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Rachel Maddow attending Dick Cheney's funeral sparks social media frenzy
Liberal MS NOW host Rachel Maddow went viral Thursday after she was spotted at the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Maddow, who once called Cheney "the maestro of terror politics," was seen in the pews of Washington National Cathedral sitting next to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Two seats over was veteran Democratic strategist James Carville.
The image of Maddow appearing at Cheney's memorial service caught many by surprise.
NATIONAL CATHEDRAL HOSTS FUNERAL FOR FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY
"If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral," New York Times correspondent Peter Baker reacted on X.
"Maddow's career as a commentator began during Bush/Cheney, when she'd frequently compare Cheney to the worst monsters in history (I was on her programs when she said it)," independent journalist Glenn Greenwald posted. "For so many liberals, Cheney is now rehabilitated despite regretting nothing: solely for opposing Trump."
"I got a hug from Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral. Cue the pigs flying," The New Yorker's Susan Glasser wrote.
As she was leaving the funeral, Maddow said Cheney had changed the country "in ways that I almost 100 percent disagree with" but that she admired how he rallied behind his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy, when she took on President Donald Trump in recent years, according to a report from The Washington Post.
"I think it was a really heroic stand, it’s humbling to me," Maddow said. "You know, we contain multitudes."
Maddow did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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Cheney's funeral drew some of the biggest names in politics. Joining former President George W. Bush, who gave a eulogy honoring his running mate, were former President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden, former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence and Al Gore, as well as several prominent lawmakers like Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Several members of the House Jan. 6 Committee were also in attendance in support of his daughter, who served as vice chair.
Absent from the service were Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who were not invited to attend.
Dick and Liz Cheney famously endorsed Harris during the 2024 presidential election.
52 Catholic school students in Nigeria kidnapped by gunmen in latest attack: report
Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped several students and staff from a Catholic school early Friday, marking the latest attack on a Christian institution.
Nigerian news outlet Arise TV said 52 children were abducted from St. Mary's School. The Catholic institution is in Agwara local government’s Papiri community, according to The Associated Press, which cited Abubakar Usman, the secretary to the Niger state government. The outlet added that Usman did not specify how many children were kidnapped in the attack.
The Niger State Police Command said military and security forces were deployed to the area where the attack took place in the early hours of Friday, the AP reported. Additionally, the Niger State Police Command said St. Mary's educates students ages 12–17.
A security staffer was "badly shot" in the attack, according to the AP which cited a statement issued by the Catholic Diocese of Kontagora.
GUNMEN ATTACK CHURCH IN NIGERIA, KILLING TWO AND KIDNAPPING OTHERS
Following the attack, Usman released a statement condemning the abductions and stating that St. Mary's made the decision to reopen despite prior security intelligence warning of increased threats, according to Arise TV.
"Regrettably, St. Mary’s School proceeded to reopen and resume academic activities without notifying or seeking clearance from the State Government, thereby exposing pupils and the staff to avoidable risk," the statement read.
The attack at St. Mary's follows a similar incident earlier this week in which armed attackers kidnapped 25 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State and killed at least one staffer. The search for the abducted schoolgirls is still underway.
On Wednesday, gunmen attacked the Christ Apostolic Church, killing at least two people and abducting the pastor and 38 worshippers, according to Reuters. In a video of the attack, which was reviewed and verified by Reuters, armed men are seen entering the church and taking worshippers' belongings as gunshots ring out. The outlet later reported that a church official said the gunmen demanded a ransom of 100 million naira (roughly $69,000) per worshipper.
RAP STAR NICKI MINAJ THANKS TRUMP FOR ADDRESSING PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
Nigeria has seen a series of attacks on Christians, prompting President Donald Trump to declare the West African nation a "country of particular concern" over the persecution of Christians. However, the Nigerian government has disputed the U.S.'s claims.
On Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz held an event highlighting the ongoing violence in Nigeria. During the event, Waltz called the killings of Christians in Nigeria "genocide wearing the mask of chaos."
"Folks, we have an entire faith that is being erased, one bullet at a time, one torched Bible at a time," Waltz said.
Rap superstar Nicki Minaj, who has been vocal about her support for the Trump administration's efforts to combat the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, spoke at Waltz's event. Minaj lamented that "families have been torn apart, and entire communities live in fear constantly, simply because of how they pray."
Fox News Digital's Ashley Carnahan and Paul Tilsley contributed to this report.
DAVID MARCUS: Mr Mamdani goes to Washington between rock and hard place
New York City’s mayor-elect, the socialist Zohran Mamdani, is headed down the Acela corridor to meet with President Trump at the White House on Friday, in what has become one of the most anticipated first meetings since Frazier and Ali at Madison Square Garden in 1971.
So, will there be fireworks, if not fisticuffs, when these two men, with nary a good word to say of the other, make their acquaintance? I wouldn’t count on it.
If we do see the patented Trump sit down in the Oval Office with his guest and reporters, and if I was Zany Zohran’s team, I would try hard to avoid it, then the stupidest thing that Hizzoner of the Little Red Book could do is make an angry scene.
Let’s face it, if Mamdani, the 34-year-old theater kid who has never had a real job, tries to go toe-to-toe with Trump, as for example, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalenskyy famously and unfortunately, once did, the president will mop the floor with him.
LEAVITT DOESN'T MINCE WORDS AHEAD OF MAMDANI-TRUMP MEETING: 'COMMUNIST COMING TO THE WHITE HOUSE'
Not only does Trump have the most powerful home-field advantage in the world in the White House, he also doesn’t really need anything from Mamdani. That's something that the incoming mayor cannot say of Trump, who holds the keys to a lot of federal money that Gotham needs.
A mayor is often defined by his first months in office, and Trump has the ability to make it very difficult, with ICE raids and freezes on federal dollars, or to give the Karl Marx acolyte some runway, perhaps even enough rope to begin hanging his goofy free-stuff initiatives.
So, there are plenty of reasons for Zohran to flash his winning smile, make nice, and pose for pictures with 47.
ZOHRAN MAMDANI REVEALS WHAT HE PLANS TO DISCUSS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP IN OVAL OFFICE MEETING
On the other hand, for Mamdani’s strongest supporters, his socialist base, Trump is not just the physical embodiment of capitalism, but of fascism, not that they draw a particularly bright line between the two.
Zohran can’t really yuk it up with the president while maintaining his promise to be Trump’s worst nightmare. It wouldn’t just make his fellow Democrats feel queasy, it would undermine their entire current reason for existing.
The Democrats, lacking a cohesive identity at the moment, make up for it by hating Trump. Democrat members of Congress are urging our military to disobey his orders, Democrats in Congress spend more time making anti-Trump TikTok videos than they do reviewing legislation.
TRUMP SAYS MAMDANI MEETING IN THE WORKS: 'WE'LL WORK SOMETHING OUT'
This is the rock and the hard place that Mamdani finds himself between on Friday. If he is too rude to Trump, he undermines his own chances to do the work he wants to do in Gotham. If he is too cordial, he makes his party, its hair on fire daily over Trump, look foolish.
The wildcard in all of this, as always, is Trump himself, from whom we could see a fatherly lecture, mockery of Zohran or even the kind of backhanded praise he likes to tactically lavish on his adversaries, such as Vladimir Putin or Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
As Trump put it, back in his fateful meeting with Zelenskyy, he and the White House hold all the cards.
TRUMP SAYS HE WILL MEET NYC MAYOR-ELECT ZOHRAN MAMDANI THIS WEEK
The last thing to keep in mind about Friday’s meeting, whatever its form or content, is that there are already some whisperings among Mamdani’s socialist base that he is selling them out.
The mayor-elect's decision to keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in place was a concession to the moderates in the Democratic Party, as is his statement that "it is not the time," for socialist City Councilman Che Osse to primary House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in his Brooklyn district.
We have seen this before. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also plays it a bit both ways, never quite going as far as the 'Squad' she leads on controversial issues, often metaphorically telling them, "You go ahead, I’ll be right behind you."
Roughly a decade ago, Trump began a takeover of the Grand Old Party that is now all but complete. Today, Zohran Mamdani is a big part of the socialist effort to do the same thing to the Democratic Party.
When The Donald shakes Zohran’s hand on Friday, no doubt aggressively and for a long time, we may be seeing, for the first time, the versions of our two major political parties that will spar over the future of our nation for decades to come.
Unearthed FEC records expose Katie Porter's hypocrisy after she fumes at 'new billionaire' joining race
After billionaire activist Tom Steyer entered the California gubernatorial race Wednesday, former Congresswoman Katie Porter, who is also running for governor, blasted him despite previously taking thousands of dollars from him when she was in Congress.
Porter said Steyer was entering the race claiming to fight "the very industries he got rich helping grow," to which the former member of Congress said: "I call bulls---." Meanwhile, FEC filings show Porter, who is claiming to fight Steyer, received more than $16,000 between her House campaigns and failed Senate campaign.
"Katie Porter is the ultimate hypocrite and all she’s done in this race is step on one rake after another," a longtime Democratic strategist, who has worked with campaigns across the country, told Fox News Digital. "This is easily the most disastrous race a Democrat has been running in 2026, which is why Porter is a real liability at the top of the ticket and why Democrats are looking around for alternatives."
The Porter campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment on this story.
Steyer, who once financed his own unsuccessful presidential bid in 2020, announced plans to enter the California gubernatorial race this week. The billionaire anti-Trump activist pledged to make life more affordable for working-class Americans and take on corporate interests in an announcement advertisement alerting people of his candidacy. Steyer specifically said he would take on the oil and tobacco industries in particular, which he touted a record of doing in the past as well.
"A new billionaire in our race claims he'll fight the very industries he got rich helping grow — fossil fuel companies, tobacco, and private immigration detention facilities — at great cost to Californians," Porter posted on X after Steyer announced his run. "I call bulls---."
Attached to Porter's post was also a screenshot of a news headline from The Sacramento Bee that reads: "Tom Steyer, starring in TV ads for tobacco tax hike, invested in tobacco companies."
People commenting on Porter's post highlighted her financial support she has received from Steyer in the past. Between 2018 and 2023, Porter received at least $16,100 from him, a Fox News Digital review found.
For Steyer, his wealth will likely be a target for his opponents.
"Tom Steyer tried to buy the presidency — and he failed," Betty Yee, a former state controller who is running in the Democratic Primary for governor, said following Steyer's announcement. "The California governorship is not going to be his consolation prize."
Porter, meanwhile, has faced criticism on the campaign trail for her attitude towards staffers and the media. She faced criticism last month after abruptly walking away from a CBS interview after lashing out at the reporter interviewing her.
"What do you say to the 40% of CA voters who you'll need in order to win, who voted for Trump?" Porter was asked by CBS California's Julie Watts during a segment on the controversial redistricting effort launched by Democrats in the state.
"How would I need them in order to win, ma'am?" Porter responded.
DID CALIFORNIA MISMANAGE THE DEADLY PALISADES FIRE?
"Well, unless you think you're going to get 60% of the vote," the reporter, asking about the voter breakdown of Democrats and Republicans in the state, said before Porter started laughing.
Porter then went back and forth with the reporter, arguing about whether she needs to court and win over Trump voters, particularly if she's running head-to-head against another Democrat.
"So you don't need them to win," Watts asked Porter.
"I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative," Porter said, prompting the reporter to point out that she had asked the same question to the other candidates in the race and they answered it.
"I don't want to keep doing this, I'm going to call it," Porter said.
When Watts reminded Porter that every candidate had answered the question, Porter said, "I don't care."
Meanwhile, Porter has also faced repeated criticism about how she allegedly treats staffers. In just a span of a single week, three videos went viral of Porter berating her staff.
The race for California governor is a crowded one, with big names like former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Former Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly planning on getting involved but ultimately backed away.
Lesser known candidates include state schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond, former Controller Betty Yee and former Assemblyman Ian Calderon.
MIKE DAVIS: Deranged Democrats' latest coup attempt seeks military mutiny
Congressional Democrats are openly encouraging anarchy with a new video calling on military and intelligence officials to disobey what they claim are unlawful orders from President Trump. All government officials take an oath to uphold the law, including the United States Constitution and all statutes. There are some examples where orders are plainly unlawful, and a defense of "I was just following orders" is unavailing. An infamous case involved Lt. William Calley, who led the horrific My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. Democrats’ call here, however, is staggeringly dangerous and invites a coup.
But exactly which orders do Democrats believe are unlawful? Are ICE raids part of these supposedly unlawful orders? The Supreme Court recently stayed an order by leftist Judge Maame Ewusi Mensah Frimpong in Los Angeles that had curtailed such raids. In Chicago, Judge Sara Ellis issued a broad injunction against the use of force by ICE officials, but the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals just stayed it, characterizing it as overbroad. Two district judges in San Francisco and Portland recently enjoined the use of National Guard troops in those cities to protect ICE agents who were under attack. In both instances, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed those rulings. A similar ruling by radical Biden Judge April Perry in Chicago is pending before the Supreme Court.
In the first 10 months of the Trump administration, district courts — mostly in leftist-run cities like D.C., Portland, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston — have issued nearly four dozen injunctions against the government. This number is staggering; it has almost eclipsed the 64 injunctions issued during Trump’s first term. Trump cannot even repaint or power wash the Eisenhower Building, an office location for Executive Branch officials. The prohibition is effective through Dec. 31, while a district court considers a lawsuit by two lawyers in a nearby building claiming that they somehow will be harmed by the painting and the power washing.
The Supreme Court has already intervened about two dozen times in the face of all of these injunctions. The justices attempted to diminish the volume of injunctions significantly in Trump v. CASA earlier this year; yet, the injunctions persist. Trump’s all-star legal team of Attorney General Pam Bondi, Solicitor General John Sauer and many other exceptional attorneys have won over 90% of their appeals to the Supreme Court. This success rate is extraordinary, and leftists have used this statistic to bash the constitutionalist Supreme Court majority. Their anger is misplaced, however, for the problem is not the justices but rather the rogue judges who continue to issue absurd injunction after absurd injunction.
Federal judges who have attended the finest law schools, including Harvard and Yale, have had their injunctions overturned time and again. It is obvious that many judges refuse to accept the clear electoral mandate that Trump secured last November. If these judges, having had the best legal education our nation has to offer, cannot decide correctly what are and are not lawful actions by Trump, how can intelligence officials, especially those who are not lawyers? How can teenage soldiers on the front line? The message from these Democrats logically would extend even to bureaucrats in departments that have nothing to do with the military.
Recently, leftist Biden Massachusetts Judge Julia Kobick enjoined the Trump administration’s policy of requiring the use of one’s biological sex on a passport instead of one’s gender identity. Unsurprisingly, the Supreme Court stayed Kobick’s ludicrous injunction earlier this month in Trump v. Orr. Suppose a bureaucrat, prior to Kobick’s injunction, had decided to refuse to comply with the directive. Would Democrats find this action acceptable? We would have had a situation where a bureaucrat would have contravened a lawful order, based on the Supreme Court’s stay. Utter chaos would erupt were bureaucrats to adopt this stance of deciding for themselves which orders to follow and which to disregard. Injunctions should be obeyed until stayed, but that modest acknowledgment does not give bureaucrats carte blanche to become kings and queens who decide what the law is for themselves.
During his administration, President Obama gave a controversial order: to use drone strikes to kill Americans overseas who were, according to the administration, terrorists. This practice received the legal stamp of approval from the Office of Legal Counsel, the Justice Department office that opines on legal issues. The author of the approving memorandum was David Barron, who serves as chief judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Some scholars argued vehemently that these targeted killings, such as that of Anwar al-Awlaki, were unlawful. What would the Democrats producing this anarchic video have suggested that soldiers on the front lines have done when given the order to kill? Was Obama’s order lawful, or was it unlawful? The military rightly obeyed the order, and disobedience would have constituted mutiny.
Trump-deranged leftists will stop at nothing to thwart Trump’s agenda. We have seen four indictments, two impeachments, countless lawsuits, attempts to throw him off of ballots, and assassination attempts. This latest stunt, however, is about much more than Trump. If any military official, intelligence official, or bureaucrat in any department ignores one of Trump’s orders, there must be swift and severe legal accountability. This is about the presidency, just like the issue of presidential immunity, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh emphasized during the oral argument of that case. Intelligence and military officials hostile to a Democrat in the White House could cite disobedience of Trump as a precedent for violating orders that they unilaterally decide are unlawful. Per Article II, the president is the commander-in-chief. There are many recourses to deal with wayward presidents, such as impeachment. The Democrat-proposed coup, however, most certainly is not one of them.
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What's behind Trump's heated feud with the BBC that resulted in $5 billion lawsuit threat?
President Donald Trump has threatened the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) with a $5 billion lawsuit as he seeks to hold the organization responsible for "false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements."
The BBC has come under intense scrutiny over a BBC "Panorama" documentary about Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech delivered before the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Critics claim the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully.
The New York Times referred to the ordeal as "one of the worst crises in its 103-year history" of the BBC. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr is looking into the situation, and a pair of executives have stepped down from the BBC because of the scandal.
TRUMP PLANNING LAWSUIT OF UP TO $5 BILLION AGAINST BBC OVER EDITED JAN 6 SPEECH DOCUMENTARY
The controversy began with a bombshell report from The Telegraph that featured excerpts from a whistleblower dossier compiled by Michael Prescott, a communications advisor hired by the BBC to review its editorial standards.
The whistleblower alleged that a BBC "Panorama" documentary released last year included a misleading edit of comments Trump made during his Jan. 6, 2021, rally protesting the 2020 presidential election results.
The documentary, "Trump: A Second Chance?," omitted Trump urging his supporters to protest "peacefully" and instead spliced two separate comments made nearly an hour apart, creating the impression that he was calling for violence.
"We're gonna walk down to the Capitol. And I'll be there with you. And we fight — we fight like hell," the documentary showed Trump saying.
In reality, Trump said, "We're gonna walk down to the Capitol. And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong." It wasn't until 54 minutes later that Trump called on his supporters to "fight like hell" for election integrity.
BBC APOLOGIZES TO TRUMP AMID $1 BILLION LEGAL THREAT
The blunder led to the resignations of BBC News CEO Deborah Turness and BBC Director-General Tim Davie.
"I stepped down over the weekend because the buck stops with me. But I'd like to make one thing very clear, BBC News is not institutionally biased," Turness told reporters outside the BBC headquarters.
Trump's legal team issued the BBC a legal threat, demanding a full retraction and an apology as well as financial compensation. The broadcaster did issue an apology and said it had "no plans" to re-air the documentary but stopped short of fulfilling Trump’s demands.
"Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Trump's legal team in response to a letter received on Sunday," a BBC spokesperson said earlier this month. "BBC chair Samir Shah has separately sent a personal letter to the White House making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the president's speech on 6 January 2021, which featured in the programme."
However, the broadcaster determined there was no basis for the defamation claim.
"There is a lot being written, said and speculated upon about the possibility of legal action, including potential costs or settlements. In all this we are, of course, acutely aware of the privilege of our funding and the need to protect our licence fee payers, the British public. I want to be very clear with you — our position has not changed," BBC Chair Samir Shah wrote in a memo to staffers that was obtained by Fox News Digital.
"There is no basis for a defamation case and we are determined to fight this. Last week I took the opportunity to speak with the Executive team and am reassured of their resolute focus on ensuring the BBC continues to deliver on behalf of audiences and staff," Shah continued. "I know they plan to spend as much time as possible with their teams over the coming weeks to reinforce the importance of that work and answer your question."
Trump told reporters on Air Force One last Friday that he planned to take legal action.
"We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5 billion probably sometime next week," Trump said.
BBC CHAIR TELLS STAFFERS IT'S DETERMINED TO FIGHT TRUMP LAWSUIT OFF, NO BASIS FOR DEFAMATION CLAIM
Trump’s multibillion-dollar legal threat against the BBC aligns with a string of recent legal victories over media and tech companies. The former president secured large settlements from CBS, ABC and Meta over the past year.
In July, Paramount Global and CBS agreed to pay a $16 million upfront sum to settle the president’s lawsuit against the network over how "60 Minutes" edited and released an interview with then-Democratic rival Kamala Harris in 2024. Trump’s team, which initially sought $10 billion, claimed the network’s use of edited clips from a single response about Israel constituted "election interference."
That win came on the heels of ABC's apology and $16 million settlement with Trump last December after he sued for defamation over "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos' claims on the air that the president had been held "liable for rape." The jury in the E. Jean Carroll case to which he was referring had actually ruled he was liable for "sexual abuse."
In addition, Trump's team has won nearly a combined $60 million in settlements from X, Meta and Alphabet-owned YouTube this year over his prior account suspensions by the respective tech giants in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett predicted Trump could be entitled to "considerable" damages from the BBC should he move forward with a lawsuit against the outlet.
"It's hard to put a value on it at this early juncture, but it's considerable," Jarrett said Monday on "Fox & Friends."
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"Two top executives resigned in disgrace when they removed the slander," he continued. "[It's] a clear case of what I think is defamation."
Jarrett added, "They deleted his caution to act peacefully, and then they spliced together the video to give the opposite impression, almost certainly defamatory."
Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss expressed support for Trump’s lawsuit, saying, "They’ve lied, they’ve cheated, they’ve fiddled with footage."
Fox News Digital’s David Rutz and Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
Coast Guard defends dropping hate label for swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags
The Coast Guard is implementing a new policy change to no longer refer to displays of swastikas and nooses as a "hate incident" — and distributed new guidance to remove the term "hate incident" from its vocabulary altogether.
While the service previously identified displays of swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags and other supremacist or antisemitic symbols as a "potential hate incident," the new guidance now labels them as "potentially divisive symbols and flags." The change was first reported by The Washington Post.
Despite the alteration, the Coast Guard claims that it remains committed to barring the symbols from the service and penalizing those who display them. Additionally, it said that it still considers the symbols "extremist imagery."
"The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited symbols are categorically false," Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the Coast Guard, said in a Thursday statement to Fox News Digital. "These symbols have been and remain prohibited in the Coast Guard per policy."
"Any display, use or promotion of such symbols, as always, will be thoroughly investigated and severely punished," Lunday said. "The Coast Guard remains unwavering in its commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and professional workplace. Symbols such as swastikas, nooses and other extremist or racist imagery violate our core values and are treated with the seriousness they warrant under current policy."
The new guidances state that the public display of the Confederate battle flag is banned and will be pulled from all Coast Guard workplaces, common access areas, public areas or operating facilities. Previous guidance also prohibited such public display of the Confederate battle flag.
Commanding officers and other leaders are instructed to inquire about public displays of other symbols identified as "potentially divisive," and are granted the authority to direct or order the removal of those that negatively impact moral and mission readiness.
The guidance also says it is completely eradicating the term "hate incident" and that incidents that were previously handled as a "potential hate incident" will not be processed as a harassment report.
"Conduct previously handled as a potential hate incident, including those involving symbols widely identified with oppression or hatred, is processed as a report of harassment in cases with an identified aggrieved individual…The terminology ‘hate incident’ is no longer present in policy," the new guidance said.
The Coast Guard did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on why it removed the term "hate incident" from its new guidance.
The new guidance also puts some limits on when harassment reports can be made. The updated policy dictates that reports of harassment, excluding those of sexual harassment, be made within 45 calendar days of an incident. The new guidance does say that there is some "discretion for reports to be accepted beyond this time frame."
That’s a departure from the service’s previous policy, which did not have a deadline in place for reporting these incidents.
After the Post's initial report on the update, the top Democrat on the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Rep. Rick Larsen of Washington, said there is no room for debate over whether nooses or swastikas are hate symbols.
"Lynching is a federal hate crime. The world defeated the Nazis in 1945. The debate on these symbols is over. They symbolize hate," Larsen, whose committee has oversight authority over the Coast Guard, said in a statement Thursday. "Coast Guard: be better."
The Coast Guard is the only branch of the military to fall under the Department of Homeland Security, but has launched initiatives including Force Design 2028 to revamp its organizational structure, acquisitions, contracting and technology, among other changes, to align more closely with other services that fall under the purview of the Department of War.
The Coast Guard said that its updates on its harassment policy were made in alignment with orders from President Donald Trump and the Pentagon.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on whether it was eyeing similar changes in policy for its military branches. However, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth instructed the Pentagon to conduct a review of its hazing and harassment policies in September.
The Pentagon also has its own set of extremism guidelines, which effectively bans displaying Confederate flags or those with a swastika on them. Only preapproved flags, including state flags or military service flags, are permitted.
Why ‘starving cancer’ could be key to slowing disease growth, according to doctors
What we eat plays a major role in our health and well-being, especially in the development of chronic disease.
On a recent episode of Dr. Mark Hyman’s podcast, "The Dr. Hyman Show," the physician and Function Health co-founder spoke about how eating habits can change the course of illness.
Podcast guest Dr. Jason Fung, a Canadian physician, author and researcher, joined Hyman to discuss how fasting may help to reverse diseases like cancer.
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"The whole idea of fasting is that you're trying to put the body into this sort of regenerative maintenance mode," he said. "Because what we've recognized is … you can go into growth mode, or you can go into sort of this cell maintenance repair mode."
This depends on nutrient availability, the doctor said. When nutrients are available, it makes cells want to grow. Without nutrients, the body enters a state of "maintenance repair."
Fung compared fasting to a car engine. Revving the engine and going fast will lead to a faster burnout — but sometimes it's necessary to make a "pit stop" and bring the car into the shop for maintenance.
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"That's the point of the human body, too," he said. "You can go for growth, or you can go for longevity or cellular maintenance, but you’ve got to have a bit of both. It's a balance there. It's not all growth."
Eating pushes cells into growth mode, according to Fung — which could be dangerous when battling diseases like cancer, where cells are growing too much.
"You're basically feeding into that growth," he said. "And that's going to be very, very bad for you."
Fasting can allow the cells to enter "care mode," allowing the body to better undergo chemo and radiation therapy, according to the doctor.
Research has found that fasting just before, during and after chemotherapy can lead to fewer side effects as the cells slow down and "stop trying to grow," Fung said.
Chemo aims to kill the fastest-growing cells, tending to go after hair follicles and the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, causing hair loss and nausea.
"So, if you can put those cells into a quiescent sort of repair mode, [they're] not going to sustain as much damage from the chemotherapy," he said. "And instead, the cancer cells — which can't stop their growth, they're always trying to grow — they can't do that. So, therefore, they're going to sustain full damage from the chemotherapy while your body is relatively protected."
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Dr. Frank Dumont, internal medicine physician and executive medical director at Virta Health in Colorado, commented on the concept of starving cancer.
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As a physician specializing in using nutrition to improve metabolism, Dumont stressed that metabolic health goals can be met without having to resort to fasting.
There is "tremendous overlap" between the metabolic benefits of fasting, or time-restricted eating, and making adjustments to macronutrients in the diet, such as decreasing carbohydrate intake when appropriate, according to the doctor.
"You see the same types of benefits," he said. "When you do that, glucose levels start to go down, insulin levels go down, inflammation goes down."
"You can either adjust what you're eating, or you can do things like restrict how much or when you're eating. How you do that depends on what makes the most sense [for] your situation and what you can tolerate."
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Dumont shared that when insulin increases, causing insulin resistance, this leads to metabolic dysfunction and can stimulate growth in some cancer cells.
Other types of cancer don’t use energy as well, relying on glucose as their "only form of fuel" as opposed to fat, fatty acids and ketones, according to Dumont.
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"The bottom line is, our body is much more flexible," he said. "If you can start to get the nutrition to match up with the metabolism, that often means lowering the glucose intake — and, in a way, starving the cancer."
At the same time, he said, it's important to find a way to fuel the body with other types of foods.
"You can take care of your body and actually put the cancer at a disadvantage at the same time."
Pro-life influencer attacked in NYC files lawsuit after DA Alvin Bragg drops case
A conservative pro-life influencer who went viral after being punched in the face during a street interview in New York City has filed a lawsuit against her alleged attacker.
Savannah Craven Antao, pro-life activist and host of the YouTube channel "Her Patriot Voice," says she was conducting man on the street interviews for the organization Live Action on April 3 when she was repeatedly struck by Brianna J. Rivers, 30, of the Bronx.
According to the complaint, filed Nov. 18 in Bronx Supreme Court, Craven Antao went to the emergency room for stitches after the attack, incurring more than $3,000 in medical bills. Her attorneys at the Thomas More Society allege that Rivers has "knowingly, willfully and maliciously continued to mock [Savannah] and her views online in order to further inflict emotional distress."
The lawsuit also claims Rivers mocked Craven Antao’s religious beliefs and marketed merchandise referencing the assault. One alleged post showed a T-shirt design with the word "BAM!" and an image of a fist striking a face — which the complaint says Rivers and her cousin created to raise money for her legal defense.
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Craven Antao’s attorneys say the influencer has suffered symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and has received hundreds of death threats since the incident. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Rivers was initially charged with second-degree assault, but the case was dismissed in July after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office failed to turn over discovery on time. The lawsuit criticizes Bragg’s office for downgrading the charge to a misdemeanor and later allowing it to lapse.
Craven Antao also slammed Bragg's handling of her case in an interview with Fox News Digital this week.
"I have to look over my shoulder and worry about if somebody who supports her actions — there are a lot of people out there that do — that they’re going to try to do something else," she said. "Because what the DA Alvin Bragg himself has shown to people, with letting this case be dropped, is that they can go assault somebody and hurt them if they disagree with them and nothing is going to happen."
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In September, Bragg’s office issued a statement acknowledging a filing error and apologizing to Craven Antao.
"Every victim deserves their day in court, and our office has reached out to apologize to Ms. Craven Antao for the unacceptable error of missing the discovery deadline," a spokesperson said. "We are taking immediate internal steps in light of this case."
Craven Antao said she decided to file the lawsuit to hold Rivers accountable and send a message.
"First, I’d really appreciate my over $3,000 in medical bills to be paid off, because I should not be responsible for those," she said. "Second, it’s to send a message — hopefully to show her that she can’t do this again."
"Honestly, I hope that she eventually finds God," she continued. "That's what I pray for, because it's obvious that she's got a lot of deep trauma rooted, and she takes it out on other people."
Thomas More Society attorney Christopher Ferrara said Bragg’s handling of the case forced them to take civil action against Rivers.
"Savannah was violently assaulted for peacefully expressing her pro-life beliefs and then humiliated all over again when the attacker went online to glorify it," he said in a statement. "The D.A.’s office had every opportunity to pursue justice and due to their incompetency or lack of will, failed to prosecute this vicious assault. Their refusal left us with no choice but to file civil action to hold Rivers accountable."
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Craven Antao also linked her fears to broader safety concerns for conservative figures, citing the recent killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
"If they could do it to somebody like him, who has the resources to have the security and the checks and all the people surrounding him, what does this say for just average journalists … who don’t have the means to hire a whole security team and be armed?" she said.
"With all the threats online and the comments she 'likes,' encouraging her behavior, it makes me wonder if the wrong person is going to find me next time and something worse will happen," she continued.
Rivers previously apologized in an April 5 Facebook post, saying she was sorry "but cannot sit around and allow you to continue pushing this one-sided narrative."
"I understand hands being put on someone is never the answer, but throwing rocks and hiding hands is worse. Savannah is a professional antagonist, not a ‘reporter,’ and the truth will be told," she added.
The Manhattan DA’s office and Rivers did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
Fox News' Michael Dorgan contributed to this article.