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Ex-North Carolina star Marquise Williams is skipping Tar Heels games as Bill Belichick enters second year
North Carolina football is less than two weeks from opening summer camp ahead of its second season under seven-time Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Belichick.
Belichick led the Tar Heels to a 4-8 record in his first season in Chapel Hill, but a string of off-field headlines largely overshadowed the team.
The controversy has carried into the offseason, apparently prompting at least one prominent UNC football alumnus to forgo attending games in person when the 2026 season begins this fall.
Marquise Williams, who earned All-ACC honors during his four-year run with UNC, announced his plan to skip games this year.
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"I will not be attending any UNC football games this year!" Williams wrote Thursday on X. "The things I’m hearing man I would have never thought." He added a broken heart emoji but did not elaborate on exactly what put him off.
Williams still lives in North Carolina and serves as quarterbacks coach at Louisburg College. He ranks sixth on UNC’s all-time passing yards list.
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While Williams’ exact reasoning remains unclear, much of the chatter surrounding the program has centered on Belichick, 73, and his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson.
During last year’s widely discussed "CBS News Sunday Morning" interview, Hudson faced accusations that she attempted to exert control during the former NFL coach’s sit-down. The interview was part of a promotional tour for Belichick's new book, "The Art of Winning — Lessons from My Life in Football."
The viral moment sparked questions about Hudson’s involvement in both his personal and professional life and whether it could affect football operations.
North Carolina football general manager Michael Lombardi recently addressed the scrutiny and outside criticism that surrounded the program last season, defending the team’s response amid what he characterized as inaccurate accounts.
"All during those stormy times, all during when the boat was getting capsized, when people were attacking us with fake rumors and fake stories all over — nobody’s corrected them yet, but that’s OK, we understand — our players hung together," Lombardi told the "Pat McAfee Show" last week.
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Soros-backed DA sparks backlash after blaming Old Dominion shooting on pro-gun lawmakers: 'F--- right off'
The George Soros-backed district attorney in Norfolk, Virginia, where Thursday's mass shooting at Old Dominion University took place, doubled down on his viral comments, saying community members looking to place blame on the shooting should direct it towards pro-gun lawmakers and judges.
Commonwealth's Attorney Ramin Fatehi was pressed by Fox News Digital to elaborate on his comments during the press conference earlier, prompting him to stand by his comments.
"I absolutely stand by what I said. It is the truth, no matter how much the gun lobby wants to deny it," Fatehi said when asked if he stood by his comments despite Thursday's mass shooter in Virginia having a public record of supporting Islamic terrorism.
The shooter, a former National Guardsman and naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone, was previously sentenced in 2017 for attempting to provide material support to ISIS, but appears to have been released by the federal Bureau of Prisons in late 2024 during the Biden administration.
"No matter the ideology of an attacker, that attacker is more dangerous with a gun than without one," Fatehi, whose top two donors include the Soros-subsidized Justice and Public Safety PAC and Democracy PAC, said. A Fox News Digital review found that the two Soros-funded PACs donated over $650,000 combined to his campaign coffers between 2021 and 2025.
A conservative group that tracks nonprofit spending, The Capital Research Center, reported that across a decade, between 2012 and 2022, Soros spent $40 million on the Justice and Public Safety PAC, which is known for supporting left-wing prosecutors. Democracy PAC, a super PAC created by Soros in 2019, was given nearly $30 million during the first three months of 2020, The Capital Research Center also reported.
Some of the better-known liberal prosecutors supported by these Soros-backed groups include recalled San Francisco district attorney, Chesa Boudin, former Chicago district attorney, Kim Foxx, and former Los Angeles district attorney, George Gascon, according to the Capital Research Center.
On Thursday, Fatehi, who has served as the Commonwealth's Attorney in Norfolk since 2022, walked up to the podium during a post-shooting press conference unprovoked before giving his remarks about who should be to blame – at least in part – for the shooting.
"I'm constrained in what I can say about the facts of the case, but I can speak a little more freely about the bigger questions," Fatehi said after walking up to the podium.
"These men work every day to make people safe," he continued, referring to law enforcement officials. "People are as safe on the ODU campus as anywhere, arguably safer than in other parts of Norfolk. But this is not an ODU problem. This is a national sickness. We live in a country where people care more about guns than they care about 6-year-old children. They care more about guns than they care about synagogue worshipers. And they care more about guns than they do about college students."
The left-wing prosecutor went on to say that it doesn't matter "how hard" law enforcement or the university works to ensure tragic incidents like what happened Thursday, are not repeated, adding that "somebody will be a victim eventually."
These remarks sparked backlash on social media, with several conservatives attacking him and bringing up the criminal history of the shooter.
"I really try not to cuss here, but Fatehi can f--- right off with this statement," BearingArms editor Cam Edwards posted on X.
"Given this lunatic is the DA, there’s like a 90% chance he’s going to charge the hero who stabbed the Islamist to death to stop the attack," RedState writer Bonchie wrote on X.
"You see, ISIS terrorists wouldn’t be terrorists if it weren’t for Republican gun culture or something," Bonchie said in another X post. "Mind-numbing."
"I generally stop short of telling bad faith morons to go to hell because eternal damnation isn't a trifling matter, but this level of intentional and malicious imbecility is testing my resolve," Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, wrote on X.
"Until there is the political will to break the spell of the cult of gun absolutism, you will see more incidents like this. So, if you are looking for somebody to blame, don't look at anybody up here, look at our lawmakers who don't have the courage to implement sensible gun control measures, look to a Supreme Court that enables them, and do something about it," Fatehi continued.
"That is the lesson – let's mourn the people who've died, let's decry what has happened, but let's keep the focus where it belongs. It belongs on us, and having to change something so that we don't have to suffer through this."
Multiple federal sources confirmed to Fox News that the suspected shooter at ODU was Mohamed Jalloh. The shooting occurred shortly before 10:49 a.m., the university said in an emergency alert. The gunman was later pronounced dead when responding officers arrived following a shooting near ROTC cadets, Police Chief Garrett Shelton told reporters during a news conference.
Reporting from the New York Post indicated that Jalloh was targeting ROTC members on campus, before one eventually stepped in to stop the madness, stabbing and killing the suspect.
Later in the day Thursday, ODU Police Chief Garrett Shelton indicated one victim died from the shooting, along with the gunman, while two others were injured. FBI Director Kash Patel also indicated Thursday that federal authorities were investigating the matter as an act of terrorism.
NASA targets April 1 launch for first crewed moon mission since Apollo
NASA is targeting an April 1 launch for its Artemis II mission around the moon, marking the first crewed lunar flight since Apollo in 1972.
Officials said Thursday they completed a flight readiness review (FRR) and are set to roll the rocket back to the pad March 19 followed by final configuration for launch.
A potential launch for the 10-day mission is scheduled for 6:24 p.m. ET April 1, with a backup date of April 2 at 7:22 p.m.
"At the conclusion of the FRR, all the teams polled go to launch and fly Artemis II around the moon, pending completion of some of the work before we roll out to the launch pad," Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said at a news conference at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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"It's a test flight, and it is not without risk, but our team and our hardware are ready," Glaze added.
Artemis II had been scheduled to launch in early February, but the mission was delayed after fuel leaks were discovered during a test run. A helium leak was later identified at the end of the month. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was transferred from the launchpad back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for repairs that are nearly complete.
John Honeycutt, chair of the Artemis II Mission Management Team, said the mission’s success odds range from one in two to one in 50 when asked about the risks of Artemis II.
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Honeycutt later said he does not want the mission’s success viewed as a 50-50 proposition.
"If you look at the data over time, over the lifespan of building new rockets, right, the data would show you that one out of two is successful. You’re only successful 50% of the time," Honeycutt said. "I think we’re in a much better position than that.
"I don’t want people to take that as being that we should be scared to go fly because we’re not scared to go fly," he added. "We do an outstanding job of understanding the risk, buying down the risk, mitigating the risk and putting together controls to manage the risk."
NASA also said it will not conduct another "wet dress rehearsal," a prelaunch fueling test for Artemis II.
"When we tank the vehicle the very next time, I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch. I would like to do it on launch day," Glaze said. "And if we are able to successfully fully tank the vehicle, I want to be able to go to launch."
She added that NASA does not want to use up any days in its April launch window for a wet dress rehearsal.
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The Artemis program was first established by President Donald Trump during his first term in December 2017.
The four astronauts involved in Artemis II — Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Jeremy Hansen — are expected to orbit the moon before returning home in what would be the farthest human spaceflight ever.
NASA has said Artemis III, Artemis IV and Artemis V are expected to launch before the end of Trump’s current term, with Artemis IV and V aiming to return astronauts to the moon's surface.
Fox News Digital's Preston Mizell and Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
Sammy Hagar says he'll never reunite with bandmate Alex Van Halen despite reconciling with Eddie
Sammy Hagar suggested he would "never play" with Alex Van Halen again more than 20 years after they finished their last tour together.
"I’m the biggest Pink Floyd fan. I see David Gilmour say, ‘I will never play with Roger Waters again,’ and I know what he means," the 78-year-old told Classic Rock in a recent interview. "I feel that way about Alex Van Halen. They’re negative people."
Hagar told Rolling Stone last year that he and his former Van Halen bandmate hadn’t spoken in 21 years.
"I hate to say it, but I dreamt about Alex the other night, man," he told the magazine in April. "It was crazy. And it was so friggin’ real. I was saying, 'What are you pissed off at me about, man? What the f---? Now, just tell me what your problem is. What did I do? Just tell me.'"
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Alex Van Halen didn’t even mention Hagar by name in his 2024 memoir "Brothers" about his relationship with Van Halen co-founder Eddie Van Helen, who died in 2020.
While the interviewer posited that Alex was hurt by Hagar writing about Eddie's personal struggles in his own memoir, the Red Rocker disagreed.
"And I’ve had this conversation with a few people, including [former VH manager] Irving Azoff," he said at the time. "I’ve asked him, ‘What’s the problem?’ And some people have said to me, ‘Oh, Cabo Wabo. At one time, Van Halen, when you built it, you guys were all partners in that.
"And then they didn’t want it anymore when it was losing money, and they gave it to you. And you turned it around and made hundreds of millions of dollars on it. And they’re angry. Alex is angry about that.'"
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He said his response was, "How the f--- could they be angry about that? They gave me the damn thing, they walked out on me, left me with it. And they made me indemnify them in case I got sued and lost everything. They made me sign off big time. And I’m going, 'I hope it’s not that.'"
The "I Can’t Drive 55" singer told Rolling Stone he thinks Alex is upset with him "because I’m out doing it, and Mike [Anthony] and I are out doing it, and he can’t. He’s not a singer. He’s not a guitar player. He is not really a band leader. And he seems like he doesn’t want to play drums or can’t play drums anymore, and he can’t go write a new record.
"Alex wasn’t the songwriter in the band," he continued. "He was the drummer. Eddie and I wrote the songs. Dave [Lee Roth] and Eddie wrote the songs, and so we can go out and do them. And I think that really bothers him that Mike and I are still out there doing it. I would feel bad. If I put myself in his shoes, I would feel terrible if I couldn’t do it anymore."
Hagar, who replaced Roth as lead singer of Van Halen in 1985, told Classic Rock in his interview this week that he’s leaning into his time with the band more.
"Since Eddie died and since Alex sold his drum kit, I feel more comfortable leaning into my era of Van Halen and even playing a few of the old songs," he said. "Because frickin’ Mike Anthony’s in the band, I feel good about playing a lot of Van Halen stuff, cause no one will ever hear it again. And that was the biggest part of my career, and everybody’s career, for god’s sake. It was the biggest band in the world."
Hagar previously had a falling out with Eddie too, but the former bandmates made up before the Van Halen co-founder died in 2020 of a stroke after a cancer battle.
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"Eddie was the sweetest person I ever met when I first joined that band," Hagar told Classic Rock. "He was a superstar. There wasn’t anybody who didn’t look up to him and go, ‘Wow, f---ing Eddie Van Halen.' But it never went to his head. He’d just drink too much. He had an addictive personality. I guess you could say drugs and alcohol and fame and fortune got to him, but that took a long time."
The Red Rocker told Fox News Digital he and Eddie reconciled months before his death.
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"To be able to have talked to Eddie and have a wonderful rapport with him on text, it means everything to me," Hagar shared. "If he would have died and we would have not ever said, ‘I love you' to each other, I would have felt really bad.
"I wouldn't be able to talk to you about it. So, that means a lot to me. And it means a lot, I think, for me to feel good about talking about being in Van Halen now. Because I feel like we buried the hatchet. Otherwise, I'd be saying, ‘Well, those guys.’ Because, you know, I was mad. I was hurt. And it's very important that we connected."
Hagar also told Fox News Digital about his difficulties with Roth.
"David is a strange person for me," he said. "We're oil and water. We just don't gel. I mean, I've tried. I thought it would be really cool if him and I were friends. It would be really cool if him and I went out with a great band and did all those great Van Halen songs together, but he's just not user-friendly."
Falcons' James Pearce Jr charged with 3 felonies after alleged incident involving WNBA's Rickea Jackson
Atlanta Falcons edge rusher James Pearce Jr., a 2025 first-round pick, was charged with three felonies by the Miami-Dade (Florida) State Attorney from a Feb. 7 incident involving WNBA player Rickea Jackson.
Court documents revealed Pearce was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, fleeing and eluding police and resisting an officer with violence to his or her person, all of which are felonies.
A fourth charge of felony aggravated stalking was changed to a misdemeanor, while a charge of aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer was dropped.
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Pearce, a finalist for Defensive Rookie of the Year after a successful 2025 season with the Falcons, was arrested near Miami last month after allegedly fleeing officers and crashing his car after what police called a domestic violence incident with Jackson, a 2024 All-Rookie team honoree with the Los Angeles Sparks.
Jackson was the fourth overall pick of the WNBA Draft out of Tennessee, and she has had early success in her career.
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Pearce is alleged to have crashed his car into another vehicle being driven by Jackson and struck a police officer while he tried to flee law enforcement, ESPN reported, citing a criminal complaint from the Miami-Dad State Attorney’s office.
Jackson told police she noticed Pearce was following her in a white luxury vehicle, and when she stopped at a red light, the Falcons rookie tried to open her car. Jackson said she started to drive toward the Doral Police Department while Pearce was allegedly following her. Then, as she got closer to the police station, she alleged Pearce cut her off and collided with her head on.
An officer reportedly pulled a gun on Pearce once Doral authorities responded to the incident in an attempt to force him to get on the ground. However, he allegedly got back into his car and drove away.
After crashing his vehicle and being accused of resisting arrest, Pearce spent a night in jail before posting a $20,500 bond and being released on Feb. 8.
Jackson has since filed an injunction for a protective order against Pearce in Miami-Dade County. She wrote that she was in fear for her life, and if the court didn’t intervene, "James will kill me."
Jackson also alleged previous verbal and physical abuse from Pearce occurred "on more than one occasion." She claimed he threatened to kill, harm and injure her, according to court documents.
Pearce's attorneys said last month their client "maintains his innocence and urges the public to understand that while allegations have the power to shape a narrative, that it is hardly the full, complete story."
"We look forward to vigorously defending our client and remain confident that he will continue contributing positively to both his team and the community he serves so well," the attorneys added at the time.
A permanent injunction hearing is scheduled for April 21 after the court initially granted Jackson her request for protection. Pearce is not allowed to have contact with Jackson or be within 500 feet of her home or place of employment or 100 feet from her vehicle.
Pearce played all 17 games for the Falcons, racking up 10½ sacks, 26 combined tackles and five passes defended.
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Iranian regime spreading anti-Israel propaganda across dozens of social media accounts: report
A new Clemson University report found dozens of social media accounts associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) pushing anti-Israel and anti-U.S. content to sow online discord during the ongoing Iran-U.S. war.
According to a report released Wednesday, at least 62 accounts across X, Bluesky and Instagram were found to have connections to the IRGC despite claiming to be users from the Americas, England, Scotland or Ireland. Though most accounts were less than 1 year old, some were created as far back as December 2023.
"All these accounts systematically amplify politically divisive content and disinformation aligned with IRGC narratives, and they are designed to exploit regional fault lines to advance Iranian regime interests," the report said.
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Prior to President Donald Trump and Israel's military strikes against Iran, most accounts largely focused on divisive domestic positions. However, after Feb. 28, once Israel and the U.S. launched surprise airstrikes against Iran, they began pushing pro-Tehran messages in favor of the regime.
"There is a coordinated inauthentic social-media campaign targeting online discourse around the war between Israel, the United States, and Iran," the report noted.
The accounts also used several AI-generated images and false videos pushing inaccurate reports on the ongoing strikes.
"It will be important to continue to monitor communities found to be at particular risk of foreign influence to mitigate potential harms to authentic discourse. This is particularly true at times of global crisis," the report concluded.
In a response to Fox News Digital, Bluesky confirmed that all the accounts listed in the report were taken down for violating community guidelines.
A Meta spokesperson reiterated the company's stance against content promoting terrorism and pointed out that, of the accounts listed in the report, one third of them were not active during the war while the remaining accounts have fewer than 2,000 followers combined.
"Meta prohibits coordinated inauthentic behavior and individuals and organizations tied to terrorism, and we remove violating accounts once we become aware of them," a Meta spokesperson said.
Fox News Digital also reached out to X for comment.
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Clemson University located 47 X accounts, nine Instagram accounts and five Bluesky accounts that fell into the IRGC "network."
The university found that X accounts alone created 59,403 original posts that were reposted thousands of times with organic engagement by thousands of followers, potentially reaching millions.
Illegal alien's violent tussle with federal officer leads to multiple charges after suspected Biden-era entry
The Justice Department filed a criminal complaint this week against a Venezuelan national accused of assaulting a federal officer and grabbing and possessing the officer's gun while resisting arrest outside a business earlier this month.
Law enforcement officers assigned to the Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Task Force, or HSTF, began surveillance near a business in Utica, Michigan, after receiving information that individuals living in the U.S. illegally were working at the site as delivery drivers.
Agents observed a vehicle registered to Arnoldo Jose Marquez-Pulido, 33, who was leaving the parking lot, and they determined he was in the country illegally, according to a press release from the Justice Department.
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After agents attempted a routine traffic stop, authorities say Marquez-Pulido briefly pulled over before fleeing from officers at a "high rate of speed."
He then returned to the business location, where he proceeded to flee on foot, the criminal complaint alleged.
An HSTF agent proceeded to tackle Marquez-Pulido after he allegedly ignored the agent's commands to stop and attempted to enter the business, the Justice Department said in a press release.
During the struggle, Marquez-Pulido is accused of striking the agent in the face with his elbow and reaching for the agent’s service weapon, identified as a "Glock 19" pistol. Prosecutors say he was able to remove the gun from the agent’s holster and briefly wield it before losing control of it as the agent regained leverage.
Additional officers responded and recovered the weapon from the ground. Authorities say Marquez-Pulido continued to resist before being restrained.
The agent sustained a contusion to his elbow, abrasions to his knees and hands and a contusion to his cheek, officials said. A second agent sustained a knee contusion. Both were treated at a hospital and released.
Marquez-Pulido was scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal court in Detroit this week, though prosecutors said they will seek to have him held in custody pending further proceedings.
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Marquez-Pulido is believed to have entered the U.S. at a San Ysidro, California, port of entry in 2024, without a visa or valid travel documents.
Federal prosecutors said the allegations against the Venezuelan national underscore the dangers that some officers face while seeking to crack down on border security and enforce a hardline immigration enforcement agenda that President Donald Trump has prioritized during his second White House term.
"Some say that enforcing our nation’s immigration laws is unfair because illegal aliens are all harmless," U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon of the Eastern District of Michigan said in a statement. "Today’s allegations break that narrative.
"High-speed flight from arrest, fighting federal agents and grabbing an agent’s gun are not ‘harmless,'" he added. "And what’s ‘unfair’ is the fact that Americans pay the price for dangerous illegal aliens."
The news comes as DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said assaults on officers have increased sharply and vowed to pursue individuals accused of violence against law enforcement.
Senate lawmakers remain sharply divided over how to proceed with fully funding DHS and ending the shutdown that stretched into its 27th day Thursday.
Immigration enforcement has emerged as a key sticking point for Democrats, in particular, as they continue to grapple over the specifics of a bill to fully fund the sprawling federal agency.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday he and most Democrats in the chamber were ready to fund "most of DHS," including TSA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FEMA and the Coast Guard but not Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency or CBP.
Schumer, for his part, has also accused Republicans in the chamber of blocking the bill due to disagreements over immigration, prompting a heated exchange with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
"I assume the Democrat leader is aware of the fact that we have tried repeatedly to fund everything temporarily to allow the negotiations over the ICE budget to continue," Thune shot back.
Fox News Digital's Alex Miller contributed to this report.
White House balks at new CBS staffer over Liz Cheney ties
The White House is peeved that CBS News has reportedly hired a former aide to ex-GOP congresswoman and longtime Trump nemesis Liz Cheney.
Cheney, who served as the third-highest ranking Republican in the House but was ousted from her role as GOP conference chair by her colleagues in 2021, has been a staunch critic of President Donald Trump.
She served as Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and her spokesperson throughout the probe was communications executive Jeremy Adler.
Adler will soon join CBS News’ press shop, according to Axios, and the White House is not pleased.
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"CBS just destroyed whatever ounce of credibility they had left by hiring [an aide to] a prosecutor who built her career trying to put President Trump in jail," a White House source told Fox News Digital.
Last year, CBS agreed to pay $16 million to Trump’s future presidential library or charitable causes to settle the president’s election interference lawsuit against the network over its handling of a "60 Minutes" interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing the network of election interference leading up to the 2024 contest.
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Many on the left feel CBS News has since catered to Trump because Paramount CEO David Ellison, who is known to be in good standing with the president and took control of the network shortly after the settlement, handpicked Bari Weiss to serve as CBS News’ top editor. But the reported hiring of Adler has rocked the boat.
"It’s really mind-boggling that Weiss and David Ellison would allow CBS to elevate such an unserious and dishonest person," the White House insider added, suggesting it was a "revenge hire."
CBS News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cheney, who for years had good standing within the Republican Party, became increasingly isolated from her GOP colleagues with her vocal criticism of Trump's conduct after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
She and fellow Trump critic Adam Kinzinger were tapped as the only two Republicans who sat on the Democrat-dominated Jan. 6 Committee. Their appointments made them darlings of the liberal media, and they were prominently featured in primetime hearings.
Cheney's criticism of Trump forced her out of GOP House Conference leadership and ultimately led to her primary defeat in the 2022 midterms against Harriet Hageman, a staunch supporter of Trump, losing by a whopping 66%-29% margin.
During the 2024 election, Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, endorsed Harris. The ex-lawmaker appeared alongside the Democratic nominee on the campaign trail.
California lawmakers demand reform as another serial child molester gets parole despite 355-year sentence
Officials in California are demanding changes to the state's parole system after another convicted serial child sex predator was granted early release after serving just 27 years of his 355-year sentence despite admitting to still fantasizing about boys.
Gregory Vogelsang, 57, was sentenced for molesting six boys in the 1990s between the ages of 5 and 11 before being granted early release under California's elderly parole program, according to Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho.
"The parole board is at it again," Ho told reporters, referring to the panel that granted parole to another serial child sex offender late last year. "This inmate will molest again. And yet this parole board is letting him out."
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In one case, Ho's office noted, a child said Vogelsang persuaded him to get into his vehicle under the pretense of helping pick out a gift. The child was driven to a home and repeatedly assaulted despite crying and asking him to stop.
When investigators found boys underwear in Vogelsang’s possession, he admitted they belonged to his victims and said he kept them for sexual stimulation, authorities said.
"He is a predator, and a lot of folks don't realize that," Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper said. "You don't rehabilitate sex offenders. Mr. Vogelsang belongs in prison for the rest of his life."
Another victim spent the night at Vogelsang’s home nearly every weekend for years because he was friends with Vogelsang’s family. During the visits, the abuse occurred repeatedly over an extended period of time.
Vogelsang groomed the boys by building trust with parents before inviting the children to sleepovers, buying them gifts and taking them on outings.
During his parole hearing, Vogelsang remarked on the urge to sexually assault a child.
"You have to stop masturbating to images of (a) child in your mind or real child pornography because that leads to molestation, and molestation leads to kidnapping. And the kidnapping leads ultimately to the murder of a child," he said, according to Ho.
The board's decision came despite Vogelsang having a risk assessment for future crimes was "above average," Ho said.
He was granted parole under the state's Elderly Parole Program, which allows inmates 50 or older who have served at least 20 consecutive years to receive a specialized parole suitability hearing.
State Assemblyman Tom Lackey, a Republican, called the parole board's decision "outrageous." He said he and other lawmakers were introducing a bill on "elderly parole" to keep offenders in prison longer.
California's parole system has come under fire after commissioners granted early release to another serial child sex predator. David Allen Funston, 64, was slated to walk free last month but was taken into custody after a warrant was issued for his arrest in Placer County for a separate offense, state officials confirmed.
Funston was serving a life sentence for his 1999 conviction of the kidnapping and child molestation involving multiple victims, when he was granted parole after a September 2025 hearing.
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The panel approved his early release despite him admitting that he still had repeated fantasies of an 8-year-old girl who used to live across the street from him.
"My question to anybody who will cite a statistic that these individuals don't re-offend. … Anybody wants to stand by those statistics. My question is, would you like Mr. Vogelstein or Mr. Funston to move into the house right next to you?" Ho said. "Would you allow that individual to take care of your kids? Would you allow that individual to babysit? Would you allow that individual to give your kid a ride?
"And if anybody who wants to cite those statistics and is willing to do that, then they probably should be charged for child endangering."
The board's recent decision to grant early release to Funston generated heavy criticism of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the parole system.
"Once again, Gavin Newsom’s hand-picked parole board has decided that a monster who preyed on young children deserves freedom after decades behind bars," Corrin Rankin, the chairwoman of the California Republican Party, told Fox News Digital.
"This insanity must stop now. Gov. Newsom needs to reverse this decision immediately, fire the commissioners who keep approving these releases and finally put victims and public safety first."
The parole board commissioners, Sheriff Cooper said, are letting the public down.
"They are horrible. I will say that out front," he said. "They are horrible after this case and the Funston case. They need to be gone, period."
Fox News Digital has reached out to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Newsom's office.
Trump admin's push to end controversial policy extended by Biden sparks backlash ahead of crucial deadline
A handful of immigrants and advocacy organizations are asking the Trump administration to extend its March 17 deadline to end the temporary protected status (TPS) afforded to Somalis in the U.S., arguing the administration is changing the immigration designation purely along lines motivated by race.
The change in designation would force roughly 1,080 Somali TPS recipients to self-deport or turn themselves in to immigration enforcement, according to a Tuesday filing before a Massachusetts district court.
"President Trump has smeared the Somali community publicly, categorically, and repeatedly. He has called Somali people ‘garbage’ and ‘low IQ people.’ And he has said point blank: ‘I don’t want [Somali people] in our country,’" the challenge states, referring to remarks President Donald Trump made at a Cabinet meeting last year.
"They reflect a desire to target and punish Somali nationals based on their race and national origin in violation of the U.S. Constitution."
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The suit was brought by African Communities Together and the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans and lists the Department of Homeland Security as a defendant.
Their challenge comes amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his administration’s continued focus on Somali populations in states like Minnesota, where alleged fraud activity has drawn national attention.
Trump has had an eye toward Somalia since his first term, when, in 2017, he included the country in a travel ban. That focus resurfaced in November 2025 amid news that a number of predominantly Somali-led fraud schemes had allegedly siphoned as much as $9 billion from Minnesota government assistance programs.
The news prompted Trump’s first move against Somali TPS.
"Minnesota is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. I am, as president of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota," Trump wrote in a November post on Truth Social.
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Outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem made the designation switch official in January.
Asked about the TPS designation in the wake of Noem’s recent ouster from the agency earlier this month, a DHS spokesperson confirmed the plans remained unchanged.
"Temporary means temporary. Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for temporary protected status. Allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests. The Trump administration is putting Americans first," an agency spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Under the Immigration Law of 1990, aliens protected by TPS are allowed to work in the United States and are shielded from removal as long as their country of origin is experiencing "temporary conditions" like war or natural disaster that would prevent their safe return. The attorney general may extend a country’s TPS status for 18 months at a time.
Somalia received TPS in 1991 and has held a TPS designation for 35 years.
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Tuesday’s filing argues dangerous conditions remain in place, citing terrorist activity from groups like Al-Shabaab listed in Somalia’s latest TPS extension.
"The 2024 redesignation noted that ‘Somalia continues to experience widespread insecurity due to armed conflict involving state and non-state actors’ … subjecting civilians to human rights abuses, including summary executions, indiscriminate and targeted killings, gender-based violence, child recruitment, disappearances and physical abuse," the plaintiffs argued.
DHS declined to comment on its on-the-ground assessments of Somalia’s local conditions.