, was “immoral, irrational, and impractical.” Rep. Chris Pappas, who’s running in next year’s midterm elections in the race to succeed the retiring Shaheen, argued that the bill is “a disaster for the American people.” POLITICAL FIGHT OVER ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’ SHIFTS TO CAMPAIGN TRAIL First-term Rep. Maggie Goodlander claimed that “this bill is going to jack up the cost of living for tens of thousands of people across this state.” The new law is stuffed full of Trump’s 2024 campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit. It includes extending his signature 2017 tax cuts and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay. The measure also provides billions for border security and codifies the president’s controversial immigration crackdown. WHAT’S ACTUALLY IN TRUMP’S ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’ However, the $3.4 trillion legislative package is also projected to surge the national debt by $4 trillion over the next decade. Additionally, the legislation also restructures Medicaid – the nearly 60-year-old federal program that provides health coverage to roughly 71 million low-income Americans. The changes to Medicaid, as well as cuts to food stamps, another one of the nation’s major safety net programs, were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump’s tax cuts. The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those seeking Medicaid coverage. For weeks, Democrats have been blasting Republicans over the Medicaid and social safety net cuts. “This is a big bill, and it’s got a lot of really big provisions that are going to cause even more pain to people in our state who are already struggling with the high cost of living,” Goodlander said in a Fox News Digital interview. She charged that “it includes the biggest cuts to health care in American history” in order “to pay for another big tax cut for people who don’t need it.” The delegation teamed up on Tuesday in New Hampshire’s largest city at Waypoint, which notes that it’s the state’s longest-running home and community-based care charitable organization. Waypoint officials noted that roughly three-quarters of the people they service are on Medicaid. HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLING Hassan said voters in New Hampshire are “mobilized” against the measure. “The calls are coming in overwhelmingly against this bill to our offices,” the senator said. “The outreach to our office has come from people from all political perspectives, people who self-identify as a Republican or a Trump voter or an independent or a Democrat.” However, with Republicans in control of the White House, the House and the Senate, congressional Democrats have little power or leverage to fight Trump’s second-term agenda. That is increasingly frustrating the Democrats’ base. “I don’t know if fighting dirty is the term, but certainly people are getting frustrated,” a New Hampshire-based progressive activist told Fox News Digital. The activist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, urged the state’s all Democrat congressional delegation to “introduce a thousand floor amendments, throw sand in the gears, do something, be more outspoken.” Another Granite State-based activist, who also asked for anonymity, said that many progressives feel they “are not being serviced by the current Democratic Party.” “There is no hope for these people unless we see candidates emerge in primaries that represent universal free healthcare and the other slate of issues that people associate with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns,” the activist said. HOW MUCH THE ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’ WILL CUT YOUR TAXES Republicans have blasted Democrats for voting against the measure, as they spotlight the tax cuts in the package. The New Hampshire Republican Party has targeted the delegation, and Pappas in particular, for their votes. “New Hampshire liberal Chris Pappas just voted for the largest tax hike in American history,” the state party charged in a social media post. However, Pappas told Fox News last week that “I support targeted tax cuts for working people, for our small businesses and to make sure we are targeting that relief to the people that need it, not to billionaires, to the biggest corporations.” A memo from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), released minutes after the final House passage of the bill last Thursday, argued that “every Democrat voted to hurt working families and to protect the status quo.” The NRCC, which is the campaign arm of the House GOP, emphasized that “House Republicans will be relentless in making this vote the defining issue of 2026.” That is fine with congressional Democrats, who aim to win back the House majority next year. Goodlander, who is up for a second two-year congressional term in next year’s midterms, told Fox News “the bottom line is this bill is definitely going to be on the ballot in 2026, and it’s going to be a central focus of the work I’m doing, because the crisis that we’re up against is a cost crisis, and this bill is going to jack up costs across the board.”
Lawmakers demand ‘immediate’ probe into anti-ICE tracking app: ‘Target on their backs’
FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is calling for an “immediate” probe into an app that allows people to track federal immigration actions in real time. House Small Business Committee Chairman Roger Williams, R-Texas, and Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, said the ICEBlock app “paints targets” on the backs of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents throughout the U.S., and asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether the program’s creators are violating federal law. “We are disturbed to learn that the developers of this app may be encouraging people to interfere with and evade lawful ICE operations designed to remove criminals from our streets. While the creators of this app claim to promote ‘awareness,’ their actions actively undermine the integrity of our justice system,” their letter to Bondi said. “The development and use of this app is not simply neighborhood awareness; it is a blatant interference with agency operations that has the potential to put government agents in danger and even cost them their lives.” NEW REPORT REVEALS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POPULATION HIT NEW HIGH DURING BIDEN-ERA CRISIS The memo was signed by five other House lawmakers: Reps. Randy Weber, R-Texas; Michael Rulli, R-Ohio; Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.; Mark Alford, R-Mo., and Brad Finstad, R-Minn. It comes as the Trump administration’s severe crackdown on illegal immigration continues to be a political flashpoint between the right and left. Both sides have accused the other of acting outside the scope of federal law. Democrats have claimed the Trump administration is using dubious legal justifications to carry out President Donald Trump’s deportation goals, while Republicans argue that left-wing officials’ opposition to ICE amounts to impeding federal authorities. The ICEBlock app appears to be another bid to block federal immigration authorities. Its description on the Apple App Store reads, “Stay informed about reported ICE sightings, within a 5 miles radius of your current location, in real-time while maintaining your privacy. ICEBlock is a community-driven app that allows you to share and discover location-based reports without revealing any personal data.” ICE AGENTS TARGETED IN 2 AMBUSH ATTACKS IN RECENT DAYS Bondi herself warned developer Joshua Aaron to “watch out” in an appearance on “Hannity.” Aaron told Los Angeles Magazine he created the app to “fight back” against what he saw as a rise in authoritarian tactics. “Imagine you’re walking down the street, and a notification comes up that says, ‘ICE spotted four blocks ahead’…Instead of continuing down that path, you can turn left or turn around and avoid the situation altogether,” he told the outlet. The lawmakers’ letter said, “ICE operations are designed to remove dangerous criminals from our streets. This app, labeled as an ‘early warning system,’ deliberately alerts the public to the whereabouts of ICE agents, which gives individuals who are here illegally or have a criminal record time to hide or evade apprehension.” “This app not only hinders criminal apprehension efforts but also makes the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security’s mission of protecting public safety more difficult,” they wrote. BORDER AGENT AMBUSH SHOWS DEMS NEED TO ‘TONE DOWN RHETORIC,’ WHITE HOUSE SAYS, PUSHING AOC TO MEET WITH ICE CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP They argued that public knowledge of ICE raids led to the chaos in Los Angeles, when protesters clashed with law enforcement for several days. “Given the severity of this issue, we respectfully request that the Department of Justice begin an immediate investigation into ‘ICEBlock’ and its developers to determine whether it violates federal laws pertaining to obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting fugitives,” they wrote. Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for comment. Fox News Digital also reached out to the developer of ICEBlock via the app’s website.
Vance unleashes on socialist Mamdani in fiery patriotic speech: ‘Who the hell does he think that he is?’
Vice President JD Vance slammed socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during a speech over the Fourth of July holiday weekend for what he called insulting the U.S. on its “most sacred day.” “Today is July 5th, 2025, which means, as all of you know, that yesterday we celebrated the 249th anniversary of the birth of our nation,” Vance said Saturday in an address before the conservative think tank Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award Dinner in San Diego. “Now, the person who wishes to lead our largest city had, according to multiple media reports, never once publicly mentioned America’s Independence Day in earnest. But when he did so this year, this is what he said, and this is an actual quote.” Vance then continued to read Mamdani’s Independence Day social media post, which read in part: “America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country, even as we constantly strive to make it better.” The vice president, who has not shied away from calling on political leaders across the world to show gratitude to the U.S. since Inauguration Day, remarked that there was “no gratitude in those words” and “no sense of owing something to this land and the people who turned its wilderness into the most powerful nation on earth.” DEM SOCIALIST’S NYC PRIMARY UPSET SIGNALS ‘GENERATIONAL’ SHIFT IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, STRATEGISTS SAY “I wonder, has he ever read the letters from boy soldiers in the Union Army to parents and sweethearts that they’d never see again?” Vance continued. “Has he ever visited the grave site of a loved one who gave their life to build the kind of society where his family could escape racial theft and racial violence? Has he ever looked in the mirror and recognized that he might not be alive were it not for the generosity of a country he dares to insult on its most sacred day?” FORMER PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST ON NYC PRIMARY WIN: ‘I’M WISHING YOU MUCH SUCCESS’ “Who the hell does he think that he is?” Vance said. Democratic socialist Mamdani trounced his top competitor, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, at the polls in the Democratic primary in June, becoming the party’s nominee for mayor. Mamdani’s victory is viewed as the Democratic Party moving further to the left in New York City after national voters sounded off in the 2024 election that the party’s embrace of some left-wing policies alienated Americans. DEMS AT A CROSSROADS AS ESTABLISHMENT PLANS ‘PROJECT 2029’ WHILE SOCIALIST CANDIDATE WINS NYC MAYORAL PRIMARY Vance added in his San Diego speech that Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, and his family had experienced firsthand fleeing a foreign nation’s dictatorship before finding refuge in the U.S., and yet the mayoral candidate still described America as incomplete and a contradiction. “Zohran Mamdani’s father fled Uganda when the tyrant Idi Amin decided to ethnically cleanse his nation’s Indian population,” Vance said. “Mamdani’s family fled violent racial hatred, only for him to come to this country – a country built by people he never knew, overflowing with generosity to his family, offering a haven from the kind of violent ethnic conflict that is commonplace in world history, but it is not commonplace here – and he dares on our 249th anniversary to congratulate it by paying homage to its ‘incompleteness,’ and to its, as he calls it, ‘contradiction.’” Mamdani’s campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on Vance’s remarks.
SCOOP: Oklahoma gubernatorial race heats up early with $1.6M ad buy for ‘America First’ candidate
FIRST ON FOX: The 2026 midterm elections are still over 16 months away, but a super PAC supporting Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall’s gubernatorial campaign is already making a big play with a $1.6 million ad buy. Starting on Wednesday, July 9, the Oklahoma Conservative Coalition is making an eight-week, $1.6 million advertising investment in broadcast, cable, satellite and streaming statewide, Fox News Digital has learned. “Charles McCall is the only America First and Oklahoma First candidate in this race with a proven conservative record,” Erinn Mahathey, spokesperson for Oklahoma Conservative Coalition, told Fox News Digital. “This is just the beginning. With the right experience, real momentum, and a winning message, McCall is built to go the distance and deliver real results for Oklahoma.” With less than one year until the Republican primary, two candidates have emerged as potential front-runners in the race for Oklahoma’s highest office. As a reliably red state, the winner of the Republican primary will largely be expected to win the general election that November. SCOOP: NEW REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE IN KENTUCKY TO TEAM UP WITH TOP TRUMP ALLY McCall announced his gubernatorial bid earlier this year, running on his record of “working hand-in-hand with Governor Stitt and President Trump” to build a “stronger Oklahoma rooted in an America First agenda.” TRUMP ALLY ANNOUNCES RECORD-SHATTERING FUNDRAISING HAUL IN BID FOR ALABAMA GOVERNOR Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has announced his own campaign for governor, running a conservative platform touting his leadership as attorney general against the “Biden Administration’s radical overreach” and promising to stand “strong with President Trump.” However, the McCall campaign has criticized Drummond for donating to the newly elected Oklahoma Democrat Party Chair John Waldron and for voting to delay enforcement of a new ban on transgender surgery for minors amid a pending preliminary hearing in a federal lawsuit. According to The Oklahoman, Drummond said the agreement “simply allows more time to mount the strongest possible defense” and “should in no way be interpreted as a concession of any kind.” In a 4-4 vote earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Oklahoma State Supreme Court’s decision that St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma City, a religious charter school, receiving public funds would be unconstitutional. Incumbent Gov. Kevin Stitt, R-Okla., and Drummond were locked in a feud over the landmark case, as the two continued a long-standing clash over policy and politics in Oklahoma, including debates over constitutional authority and local policy initiatives. Stitt, who serves as vice chair of the National Governors Association, is term-limited as Oklahoma governor in 2026. Earlier this year, the Conservative Political Action Conference endorsed McCall’s campaign, and his super PAC highlighted his conservative policy as House speaker, on issues like protecting American farmland, school choice, tax cuts and pro-life bills. Oklahoma House Rep. Cyndi Munson, small business owner Leisa Mitchell Haynes and former Oklahoma State Senator Mike Mazzei have also declared their gubernatorial campaigns. Fox News Digital reached out to Drummond for comment. Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.