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States leading nation on the biggest education battles gripping classrooms revealed in first-ever report
FIRST ON FOX: The escalating battle over what children should be taught in public schools continues to drive America's culture wars, and a new report ranks every state on some of the most contentious issues affecting today's classrooms.
Red states dominated the ranking, which measures all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on issues spanning parental rights, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), gender and sexuality, teacher and union policies, and foreign influence, according to Defending Education's first-ever Rankings on Integrity in State Education, released Thursday.
Tennessee claimed the top spot, followed by Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and Iowa, while Washington, D.C. ranked last, followed by Rhode Island, California, Oregon, and Illinois.
The rankings do not account for test scores or graduation rates. Instead, the report said it is designed to show how states are approaching hot-button issues as parents demand greater transparency in their children's education.
"For the first time, parents have a single resource to see how their state handles the issues they've voiced concerns about over the last five years, empowering them to evaluate local schools and hold leaders accountable at the ballot box," Paul Runko, senior director of strategic initiatives at Defending Education, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Of the report's five categories, the parental rights category ended in a four-way tie, with North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia earning the top spot. Each was awarded points for policies that give parents more say over student gender transitions, sex education instruction and whether their children participate in those lessons.
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, all red states, received perfect scores on teacher policies. According to the report, laws governing teacher unions, strikes and collective bargaining, along with work authorization requirements, were key factors in the scoring.
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Iowa, Missouri and West Virginia topped the report's DEI category after receiving high marks for laws restricting DEI initiatives and other policies related to restorative justice, teacher diversity and antisemitism.
Another major flashpoint in education has been a growing conversation on gender identity and transgender athletes competing in women's sports. The report examined state policies blocking LGBTQ-specific curriculum, restricting transgender athlete participation, and state nondiscrimination and anti-bullying laws related to gender identity, finding Alabama, Florida and Indiana tied for the highest scores.
But the report went further than policies shaping the classroom. Seven red states received perfect scores for laws limiting Chinese government influence in education, including Confucius Institutes, China-backed language and cultural education centers. Alabama, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas aced the category.
In another statement to Fox News Digital, Dr. Terry Stoops, director of government affairs at Defending Education, congratulated the frontrunners.
"If your state is at the top of Defending Education's rankings, congratulations!" he said. "You live in a state with public school policies that prioritize sound academics over shameless antics."
Stoops also blamed elected leaders for the lowest-scoring states, accusing them of having "sacrificed educational excellence at the altar of social justice."
"For parents in bottom-feeder states who value rigor over ridiculousness, the choice is either fight or flight," he said.
Despite more blue states embracing DEI and social justice policies, the report said it wants parents to have a clearer picture of where their state stands on education and how those policies could impact their children and future generations.
Trump’s special strategy to deport illegals gives him another tool for enforcement
What should the president of the United States do with an illegal alien rapist or murderer who cannot be deported to his home country? Should he release him inside the United States or deport him to somewhere else?
For President Donald Trump, the choice is clear. Over the last year he has been using a bold new strategy to send criminal aliens out of our country and keep our country safe.
Under international law, illegal aliens cannot be sent anywhere they would face persecution on the basis of their race, religion, nationality, political beliefs or membership in a particular social group. In addition, many countries don’t want us to return their criminals to them. Others don’t have diplomatic relations with the United States.
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Before Trump, most presidents usually released illegal aliens in these circumstances into the United States. But under the Trump administration, this has finally changed. Advocacy groups estimate that the second Trump administration has now deported some 25,000 illegal aliens to countries other than their own, which is unprecedented. This is the result of incredible work by the Department of Homeland Security and some 30 international agreements brokered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The left has responded, as usual, with a barrage of well-funded lawfare and judicial activism intended to halt the president’s agenda or at least delay it.
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Shortly after the president returned to office, the Trump administration attempted to send a group of criminal illegal aliens to South Sudan. The ACLU, the National Immigration Litigation Alliance and the American Immigration Council immediately intervened and filed a class-action lawsuit to stop third-country removals.
Bear in mind that these criminals had been convicted of crimes including murder, arson, armed robbery, kidnapping, sexual assault of a mentally handicapped woman and child rape — but the left wanted them to stay in this country.
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Ultimately, the ACLU burned months of the government’s time in court, but the Trump administration successfully completed the deportations, and, in fact, doubled down. Just weeks later, the Trump administration deported another group of criminals to Eswatini, formerly Swaziland. These criminals included a Vietnamese child rapist, a Jamaican murderer, a Laotian murderer, a Yemeni murderer and a Cuban murderer and attempted cop killer.
As the courts reaffirmed, immigration law allows deportation to a third country when deportation to the home country is "impracticable, inadvisable" or even just "inadvisable." This broad phrasing gives Trump a rock-solid legal authorization to use third-country deportations to accelerate the mass deportation agenda that the American people voted for.
Case law limits the time that the government can detain an illegal alien, with up to six months being held "presumptively reasonable" by the Supreme Court. This short window of time often forces the government’s hand. In many cases, the Trump administration then has to deport an illegal alien to a third country rather than, say, charter a private jet for him back to his homeland.
This new tool is already proving effective, and it may even serve as a deterrent for illegal immigration: If you don’t want a ticket to South Sudan, then don’t come here illegally.
The courts are still considering the question of how much notice the Trump administration must give the illegal aliens before deporting them to a third country. A Biden-appointed judge in Massachusetts held that the illegal aliens have rights under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) — a 1946 law which governs the process of issuing government regulations — and another Biden-appointed appeals judge upheld it.
Applying the APA to illegal alien murderers is absurd, but both judges affirmed the legality of third-country removals as a tool in the president’s toolbox. The Supreme Court has allowed the government to continue deportations to third countries, but arguments are scheduled for December.
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Third country removal is yet another example of President Trump using tools that were always available but almost never used. As the President has often said, America didn’t need new immigration laws to end the border crisis—we just needed the right President.
The American people voted for mass deportations, and the Trump Administration is delivering.
Teen's tragic killing by illegal immigrant becomes flashpoint in battle for control of Congress
A teenage girl's tragic death, allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant who was previously deported from the U.S., has now become a political flashpoint in her home town.
Sheridan Gorman's grieving parents made their heartbreaking plea for change directly to the two candidates running to represent their district in suburban New York during an electoral debate earlier this week. They asked Democrat Cait Conley and incumbent Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., whether they supported ending New York State's law barring local law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The 18-year-old Loyola University student was shot and killed while walking with friends late at night near her Chicago college campus in March of this year. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said the accused, Jose Medina, is a Venezuelan national who came to the U.S. illegally in May 2023 and was released by the prior administration.
He was arrested for shoplifting in Chicago the next month but released again, DHS said. Both Chicago and Illinois are sanctuary jurisdictions, meaning law enforcement there are also barred from cooperating with ICE.
Gorman's killing fast became a rallying cry for supporters of President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.
Lawler, who is fighting an uphill battle for a third term representing New York's 17th Congressional District, has also argued it is an example of what could happen more often if Democrats win control on Capitol Hill.
"Look, I've been very clear there should be reforms of ICE. They should wear body cameras. They should not wear masks. They should wear uniforms. They shouldn't be going into places like the Home Depot parking lot. They should be very targeted in what they are doing. And states like New York should be cooperating with them to deport criminal illegal aliens," Lawler told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "So look, I think the challenge here will be if Democrats win they will do everything they can to return to the Biden-era of lax immigration policy, lax enforcement, and try to cut off the resources of ICE and [Border Patrol], and I for one just will not support that."
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His district could be one of the few that decide control of the House for the latter half of President Trump's final term.
Gorman's parents tearfully said during his debate against Conley this week, "The man charged with her murder was here illegally and had previously been arrested for a crime and released under Chicago's sanctuary policies. A simple five second phone call between local and federal law enforcement would have saved her life."
Conley responded to them first, "My heart absolutely breaks, and what happens to Sheridan is inexcusable. Government failed her. And for that, we have to make sure that that doesn't happen again."
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"Immigration enforcement is essential," she said, though added, "What is happening under this administration, unfortunately, is not a focus on violent criminals, but what we're seeing is them rolling up people like grandmas and nurses, people in our communities."
Lawler then accused Conley of dodging the question, adding, "She does support Kathy Hochul new law, and she would not support federal legislation to end sanctuary policies. Let me be very clear: I stand with you. I am against Kathy Hochul disastrous new law, and I support any legislation that will end sanctuary jurisdictions in this country."
It came weeks after the Gormans took the stage alongside Lawler at the GOP's 2026 midterm convention in Dallas, Texas.
"The Gormans have more courage than any Democrat member of Congress who voted against protecting our citizens from criminal illegals," Lawler said in introducing them. "They are not running for office but their story — Sheridan's story — is the direct result of bad policy. Policies we cannot afford to get back to every again."
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The teenager's story again popped up in new ads released by Lawler's campaign on Wednesday.
In one of the spots, Gorman's mother tearfully tells the viewer, "He just shot her. Just shot her. Hunted her down. I thought I knew was sanctuary city policies are, I didn't."
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"The sanctuary policies being pushed by Kathy Hochul and Democrats killed our daughter," her father said. "I couldn't protect her from these policies."
Her mother added, "But Mike Lawler can."
Illegal immigration was one of the top issues in 2024, and Republicans are trying to harness the same backlash from voters who opposed the Biden administration's more lax border policies.
Fox News Digital reached out to Conley's campaign and to House Democrats' elections arm for a response.
Deadly cartels know where our border agents live. We have to protect their families
A hacker working for the Sinaloa cartel identified an FBI assistant legal attaché in Mexico City. According to Reuters covering a Justice Department inspector general report released in June 2025, the hacker used the official's phone number to obtain call records and location data. The hacker then used Mexico City's camera network to follow the official around the capital and identify the people they met. The report says the cartel used that information to intimidate potential sources and cooperating witnesses and, in some cases, to kill them.
The deadly lesson was clear: our adversaries no longer need to physically surveil their targets. The commercial data economy does much of the work for them.
In an updated audit released last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General highlighted that this threat — ubiquitous technical surveillance or UTS — "continue[s] to affect the Department" and determined that "DOJ had no common definition of UTS and was not otherwise well-coordinated on the issue, few of the Department's components had taken action to mitigate the UTS threat, and UTS-specific training was lacking."
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The conclusion should concern every Homeland Security and law enforcement official: "deficiencies identified in this audit place the Department and its employees, investigations, operations, sources, and witnesses at increased risk to UTS threats."
As a federal law enforcement and Homeland Security official for the past 25 years, I have seen how quickly technology can change the threat environment facing our personnel. The proliferation of inexpensive, commercially available information creates an unacceptable risk that requires a comprehensive solution.
As the acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I saw these threats firsthand. My family and I know the dangers too well.
In October 2025, for example, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that cartels had put bounties on ICE and Customs and Border Protection officers in Chicago. The reported figures were $2,000 for doxxing or gathering intelligence on agents and as much as $50,000 for killing high-ranking officials.
Especially for officers working cartel cases, the risk can follow them home.
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Consider a task-force officer who raids a cartel stash house in the morning and drives home that evening to the same community where the arrest occurred. The officer's children attend school there. The family goes to church there. The officer coaches a youth sports team there on Saturdays.
Individually, those pieces may appear insignificant. Combined, they can reconstruct a person's life. And that creates a new vulnerability for federal law enforcement.
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This is what the commercial data economy can expose. What has changed is how little an adversary has to steal. Duke University researchers bought sensitive records on U.S. military personnel for as little as 12 cents each, including names and home addresses. Separately, a WIRED investigation used commercial location data to trace devices associated with U.S. military sites in Germany to homes and schools for military children.
Fortunately, we know how to begin defending against this. During the Global War on Terrorism, we got very good at using data to find people and map their networks. We need to turn that expertise into better protecting our own personnel.
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Agents should have a program that checks what an adversary can already see about them. Agencies should help remove their addresses from broker sites where possible, help their families lock down their accounts, and provide a clear way to report threats involving their names or personal information. That protection should be part of the job, with resources and accountability behind it.
The administration has designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and DHS leadership has publicly described threats to its officers. Protecting the workforce from cartel surveillance follows from that, and it doesn't need to wait.
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Put one senior official in charge.
Start with the people at greatest risk: the task forces working cartel cases, our attachés overseas and the details protecting our leaders. Find out what an adversary can see about them. Then use those findings to help families reduce their exposure, and train agents to assume they are visible and work accordingly.
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Congress should provide clear authority and sustained funding for that protection.
The Mexico City case shows what can happen when surveillance exposes the people around an American official. Addresses, location histories and family profiles can reveal the routines of an entire household, putting the people closest to that agent at risk. We must not wait for another tragedy before acting. We have to plug these data leaks now to protect agents and their families.
Election crime arrests keep piling up as Dems insist it 'just doesn't happen'
Federal authorities made arrests in a string of election-related indictments against noncitizens in recent weeks, colliding with Democratic claims ranging from such voting being "extremely rare" to assertions that it simply "doesn’t happen."
The cases come amid a partisan fight over the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Democrats argue the measure would make voting harder for eligible Americans.
"Let me be perfectly clear: This is a non-issue. Noncitizens do not vote in U.S. elections," Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., declared in 2025 after voting 'no' on the bill at the time.
Three noncitizens were arrested this month in Philadelphia County, which Scanlon partially represents, and charged with election-related offenses.
Trinidad and Tobago national Sade Guppy allegedly voted illegally in the 2022 midterms, while Haitian illegal immigrant Cliff Sanon was charged with submitting a fraudulent voter registration application prior to the 2026 Pennsylvania primary.
DHS also pointed Fox News Digital to Mauritanian illegal immigrant Mahady Sacko, who is accused of voting in seven federal elections since 2008.
Fox News Digital reached out to Scanlon for comment.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced indictments of 10 foreign nationals accused of committing voter fraud in Minnesota alone, including during August's primary, saying the issue should not be a "partisan concept."
The alleged illegal voters captured are from Brazil, Ghana, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Liberia and Canada.
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., has similarly called noncitizen voting "extremely rare" while denouncing the SAVE Act as "anti-voter" and claiming Trump is trying to "scapegoat immigrants."
When asked Wednesday by Fox News Digital about the spate of arrests, Padilla reaffirmed the crime is "already illegal and every legitimate study shows it is extremely rare, despite Donald Trump’s claim to the contrary."
"The Department of Justice’s arrest of a dozen people after investigating millions of the 174 million registered voters in America confirms that," he said, adding he wished DOJ would instead focus on reported delays in voter-registration processing in states like Texas to ensure every eligible voter can vote.
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Padilla called the recent announcement of 12 arrests a "desperate attempt by Republicans to distract from their record of rising costs, chaos, and corruption that are hurting the American people."
Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., has called the SAVE Act "extremely dangerous" and "voter suppression." His office responded to Fox News Digital but did not offer comment before press time.
Last month, Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw of Fairfax County, Virginia, spoke out similarly on MSNOW.
"It is so rare that is almost impossible to measure. It just doesn’t happen," Walkinshaw said, surmising that Trump is trying to resurrect the "Big Lie" and "whining about the fact that he lost the 2020 election" by posturing to make similar claims after Republicans lose the midterms.
Fox News Digital also sought comment from Walkinshaw and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who said in March that "noncitizens do not vote in American elections."
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill also disclosed over the summer that roughly 400 noncitizens had voted in the state while resisting calls for additional federal scrutiny.
Three New Jersey residents were also charged this month with illegally voting and making false statements on citizenship applications. They hailed from Jamaica, Venezuela and Senegal.
Asked about the dynamic, a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital the agency could not comment on active investigations but remains committed to "rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found," demonstrating proof.
"Despite the media and Democrats denying it for decades, noncitizens continue to register and vote in federal elections," White House spokesperson Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital.
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"Only Americans should be electing America’s leaders," she said, as clamoring from both sides of the issue grows louder ahead of key midterm elections.
Fox News' William Mears Jr. contributed to this report.
I escaped communism. America must not ignore the urgent warning signs
I am an immigrant from Colombia, a country that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)—a communist revolutionary group—spent half a century tearing apart. FARC murdered thousands of Colombians through sanctioned massacres, kidnappings, and terrorism, and the war FARC drove displaced over seven million Colombians, resulting in one of the largest internal displacement crises in the world. I am now a naturalized citizen of the United States, a country that millions from around the world are still trying to reach. So, I read the latest polling on American capitalism with a particular kind of alarm.
This polling is the result of a survey released by The Free Press using a method to surface the opinions people keep to themselves. The finding: just one in three Americans holds a positive view of capitalism. Not one in three Democrats. One in three Americans.
Before the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) take a victory lap, consider the rest. That same survey found that most Americans remain wary of socialism, and Gallup found that while capitalism drew 54 percent approval, free enterprise drew 81 percent and small business 95 percent, compared with 37 percent for big business. Americans have not turned against free enterprise, ownership, or entrepreneurial risk. Yet DSA candidates keep winning elections. The gap between Americans’ faith in free enterprise and the DSA’s wins is a real vulnerability, and it deserves an honest question: Why not communism?
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An honest answer requires an important clarification. There is no meaningful difference between socialism and communism, and the founders of the movement said so without pretense. Lenin devoted chapters of The State and Revolution to expounding on Marx and what he called the first phase of communist society and its ultimate end. Socialism was never the alternative to communism. It was the on-ramp.
So why not take it? Because the record is unambiguous and is written in blood. No communist revolution has delivered the justice, equality, and prosperity it promised.
Estimates place the death toll of communist regimes near 100 million across Russia, Eastern Europe, China, Africa, and South America. And consider one plain fact. No communist state in history has been concerned about people sneaking in. Every one of them has had to worry about people getting out, a concern that produced a heavily guarded 4,300-mile Iron Curtain across Europe built to face inward. Nations that people flee have not solved anything.
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Yet the communist appeal is real, and pretending otherwise is foolish. Communism begins by naming a genuine pain. American capitalism is too much big-business economics with its ethos of the very large, the consolidated, and the impersonal. This makes the household, the small business, and the ordinary person willing to take a risk weaker and less important. Millions of Americans experience this as a shrinking future and a loss of control over their destiny. The communist arrives, agrees with them, and offers the oldest bargain on record: "You have nothing to lose but your chains. Workers of the world, unite!"
Communism is the opium Marx accused religion of being, and it has never once healed the pain. It has not expanded economic freedom; it has abolished it through central planning. Communism did not restore personal agency; it destroyed agency on principle because agency is precisely what a total state cannot permit.
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All imposters have an element of truth, and communism is no different. What the communist gets right but then betrays is the truth that the core of economics is the human person. But the communist cannot say why. If we are only producers and consumers, then personal agency is a mere preference, not a fundamental part of our humanity, and the state may override it whenever it deems it expedient to do so.
The truth about the human person that no materialism—capitalist or communist—can say is what the Christian account of the human person defends: human beings bear the image of God. Work is therefore noble rather than a mere function. Ownership is a stewardship, not evidence of superiority. And human dignity is not for the state to grant or revoke. The dignity of the human person is divinely endowed and is protected and nurtured through economic freedom and personal agency.
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The time is short, and I write to my fellow Americans as someone who has seen where this road ends. Let’s not take the bargain the communists offer. Let’s get out of our echo chambers and get to know each other again. Let’s elect leaders who will expand economic freedom rather than administer its disappearance. And to my fellow college and university presidents: our campuses should be places where these arguments are discussed honestly, thoughtfully, and in public, with no quarter given to censorship, to violence against those with whom we disagree, or to indoctrination hiding behind academic freedom.
America remains the beacon of freedom and opportunity. Let us keep it that way.
Progressive lawmaker's baby bump photo sparks online firestorm as she faces prison time: 'Disgusting'
Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., caused an uproar on social media when she made a post defending her decision to get pregnant despite potentially facing nearly two decades in prison for allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers at Delaney Hall detention center protests.
"People might find it crazy that even though I’m facing 17 years in prison, I made the decision to get pregnant," McIver posted to X on Tuesday. "But, at the end of the day, this is something I couldn’t let be consumed by this administration. I refuse to let them take my joy or my future."
The New Jersey congresswoman is being charged on three counts of allegedly assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement. The charges stem from McIver's May 2025 visit to Delaney Hall with other Democratic lawmakers. Prosecutors allege McIver physically interfered with federal officers as they attempted to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. McIver has denied wrongdoing and argued that she was performing congressional oversight.
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McIver's post prompted several conservative figures and social media users to accuse her of highlighting — or even timing — her pregnancy in hopes of receiving favorable treatment in her criminal case.
"When getting pregnant is a social media stunt to avoid prison time...," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., posted to X.
"You violently assaulted a law enforcement officer on camera, then somehow convinced a man to knock you up for political reasons so you could paint yourself as a victim," New Jersey Trump delegate Mike Crispi wrote. "Disgraceful. The poor child."
"Why is your pregnancy amid the criminal charges a social media stunt accompanied with a photoshoot?" conservative journalist Andy Ngo said. "Is anyone in your office normal?
"Getting pregnant to sway justice is a whole new level of sick," one X user posted.
"Why would I find it crazy?" another user said. "You are a cheater & a fraud and, true to character, you became pregnant in an attempt to sway the outcome of the court in your favor."
"Facing 17 years, gets pregnant in hope of leniency," another user wrote. "‘I refuse to let them take my joy or my future.’ as the excuse. Congratulations on giving your child the best possible start to life. You are just a genuinely disgusting person."
The post comes about a month after a divided federal appeals court allowed two charges against McIver to proceed while sending a third back to the district court for further consideration of her legislative-immunity argument.
McIver argued that she should have immunity from prosecution because she was carrying out her duties as a congresswoman in her actions that led to her being charged, calling the charges "vindictive."
"Oh stop with the desperate need for sympathy," one posted to X. "YOU are not above the law."
"You are on camera assaulting law enforcement," another said. "You are not above the law, you swore to defend it and broke it."
One user left a screenshot of a past tweet from McIver where she posted saying, "No one is above the law! Full stop."
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McIver faces multiple felony charges and, if convicted, could face prison time.
McIver did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Despite the charges, McIver is on the ballot for re-election to continue to represent New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District.
Ringo, at 86, rocks DC, but why are we still fixated on the Beatles, six decades after their breakup?
It was like stepping into a time machine and going back 62 years.
One of the Beatles was singing rock songs, playing two instruments, making jokes and having a grand old time.
The Ringo Starr concert here in Washington got me thinking about the impact that he, John, Paul and George had on the music business, the country and the culture — and how Americans are still fascinated by the Fab Four and even their grandchildren are listening to their ancient albums.
Ringo is 86 and touring again, bringing more energy to his shows than most of his Boomer-heavy audience.
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Paul McCartney, who I’ve seen several times in recent years, is 84, still belting out the hits and, hip guy that he is, sharing short videos on social media.
It’s not about money — the two surviving Beatles became multimillionaires back in the day. They are still releasing new albums; McCartney’s "Dungeon Lane," about growing up in Liverpool, and with him playing most of the instruments, nearly matches some of his best work.
Ringo, who played drums and piano at the concert, has been saluted by today’s top drummers as having inspired generations of those behind the kit with his unique, left-handed, play-to-the-song style that doesn’t show off by overwhelming each tune.
So what does this say about us as a society?
It’s partly pure nostalgia, like a soup that reminds you of the way grandma made it.
For those who saw the group’s American debut on Ed Sullivan and remember the frenzy of Beatlemania — with screaming girls drowning out the group — it’s a throwback to the days when they were young and groovy and often spaced out. The swinging sixties were like that — and now many of those fans now talk about medications and doctors’ visits.
Some of the mystique is about the group’s incredible growth from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to "Let It Be," with such groundbreaking records as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, the White Album and Abbey Road. (In those days, when record players dominated our lives, music reigned because there were no Apple Watches, no TikTok, no group chats, no Netflix, no distractions from vinyl other than mediocre TV.)
And it was the sheer quality launched by McCartney’s partnership with John Lennon, and its amazing variety.
If you wanted hard rock, there was "Ticket to Ride," "Helter Skelter," "Come Together" and "Back in the U.S.S.R.," a Beach Boys spoof now geopolitically dated.
If you preferred soft ballads, there was Yesterday, Michelle and Norwegian Wood. The Beatles had a song for every mood.
There’s also a Beatles hype machine, releasing early versions of songs and old tunes, once in mono, amped up by modern technology.
This enabled the other Beatles to produce three new songs from old Lennon tapes provided by Yoko.
In every Beatles appearance, there was Starr and his drums on a riser behind the three guitarists, his beat driving the song but largely unnoticed by viewers and listeners.
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Ringo, who was hospitalized as a boy and banged on anything that was available, got along with everyone while Paul, John and George were constantly "fussing and fighting, my friends."
Consider this contrast: the Beatles' fixation is the equivalent of a focus when Ringo joined them on music from 1898. I mean, seriously?
That, I think, was why I felt surging emotions at the Ringo concert. I knew I’d enjoy it; I didn’t expect to be utterly rocked, so to speak, by the drummer and his All-Star Band.
And let’s be honest: With two octogenarians still cranking it out, we wonder how much longer they’ll be healthy enough to entertain us.
Over the decades, the only performers who have come close to their onetime popularity are Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.
For now, it was a thrill to hear Ringo belt out "With a little help from my friends." The surviving Beatles —Ringo and Paul did a duet on the Dungeon Lane album — feel like our friends.
Ringo turned the searing spotlights on the audience, saying he wanted to see those who were cheering him. He jokingly said they could line up for handshakes after the concert.
Our friends — both on our part and the former mop tops — that’s the secret ingredient.
1 missing, 4 rushed to hospital after helicopter crashes off Southern California island
A medevac helicopter crashed into the water off Catalina Island in California on Wednesday night, with one of the five people aboard reported missing and the other four taken to hospitals, according to officials.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department received reports of the crash shortly before 8 p.m.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing, with the fire department dispatching helicopters and divers shortly after learning of the crash.
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The U.S. Coast Guard also responded to the crash.
"I have been informed that a medevac helicopter leaving Catalina Island has crashed shortly after takeoff. L.A. County Fire, Sheriff, Coast Guard, and Avalon Fire are on the scene," Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said on X. "Search and rescue operations are underway, and I am praying for everyone who was on board."
At least one of the five people aboard the helicopter remains unaccounted for as of late Wednesday night. Two others were transported to hospitals in stable condition and the remaining two were transported in unknown condition, according to KTLA.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said two people were taken to a hospital on Catalina Island, while two others were transported to the Ronald Reagan Medical Center at UCLA.
The fire department said the helicopter's flight plan was unclear, according to CBS LA. Deputies said the helicopter belonged to Reach Air Medical Services.
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Flight tracking data showed a Reach Air Medical Services helicopter departing from Oceanside in San Diego County at 6:40 p.m. and landing on Catalina Island at 7:04 p.m.
Reach said it was aware of the incident but could not provide further information.
"Our immediate concern is for the well-being of those involved," a Reach spokesperson said in a statement to CBS LA.
Arizona sheriff's helicopter crew rescues man stranded atop overturned truck in rapidly rising floodwaters
Dramatic video shows an Arizona sheriff's helicopter crew rescuing a man stranded on top of his overturned truck as rapidly moving floodwaters surrounded the vehicle.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said its Fox 1 aviation crew responded Tuesday morning to a flooded wash in Tonopah, where deputies found the man sitting atop the overturned vehicle with water rushing around him.
Video released by authorities shows the man perched on the truck as muddy floodwaters rush past him.
Because of the dangerous conditions, first responders determined that directly reaching the man was too risky and decided a "hoist rescue" would be the safest option.
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The video shows a Fox 1 crew member being lowered to the vehicle to secure the man in a rescue harness before both are hoisted to safety.
The man was taken to the riverbank, where fire personnel were waiting, according to the sheriff's office.
The helicopter's pilot, Rich Dickner, told CBS News that the water was quickly rising around the vehicle.
"We didn't waste much time," Dickner said.
"As opposed to when we first got there, you can see the water line on the video — it's below the window — and it had risen up to the top of the window," he continued. "So there was that urgency."
People Magazine reported that Deputy Lindsey Smith was lowered approximately 80 feet from the helicopter toward the overturned truck.
She initially struggled to get her footing before securing herself to the vehicle, according to the report.
The entire rescue took less than five minutes, authorities said.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office credited the crew's swift response with getting the man to safety.
"Thanks to the skill and quick response of our Aviation crew, the subject was safely brought to shore," the sheriff's office said.
"Excellent work, Fox 1!"
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The Weather Channel reported that remnants of Hurricane Polo brought historic rainfall to parts of the Desert Southwest, contributing to dangerous flash flooding.
The Flood Control District of Maricopa County warned drivers not to attempt to cross flooded roads.
"Remember: Conditions can change fast. If you encounter a flooded roadway, Turn Around, Don't Drown."
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for additional information.