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Mojtaba Khamenei regime executes champion wrestler as Iran intensifies brutal crackdown during war
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary on Thursday ignored a U.S. State Department warning along with pleas from elite Iranian-American wrestlers to not execute 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi for protesting against the Khamenei regime.
Reports say Mohammadi was killed in a public hanging seen as a barbaric move by the Iranian regime to snuff out the ongoing movement seeking to topple it, according to Iranian-American human rights activists and dissidents.
Nima Far, a human rights activist and Iranian combat athlete who an expert on elite Iranian wrestling, told Fox News Digital, "His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic’s pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society, as seen with Navid Afkari and others executed despite international outcry."
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He said, "The IOC [International Olympic Committee] and UWW [United World Wrestling] should have intervened forcefully with public ultimatums, threatening immediate suspension of Iran’s NOC [National Olympic Committee] and federations if the killing proceeded rather than relying on ineffective quiet diplomacy, given their own commitments to protect athletes from politically motivated harm." Both organizations did put out statements after being asked for response from Fox News Digital upon Mohammadi's death sentence.
Far called on the wrestling authorities to take action, stating, "Iran must be banned from international competitions until it halts executions of protesters and athletes, releases those jailed in sham trials, and ends retaliation against competitors who speak out or defect."
Fox News Digital sent new press queries to the IOC and UWW.
Reactions to his death came flooding in from Iranian commentators.
Alizreza Nader, an expert on Iran and the human rights situation in the country, told Fox News Digital, "I feel very bad for him and his family. There should be a boycott of the regime when it comes to international sport. I do worry about individual athletes who will be impacted by this, as athletes in Iran are enduring very harsh conditions, including some reported as being virtual hostages by the regime. But there must be a heavy price for the regime for executing young people like this. There must be a deterrent."
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The Iranian-American activist, Masih Alinejad, wrote on X: "Today, in Iran, in the middle of a war, the regime executed a 19-year-old national wrestling champion for the crime of joining January protests. After signaling to the world, including President @realDonaldTrump, that they would halt executions of protesters, the regime has done the exact opposite."
She added, "Three young protesters, Saleh Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi, were hanged in Qom after a sham trial. Reports indicate torture. Forced confessions. No access to chosen lawyers. Closed-door proceedings. No right to appeal. I call on @GlobalAthleteHQ to stand with Iranian athletes who are being silenced, imprisoned, and executed simply for raising their voices. This is not just about sports. This is about human dignity."
Fox News Digital reported in late January that the official X account for the State Department in Farsi wrote,"The United States is deeply concerned by reports that 19-year-old wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi is facing imminent execution. The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is massacring young people and destroying Iran’s future. We call on the Iranian regime to halt the execution of Saleh Mohammadi and all those sentenced to death for exercising their fundamental rights. #SalehMohammadi #StopExecutionsInIran #HumanRights #IranProtest."
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Elite Iranian-American wrestlers told Fox News Digital in February that Iran’s regime must cease the executions of athletes. Sardar Pashaei, who won a Greco-Roman wrestling world championship title for Iran and coached the country’s elite Greco-Roman team, along with Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston, the first American female wrestler to win a medal in world championship competition in 1989, urged the regime not implement the targeted killing of athletes.
Pashaei told Fox Digital on Thursday that "My heart is broken for this young wrestler. Anyone who still shows sympathy for the Islamic Republic should understand — this is only a small glimpse of its brutality."
He added, "Before the internet was shut down, I spoke with one of Iran’s national wrestling team coaches. He warned me that Saleh’s case was critical. We were both deeply worried. I did everything I could — speaking to the media, raising awareness — but I could not save him. This regime is built on executions, fear, and hatred. It does not change. The International Olympic Committee and global sports bodies failed."
Iran International reported that Iran’s regime hanged Mohammadi and two additional Iranian men, Mehdi Ghasemiand Saeed Davoudi,"after being accused of killing two police officers during nationwide protests earlier this year, the judiciary-linked Mizan news agency reported."
The three men allegedly attacked "two police officers with knives and swords during protests on January 8 in the holy city of Qom."
The regime claimed that the men acted on behalf of Israel and the United States. Iran International noted this is "a frequent claim used by the Islamic Republic against protesters and dissidents."
Mohammadi won a bronze medal in September 2024, for Iran’s national freestyle wrestling at the Saytiyev International Cup in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
The Hengaw organization for human rights posted wrestling footage of Mohammadi. Hengaw wrote on X: "Footage shows Saleh Mohammadi, a 19-year-old athlete and member of Iran’s national wrestling team, who was secretly executed in the early hours of Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Qom Central Prison on charges of ‘enmity against God’ (moharebeh). Mohammadi had previously shared this video on his Instagram page, documenting his athletic journey and efforts toward success."
Fox News Digital reached out to the U.S. State Department and Iran’s U.N. Mission in New York for comments.
Mullin survives bruising hearing with Dem help, inches one step closer to becoming next DHS chief
A Senate Democrat proved the decisive vote to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to the next round of his confirmation journey after an explosive hearing.
That’s because Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, vowed not to support Mullin, whom he contended was "unfit" for the role.
Mullin countered that if he had a problem with somebody, he would say it to their face. More so, he hoped to prove to Paul and Senate Democrats on the panel that he was the right pick for the job.
"I’m going to earn the job, I won’t fail you," Mullin said. "I won’t back down from a challenge. And I’ll also admit when I’m wrong. I’m not perfect. I don’t claim to be perfect. I make mistakes just like anybody else. But mistakes, if you own them, you can learn from them and you can move ahead. And I’ll make that commitment to you."
And, like several times on the Senate floor, Paul and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., switched positions on their votes. Fetterman was the only Democrat on the panel to back Mullin, and without his vote, Republicans’ plans to sprint through the confirmation process would have been dealt a stiff blow.
Fetterman acknowledged that he could be the difference-maker after the hearing.
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"I came here and committed to come here with an open mind, and I’m going to continue to do that," Fetterman said. "It’s not going to be about gotcha moments for me. My experience with you has been consistent and professional."
Mullin’s confirmation to become the next Department of Homeland Security secretary will now head to the Senate floor in the coming days and will require just a simple majority vote for him to be given the green light for the position.
But several Senate Democrats may not support him because of the ongoing fight over the DHS shutdown. Democrats have demanded stringent reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) throughout the shutdown battle.
"I will not be supporting Senator Mullin’s nomination should it come before the Senate," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said. "The problems at DHS, especially at ICE and CBP, run far deeper than just who is in charge."
Still, Mullin survived a sometimes jovial, sometimes grueling back-and-forth during the hearing. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., believed that once out of committee, Mullin would have broad support across the Senate.
"Obviously, [Wednesday’s] hearing sounds like it got a little spicy at times," Thune said. "But at the end of the day, it comes back to the job, and it comes back to the right person for the job. And I think that Markwayne is the right person."
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Thursday’s vote nearly didn’t happen, however, after Paul and Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., the top-ranking Democrat on the panel, clashed over travel the lawmaker took years ago.
The duo wanted to meet and hear about the travel, which Mullin said happened while he was still in the House but couldn’t be detailed publicly, in a classified setting. Ultimately, Paul didn’t even go to the classified meeting.
A spokesperson for Paul told Fox News Digital that the lawmaker already knew how he was going to vote but wanted to facilitate the classified meeting to "make sure everyone else got the information they needed."
And while the personal rancor between Paul and Mullin was explosive, it was not enough to sink his chances of becoming the next DHS chief.
Paul said that he would not support Mullin ahead of the confirmation vote, in part because he wouldn’t apologize for saying that Paul’s assault was "justified." He argued that Mullin’s inability to apologize, along with his previous outburst during a hearing with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, showed he lacked the mindset needed to lead DHS.
"We’re in the midst, I think, of a crisis where there needs to be more direction from the top," Paul said. "And a guy who brawls, a guy who can’t even say he’s sorry about wishing violence on me and really applauding the attack that happened on me — can’t come to say that. I don’t know how he could, from my point of view, be a leader of ICE or Border Patrol."
DAVID MARCUS: Liberal wives, not conservative husbands, rule the political roost
Conservative radio host Erick Erickson raised eyebrows this week with a rather politically incorrect social media post about how conservative men, referring to Joe Kent, who recently resigned from the Trump administration, may be impacted by liberal wives.
Here is the post:
"There's a rule in conservative politics that a man is rarely to the right of his wife. Joe Kent lost his first wife in war and remarried a woman who now works for a far-left anti-Israel, pro-Iran website. Kent should have never been appointed to anything in the Trump admin."
At first blush this seems jarring, especially at a time when so many are trying to cool the political temperature. But on the other hand, Kent is not the only example of this phenomenon of lefty wives influencing their husbands that we’ve had just this week.
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So, could it be that far from the stereotype of brutish MAGA men forcing their wives to vote for President Donald Trump, it is the liberal wives who are controlling the Overton window in the home?
Take the viral video from Bill Maher's show this weekend, in which actor Jerry O’Connell admits to being all but physically assaulted by his wife and daughters for a slight criticism of Kamala Harris last election night.
After stating the obvious fact that Harris’ campaign was, shall we say, lackluster, O’Connell dramatically told Maher, "Without saying anything, [They] became physical…They were filled with rage."
He went on, "Yes, I live in California. I live with not one, not two, but three people [women] who, if I made any kind of joke that they would, um, they'd become very angry with me, you know."
Meanwhile, comedian Rob Schneider spilled some similar tea regarding rabidly anti-Trump late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, and he did not hold back.
After alleging that Kimmel’s liberal wife had confiscated a pair of the one-time comedian Kimmel’s anatomical items, he said, "His wife is the head writer of the show. She used to be an ‘assistant writer.’ Now she’s the writer. And I think that’s completely ruined him. I do. I’m sorry, Jimmy. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think I’m right. Liberal women who have lost their minds are controlling these men."
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All of these recent examples bring to mind a controversial and hilarious ad from the 2024 campaign, in which timid White women gave each other strength, secretly, at the ballot box to defy their awful MAGA husbands and vote for Harris.
In the spot, movie star Julia Roberts, no less, gravely tells the gals, "In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know."
I cannot recall meeting a liberal White woman in the last decade who hasn’t let me know, usually quite explicitly, exactly how they voted, but let's put that to one side.
The whole ad was a fantasy, a stereotype of misogyny pushed by strident women who, in reality, try to control their husbands' votes.
This is where all the weird semiannual campaigns to deny sex to men to achieve political goals come from, and it's not new. Aristophanes came up with the idea in 411 B.C. in the play "Lysistrata," notably the only time the tactic has ever worked.
The point that Erickson is making, that all of these examples flesh out, is that in a marriage, it is just as likely, maybe even more so, that a liberal wife will be the political bully rather than the conservative husband.
This is a trope in our society now. Many women think they have no conservative guy friends. I often ask if they have any guy friends who are just nice and never talk about politics at all. When they say yes, I say, "Those are your conservative guy friends."
Usually this is met with a subtle facial expression of recognition. I kinda feel bad for outing them.
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It should not be suggested that a lefty woman and a MAGA man cannot have a healthy, loving and robust marriage, even if they work in politics. But every societal pressure today, from standing up to alleged fascism on one side, to calling out communism on the other, makes that situation harder and harder.
In the end, the best answer may be, not surprisingly, to bring down the temperature, not just in the halls of power or the studios of big media, but by the hearth at home as well.
In the meantime, we cannot blame conservative voters who look a bit askance at a GOP politician with a wife in a pink hat, because, let’s face it, for all the political power in the world, these guys still have to go home at night.
Stephen Miller vows no refugee spillover into US as Iran conflict intensifies
The Trump administration will not allow a refugee spillover into the United States as the Iran conflict escalates, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller vowed Wednesday.
"There’s not going to be a refugee problem for the United States — that is a promise and a guarantee . . ." Miller told "The Ingraham Angle," contrasting the situation with the Biden administration’s handling of Afghan refugees.
The Biden-era Operation Allies Welcome relied on "unvetted referrals" to allow nearly 190,000 Afghan nationals into the country from 2021 to 2022, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The agency said those admitted into the U.S. included terrorists, sexual predators, pedophiles, domestic abusers and kidnappers.
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"They didn't just magically end up in the United States," Miller continued. "We flew them here. Refugees come to the United States because they are flown to the U.S."
"You also have illegal immigrants too, and those come to [the] United States across the southern border, which has been shut down. So no one is getting across the border illegally, and no refugees are going to be flown to United States, so, therefore, no one can get in."
Miller also addressed reports that Russia has been feeding intelligence to Iran that could help the Islamic regime identify U.S. military assets in the Middle East, telling "The Ingraham Angle" that the Trump administration anticipated the involvement.
"We anticipated that, of course, Iran would try to reach out to anybody they thought that could help them," he said.
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"But the bottom line is that our capabilities are so far beyond anyone else's in the world, as we've seen with Midnight Hammer, as we have seen with Absolute Resolve, as we're seeing now with Epic Fury," Miller said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi recently told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Iran and Russia have consistently had a "very good partnership."
Araghchi also acknowledged that Russia is helping Iran in "many different directions," but added, "I don’t have any detailed information."
According to intelligence assessments, Russia provided Iran with information that could help identify the locations of American warships, aircraft and other military assets.
Fox News' Morgan Phillips and Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
Former Duke player describes Coach K's way of dumbing down March Madness bracket into micro tournaments
Looking at 68 teams in a March Madness bracket can be pretty overwhelming, especially for those playing in the tournament.
However, former Duke player Jay Bilas said his legendary former head coach, Mike Krzyzewski, had a brilliant way of dumbing it down to take the pressure off the Blue Devils.
"I played for Coach K at Duke and in 1986, my senior year, that was the second year of the 64-team bracket," Bilas told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "And he broke the tournament down to basically a four-team tournament the first weekend. He talked about the opposite side of our bracket, the 32 teams opposite our side and said, ‘Look at all those teams in there,’ and started talking about how good some of them were. And then he goes, 'Who cares? Only one team is coming out of there. Only one team comes out of there. Whatever happens, fine. We'll play that one team on Monday night for the championship.'
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"And so he gave us a bracket. It was a four-team bracket, and we were playing at Greensboro in the first and second rounds. I think he called it the Greensboro Invitational and said, ‘This is all we got to worry about.’ And we're like, ‘Geez, we can process that.’ He made it easier. And then the second week, same thing. We played at the Meadowlands - Meadowlands Invitational. We played DePaul, and then David Robinson and Navy was on the other side of that. So we only had to deal with a four-team tournament. Then we get to the Final Four, four-team tournament. And it really made it a lot easier."
Now, like the rest of us, Bilas watches the tournament as a fan. And this year, he will be enjoying it with some ice-cold Garage Beer, founded by Travis and Jason Kelce.
"I like beer, and I like garages," Bilas joked, adding that the Kelce brothers are a key reason why he wanted to be a spokesperson for the beverage this March Madness. "I probably shouldn't be talking about how much I like beer, but I like beer and I like Garage Beer. And there's nothing better than tournament time, and those two things go together really well. I try to avoid it when I'm on the air, but I'm just like everybody else — when there's a good game on, I like to crack one open."
And despite likely being several Garage Beers deep throughout the tournament, there is a good chance that Bilas, a self-proclaimed March Madness "nerd," will be able to remember just about everything from this tournament.
However, because of Coach K's bracket practice, that encyclopedia in Bilas' brain doesn't have many pages on 1986.
"I can talk to you about games that happened at just about any tournament and remember it. I don't remember what happened in that 1986 tournament," Bilas said. "Because all I cared about was what we did. I mean, it's really kind of remarkable. I don't really remember anything else because of the way Coach K presented it to us and the way we approached it. And I know a lot of teams do that now, and I, at least speaking for me, I thought that was extraordinarily helpful to us."
The Blue Devils are the No. 1 overall seed this year and are aiming for their first title since 2015.
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RI hockey player whose family members were killed by trans shooter helps team to championship
Colin Dorgan stepped up for his Rhode Island high school ice hockey team once again, and this time it came in the championship.
Dorgan scored the game-tying goal for Blackstone Valley Schools with less than a minute left in the third period against Lincoln High School in the Division 2 boys’ state championship. It led to four nerve-racking overtime periods before Blackstone finally won the game, 3-2, and secured the championship.
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He helped get Blackstone Valley to the championship game itself last week when he scored the game-winning goal in double overtime.
The moment on Wednesday came weeks after a tragic shooting occurred during one of his games in Rhode Island. A shooter identified by police as Robert Dorgan fatally shot his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket. His son Aidan Dorgan and father, Gerald Dorgan, were also fatally wounded in the shooting.
The shooter, who identified as transgender, also went by the names Roberta Esposito and Roberta Dorgano, authorities said, adding the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Dorgan said after the championship that he was nervous about returning, but he had immense support from family, friends and teammates to get him off the couch and back onto the ice.
"Throughout all of the playoffs, even this game and the overtimes, I truly felt it in my heart and my soul that they're still with me," Dorgan said. "I love them so much."
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Blackstone Valley head coach Chris Librizzi was emotional before the game started.
"It's just a game for Lincoln High School and for everybody that's coming here, but for us who lived through that shooting? It's our lives. It's a tragedy we all went through and are still healing from it," he said.
Librizzi gave the team the option of not returning after the shooting and encouraged anyone who made the choice to step away from the team to still show up on the bench or in the stands.
Every player came back.
"I sent Colin a text saying, ‘Bud, playoffs are this Friday night, it’s your call," Librizzi said. "He didn't respond all day, but at about 9 o'clock at night, he sent me a text saying, 'Coach I'll see you tomorrow at practice.'"
Dorgan credited his sister, Ava, with helping him push through the misery.
"She's very tough, she's a tough girl. And I thank her, because she just totally filled the shoes of my mom," he said. "You eventually get back into a cycle to where you gotta get up off the couch. That's the biggest and first step to recovery."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Georgia gubernatorial hopeful vows to ‘ban DEI’ but his own company touted diversity and inclusion
FIRST ON FOX: Rick Jackson, who is seeking the Republican nomination in the Georgia gubernatorial race, appeared to support Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies at Jackson Healthcare, according to unearthed audio of a former DEI executive at his company, but Jackson is now promising to put an end to the DEI push if he becomes the governor.
"We’ll ban DEI insanity and criminalize reverse discrimination," Jackson said in a campaign ad last month.
Jackson’s calls to end DEI appear to run counter to praise he received from Matthew Harrison, who formerly served in multiple executive-level roles leading DEI initiatives at Jackson Healthcare between early 2018 and Aug. 2022, according to his LinkedIn profile and University of Georgia bio for an adjunct assistant professor role.
"I think it really reinforced for our associates that certainly, from a leadership perspective, our leaders get and see the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in our workforce at Jackson Healthcare in I mean, and it really is emulated as a part of our values," Harrison, who has a PhD in workplace diversity and who did his thesis on "Colorism," said during a 2020 podcast interview.
Harrison described that the company’s leadership had taken steps to disseminate DEI principles through a "Conversations" series the company allegedly held at Jackson's direction.
"We created what we call our ‘Conversations,’ a learning experience about race. That was something we launched in October of 2019, and that is something that really kind of started due to the history of our CEO and founder, Rick Jackson," Harrison said.
"I think Rick felt that it was important enough, and we had a culture in place where we could establish that safe space and create those ground rules on the front end to where he felt comfortable with us doing that," Harrison added.
Harrison further described the "Conversations" series in a 2022 interview.
"I think oftentimes we shy away a little bit at work, and we don't have these discussions, and really, the workplace is the exact place where we should … So we created a ‘conversation on race’ series where people were brought together with their colleagues to talk about race, to talk about prejudice, to talk about microaggressions," Harrison said.
Jackson's campaign pushed back on the characterization that the "Conversations" series meant that Jackson's company had implemented or supported DEI principles.
"The most pathetic attack yet from Burt Jones' failing campaign," Dave Abrams, a spokesperson from the Jackson campaign said, referring to Georgia's current Lt. Governor and one of Jackson's political opponents. "Jackson Healthcare had a black pastor speak to a voluntary group of employees. That doesn't change the fact that Jackson Healthcare has always only hired the best."
Jackson, 71, announced his dark-horse candidacy on Feb. 3, joining an already-crowded pool of Republican candidates. Not including Jackson, eight other Republicans have also announced their candidacy. He is the billionaire founder of Jackson Healthcare, a healthcare recruiter and staffing company that services facilities nationwide with over 1,500 employees, according to its website.
Since entering the race, Jackson has made ending DEI a fixture of his campaign alongside other policy stances like freezing property taxes, slashing income tax and continuing the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
"I’ll ban DEI and focus on merit," Jackson said in an interview he highlighted on X, where he laid out his plans.
Despite the Jackson campaign's pushback, a Fox News Digital review found several Facebook posts where Jackson Healthcare touted Harrison's work at the company and his goal to implement DEI principles in the workplace.
"Senior Vice President of Talent & Development, Matthew Harrison, recently participated in a Tech Alpharetta panel about building diversity, equality and inclusion into business operations. Click the link below to download and watch. Skip to 21:41 to hear Matthew highlight some of Jackson Healthcare's key DE&I approaches," a 2021 Jackson Healthcare Facebook post said.
"Business RadioX talked with Matthew Harrison, our VP of Human Resources, and some of the leaders from our Associate Network Groups to hear about workplace diversity and how we're creating an environment that welcomes everyone," a 2019 Jackson Healthcare Facebook post said.
"Our president, Shane Jackson, joined academic and business leaders during this week’s 2022 Business School Diversity Conference, sharing insights on how to create cultures where people thrive," a 2022 Jackson Healthcare Facebook post said, referring to Jackson's son. "The conference, hosted by the University of Georgia Terry College of Business and sponsored by the Business School DEI Collaborative, covered a variety of topics aimed at helping professionals advance DEI programs within their organizations."
In his time at Jackson Healthcare, Harrison recalls leadership, under Jackson’s instruction, taking strides to affirm the necessity of DEI — especially in the wake of several racially-charged incidents like the death of George Floyd that brought about chaos in major cities across the country.
He recalled an instance where Jackson had personally attended and led conversation talks about DEI.
"And I think more than anything, what it did illustrate with particularly, our president sitting through all six sessions and our CEO actually kicked off the session and came in the final session to again, talk about why he thought this was so important to our organization," Harrison said.
"And I think with them having the sessions, it really helped our associates even better understand what our president and CEO really mean by ‘others first,’ and that that is also inclusive of diversity and inclusion being something that's really important to our organization," he recalled.
Jackson’s campaign once again denied that DEI had ever been implemented as a policy at his company.
"Jackson Healthcare has never had DEI requirements," Abrams said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Harrison and Jackson Healthcare for comment.
Florida hospital sues to evict patient who refuses to leave for months
A Florida hospital is suing a former patient who it says has refused to leave for five months after being medically cleared and formally discharged.
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) filed the complaint earlier this month, saying the woman was formally discharged on Oct. 6, 2025, but "continues to occupy" an inpatient room.
"TMH staff made repeated efforts to assist the defendant in safely completing discharge," the complaint obtained by the Tallahassee Democrat says. "TMH offered assistance, including coordination with family members and offering non-emergency medical transportation to obtain necessary identification."
Hospital officials say the prolonged stay is straining limited resources and preventing other patients from receiving care.
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"TMH has limited inpatient beds," the complaint states. "The defendant’s continued occupancy prevents use of the bed for patients needing acute care."
Despite its efforts, the woman remained in the hospital as of March, according to the filing.
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TMH is now seeking a court order requiring her to leave and authorizing the Leon County Sheriff’s Office to assist in removing her if necessary.
A hearing is scheduled for March 30.
It is unclear how often hospitals resort to legal action to remove patients who refuse to leave after discharge.
TMH told Fox News Digital in an email requesting comment on the matter that "TMH is not able to discuss active legal matters, including background details."
WILLIAM BENNETT, ROB NOEL: America's moral decline demands action. What conservatives must do now
On Sunday night, Hollywood delivered its latest verdict on American character.
The Academy Award for Best Picture went to "One Battle After Another," a film portraying border agents and conservatives as neo-Nazi caricatures while casting violent progressives as moral heroes. The standing ovations and gold statues delivered an unmistakable message: Conservative America is not just wrong but morally grotesque.
That message is nothing new from our cultural elites, and it has found its audience. A first-of-its-kind Pew survey this month revealed that 53% of Americans view their fellow citizens as morally bad, with the perception far worse among Democrats (60%) than Republicans (46%). Why wouldn’t it be?
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It is the inevitable outcome of the left’s campaign to paint traditional values as oppression. It’s what happens when universities peddle moral relativism and identity grievance, when legacy media portrays law and order as fascism, and when Hollywood casts conservatives as bigots or—as in this Oscar winner—as cartoonish, mustache-twirling villains.
This campaign of moral confusion has degraded the shared standards of right and wrong that once allowed us to presume basic decency in one another. Notably, it appears to be a uniquely American phenomenon.
Of the 25 nations surveyed in the Pew poll, the United States was the only country where a majority held negative views of national morality. In Canada and Indonesia, for example, 92% viewed their fellow citizens as morally good.
America has its moral problems, but this is more a crisis of perception than reality.
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Our people still lead the world in goodness and character by most available metrics. We give to charity at a per capita rate about twice as high as Canada and three to 15 times that of other developed nations (with Republicans giving the most). We also lead most Western peers in helping strangers, volunteering time, donating blood and other measures of generosity.
Yet perception is still revealing—not only of how our cultural institutions drive hatred, but of how severely our civic life has eroded.
It clarifies the disastrous consequences of replacing traditional sources of connection—faith, family and community—with political obsession and online life. Social media has siloed us into alternative moral universes, demolishing our shared convictions and trust in one another.
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That problem will grow worse until it is stopped. Without a common moral vocabulary rooted in American tradition and common decency, we cannot sustain the republic. Polarization will harden into hatred.
What, then, are we to do?
A good place to start is to take time to stop and observe reality. Goodness and virtue still bind most communities together, if not our social feeds or national discourse.
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In a town near us, a preschool teacher recently lost her home in a house fire. The outpouring of support was swift and overwhelming, including from those who had very little to give. No one asked her political affiliation before helping. That is the America that always was—and still is.
But in our public and civic lives, we must also undertake the hard work of moral restoration. And conservatives must lead it.
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We must demand an education system that teaches the classical virtues—honesty, courage, hard work, responsibility—rather than replacing them with trendy relativism. We must strengthen families and faith communities as the first and best schools of character. And we must refuse to let Hollywood or the media define the American people by their worst caricatures.
Already, many Americans reject the narratives of our cultural elites. "One Battle After Another," despite being showered with awards, flopped spectacularly at the box office. Meanwhile, audiences flock to those occasional films that celebrate national pride and values—such as "Top Gun: Maverick" or Clint Eastwood films. Hollywood refuses to receive the memo, to its own detriment.
Similar stories can be told of progressive media outlets shedding viewers, or even the migration of students from the Northeast to Southern state schools, choosing a traditional college experience over the political activism of elite universities.
The American people know who we are. We crave not just unifying values, but moral normalcy. When we can’t get it from Hollywood or our institutions, we must find it in each other—and build it with our own hands and hearts. That is how we’ll reclaim our shared morality and prove that our virtues endure.
Rob Noel is a speechwriter who serves as president of Washington Writers Network.
Yankees broadcaster takes issue with 'wrapping sports in the flag and preaching patriotism'
New York Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay appeared to take issue with "wrapping sports in the flag" as Team USA stars preached patriotism during the World Baseball Classic this month.
Paul Skenes, Bryce Harper and Aaron Judge were among the players who discussed what it meant to wear the USA on their chest. Team USA manager Mark DeRosa even brought in Robert J. O’Neill, the man credited with killing terrorist Usama bin Laden, into the locker room to speak to the players before their game against Canada in the quarterfinal.
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Kay said those types of things made him a "little uneasy."
"The thing that makes me a little uneasy … I don’t like wrapping sports in the flag and preaching patriotism and bringing in SEAL Team 6 people. The only uniform that counts to me is the one that’s worn by the men and women of our military," he said Wednesday on ESPN New York radio. "They decide wins and losses. You don’t represent me because you have USA on the chest. I don’t believe it."
Sports columnist Mike Lupica, who was on with Kay, said bringing in a member of SEAL Team 6 was a "little dodgy" to him and added that anytime politics is brought in sports it opens up a "rabbit hole we don’t want to head down."
DeRosa explained earlier in the week why he brought in O’Neill.
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"That was my decision to bring him in," DeRosa said, via Defector. "He was brought in, actually, a couple of days in Houston. It wasn’t before the Canada game. I think for me there has to be … you never want it to get lost why you’re doing this. Whatever that ‘why’ is and a lot of people, like Paul Skenes said to me when he signed up for this, ‘I want to do this for every service man and woman that protects our freedom. That’s why we wear USA across our chest.’
"I just thought it would be like a time to kind of redirect and get those guys to understand that, although this is an unbelievable event, and you get a chance to share a locker room with the game’s greats, there’s a reason why you’re doing it and a reason why people protect our freedom at night. I just wanted to honor that."
Kay made similar comments about the hype of players representing their country with fervent patriotism and making it more than it is. He said that he didn’t believe that "international competition is a referendum on my country."
"There are people that represent the United States that really represent the United States, and you know who those people are? The men and women of the military," he said, via Awful Announcing. "That’s what it all comes down to. They decide the greatness of this country. Their sheer bravery, how they fight for freedom and throw their lives on the line – that is significant to me. The United States winning the gold medal against Canada? Wonderful. Thrilled for them. Not a referendum on my country, it’s just not.
"But somehow, we’ve turned this into, my country is better than your country – stop it. Come on. Aren’t we getting a little bit nonsensical with this jingoistic stuff? … I’m glad that everybody’s brought in. Mark DeRosa brought in one of the Navy SEAL guys that was part of the group that killed Usama bin Laden. OK, whatever gets the people motivated … but to equate a baseball game to that, I don’t know."