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Kentucky governor calls on McConnell to prove he is fit to serve or resign: 'Address the people'
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, is demanding that Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., prove he is fit to continue serving in Congress after he was discharged this week following a lengthy hospital stay or resign from office.
In a letter to McConnell, the governor urged the 84-year-old senator to directly address the people of Kentucky about his ability to serve.
"I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign," Beshear wrote to McConnell.
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Beshear made the demand after McConnell’s office announced on Monday that he had been discharged from the hospital but had not yet been medically cleared to leave the rehabilitation facility where he has been undergoing physical therapy and return to office.
The senator's office said he would miss a major Kentucky political event and upcoming Senate votes.
"I'm still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders. Unfortunately, that means I won’t be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky, this Saturday ... As always, I appreciate all of your continued well wishes, and I’m looking forward to getting back to the Senate and to Kentucky soon," McConnell said in a statement.
McConnell was hospitalized on June 14 and later revealed that it was due to a fall at his home.
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"Since his discharge from hospital care, he has maintained a strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation, including multiple sessions a day designed to rebuild strength and reduce the risk of future falls. His bout with childhood polio continues to be a significant factor in his mobility. He is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office," the Attending Physician's office said in a statement.
Beshear first urged McConnell earlier this month to release more information about his health after weeks of no public comments.
The governor also sent a letter on Tuesday to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., calling on him to investigate McConnell’s condition if the senator does not prove that he is capable of continuing his term.
"All of this speculation and even this letter could have been avoided with a minimal amount of transparency," Beshear wrote to Thune.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the offices of Beshear, McConnell and Thune.
Since he was hospitalized last month, McConnell's office has issued major updates on July 12 and July 27, with each notice featuring a photograph.
This comes amid intensified public scrutiny of aging elected officials in recent years over mental gaffes and deaths in office.
Former Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., died in 2023 and former Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., died earlier this month. Former President Joe Biden suspended his re-election campaign in 2024 in the face of bipartisan pressure due to his age and mental acuity. President Donald Trump's fitness to serve has also been questioned by Democrats who have raised concerns about his mental acuity, age and health, pointing to various gaffes, several hospital visits and visible bruises on his hands.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Caitlin Clark erupts for 32 points as Fever hold off Storm to complete season-series sweep
The Seattle Storm had struggled at home entering Tuesday night, carrying a 4-10 record at Climate Pledge Arena into their third matchup of the season with the visiting Indiana Fever.
The Storm’s home-court woes continued Tuesday night as the Fever earned a 103-95 road win behind Caitlin Clark’s team-high 32 points. Natisha Hiedeman led all scorers with 33 for Seattle.
Clark's backcourt running mate Kelsey Mitchell also had a strong shooting night, going 9 for 18 from the field to record 28 points.
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Indiana raced out to a 17-point lead after the first quarter, but Seattle regrouped after halftime and cut the deficit to four entering the fourth.
But the Storm's rally largely stopped in the final period as Indiana improved to 18-10 on the season.
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Fever star center Aliyah Boston exited early with an apparent knee injury after landing awkwardly.
Boston set a screen in the second quarter and rolled toward the basket before getting tangled with Flau’jae Johnson and falling down.
Boston landed hard on the court and quickly grabbed her right knee as officials called a foul on the play. She was helped off the floor and later ruled out after initially being listed as questionable to return.
The Fever's West Coast trip continues Friday with a meeting against the Portland Fire.
Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband details pill use as expert says evidence could shape murder trial
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Prosecutors appeared to begin chipping away at the defense’s portrayal of Lindsay Clancy as overmedicated, walking jurors through nine prescription bottles that still contained many of the pills she had been given.
Patrick Clancy testified Monday that his ex-wife had been prescribed numerous psychiatric medications in the months before the deaths of their three young children. But under questioning from Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham, he acknowledged that several prescriptions had been only partly used.
"So there were a lot of pills prescribed, but not a lot of pills taken. Correct?" Buckingham asked, holding up a bag of prescription medications.
"Is that comprehensive?" Patrick responded. "Of all the pills that were prescribed?"
"These are the pills that you brought into the police station," Buckingham said. "So out of these."
"Out of those, yeah," Patrick said. "It’s possible that not a lot were taken."
Buckingham also sought to distinguish between the total number of medications prescribed over several months and how many Lindsay was prescribed at one time.
Patrick estimated that she was taking three or four medications at most. Buckingham then asked whether it would surprise him to learn that Lindsay was prescribed no more than three medications at any given time and usually two.
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"It wouldn’t be terribly surprising, no," Patrick said.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani said the questioning appeared designed to prevent the defense from controlling how jurors view the cocktail of medications that Lindsay Clancy was prescribed in the months before authorities say she strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, inside the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023.
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"An important part of being a good prosecutor is not just proving your case, but anticipating the defense’s arguments," Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Fox News Digital. "The prosecution wants to get out ahead of that potentially bad evidence by arguing that even though she was prescribed all these meds, she wasn't prescribed them at the same time. At most, she was prescribed two, three, maybe four medications at once and importantly, she wasn't taking them."
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Rahmani said prosecutors appeared to be getting ahead of the defense’s claim that Lindsay’s changing prescriptions contributed to her alleged psychosis.
"The last thing you want is the defense to gain control of the key piece of evidence," he said. "It can be O.J.’s glove or a bag of pills."
Rahmani said the next phase will likely focus on how long Lindsay took each medication, when she stopped taking it and how many drugs she was prescribed at once.
"It’s not uncommon for psychiatrists to try different medications and stop them when they stop working," he said. "So how long was she on the Zoloft versus the Ativan versus the Seroquel? How many pills was she taking? I think the prosecution is gonna argue that Lindsay and her doctors were trying to get her better, and the fact that she wasn't on all these pills at once really shows that the defense is trying to mislead the jury."
The defense has argued that Lindsay was suffering from psychosis and was not criminally responsible when she strangled her three young children. Prosecutors, meanwhile, framed the mom of three as a calculated killer, saying that Clancy's children were "deliberately and meticulously killed."
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Buckingham alleged that Clancy deliberately sent Patrick from their Duxbury home to pick up medication and takeout food, giving herself enough time to strangle each child with an exercise band before attempting to kill herself.
During opening statements, defense attorney Kevin Reddington conceded that Clancy killed the children but argued that the only meaningful dispute is what was happening inside her mind.
"She knows that she killed these children," Reddington told jurors. "The issue for consideration is what was going on in that woman’s mind."
Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, has pleaded not guilty to three counts each of murder and strangulation.
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Judge William Sullivan told jurors that the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy was criminally responsible when the children were killed.
Bret Bielema roasts Nick Saban, SEC, at Big Ten media days: 'They want to live in 2005 forever'
Well if there's one thing we can be sure of with the 2026 college football season, it's that the budding rivalry between the Big Ten and SEC is only going to get more intense.
At SEC media days recently, several prominent figures spent lengthy press conferences telling anyone who would listen that the SEC deserves all 16 teams in the College Football Playoff. In fact, maybe they'd consider inducting an honorary 17th member if necessary, just to ensure a fair assessment of strength of schedule.
Lane Kiffin, Steve Sarkisian and Greg Sankey all were at the very top of their high horses, explaining that SEC teams are automatically superior, even if they lose more games and play poorly against bad teams, and that the College Football Playoff selection committee has not shown the conference the proper respect.
Lost in all these comments is the inconvenient truth that the SEC has not earned that respect by winning more games against other Power Four teams in the playoff than it has lost. But thankfully for them, Illinois Fighting Illini head coach Bret Bielema is here to remind them.
Bielema at Big Ten media days had some harsh words for the SEC and commissioner Sankey in his introductory comments, saying they're looking to "protect" the conference.
"(Greg) Sankey, I know he's gotta protect the SEC and they kinda wanna live in 2005 forever..."
"I think the forward thinking in college football is an awesome thing."
He said that two "components" have altered the sport dramatically, the transfer portal and NIL, which has leveled the playing field between schools. Though he did stop short of saying the SEC may have had some financial advantages over other conferences before the introduction of NIL.
"Basically the two biggest things, the biggest components are the transfer portal and revenue share, NIL, however you want to describe it — when those two elements came into college football, the whole world changed," he said.
He also brought up specific examples of players who came to Illinois because of NIL, players that would not have picked Champaign-Urbana if not for those opportunities.
"The last three years — the quarterback I have now, we would not have gotten in the world that existed five years ago. I know that," he added. "Neither would my left tackle, my left guard, my center, and my right tackle wouldn't be here playing for me. And you go around to every team, and the rosters have changed because of those two components: the transfer rule and revenue share. It's a different world. Anything beyond that is nonsense."
This wasn't Bielema's only, uh, brush with the SEC recently. Last week, he took a shot at Nick Saban over Saban's defense of his former conference.
On "Get Up ESPN," Saban turned his back on the arguments that the SEC has long made to define itself as the best conference in the sport, saying that winning championships isn't the most important outcome. A stark contrast from when the SEC was winning championships.
"Whoever wins the National Championship doesn't define who has the best conference," Saban said. "I think the best conference gets defined by how many good teams you have from top to bottom."
Well Bielema saw those comments and shared them with a picture of the 21-17 Illinois win over South Carolina in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl and the 30-28 win over Tennessee in the Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl, adding, "I agree with you coach and appreciate you bringing this up……"
Ouch.
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There is something to be said for this argument, too, because the SEC's "depth" seems to be consistently overrated, at least in recent years' samples. Teams like Missouri, for example, did not win a single game over a team with a winning record in 2026. But because they play in the SEC, they were ranked at times throughout the regular season, including by the selection committee. Treated as part of the impressive "depth," despite literally never leaving the central time zone all season, not playing a road game until October 18, and giving themselves four free wins with their non-conference schedule.
Tennessee, too, did not beat a team with a winning record. That doesn't mean the Volunteers were bad, necessarily, but they are under the protection of their conference logo patch, which gives them additional depth points.
What really matters is that the SEC is just 2-7 against other Power Four conferences in the College Football Playoff in the NIL era, while the Big Ten is 9-3. It's not just the championships, it's clear that the SEC has fallen behind in the NIL era. Just ask Bret Bielema, he'll happily remind you.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vows to visit New York despite Mamdani's repeated calls for his arrest
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear that he has no plans to cancel his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani's repeated calls for his arrest if he were to visit the Big Apple.
"I'm going to New York," Netanyahu said during an interview with "Hannity" following his White House meeting with President Donald Trump Tuesday.
"I'm going to speak the truth in front of this hate-spewing elected official who's pitting one group of New Yorkers against the others. He's turning them against New York Jews."
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Mamdani has long criticized Netanyahu over alleged atrocities committed by Israeli forces in military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon.
He recently called Netanyahu a "war criminal" and "the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people." Tens of thousands of Gazans were killed in the war.
While Mamdani acknowledged that city officials lack the legal authority to arrest him under the International Criminal Court's (ICC) warrant, the mayor urged federal officials to do so.
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Netanyahu, in turn, has accused Mamdani of fomenting hate and denounced his rhetoric, saying he is purposefully attempting to turn the people of New York against its Jewish population.
"What are we in the 1930s? What is this? So much hate, so many lies," Netanyahu told host Sean Hannity.
Meanwhile, Trump has criticized Israel’s continued strikes in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, saying "too many people are being killed," and New York City's former Mayor Bill de Blasio joined Mamdani’s calls to arrest the Israeli leader.
Netanyahu slammed the ICC as a "corrupt, evil organization" and questioned why it calls him a war criminal and not Hamas.
"They don't charge Hezbollah… Supposedly, they charged Hamas , but a guy who's already dead. So no, it's fake. It's one big fake," he told Fox News.
The Israeli leader warned the ICC, an "unelected bureaucracy," could classify President Trump, or even U.S. servicemembers as war criminals.
"They could say that the president of the United States is a war criminal, that American soldiers – valiantly fighting next to us, shoulder to shoulder, against the tyranny in Tehran – that they're war criminals."
Netanyahu also told "Hannity" about his meeting with President Trump, describing it as "one of the best meetings" he has ever had with the president.
"I always hate to disappoint our would-be critics who are trying to find cracks in our alliance. And what they find, like today, is a wall of granite," he said.
"We don't want to see this fanatic regime in Tehran have nuclear weapons to threaten every American and to threaten the peace of the world, and to threaten the existence of Israel," he continued. "So we have a common goal, and it's gonna be achieved, either through diplomatic means or other means."
Netanyahu will appear on the next episode of "Hang Out with Sean Hannity," available this Thursday to watch on YouTube, Spotify and Apple.
Zelenskyy says Putin 'lost the initiative' as Ukraine's tech industry reshapes the war
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox News that Russian President Vladimir Putin lost the initiative in the war between the two countries in a Tuesday interview, arguing Ukraine's military technology has changed the battlefield dynamic.
Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity following the funeral of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Zelenskyy reflected on Graham's support for Ukraine while discussing the state of the war and the prospects of peace negotiations.
"Since the beginning of the war, when Putin said that he will occupy us during two, three days, now we build a great mil-tech industry," Zelenskyy said. "We have 500 companies with very strong technologies."
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The Ukrainian president said the conflict has become an innovation race, with strategy constantly evolving as weapons like drones quickly become obsolete if not adapted.
"We understand that this war is changing each three, six months," he said. "We have to change technologies."
"We have to be quicker than Putin because Putin has more people… and we have to save our people and use more technologies than [their] people."
Ukraine has shown the ability to strike military targets deep inside Russia.
Hannity pointed to Ukrainian attacks beyond Moscow and strikes that temporarily disrupted the power grid in Russian-occupied Crimea. Zelenskyy said the increased reach of his country’s military capabilities has shifted momentum away from Moscow.
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"Putin is losing 30,000 soldiers per month," he said. "There's many losses, but he doesn't want to stop this war. So now initiative [is] not in the hands of Putin."
Zelenskyy said Kyiv continues to push for a ceasefire that could pave the way to a final resolution but that his counterpart isn’t interested in any form of dialogue, adding they last spoke in 2020.
"We are asking to stop this war each day... to negotiate [a] ceasefire for some period of time and give possibility for diplomats to negotiate," he said. "But Putin doesn't want. So this is the problem."
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Much of the interview also focused on Graham, whom Zelenskyy described as one of Ukraine's earliest and strongest supporters.
"A lot of things have been changed because of such people like Lindsey," he said. "We had such supporters of Ukraine from the very beginning, who really believed in Ukraine, that Putin can't occupy us, and he couldn't."
According to Zelenskyy, Graham visited Ukraine about 10 times during the war, including trips near the front lines.
"He knew everything about Ukraine," Zelenskyy said. "The situation on the battlefield, he knew the cities, even small villages."
Zelenskyy also praised The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, which advanced through the Senate in an 86–12 bipartisan vote and heads to the House. The legislation would impose sweeping sanctions on individuals and institutions supporting Russia's war against Ukraine.
Earlier Tuesday, Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the White House, where the leaders discussed expanding defense cooperation. Zelenskyy said Trump agreed to provide licenses allowing Ukraine to produce American-designed patriot missiles domestically.
Trump wrote on social media that the meeting "went very well."
BTK killer Dennis Rader's daughter Kerri Rawson hit with domestic violence injunction: report
Kerri Rawson, the daughter of notorious "BTK" serial killer Dennis Rader and a prominent victims' advocate, has been subject to a domestic violence injunction after her ex-husband claimed she repeatedly warned that he and their children were in danger of being murdered, according to court records first reported by the New York Post.
Rawson has become a bestselling author and advocate for victims of violent crime since her father's 2005 arrest, writing and speaking publicly about growing up as the daughter of one of America's most notorious serial killers.
A Florida judge granted the injunction after Darian Rawson filed a petition describing a series of incidents that allegedly left him fearing for his safety and the safety of the former couple's two teenage children.
The order temporarily awarded Darian Rawson full custody of the children and limited Kerri Rawson's contact with them to electronic communications. She was also prohibited from going near their home or school and from having contact with the family's pets.
The petition alleged that Kerri Rawson summoned her former husband to an Altamonte Springs police station on Jan. 5, 2025, where she allegedly told him she had psychic abilities that allowed her to determine their children were in immediate danger and would be murdered that morning.
The filing further alleged Kerri Rawson warned police that people were coming to harm the family before later calling 911 and reporting that shots had been fired, several active shooters were at an apartment complex and three people were dead. Officers who responded found the family safe, according to a police report cited by the Post.
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Police later located Rawson at Orlando International Airport and transported her to a hospital, where she voluntarily admitted herself, the report said.
The injunction petition said she was later taken into custody under Florida's Baker Act, which allows authorities to temporarily detain a person for a mental health examination under certain circumstances.
An incident report obtained by the Post described Rawson as "an individual known to make inaccurate and fabricated statements about incidents that did not actually occur, due to mental health issues."
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The Post also reported that Darian Rawson later alleged Kerri Rawson violated the injunction by contacting him multiple times despite the no-contact order.
Dennis Rader murdered 10 people in the Wichita, Kansas, area between 1974 and 1991 while living what appeared to be a normal suburban life with his family. His nickname, BTK, stood for "bind, torture, kill." He pleaded guilty to the murders in 2005 and is serving 10 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Rawson published the memoir "A Serial Killer's Daughter" in 2019 and has appeared in documentaries and television programs discussing her father's crimes and advocating for victims of violent crime.
A representative for Rawson did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Sophie Cunningham rally rocks WNBA game as 'save women's sports' activists face counterprotest
Fans of Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham held a rally outside of her game against the Seattle Storm on Tuesday.
The rally celebrated Cunningham recently taking a public stand in support of women's sports. Footage and photos show a crowd of supporters holding signs that read "Thank you Sophie," and her now-famous quotes "I said what I said," and "with love is truth," which originate from her statements sharing her stance on the issue.
"We proved to the world that women can gather publicly and support female athletes," activist Jean Chadbourne told Fox News Digital.
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Fans were also seen taking photos with a life-size cutout of Cunningham.
Footage and photos obtained by Fox News Digital also showed multiple counterprotesters with LGBTQ flags and signs at the rally to express opposition.
"We outnumbered the TRAs 10 to 1 and a very positive vibe. Everyone wanted their picture taken with the giant Sophie poster," attendee Romy Mancini told Fox News Digital.
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The rally was organized by Washington-based podcast host Brandi Kruse, activist Amy E. Sousa and the activist group Women Are Real. The rally became the subject of contentious social media debate after its announcement days earlier.
Organizer Julie Lane told Fox News Digital that she and others who helped organize the event faced threats online for setting it up.
"Despite the online threats we showed up and had a great time. It's clear that the tide is turning. People are slowly coming around. I think Sophie really helped pushed this issue," Lane told Fox News Digital.
Cunningham sent shockwaves in the ongoing culture war over the WNBA and trans athletes in women's sports last Tuesday after revealing her stance on the issue to ESPN.
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham said.
"I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."
Cunningham doubled down on her statement while speaking to reporters last Wednesday ahead of the Fever's win against the Connecticut Sun.
"I think I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense," she said.
"I'll always believe in that. It's really important to protect children, and that's little girls who are also involved in that category... I'm not a very political person, but I do have beliefs. I have morals, and I'll always stand on those... I extend love, and I don't dislike anyone. I think there is room for absolutely everyone here."
Her activism on the issue has garnered praise from activists like Riley Gaines and Jennifer Sey, multiple GOP lawmakers and even the White House.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke out in support of Cunningham last during a briefing.
"Men should not be playing in women's sports. It's completely ludicrous that anyone could support that," Leavitt told reporters.
"It's even more ludicrous that you do have Sophie Cunningham, a female athlete herself, very accomplished in her own right, coming forth and speaking that truth that men should(n't) play in women's sports. The backlash she is receiving from Democrats and left-wing figures across the country is astonishing. They are clearly very out of touch with the American public on this issue, which again, is an 80/20 issue. It's common sense."
Murdered 9-year-old begged not to go on trip with dad months before he allegedly killed her, mom testifies
The mother of 9-year-old Melina Frattolin testified Tuesday that her daughter did not want to travel overseas with her father months before prosecutors say he killed the girl during a summer trip to New York.
Kali Galanis told jurors in Essex County Court that her ex-partner, Luciano Frattolin, wanted to take Melina to his native Ethiopia for two weeks in January 2025. But Galanis said the trip never happened after her daughter objected.
"She didn't want to go," Galanis testified, adding that she also became increasingly uneasy about the proposed trip.
Galanis' testimony offered jurors a glimpse into the family's disagreements over Melina's travel arrangements and her growing concerns about Frattolin's travel plans with their daughter months before Melina's death.
Galanis said she had concerns about allowing Melina to travel internationally with Frattolin after the couple separated in 2019. She testified that her attorney warned her about cases in which estranged parents took children overseas and refused to return them.
Galanis testified that Frattolin later proposed extending the Ethiopia trip. She said conversations with Melina about the trip ultimately convinced her to cancel it.
"I became uncomfortable," Galanis testified.
"I was not ok with that anymore," she said of the proposed trip.
Instead, Frattolin suggested taking Melina on a vacation through the northeastern United States, Galanis testified.
Authorities have said Frattolin and Melina traveled through Connecticut and New York before the child was scheduled to return home to Quebec.
Prosecutors allege that on the day Melina was scheduled to return home to Quebec, Frattolin falsely reported that she had been abducted by two men in a white van, prompting an Amber Alert. Investigators later determined there was no evidence she had been kidnapped, authorities said. Melina's body was later found partially submerged in shallow water near Eagle Lake in Ticonderoga.
Frattolin has pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree murder and one count of concealment of a human corpse.
The trial also heard testimony Monday from New York State Police investigator Daniel Mauro, who said Frattolin remarked during questioning that "it would've been easier" to kill his daughter overseas, including in Italy or Ethiopia.
Mauro testified the comment came after investigators asked Frattolin whether he had any reason to harm his daughter.
Frattolin's trial is continuing in Essex County Court.
Bodycam shows Tony Romo arguing with officer before refusing breath test during DUI arrest
Tony Romo questioned police during his July 23 operating while intoxicated arrest in Wisconsin, according to newly released police bodycam footage obtained by Fox News Digital.
The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback told the officer he was coming from a golf course and insisted he had consumed "zero" drinks before asking to call his attorney. When asked to step out of the vehicle, Romo responded, "Because I'm coming from a golf course, you think I'm drunk?"
Police detained Romo and transported him to a nearby station to conduct field sobriety tests. The arresting officer said she observed red, glassy eyes and smelled alcohol coming from Romo.
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After completing the tests, Romo refused to take a breath test, telling the officer, "I've heard from all the lawyers don't ever do that."
Romo was cited for first-offense operating while intoxicated and refusing to submit to a chemical test. Romo was released and is due in court on Sept. 21.
CBS did not immediately responded to emails from Fox News Digital following initial news of Romo’s arrest.
Romo was stopped on an interstate following his round at the Wisconsin Amateur Golf Championship. He was set to appear at another golf tournament, the M&P Group Texas State Open, but he withdrew over the weekend.
Romo retired from football in 2017 and soon joined CBS as a color commentator.
He was the Cowboys' starter from 2006 to 2015, but an injury cost him his spot in 2016 to Dak Prescott. The Cowboys released him after the season, and he eventually hung up the cleats.
Romo threw for 34,183 yards, 248 touchdowns, and 117 interceptions, completing 65.3% of his passes.
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He was named to the Pro Bowl four times and finished tied for third in the MVP vote in 2014 behind Aaron Rodgers and J.J. Watt — he was tied with DeMarcio Murray.
Romo went 2-4 in the playoffs, famously dropping a snap for a potential game-winning field goal in his first against the Seattle Seahawks. Romo then picked up the ball and tried to run for a touchdown but was stopped short, giving Seattle the win.
Since retiring, Romo and Jim Nantz have been the main tandem for CBS, calling three Super Bowls, including the Kansas City Chiefs' overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII.
Romo has yet to comment on his arrest.
Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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