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Pro-life leader sounds alarm after doctor gets 6 months for forcing abortion pills on girlfriend
Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, told Fox News Digital that U.S. law has not caught up with the growing availability of abortion medication, allowing predators who use the drugs to end pregnancies without women’s consent to face relatively light consequences.
She pointed to the case of Hassan-James Abbas, an Ohio man accused of forcing abortion pills into his pregnant girlfriend's mouth in December 2024. He was sentenced earlier this month to six months in prison.
The woman, Jona Affholder, went to the hospital and ultimately lost the baby.
"The fact that this guy got only six months in prison for his crime says a lot about the state of our culture right now," Dannenfelser said. "This was a very much wanted pregnancy. She could support the baby on her own and didn't need his help. But he had other ideas in mind."
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Abbas, then a surgical resident at the University of Toledo, began dating Affholder in early October 2024, according to a lawsuit she filed against him.
Sometime in December that year, Affholder got pregnant. Authorities said once he found out, he illegally obtained mifepristone and misoprostol using his estranged wife's identification information. It is unclear whether Abbas prescribed the drugs himself.
Taken together, the two medications terminate early pregnancies: mifepristone blocks progesterone, a hormone needed to sustain the pregnancy, while misoprostol causes contractions that expel the fetus.
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Under current FDA rules, patients do not have to see a physician in person to receive a prescription, allowing mifepristone to be prescribed after a telehealth visit and mailed by a certified pharmacy.
After getting his hands on the pills, he began offering Affholder hot chocolate and tea, "which was out of character for their relationship," according to the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office.
On Dec. 18, 2024, Abbas invited her to his home in Holland, Ohio. Prosecutors said despite being aware of Affholder's intention to keep the baby, he climbed on top of her in bed, held her down and shoved crushed abortion pills into her mouth.
Court records show that when Affholder tried to call 911, he took the phone out of her hand and hung it up. Eventually, she was able to leave Abbas's residence and get to the hospital.
Affholder described this experience in a Daily Wire op-ed published in June 2026.
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"I fought him off and ran to call 911. He took my cell and my keys, blocking me from leaving. I rushed to the kitchen, trying to rinse the powder from my mouth. But he continued to restrain me, buying each minute for the drugs to do their intended purpose of killing our kid," Affholder wrote.
"When he assumed the drugs had sufficiently aborted our baby, he returned my belongings, and I went straight to the hospital," she added.
According to Affholder's account, she began hemorrhaging after arriving at the hospital and ultimately miscarried.
Abbas, who was arrested the next day, initially pleaded not guilty. In May 2026, he pleaded no contest to four felony charges: disrupting public services, unlawfully distributing abortion-inducing drugs, identity fraud and using deception to obtain a dangerous drug.
As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped charges of abduction and tampering with evidence. The state had alleged that Abbas drove away from the home on the night of the assault and threw the remaining pills out his car window.
Dannenfelser contrasted Abbas' six-month sentence with Ohio's penalties for rape, which can carry years or even life in prison depending on the circumstances.
"But...this coercion and this attack that led to the death of her wanted child gets only six months," she said.
In February 2024, Mason Herring, of Texas, received the exact same sentence — six months — for slipping misoprostol into his then wife's drinks. The baby survived but initially faced severe developmental delays.
"If you are Amy Acton running for governor [of Ohio], if you are Sherrod Brown running for the Senate, you need to answer for this because their Republican opponents are very much for limiting these drugs or controlling them at least," Dannenfelser added.
Fox News Digital reached out to both campaigns for comment.
Dannenfelser also criticized Planned Parenthood and pro-choice advocates, accusing them of failing to speak out about Affholder’s case and others like it.
"Where are the advocates, the feminists, the people who are against the coercion of women, the people who are 'my body, my choice,' the people who say that medical care is all that they're really looking for," she said.
Planned Parenthood does not appear to have publicly commented on Affholder's case, but the organization has explicitly condemned the act of giving women abortion drugs without their knowledge or consent.
Fox News Digital reached out to Planned Parenthood for comment.
Dannenfelser said the Department of Justice should take a more active role in prosecuting cases involving forced abortions.
"We do have every hope that the attorney general will move on this, and he's referenced it at the Dallas convention that people who are pushing death in a pill will be disappointed," she said. "That is the surest way to justice."
On Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, joined Dannenfelser in demanding Attorney General Todd Blanche take action, referencing Affholder's case.
"My constituent was held down and force-fed crushed-up mail-order abortion pills," Moreno wrote to Blanche. "Unsurprisingly, reckless Biden-era mail-in abortion policies are responsible for this hell-on-earth tragedy."
How the 'Squatter Hunter' is fighting home takeovers with tech
You leave a home empty while you travel, prepare it for sale or help an aging parent move. Then an unfamiliar car appears in the driveway. Someone gets inside. Before long, that person may even claim to have a lease. That kind of situation turned Flash Shelton into the man now known as the "Squatter Hunter." I recently sat down with Shelton on "The CyberGuy Report" podcast to talk about how his unusual line of work began and what homeowners can do before an unwanted occupant settles in.
He stars in A&E's "Squatters," which follows him and his team as they help property owners reclaim homes from unauthorized occupants. What stood out during our conversation was how often his advice came back to technology. A camera alert or alarm can give you something that becomes much harder to get later: evidence of when someone showed up and how they got inside.
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Shelton says none of this started as a business idea. After his father died in 2019, he moved his mother in with him while preparing her vacant home for sale. Then seven people took over the property. Shelton told me he was "just being a good son" and felt he had to protect his mother after the squatters took advantage of the empty house. He called the sheriff and says he was told there was little law enforcement could do because the situation had become a civil issue. Shelton knew almost nothing about squatting at the time, but he did not accept that answer. "I was like, screw that. I'm going to do something about it," he recalled. He started researching how squatters operate and when occupancy claims can become harder to untangle.
His approach was unconventional. His mother, who owned the house, signed a legitimate lease giving Shelton the right to occupy the property. Shelton says he wanted documentation showing he had permission to be there in case the squatters produced a fake lease of their own. He then waited for the occupants to leave and entered the house using his key. Once inside, he started installing cameras and a security system. His thinking, he said, was that "if they can take a house, I can take a house." When some of the occupants returned, Shelton told them he had possession of the property and gave them until the end of the day to remove their furniture. He says cars and trucks soon arrived and the house was cleared. Years later, that experience has turned into a full-time mission and an A&E series.
Squatting can create a serious and expensive problem for homeowners, even though there is no reliable nationwide count showing exactly how often it happens. Part of the challenge is how these cases are tracked. Squatting does not appear as its own category in national crime databases, and cases can be handled differently depending on whether authorities view them as trespassing, fraud or a landlord-tenant dispute. That makes it difficult to put one national number on the problem.
What we do know is that lawmakers across the country have been responding. As of July 2026, the National Apartment Association reported that 28 states had enacted laws addressing squatting. Another 25 states had introduced or considered legislation during 2026. Those measures include faster removal procedures and new penalties for some forms of unauthorized occupancy. There are also documented cases showing how disruptive squatting can become. A New York City Department of Investigation review found unauthorized occupants in 548 vacant NYCHA apartments. Joint DOI and NYPD operations reclaimed 60 of those apartments and resulted in 81 arrests involving unauthorized occupants accused of criminal activity connected with the properties.
So while there is no single number showing how many homes are affected nationwide, the growing legislative response and documented cases make one thing clear: unauthorized home takeovers are a real problem, and homeowners have good reason to think about prevention before a property sits empty.
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For all the unusual tactics Shelton has used since becoming the "Squatter Hunter," his biggest piece of advice is surprisingly simple. Put cameras on a vacant property before there is a problem. Looking back at his mother's home, Shelton told me, "If I had cameras on my mom's house back then, I wouldn't be the squatter hunter today." The back door had been broken. What Shelton lacked was proof showing exactly when the entry happened and who did it.
He believes footage could have changed the situation from the beginning. With cameras, Shelton said, he could have shown authorities, "on this date at this time, and this is the person." That is where today's home technology can make a real difference. A connected camera can alert you when somebody approaches a house. It can record an entry. It can also give law enforcement a timeline before competing stories about who belongs there begin.
One of the biggest challenges can appear after someone gets inside. Shelton says experienced squatters may produce a lease and claim they were given permission to live there. "They know that if they get into a property and show a lease and create reasonable doubt," Shelton told me, law enforcement may refer the property owner to the courts instead of immediately removing the occupant.
That is another reason camera footage can become so useful. A document may say one thing. Video showing someone forcing a door or entering a clearly vacant home can provide additional evidence about what actually happened. Shelton says many of the people he encounters understand how housing rules work and try to use tenant protections to delay removal.
You hear the phrase "squatters' rights" constantly, but it can blur together very different legal concepts. Adverse possession generally requires someone to occupy property openly for a period set by state law while meeting other specific requirements. That can take years. Shelton says the disputes he deals with tend to revolve around something much more immediate: whether an unauthorized occupant can create enough uncertainty to be treated as a tenant.
"Squatters are doing everything they can to gain tenant rights," Shelton told me. "They're not interested in squatter laws or rights. They want tenant rights." That helps explain why the legal response varies so much by state. Some states have created faster procedures for owners who say an unauthorized person took over a property. Others have increased penalties for fake leases or fraudulent documents.
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Shelton has dealt with situations that sound much more disturbing than somebody slipping into an abandoned property. During our interview, he described a case involving an 88-year-old woman in Culver City, California, who had hired a caregiver. According to Shelton, the caregiver lost the job but refused to leave the home. He said the situation eventually required intervention through social services and described it as a case involving elder abuse.
That experience sticks with him because the homeowner was especially vulnerable. Shelton has also worked on expensive properties. He recalled one Malibu home worth roughly $8 million and another case involving a Hollywood Hills mansion. His point was that there is no single profile of a property that can attract an unauthorized occupant. The same goes for the people involved. "They don't have a look," Shelton told me. "Squatters are your neighbors."
Watching Shelton confront people makes compelling television. Copying what you see on A&E could put you in a dangerous situation. The laws governing trespassing, tenancy and removal vary by state. If you discover somebody inside your property, call law enforcement and document what you can safely. Save camera footage. Preserve records showing when the property became vacant. Keep documentation identifying anyone who had permission to be there. If someone claims to be a tenant, an attorney familiar with local property law can help determine the appropriate next move.
Shelton brings years of experience into these encounters. He also has experience with de-escalation, which is another reminder that the confrontations you see on television come with risks. That is very different from a homeowner walking into a house alone and confronting a stranger.
The growing attention around squatting has turned Shelton into a television personality and given him more cases than he can handle. But he says his long-term goal goes in the opposite direction. "There are no shortage of cases" where people need help, he told me. Still, Shelton said, "I ultimately want to change these laws and put myself out of business."
In the meantime, his biggest message for homeowners has less to do with dramatic confrontations. Pay attention early. A camera can tell you someone arrived. An alarm can tell you a door opened. A neighbor can tell you a moving truck has suddenly pulled into the driveway. Once somebody has spent time inside and starts claiming the right to be there, the situation can become much more complicated.
During our conversation, I kept asking Shelton the question most homeowners probably have: What can I actually do before this happens? His advice focuses on making a vacant property easier to monitor while reducing the signs that nobody is around.
Start with cameras covering the most likely entry points. Shelton likes the fact that systems today allow homeowners to check their property remotely. As he told me, "you can be anywhere in the world" and monitor what is happening at home from your phone. Look for motion alerts and person detection. Night vision can help when someone arrives after dark. Also check how your recordings are stored. If an incident occurs, save important clips so they do not disappear when a cloud-storage retention period expires. You can see my picks for the 12 best outdoor security cameras at CyberGuy.com.
A camera becomes a lot less useful if the electricity goes down. Shelton says he often works with battery-powered cameras because properties do not always have active power or internet access. Some batteries can keep a camera running for weeks or months, depending on the model and how frequently it records. He also recommends checking the backup capabilities of an alarm system. Before leaving a property vacant, Shelton told me to "make sure you've got cameras, your alarm system, everything's up to date." That means testing the system before you leave instead of assuming last year's setup still works. For a more complete setup, see my Best Home Security Systems 2026 guide at CyberGuy.com.
Shelton recommends timers for indoor lights and solar-powered security lighting when permanent power presents a problem. He also likes rechargeable lights with battery backup. That way, the house does not suddenly go completely dark during an outage. A smart plug or connected bulb can also let you adjust lighting remotely. The goal is to avoid broadcasting that a property has been sitting untouched.
One of Shelton's most practical tips costs nothing. Tell trusted neighbors when a house will be vacant and make it clear whether anybody has permission to enter. As Shelton put it, "your neighbors, they don't want you to have a squatter either." Ask them to contact you if an unfamiliar vehicle repeatedly appears in the driveway or someone begins carrying furniture inside. Shelton relied on a neighbor himself at his mother's house. The property had no Wi-Fi, so a neighbor allowed him to use a nearby connection for his camera. That option will depend on range and the equipment involved, but the larger lesson still works. A neighbor can notice activity before you ever receive a call from anyone else.
Shelton says people scouting vacant properties can pay attention to mailboxes. An overflowing box may signal that nobody has been around. He also worries about an unauthorized occupant receiving mail at an address and later presenting it as evidence that they live there. "Make sure you have a mailbox that is lockable," Shelton advised. If you are traveling, arrange to have your mail held or picked up. Also pay attention if correspondence begins arriving for unfamiliar people at a property that should be empty. Our CyberGuy vacation guide has more on mail holds and home security before a trip: 6 things to do before you leave on vacation.
Putting up a no-trespassing sign sounds obvious. Shelton says homeowners should find out whether their local law enforcement agency offers an additional step. He told me that some sheriff's departments allow owners to file a form documenting that a property has been posted against trespassing. Why bother? A person can pull a sign down. Shelton described the thinking pretty simply: someone sees the notice, removes it and later says, "What sign?" Having something on file with local authorities may help document the owner's wishes even if the physical notice disappears. Procedures vary, so check directly with your local sheriff or police department before relying on this strategy.
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Shelton also recommends thinking about the clues people can see from the street. Put lights on timers. Keep the yard maintained. Avoid leaving packages outside. If practical, Shelton suggests leaving a vehicle in the driveway. He even recommends asking a trusted friend whether they can park there while you are away. None of that guarantees somebody will stay away. It can make a vacant property less obvious to a person scouting for an easy target.
If you plan to be gone for a week or longer, Shelton recommends doing one final security check before you leave. "Make sure you've got cameras, your alarm system, everything's up to date," he told me. Check camera batteries. Make sure motion alerts reach your phone. Confirm that your alarm is communicating properly. Also think about what happens if someone cuts the power or the neighborhood has an outage. Shelton recommends equipment with battery backup whenever possible. A few minutes spent testing everything before you leave could prevent you from discovering later that the camera you were counting on stopped recording days earlier.
A squatter moving into a property does not automatically gain legal ownership of it. However, homeowners should also be aware of a separate threat called home title fraud. Criminals can use fraudulent documents or stolen personal information to try to change property records or obtain financing tied to a home.
That makes property-record monitoring another layer of protection. A home title monitoring service can alert you to certain changes involving your property records, including a new owner, new lender or changes in financing. Home title monitoring cannot stop someone from entering your property or prevent a fraudulent filing. However, an alert can help you spot an unexpected change and investigate it sooner. See my tips and best picks on home title monitoring services at CyberGuy.com.
What happened at Flash Shelton's mother's house shows how quickly a vacant property can become somebody else's opportunity. For me, the most useful part of his story comes before any confrontation. Shelton wishes he had cameras running when people first entered his mother's home. That says a lot. The sooner you know somebody has entered your property, the sooner you can call for help and preserve evidence showing what happened. I also would not overlook the low-tech advice. Tell a trusted neighbor when a property should be empty. Pay attention to the mailbox. Find out what your local police or sheriff recommends before you need them. And remember that the law is changing quickly. With 28 states now having enacted measures addressing squatting, you should check the rules where your property is located rather than assuming something you saw online applies everywhere. You can hear my full conversation with Flash Shelton on The CyberGuy Report podcast.
Should states make it easier for homeowners to remove squatters quickly, or could tougher laws go too far? Let us know by writing to us at CyberGuy.com.
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FCC chair blasts House Democrats 'extreme position' on gender ideology in kids' programming in fiery letter
FIRST ON FOX — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr on Tuesday issued a fiery response to the opposition from House Democrats over the agency's effort to reform television ratings for children's programming, some of which promotes gender ideology.
In April, the FCC issued a public notice seeking feedback about parents' concern about the content of shows their children watch, suggesting the current ratings system is outdated and deems "shows with transgender and gender non-binary programming as appropriate for children and young children" and that new ratings may be necessary.
That prompted a response in June from Democrats on the Congressional Equality Caucus, who accused the FCC of wanting to "censor the inclusion of transgender characters or topics" from children's programming and said that the current ratings system is "satisfactory and overwhelmingly popular among parents."
"We strongly believe that parents should decide what their children watch on television," the lawmakers wrote. "Programs should not have higher ratings or content warning simply because of the identity of the programs’ characters. Applying higher ratings or content warnings because of a character’s gender identity would be harmful to transgender people and transgender acceptance and would harken back to a time when politicians sought to censor television programming because they included minorities."
The House Democrats continued, "Any attempt by FCC to censor content because it includes transgender characters or topics would raise both legal and constitutional concerns... Any attempt to issue rating warnings for depictions and themes related to transgender people would also raise concerns of content-based and viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment."
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In a letter sent Tuesday to Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., Carr expressed regret for the stance the Democratic lawmakers had taken.
"I am deeply concerned by the position that you and over 60 of your Democrat colleagues in the House of Representatives are taking regarding the right of parents to know whether their sons or daughters are being exposed to controversial gender identity ideologies—including the promotion of transgender and gender non-binary programming—in television shows that are rated as appropriate for young children," Carr began the letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
"In your letter, you come out swinging against both transparency and common sense," Carr added. "You stake out the radical position that parents have no right to know whether controversial gender identity ideologies are being promoted in children’s television programming. In your view, parents should not be empowered to make informed choices about the programs their children watch."
Carr called the Democrats' defense of transgender people an "extreme position" which he said comes as children's programming is "secretly promoting gender ideology to young kids without the knowledge or consent of their parents."
He went on to list several examples of gender ideology appearing in children's programming, citing an episode of Disney Jr.'s "Muppet Babies" reboot (TV-Y) where Gonzo wants to dress as a princess instead of a knight, calls himself "Gonzo-rella" and is referred to in the episode with the "they" pronoun, as well as a trans character in Netflix's "Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City" (TV-Y) and pansexual and non-binary characters in the Disney Channel's animated series "Primos" (TV-Y7).
"Keeping parents in the dark about the nature of these programs is a feature not a bug of the effort. Indeed, you write in your letter that 'many recognize their gender identity at a young age.' And you appear to suggest that informing parents would prevent 'self-acceptance,'" Carr wrote. "Recent studies show a massive spike in younger people identifying as transgender with some attributing this to media exposure. But your position that New York and Hollywood programmers should have a direct line to children without parental knowledge is at total odds with the law Congress passed."
"Opposing transparency puts you on the wrong side of the issue. Parents are nearly unanimous in wanting to know what their children are watching and to determine for their own families what shows are appropriate. Despite your opposition, the FCC will continue its work to empower parents and continue to engage with stakeholders as part of the agency’s open and ongoing proceeding," Carr added.
Rep. Takano's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.
Arch Manning officially goes through the PR spin cycle and the finished product sounds awful
Well, congratulations, social media — you've officially ruined Arch Manning. Nice work! He's now another robotic athlete with no emotions and, frankly, no personality.
Well done!
Manning, the biggest name in college football, was dragged through the mud last week because he laughed at an AI video of head coach Steve Sarkisian slapping ESPN reporter Holly Rowe. It was a silly video. It was clearly AI. It all stemmed from Sarkisian essentially blowing off Rowe, and ESPN, following Texas' stunning Week 2 win over Ohio State.
Take a look:
That moment went viral, and led to several AI-generated videos of the interaction, including the one Manning mentioned in his press conference last week. He was asked about the interaction, and briefly talked about seeing all the reaction videos on X, including the AI one with Sarkisian slapping Rowe.
Yes, it was a silly video. Yes, it was a poor choice of words from Manning. And yes, the internet — and the virtue-signaling media — got so outraged by it, that Manning, and Sarkisian, were forced to issue apologies.
Naturally, Manning returned to the podium on Tuesday for his weekly presser, and sounded nothing like the kid we saw a week ago.
And I mean NOTHING:
Amazing. Nineteen questions, and only 56 seconds worth of answers. That's almost impossible to do, and Arch pulled it off. Impressive.
It's right out of the Bill Belichick playbook, by the way. Give Manning a few more weeks, and he'll be showing up to these pressers wearing a torn hoodie with no sleeves and speaking in such a low grumble, no microphone on earth would be able to pick it up.
Obviously, this wasn't an accident. Arch Manning spent the last week getting yelled at by the MOB because he made a joke about an AI video. The fake outrage in this situation was impressive, even for the usual suspects in sports media.
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It was an all-timer.
They tore down a 22-year-old kid because he answered a question — from the MEDIA — and laughed about a dumb video. A dumb, and very clearly fake video.
Arch Manning didn't condone hitting women. Come on. Nobody who laughed at that video did, or does. Personally, I think all of these AI-generated videos are stupid. I don't find any of them funny, mainly because it's just so unoriginal at this point.
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But even if you did see it, as Arch did, and you did laugh at it ... so what? It probably just means you're a dumb 22-year-old with a fairly low bar in terms of sense of humor. Those are a dime a dozen nowadays.
But, because it's 2026 and the MOB is always on high alert, Arch Manning was crucified for his reaction, and spent the last week in the PR spin cycle.
And just look what came out ...
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Another boring, bland, vanilla athlete who gives the same, boring, bland, vanilla answers we've heard for years now.
Well done, all!
Lost in translation: Israel, Huckabee blast Macron over Hamas comments as France clarifies wording
President Donald Trump offered a roaring counterbalance to a spate of world leaders bashing Israel or appearing to equivocate between the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks and Jerusalem’s response — as one world leader was assailed for his comments on Hamas.
Gaza dominated the opening day of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, despite a ceasefire, as world leaders accused Israel of continuing to displace Palestinians and undermine prospects for peace.
French President Emmanuel Macron accused Israel of violating Palestinian rights in the West Bank, questioning the justification for its actions and making a remark that was translated as "Hamas was never active in the West Bank."
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Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon challenged his claim about Hamas’ presence in the West Bank. "French President Emmanuel Macron claimed from the UN podium that Hamas has ‘never been active’ in Judea and Samaria. Just two days ago, a French citizen was murdered there," Danon wrote on X. "Mr. President, Emmanuel Macron, do your homework before lecturing Israel. Check the facts."
Asked by Fox News Digital to clarify Macron’s remarks, a French Foreign Ministry spokesperson said: "The president meant to say that Hamas does not govern the West Bank. His remarks should therefore not be misinterpreted."
In response to the comments, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee reposted Israel's Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism. Huckabee stated, "Hard to imagine a more out of touch with reality speech than Macron at UN. @AmichaiChikli corrects the record. Hamas is an evil scourge, and they have killed innocent American citizens.
Chickli's post noted in part that, "Since 1990, Hamas has carried out more than 80 lethal terrorist attacks originating in or directed from Judea and Samaria, murdering more than 350 Israeli civilians." Judea and Samaria is another term used for the West Bank.
Macron also accused Israel of violating Palestinian rights in the West Bank and undermining the sovereignty of neighboring Lebanon, where he said villages in the south were being "razed." Macron questioned the credibility of the international community’s recognition of Palestinian statehood if it failed to act on the situation in Gaza. "Some claim that peace has been achieved," he said, calling the situation "shameful."
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) as secretary-general, opened fire on Israel’s response in Gaza, describing it as "a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything I have witnessed in all my years as Secretary-General."
"Amid the turmoil engulfing the region, we must not lose sight of the devastating situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory," he said, as the world approaches three years since the Hamas terror attacks that sparked the Israeli military response he spent much of his speech criticizing.
At the same time, Guterres lamented the ongoing conflict in Sudan, saying the war-torn East African nation is a place the "world looks away" from wrongly.
Yet his decision to single out Gaza as "the worst" devastation he had witnessed during his tenure raised questions about the international community's uneven attention to two of the world's deadliest conflicts. Approximately 72,000 Palestinians have been reported killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, compared with an estimated 150,000 people killed in Sudan's civil war. Many of those killed in Gaza include terrorists.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, a regional U.S. ally whose country signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1994, doubled down on the anti-Israel tenor, accusing Jerusalem of "war crimes."
"In my region, from Lebanon to Yemen, to Sudan, protracted conflict is deepening humanitarian suffering," Abdullah said. "And if anyone had any doubt that a crisis in our part of the world stays there, just look at the energy and grocery bills of ordinary families, from Mumbai to Madrid to Minnesota."
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Abdullah said Jordanian field hospitals had been targeted during the first 300 days of the "so-called ceasefire" and lamented the deaths of Palestinian children.
He also praised Trump for "pushing hard for peace" while pivoting to fault Israel for "moving the goalposts" and allegedly destroying civilian infrastructure in Gaza.
"The question is, is this the behavior of a democratic state governed by law? What is unfolding across the West Bank is not a series of isolated acts. It is elements of a single policy to compel an entire population to leave their land," Abdullah said.
"And there is a name for that: forced displacement. And that is a war crime."
Abdullah also accused Israel of harboring territorial ambitions in Syria, calling on the international community to act.
Just before Abdullah, President Donald Trump offered a scathing counterweight to the invective directed at the Netanyahu administration and Israel’s response to Palestinian terrorism.
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"Iran will never have a nuclear weapon" was a mantra repeated by Trump from the dais, as he noted that the Khamenei regime had also celebrated Oct. 7 as a "service to humanity" while murdering thousands of Iranian citizens in recent months, according to the president.
"Just imagine such a vile regime, wherever empowered to carry out large-scale terror attacks from behind a nuclear shield. This was the reality we had to confront, the reality that far too many preferred to ignore," he said, taking occasional swipes at nations — and previous U.S. leaders — who refused to help neutralize the Iranian threat.
"Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?" he asked. "But I believe we’ll make a deal right after the election," he added, suggesting Iran is waiting to see whether Republicans retain control of Congress while noting that he himself is not on the ballot.
Meanwhile, criticism of Israel continued from the dais throughout the day.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were "statesmen" who sought solutions with courage and clarity.
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"They were defeated by hatred," Lula da Silva claimed, according to the U.N.’s transcript of his remarks.
"Generations of Palestinians will carry the pain and trauma left by the genocide of women and children perpetrated by Netanyahu[‘s] government in Gaza," he said.
Danon told Fox News Digital that, "Unfortunately, it’s not new, but the U.N. is obsessed with Israel."
"Instead of focusing and dealing with the real issues, they all gather and gang against Israel," he said. "[It is] the weakness of the secretary general. That is why we are grateful for President Trump, who came to the U.N., delivered a very powerful speech with moral clarity, but we are used to it… Unfortunately, instead of taking practical actions to improve the world, it's much easier to blame Israel about everything," he said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called Gaza "the world's biggest graveyard for children" and compared the situation there to Holocaust-era concentration camps, continuing his history of comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Danon said it is legitimate to criticize Israel and that its leaders welcome debate — but that the U.N. instead delved into "pure hate [and] incitement," singling out Erdoğan, who is supposed to be a Western ally.
"[He] comes here every year, compares the Israelis to the Nazis. That's shameful. That's shameful. And he shows that he's an antisemite. He doesn't really care about the Palestinians. He just wants to sow chaos and instigate against the Jewish people."
As for King Abdullah's remarks, Danon said, "He should know better. We work with Jordan, we support Jordan, we defended Jordan in the past. But unfortunately, many leaders, when they come here, they don't speak about the cooperation with Israel, the economical or security cooperation. They join the group and they always criticize us."
Fox News Digital's Hannah Brennan contributed to this report.
Mystery surrounds German soldiers found near mud-covered WWII motorcycle in Danube
A relic of World War II has emerged from the Danube more than 80 years after the war ended — along with the remains of two German soldiers whose identities still remain a mystery.
The Wehrmacht motorcycle — which officials identified as a DKW NZ 350-1 — was found in the Danube River in central Budapest this summer.
The discovery was announced by the German War Graves Commission, an organization that works to locate, recover and identify German war dead, in August.
Pictures show the heavily corroded motorcycle caked in mud and rust — with its frame, wheels, fuel tank and storage boxes still largely intact.
"Because the harbor mud is mixed with gas oil, the motorcycle and identification tags are well preserved," the German War Graves Commission said in a statement, adding that the motorcycle model "was considered particularly robust and reliable at the time."
Officials also found the remains of two German soldiers while recovering the motorcycle, along with two well-preserved identification tags.
Both tags were still intact.
Typically, one half of a fallen soldier's tag was left with the body, while the other was sent to the Wehrmacht Information Office so that the soldier's family could be notified, according to the commission.
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The identification tags found with the remains are still being deciphered, Diane Tempel-Bornett, a spokesperson for the German War Graves Commission, told Fox News Digital in a translated email.
Tempel-Bornett said that despite the discovery of the tags, the identities of the two soldiers remain unknown.
"The fact that the identification tags were found with the dead does not necessarily mean that they belonged to them — although that is quite possible," she said.
The fact that the tags were still intact could indicate the soldiers were never recovered or officially accounted for after their deaths, Tempel-Bornett said.
Tempel-Bornett said identifying the soldiers can be a "long, painstaking process," with even small details offering potential clues.
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Investigators can glean clues from the remains, including height, age and possible origin, while personal belongings such as wedding rings, glasses, jewelry and papers can also help establish an identity.
Researchers then compare those findings with military records and other historical evidence.
"Here, we work closely with the German Federal Archives in Berlin," she added.
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"Only when everything fits together is the person's fate considered to have been clarified."
The final stage, Tempel-Bornett said, is to reach out to any relatives of the deceased.
"If we have inquiries from relatives searching for them, that makes it easier," she said. "Otherwise, our colleagues try to do so through an inquiry with the residents' registration authorities."
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For now, the identities of the two soldiers — and how they and the motorcycle came to rest in the Danube — are an ongoing mystery.
"We can only speculate [on the cause of death]," added Tempel-Bornett.
"Whether the dead tried to cross the frozen Danube, whether one fell, whether the dead were shot or drowned … we will only know after their fate has been clarified."
Cowboys' Dak Prescott still giving Jerry Jones Super Bowl fever: 'Gives us our best chance'
Dallas Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones has a little more pep in his step.
As it was written earlier this week, Jones told reporters there was "nothing more dangerous than an old man with money" following the Cowboys’ win over the Washington Commanders. On Tuesday, through two weeks of the 2026 season, he appeared to have Super Bowl fever already.
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It’s likely that the billionaire NFL team owner is always dreaming of getting back to the glory days of the 1990s. I mean, aren’t we all? But it has meant more to Jones to get the Cowboys back on top as the team hasn’t even appeared in an NFC Championship Game since 1995.
Dak Prescott’s four touchdown passes against the Commanders and notching his name as the franchise leader in passing touchdowns has Jones energized.
"I think he’s the poster child of any players I’ve been around of what you can do self-improve. He's a product of his own work ethic," Jones said of Prescott on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan. "He's a product of his focus on getting better at every detail of his game. I'm happy to say that he's a better quarterback today than he's ever been. And he's playing a position that, even though you might have a little diminished physical skill, it’s a position where if you approach it the way he's approached his career, you will be a better player.
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"I'm glad we've got him. His record indicates the best at an overall view. … How he got where he is, is to me a noteworthy leg on his chair of being the best. And he can be the best out there as far as I'm concerned. ... He's playing at an extremely high level that gives us our best chance (to win a Super Bowl). We still have the opportunity to get him championships."
Prescott’s health will be imperative moving forward.
The 11-year veteran only played eight games in 2024 and five games in 2020. He made it through 12 games in 2022.
But coming off a career-high 404 completions and a fourth Pro Bowl appearance in 2025, Prescott has shown up and showed out so far in 2026. The Week 1 loss against the New York Giants appeared to be firmly in the rearview mirror.
Socialist mayor’s new answer to rampant retail crime ignites fury: ‘Bandage on a bullet wound’
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is rolling out city-funded security for grocery stores facing theft, break-ins and vandalism, fueling criticism that Seattle is spending taxpayer money to protect businesses from crime instead of doing enough to stop it in the first place.
The socialist mayor announced the rollout of the security funding as part of a $1.7 million grocery-support initiative included in the city's 2026 budget earlier this week.
"Keeping our neighborhood grocery stores safe and supported is essential to making sure every Seattleite has a reliable, affordable grocery store near them," Wilson said on social media Monday.
The plan will help 10 independent grocery stores pay for improvements and get a year of business support, while stores hit hard by retail theft can get one-time funding for security upgrades and repairs.
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The security funding is already drawing criticism from conservatives who argue the city is spending public money to help businesses absorb the consequences of crime rather than focusing enough resources on preventing it.
"The best way to support grocery store — and all businesses — is to actually enforce the law with a fully staffed and funded police department. Giving money or resources to fix businesses that are broken by crime is a bandage on a bullet wound," Seattle-based KTTH host and conservative commentator Jason Rantz told Fox News Digital.
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"We don’t need to think outside the box here. Just enforce the law and put criminals in jail. That works like a charm and will save everyone money and headaches," Rantz added.
"Is there no single human in Seattle willing to identify the criminals and end the crime instead," asked an X user.
"Seattle is arguably the worst city in the entire country right now, in terms of the rampant crime, widespread degradation and lawlessness that’s apparently gotten exponentially worse across the board over the last 2-3 yrs," another user chimed in.
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"That used to be called the police department. What are these security guards going to do? Make arrests? Observe & report? The criminals will walk right past the security with their stolen goods. If they detain they will be sued. Cops will not arrest the shoplifters or prosecute," said one person.
"Goodness! imagine how much nicer the city would be if they simply arrested and charged criminals and put them in jail? Normal people shouldn't have to shop at stores with security guards. NONE of this was necessary in most parts of Seattle 15 years ago," wrote an X user.
"So we are working around the problem by increasing security instead of arresting the problem," said another person.
The city will also work with the Independent Grocers Alliance to study eight neighborhoods for potential new grocery stores, according to the plan.
Wilson floated the idea of exploring a "public option" for grocery stores during her 2025 mayoral campaign, including models that could involve publicly supported or city-run grocery stores. While the new initiative is separate from those proposals, critics argued the city should focus more heavily on arresting and prosecuting retail thieves rather than spending additional money helping stores deal with the damage caused by crime.
The grocery security funding was first proposed by former Mayor Bruce Harrell as $1 million for grocery-store security in his 2026 budget, specifically targeting retail theft, property damage and other crimes.
City leaders pushed to cut police spending amid the 2020 "Black Lives Matter" movement and the city subsequently experienced a steep decline in police staffing, with the department falling from 1,424 officers in 2019 to 1,054 in 2024 before hiring began to rebound, the Seattle Mayor's Office previously reported.
The broader theft problem remains significant in Seattle, where police recorded nearly 7,500 larceny-theft offenses across the city's five precincts through May, making it the most commonly reported crime category in every precinct.
Fox News Digital reached out to the mayor's office on Tuesday.
Supreme Court declines to intervene in case of surrogate mother who refused abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to intervene in the case of a surrogate mother who refused to have an abortion and is now seeking custody of the child.
McKenna West gave birth to the boy, whom she named Gabriel, in Texas in August after she fled from California when the parents asked her to abort the child over a heart defect. She argued in Texas court that she should maintain custody over the child despite the surrogacy agreement, but a judge in Texas ruled against her.
West then appealed to the Supreme Court, but Justice Elena Kagan, who handles cases arising from California, declined to hear the case on Tuesday without issuing a written decision.
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The intended parents, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, signed a surrogacy agreement with West in August 2025. They point to a clause in the agreement that allowed for a termination of pregnancy in the case of a "fetal abnormality."
The child, whom they had named Rumi, was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which causes part of the heart to be underdeveloped and prevents normal blood flow. The child underwent surgery in Texas and is now "suffering from potential complications" related to the operation.
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Ahmed and Gilkar attempted to force West to have an abortion when the defect was initially detected, but West refused and fled to Texas, where she received support from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Paxton signed an order stating that the child must receive lifesaving care in Texas. The case went up to the Texas Supreme Court, which ruled last week that the child could be moved to California, where the intended parents have lined up plans for medical care.
Ahmed and Gilkar first sought out a surrogacy agreement after attempts at in vitro fertilization failed.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Trump anti-fraud division's future rests with Senate Dems after bipartisan House win
FIRST ON FOX: House Democrats paved the way for President Donald Trump's anti-fraud division to survive beyond his presidency, but one Republican fears it'll be a different outcome in the Senate.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., shared with Fox News Digital that he was introducing legislation that would make the National Fraud Enforcement Division permanent. It comes after a bill to do the same thing cruised through the House. The lawmaker made it official Tuesday night when the Senate reopened for business.
But the Senate is a different political animal, and Democrats’ possible reticence to give Trump a win before the midterm elections may thwart his plan. Schmitt, during an interview with Fox News Digital, contended that since the sprawling Minnesota fraud scandal was unveiled earlier this year, Democrats have been on the back foot.
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"They're very defensive about it, and you know the fact is that you had — maybe it had something to do with this sort of toxic empathy or suicidal empathy [they] have done on immigration where you had these Somali fraudsters and maybe, maybe their instinct to defend every group of people that came here from somewhere else, even if they're defrauding the American people, overrode their logic."
Still, House Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., begrudgingly gave Trump a win last week and voted to make his anti-fraud task force permanent. That bipartisan vote comes as Democrats are reconciling with their messaging on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.
And New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has increasingly been one of the progressive leaders of the party, warned Democrats had ceded ground on issues like quality of life and rooting out waste and fraud, and that finding waste had taken hold as a "right-wing concern" rather than an issue Democrats could champion.
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"I know that we live in a hyper-partisan age, I get that," Schmitt said. "But there are some things I don't think should be partisan. Saving taxpayer money should be something we're all focused on."
"I mean these are criminals who, you know, are stealing from American taxpayers and the potential beneficiaries of important programs," he continued.
Trump first announced the creation of a new division within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to combat fraud in January 2026 following reports of staggering fraud taking place in the backyard of one of his political enemies: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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The unit embedded in the DOJ was officially launched under then-acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, with the goal of targeting "fraud affecting the federal government, federally funded programs, and private citizens," according to a release by the administration.
It’s chaired by Vice President JD Vance, who Trump tapped to be his de facto fraud czar, and run by Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald.
Schmitt argued that "having permanence in the Department of Justice will be important so that, no matter who is president, that this remains a focus."
"To me, this shouldn't be a partisan issue at all," Schmitt said. "But sadly, we live in a world where Democrats aren't as focused on this, but I think we've got an administration that is."
And Schmitt leads the Senate’s Anti-Fraud Taskforce, launched in June, that includes only Republican members. That wasn’t by design.
He said that they had extended an invitation to "Republicans and Democrats alike," but only one side of the aisle accepted the call.
"I was a little surprised. I think some offices took a look at it and, for whatever reason, didn't want to be part of the effort," Schmitt said. "I don't understand that."
"But, you know, of course, the offer remains open if anybody wants to," he continued. "I just think that this is something that our people back home expect us to work together on. And I don't understand why you wouldn't want to be a part of an anti-fraud task force."