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Rule Japanica: America and Japan are building the alliance China fears
These days, nobody does it better than Japan — especially from an American alliance perspective. From standing up to Chinese and Russian aggression to securing reliable supply chains, Japan and America are working together better, and with more urgency to coordinate and cooperate, than any other alliance around the world. In fact, Japan has pushed all its chips into the middle of the table to make an enormous existential bet on America. It’s time to say out loud what policymakers already acknowledge behind closed doors: for the United States, Japan has become the new special relationship in the world’s most important region.
Americans will always have a unique fondness for the United Kingdom where our history, values, and the bond of shared bloodshed, alongside family ties, will keep us forever close. And our intelligence relationship, which has no parallel in the world, will continue to make our alliance enormously beneficial to both Washington and London. However, in terms of pure military and economic value, the UK alliance provides far less than Japan. Given London’s recent economic pandering to Beijing, it has also become a far less reliable ally across the Indo-Pacific.
Geography matters. Japan, sitting at the center of the first island chain, constrains China’s access to the Western Pacific and secures U.S. access to the world’s most dynamic markets. Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s public statements have long implied a desire to push America out of the Pacific. When it comes to the deterrence of Chinese aggression and defense of the First Island Chain that the 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy sites as core priorities, Japan is irreplaceable and its naval forces long ago eclipsed those of the UK, Australia, or Europe. Other than Taiwan, no one else in the world is scrambling jets on a constant basis in the face of Chinese air incursions — 366 times in the last year. And when it comes to Taiwan, another vital U.S. interest given its geographic position and its centrality to the AI revolution, Japan is the most forward leaning. While other countries shy away from openly engaging with Taiwan, Tokyo is working with Taipei in public, is collaborating with the United States to reinforce deterrence, and is the most supportive of protecting the status quo across the Strait.
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Ensuring America has access to the Indo-Pacific matters, and without a strong U.S.-Japan alliance this too would be more problematic. Japan hosts approximately 60,000 U.S. service members and contractors, as well as another roughly 35,000 civilians — the largest US military presence outside America. Japan covers roughly 75% of those costs, an average payment of $1.5 billion per year from Tokyo under the current agreement, which is another large bet on America. Japan is also home to the only forward-deployed U.S. carrier strike group in the world, at Yokosuka naval base, providing formidable and constant deterrence near the Taiwan Strait.
And Japan continues to step up, heeding President Trump’s call for broader burden sharing. Japan’s military expenditure rose 9.7% to $62.2 billion in 2025. Under Prime Minister Takaichi’s leadership, Japanese defense spending reached 2% of GDP in 2026, two years ahead of schedule, receiving plaudits across Washington. Japan’s defense budget has set a new record for 12 consecutive years, and the current Defense Buildup Program allocates approximately $275 billion over five years through 2027. This is putting your money where your mouth is when it comes to an alliance.
Japan is also thinking strategically, making sure American allies have the weapons stocks they need by co-producing advanced U.S. weapons systems at scale. Together, we are expanding co-production plans for AIM-120 AMRAAMs and increasing production of SM-3 Block IIA interceptors in Japan by fourfold. This makes Japan a defense industrial partner, not just a consumer, adding to allied production capacity to make up for munitions shortfalls. Integrating 400 U.S. Tomahawk missiles into the Japanese navy alongside the 2025 deployment of the Typhon missile system to mainland Japan increases the Japan Self-Defense Force’s interoperability while introducing real counterstrike capabilities.
At the same time, Tokyo is undertaking the intelligence reforms needed to develop a world-class intelligence community, one that is capable of and should be a "Sixth Eye," a member of the currently Anglo-centric intelligence sharing club called the "Five Eyes" made up of US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. It’s a historic change for a country concerned with privacy and mindful of the lessons of the past, but it’s needed thanks to Chinese and Russian influence operations and will further tighten the U.S.-Japan Alliance.
Japan’s efforts don’t stop at its shores either. Following the successful Trump-Takaichi Summit in March, the Alliance has shifted into overdrive on critical minerals, establishing price floors, exploring new mining ventures, and bringing our private sectors together. At the same time, the Takaichi government has continued policies that shore up relations with Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, strategic arenas very much at play in the broader competition with China. In Europe, Japan has been a major donor to Ukraine as well, pledging $6 billion in 2026 alone and providing $8.7 billion in budget support since 2022. When it comes to Africa, Japan has pledged $30 billion since 2022, moving to business-oriented partnerships which place trade over aid, in line with Trump Administration policies.
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In recognition — or maybe fear — of our closeness, China has tried to squeeze Japan by repeatedly sailing into the Senkaku Islands and by restricting its access to critical minerals. Beijing has even detained Japanese businessmen in Beijing in blatant instances of hostage taking. The result has only been to harden Tokyo’s resolve and emphasize the urgency of acting in concert with America.
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We are truly in a golden moment with Japan, where we stand shoulder to shoulder to protect our shared interests, our supply chains, and defend our allies and partners across the globe from malign actors. In meeting after meeting, at levels high and low, it’s clear that Japanese and American officials see the world, both its opportunities and its threats, from the same clear-eyed perspective and agree on what to do about it.
Washington should acknowledge this by admitting Japan to the Five Eyes club when it’s ready, standing up multiple defense co-production facilities on Japanese soil, and working with Tokyo to develop critical minerals processing plants across the world with jointly-financed processing and offtake agreements.
If only every other relationship was this special.
America’s tipping culture has gone from rewarding service to fee insanity
I love old-school tipping; that is, letting a service provider know that you appreciate their outstanding service, whatever the realm may be, with a generous gratuity. It’s a great way for individuals to reward service providers who work hard and to signal your personal appreciation of the effort they have put in to your interaction.
However, tipping has morphed from a signal of good work to something that resembles a socialist experiment or the dreaded school group project: everyone expects the same outcome, regardless of their effort or the service they deliver.
When you order a cup of coffee at a counter today, they often present a screen asking you to include a tip. If tipping were acting as a price signal, as it should, then we would not know what to tip at the time of ordering. The tip would be given to a specific individual at the end of the experience, after you received your coffee, so that you could properly evaluate the experience and service to see if a tip is warranted, and if so, how much you would want to give.
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Making tipping an obligation upfront takes away the agency and valuable price signaling of tipping. In fact, it may be pooled with other tips and split by the group instead of rewarding the person who provided the service.
Tips, it seems, are being added to anything and everything. While it makes sense to tip your bellman who helps you with your bags to your room at a hotel, it does not make sense to tip on your e-commerce purchase, something I have seen popping up online from various retailers.
Additionally, many service businesses are abusing tipping, as well as other "service fees" and charges, to obfuscate pricing. Instead of raising their prices, some businesses are adding dressed-up fees to their bills. Customers want transparency in pricing, not to have to guess what the bill might be after all the added charges and fees.
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Cruise ships are adding "crew appreciation" charges. Restaurants are adding "surcharges" for reasons like "offsetting rising costs." That’s something that has typically been handled by increasing prices on the menu, transparently. Adding fees to the end of the bill doesn’t create loyalty; it feels like a business is pulling a fast one on you. Moreover, nobody likes to feel like they have been nickeled and dimed by a business.
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Many of these charges are touted as "optional," with the businesses noting that customers can ask to have them removed from their bills. That seems more like a humiliation ritual than a good business policy. A customer shouldn’t have to go out of their way not to be inundated by extra charges.
Now, of course, I do have sympathy for businesses and service workers. There are certainly some customers who do not tip appropriately, even when service is outstanding. If that’s the case and your employees aren’t making enough, a more sincere solution would be to raise your prices and pay employees higher wages, being straightforward and not appearing like you are taking advantage of customers, which is likely to affect tip amounts, too.
Tipping is a time-honored tradition, and we should hold it as such. That means treating service providers well and tipping generously for very good service, where it is customary. It also means pushing back on non-transparent pricing tricks and distorting traditional tipping customs that have morphed into fee insanity.
Russia pulled back from the Arctic, for now. NATO must act before those troops return
While serving as an infantry battalion and brigade operations officer in Alaska, I learned that the Arctic is among the most unforgiving battlefields on earth. Aircraft can deliver soldiers to remote areas, but they cannot improvise roads, fuel or supply units once the fighting begins. In extreme cold, poor preparation kills soldiers as surely as enemy fire.
That lesson returned as I studied recent satellite imagery from Russia's far north. Advanced air-defense systems are disappearing from established Arctic positions even as Russia pours concrete for barracks and depots closer to Finland and Norway.
The two trends look contradictory. They are not. Russian President Vladimir Putin is operating on two clocks: sustaining today’s war effort while building options for a confrontation on NATO's northern flank once the Ukraine conflict slows.
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Start with what Moscow is giving up. Near the Rogachevo airfield on Novaya Zemlya, Russia's Arctic archipelago, most air-defense assets at a longstanding missile position have been removed. Farther south, roughly two dozen S-300 and S-400 systems have disappeared from sites around Severodvinsk, the White Sea city where Russia builds and repairs nuclear submarines. Some protection may remain, but the reduction at these two vital locations is unmistakable. Russia is not abandoning the Arctic. It is accepting greater risk there.
Katarzyna Zysk, a professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, says the removals reflect "a growing mismatch" between the targets Russia must protect and its available launchers, interceptors and trained personnel.
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Moscow apparently judges that NATO is unlikely to launch an imminent large-scale attack on Russia’s far north. That calculation allows the Kremlin to thin its Arctic defenses without incurring what it considers unacceptable risk. The empty positions show what Putin believes he can afford to expose today, and the reason traces straight back to Ukraine.
Kyiv has imposed a tax on Russia's air defenses. Its long-range drones have threatened airfields, refineries and other facilities, forcing Russia to protect an expanding target list with a finite number of launchers, missiles and crews. Air-defense batteries have appeared near the repeatedly targeted Saratov oil refinery and even in Moscow city parks.
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The exact destination of each system can't be confirmed, but the pattern is plain: Russia is shifting scarce defenses toward the cities, refineries and sites it now considers most vulnerable. Every target that demands new protection leaves something else exposed, and every interceptor fired at a Ukrainian drone must be replaced.
Russia’s problem is no longer merely stopping attacks. It is deciding which targets matter most, and selected Arctic sites keep losing that argument. Russia's predicament is also NATO's warning: fixed air-defense sites, fuel depots and airfields are acutely vulnerable to drones and saturation attacks.
That triage helps explain the empty positions at Rogachevo and Severodvinsk. It does not explain the construction farther west, along NATO's newly expanded northern frontier. Satellite-based reporting shows expanding Russian military facilities along the Finnish and Norwegian frontiers.
At Pechenga, near the Norwegian and Finnish borders, an expanded base could eventually hold as many as 17,000 troops, up from roughly 7,000. Construction at Kandalaksha includes new barracks, ammunition depots and a headquarters facility, with activity also rising around Petrozavodsk in Karelia. Finland's army commander, Lt. Gen. Pasi Välimäki, has warned that Russian forces near the Finnish border could eventually grow from roughly 20,000 to 80,000.
That does not mean 80,000 troops are assembled there today; Russia remains committed to Ukraine, and buildings aren't battalions. But infrastructure changes what becomes possible. Barracks, fuel depots and rail connections determine how fast formations can arrive and how long they can fight. Moscow may lack the troops to fill these installations now, but it is making certain that a shortage of prepared bases will not limit its choices later.
Skeptics will argue that a military bogged down in Ukraine lacks the strength to open another major conventional front. They are right about Russia’s current limitations — and wrong if they conclude those limitations make it harmless. Moscow does not need to occupy a continent to create a crisis. It could seek temporary local superiority near a port, airfield or reinforcement corridor, combining sabotage, drones, cyberattacks and limited military action to test whether NATO responds as one.
Together, the empty missile positions and the expanding frontier bases reveal Moscow's sequence: defend the regime and the war effort now, and preserve the ability to regenerate and redeploy formations once the war slows, freezes or ends on terms that let Moscow rebuild.
The new bases do not prove Putin has decided to attack Finland or Norway; they show Moscow wants the capability available. NATO has a window between Russia's northern construction and Moscow's ability to fill it with regenerated forces, and that window will not stay open indefinitely.
The alliance has begun to use that window. The accession of Finland and Sweden has already strengthened NATO’s northern posture. In February, NATO launched Arctic Sentry to integrate allied activity across the High North; in June, it established Forward Land Forces Finland, pairing a Swedish battlegroup in Boden with a multinational staff in Rovaniemi. But new organizations matter only if they produce deployable capability, and what NATO needs now is a clear division of labor.
Europe should provide the conventional mass required to defend its own territory: ground forces, counter-drone defenses, hardened ports and civil preparedness. The United States should keep providing what Europe cannot quickly replace: space-based intelligence, undersea surveillance, integrated air and missile defense and the nuclear deterrent underwriting the alliance.
That division of labor requires an orderly transition, not a politically driven pullback. Washington should preserve the bases, intelligence links and logistics nodes that make reinforcement possible even as European allies assume more of the conventional ground burden.
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In any northern conflict, logistics would shape the outcome before the first shots were fired. Deterrence in the High North rests not on summit declarations but on ports that remain open, rail lines that keep functioning, fuel that reaches the front and interceptors that can be replaced within the first week, not the first year.
The Arctic punishes every planning failure: soldiers cannot fight if their vehicles will not start, their fuel freezes or their aircraft cannot land. The side that can move, supply and replace forces across the High North holds the advantage before the first brigade ever crosses a border.
Empty missile positions do not mean Russia is retreating. Unfinished barracks do not mean war is imminent. Together, they show Moscow accepting vulnerability now to preserve military options later. NATO must use the interval before those options become deployable. The time to prepare the Arctic is before the troops arrive.
Judge limits BBC from relitigating Jan 6 in Trump lawsuit over misleading documentary edit
A federal judge last week drew a sharp line around President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, ruling the broadcaster can probe how Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, speech was understood by the public — but cannot relitigate the riot at the U.S. Capitol itself.
The ruling was handed down by U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett as the BBC faces continued scrutiny over a 2024 "Panorama" documentary about Trump’s speech on Jan. 6.
The documentary — titled "Trump: A Second Chance?" — was subsequently labeled as misleading by critics who noticed it omitted Trump’s call for supporters to protest peacefully at the Capitol. The documentary stitched together remarks Trump made nearly an hour apart during his address that made it appear as if he had told his supporters to "fight like hell" down at the Capitol — the comments were actually out of context — shortly before the Capitol riot that day.
"All of the impressions that were received by President Trump’s statements on Jan 6 are at issue," Lett said at the hearing, according to reports. "The full relitigation of Jan. 6 is not at issue."
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A source close to Trump's legal team, which has accused the BBC of a "fishing expedition," said the judge's decision on that specific item was significant.
"It's important because this case is about a very limited splicing that consisted of nine seconds of a more than 50-minute speech and, rather than focus just on that, the BBC is trying to distract the judge, ultimately the jurors in this case, from that very limited scenario, and what they're trying to do is expand the scope of this case to litigate January 6 simply to take the attention off of them for their own wrongful conduct," the source told Fox News Digital.
"And so when the judge made that determination that that's not going to happen, that eliminated the primary defense that the BBC was seeking to employ in this case, which was to create a distraction, to make this case into something that was just going to be unmanageable and unnecessary, which is, 'We're going to try the whole January 6 case here.' The BBC has no standing, legal standing or any basis to bring such a defense."
Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC in December in a personal capacity for both defamation and for a violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece, seeking $10 billion total.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Trump’s lawyers argued in a Miami courtroom that the president’s intent and third-party interpretations of his remarks were irrelevant because the lawsuit only points to the exact words Trump used in his speech, according to Politico.
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"What matters is what he said relative to what was broadcast that he said. That’s it. There’s nothing more that needs to be examined," Trump attorney Alejandro Brito reportedly said.
Brito cited the written apology penned by BBC Chairman Samir Shah to Trump last year, in which Shah admitted that the documentary "gave the mistaken impression that [Trump] had made a direct call for violent action."
"He acknowledged the falsity," Brito told the judge, according to the outlet.
However, Sasha Dudding, an attorney for the BBC, noted that Shah had deemed the misleading edit as unintentional, and argued that the intent behind Trump’s speech is fair game for the outlet’s attorneys to investigate, Politico reported.
Dudding pointed to Trump’s own denial within the lawsuit, in which he asserted that he was not responsible for his supporters carrying out the riot at the Capitol, according to Politico.
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Ultimately, Lett ruled that while the BBC can delve into the interpretation of Trump’s speech by his supporters, the trial will not re-examine the cause or legality of the actual riot.
The judge also determined that the BBC overstepped in some instances regarding requests to examine the findings of several investigations into Jan. 6, the outlet reported.
The issue surrounding the documentary’s editing integrity comes after a report from The Telegraph revealed excerpts from a whistleblower dossier compiled by Michael Prescott, a communications advisor hired by the BBC to review its editorial standards.
The whistleblower alleged the network’s documentary spliced two separate comments made by Trump nearly an hour apart on the day of the Capitol riot, which erroneously implied that the president was calling for violence from his supporters.
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"We're going to walk down to the Capitol. And I'll be there with you. And we fight — we fight like hell," the documentary showed Trump saying, without noting that the statement had been edited.
In reality, Trump said, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol. And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong."
Trump called on his supporters 54 minutes later to "fight like hell" for election integrity.
The controversy ultimately led to the resignations of BBC CEO Deborah Turness and Director-General Tim Davie last year.
What drove the majority of media attention and headlines this week was Lett ordering Trump to hand over financial information as part of the suit, according to Politico.
"All of President Trump’s brand, properties and businesses are impugned or said to have been impugned. Reputational, economic damages, all of that is now at issue in this case," Lett reportedly said.
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Lett reportedly based the ruling on Trump’s argument that his businesses were negatively impacted by the network’s coverage, thus presenting the opportunity for the BBC to delve into the financial records of over 400 companies controlled by a Trump family trust.
This was widely covered as a significant blow to Trump. Headlines included MS NOW's "BBC to access Trump’s financial records as his dubious lawsuit starts to backfire," The Daily Mail's "Trump suffers humiliating legal blow in $10 billion BBC lawsuit," and The Guardian's "Trump must divulge financial details about businesses in $10bn BBC lawsuit."
However, a source close to the Trump legal team says the judge's order is "far more limiting" than what's been reported, saying she still must enter an order specifying what she'd require as part of the discovery process.
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"The judge made it abundantly clear that although she's going to require certain financial information to be disclosed relating to the trust and the companies that are operated by the trust, that's not as broad as the BBC would like," the source told Fox News Digital. "At the end of the day, the financial information that they're seeking with regard to the Trump Organization has nothing to do with this case … We simply are viewing this in a way that's going to be far more narrowed and tailored than what's being reported."
Trump's team is now arguing he's only seeking amends for damage to his reputation rather than to businesses under his umbrella.
"This case is not going to be about any damage caused to the Trump Organization. It's always been about the damage caused to President Trump," the source close to Trump's team said.
While Lett reportedly said she does not possess the power to drop the business damages allegations from the suit, Trump can appeal the decision to one of his own appointees, U.S. District Court Judge Roy Altman.
The BBC, meanwhile, has argued the case should be dismissed on the grounds that a Florida court has no jurisdiction over what the British broadcaster aired across the ocean.
Fox News Digital reached out to the BBC for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood contributed to this report.
Katy Perry blasts White House for using hit song 'Firework' she sold in $225M catalog deal
Katy Perry blasted the White House for using her hit 2010 song "Firework" in a TikTok video without her permission, years after the pop star sold the majority of her music catalog in a reported $225 million deal.
On Thursday, the White House TikTok account shared a video featuring black and white footage of recent military strikes on Iranian targets, timed to the "boom, boom, boom" lyric from "Firework."
"Iran has been warned," the caption read, along with a firework emoji.
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In an X, formerly Twitter, post that she shared on Saturday, the 41-year-old pop star condemned the inclusion of her song in the clip.
"I am deeply appalled and angry to see ‘Firework’ used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes," Perry wrote. "I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it."
"I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments," she continued. "To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for."
"My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare," Perry concluded.
The White House's post comes as President Donald Trump's administration remains locked in a tense standoff with Iran following recent U.S. military strikes and ongoing diplomatic efforts to prevent further escalation.
When reached for comment, the White House directed Fox News Digital to an X post by Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Communications Director Kaelan Dorr.
In a reply to Perry's post, Dorr shared a montage of clips from the music video for the singer's 2012 song "Part of Me" in which the 13-time Grammy Award nominee was seen joining the U.S. Marines and undergoing military training alongside other service members.
"This you?" Dorr wrote alongside the video.
In September 2023, Perry sold her music catalog rights covering her first five studio albums to Litmus Music, a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group, in a deal reportedly worth $225 million. The agreement included her interests in the master recording royalties and music publishing rights for "One of the Boys" (2008), "Teenage Dream" (2010), "PRISM" (2013), "Witness" (2017) and "Smile" (2020).
Released in 2010 as the third single from "Teenage Dream," "Firework" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks and became one of the biggest hits of her career. The song's success helped "Teenage Dream" tie Michael Jackson's "Bad" as the only albums in history to produce five number one singles.
Along with "Firework," the sale also encompassed many of Perry's other mega-hit singles, including "I Kissed A Girl," "Hot N' Cold," "Roar," "California Gurls" and "Dark Horse."
Perry is the latest artist to clash with the Trump administration over the use of their songs in official social media posts. Other musicians who have recently objected include Ariana Grande, Kesha, Sabrina Carpenter, Céline Dion, Bruce Springsteen and others.
In June, Grande slammed the Trump administration for using her song "Bye" in a TikTok video depicting Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests, writing in the comments section: "please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. f-- ice."
The White House later fired back at the "Wicked" star in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
"We’ll say this one last time: what’s actually barbaric, inhumane, and heinous are the criminal illegal aliens who have injured and murdered innocent American citizens," White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.
However, the song was later removed from the video.
In March, Kesha denounced the White House on social media after it used her 2010 hit "Blow" in a TikTok video showing a fighter jet launching a missile at a naval target, saying the administration was using her music to "incite violence and threaten war."
"Trying to make light of war is disgusting and inhumane," Kesha wrote on X.
The "Die Young" singer said she "absolutely" does not "approve of my music being used to promote violence of any kind."
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"Love always trumps hate. Please love yourself and each other in times like this. This show of blatant disregard for human life and, quite frankly, this attack on all of our nervous systems is the opposite of what I stand for," the post continued.
At the time, Dorr responded in an X post in which he wrote, "Kesha quotes are like Popeye's spinach to this team. Memes? They'll continue. Winning? Will also continue."
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also spoke about the topic on X, writing, "All these 'singers' keep falling for this. This just gives us more attention and more view counts to our videos because people want to see what they're b----ing about. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
Three dead, 2-year-old boy among 5 others injured in Seattle Center mass shooting
A suspect was taken into custody and police were searching for a second suspect after three people were killed and four others were wounded Sunday in a mass shooting at the Seattle Center, according to Mayor Katie Wilson and police.
Wilson called the shooting "an act of horrific violence."
"Impacted families are living through the worst moment of their lives, and an entire community is trying to understand how a gathering built around culture, connection, and joy ended in gunfire," Wilson said in a statement. "No one should have to weigh the risk of being shot before attending an event, gathering with friends, or experiencing their city."
Police and emergency crews began arriving at the center shortly after 6 p.m. The venue was hosting the Bite of Seattle food festival over the weekend.
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"Please avoid the area," Seattle Police wrote on X.
Police said one suspect has been arrested and they are searching for another. Investigators believe the two were shooting at each other and there is no ongoing threat to the public.
The Seattle Fire Department said two people were pronounced dead at the scene after attempting life-saving procedures.
Three other victims, including a 2-year-old, were transported to a hospital in stable condition, while a fourth victim was taken to the hospital in serious condition, the fire department said, adding that a fifth victim with minor injuries declined to be transported by first responders.
But officials have since updated the death toll to three without specifying which was the latest victim.
Harborview Medical Center spokesperson Susan Gregg said the injuries to the four patients involved an arm, abdomen and legs.
"Our first responsibilities are supporting grieving families, caring for the injured, and providing clear and accurate information for the public," the mayor said.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said he was receiving briefings and State Patrol SWAT officers responded to the scene to assist Seattle Police. He also urged residents to avoid the area and follow law enforcement instructions.
"My prayers are with the families of the victims, and the responders as they work to keep people safe," the governor said on X.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Seattle Police Department for additional information.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said she was "absolutely horrified" by the shooting.
My heart goes out to the victims and their families, and all those impacted by this senseless violence.
"I am grateful to the officers and first responders who are at the scene and working to protect our community, as well as the frontline medical professionals who are treating survivors," she said on X. "Tonight, we grieve with our community in Seattle as well as those around the country affected by gun violence and mass shootings."
King County Executive Girmay Zahilay similarly said he was "horrified" by the violence.
"As someone who grew up in this community, I know what this event means to so many families, young people, and neighbors across our region," he said in a statement. "For years, the Bite has been one of Seattle's signature summer traditions. To see violence at a place that brings so many people together is heartbreaking and unacceptable."
Kayla Carris, 22, said she was sitting outside the Armory at the Bite of Seattle when people began to scream and run for cover inside the Seattle Center Armory.
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"Everyone was just throwing stuff and running," Carris told The Seattle Times. "Like everyone."
Todd Behrends, 59, said he heard what appeared to be several rounds of shots.
People began running and jumping over each other to escape, Behrends told the outlet. One woman fell, and someone stepped on her leg.
Behrends said he saw a woman on the ground and a man on a stretcher as he ran toward an exit.
Harborview Medical Center is on modified lockdown for the victims’ safety following the mass casualty incident, according to an email sent to staff, The Seattle Times reported.
The Seattle Center Monorail was also closed for the remainder of Sunday.
Newborn vanished after secret birth, parents allegedly claimed baby 'was a prank': cops
A Florida couple accused of claiming their missing infant never existed has been arrested in North Carolina after a yearlong investigation into the child’s presumed death.
Leon Alejandro Jr., 21, and Samantha Feliz, 20, both of Hollywood, Florida, were arrested Wednesday in Rockingham, North Carolina, where investigators say they fled while Hollywood police investigated the disappearance of their infant.
The pair were taken into custody by investigators with the Richmond County Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Marshals Service and booked into the Richmond County Jail on fugitive of justice warrants. They are being held without bond pending extradition to Florida.
Hollywood police began investigating the case in early 2025 after learning Feliz allegedly gave birth sometime between Dec. 6, 2024, and Jan. 5, 2025, according to the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
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Authorities said the birth was concealed and happened somewhere other than a hospital.
Investigators said family members saw the couple with the baby during the child's first month of life. After that, authorities said, the infant was never seen again.
According to an arrest warrant obtained by WPLG, investigators believe the child, identified only by the initials A.F., was last photographed on Jan. 5, 2025. Detectives wrote that the infant appeared "visibly ill and malnourished" and showed "no signs of life" in what they described as the final known image.
The warrant also alleges investigators searched multiple locations with cadaver dogs but were unable to locate the child's remains, according to the outlet.
Authorities allege Alejandro and Feliz repeatedly denied the child existed, telling relatives the baby "was a prank" and later claiming the pregnancy had been a "hoax" intended to scam family members out of money, WPLG reported, citing the arrest warrant.
According to the outlet, investigators said photographs showed Feliz visibly pregnant, while text messages discussed the pregnancy and the baby.
Detectives also reportedly recovered baby clothing, a positive pregnancy test and what appeared to be blood-stained towels from a storage unit tied to the couple. DNA testing later determined blood recovered from the baby clothing and towels belonged to a biological child of Alejandro and Feliz, according to the warrant.
Despite the lack of a birth certificate or medical records, investigators said they developed enough evidence to charge both suspects with aggravated manslaughter of a child, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, failure to report a death to the medical examiner, providing false information concerning a missing child and making false reports to law enforcement.
Authorities allege the couple fled Florida and were living on property belonging to one of Alejandro's relatives in Richmond County when investigators located and arrested them July 22.
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Richmond County Sheriff Mark Gulledge praised the multi-agency effort that led to the arrests.
"This is a prime example of agencies nationwide collaborating to uphold justice," Gulledge said in a statement.
Authorities have not publicly released additional details about what investigators believe happened to the infant.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Richmond County Sheriff's Office for any additional updates on the investigation, but did not immediately receive a response.
Jalen Brunson's Knicks status on full display as he walks in venue with wife while Nets star checks guest list
There are levels to everything, even when you are a professional athlete.
Just look at what happened when Jalen Brunson, an NBA champion with the New York Knicks, and Michael Porter Jr., who stars for the Brooklyn Nets on the other side of town, arrived at a venue in a video that has since gone viral.
Brunson, who was alongside his wife, Ali, happened to arrive at a World Cup after-party hosted by Justin Bieber in New York City at the same time as Michael Porter Jr., who was with his former Denver Nuggets teammate Peyton Watson.
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Porter may make more than Brunson per season ($40.8 million per season compared to $37.7 million), but the latter has achieved the ultra-rare "King of New York" status.
That means Brunson and his wife don’t need to wait in a queue or make sure they’re on a guest list when arriving anywhere. Porter, on the other hand, had to do just that.
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The video shows Porter and Watson, who are both champions in their own right after winning the NBA title in 2023 with the Nuggets, needing to check in at the front door of the venue.
Meanwhile, the Brunson couple walked right through the front door, as camera flashes lit up the area right away.
"Mr. Brunson, how are you?" the security guard at the front door said to the NBA Finals MVP.
In New York lore, playing for the Knicks carries a certain weight compared to being in Brooklyn with the Nets. For one, the Knicks are the more iconic franchise, playing in "The Mecca" that is Madison Square Garden. The history, the rabid fans, and of course, this particular group led by Brunson winning the first title in 53 years, has electrified the city more than the Nets have.
The Nets moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn in 2012, and though they’ve had some teams with solid NBA All-Stars since then, they are never expected to take over the percentage of Knicks fans across the five boroughs.
The Nets have been in rebuild mode for the past three seasons, including Porter Jr.’s first during the 2025-26 campaign with Brooklyn. While he enjoyed career highs in points (24.2 per game) and assists (3), the team went 20-62 to finish third-to-last in the Eastern Conference.
Porter Jr. and Watson didn’t have trouble getting in after checking with the guest list coordinator, but the comparison between the Knicks and Nets got its latest debate topic.
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NY circus performer airlifted to hospital after colleague's arrow misses target, strikes his neck
A circus performer was airlifted to a hospital after his colleague missed her target and hit him in the neck with an arrow while performing in New York, according to authorities.
The incident happened as Edwin Cuervo Rangel, 38, and Ana Daza Tavera, 42, were performing at the Orange County Fair in the town of Wallkill at around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, New York State Police said in a press release.
Cuervo Rangel and Daza Tavera are married, according to News 12.
The two performers from Wisconsin were doing a stunt when Daza Tavera shot an arrow at a foam target that Cuervo Rangel was holding, according to police.
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The arrow struck and injured Cuervo Rangel, police said.
Cuervo Rangel was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center in stable condition.
No other injuries were reported.
A ringmaster for the traveling show company, Circus Murcia, later said the arrow hit Cuervo Rangel in his neck.
"Well, last night, unfortunately, when she shot the crossbow, it caught him in his neck," Circus Murcia Ringmaster Benjamin Jackson told News 12.
"The good news is, she caught him right at the very corner of the neck. There was no blood, nothing," he added.
Circus Murcia owner Alexander Murcia said Cuervo Rangel is expected to make a full recovery.
"Our thoughts remain with him during his recovery, and we sincerely appreciate the outstanding care provided by the first responders, medical team, and everyone who assisted," Murcia told the Hudson Valley Post.
Fox News Digital reached out to Circus Murcia for comment.
Police said the incident remains under investigation.
The Orange County Fair opened on Thursday and is scheduled to be open daily through Aug. 2.
The Big Top Circus featuring Circus Murcia is new to the fair this year, featuring "breathtaking acrobatics, daring aerial performances, and world-class circus artistry," according to the fair's website.
Nevada man dies at famed Sequoia National Park trail after sudden emergency
An elderly man reportedly died Thursday after suffering a medical emergency on a popular hiking trail in California's Sequoia National Park.
The victim was identified as 79-year-old John Francis Oliver of Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office said, according to Your Central Valley.
Oliver was found along the General Sherman Tree Trail, a one-mile path that leads to the world's largest living tree, the General Sherman Tree, according to the outlet, citing the National Park Service (NPS).
First responders rendered emergency medical aid to Oliver at the scene, but the man was eventually pronounced dead in the park, according to SFGATE.
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The Tulare County Sheriff's Office declined to release additional details about what led to the medical emergency or the circumstances surrounding Oliver's death "out of respect for the family," SFGATE reported.
The man’s cause of death has also not yet been determined.
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The incident came as temperatures in the region climbed into the upper 90s, according to the National Weather Service.
An extreme heat warning was also in effect Thursday for portions of the nearby Mojave Desert and Indian Wells Valley.
Thursday's death marks the latest in a string of fatal incidents at Sequoia National Park and nearby areas in recent months.
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In June, a 17-year-old girl died after slipping into a fast-moving river during her first visit to Sequoia National Park, according to a GoFundMe.
In neighboring Kings Canyon National Park, a San Mateo couple drowned at Roaring River Falls in May, according to Fox 2 San Francisco.
Last summer, NPS also said a local missing hiker, 36, was found dead in Sequoia National Park.
Fox News Digital contacted the National Park Services and the Sequoia National Park for more information.