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Stacey King, three-time NBA champion and Bulls broadcaster, dead at 59
Stacey King, a three-time NBA champion and a broadcaster for the Chicago Bulls, has died, the team announced on Sunday. He was 59.
Bulls executives Jerry and Michael Reinsdorf released statements on King’s death.
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"Stacey King was a cherished member of the Bulls family and one of the truly unique personalities in our organization’s history," Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said. "His connection to Chicago, the Bulls and our fans spanned more than three decades – first as a player and later as the unmistakable voice that helped bring Bulls basketball into the homes of generations of fans.
"We will miss him deeply and remember the joy, energy, humor, candor and passion he brought to our organization, our broadcasts and our fans every day. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones."
Michael Reinsdorf, the team’s president and CEO, remembered King as a player who "loved being a Bull."
"You could feel it in everything he did – the way he played, the way he called games and the way he connected with our fans," he said. "He had a unique gift for bringing people together and making every game feel personal. He brought an energy and love for the game that came through in every broadcast, helping fans feel connected to our team.
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"Whether it was through a broadcast, a conversation or a photo with a fan, Stacey made people feel seen and valued. We were fortunate to know him not only as a player and broadcaster, but as a friend. Stacey genuinely cared about people, and he made our organization better. We will miss him dearly, and his impact, memory and legacy will remain a part of the Chicago Bulls forever."
Chicago selected King with the No. 6 overall pick of the 1989 draft out of Oklahoma.
He played four full seasons with the Bulls before he joined the Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami Heat, Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks during his career.
King was on the Bulls during their first three-peat run from 1990 to 1993. He averaged 6.4 points in 438 career games.
After King retired, he started his broadcasting career in 2006. He was with CSN Chicago and the Chicago Sports Network.
Morgan Wallen fires back at 'nonsense' rumors he left Pittsburgh before his show was officially canceled
Morgan Wallen has no time for "nonsense" rumors.
On Saturday, the country star — who was reportedly forced to cancel his Pittsburgh show on Saturday due to poor weather conditions — took to Instagram to address online speculation that he dipped out of town before local officials confirmed the cancellation.
"This morning, my team walked on my bus and told me they had been consulting with local officials and that I should cancel my show in Pittsburgh tonight and I said, ‘Why?’" said in the video posted to his Instagram Stories.
"They said that there was going to be strong winds in the area, and I said, ‘OK.’ So, that is what I did and that was the information I had in the moment, and I trusted my team," he continued. "I understand that wind hasn't gotten to Pittsburgh yet ... The truth of the matter is, I have a large stage that, in those conditions, could become fatal to a lot of folks around it. So, I did the best I could with the information I had in that moment."
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"I’ve been seeing a lot of nonsense about me that is simply not true, and I just wanted to clear the air," he added. "I think my true fans know that that’s not how I operate in general, but I had to say it. Ya'll take care."
Hours prior, Wallen informed his fans through social media that he had been advised to cancel his show.
"After talking with local officials and my team, there is no choice but to cancel tonight’s show due to severe adverse weather conditions expected throughout the rest of the day and night," he wrote on his Instagram Stories. "Safety for my fans and crew is the highest priority."
While some fans were quick to share their disappointment and frustration on social media, others sparked fury over whether Wallen's cancellation was warranted.
"Morgan wallen cancelling his show last night is just hilarious because i walked outside after my shift at 11pm and my car was completely dry," one user wrote on X. "No rain in sight. that man was already on his way back to tennessee."
Mike Asti, a managing editor at WV Sports Now, Pittsburgh Sports Now, said, "A Saturday cancelation even as weather clears up has caused a heel turn that may make him never welcomed back. Unbelievable turn of events."
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"Acrisure stadium officials fuming," Marty Griffin, KDKA Radio, wrote on X. "Sources confirm … Wallen left town on plane before they even had meeting and demanded they announce the cancellation after he was in the air."
A representative for Wallen did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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The cancellation comes days after Wallen flipped over a piano onstage after the equipment malfunctioned mid-show.
In a fan-captured video obtained by Fox News Digital, the 33-year-old musician is seen getting frustrated when his equipment seemingly malfunctions in the middle of his performance of "Sand In My Boots."
After he finishes singing the song, Wallen walks over to the piano and pushes it over, breaking it.
"While playing 'sand in my boots' Morgan gets off the piano cause it isn’t [working] as it should," the video's caption on TikTok reads. "He finishes acapella then proceeds to push the piano over, breaking it!"
Maher warns Democrats have 'another sex, creep problem’ with Platner citing misconduct allegations
Bill Maher mocked Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner Friday, using the candidate's mounting controversies to argue Democrats are facing another problem tied to misconduct allegations ahead of a major toss-up race.
"Democrats — they have another sex, creep problem," Maher said during his "Real Time with Bill Maher" monologue. "Have you seen this guy, Graham Platner, up in Maine? Their big hope to take the Senate, the Democrats. But Graham Platner, he’s a lot."
Maher pointed first to Platner’s tattoo controversy, which has followed the Maine Democrat for months. The Associated Press reported in October that Platner said he covered a chest tattoo that was widely recognized as a Nazi symbol, after saying he got it in 2007 while drinking on leave in Croatia and did not understand its meaning at the time.
"You know, he’s got a Nazi tattoo," Maher said. "We don’t know about that, maybe it was just drunk. You didn’t know it was… whatever."
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The HBO host cited recent reporting on Platner's marriage and his interactions with women. The AP reported that former campaign staffer Genevieve McDonald said Platner was "sexting multiple women while married" and that the campaign reviewed the issue as a possible election vulnerability.
"But, you know, he definitely was texting other women outside of his marriage," Maher said.
Maher also referenced allegations from former romantic partners, including reporting that one woman described Platner’s behavior as unsettling.
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"Now some of the girlfriends are coming forward," Maher said. "One of them says he used to watch TV while he was sharpening his axe."
The AP reported that Lyndsey Fifield told The New York Times that Platner grabbed her hard enough to leave marks, pulled her from a cab by the wrist and, in one incident, twisted her arm and held her in a room when they dated more than a decade ago.
Another former girlfriend, Jenny Racicot, told the Times his behavior was "reckless" and "unsettling," according to the AP.
Maher also made a joke about Maine author Stephen King, whose work has often centered on horror stories set in the state. Maher said Platner's alleged axe sharpening "could cost him women and their votes."
"But he did win over Stephen King," Maher added.
Platner has denied allegations that he was violent toward women. In a statement to the AP, he said he had been open about a "very dark period" in his life, including undiagnosed PTSD, alcohol use and being a "far from perfect boyfriend."
"Any characterization beyond that is false, and I believe, politically motivated," Platner said in the statement. "I’m not proud of who I was then, but I am proud of the work I’ve done since, and the movement we are building in Maine."
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Platner also addressed the allegations during an appearance on MS NOW with Chris Hayes, saying some claims were untrue.
"There are things in this that I absolutely will take responsibility for and have been speaking about openly for months," Platner said. "But those serious allegations are just not true."
Platner is running in Maine’s Democratic primary as the party seeks to defeat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November.
The primary is Tuesday, June 9.
Fox News Digital reached out to Graham Platner for comment but did not immediately hear back.
It wasn’t on his shopping list, but a man managed to accidentally shoot himself in the groin at Walmart anyway
Let me get this out of the way before we dig any deeper into this. I did not see the man’s list, so it is completely a guess on my part that it didn’t include accidentally or otherwise shooting himself in the groin on it. There's even a chance that he didn’t have a list at all.
I’m not here to pass judgment either way.
Here’s how it all played out, according to Tampa Bay 28. Sarasota County deputies were called to a Walmart in Venice, Florida, last Thursday after reports of a "popping sound" and "a trail of blood near the bathroom area."
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The responding deputies evacuated the store and cleared it, finding no person of interest inside. When they checked the surveillance video, they spotted a "white male entering the store with a holstered gun in the waistband of his shorts."
The surveillance footage also revealed that the gun discharged while the man was attempting to adjust the gun in the holster. The bullet appeared to have struck the man in the leg and groin area.
That’s definitely not an area of the body you don't want to treat wounds yourself. Particularly not in a Walmart bathroom. The reason deputies didn’t find him at the store when they arrived is that he left to seek professional care for his gunshot to the groin.
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That's a smart decision on his part. You want someone who knows what they're doing putting their expertise to work when you're dealing with that area.
The man was found a short time after the incident at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital campus in Venice. It wasn’t reported if the groin shooter was going to face any charges.
Whether he's charged with any crime or not, he's going to have to reevaluate a few things. If I were him, I'd start from waking up that day all the way to ending up in the hospital after a trip to Walmart. Was it the shorts? Is there something wrong with the holster? Is there an issue with the gun itself?
There would be a lot of questions I'd be asking myself. But the one change I know I'd be making for sure if I decided the shorts were fine, there's nothing wrong with my holster or my gun, is that the business end isn't going to be pointed toward the groin anymore.
Danny DeVito says he and wife Rhea Perlman are 'best of friends' while living apart
Although the pair live in separate houses, Danny DeVito says he and wife Rhea Perlman remain "best of friends."
"We are not living together anymore. She lives close by," the "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" comedian told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.
He added, "We are really good, best of friends, and we always were from the very, very, very beginning."
The 81-year-old said he and Perlman love talking about their passions, mainly movies and acting.
"And we talk, we love movies. We love, you know, we love acting," he said. "We love talking about it. We always, we read plays. We've always kept it alive with the kids, you know, with the movie business."
DeVito and Perlman married in 1982, and they share three grown kids: Lucy, 43, Grace, 41, and Jake, 38.
He explained that Lucy and Jake both work in the business and Grace is a "wonderful painter."
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"But Lucy's an actress. She's in the new movie we just produced called ‘Drag,’ which is coming out in the [winter] … And we produced that with Jake, my son, who's a producer. Lucy's also producing it, but she's in it as well. So the whole family is like kind of, we're all like in the, I guess, you know, the roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crowd, or the other way around," he joked.
And DeVito is celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of his classic films with "Matilda in Concert," something the actor started doing in 2017 and which will happen at three locations this year: Cleveland, San Francisco and London.
DeVito explained that 1996’s "Matilda," which he produced, directed and starred in, was "one of my favorite movies to make because I had all kids in it."
He added, "It was a lot of ice cream, and it was a lot of tea parties, and there was a lot of like playing games, and a lot of clownin' around. I like to clown around," he emphasized, "So there I had a built-in audience."
The "Jumanji: The Next Level" star said that he first discovered the book when he was reading to his kids in the early ‘90s.
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"And we read it," he said, "and it was like amazing. And Rhea and I said, this is like --- these are great parts for us, first of all. They're great."
"We had a great time and Rhea got into it really big time," he said. "Rhea and I always have a good time working together. We've done a lot of things together: ‘Taxi’ and short films, and we produce things together, and at NYU, we worked together, like, years ago, in 1970 something."
DeVito and Perlman played Matilda’s "crazy" parents, Harry and Zinnia Wormwood.
For "Matilda in Concert", he said: "They do this thing where they take the philharmonic, we strip out the sound and the music, we leave the dialogue, sound effects, and you strip out just the music, and you play it with a live orchestra. And the great thing about it is that I also narrate the movie."
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DeVito not only narrates, but he reprises his Mr. Wormwood character complete with the used car salesman’s bowler hat.
"I always take something from a movie," he explained. "I wear it [at 'Matilda in Concert'] and I come out, and I have a kind of wild jacket that I wear an orange shirt or something, tie and do the thing."
DeVito said in the past, he’s performed with orchestras from places like Texas and Toronto and this year he performed with the Cleveland Orchestra on June 3 and 5 has upcoming performances with the San Francisco Symphony on July 25 and 26 and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 30.
The evenings are also conducted by composer David Newman who wrote the music for "Matilda."
As he enters his 80s, DeVito said his philosophy is people should "Always be in love. You know, you love yourself, right? You gotta love yourself, and you love people around you. So that's good enough love. That's good love."
He clarified, "It doesn't have to be romantic love. Doesn't have be always, you know, you've got a girlfriend or a boyfriend … It doesn't have to be that way. It can be just love of other people and love of yourself. And think about them. That circle doesn't have to be wide. You don't have to be somebody who embraces the entire world. You could be somebody who embraces your entire world."
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Devito added that he is now "more conscious" of taking care of himself as he gets older "because I want to be around" for his two young grandchildren, Sinclair, 3, and Carmine, who will be 2 in July.
"So, I am gonna stay healthy because I want to see those two characters, what they do," he beamed.
He said all of them live around 15 minutes from him. "So I get to see them all the time, which is great."
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"If I'm working, I quit early because they're on schedules," he explained. "Like the other night, we all went to dinner, and they like to eat at five o'clock."
He said he usually starts working around 9 or 10 in the morning, and he doesn’t mind working late, "but on a night like that, 4:30 I'm in the car, get to that place, have a nice little dinner with Carmine. Slobber around, make some faces. Always open your mouth while you eat. You know what I mean? He loves it. I mean, maybe the parents don't like it that much, but you know what? I'm the grandpa."
DeVito is also adamant that he’ll never quit the business.
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"I wouldn't retire. Nope. You’re stuck with me," he joked. DeVito is currently shooting the 18th season of "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and his new movie "Jumanji: Open World" premieres this Christmas, and he said he wants to keep doing things like "Matilda in Concert" and even Broadway.
"My fans have been with me from Louie De Palma, well, even Martini [from ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’] all the way to Frank, you know, Reynolds," he said, adding that fans even come up to him and tell him they want a Jersey Mike’s sandwich after seeing him. DeVito became a spokesperson for the sandwich chain in 2022.
And he said a lot of his younger fans are "digging" "Matilda" all these years later.
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DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger are also planning a new project together.
"We really liked working together on ‘Twins,’ on ‘Junior,’ and we’ve become good friends," he said. "We've been dying to do something together, and now that we're getting older, you go like, ‘Come on, man. We got to find something to do together. I'll direct it.’"
He said they had planned on doing a "Triplets" sequel to "Twins," but director Ivan Reitman died before they could.
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"Ivan Reitman was a gem," he said. "Ivan Reitman was a beautiful man."
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But he said he and Schwarzenegger are actively trying to get a movie going.
"I don't know what it is yet, but when we find it, you're gonna know about it," he promised, "because … Arnold and I can't keep our mouths shut, so we're going to blab about it."
Speaking of his career, DeVito remembered a time when he blew an audition for a play at the Public Theater in New York for "Elephant Steps" in front of Richard Foreman, who he called a "wild director."
"And I knew the casting director, she used to always bring me in for things," he explained. "I said to her, ‘Before you walk me in and introduce me to Richard Foreman, just open the door and stand back.’ Right? And she said, ‘What are you going to do, Danny?’ I said, ‘Just do it, please.’"
DeVito said he had prepared a monologue and when the casting director opened the door, "I laid down on the floor and I rolled in. And I said my monologue and I didn't know where I was because I was rolling in, and I wound up pretty close to the table where the director was sitting."
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"I was looking up and he was over there somewhere, and I was dizzy, but I had done my audition on the way in saying my lines," he continued.
After he finally stood up, Foreman just said: "’Thank you very much, next,’ you know, like that kind of thing. So I might've blown that one."
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DeVito said he's also feeling good about getting older.
"I like it, I like, it's kind of cool," the "Taxi" alum, who turns 82 in November, said. "It's really interesting. It's good. I mean, it just happens without you doing anything. You know, you just get older and that's kind of nice, you don't have to really think about it."
But he said: "You have to exercise. You have to keep your mind working. You have, you know, I drink a lot of green, green juice, very, very important, right? A lot of walking around … Keep your friends, always talk to your friends. Keep talking to people, meet new people, try new things."
"I'm not gonna jump out of an airplane. Promise. The only thing I don't wanna do, no. And you know, I don't think I want to go on a submarine either. I don’t think I want to be shot in outer space either. I like it, like sitting in the yard is really good. Sitting in the sun … And eat good, try and think about the gut, because the gut's really important, you know? Gut health, try, you know, do that kind of stuff if you could, and you know and always be in love."
Suspected Hamas terrorist arrested in Greece for allegedly plotting attack on Israeli cruise ship
A suspected Hamas terrorist, reportedly granted asylum a year from the Gaza war, was arrested by Greek police for allegedly plotting an attack on an Israeli cruise line.
The Gaza man, 37, was arrested on the Greek island of Crete on Sunday for his alleged ties to one of four suspected Hamas terrorists previously arrested in Cyprus, having traveled with him to Malaysia, where they allegedly received training in making explosives from commercially available chemical agents.
The Israeli cruise ship MS Crown Iris was the believed target of the attack before it was scheduled to arrive in Crete on Tuesday. Police did not publicly identify the man or name a target in their initial statement.
Searches in homes in both Crete and the Greek capital, Athens, turned up a number of mobile phones, a laptop, external hard drives and bank cards, The Associated Press reported.
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The suspect, an electrician who has been reportedly living in Crete for the past year and working at a hotel there after being granted asylum, will appear before a magistrate later Sunday.
The suspected terrorist had placed an online order for what police said were "chemical agents" that could be used in the manufacture of explosives, according to the report.
State broadcaster ERT, cited by Israeli and Greek media, reported that police also found laboratory equipment.
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The case appears to be part of a broader regional counterterrorism probe. Cypriot authorities arrested two Palestinians on May 22 after intelligence led investigators to materials in two residences that police said could be used to manufacture explosives. Two more Palestinian men were detained May 29 as part of the same investigation, according to Greek police.
The Crown Iris has become a recurring flashpoint at Greek ports amid anger over the war in Gaza. Protesters gathered near the ship when it docked in Piraeus on Wednesday, June 3, and demonstrations against the vessel have followed it at Greek ports since last year.
Protesters allege that Mano Maritime, the owner of the MS Crown Iris, is profiting from the Hamas-Israel war by selling tourist services to Israel Defense Forces soldiers during breaks from active duty.
In July 2025, Greek police used tear gas and made arrests as demonstrators tried to block the ship at Agios Nikolaos on Crete.
The investigation remains ongoing, and authorities have not announced formal charges against the suspect.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Trump storms off 'Meet the Press' interview, rips Welker, ABC, CBS, CNN as 'crooked'
President Donald Trump abruptly ended a tense "Meet the Press" interview with host Kristen Welker in Wisconsin Sunday after she repeatedly challenged his claims about election fraud, California’s vote count and his proposed "anti-weaponization" fund.
Trump cut off the interview after accusing NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN of being "crooked" during a final exchange over his claims about U.S. elections.
"You’re a one-sided crooked network," Trump told Welker. "Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time."
The exchange escalated during the final block, when Welker pressed Trump on a proposed $1.8 billion fund intended to compensate people who said they were targeted by the former President Joe Biden administration’s alleged "weaponization" of government.
Welker asked Trump whether he was moving away from the fund after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the administration would not move forward with it.
"Just to be very clear, are you backing off the fund completely as your acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said, or are you looking for another avenue to revive the fund?" Welker asked.
Trump defended the proposal and said people had been harmed by officials in the Biden administration.
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"People have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe," Trump said. "They’re vicious. They’re violent, what they did to people. And, of course, they went after me more than anybody else."
Welker pressed Trump on whether he still wanted to revive the proposal.
"So are you looking for a way to revive it?" Welker asked.
Trump said he personally supported the idea but acknowledged it would need approval.
"If it was up to me, I’d pay them the kind of money that they deserve," Trump said. "So me, personally, I think the weaponization fund is a great idea, and so do many other Republicans. You have to get it approved."
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Trump later broadened his remarks, accusing the press and Biden officials of destroying people’s lives.
"I love the idea, because people like you, the fake dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden, he’s not smart enough to know what’s going on, but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people," Trump said.
Welker pushed back on Trump’s claims, saying the President had no evidence.
"Just to be very clear, there’s no evidence of what you’re saying," Welker said.
Trump rejected that.
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"There’s a lot of evidence," Trump said. "Listen to me. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence."
Trump then repeated his claim that the 2020 election was rigged and connected it to California’s ongoing vote count.
"The election was rigged," Trump said. "It was a dirty election. And it’s happening again right now in California."
Trump pointed to the pace of California’s vote count, which takes over a month to certify state elections.
"All I have to do is look," Trump said. "They’re crooked just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked. And Meet the Press is crooked."
"Your elections are crooked, and you’re crooked, and ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN," Trump said before ending the interview.
Welker attempted to keep the interview going, noting that NBC had traveled to Wisconsin for the sit-down.
"Mr. President, let’s... please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin," Welker said.
Trump said he had already given Welker enough time.
"I sat in the rain with you for an hour," Trump said. "On and off in the rain, and I’ve given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press, because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press."
Spencer Pratt's runner-up edge over Democrat Raman down to 1%, few thousand ballots
Spencer Pratt’s independent bid to make the Los Angeles mayoral runoff hangs in the balance nearly a week after Election Day.
With the jungle primary leaving incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass already ruled to have advanced to a November runoff, Pratt's margin over Democrat City Councilmember Nithya Raman has slimmed to just 1% with a few thousand ballots left to make up the difference.
Pratt led Raman by just 7,494 votes in the latest AP elections tally with 78% of the vote counted to date. Bass remained in first place with 235,180 votes (34.8%), while Pratt had 184,596 votes (27.3%) and Raman had 177,102 votes (26.2%).
Los Angeles County continues to count ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received by Tuesday, June 9, drawing the attention of the Republican National Committee. The election results must only be counted within 30 days and certified by July 10.
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"The California primary ended on June 2, 2026; yet California is still counting ballots," the RNC website tracker counting the seconds since polls closed reads.
"The state’s election system is a complete joke. The RNC is tracking every hour it takes California to finish the count."
The latest ballot update gave Raman another boost, as she picked up 23,514 votes in the latest batch, more than double Pratt’s 10,336-vote gain. That cut Pratt’s lead by 13,178 votes in a single day and pushed the contest for second place into uncertain territory.
Pratt posted a meme to X decrying the ongoing ballot count in the race.
"Me trying to figure out how votes get counted in LA," he wrote Saturday night.
Under California’s top-two primary system, if no candidate wins more than 50% of the votes, the two highest vote-getters advance to the general election. The AP reported that Bass advanced to the runoff after finishing first in the crowded mayoral primary, while Pratt and Raman continued battling for the remaining November spot.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pointed to California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom when discussing the delayed results.
"The question to the rest of the world is what happened to California elections? Well, I'll tell you, it's Gavin Newsom," McCarthy told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "When Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California, you knew who was elected in a day to two days. Now it takes more than weeks, almost a month."
"Why did we get here?" McCarthy continued. "Gavin changed a number of election laws in which you want to see is what did he do and why did he cause it?"
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The slow count has drawn heightened attention because later-counted ballots have steadily cut into Pratt’s lead.
Longtime Democrat strategist Michael Trujillo told The California Post on Saturday that the trend pointed to a likely runoff appearance for Raman, calling the late ballot counting "normal" for California and telling critics to "go back to where you came from."
"I was always a little jealous of east coast elections getting so much attention in the media and on this app, yeah nevermind," he wrote on X. "The stupidity from these out of state analysts and reporters and the bots and fake accounts it brings to what is really a very NORMAL process happening in Los Angeles and California is annoying.
"Go back to where you came from, thanks."
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Conservatives on X are decrying the probability of Pratt being shut out of the runoff.
"Spencer Pratt is likely going to be overtaken by far left Nithya Raman today," Robby Starbuck wrote on X. "This graph shows the count on Election Day through last night. "Nithya did this by suddenly winning 1st in every new ballot drop.
"North Korean 'elections' have more self respect. Even they’d find it absurd for 3rd to suddenly jump to 1st place in every ballot drop DAYS after an election. It’s just ludicrous."
That post also brought the attention of X owner Elon Musk.
"The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud," Musk claimed on X, replying to Starbuck's post. "When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized."
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Starbuck noted the historic run Raman's count has made.
"ChatGPT can’t find a single example of a 3rd place candidate surging, days AFTER Election Day, to overtake 2nd place," he wrote Sunday morning. "It couldn’t find 1 example in all of American history. That’s what’s happening with Nithya Raman & Spencer Pratt.
"Los Angeles has 3rd world country elections."
Democrats merely point back to an overwhelming edge in registered Democrat voters versus Republicans, even if Pratt is running as an independent.
"IF SOMETHING CAN BE EXPLAINED BY A CONVOLUTED CONSPIRACY THEORY—OR SIMPLE MATH—THEN MATH ALWAYS WINS," Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., wrote on X. "LA Registered Voters. Approximate number of Dems: 1,224,737 Approximate number of Republicans: 326,292."
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Americans "want to see election integrity," McCarthy told host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
"They want to see transparency and they want to see timely reporting: We had that in California," McCarthy, a former Republican House member in the deep-blue state, said. "We were very liberal in the rules about absentee ballots, but we had accountability."
"We had cut off voter registration 30 days before the election. That helps the registrars to know who's going to vote and the candidates," he continued. "Now we have same day voter, and you don't have to show ID. Gavin changed the rules where he mails ballots to everyone. So he took away the choice to Californians to vote in person or to vote absentee. Everybody gets mailed a ballot. But he didn't clean up the rolls. So that raises doubt in people's minds."
McCarthy noted Raman's Election Night disappointment was originally telling.
"When you look at the LA mayor's race, the third place person gave it like a concession speech that night and cried, and she was getting the most votes in the last drop," McCarthy said. "So if she didn't even believe that she could move up, that puts in question to the whole election itself. And that's why it brings doubt to people."
President Donald Trump had weighed in, too, with the RNC pointing to the pending Watson v. RNC Supreme Court decision on late ballot counting due soon.
The Watson decision might come before the end of June.
".@POTUS is right," the RNC's Election Integrity unit posted on X. "That's why the RNC has boots on the ground and is fighting in the Supreme Court to stop ballots received after Election Day from being counted. MAKE ELECTIONS SECURE AGAIN!"
Homan accuses Democrats of 'lying' about Delaney Hall conditions after surprise ICE facility visit
Border czar Tom Homan pushed back on Democrats' claims about conditions at a New Jersey ICE facility on Saturday, saying a surprise visit found detainees receiving substantial meals, access to recreation and orderly housing accommodations.
"The Democratic politicians were lying. They're enticing these protests with their lies," Homan told Fox News' Lara Trump, referring to recent outrage at Newark's Delaney Hall.
The Trump border czar disputed reports of a hunger strike at the facility, saying one detainee attempted to start a strike but was ultimately unsuccessful. He also disputed claims that the facility's conditions are poor, detailing his own surprise tour of the center's medical facilities, recreation areas, housing units and bathrooms.
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"I even did a surprise visit on Saturday, unannounced, to eat lunch because I was told the food was bad," Homan said. "So I sat in the cafeteria right along with the detainees."
Homan said he ate the same meal being served to detainees, which included spaghetti with meat sauce, vegetables, rolls and dessert.
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"I'm not a small guy. I couldn't finish it off," he recalled.
"It isn't about the quality of detention, it's about detention. They [Democrats] don't want these people detained, right? They want to shut down detention centers, and they want to abolish ICE. That's what it's all about."
Delaney Hall is at the center of a standoff that began after illegal immigrant detainees penned an open letter alleging they live in "inhumane" conditions and claiming they were being denied medical care and adequate food.
"Initially, we ask for forgiveness for the way we entered the United States, but given the circumstances we were living in our countries, which placed our lives and those of some members of our families in danger," the letter states. "We feel vulnerable and, in a way, kidnapped — detained without justification — not to mention that we are being tortured physically and psychologically due to the poor food resources provided in these detention centers."
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) denied the allegations, releasing facility menus that it said showed detainees receive three meals daily, including options such as chicken fajitas and Salisbury steak.
Americans travel to Pakistan to free Christians trapped in modern-day slavery: 'God's hand was in it'
Idaho resident Aaron Hutchings arrived at a Pakistani brick factory in January. The devout Christian told Fox News Digital that he was shocked to see children turning bricks under the hot sun to work off the debts that their families had incurred, sometimes over the course of generations.
Within hours of his arrival, Hutchings paid off the debts for two enslaved Christian families and escorted them to freedom, breaking the "curse that they’ve had for hundreds of years."
There are up to one million Christians working in slave and bonded labor in Pakistan, according to Emma Hall, a persecution researcher working with charity Open Doors U.K. and Ireland, told Fox News Digital. This could comprise as much as 30% of Pakistani Christians, counted at 3.3 million in the 2023 census and accounting for 1.37 percent of the population.
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Hall noted that "extreme poverty drives desperate families to accept advance loans (peshgri) for emergency and basic needs, trapping them in cycles of debt bondage where repayment systems are structured in ways that make exit extremely difficult."
Emmanuel Hernandez said he was shocked when he first heard that Christians in Pakistan were living in debt-based enslavement in Pakistan’s brick-making industry. After traveling to Pakistan to meet the woman who would later become his wife, Hernandez witnessed bonded laborers at a brick factory for the first time.
"Never in my life have I seen such hopelessness," he told Fox News Digital. "At that moment, I committed myself to rescuing one family a year for the rest of my life."
In January 2025, Hernandez started the nonprofit Project Jubilee. He says that it is "by the grace of God" that people have already donated enough through the nonprofit to save 300 Pakistanis from slavery.
Though Project Jubilee will save any bonded slave, regardless of race or faith, Hernandez said that "98% of the people we rescue are Christians, and that’s because they’re second-class citizens" in their country.
The average cost to help one family is about $8,500, Hernandez said, because Project Jubilee recognizes that slaves needed more than debt relief to escape the cycle of bonded labor.
"Our goal is for them to succeed in life and make sure that they never go back," he explained. To accomplish this, Hernandez and his team pay lawyers to take care of all applicable paperwork, and help each family with two months of rent and food. They also get families in touch with a local minister, pay for children to attend school and purchase every family a tuk tuk, a motorcycle taxi, which they can use to create income.
He said that in most cases, factory owners are grudgingly accepting of letting slaves go after their debts are paid off. But in some cases, he says owners have put a cap on the number of families Hernandez’s group can free in a month, or told them that they’re "never allowed to come back again."
Hutchings found Hernandez’s online profile in late 2025 and messaged him, asking to be part of his effort. Retired from the IT world, Hutchings said he is "just a normal guy who wanted to do something…to help people."
After a short conversation over the phone, Hernandez invited Hutchings to come along to a trip to Pakistan in January. Hutchings agreed. It was during this visit that Hutchings freed two families and reported he "just got hooked." He admits that the process is highly emotional. "It changes an entire family’s future for generations," he explained.
Hutchings said that it is especially impactful to witness the change that freedom brings to children. "We get to ask them, ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?" Hutchings said. "They probably haven’t even really thought about that. They’re [thinking] ‘I’m going to be a brick worker for the rest of my life, just like my parents.’"
Hutchings started his own nonprofit, Intentional Faith Foundation, which he now uses to collect donations from people who want to help free more slaves.
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Just months after his first journey, Hutchings returned to Pakistan in May to free an additional ten families. After video of his visit went viral, Hutchings said that his nonprofit raised enough funds to save another family from enslavement.
The practice of bonded slavery was outlawed formally in Pakistan in 1992, Hall says, but "enforcement remains weak." Discrimination extends beyond the bonded labor environment, with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom noting in 2025 that there were "recent and escalating attacks against religious minorities" in Pakistan, including Christians.
During his recent visit, Hutchings learned that securing housing was difficult, with many landlords refusing to rent to Christians. Eventually, a Pakistani Christian group working with families was able to find housing and jobs for parents, and located a teacher for the children who were largely illiterate.
In a 2023 report, Pakistan's National Commission for Human Rights released a series of recommendations for diminishing the pain that bonded labor brings to approximately three million Pakistanis. In her introduction, the group's chairperson stated, "It is deeply appalling that in the 21st century, slavery persists in the form of bonded labor."
Among its recommendations are forbidding children from laboring in brick kilns, helping laborers access justice and creating unions for collective representation. They suggest registering all brick kilns, increasing the use of automated machinery, and encouraging brick purchasers to buy bricks from kilns "that provide a safe and decent working environment."
Representatives of the Pakistani government did not respond to Fox News Digital's questions about the enforcement of laws against bonded labor, or about the treatment of Pakistani Christians. Neither Hutchings nor Hernandez reported having complications with the Pakistani government when working to free brick kiln laborers.
For Hutchings, the work has been transformative. "Looking back, it is hard to see any of it as random. I believe God's hand was in it from the beginning, and even though we were doing all of this to show Jesus' love towards these people, we ended up receiving more than we gave."