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Talarico’s ‘proud capitalist’ about-face collides with resurfaced call to ‘dismantle’ capitalism
The James Talarico campaign says the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas is a "proud capitalist," even though he once described capitalism as an "oppressive system" that needed to be dismantled — and predicted that Texas’ fossil fuel industry was "not gonna last."
The remarks, made during a resurfaced 2020 Zoom call with Sierra Club activists, are drawing fresh scrutiny as Talarico faces Republican nominee and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a Senate race that could help determine control of the chamber.
The comments were first reported by CNN early Tuesday and were seized on by Lone Star Liberty PAC, an outside political group aligned with Paxton, and Senate Leadership Fund, a leading super PAC backing Senate Republicans.
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On the call, Talarico is heard saying that the U.S. was facing a "multi-faceted threat" of a climate, economic, and social crisis.
After an activist asked how to address the harm suffered by communities of color by climate change, Talarico responded, "I’m so thankful that you asked this question and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country."
"I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them."
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Talarico, during the same forum, forecast that Texas' fossil fuel industry wouldn't last.
"We all know that Texas has been a leader in oil and gas, but in many ways that’s like being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s. That industry is not gonna last," Talarico said.
Asked for comment, Talarico campaign spokesperson J.T. Ennis told Fox News Digital, "James is a proud capitalist and agrees with the majority of Texans that racism, natural disasters, and a billionaire-controlled economy are all problems we need to address."
"James has already said he missed the mark on some of his past statements, while Ken Paxton has refused to address his comments that the school shooting in Uvalde was ‘God’s plan’ and that Texas’ abortion ban is good for interstate commerce," Ennis added.
The Talarico campaign also spotlighted that the state lawmaker has "taken many votes" in support of the oil industry. And the campaign website states that he aims to make sure that Texas "not only maintains, but extends" its energy dominance.
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The Paxton campaign and Republicans have repeatedly targeted Talarico for past comments he's made on social issues, including his prior suggestion that "God is nonbinary," that he "hates Christianity," and that "there are many more than two biological sexes; in fact, there are six."
Talarico, a 37-year-old former middle school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, defeated progressive firebrand and vocal critic of President Donald Trump Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the March Democratic Senate primary.
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Paxton, a longtime Trump ally, captured the GOP nomination in late May, after defeating longtime Republican Sen. John Cornyn in a primary runoff election. The combustible clash between the two Texas titans shaped up as a fight between the Republican establishment and Trump's MAGA and America First supporters. Trump stayed neutral in the intra-party battle until giving Paxton an 11th-hour endorsement.
The general election face-off in deep-red Texas between Talarico and Paxton is one of roughly a dozen races that will likely decide if Republicans hold the Senate majority or if Democrats win back control of the chamber.
Democrats haven't won a Senate election in Texas in nearly four decades, but they view Paxton as vulnerable because of the slew of scandals and legal problems that have battered him over the past decade. And Paxton is dealing with a messy divorce, with his wife citing "biblical grounds" based on "recent discoveries" in filing last year to end their marriage.
Talarico enjoys a large fundraising advantage over Paxton.
Meanwhile, the most recent Fox News poll in the Texas Senate showdown, conducted in late July, indicated Talarico holding a slight 51%-48% edge over Paxton among registered voters.
The survey suggested that Paxton had yet to fully unite Republicans. While virtually all Democrats supported Talarico (98%), slightly fewer Republicans were unified behind Paxton (89%).
Meanwhile, the most recent Fox News Power Rankings, released last month, shifted the Senate race in Texas from Lean Republican to toss-up.
Canadian PM tells Trump to 'stop trying to be tough' in trade fight
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday that Americans need to "stop trying to be tough" during the countries' contentious trade negotiations.
Speaking to reporters in Ottawa about U.S.-Canadian trade negotiations over automobile tariffs, Carney said, "When the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions."
"Look, it's not constructive, but that's their democracy," Carney added.
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After Canada suspended trade talks on Aug. 21, Trump signed an executive order changing the name of Lake Ontario, which is bordered by New York and Canada's Ontario province, to Lake America.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and War Secretary Pete Hegseth also mocked Canada in social media posts, with Bessent writing that Canada could not go "tit-for-tat" with America's economy and Hegseth posting a photo of two female Canadian military members with the caption "this is real."
When asked to comment on U.S. Cabinet secretaries mocking the Canadian military, Carney responded, "It's beneath their office."
Carney cited both the U.S. posture and its terms in negotiations and barriers to reaching a deal.
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"The issues with respect to language and culture — enough to not have to deal. The issues Mr. Gray just asked about, with respect to restrictions on future trade deals, restrictions on our sovereignty — enough not to have a deal. Issues with respect to locking in an uncompetitive, trade arrangement in our key industries, automobiles being one of them — enough to not have a trade deal," he continued.
"And then the general attitude, and I’ll leave you with this, which I think this is a very important point, is that the attitude of the United States in these discussions and subsequently has been one that, the core Canadian industries either would be subsidiaries effectively of the United States industries or would put in place terms where those industries would be, gradually wound down in Canada and we're not going to of course, we're not going to accept those terms."
Trump, following Carney's suspension of negotiations, accused Canada of wanting "the benefits of being a State, without being one!!!"
In a post on Truth Social, Trump also said Canada has been taking advantage of the U.S. by charging U.S. farmers tariffs.
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Carney, for his part, said America's insistence that it have a say over who else Canada trades with was a bridge too far.
He also said the U.S. view of the trade relationship was "misguided," adding that on automobiles, the U.S. needs both Canada and Mexico.
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"The United States auto industry is made stronger by the Canadian and the Mexican auto industries. And at a time of big, big change in auto, it's important that we work together. That's why I say yes, there is a mutually beneficial deal," he told reporters.
Carney did leave the door open for further negotiations.
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"There were elements of that mutually beneficial deal that we were moving towards, which is why we were still at the table. But we never, viewed that we had that deal. And it diverged towards the end. At some point, maybe it'll converge again," Carney said.
He told lawmakers in his country that relations with the U.S. will not "go back to normal any time soon" and said the situation is "a new normal that we have to get adjusted to."
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Carney, matching a slate of tariffs the U.S. imposed on Canadian goods such as steel and lumber, imposed his own set of tariffs which he said will go "dollar for dollar" with America's tariffs. The Canadian levies are set to take effect on Sept. 8.
Fox News Digital contacted the White House, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the U.S. Treasury, the Pentagon and the Canadian Prime Minister's Office for further comment.
Fox News Digital's Michael Sinkewicz, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
FIRST ON FOX: Trump’s 9/11 tribute to feature massive piece of Ground Zero history at White House
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will host 9/11 first responders and officials at the White House on Sept. 8, where a 21-foot steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center’s South Tower will be displayed, Fox News Digital learned.
"President Trump will pay tribute to the American heroes we lost in the tragic Sept. 11 attacks, their beautiful family members and to the acts of heroism that defined that fateful day when the unbreakable spirit of the American people prevailed," White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told Fox News Digital.
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation will bring its "Steel Across America" tour to the White House on Sept. 8, where the 21-foot, 16,900-pound steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center’s South Tower will be displayed on the White House Ellipse.
"The president will stand with first responders to renew our sacred vow that we will never forget – and that the United States of America will always defend our proud, free nation with unyielding resolve," said Wales.
Trump and Tunnel to Towers Foundation Chairman and CEO Frank Siller are expected to speak.
The president will also attend a ceremony at the Pentagon while Vice President JD Vance will travel to New York City’s World Trade Center site, and other administration officials will represent the White House in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — marking all three locations targeted or affected by the attacks.
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Last year, Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended a 9/11 commemoration at the Pentagon and issued a Patriot Day proclamation calling for flags to be flown at half-staff.
He later attended a Yankees-Tigers game featuring tributes to the victims in the Bronx, New York City.
The steel beam has served as a traveling memorial to the victims and first responders of 9/11, offering pop-up events across 21 states leading up to the anniversary of the tragic day.
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"Never forgetting the sacrifice and bravery of our nation’s heroes, as well as our lost loved ones, is a generational promise that every American can help keep," Tunnel to Towers Foundation Chairman and CEO Frank Siller previously told Fox News Digital.
Siller founded the organization in honor of his brother, FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, who died responding to the attacks.
Tunnel to Towers has provided mortgage-free homes to families of fallen service members and first responders while also working to combat veteran homelessness.
The foundation is honoring the 343 FDNY firefighters who died on 9/11 by delivering 343 mortgage-free homes this year.
An AI cyberattack could turn off America's lights before Washington even understands why
Your lights. Your water. Your hospital. Your internet. All four depend on digital systems that foreign hackers are now targeting.
All four depend on digital systems that foreign hackers are now targeting.
Over 17 days in August, five warnings showed how quickly the danger is changing. The next serious cyberattack may not be about stolen passwords or credit-card numbers. It could reach the systems that move electricity, pump drinking water, run factories and support hospitals.
Artificial intelligence is making those attacks faster to prepare and easier to scale. Worse: increasingly capable systems are beginning to perform parts of the attack that once required skilled hackers working step by step.
Five August developments tell the story.
1. OpenAI said the window is closing. On Aug. 10, OpenAI warned that attackers will increasingly use AI to conduct cyberattacks at "unprecedented speed and scale," including in fully autonomous ways. Its conclusion was blunt: defenders have a "narrowing window to prepare."
OpenAI’s own cyber-focused model, GPT-5.6-Cyber, now answers 95% of advanced exploit-development requests it used to refuse.
For defenders, every minute matters. If an attacker can find and exploit a weakness before anyone knows it exists, the opportunity to patch the system may disappear before the attack begins.
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2. Federal agencies said the attacks are no longer theoretical. On Aug. 19, the NSA, CISA, FBI, Department of Energy and EPA warned that cyber actors are targeting U.S.-based Siemens S7 series industrial controllers with AI-generated exploitation scripts. These controllers help operate real machinery. The sectors at risk include power, water, manufacturing, chemicals and food production.
A successful attack would not merely steal information. Federal officials warn it could interrupt industrial processes, damage equipment or create safety problems. The government calls this an active threat, not a theoretical one.
3. OpenAI disclosed a "warning shot": an AI model escaped its test controls.
On Aug. 26, OpenAI revealed that during internal cybersecurity evaluations, models operating with reduced safeguards circumvented controls meant to isolate them, gained internet access and compromised parts of OpenAI’s own research infrastructure and Hugging Face’s systems.
This was not an enemy attack. But OpenAI’s own conclusion was chilling: without sufficient safeguards, highly capable AI agents can find and exploit weaknesses across multiple computer systems and take dangerous actions no human specifically directed.
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4. Trump declared a national emergency over foreign threats to America’s power grid.
Also on Aug. 26, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to secure America’s bulk-power system from foreign threats.
His order is not specifically about AI hacking. It targets foreign-produced electrical equipment, software, firmware and remote-access capabilities that could create opportunities for sabotage or unauthorized access.
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But the AI connection is explicit. The White House says the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, data centers, advanced manufacturing and defense production has made the United States increasingly dependent on reliable electricity while magnifying the consequences of a successful grid attack.
That takes the threat out of the server room. Lose power long enough and water pumps, fuel distribution, communications, hospitals and emergency services all come under pressure.
5. More than 100 organizations said the next escalation could come within months.
On Aug. 27, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and more than 100 other technology, cybersecurity and financial organizations issued a collective warning: "In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated."
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They specifically identified hospitals, water-treatment plants and the infrastructure powering the internet as being at risk.
"In the coming months" is not Washington language for some distant future.
It is a countdown.
February’s numbers show why August’s warnings cannot be dismissed. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report found that AI-enabled adversaries increased their activity 89% year over year. In 2025, criminals took an average of just 29 minutes to move from an initially breached computer into other systems. The fastest observed breakout took 27 seconds.
Twenty-seven seconds is not enough time for a committee meeting, a phone call up the chain, or a traditional human response.
Anthropic showed where this may be heading. In a controlled test, its Claude Mythos Preview was told to look for a security weakness. Without step-by-step human help, it found a 17-year-old flaw, figured out how to exploit it and took complete control of the computer. The machine performed work that once demanded a highly skilled hacker.
America must also assume hostile governments are watching the same technological curve. U.S. agencies identified Volt Typhoon as a Chinese state-sponsored hacking campaign that gained long-term access inside American communications, energy, transportation and water networks. Officials assessed with high confidence that Beijing was positioning itself to disrupt critical services during a future major crisis or conflict with the United States, not simply gathering intelligence. Those are the same power and water sectors named in the Aug. 19 federal warning.
The Chinese strategy already exists. AI is the accelerant.
During a confrontation over Taiwan, China would not have to shut down the entire country. Disrupt several ports, rail systems, electrical facilities or communications hubs and the effects could cascade. Add convincing false reports that drinking water is contaminated, hospitals are failing or fuel is running out, and panic could spread faster than the physical damage.
I have warned in three recent books that AI compresses decision time and multiplies an adversary’s reach. August turned that warning operational.
America must harden the targets now. Find exposed industrial systems. Patch known weaknesses. Require strong authentication. Separate operating networks from unnecessary internet access. Help smaller utilities that cannot afford their own cyber armies. And make sure essential services can still operate when digital systems fail.
But a stronger wall is not deterrence. Washington must also improve attribution, preserve credible offensive cyber options and convince Beijing, Moscow, Tehran and their proxies that an attack on essential American infrastructure will carry consequences.
This is not another Silicon Valley story about the latest AI model.
It is about whether the lights come on when you flip the switch, water flows when you open the tap and the emergency room functions when your family needs it.
It is about whether the United States can still move forces and fight a war during a national crisis.
Five warnings landed in 17 days.
Washington should not need a blackout to take the hint.
‘No Jews, no news’ strikes again as selective coverage of the 'unsettlers' fuels anti-Israel anger
Let's call it what it was: masked settlers ambushing an NBC News crew and local Palestinians in the West Bank village of Jalud is an indefensible, unacceptable criminal act. This wasn't a "clash." It was an assault on journalists doing their jobs and people going about their daily lives.
Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the attack, calling it a "criminal act of violence" committed by "a handful of rioters" who "harm Israel's standing in the world." Israeli security forces have confiscated three vehicles and opened an investigation — as Netanyahu called upon them to arrest those involved and deal with them to the full extent of the law. Sadly, this is not the first time, and Israel must show zero tolerance for such behavior by a lawless fringe — with arrests, prosecutions and prison sentences.
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But there's another important story here, and it's about the press itself. For over two years, Hamas and Gaza dominated nearly every broadcast, every U.N. session, every campus protest. That unparalleled coverage eclipsed the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, where the number of people in dire need of help is estimated at over 33 million (!) with close to 12 million people displaced from their homes.
However, even as the war in Gaza came to an end, global newsrooms didn't move on. They moved over. Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, became the new venue of choice, the fresh well of footage and outrage needed to keep the anti-Israel narrative running at full volume. The war may be winding down. The narrative apparatus built around it is more active than ever.
Acts of violence, such as the one in Jalud, are real and deserve coverage — but so does an enormous amount of violence elsewhere that never gets a fraction of this attention. Attacks on religious minorities across Africa, Asia and the Middle East routinely go unreported by the very same networks now camped out on the West Bank. Meanwhile, an isolated incident involving Israel — even one carried out by a small band of extremists the Israeli government itself condemns — has dominated the media for days.
The lesson audiences absorb, whether intended or not, is that violence only matters when Jews or Israel are on one side of it. That selective spotlight doesn't stay contained to foreign policy debates. It filters into U.N. resolutions, into government statements, into placards at protests and finally into open hostility toward Jews who have nothing to do with those acts at all.
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The pipeline runs from social media to the newsroom to the street with disturbing speed, and it demands the media’s accountability.
Lost in all of this is scale. The extremists carrying out these attacks are a minority of the minority, the very fringe among more than 500,000 Jewish residents living peacefully in Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland of the Jewish State. The "unsettlers" was how U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee recently described them in an X post, "The ‘unsettlers’ betray the State of Israel, Judea/Samaria residents, civil law & the Torah."
The overwhelming majority are ordinary families: teachers, farmers, students, commuters who live under the daily threat of stabbings, shootings, and car-rammings that rarely make headlines anywhere. For example, only last week, a 16-year-old Palestinian jumped from behind and stabbed, moderately injuring a 24-year-old Israeli who stopped to shop near the village of Auja in the Jordan Valley. Where was this victim or his family interviewed? What coverage was given to the hateful education that propels a 16-year-old to viciously attack another person with a knife?!
The media's insistence on treating a fringe group as representative of that entire population — while ignoring the terror those same families face — isn't just lazy. It's a distortion that criminalizes an entire community and propels hatred and acts of violence on a global scale.
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Antisemitism doesn't erupt in a vacuum. It needs a story, a grievance, a reason for outrage and there is no easier vehicle to manufacture one than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Under the political charade, the ugliness under the cloak is clear: Israel is the Jew among the nations, and what is disguised as "political reporting" is really a biased attack on that Jew, the one and only Jewish state in the world.
When newsrooms chase Judea and Samaria the way they chased Gaza, amplifying the fringe, ignoring real terror and ignoring the peaceful majority, they aren't just shaping coverage, they're feeding the oldest hatred with the newest headlines.
No Jews, no news has ever been truer, or more dangerous.
Chris Gotterup celebrates Team USA Presidents Cup selection with epic pro-America video
Chris Gotterup will represent the United States for the first time in his career at the end of September, and to celebrate the occasion, he shared an all-time video montage that screams red, white, and blue.
Gotterup was among the six captains' picks that U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker announced on Tuesday evening ahead of what will be the 16th edition of the Presidents Cup that will take place at Medinah Country Club outside of Chicago.
The 27-year-old earned three victories on the PGA Tour in 2026, something only three other players on the circuit accomplished, and picked up another pair of Top 5 finishes as well.
Gotterup's resume led him to finish seventh in the Team USA standings, with the Top Six players earning automatic spots. Despite the fact that the New Jersey native was the next-man-up and a virtual lock to have his name called, he still showed appreciation for the opportunity as any American would: with an electric video showing off American culture.
Sharks attacking fish, Spider-Man jumping off of a building, Ja Morant putting a poor man on a poster, fighter jets, and Chris Gotterup hitting golf balls; also known as the good stuff.
Gotterup is one of three players on the Team USA roster who will be making their debuts in the event, as Jacob Bridgeman and Jackson Koivun were also selected by Snedeker. The International side, captained by Geoff Ogilvy, will also feature three debutants, with Ryo Hisatsune of Japan, Nick Taylor of Canada, and Nico Echavarria of Colombia on the other side.
U.S. Presidents Cup team: Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Russell Henley, Sam Burns, Collin Morikawa, Chris Gotterup, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Jacob Bridgeman, Jackson Koivun.
International Presidents Cup team: Si Woo Kim, Hideki Matsuyama, Ryan Fox, Tom Kim, Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee, Corey Conners, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Nico Echavarria, Sungjae Im, Nick Taylor, Ryo Hisatsune.
The American side is the heavy favorite heading into the event set to begin on September 24, and looking to win the competition for the 11th straight time. The International side's lone win in the event came in 1998, and the two sides tied in 2003 in South Africa when Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player captained their respective sides.
Tiger Woods strikes plea deal in Florida rollover crash case, loses driver's license for 5 years
Tiger Woods struck a plea deal in a Florida DUI rollover crash case on Wednesday.
Woods entered the courthouse with his girlfriend Vanessa Trump and stayed silent as he walked past reporters.
Judge Darren Steele said the state amended a charge to Local 1 reckless driving – second offense, adjudication of guilt that carried a $1,000 fine. The second charge was amended to a careless driving citation. Each charge will carry a five-year driver’s license suspension that will run concurrently.
The move came five months after the legendary golfer was involved in a rollover crash that led to charges of driving under the influence and refusal to submit to testing. He pleaded not guilty to the charges at first.
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He was initially set to have a hearing at the Martin County Courthouse next week but a change of plea hearing was put on the books for Wednesday morning.
In March, Woods was traveling at a high rate of speed on Jupiter Island when his Land Rover clipped a truck and rolled onto its side. He managed to crawl out of the vehicle without any injuries. He told a deputy officer that he was looking down at his phone and changing a radio station when he hit the truck.
Woods agreed to a Breathalyzer, which showed no signs of alcohol. However, authorities said he refused a urine test. A sheriff’s office report said deputies discovered two pain pills in his pocket and showed signs of impairment.
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"I know and understand the seriousness of the situation I find myself in today," he said in a March statement after the incident. "I am stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health. This is necessary in order for me to prioritize my well-being and work toward lasting recovery.
"I’m committed to taking the time needed to return in a healthier, stronger, and more focused place, both personally and professionally. I appreciate your understanding and support, and ask for privacy for my family, loved ones and myself at this time."
He was able to travel outside of the U.S. to seek treatment at an inpatient facility, according to court records.
Steele previously approved an agreement in July which allowed prosecutors to review medical records related to Woods’ crash and arrest. The judge signed off on a similar agreement in May that allowed prosecutors access to prescription medication records for Woods at a Palm Beach pharmacy from the beginning of 2026 through the end of March.
Woods later made his first public appearance since returning from the treatment in June. He helped introduce the PGA Tour’s plans to revamp its schedule for the 2028 season.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Raging inferno erupts at Bali beachside restaurant party
A beachside party in Bali, Indonesia, erupted into chaos after a balloon reportedly exploded inside a popular restaurant, sparking a raging inferno.
Videos captured flames ripping through the Chez Gado-Gado restaurant in the Seminyak resort area during the incident Sunday, which left an Australian teenager hospitalized with burns, according to 7News.
"There was a 70th birthday, and they had two balloons on their table and a waitress went to light the candle on the birthday cake, but she lit it a bit too close to the balloon," Tara Borelli, a witness from Sydney, told News.com.au. "It popped, then exploded. We felt the heat from the pop."
"I just grabbed my daughter and little cousin and ran straight onto the beach towards the water," Borelli added, describing how the straw roof of the restaurant immediately caught fire and "within minutes" the entire restaurant was ablaze.
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"It lit up like a firecracker... people were screaming and crying and running around," Paul Cole, another witness, told 9News.
The Badung Fire and Rescue Service said it took more than two hours to put out the flames and there were no casualties, according to The Bali Sun.
First Inspector I Gede Adi Saputra Jaya of the Denpasar Police, citing statements from witnesses at the scene, told reporters Monday that the fire is "strongly suspected" to have started after a balloon "was hit by a candle flame, causing it to explode and catch fire," the website added.
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"Initial extinguishing efforts using fire extinguishers by restaurant staff were unsuccessful because the fire had already grown large and spread quickly to the thatched roof," he reportedly said.
One witness told 9News, "There are the balloons, a lot of explosions, explosion and explosion and explosion, it was just, yeah, it was terrible."
"It was just bedlam," added Joe Xuereb, another witness. "As soon as the fire started, people didn’t know what to do."
The restaurant now says on its website that it is "temporarily closed."
Site where Jesus was crucified and buried reveals new evidence that backs biblical account
Archaeologists have completed an excavation beneath one of Christianity's holiest sites, revealing a fuller picture of the ancient landscape where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried and providing support for scripture — something an early Christianity expert said he found very compelling.
Francesca Stasolla, an archaeology professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, led the excavation in 2025, which focused on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
The findings were recently published in Liber Annuus, the archaeological journal of Jerusalem's Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, in a 98-page preliminary report on the campaign.
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The report follows findings noted by Fox News Digital last year.
At the time, Stasolla confirmed that her team had uncovered ancient seeds and pollen in layers dating between the site's use as a quarry and its later Roman occupation.
The evidence is consistent with John 19:41 in the New Testament: "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid."
The pollen and seeds date to "between the use of the quarry and the Roman age, when the area had a funerary use," Stasolla told Fox News Digital in 2025.
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"The quarry had to be gradually abandoned and as the stone extraction ended, it was used for agricultural areas and tombs," Stasolla said.
"This must have been what it looked like in the first century A.D."
The church was identified as Jesus' burial place during the reign of Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, when the first church was built there.
Though it has been a Christian pilgrimage site for nearly 1,700 years, archaeologists are now reconstructing what the area may have looked like around the time of Jesus.
Fox News Digital reached out to Stasolla for additional comment.
The findings add archaeological support to details described in the Gospel of John, said Douglas Estes, associate professor of religion at New College of Florida.
Estes, who specializes in early Christianity and was not involved in the research, told Fox News Digital that the Book of John is often dismissed by skeptics as exaggerated.
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Archaeology has "over time, confirmed, again and again, details from the Gospel of John," he said — even though critics consider John's writings less accurate than the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
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He added, "For example, in the 19th century, scholars questioned whether or not there could be five colonnades [at the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem], as John 5 describes. Later archeological discoveries have found that, yes, there were five colonnades there."
He said that "in the same way, scholars have largely doubted whether or not Jesus would have been buried in an orchard.
"But instead we find confirmed that there was a garden there — and so the Gospel of John has been proven to be accurate again in the details."
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The professor said he was personally excited by the recent discoveries and that he has "a lot of hope that archaeology will continue to reveal significant finds about the life of Jesus."
"It's an exciting time to be alive, to be able to experience everything from the Dead Sea Scrolls all the way to the discovery of this funerary landscape," he said.
"These great archeological discoveries are great for those of us who want to learn more about first-century Judaism, first-century Christianity and the life of Jesus," he added.
China has found a new illicit drug market. America must shut it down
China has found another vulnerability in America’s borders and supply chain - and it's being exploited.
An illicit pipeline is bringing an experimental injectable drug from Chinese chemical manufacturers directly into American homes. The drug is retatrutide, commonly called "reta," and is in clinical trials as a potential treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes. This means there is no FDA-approved version, no lawful generic and it’s illegal to sell to patients.
But the national security concern goes far beyond one drug.
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What we are witnessing is an illegal international supply chain that begins with chemical suppliers in Communist China, moves through customs fraud and concealed shipments, is relabeled by American middlemen and ends with an unapproved injectable drug in an American home.
We’ve seen this playbook before.
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For years, Chinese chemical companies have supplied precursor chemicals used by cartels to make fentanyl. Now there is evidence that elements of this same infrastructure are being used for another lucrative American market: people looking for weight-loss drugs.
Blockchain researchers at Chainalysis were able to track proceeds from U.S. peptide sales flowing back to China-based chemical manufacturers that have produced synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. TRM Labs has similarly detected a pattern of Chinese chemical companies that produce fentanyl precursors turning to the "peptide business."
This should set off alarm bells across Washington.
The fentanyl crisis demonstrated what happens when foreign chemical suppliers, transnational criminal organizations and illicit financial networks exploit weaknesses in America’s borders and supply chains. We cannot make the same mistake twice by waiting until another illicit market becomes a full-blown crisis before confronting it.
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The methods being used should also sound familiar.
Reta and other GLP-1 ingredients are being shipped to the United States under false descriptions that conceal what is actually inside the package and there is no reliable way for patients to verify the identity, purity, potency or sterility of what they are injecting into themselves. Once regulators have identified sellers engaged in this illegal behavior, the sellers then make changes needed to adapt.
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Some vendors use coded names such as "GLP-3 RT." One vendor even distributed a "peptide cheat sheet" explaining that "GLP-3 RT" meant retatrutide and providing weekly dosing instructions. To further obscure their activity, sellers stamp packages "for research use only" while providing customers with dosing instructions, syringes and videos showing them how to prepare the drug for injection.
This is not simply skirting U.S. law. It is intentional evasion.
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And it’s happening at scale.
In one operation, Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati uncovered more than 300 master cartons from China containing roughly 5,000 individual peptide shipments. Reta was among the cache of chemicals seized.
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This raises a larger question: if foreign chemical manufacturers can conceal thousands of unapproved injectable products in ordinary commerce and deliver them directly to Americans, what else can these networks move into the country?
That is why this must be treated as more than a pharmaceutical issue. This is a national security issue.
The immediate danger to consumers is also real. Products manufactured and distributed outside America’s safeguards leave buyers with no reliable way to know what they are injecting. There is no legitimate supply chain to inspect and no reliable mechanism to recall a dangerous batch.
President Donald Trump has correctly made securing our border and supply chains, fighting the illegal entry of drugs and confronting China’s economic aggression central priorities of his administration.
Now these principles must be applied to this emerging threat.
The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, FDA, as well as state law enforcement should coordinate an aggressive enforcement strategy aimed at the entire network, from foreign manufacturers and deceptive importers to domestic distributors and the financial networks that profit from the trade.
Unlike many other policy challenges, the federal government already has many of the authorities it needs. What is missing is the muscular enforcement needed to combat the problem.
The private sector must also do its part. American tech companies, social giants, online platforms, payment processors and shipping companies cannot be idle bystanders while their platforms and services facilitate illicit commerce.
When sellers advertise unapproved injectable under coded names, provide dosing instructions and pay influencers a commission for each sale, it’s not difficult to understand what is happening.
If tech companies can identify copyrighted music, political content and alleged "misinformation" within seconds, then they should be able to identify an illegal injectable drug.
The lesson from the fentanyl crisis could not be clearer: America cannot afford to ignore foreign chemical supply chains until Americans begin to pay the price.
Today, the product is Reta. Tomorrow, it will be something else. The drug is the warning. The pipeline is the treat.
America must shut it down.