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WATCH: Pelosi, Omar stay silent as Mamdani-backed socialist victories shake Democrat Party
Former Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., dodged answering questions on the growing influence of the socialist movement after three candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dominated in primary elections.
Mamdani's political clout was on display Tuesday night after all three House candidates he endorsed — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander and Claire Valdez — won their Democratic primaries in New York, beating out more moderate Democrats.
Pelosi, a moderate Democrat herself, refused to answer Fox News Digital’s question on her reaction to these socialist candidates coming out as victorious.
The 20-term California congresswoman never formally endorsed Mamdani, but she did endorse a socialist candidate in 2024 — Dean Preston for California’s District 5 supervisor.
She also said that she will "reject socialism as an economic system" and as a full picture of the Democratic Party in an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes back in 2019.
"If people have that view, that's their view," Pelosi said in the interview. "That is not the view of the Democratic Party."
Omar, a member of the progressive Squad, also ignored questions about the New York primary results, including whether the three socialist candidates could complicate House Democrats and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ agendas if they're elected to Congress.
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While Omar has never formally identified as a socialist, she has supported many policies associated with socialism and has also been backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
While Pelosi and Omar walked away without responding, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., welcomed the incoming lawmakers.
"I think Democrats in New York elected three new Democrats that will join our caucus, and I'm looking forward for them participating," Johnson told Fox News Digital.
Asked about criticism that the three candidates have leveled against Israel, Johnson argued they oppose the Israeli government rather than Israel itself.
"They were not anti-Israel. They were anti-Israeli government," Johnson said. "The government of Benjamin Netanyahu has done a grave disservice to the nation of Israel and to its people."
Lander is Jewish himself and said in his victory speech, "You can criticize Israel and not be antisemitic. You can be an anti-Zionist and not be antisemitic."
The three primary winners have all been critical of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, making the issue a defining point of the Democratic Party's progressive wing.
Johnson then called out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s relationship with President Donald Trump and condemned both of their involvement in starting the war with Iran.
"The people there will have an opportunity to correct the mistake that they made," Johnson said. "The same way that the people of America have the opportunity to correct this mistake that we made in electing Donald Trump, who unfortunately got manipulated into war by Benjamin Netanyahu."
He continued, "People don't like this war, and they don't like Israeli government policy that put us into this war."
2028 hopeful fires back at Elon Musk after trillionaire threatened lawsuit: 'Not going to be silenced'
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., brushed aside threats of legal action from Elon Musk, the trillionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla, on Thursday.
"This is what he does," Khanna told Fox News Digital outside the U.S. Capitol.
"It’s symptomatic of our times that billionaires — and now [a] trillionaire — can threaten to sue members of Congress for doing their job. He won’t intimidate me. I’m not going to be intimidated by the guy. I’m not going to be silenced by the guy," Khanna said.
Khanna’s comments come on the heels of an online back-and-forth between him and Musk over whether cuts to government aid programs overseas — cuts spearheaded by Musk in the early days of the second Trump administration — had led to fatalities.
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In particular, Khanna, a high-profile progressive and a rumored candidate for president in 2028, had been criticizing Musk’s work to cut the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
"There needs to be accountability for Elon Musk. You know, they’re celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires, but they don’t talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID," Khanna said, in a recent podcast appearance, citing a study from the Lancet Group, a medical journal.
The assertion drew a fierce response from Musk, who personally oversaw efforts to trim waste, fraud and abuse from U.S. programs.
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"Time to sue this liar," Musk said in a post to X.
"Robber Khanna should be in prison," Musk added in a separate reaction.
Musk, like many conservatives suspicious of government spending, criticized USAID for greenlighting millions in spending that, in their view, had little justification.
But while few Democrats defended programs for transgender comic books in Peru and Iraqi Sesame Street, critics of the cuts argued that Musk’s efforts had failed to differentiate between waste and life-saving initiatives around the globe.
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By March of last year, USAID had cut roughly 83% of its programs, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
It’s not immediately clear what kind of damages Musk would try to pursue in a lawsuit against Khanna for his claims.
When asked if he would go to court if Musk followed through on his posts, Khanna said he liked his odds.
"Grok says he doesn’t have a case, so we will have to see," Khanna said, referring to the AI chatbot on X, a social media platform owned by Musk.
Minnesota man captured in Somalia after allegedly helping orchestrate $250M child nutrition fraud scheme
A fugitive accused of helping orchestrate a $250 million Minnesota fraud scheme that exploited a federal child nutrition program was captured this week in Somalia after nearly four years on the run, federal authorities said.
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, of Burnsville, Minnesota, was taken into custody Thursday in Mogadishu, Somalia, according to the Justice Department.
Prosecutors allege Eidleh was one of the architects of the "Feeding Our Future" fraud scheme, which authorities have described as one of the largest fraud cases in Minnesota history.
Eidleh was charged in connection with the scheme on Sept. 13, 2022.
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He faces 31 counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, federal programs bribery, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering.
"This defendant was a central figure in one of the largest fraud schemes in Minnesota history," Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division said in a statement.
"He not only stole taxpayer dollars, but he also robbed vulnerable children of critical resources they desperately needed," McDonald continued. "Rather than answer for his crimes in the United States, he fled to Somalia in a futile attempt to evade justice. That attempt ended thanks to the exceptional work of our FBI partners."
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According to court documents, Eidleh was responsible for recruiting and supporting Federal Child Nutrition Program sites under the program's sponsorship while working as an employee of Feeding Our Future.
Prosecutors allege Eidleh, along with other members of the scheme, solicited and received bribes and kickbacks from individuals and companies seeking approval to operate fraudulent Federal Child Nutrition Program sites.
According to the indictment, Feeding Our Future operated a "pay-to-play" scheme in which operators of fraudulent meal sites kicked back a portion of their illicit proceeds to employees, including Eidleh, often disguising the payments as consulting fees through shell companies.
The indictment further alleges Eidleh created Federal Child Nutrition Program sites using nominee owners, then falsely claimed the sites were serving meals to thousands of children each day.
Prosecutors allege he also created shell companies posing as meal vendors for those sites and submitted fraudulent invoices to obtain federal nutrition program funds.
According to prosecutors, Eidleh deposited more than $5 million in fraud proceeds, kickbacks and bribes into accounts associated with shell companies in an effort to conceal the source of the money.
Archaeologists in Israel uncover 1,700-year-old Roman-era statues buried face down
An archaeological excavation in Israel recently revealed ancient faces that haven't been seen in centuries.
Two statues were discovered near Binyamina, Israel, according to a June 15 press release from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).
Archaeologists were digging ahead of construction of a coastal high-speed railway when they found two marble statues in the wine collection pit of a Roman-Byzantine winepress, the IAA said.
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The statues, which date back around 1,700 years, depict two unknown figures from the ancient Greco-Roman world.
One of the statues bears a Greek inscription with the name "Lycurgus," according to officials.
Michael Sorotskin, an IAA archaeologist who helped find the statues, called the discovery "simply wondrous."
"While digging the winepress, something was sticking out of the ground, and the workers called me," said Sorotskin in the release. "There was a feeling that we were about to discover something that really shouldn't be there."
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"Suddenly, we saw that this was not the usual pottery – it was marble," he added. "Then, slowly, slowly, the two statues were revealed. I'm still struggling to find the right words."
Eliran Oren and Avishag Reiss, the excavation directors for the project, said the statues were found "neatly laid, face down." It appeared they had been intentionally buried when the winepress went out of use.
"At present, it is not known why the statues were hidden here – perhaps to preserve them," Oren and Reiss said in a joint statement.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery."
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"It was very unexpected, but somehow, the really big discoveries always turn up on the excavation’s very last day," they added.
Peter Gendelman, a Caesarea region expert from the IAA, said the discovery was the first of its kind in roughly three decades.
The "Lycurgus" statue could depict two different men, one named Lycurgus of Sparta and another named Lycurgus of Athens, Gendelman said.
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"Possibly this statue may prove to be one of these two historical figures, but our research is just beginning," he said.
The statues were likely displayed in public buildings or the homes of wealthy residents during the Roman period as a way to "connect themselves to the cultural and spiritual world of antiquity," the expert noted.
"Not far from the discovery site, remains of a bathhouse were previously uncovered, and it is possible that the statues decorated a luxurious villa of a Caesarea resident," he said.
Researchers are currently cleaning and conserving the statues before analyzing them further, in hopes of determining exactly whom they depict.
The discovery is the latest in a series of notable archaeological finds announced by Israeli researchers this year.
Earlier this May, IAA officials said a child's chance discovery in the Negev Desert led to the identification of a 1,700-year-old Roman-era statuette fragment.
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At around the same time, archaeologists uncovered a "mysterious and impressive" ancient tunnel near Jerusalem, not far from sites associated with the biblical Kingdom of Judah.
New Mexico AG launches criminal investigation into DEA over allegations agents let fentanyl flood state
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Friday announced a criminal investigation into allegations that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach New Mexico communities while agents pursued larger criminal investigations.
The inquiry comes days after The Associated Press reported that DEA agents repeatedly monitored—but did not seize—large fentanyl shipments between 2023 and 2025 while attempting to build broader criminal cases.
Torrez said the investigation will examine potential legal remedies, including criminal prosecution, civil litigation and structural reforms intended to prevent similar conduct by DEA agents in the future.
"The families who have lost children, siblings, and parents to fentanyl deserve the truth about what the federal government knew and what it failed to do," Torrez said in a statement.
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"If the DEA stood by while poison flooded our communities, that is not a bureaucratic failure," he continued. "It is a betrayal of the people it was sworn to protect."
Torrez said his office "will pursue every legal avenue available to hold the responsible parties accountable and make certain this never happens again."
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called for the investigation earlier this week, saying she was "appalled" by allegations that federal agents knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach communities across the state.
"Make no mistake: the DEA knew people would die if these pills made it into New Mexico communities, and the agency let it happen anyway," Grisham said. "The result: hundreds of New Mexican parents burying their kids. Hundreds of New Mexican kids growing up without stable parents. All while the federal government stood by."
Grisham also pointed to allegations that DEA agents monitored the delivery of 74,000 fentanyl pills to a mobile home park in Albuquerque without intervening.
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"Shockingly, the federal government stood by while monitoring shipments, tallying exact pill counts, and watching as these deadly drugs hit the streets," she said.
Current and former DEA agents, including whistleblower David Howell, told the AP the agency's tactics gambled with public safety and may have violated Department of Justice guidelines.
While the DEA initially denied Howell's allegations in a statement to the AP, the agency later requested that the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General conduct an independent review.
"Should that review identify areas of improvement, the DEA will of course implement changes to better their practices," the Justice Department said in a statement. "We welcome a partnership with Governor Lujan Grisham, as well as New Mexico state and local leaders, to fight the scourge of fentanyl and keep her constituents safe."
The allegations stem from enforcement operations conducted during the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, even as the DEA promoted its "One Pill Can Kill" public awareness campaign warning that even a small amount of fentanyl can be fatal.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the DEA for comment regarding the investigation.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Brewers human howitzer Jacob Misiorowski breaks his own record for hardest pitch thrown by a starter
It was just a couple of weeks ago that Milwaukee Brewers righty Jacob Misiorowski absolutely melted some brains by throwing a 104.5 mph heater past Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber.
That was an MLB record for the hardest pitch ever thrown by a starter, and it came after Misiorowski threw multiple pitches north of 103 and even 104 mph in the same at-bat.
Well, he's at it again, and we may just want to start writing the record books in pencil, because this is probably not going to be the last time this happens.
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The Brewers were taking on the Chicago Cubs, and it seems that Misiorowski is, perhaps unsurprisingly, at his best when it comes to velocity when he's fresh.
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Like Schwarber was earlier this month, Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong was in the leadoff spot.
He took the 0-2 offering from Misiorowski and fouled it off down the third baseline.
Of course, that's not what was noteworthy. The noteworthy part was that the scorebug said the pitch was 105 mph.
Officially, it was really 105.5 mph.
To quote one Charlie Brown: "Good grief."
A few curls a day, some deeper stretches and maybe a bowl of Wheaties, and I don't think that there's any doubt that Misiorowski can probably work up a pitch that is the hardest thrown by anyone.
That 105.5 mph pitch tied him with Ben Joyce of the Los Angeles Angels, who threw a 105.5 mph pitch back in 2024.
The two fastest pitches ever recorded belong to Red Sox pitcher Aroldis Chapman, who has thrown pitches of 105.7 and 105.8 mph.
Missing 1200-pound giraffe Gracie found 2 weeks after wandering away from ranch in viral search
A fugitive 3-year-old giraffe was found via helicopter on Friday after two weeks on the run from her home at a private ranch in Texas.
The 1,200-pound giraffe, named Gracie, wandered away from her unfenced habitat at Cedar Hollow Ranch in Leakey, Texas, on June 12.
The 10-foot-tall animal was located by helicopter on Friday morning about four miles south of the ranch in a remote, heavily-wooded area.
Vick Jones, who manages the ranch, told FOX 7 that Gracie moved there in May and still wasn’t used to her surroundings when she wandered away.
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He explained that she likely didn’t mean to leave the ranch, but had been feeding in an area of the ranch that giraffes never had before and got out and came back on the wrong side of the gate.
Gracie is one of two giraffes who live on the property.
"Just one of them bad deals that happen, you know?" he told the station. "And inadvertently, like I say, we’ve never had giraffes go up in that area before and she did."
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Jones decided to post a missing alert for Gracie on a local lost and found app.
"I just thought, well, maybe some of the locals out on the ranches, people who work on some of these ranches might would see that or hear about it and give me an idea of which way she might have went off the property," Jones explained. "And 24 hours later, it’s all over the world."
The post quickly went viral, with people making AI photos of Gracie everywhere from working as a lifeguard at a pool, as a firefighter who doesn’t need a ladder or floating down a lazy river in a floaty.
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"I now know what the word viral means," Jones joked.
Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson said Jones called a veterinarian after Gracie was found Friday, and they are getting ready to send a team to get her back to the ranch.
"She’s in good shape," Jones said. "She’s standing there, swishing her tail."
He also stressed that she is a gentle giant who wasn’t of any harm to anyone.
"If you move toward her, she's taking off," he said.
Gracie was found on empty private property near a pond and creek and had plenty of vegetation to eat.
For the trip home, Gracie will need to be sedated, have a hood put over her eyes, and then she’ll be transported in an open-air trailer, then an enclosed trailer made for giraffes.
Texas Hill Country has one of the largest concentrations of captive exotic animals in the U.S. and Johnson said in the past he’s had calls for lost monkeys and zebras but no giraffes.
Despite requiring jackhammering through rock, Jones said he now plans to put a fence around Gracie’s enclosure.
Mets reporter dissects team's miserable season while Pride Night Mr. Met dances behind him
The New York Mets are in disarray thanks to a brutal start to what was supposed to be a promising season.
On Friday, the team hit a low point, firing manager Carlos Mendoza... but you wouldn't know it if you just looked at Mr. Met.
He was having the time of his life dancing behind a reporter while dressed in his Pride Night best.
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In what felt like an absolute fever dream, the PIX 11 studio team was talking to reporter Steve Gelbs before a game against the division-rival Philadelphia Phillies.
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Obviously, the tone was kind of somber as Gelbs did a midseason dissection (vivisection?) on the team's season and where everything went wrong.
However, "somber" is not in Pride Night Mr. Met's vocabulary.
He was very... uh... flamboyant, given the circumstances.
Mrs. Met is going to have to start asking herself some tough questions...
That's one of those moments where you're watching the broadcast, you see Gay Pride Mr. Met doing the Party Boy behind a reporter, and you have to turn to someone and ask, "Did that just happen, or is there a gas leak in this house?"
It might even be the first time that I'm glad a team held a wildly unnecessary Pride Night because it made that clip infinitely funnier.
Regular Mr. Met dancing behind Steve Gelbs? Pretty funny.
Mr. Met kitted out for Pride Night, oblivious to the grease fire around him? Gold, Jerry!
This is why, if you're a mascot performer, you should probably be aware of how your team is playing and maybe temper what you do just a touch.
Maybe keep it a little subdued eight hours after the manager gets dealt a pink slip, even if it is Pride Night and everything has a little more "pizzazz."
Frankly, I think that should be the final straw to give Mr. Met the ol' heave-ho, too.
Then the Mets can adopt the only mascot who actually cares about on-field performance, Grimace of McDonald's fame.
Texas Board of Education approves required reading list with Bible passages for 5 million students
The Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education approved a required reading list Friday that includes passages from the Bible, marking the latest effort by conservative officials to expand Christian teachings in public schools.
The Texas State Board of Education voted 9-5, with one abstention, to approve the required reading list for the state's more than 5 million public school students.
The required reading list includes works such as Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" along with passages from the New Testament.
The decision came after intense debate between supporters and critics and has been closely watched by education observers, who say it appears to be the first statewide required reading list of its kind in the United States.
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Critics argued the required reading list promotes Christianity over religious diversity and civil rights while blurring the constitutional separation of church and state.
Supporters argued Judeo-Christian traditions are fundamental to the nation's founding and should be reflected in classroom instruction.
The required reading list will take effect beginning with the 2030-31 school year for elementary school students.
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The board's decision follows a series of education measures in Texas, including allowing public schools to hire chaplains to counsel students, requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms and approving an optional Bible-infused curriculum.
A 2023 Texas law requires a mandatory list of at least one literary work to be taught at each grade level. The newly approved required reading list contains roughly 200 texts, including books, essays and passages from the Bible.
One critic of the decision, Elva Mendoza, legislative communications associate for the progressive Texas Freedom Network, told The Associated Press that the required reading list lacked diversity and did not give teachers and students the flexibility to choose what they read.
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"Kids of all faith backgrounds and no faith are served by Texas schools and they should all feel welcome in Texas schools," Mendoza said.
"But this is sending the message to children that one and only one religious text — a Christian one — is worthy of making this required reading list," she added.
The board was also expected to vote Friday on a new social studies curriculum that links Bible stories with American history.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Teen accused of killing two girls in alleged hit-and-run will be tried as adult after identity revealed
The teenager accused of killing two 17-year-old girls in an alleged hit-and-run crash in New Jersey last year has been publicly identified after prosecutors announced Friday that he will be tried as an adult.
The Union County Prosecutors Office announced that 18-year-old Vincent Battiloro of Garwood has been waived up to adult court and will be tried as an adult in connection with the murder of the two juvenile females.
Vincent Battiloro, 18, of Garwood, will now face counts of first-degree murder in the Criminal Part of Superior Court in Union County after his case was waived from juvenile court, according to the Union County Prosecutor's Office.
Battiloro's identity had previously been withheld because he was a minor at the time of the alleged crimes. Prosecutors said his identity could now be released following the transfer to adult court.
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Prosecutors allege Battiloro, who was 17 at the time, struck Isabella Salas and Maria Niotis while they were riding an electric bike in Cranford at about 5:26 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2025.
The two girls, who were both 17, were taken to local hospitals, where they were pronounced dead a short time later.
Battiloro was arrested following an extensive investigation and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and multiple traffic offenses, according to prosecutors.
Fox News Digital previously reported on 911 call audio and police reports obtained through a public records request showing the suspect was released to his father after the alleged hit-and-run.
The records also show Battiloro's father contacted law enforcement after the crash.
In a previous statement to Fox News Digital, Union County Prosecutors Office Public Information Officer Lauren Farinas said Battiloro was detained for questioning after the incident and later released. He was arrested two days later, on Oct. 1.
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One caller told 911 dispatchers that a 2021 black Jeep Compass — which police said Battiloro was driving — "flew down the road and hit people," adding that one of the victims was unresponsive.
The same caller also reported that there was "someone underneath a car."
"This is really bad," the caller said.
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"Nobody's conscious," another 911 caller said. "Everyone's stunned, not moving."
"There’s a girl on the road, and there’s a car! Oh my God, please hurry!" another caller said.
Maria Niotis' mother, Foulla Niotis, previously told Fox News that she believes the suspect "planned" the attack and thought he was "untouchable" because he had relatives working in law enforcement.
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She also alleged local police failed to act after the family reported that Battiloro had been stalking her daughter before the crash.
"They should have done a lot. They didn't do anything," Niotis said. "They didn't do anything to help my baby."
"I want justice for Maria and Isabella," she added. "That's what I want."
Fox News Digital's Adam Sabes and Fox News' Eric Shawn contributed to this report.