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Man once eyed in disappearance of missing California teen now charged with murder
FIRST ON FOX: STOCKTON, Calif. — California authorities have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with the 2019 disappearance of 17-year-old Victoria Marquina, a high schooler from Sutter Creek.
Joshua Martinez, who was an early suspect in the case but was released due to a lack of evidence, is currently being held without bail at the San Joaquin County Jail, according to the county district attorney's office.
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Records show he was arrested Friday on a murder charge as well as statutory rape and other child sex allegations.
Victoria was reported missing in October 2019 and hasn't been seen since.
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Although she was from Amador County, her phone last pinged in San Joaquin County on Oct. 9 of that year.
That's also the last day she was seen — with Martinez in Livingston, according to a missing person flyer.
Four days later, police found her abandoned car in Escalon, about 90 miles east of San Francisco and more than 50 miles from her home.
Martinez fled to Mexico after her disappearance, CBS 13 reported at the time. He allegedly told police he had dropped her off in Sutter Creek before leaving.
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According to the station, he said he'd met her on a dating app and claimed she lied about her age when he was released from custody back in 2020.
Jurisdiction over the case was later transferred from Amador County to San Joaquin County based on the location of her abandoned vehicle and other evidence.
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It was not immediately clear whether Martinez had a lawyer Monday morning. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Friends and family raised $60,000 in reward money as authorities believed the case was going cold.
Martinez is due in court at 1:30 p.m. PT.
San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas will hold a news conference afterward with officials from Amador County and the U.S. Marshals Service afterward.
Trump scolds reporter as 'very obnoxious' over question on Air Force One, blasts 'most corrupt' ABC News
President Donald Trump scolded a reporter as "very obnoxious" who attempted to ask about sending troops to the Middle East as part of the war with Iran and blasted ABC News as "corrupt" on Sunday.
Trump was asked during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One if he could explain why thousands of Marines and sailors are being sent to the region. The president appeared to shush the reporter before responding.
"You’re a very obnoxious person," Trump said before quickly moving on to another reporter.
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The president was earlier asked, reportedly by the same correspondent, about a fundraising email sent by a Trump PAC that featured a photo of him wearing a baseball hat during a recent dignified transfer ceremony of service members who were killed during the war with Iran.
"I was at the dignified transfer, unlike a lot of other people," Trump said.
The ABC reporter asked if the fundraising email was "appropriate."
"I do," Trump said. "I didn’t see it… we have a lot of people working for us. There is nobody that’s better to the military than me. Look at the election results, look at the kind of votes that we get. Look at the poll numbers."
Trump, who was returning to Washington, D.C., from a weekend at Mar-a-Lago, then asked the reporter who she was with.
"ABC News," the reporter answered.
"One of the worst, most fake, most corrupt," Trump responded. "You know what, ABC News, I think it’s maybe the most corrupt news organization on the planet. I think they’re terrible."
Trump then declared, "I don’t want any more from ABC News."
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ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Trump also said there was "AI-generated" and "fake" news coming out of Iran.
In 2024, ABC News and its top anchor, George Stephanopoulos, agreed to pay Trump $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. Trump filed the suit against Stephanopoulos after he asserted that Trump was found "liable for rape" in a civil case during a contentious interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.
During Sunday's press gaggle, Trump also suggested the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) needs to stand with the U.S. in defense of the Strait of Hormuz or face a "very bad" future.
Trump admin official says there’s a 'very good chance' gas prices will be back to normal by summer
Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that there’s a "very good chance" gas prices will be normal by summer.
"After the conflict is over, you’ll start to see prices come back down, but Iran is immediately going to impede flow through the Straits of Hormuz, launching attacks at all of their neighbors. Even those completely uninvolved in this conflict illustrates why it is so important to defang this regime," Wright told NBC’s Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press."
"It’s been the greatest supporter of terrorism in the world and the greatest killer of American soldiers in 20 years has been Iran, and we haven’t fought a conflict against them until this," Wright said.
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The comments came as the war between the United States and Iran continues to escalate, with the Trump administration signaling the conflict may last longer than initially anticipated.
While U.S. military forces' involvement in Operation Epic Fury is underway, oil markets have been shaken.
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Americans could face higher gas prices after the Iranian regime threatened to attack vessels that cross the Strait of Hormuz, where about 20% of the world's daily oil supply passes through.
Wright added, "It’s just this president did not want to kick this can down the road to the next administration. The world simply can’t see a nuclear-armed Iran, and so I’m proud of his actions, but yes, it is a short-term disruption of the flow of energy."
"Americans are feeling it right now. Americans will feel it for a few more weeks, but in the end, we will have removed the greatest risk to global energy supplies. We’ll go to a world more abundant in energy, more affordable in energy and less risky for American soldiers and commerce in the Middle East," Wright said.
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"Are you confident the gas will be back under $3 by the busy summer travel season, Mr. Secretary?" Welker asked Wright.
"There’s a very good chance that will be true. You know, there’s no guarantees in war. The timeframe is still not entirely clear, but I think that’s certainly a goal of the administration and very possible," Wright said.
The White House did not respond for comment from Fox News Digital.
Rand Paul floats possible 2028 run, pushes back on Trump-era protectionism
Libertarian-minded Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is leaving the door wide open to a possible 2028 White House run.
"We’ll decide after 2026," Paul said in an interview that posted this weekend.
Paul ran for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, but dropped out after a distant fifth-place finish in Iowa's Republican caucuses. He won re-election later that year in the Senate, and was re-elected again in 2022.
The senator, who for years has been a leading voice inside the GOP for fiscal conservatism, civil liberties and a non-interventionist foreign policy for America, has lamented the declining number of Republicans embracing such an agenda in a party dominated by President Donald Trump. And he's pledged to try and bring such an agenda back.
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"The most important thing to me isn’t necessarily me or what my role is, but that there is someone who’s advocating that international trade is good and makes us rich. That big is not bad," Paul said in an interview on "Sunday Night with Chuck Todd."
Paul argued that "the populists also want to break up big business. They want to break up Google because they’re liberal or Meta because it’s liberal. I’m not one of those people, but that is sort of the Trump-Vance populist wing."
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Pointing to Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who is perceived as the GOP frontrunner in the race to succeed the term-limited Trump, Paul emphasized that "there needs to be a free-market wing of the Republican Party. And I want to be part of trying to ensure that still exists."
Paul, who is a vocal GOP critic of Trump's unprecedented use of tariffs and who voted last year against the president's massive domestic policy measure because it added to the national debt, has been leaving the door open to a potential 2028 run in interviews since last summer.
"I think in the Republican Party, though, there needs to be someone representing that international trade is good for America, that we get richer and more prosperous in the world we trade," he told Kentucky's Courier Journal newspaper last July. He added that it was "too early to tell" if he would run again for the White House.
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In a September interview with Spectrum News, he said, "We’ll see over time what happens," regarding another presidential bid.
And Paul, in a December interview on ABC's "This Week," said he didn't see Vance as the hypothetical heir to Trump and the 2028 GOP frontrunner.
While any decision from Paul regarding a 2028 White House run won't come until after this year's midterm elections, the senator did generate some buzz last year by making stops in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, three crucial early voting states in the Republican Party's presidential nominating calendar.
"He's keeping options open and looking at the landscape," a strategist in the senator's political orbit who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, told Fox News Digital.
Olivia Dunne stresses as she watches Paul Skenes get out of jam at World Baseball Classic
NCAA national champion gymnast Olivia Dunne came to grips with the idea she may not be "cut out" for watching her boyfriend, Paul Skenes, pitch with enormous stakes attached.
Skenes was on the mound for Team USA to start their World Baseball Classic semifinal game against the Dominican Republic. He allowed a home run to Junior Caminero but buckled down and didn’t allow another run to cross the plate.
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In the fourth inning, the Dominican Republic had a good chance to get more runs on the board with the bases loaded. Skenes got catcher Austin Wells to fly out, ending the threat.
Dunne posted a video to her TikTok page, showing herself nervously watching Skenes work his magic.
"When someone says they’re stressed but they’ve never watched their man get out of a bases loaded jam repping the USA," she wrote as the video’s screen caption.
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Dunne added in the comments that she wished she was acting.
"I am not cut out for this," she added in the caption.
Skenes lasted 4.1 innings and struck out two batters. He allowed one run on six hits and was given the win for his efforts. The U.S. won the game, 2-1, and will move on to the World Baseball Classic final against either Italy or Venezuela.
The Pittsburgh Pirates star is finished pitching in the World Baseball Classic, and can now focus on his club team. He is coming off a National League Cy Young Award-winning season.
Dunne is likely to be on hand for several of his games.
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Google Gemini declares only GOP senators violate hate speech policy, zero Democrats, author claims
EXCLUSIVE: Google's AI chatbot Gemini flagged several Republicans — but no Democrats — when asked to identify senators who have made statements that violate its hate speech policies, author Wynton Hall told Fox News Digital. It's just one example of what the author believes is a deeply ingrained bias against conservatives found in artificial intelligence tools.
Hall used the "deep research" function on Google's Gemini Pro. Fox News Digital reviewed a screen recording of Hall’s prompt and findings. Google did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
One of the Republicans flagged by Gemini in Hall's research, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, of Tennessee, was listed for characterizing "transgender identity as a harmful cultural ‘influence’ and has used ‘woke’ as a derogatory slur against protected groups." Another, Arkansas' Sen. Tom Cotton, was cited for cosponsoring legislation "to exclude transgender students from sports."
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The finding stood out against a backdrop of inflammatory rhetoric from some Democrats in recent years.
In 2023, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., warned that then-candidate Donald Trump was "destructive to our democracy" and needed to be "eliminated." However, he quickly apologized for his comments, claiming that it was a "poor choice of words."
Last year, Texas Democratic House candidate Rep. Jolanda Jones made a throat-slashing gesture while rejecting former first lady Michelle Obama's famous mantra, "when they go low, we go high," on CNN's "Outfront."
"If you hit me in my face, I'm not going to punch you back in your face. I'm going to go across your neck," Jones said while making a slashing motion across her neck. "We can go back-and-forth, fighting each other's faces. You've got to hit hard enough where they won't come back," she added.
But for Hall, Gemini's seemingly partisan answer underscored the central argument of his new book, "Code Red: The Left, The Right, China and the Race to Control AI." In it, he argues that AI systems marketed as neutral are increasingly shaped by the ideological assumptions of the people and institutions who create them, which are far from neutral.
His book starts out with a clear example.
Less than 10 weeks before the 2024 election, a series of viral videos appeared to expose a strange double standard in American homes. When users asked Amazon’s Alexa why they should vote for Kamala Harris, the device delivered a polished endorsement. When asked why they should vote for Donald Trump, Alexa declined, citing a policy of neutrality.
"I cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party or a specific candidate," Alexa said.
Hall says the concern extends beyond a single Gemini output.
"AI’s Silicon Valley architects lean left politically, and their lopsided political donations to Democrats underscore their ideological aims," Hall told Fox News Digital.
To Hall, episodes like this show how AI can shape political perceptions while maintaining the appearance of objectivity. "Through algorithm throttling and shadow bans, Big Tech centralized control over which voices soar and sink across social networks. Now AI has put Big Tech’s consolidating control on steroids," he writes.
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He argues that this imbalance reflects the politics of the people building the systems. The billionaires driving the AI revolution, he says, invest their money and political energy where their values lie. As PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel once put it, "Silicon Valley is a one-party state."
The money appears to bear that out. According to Hall, 85% of political donations from employees at Apple, Meta, Amazon and Google go to Democrats.
After Trump’s 2024 victory, major tech companies made the customary $1 million inauguration donations. But Hall argues those gestures did little to hide where Silicon Valley’s loyalties had long been. Aside from Elon Musk, he says, most of Big Tech’s leading figures remained firmly on the left.
Hall points to Democratic fundraising in 2024 as evidence of Silicon Valley’s political influence, citing major support from figures including Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs.
But Hall argues the bigger issue is not campaign money.
It is the growing influence of AI systems that many people assume are neutral and objective. He warns that users often trust those answers too much, even when they may be biased.
To Hall, this bias is reinforced by the relationship between tech companies and legacy media. He argues AI systems are trained on enormous amounts of content from outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic and Reuters, while conservative outlets are largely excluded.
The result, he says, is a closed loop: AI absorbs the assumptions of legacy media and repackages them as objective truth. Hall argues conservatives must respond by demanding transparency in training data and ending taxpayer-funded contracts for vendors whose systems show political bias.
"Whoever wins the AI fairness battle," Hall concludes, "will shape the minds and political attitudes of future generations. The time to act is now."
Sean Duffy urges Democrats to 'come to their senses' as TSA squeeze cripples airport operations
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Sunday sounded the alarm on prolonged airport delays during the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, warning that the funding stalemate is crippling Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operations and leaving the country vulnerable.
Duffy told "Sunday Morning Futures" that some TSA agents were turning to other sources of income to provide for their families, leading to airport security wait times of three to four hours at some airports as spring break begins for millions of students.
About 300 TSA agents have quit, he said, and call-outs have doubled after agents missed their first full paychecks.
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The Transportation secretary blamed Democrats for the funding standoff and accused holdouts of caring more about illegal immigrants than American travelers.
"This is what these Democrats want. And so my hope is that Democrats will come to their senses, open up DHS and then have a negotiation, have a conversation, but in the process, don't hold America hostage to just get what you want," he said.
DHS has been partially shut down for 30 days and counting as Republicans hold out for a budget proposal that fully funds all parts of Homeland Security, while Democrats say they're willing to fund individual branches within the department, including TSA, but not Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) until the Trump administration agrees to immigration reform.
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The shutdown persists amid multiple terrorism-related incidents in the past week, including an ISIS-inspired bomb plot in New York, a synagogue vehicle ramming and shooting in Michigan, and a shooting targeting ROTC members at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
Duffy pointed to Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., whose state was the site of the recent synagogue attack.
"She voted every time against funding DHS. And once the threat to her community was real, from radicals, now she says, 'Let's open up DHS,' and I think it begs the question, are Democrats waiting for Americans to get hurt, to get killed, before they actually put your security before those who have come to this country unlawfully and illegally?"
"I hope that's not their position, but we can get to a better place if they would just come to their senses and negotiate after they open it up."
Trump wants Judge Boasberg removed from cases after series of rulings
President Donald Trump lambasted federal Judge James Boasberg in a Sunday night Truth Social post, accusing him of exhibiting bias against the GOP and his administration, and asserting that he should be yanked from working on any cases pertaining to them.
In the post, the president described Boasberg as "a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge … who suffers from the highest level of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and has been ‘after’ my people, and me, for years."
"In case after case, Boasberg has displayed open, flagrant, and extreme partisan bias and contempt against Republicans and the Trump Administration," the president claimed.
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"To preserve the integrity of the Judiciary, he should be removed from all cases pertaining to us, and suffer serious disciplinary action, as should numerous other Corrupt Judges that, unfortunately, our Country has had to endure!" the president said in the post.
"What Boasberg has done on the ‘Too Late’ Powell case, and many others, has little to do with the Law, and everything to do with Politics," the president said, referring to Jerome Powell, the chair of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Boasberg is the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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"He is exactly what Judges should not be! Boasberg would do better to focus on Justice and Fairness, not his own, and the Democrats’, Political Agenda, which has become LEGENDARY!" Trump asserted.
Fox News Digital reached out to Boasberg's chambers but was told that the judge had no comment.
The president has been a repeated and vociferous Boasberg critic.
He launched the Sunday broadside against Boasberg after the judge's move last week in a case regarding subpoenas that the government served on the Federal Reserve Board.
"The case thus asks: Did prosecutors issue those subpoenas for a proper purpose? The Court finds that they did not. There is abundant evidence that the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the President or to resign and make way for a Fed Chair who will," the opinion declared.
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"On the other side of the scale, the Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President. The Court must thus conclude that the asserted justifications for these subpoenas are mere pretexts. It will therefore grant the Board’s Motion to Quash," the opinion noted.
Blue state proposal targets Trump-era ICE hires, banning them from joining local police forces
Rhode Island Democrats have introduced a bill that would bar police departments from hiring ICE agents brought on during President Donald Trump’s second term, escalating the state’s pushback against federal immigration enforcement.
Immigration enforcement agents, including those within ICE, have come under fire in recent months from Democratic lawmakers and governors opposed to the tactics involved in Trump’s mass deportation agenda, which the president has said are necessary due to the open-border effects of the Biden era.
In Rhode Island, companion bills in the House and Senate dubbed the ICE OUT Act would amend the Law Enforcement Officers’ Due Process Accountability and Transparency Act to add a section denoting the new restriction.
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"A law enforcement agency… shall not employ any individual who was hired as a sworn officer of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency on or after January 20, 2025," the bill reads.
The policy would take effect in October 2026 and would not affect any officers already hired out of ICE’s ranks.
The bill’s top sponsor in the House, Democratic state Rep. Karen Alzate of Pawtucket, said during a recent hearing that the policy would help bolster public-police relationships in Rhode Island, according to the Providence Journal.
An official with the Rhode Island Women’s Bar Association, which supports the bill, also told the paper that the alleged "relaxed hiring standards" of Trump-era DHS would not suffice in the Ocean State.
Meanwhile, Rhode Island police officials warned in recent state legislative testimony on a broader group of Democratic-led police reform bills, which include the ICE OUT Act, that officer recruitment will take a hit, according to the Fall River Reporter.
Another such bill from state Rep. Joshua Giraldo, D-Central Falls, would ban ICE from being within 200 feet of a polling place. During the session, Giraldo said that when conjecture about stationing federal immigration enforcement near polls arises, "particularly in the current climate; immigrant communities hear a message that is aimed at intimidation."
DHS officers on duty are already banned from the city proper in the state capital under a January executive order from Providence Mayor Brett Smiley that makes parking lots, schools, parks and government buildings restricted areas.
"[Providence] has the responsibility to manage such property in a manner that ensures public trust, access and delivery of essential city services for all residents," the mayor’s order read in part.
Fox News Digital reached out to Gov. Dan McKee for indications as to whether he would sign the ICE OUT Act if it reaches his desk, and to DHS for comment.
NFL Draft prospect suggests racial component behind getting asked to switch from QB position
NFL Draft prospect Taylen Green starred with the Arkansas Razorbacks in college and made a lasting impression on scouts with his performance at the Scouting Combine.
He ran 4.36 seconds in the 40-yard dash, recorded a 43.5-inch vertical jump to go along with an 11-foot, 2-inch broad jump. The talk after his performance was about whether he would be willing to switch positions for a prospective NFL team.
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Green appeared on "Outta Pocket" with former NFL star Robert Griffin III and his wife, Grete, and made clear he had no interest in playing anything other than quarterback. He also suggested there was a racial component to him receiving the question.
"Just like Lamar (Jackson) said, I’m a quarterback. Draft me as a quarterback. I’ve always been a quarterback. Going into recruiting, people wanted me for different positions, I told them, no, I’m a quarterback. I’m not going to your school. I just always had that chip on my shoulder to prove them wrong. If Lamar did it at the next level and won MVPs … We had the same college coach so he definitely prepared me for the next level.
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"I’m not trying to make this a whole race thing, but I feel like they definitely see my color, and they think I’m gonna run, or I’m just a runner, can’t really throw or process things. RG3, I’m pretty sure you’ve been through that, been through that at this process too. I’m just trying to beat that stigma and just put everybody on notice that think that way."
Plenty of college athletes switched positions from quarterback to a different position. Julian Edelman did it when he played for the New England Patriots, and Terrelle Pryor moved from quarterback to wide receiver eventually – to name a couple.
Jackson, the current quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens, was seen as a possible candidate to switch from QB to wide receiver, but the mere suggestion of that caused a stir before he was drafted. He eventually stayed at quarterback and won two NFL MVP awards.
Green is seen as someone who could be a "good backup" with the possibility of being developed into a starter, according to NFL.com.
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