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LEE CARTER: The summer polls missed the point: Voters are moving — and the midterms begin
If you think you know who’s winning the midterms, I have some bad news.
The voters who will decide them are just starting to pay attention.
I say this as someone who loves polls. They tell us what people care about, what they’re worried about and where the political opportunities are.
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But summer horse-race numbers come with a giant asterisk:
The electorate isn’t finished yet.
We saw it all summer.
In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed appeared headed toward a comfortable Democratic Senate primary victory. He won by about a point.
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In Wisconsin, Francesca Hong led David Crowley by roughly 20 points in two polls. Crowley won.
In Minnesota, a public poll had Angie Craig ahead of Peggy Flanagan by two. Flanagan won by nearly 20.
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The lesson isn’t that polls are wrong.
It’s that voters move.
And now comes the part of the campaign when they start moving.
Labor Day is the unofficial beginning of the election season for the people who don’t spend August obsessing over politics.
Which is to say: most people.
They don’t know who won the week. They didn’t see the viral clip. They aren’t refreshing the generic ballot. They have never described themselves as "low-propensity voters."
They’re busy.
And politics has developed a very bad habit of confusing the people who are paying the most attention with the people who will ultimately decide the election.
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We confuse loud with large.
A few thousand furious people can generate an enormous amount of internet.
Millions of people wondering why their grocery bill is still so high can generate almost none.
Then Election Day comes along and counts them exactly the same.
This is why I’m less interested in who moved from 47 to 48 this week than in what sits underneath the number.
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Who is certain?
Who is movable?
Who is going to vote?
And which party is actually reaching people who weren’t already with them?
Because there is a huge difference between making your supporters more enthusiastic and turning more people into your supporters.
Attention feels like momentum. Persuasion creates it.
Which makes what Republicans are doing in Dallas this week fascinating.
For the first time, the GOP is holding a national convention built around a midterm election.
They wanted the stage.
They got it.
Now the question is whether they use it to talk to themselves or to the voters they still need.
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Because Republicans don’t have an awareness problem.
Everyone knows Donald Trump.
They don’t have an enthusiasm problem among their most loyal supporters.
They have an affordability problem.
Americans don’t experience the economy through a press release.
They experience it at checkout.
Washington has statistics. Americans have receipts.
They know what groceries cost. They know what happened to their insurance premium. They know what the electric bill looks like. They know whether a decent salary suddenly doesn’t feel so decent anymore.
Republicans can spend their time in Dallas explaining why the economy is better.
Or they can answer the question voters are actually asking:
When does my life get more affordable?
That’s the opening.
And Democrats see it too.
Texas Democrat James Talarico is counterprogramming the Republican convention with a statewide food drive focused on grocery prices and affordability.
It’s almost painfully perfect.
Republicans have the arena. Democrats want the grocery cart.
That’s the midterm fight.
Republicans can use Dallas to make people who already love Trump cheer louder.
Or they can give people who aren’t sold on Republicans a reason to reconsider.
One produces a great television moment.
The other produces votes.
And that’s what I’ll be watching in every poll from here to November.
Not simply who is ahead.
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Who is moving?
Who is persuadable?
Who is expanding their coalition?
Who is turning concern into choice and enthusiasm into turnout?
The political class spent the summer measuring attention.
Now we get to measure something much more important.
Persuasion.
The midterms start now.
Republicans go first.
Get the popcorn.
NFL kickoff game preview: Why the under 44.5 is the play in Seahawks-Patriots rematch
After months of waiting, and me writing roughly 20,000+ words about the upcoming NFL season, with a preview for every team, we have finally reached the opening night of the new NFL year. As usual, it starts with the Super Bowl Champion starting their title defense at home. This year, on NBC, we get the New England Patriots taking on the Seattle Seahawks in a Super Bowl rematch.
The Patriots didn’t take the offseason off after getting to the championship game. They were aggressive in upgrading their offense now that they believe in Drake Maye. They lost Stefon Diggs, but they added AJ Brown, who is still a very good receiver, even if he wasn’t very happy with the Philadelphia Eagles. The bigger offseason story surrounded their head coach, Mike Vrabel, and his alleged affair with reporter Diana Russini.
How all of these distractions and changes come into play will be determined in this game. I think this team has enough talent to battle for the division again. However, this year is different from last season. Last year, the Patriots were a surprise, Maye was an MVP candidate, and the team shocked the league. This year a tougher schedule awaits, and Maye, in my opinion, had the best season of his career last year.
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The Seahawks were a buzz saw in the playoffs. They destroyed pretty much everyone, with the exception of the Los Angeles Rams. They completely dismantled and destroyed the San Francisco 49ers in their first playoff game, and then they outlasted the Rams 31-27. In the Super Bowl, they beat the Patriots 29-13. It was a fairly boring game, unfortunately. The Seahawks were never really in jeopardy of losing the game and were up 12-0 after three quarters, scoring just field goals.
Even with a somewhat exciting fourth quarter, it was too little too late for the Patriots, and the Seahawks hoisted the trophy. The Seahawks lost their Super Bowl MVP running back, and they lost their offensive coordinator. That could change things up a bit, as Sam Darnold saw a lot of success last year under him. Defensively, the team should still be strong, but this is a tough division, so we will see how it goes.
Defending Super Bowl Champions are 13-5 in the NFL Kickoff Game. If you look at how they perform overall in the first week, typically they win about 70-80% of the games over the past two decades. Teams that lose the Super Bowl are 10-15. However, they have been a bit better over the past 13 years, going 8-5.
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Both of these teams should be carried by their defense. That isn’t to say they have no offense; I just think their defenses will be better earlier in the year. We have Maye, who struggled mightily against this defense, and won’t be great tonight. Then we have Darnold with a new offensive coordinator. I am going to back the under 44.5 in this one. I do think the Seahawks win and cover the -3, but I’ll just back the under. Note that the Seahawks safety Ty Okada is out and Nick Emmanwori is questionable. That could open up the field a bit for the Patriots.
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Proposal would pay homeowners 'data center dividends' to counter growing backlash
As opposition to artificial intelligence data centers spreads across rural America, one group is proposing "data center dividends" to counter the backlash by allowing residents to share directly in the wealth generated by the technology hubs.
A new report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., proposes that data center dividends are a model that would return part of the property tax revenue generated by AI data centers directly to households living in the communities that host the data centers, potentially providing annual payments of between about $4,500 and $8,900 per household without creating new taxes or increasing costs for developers.
"Every American deserves to benefit from the AI boom," Sam Lyman, head of research at the nonprofit, told Fox News Digital. "It can't just be the developers in Silicon Valley who are becoming wealthy from this revolution. It needs to be the Americans who are building the county infrastructure that makes these data centers possible in the first place."
The proposal comes as opposition to data centers intensifies nationwide, fomented over the past year by a network of socialists and communist nonprofits funded by a tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, living in Shanghai, supporting the Chinese Communist Party and a "new world order" promulgated by Chinese leader Xi Jin Ping. The opposition has widened to conservatives and centrists with the report noting that Americans are now more likely to oppose a data center in their community than a nuclear power plant.
In a poll earlier this year, Gallup found that 71% of Americans oppose construction of an AI data center in their area, while only 53% oppose a nearby nuclear plant. The report says local data center moratoriums have exploded from six in 2024 to 59 last year and 294 last month.
Over the past year, groups in the Singham network – including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the People's Forum, CodePink and BreakThrough News – have opposed data centers and also Flock surveillance cameras with aggressive media campaigns, elevating China as a technological powerhouse and denigrating any developments by U.S. technology companies.
"These influence actions are cognitive warfare. Foreign actors don't need Americans to become pro-China," Rob Joyce, former director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency, recently told Fox News Digital. "They need Americans to argue for the outcomes Beijing wants. And a free society that can't build the power and govern the advanced technology is going to wind up renting it from the adversary, read the PRC, that doesn't share its own values. And that scares me as an American."
Lyman said that the political problem is that many Americans believe technology companies are reaping the benefits of the AI boom while local communities bear the costs. The propaganda campaigns by the pro-China groups are promoting that message by describing tech executives as "oligarchs" and "imperialists." One constant message in the campaigns is "People Over Profits."
"I really think that data center dividends will reverse the momentum in the data center debate, because suddenly every American who lives in these counties where data center might be built recognizes that he or she can have a material stake in the AI economy," said Lyman, a former senior adviser and speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Polling cited in the report found that 73% of Americans believe the costs of data center construction outweigh the benefits, while voters overwhelmingly believe AI will primarily enrich executives and business owners rather than workers.
Rather than creating a new tax, the proposal would redirect a portion of property tax revenue that counties already collect from data centers. "Data center dividends can ensure that rural Americans rise in the age of AI alongside the engineers developing this technology," the report notes.
Under the model, counties would first continue funding schools, roads, police and other essential services. After those obligations are met, local communities would return a portion of remaining revenue directly to residents through annual checks, direct deposits, tax credits, utility bill credits or permanent investment funds. The report emphasizes that the dividends would be financed entirely from existing tax revenue, meaning developers wouldn't pay any additional taxes.
The report estimates that a single one-gigawatt AI data center could generate enough tax revenue to provide households in a typical rural county between $4,500 and $8,900 annually in a "data center dividend," depending on how much revenue local governments dedicate to dividends after paying for public services.
The estimate is based on tax collections from Loudoun County, Va., one of the nation's largest data center hubs. Loudoun collected about $685 million in personal property taxes on data center computer equipment in fiscal year 2024. Dividing those collections by the county's data center electrical load produced an estimate of roughly $165 million in annual property tax revenue per gigawatt of AI infrastructure, researchers estimated.
The report cites new policies in West Feliciana Parish, La., where policymakers are attempting to spread new found wealth. The parish expects a Hut 8 AI campus to generate about $90 million annually, more than tripling its current budget, according to estimates. Earlier this year, Louisiana lawmakers passed Act 434, allowing local officials to provide property tax credits funded by the new revenue, although lawmakers removed an earlier proposal that would have authorized direct cash payments.
If the cash provision had remained, the report estimates households could have received about $5,600 annually if one-quarter of the revenue were distributed, or $11,200 annually if half the revenue were shared with residents after funding government services.
In another example, Alaska has a "Permanent Fund," or state-owned investment account that collects part of Alaska's revenues from oil produced on state land, invests it in stocks, bonds and real estate, and dispurses part of the returns to residents as an annual dividend.
The report outlines several options communities could adopt.
Lyman argues that direct payments create stronger public support than simply lowering taxes or expanding government spending because residents would see the benefit. "I think a lot that opposition is born from the fact that many Americans feel left out of the AI boom. They feel like this economic revolution is taking place without them," said Lyman, noting, "What data center dividends do...is they give every American in rural America a share in the material prosperity that is taking place with artificial intelligence."
The report notes that rural counties possess two scarce assets essential for AI development – land and abundant power – and argues those communities should share directly in the economic gains generated by the AI buildout.
Sandra Bullock's wake-up call that changed everything during late partner Bryan Randall’s illness
A sobering warning from Sandra Bullock’s sister became a wake-up call for the actress as she quietly navigated her late partner Bryan Randall’s battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Bullock reflected on how caring for Randall through his illness forced her to recognize her own limits – and ultimately ask for help after years of putting others first.
"I'm always a caretaker," she said during an appearance on "Good Hang with Amy Poehler." "Always. And I learned that I didn't take care of the person that was taking care of everybody else. And that was a big wake-up call for me. And I'm not good at asking for help, but I needed help and I needed to ask it in a way that was safe."
"The Blind Side" star said she was grateful for the people who stepped in to help guide her through the difficult time. She also credited her sister with ringing a much-needed alarm, warning that she needed to start taking care of herself so she could continue being there for her children, Louis and Laila.
Bullock said her sister warned her: "If you do not start taking care of you, something’s gonna happen to you."
Bullock said the experience opened her eyes to the toll caregiving can take on those who put their own needs aside.
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"The caretaker world is absolutely underserved," Bullock said. "I did what I had to do in the situation I was in."
"I didn't want to say anything out of turn on what anyone else experienced within that situation, because everyone is experiencing something, their own journey with that," she explained. "There's so much to the story that would be of service. But my story, my slice of pie – and me and the kids, you know – that's all we can speak about."
Bullock revealed her minimal history as a caregiver during a recent episode of the "SmartLess" podcast.
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"I'm a very good planner with illness because my father was ill and had horrible accidents and my mother had cancer – I feel like I'm very comfortable in a setting where someone is ill," she told the hosts. "It doesn't scare me, not the illness itself. It doesn't scare me. I can see and be around just about anything."
Randall had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and requested Bullock not make the news public. He died on Aug. 5, 2023. He was 57.
"I wasn't allowed to speak about it," she revealed on the podcast. "That was the request, and I honored it."
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But honoring Randall’s wishes came with a personal cost for Bullock.
"I know why he asked me not to... it isolated me in the process and, plus, the entire world was locked in with the pandemic," she said. "He was ill for half of our relationship and the diagnosis came almost at the same time with the cloak of the pandemic."
Bullock admitted that "not talking for a while was good," but the physical illness coupled with "the mental health aspect" created a "trifecta that was pretty dark."
Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
Fmr Biden ambassador blames Trump for Canada playing 'footsie' with China
Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada David L. Cohen is blaming the Trump administration's hardline trade pressure for pushing Ottawa into engaging with China.
"I think Canada has tentatively tried to play some footsie with China that the Trump administration may not be happy with," Cohen, who served as President Joe Biden’s ambassador to Canada from 2021 to 2025, said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
"There is a discomfort with that," Cohen says, while arguing that it is ultimately Canada's reflex to sentiment against President Donald Trump – particularly his hardline trade policies and rhetoric about the neighbor to the north being a "51st state."
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"One of downsides of the aggressive Trump administration treatment of Canada and many other allies and partners is that the irony is that those policies are pushing those countries to at least consider broader and larger deals with China, which of course is wholly inconsistent with a major thrust of President Trump's international trade policy," Cohen continued. "So, how that shakes out, it's all a matter of degree and balance.
"But I think there's no doubt that the aggressiveness of the Trump administration positions has caused many countries to at least reevaluate whether there are additional deals that can be made with China."
The comments come as U.S.-Canada trade tensions spiral after negotiations collapsed last month. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday accused Washington of seeking dependence rather than partnership.
"The most fundamental issue is that the cumulative U.S. demands revealed that they wanted us to become even more reliant on them, not less," Carney said. "In too many areas, they wanted dependency, not a true economic partnership."
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Notably, the fallout comes just weeks before Chinese dictator Xi Jinping makes an historic trip to the White House to talk trade – something that never happened during the Biden administration despite Biden's onetime quip before the COVID-19 pandemic that "China's not bad folks."
Vice President JD Vance, speaking in Maine last month, accused Canada of giving Chinese goods better treatment than products from American northern border states.
"They treat Chinese goods more fairly than they do the goods that come from the people of Maine: It’s insanity," Vance said. "And what we’ve said to Canada is, ‘Stop it.’"
Cohen, however, was careful not to cast Canada as blameless in the trade feud. He admitted U.S. dairy farmers have legitimate complaints about Canada’s tariff-rate quota system, saying the issue has frustrated administrations of both parties for years.
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"This is one of the totally legitimate trade issues that exists between the United States and Canada," Cohen said. "There is contention there that is hurting American dairy farmers. Yes, I will be honest and clear about that."
"That tension existed under Joe Biden. Was he able to solve that problem? No," he added. "It was something that was discussed and discussed more than once. We just never got there."
Cohen, supportive of Trump's "substance" on trade talks but not the "style," did credit Trump for replacing NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, calling USMCA a "terrific deal" that improved continental trade.
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"I gave President Trump a lot of credit for that because it was a much better deal than NAFTA," Cohen said. "I think he deserves credit for that."
"I do push back at times on some of the rhetoric that President Trump has chosen to use, not necessarily the substance, but maybe the style that he sometimes uses to pursue his substance," he added.
"There are such fundamental differences on the substance of President Trump’s trade policy that I think the treatment of President Trump is different than the treatment of President Biden," Cohen observed. "But when professional negotiators were in the room, they seemed to have been making a lot of progress."
Cohen believes the two sides need to return to professional negotiators, arguing that U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Canadian officials had shown they could discuss difficult issues before the talks broke down.
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"I have an enormous amount of respect for U.S. Trade Representative Greer," Cohen said. "He is the ultimate professional trade negotiator, which is why he’s in that job. He didn’t get there by accident. President Trump put him in that job."
By contrast, Cohen said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick – who was on the call that Friday night in August when talks broke down at the 11th hour – needs to stay in his lane.
"Secretary of Commerce Lutnick, with all due respect, is not a professional negotiator," Cohen said. "That’s not the Commerce secretary’s job. It’s USTR’s job to negotiate trade deals with other countries."
Lutnick has suggested in interviews about the infamous breakdown in talks that Canadians' politics are at play in keeping Carney from cutting a deal with Trump, a man the provincial leaders and Canadian public have long been disenchanted with.
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"Friday at 4 o'clock, the Canadians call: They start adding crazy ideas to the mix," Lutnick said recently. "So, I said to one of the ministers, 'Are you actually trying to blow this up?' And his answer to me was, 'I'm not allowed to say that.' And they blew it up for political reasons only."
Cohen said of Lutnick's account that "until proven otherwise, I take every senior government official at his word, period," and that he has "no way of knowing whether that is true or not."
But, he admitted, Carney taking the nearly finished trade deal back to the provinces did not go over well – particularly amid his rising popularity among Canadians for being an anti-Trump force – because "the premiers of the provinces have more sway in federal policy than most governors do in federal policy."
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"It appears that Canada made the decision that the deal that was being offered was not a deal that they could accept," Cohen said. "He may have made a judgment that although he and his team had pushed this deal as far as they could, and that it was, in his eyes, as good a deal as he was going to get at that point, that he could not sell that politically in Canada."
"That’s not the same as saying that he was walking away for political reasons," Cohen added. "It’s just the nature of a big, complex negotiation."
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Ultimately, Cohen said the breakdown between the closest allies and trade partners in the world will be a story long told.
"There are going to be books written about what caused the negotiations to fall apart," he said. "But independent of all the dialogue about that: There is no dispute that these professional negotiators were able to have a civil relationship and talk about really different difficult substantive issues out of the eyes and the ears of the press and with full respect for each other and for the countries. That's my vision for the way in which trade negotiations should occur and they did occur – and it was a two-way street."
Eventually, after the trade-war barbs and tariffs fly and the dust settles, the "professional negotiators" will get things done, Cohen predicted.
"You can’t make a deal if you’re not talking to each other," Cohen said. "Of that, I am 100% certain."
Accused wife killer Barry Morphew back behind bars after separate incident that skyrocketed bond: prosecutors
A judge hiked accused wife killer Barry Morphew's bond to $10 million after he allegedly fled a crash following an airport run to pick up his daughter.
A grand jury indicted Barry Morphew on June 20, 2025, on a charge of first-degree murder after deliberation in connection with the death of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, 49, a mother of two daughters. Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother's Day 2020 in Colorado, where the couple resided. Barry Morphew was taken into custody in Goodyear, Arizona, nearly 11 hours away from the location where his wife was last seen.
Prosecutors allege that Barry Morphew was involved in a hit-and-run accident on Aug. 26 at 7:30 p.m., when an individual observed him driving "aggressively" before striking two cars. CBS News obtained a video of the driver's interaction with Morphew where he refused to give his name or identification, also indicating he didn't have insurance. He was arrested by Boulder County sheriff's deputies on Sept. 3 and remains behind bars.
Officials said Barry Morphew offered the other driver $300 for damage caused to her car, which she refused. Barry Morphew was seen on video buffing scratches on the other driver's car with a T-shirt and his hand.
At the time, prosecutors said Barry Morphew was picking up his daughter from the airport.
Prosecutors said that once the other driver turned down Barry Morphew's $300 offer and told him she intended to contact police, he left the scene, nearly striking another person and mounting a curb as he did so.
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The conditions of Barry Morphew's original bond included not traveling outside his home except under specific circumstances like work or a medical emergency and would be monitored by GPS.
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Alamosa County District Judge Amanda Hopkins on Tuesday increased Barry Morphew's bond to $10 million cash after prosecutor Fred Johnson argued that he is a flight risk and could leave the country.
"Mr. Morphew has shown time and again that he has no respect for any order of this court, and he is not going to comply with it if it is an inconvenience to the lifestyle he wishes to live while out on bond," Hopkins said.
"We are very, very concerned he has just demonstrated what he’s going to do when push comes to shove," Johnson said during the hearing.
Barry Morphew's lawyers argued that he is not a flight risk, stating that he hasn't fled over a period of five years and said the recent accusation doesn't warrant an increase in bond.
Prosecutors wrote in the June 2025 indictment that the chemicals butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine were found in Suzanne Morphew's bone marrow. They alleged that Barry Morphew used "BAM" deer tranquilizer to sedate and transport deer on his farm when he lived in Indiana. He has pleaded not guilty to one count of first-degree murder.
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Morphew was also the only person with a prescription for the deer tranquilizer within the area of the state he lived in, prosecutors said. The only two other entities with access to the BAM compound within the surrounding counties were Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the National Park Service, officials said.
"Ultimately, the prescription records show that when Suzanne Morphew disappeared, only one private citizen living in that entire area of the state had access to BAM: Barry Morphew," the indictment states.
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Morphew's attorney, David Beller, previously told Fox News Digital Morphew "maintains his innocence."
"Yet again, the government allows their predetermined conclusion to lead their search for evidence," Beller said. "The case has not changed, and the outcome will not either."
$54M CodePink-linked foundation shut down in California pops up at ramshackle Miami home
A far-left foundation that bankrolled CodePink and recently reported $54.6 million in assets before being shut down by California regulators has resurfaced at a ramshackle Miami home.
Arc of Justice, led by CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin, lost its charitable registration after years of failing to file required financial paperwork with California. But what appears to be the same nonprofit is now registered at a small, single-story house owned by Benjamin's longtime partner and fellow activist, Tighe Barry, documents viewed by Fox News Digital show.
The sequence of events raises questions about why it fell out of compliance in California.
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Arc of Justice has poured millions of dollars into left-wing and progressive activist organizations over the years, including CodePink, Global Exchange, the Alliance for Global Justice and the National Iranian American Council, according to IRS filings. Federal tax returns provided to Fox News Digital by Arc of Justice's attorney show the California foundation's assets grew from $51.4 million at the end of 2023 to $54.6 million at the end of 2024, while it continued distributing millions of dollars in grants.
CodePink has campaigned against U.S. policy toward China and Cuba and has been accused by congressional investigators of promoting Chinese Communist Party interests — allegations the group has denied.
Benjamin, who has been a political activist for decades and has often disrupted congressional hearings, co-founded CodePink with Jodie Evans, the wife of Shanghai-based Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, whose funding network has come under congressional and federal scrutiny over alleged foreign influence and the use of tax-exempt organizations.
Now it’s Arc of Justice’s finances that are coming under the microscope.
"It's pretty unusual. Most private foundations are fairly scrupulous on their compliance efforts," Patrick Sternal, a former IRS official who specialized in tax-exempt organizations, told Fox News Digital. "So it's unusual for a private foundation with that much in the bank to fall out of compliance and to be suspended."
The California Attorney General's Office, led by Democrat Rob Bonta, revoked Arc of Justice's charitable registration in January 2025 after it failed to submit required annual filings with the state for 2020 through 2024. The foundation had already been suspended for more than a year before the revocation. The state Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital that Arc of Justice had continually failed to respond to the registry's delinquency and suspension notices before its registration was revoked.
Under the revocation, Arc of Justice had 30 days to provide the state with an accounting of its charitable assets and was barred from distributing or spending them without the attorney general's prior written approval.
The years of noncompliance culminated in another notice from California regulators on June 19, 2026, reiterating the outstanding asset-accounting requirement and warning that Arc of Justice couldn’t distribute or spend charitable assets without the attorney general's written approval.
The notice said Arc of Justice would also have to provide regulators with enough information to assure the state that there had been "no loss of charitable assets" if it sought to have its registration reinstated. The Network Contagion Research Institute previously detailed Arc of Justice's regulatory problems in a May report examining the foundation's finances and activities.
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David Levitt, an attorney representing Arc of Justice, said the foundation has submitted filings seeking reinstatement with California regulators.
The Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital on Sept. 3, 2026, that it had not received the required accounting of Arc's charitable assets. At the time, Arc was listed as "REVOKED" and "PAST DUE." As of Sept. 9, its registration remained "REVOKED," while its reporting status had changed to "IN REVIEW."
California's reinstatement rules require a revoked charity to explain why it failed to comply with reporting requirements and respond to Registry notices.
Laurie Styron, CEO and executive director of nonprofit watchdog CharityWatch, said Arc's substantial assets made the compliance failures difficult to explain.
"A foundation with tens of millions of dollars in charitable assets certainly has the resources to comply with basic reporting requirements," she said.
Fox News Digital asked Levitt to provide documentation of the reinstatement filings and to explain specifically why Arc of Justice failed to make the required California filings in the first place. He had not responded to those questions by publication time.
California's latest compliance notice to Arc of Justice came just six weeks after a new Arc of Justice surfaced in Florida.
On May 8, Barry and other people associated with the original foundation incorporated a new nonprofit bearing the same name in the Little River neighborhood in North Miami.
The timing raised obvious questions: Was the California foundation moving to Florida after its charitable registration was revoked, and what was happening to its assets?
The Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital it had not received notice from Arc of Justice of any planned transfer, merger or dissolution and had not approved any transfer of the foundation's assets.
Levitt told Fox News Digital that the Florida corporation was created as a "placeholder" while Arc considered relocating its operations from California, but the move was never completed. He said the California corporation was never formally wound down, no assets were transferred and the Florida entity "holds no assets and has conducted no business."
"Arc of Justice, the California nonprofit corporation, currently still holds the assets," Levitt said, adding that they remain professionally managed "in the same accounts they have been in for years."
Levitt subsequently provided Fox News Digital with financial documentation that independently verified that the California foundation continues to hold the assets.
The Miami address wasn't new. The original Arc of Justice had been using Barry's property on its federal tax filings since at least 2017, even as it remained incorporated in California.
Questions have also emerged about the original foundation's federal filings.
Arc of Justice's Forms 990-PF for 2023 and 2024 were not publicly available in the IRS database when Fox News Digital searched for them. Levitt subsequently provided Fox News Digital with copies of both returns.
According to Levitt, Arc of Justice's accountant said both returns had been paper-filed and electronically filed, although Fox News Digital has not independently verified when the IRS received or accepted them.
Benjamin was adamant in a phone interview with Fox News Digital that Arc of Justice had filed its returns every year.
"I'm 100% positive. We have filed the 990s every single year," Benjamin said. She also told Fox News Digital she would make sure the missing returns were provided, which they subsequently were.
Benjamin was less certain about the foundation's California regulatory problems, saying she had moved to Florida and that "the lawyer knows more than I do."
After reviewing the newly produced returns, Sternal said the documents showed Arc of Justice's accountant had at least made an effort to file them, but said questions remained over whether and when they were actually submitted.
"Maybe they are trying to get back into compliance with the IRS," Sternal said. "They still have a lot of clean up to do with California."
Styron similarly said determining when the returns were actually filed was critical to assessing Arc of Justice's compliance. She noted that IRS and state databases can lag behind submissions but said delays of several years would be unusual.
"It would be tough to say more without knowing when forms were signed and filed," Styron said.
While the new records accounted for the foundation's assets and provided the previously unavailable returns, questions remained over when the federal returns were actually filed.
Styron also said Arc of Justice's explanation for creating the Florida nonprofit did not absolve the California foundation's board of its responsibility to file the active organization's required forms on time.
Meanwhile, Sternal, who is now a nonprofit tax attorney at law firm Holtzman Vogel who advises nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, said there is nothing wrong or unusual about forming a nonprofit in another state. What raises questions, he said, is whether the new Florida organization is intended to take over the original foundation or its assets — a move that would trigger additional legal requirements.
"It's not so easy," Sternal said. "It can be done, it's possible, but there are a lot of hoops that they have to jump through."
Because Arc of Justice remained a California corporation, Sternal said it would have to work with California's attorney general before transferring funds to another organization or moving the foundation out of state.
Along with the new Florida corporation bearing the same Arc of Justice name and Miami address used by the embattled California foundation, two of its three officers also held positions with the original organization.
Maya Danaher, Benjamin's daughter and former treasurer of the original Arc of Justice, is president of the new Florida corporation.
Jonathan Raggett, who served as secretary of the original foundation, is now its treasurer.
Benjamin served as president of the original California foundation but is not listed as an officer of the new Florida corporation.
Meanwhile, Benjamin's longtime partner, Barry, was not listed as an officer of the original foundation but serves as secretary of the new organization. He is also listed as incorporating Arc of Justice in Florida and serves as its registered agent.
Its stated goal is blunt: "WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT SOCIAL JUSTICE NON PROFITS," according to the articles of incorporation.
All three officers list the Miami house as their address — a 1,334-square-foot Miami duplex owned by Barry, property records show.
When Fox News Digital visited last month, the small, turquoise-blue, single-story house sat partially obscured by thick palms and tropical plants behind a weathered, multicolored wooden fence.
Fading artwork of colorful cats, pigs, flowers, hearts and peace symbols covered the fence, including a pink pig holding a "ONE LOVE" sign. A large "PEACE" poster hung on the house, while a turquoise-shaded canopy stretched across the property.
Two campaign signs for Democrat Kendrick Meek Jr., who unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary election for Florida's 24th Congressional District, stood outside.
Google Street View images from 2022 show the property in brighter colors before the paint faded and vegetation obscured parts of the fence.
The images also show a small white van with its front bumper missing parked outside, with "CODEPINK" written across its side in pink marker along with the Spanish words "Cuba vive y trabaja" — "Cuba lives and works."
The van was not visible when Fox News Digital visited.
The house's number was painted vertically on the weathered front gate — the same address listed by the original California foundation and the newly incorporated Florida Arc of Justice.
Arc of Justice was formerly known as The Benjamin Fund, Inc., with California corporate records showing the foundation formally changed its name in November 2019.
Its fortune was built largely on Benjamin family money.
Benjamin's father, Alvin Benjamin, was a prominent Long Island real estate developer who founded The Benjamin Companies in the early 1960s. The Benjamin Fund's initial 2003 IRS return shows he contributed a partnership interest valued at $683,715 to the foundation, with Medea Susan Benjamin serving as president.
Much larger contributions followed. In 2010, the estate of Benjamin's mother, Rose Benjamin, contributed $10,863,060, according to the foundation's IRS filing. Five years later, the Estate of Alvin Benjamin contributed another $15 million, followed by another $8,603,450 in 2019.
The foundation's wealth also grew through its investments. In 2020, Arc of Justice reported $12,344,501 in unrealized gains on securities, helping push its year-end assets to nearly $40 million.
Medea Benjamin — identified as Susan Benjamin on the filing — personally contributed $1 million to Arc of Justice in 2022, listing the Miami house as her address.
The foundation subsequently became a vehicle for funding activist organizations, including Global Exchange, the advocacy group Benjamin co-founded with her then-husband, Kevin Danaher. The organization remains active today, with Danaher still serving on its board, according to its 2024 Form 990.
Benjamin later co-founded CodePink in 2002 with Evans and has remained one of the anti-war group's most prominent activists and public faces.
Arc of Justice would go on to pour substantial sums into CodePink, including $251,500 in 2020 and $355,350 in 2022, according to the foundation's IRS filings.
The newly obtained returns show that Arc of Justice gave CodePink $277,580 in 2023 and another $350,000 in 2024.
CodePink has itself come under federal scrutiny. Benjamin traveled to Cuba in March with fellow CodePink co-founder Evans and far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker as part of a roughly 170-person convoy to the communist-run island.
Benjamin later confirmed that the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces U.S. sanctions against Cuba, sent CodePink a detailed inquiry seeking information about the trip's financing, logistics, participants and activities.
Benjamin said the group brought about $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to Cuba and described the Treasury inquiry as "serious," while also calling it an "intimidation tactic."
Evans and a network of nonprofits funded by her husband, Singham, have also come under congressional and federal scrutiny.
Singham, an American tech entrepreneur who sold his software company ThoughtWorks for an estimated $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai, has directed at least $278 million into six core nonprofits that Fox News Digital previously reported promote socialist, communist and pro-China causes as part of a broader international network of media organizations, activist groups and think tanks.
CodePink is one of those nonprofits.
The congressional investigation remains ongoing, while Singham is separately under federal criminal investigation. Neither Singham nor CodePink has been charged with wrongdoing in connection with the investigations described here.
Florida officials confirmed the new Arc of Justice was created as a Florida nonprofit on May 8, 2026, rather than simply registering the existing California corporation in the state.
"That entity is on our records as a Domestic Nonprofit corporation. It is a Florida entity," Florida Department of State regulatory specialist LaCori Brown told Fox News Digital.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services separately told Fox News Digital that the new Arc of Justice isn’t currently registered to solicit charitable contributions in the state and has not applied for a charitable solicitation registration or exemption.
The department also said it hasn’t received any filings identifying assets transferred from the California Arc of Justice to the new Florida corporation nor any complaints, referrals or regulatory inquiries concerning the new organization.
Sternal stressed that the available records don’t establish that Arc of Justice's assets were misappropriated or improperly used. He said the foundation's years of California noncompliance remained highly unusual.
"This organization with this large endowment has simply fallen off the radar, as it were, with its filings, with its compliance with California," Sternal said.
"Those don't belong to the officers and directors of the foundation. Those belong to the foundation," Sternal said. "They must be used for public charitable purposes."
Levitt said Arc of Justice's board is still considering moving the foundation out of California and potentially establishing two separate charitable vehicles so the foundation's founder and its officers and directors can pursue separate charitable activities.
For now, the original Arc of Justice remains a California corporation and continues to hold its assets, while the future of the newly incorporated Florida organization remains unsettled.
Armed man accused of lunging at Ohio Dem candidate avoids felonies as prosecutor reveals key evidence
The man who allegedly stormed toward Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton at a recent fair will not face felony charges, the county prosecutor leading the case told reporters Tuesday.
The only video investigators currently have of the incident was recorded by the suspect, Patrick Havas, leaving authorities with little video evidence, Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro said.
"The information we've received is that the Acton camp requested individuals stop recording shortly before this incident occurred," Maro told reporters on Tuesday.
"So, at this point, the only video we have is the defendant’s. And what's that showing certainly doesn't support filing felony charges."
Patrick Havas was intercepted by Ohio Highway Patrol officers after allegedly knocking over multiple fairgoers as he ran toward Acton at a tent at the Canfield Fair while armed with a Taser and two firearms.
He was initially booked on two counts of assault and one count of disorderly conduct, all misdemeanors. An inducing panic charge was added Tuesday at his arraignment, bringing the total to four misdemeanor counts. Havas pleaded not guilty.
Maro said the tape showed Havas "walking into the tent" where Acton was, and "calling out her name" before executive protection unit officers from Ohio Highway Patrol interrupted him.
"Then, his phone is either dropped or tossed, and that’s all we have," Maro said.
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"There's never any close contact with the governor, never gets near her — sorry, ‘candidate for governor’," she added.
Fox News Digital reached out to Maro for comment and to obtain a copy of the video in question. An official who picked up the phone at her office said Maro was out but would be checking messages.
A reporter for the NBC affiliate tweeted that their network had also attempted to obtain the video but that officials said they would not be releasing it as part of their "active investigation."
Fox News Digital also reached out to the Acton campaign for additional comment, as well as details around the reported request that people stop filming Acton just before the encounter.
"While attending the Canfield Fair, an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people. Dr. Acton and Eric are grateful for the swift and decisive action of law enforcement and are praying for the recovery of those injured," Acton campaign communications director Addie Bullock said in a separate statement.
"This kind of violence has no place in Ohio. Dr. Acton will always stand up to the chaos, hate and vitriol that pits us against one another."
An Ohio judge ordered Havas to not speak to the press, according to Youngstown’s NBC affiliate, and Havas has been placed under a $5,000 bond and forced to surrender any weaponry in his possession.
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Havas is a local to that region of Ohio. He was arrested in 2008 on petty theft and disorderly conduct charges, according to Newsweek. The theft charge was later dismissed after he pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct. He was accused of stealing several movies from a supermarket, including the James Bond film "Casino Royale."
Acton faces Republican entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in November, as Gov. Mike DeWine is term-limited. DeWine’s lieutenant, former Ohio State Football coach Jim Tressel, declined to run for the office.
Fox News Digital's Stepheny Price contributed to this report.
Reporter’s Notebook: 9/11 is just a history chapter for a new generation of Americans
It’s faded.
Not from decay. Not from neglect. It’s simply the passage of time.
The memories are vague. Elusive. Distant. And some who lived it are simply no longer here.
Roughly one-third of all Americans who were alive on 9/11 aren’t around anymore to observe the 25th anniversary of that abominable day. And so the recollections of Sept. 11, 2001, are diluted.
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To some, Sept. 11 is just another day. But it’s something different for those who weren’t around to live and breathe the horror.
To many, 9/11 is like Pearl Harbor Day. Lots of people know about it. They understand it’s what triggered the U.S.’s entry into World War II. But they can’t quite explain much more.
The same with other historical-shifting moments. Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 — the days the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II. Nov. 22, 1963 — the day a gunman mowed down President John F. Kennedy Jr. in Dallas.
A lot of people remember the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding. But few could tell you that it happened on Jan. 28, 1986.
The quintessence of 9/11 is the date. Kind of like July 4th. A bit like Jan. 6 and the Capitol riot. However, we were told on Sept. 11, 2001, that things would never be the same. But how can those who didn’t experience it understand what "the same" was like if they never lived it?
Just last month, a relative of mine who soon turns 26 asked, "What it was like to fly before 9/11?"
I can regale you with stories about myself and a rag-tag group of high school friends, driving to the Cincinnati airport, clearing security and just wandering around the Delta gates, "hanging out" back in the mid-1980s.
No ticket. No questions asked. Just a visit to Cinnabon.
But the "before times" question about 9/11 is a broader conversation. It’s not just about "what changed" when you take off your shoes and bustle through security to fly.
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A nine-and-a-half-foot-tall plaque hangs in the East Front vestibule of the U.S. Capitol near the Rotunda. It commemorates Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville, Pa., on 9/11.
It took a few years, but the U.S. intelligence services finally determined that the fourth plane was bound for the U.S. Capitol. That’s where Todd Beamer and a cadre of everyday Americans voted (mind you, at 35,000 feet) to commandeer a drinks cart and rush the cockpit in an effort to seize control of the plane.
"Let’s roll!" Beamer was overheard saying on a cellphone as they charged down the aisle. That two-word phrase became a battle cry for a nation as it waged the war on terrorism.
The Boeing 757 hurtled toward Washington at 563 mph. It was 20 minutes out from the federal city when the plane crashed, upside down, in the Pennsylvania countryside.
Shanksville is now one of those places forever notched into American history. A place not as famous, say, as Gettysburg or Jamestown, but not a footnote, either. Shanksville is part of the vernacular like Shiloh, Seneca Falls, Kent.
People might know that something historic happened there. But they aren’t exactly sure what.
Scores of markers dot the U.S. Capitol, denoting important things from yesteryear. Wander into Statuary Hall in the Capitol and you’ll find the desk locations of eight presidents who served in the House. But the spot where President Franklin Pierce once sat just seems like an historical annotation. Pierce toiled there nearly two centuries ago. And he’s hardly prominent among American chief executives.
There’s a plaque just outside the Old Supreme Court chamber. It tells the story of how Samuel B. Morse sent the first electronic message from that room to Baltimore over a wire in 1844. "What hath God wrought!" reads the plaque, commemorating Morse’s transmission. That event christened the age of near-instant communication – now ubiquitous in the form of news alerts and TikTok videos appearing instantly in the palms of our hands.
But that plaque in the Capitol’s East Front vestibule doesn’t memorialize something that happened there. It marks something that didn’t happen there.
The plaque reads that the actions of the 40 passengers and crew "not only saved countless lives, but may have saved the U.S. Capitol from destruction."
In other words, this global citadel to democracy with its ivory dome might not pierce the Washington skyline were it not for a plane that crashed 167 miles away.
Shanksville. Shiloh. Seneca Falls. Kent.
I’ve driven the Pennsylvania Turnpike past Somerset for decades now. That’s where the signs direct you north 10 miles to the Flight 93 National Memorial. I budgeted time into my travels to visit the memorial on one frigid, windy morning a few Februarys ago. Inside, you stand at a vista, staring downhill into a small ravine and tree line where the plane crashed.
On that morning, I couldn’t help but notice there was no wildlife to be seen or heard. No deer. No birds chirping.
A disturbing silence.
Perhaps it was the billowing wind of that frosty morning. Maybe the snow. But I noticed no footprints gouging the crisp snowpack.
It was almost as though the animals were aware of something. Dare I say understood what happened in this field a quarter-century ago. Perhaps the local fauna stayed hushed out of reverence for those who perished. A tribute to their heroism, saving the U.S. Capitol.
Or perhaps it was something else.
Maybe the creatures were so reserved because of the malevolence which was also on board Flight 93. One can only speculate that the animals remain hushed because of the peculiar unease enveloping the place. Even on a crisp but blustery winter morning.
Shanksville is a burial ground. And in a few more decades or even a hundred years, those who visit there will walk the paths or peer out over the panorama, trying to grasp the scope of what unfolded there on 9/11.
You can visit Gettysburg and Antietam and do that now. But much is left to the imagination. Perhaps embroidered by what was picked up in a history class. Augmented by a marker or description on a bronze plaque.
In another quarter-century, there will be even fewer people around who remember 9/11. Another 25 after that and many of those still living might be infirm. Confined to wheelchairs. The final generation of messengers who can speak firsthand about what happened that day. Kind of like when honor flights descend on Washington to visit the World War II Memorial on the National Mall.
It’s just the passage of time.
The plaque inside the Capitol will continue to tell the story. And in many ways, just the fact that the Capitol remains standing tells the story, too. Its presence attests to the bravery that manifested itself somewhere over eastern Ohio and is interred in a western Pennsylvania clearing.
We know this now. Even though some of what we recall is faded.
But the memories and understanding of the significance will naturally calcify. Details will grow hazy. People will know the date 9/11. But it may just be that — a date. Like Pearl Harbor Day.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to Dec. 7, 1941, as "a date which will live infamy."
9/11 will live in infamy. But it’s unclear how that date will live in the minds of Americans.
Tennis star Carlos Alcaraz vomits in towel during US Open thriller after trying to shoo cameras away
In front of a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium, it’s hard for tennis players to have a moment of privacy when they need one, especially when they need to vomit.
Before the fifth set of Carlos Alcaraz’s 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) loss to Ben Shelton in the U.S. Open quarterfinal, which ended at 3:33 a.m. ET Wednesday morning, the Spaniard was not feeling well.
Alcaraz was sitting on his courtside chair when the camera came around on his right. Knowing that he was about to vomit, he shooed the camera away, trying to spare viewers from an ugly scene.
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The camera eventually retreated behind Alcaraz, but the tennis star remained persistent in his efforts to gain privacy. Eventually, he puked into his towel.
"I mean it was close, it really was close, so I was disappointed I didn’t get the win in the end, but I’m just happy … physically I was really tired, but I found a way to push myself," Alcaraz said after the match.
He said he started to feel better in the fifth set, but it wasn’t enough to advance.
The U.S. Open was the first tournament Alcaraz participated in since he was sidelined for more than four months with a wrist injury. While he lost to Shelton in a thriller and had his 18-match Grand Slam winning streak snapped, he was proud of his effort.
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"I leave the court happy," Alcaraz said. "I leave the court with a smile. I am proud of myself, how I fought."
Alcaraz praised Shelton, calling the American a "beast."
"Shelton played a very complete, very mature match," Alcaraz said in Spanish. "He knew exactly what to do at every moment. And, physically, he’s a beast. It seemed like he had no weaknesses whatsoever."
For Shelton, the win was the biggest of his career as he moved one step closer to the U.S. Open final.
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"It was a war," Shelton said. "Carlos is one of the greatest champions of our sport. It was the most enjoyable match I’ve had in my career, for sure."
Shelton will face fellow American Frances Tiafoe in the semifinal on Friday, guaranteeing that an American will be in the U.S. Open final.
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