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Emily Ratajkowski's shredded red birthday dress leaves little to the imagination at NYC celebration
Emily Ratajkowski is leaving little to the imagination in a social media post celebrating her birthday.
In a series of photos posted on Instagram, the model shared pictures from her 35th birthday party, which featured her in a barely there red dress — which was coming apart at the seams.
The bodice of the skintight red dress featured multiple cutouts and fringe, which gave the illusion the dress had been shredded, with gold bars holding the pieces together. The cutouts continued down until below the model's navel.
In the photos, she is posing in front of a red birthday cake with floral embellishments, giving the camera a serious look as she takes a selfie. The star also spent time with her friends as they celebrated at Ha’s Snack Bar in New York.
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Fans immediately flooded the comments section to wish the star a happy birthday, with some famous faces sending their well wishes as well.
Penélope Cruz wrote, "Happy birthday!!! 🥰🥰," while Irina Shayk wrote, "Happy bday my 😍. We loved to celebrate u last night my queen❤️❤️❤️.
Ratajkowski recently made news when she walked the runway at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for the first time in October 2025, after first working with the brand in 2023 when she appeared in their Icon Campaign.
"I grew up looking at images of Gisele, Candice, Naomi and Adriana, so it’s simply surreal to be included in a campaign next to them," she told Popsugar that year. "Those women were larger than life to me — they still are in many ways — and that’s what it means to be iconic. Their beauty and the images they’ve produced with incredible photographers and designers and teams were and are so artful. They represent so much."
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Her debut on the iconic runway came 20 years after she first signed with Ford Models at the age of 14, after which she mainly did catalog and print work.
She got her big break in 2013, when she appeared in the music video for Robin Thicke's hit song, "Blurred Lines," in which she appeared topless. Soon after, she began booking more jobs and was named Esquire's Woman of the Year in 2013.
Following her big break, Ratajkowski also worked in television and film, most notably as Ben Affleck's mistress in the 2014 film, "Gone Girl," but chose not to pursue acting further, telling the Los Angeles Times in 2023 she "felt like a piece of meat."
"But I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’m an artist performing and this is my outlet.’ I felt like a piece of meat who people were judging, saying, ‘Does she have anything else other than her [breasts]?’" Ratajkowski told the Los Angeles Times.
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She later added that she grew tired of making herself "digestible to powerful men in Hollywood," telling the outlet, "I didn't trust them."
"I was like, ‘I can handle receiving phone calls. I’m gonna make these decisions," she said. "None of you have my best interest at heart. And you all hate women.’"
Beau Bridges says Tom Cruise ‘gets better with age’ as ‘Top Gun' star keeps defying Hollywood odds
Tom Cruise's "Jerry McGuire" costar Beau Bridges thinks the 63-year-old actor is getting better and better with age.
"I really appreciated working with him," Bridges, who starred alongside Cruise in the 90s romcom, told People while attending the "Matlock" For Your Consideration event last week. "He's a wonderful actor and just gets better with age. I mean, he's still doing all those crazy stunts and stuff. Yeah. And I like working with him. I thought he was great."
Bridges isn't the only actor who has thoughts on Cruise's legendary stunts.
Earlier this year, Ethan Hawke revealed that he has grown "angry" with Cruise, explaining that the "Mission: Impossible" star’s high-risk stunt work has changed what audiences and studios expect from actors across Hollywood.
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"Tom Cruise has totally changed what’s expected for actors," Hawke told Variety at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in February. "Some part of me is getting angry over the years because everyone somehow feels like they’re less if they use a stunt team."
While Cruise — who is returning for "Top Gun 3" — has never appeared in a superhero movie from Marvel, DC or any other comic-book franchise, the actor cemented his status as an action movie icon by insisting on performing increasingly dangerous, real-world stunts himself in blockbuster franchises including "Mission: Impossible," "Top Gun" and "Jack Reacher."
Last year, Cruise nearly broke his back while performing a stunt for "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning."
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In bonus content from the digital release of the film, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie detailed one of the film’s most harrowing sequences: a high-flying biplane battle between the actor’s character, Ethan Hunt, and Gabriel, portrayed by Esai Morales.
The scene showed Ethan leaping from one plane onto another, as he clung to the wing midair.
"Oh, this almost broke my back," Cruise said, per Entertainment Weekly.
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"You’re talking about a lot of pain here," McQuarrie chimed in.
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Cruise’s character was seen in the video clip grabbing a seat belt, holding on for dear life, as the plane flipped upside down.
"Now watch this, the thing we haven’t talked about, holding on to this belt," McQuarrie described, while Cruise said, "Oh God, that was brutal."
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The director continued to explain, "This separated the joints in Tom's fingers from the force, so by the time we finished this sequence, your hands were absolutely swollen – oh my God, it was so painful to watch."
During the intense scene, Cruise’s character was forced to crash into the side of the aircraft. As he remembered the pain, the Hollywood actor said, "Oh, that was brutal. That hit, that was a hard one."
McQuarrie joked, "And you improvised that, thank you very much. I appreciate that. You were like, ‘I think we’re gonna need that,’ and I was like, ‘I didn’t ask you to do that.’"
Fox News Digital's Stephanie Giang-Paunon and Ashley Hume contributed to this post.
Gorilla goes viral for seemingly reassessing life choices after a spat with his lady friend
There are few animals as fascinating and entertaining to watch as gorillas.
I know it's like 70% scratching themselves, but that other 30% is magic, and a video from a zoo in Japan shows what looks like a straight-up ape soap opera as one gorilla seemed to ponder his life choices after getting into a bit of a tiff with a lady gorilla.
Kiyomasa is a 13-year-old gorilla kicking it in a Japanese zoo, and he was recently caught on video getting chased by one of the female gorillas in the troop.
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But that wasn't the video that got attention. What is going viral is the video of the aftermath: Kiyomasa is sitting by himself in deep thought, with the thousand-yard stare of a man who is reassessing things a little.
Bro... on behalf of all men, we feel you.
Who knows what kicked that off. We're talking gorillas, so it was probably something like he scratched his ass using her favorite tree without asking. Maybe she asked him to tone down the amount of poo flinging he has been doing with his buddies.
But whatever it is, it hit our guy Kiyomasa harder than a silverback's fist hitting protective zoo glass to scare a bunch of kids at day camp.
Do you know what this tells me? We need a gorilla reality show.
Something like "Keeping Up With The Silverbacks" or "The Real Gorilla Wives Japanese Zoos."
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I would watch this... for like a couple of episodes, and then it would get stale.
Well, reality show or not, Kiyomasa is going to have a heck of a time for the next couple of days after that little dust-up. Poor guy might have to go out and buy a gift just to keep the peace.
Fortunately for him, in the gorilla world, a stick constitutes a good gift, but he'll have to find a really good stick.
Nothing too knotty, unless he wants to make the situation worse.
Whoopi Goldberg tells audience not to blame Trump for Knicks loss, Hostin insists he brought ‘bad juju’
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg chastised her audience on Tuesday for blaming the Knicks’ loss on President Donald Trump’s attendance at the game.
The New York Knicks hosted their first NBA Finals game since 1999 on Monday night after winning the first two games against the San Antonio Spurs on the road. Trump, a native New Yorker and longtime Knicks fan, was invited to attend the game at Madison Square Garden by team owner James Dolan.
The Spurs came away with a 115-111 win, and some unruly Knicks fans took out their frustrations in the streets while others blamed the loss on Trump.
"A lot of Knicks fans are not happy with you-know-who right now," Goldberg said, referring to the president.
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She first noted how the heightened security around Trump's visit impacted the city.
"He came into town, messed up everything, you couldn’t go — you couldn’t make a left," Goldberg said. "You couldn’t make a right. Couldn’t go across the street. You couldn’t buy anything."
"This man comes in, and he’s a fan, OK, but my goodness!" she continued. "And they are blaming him for ending the Knicks’ winning streak last night."
Many members of the audience cheered that line, but Goldberg warned that they should blame the team, not Trump.
"No, no, no, now, come on now. They were not playing great ball. That was on us," she said. "I have to just reiterate the fact that this man does not have that kind of power. We have to remind people. He doesn’t have the power."
Co-host Sunny Hostin responded by making a face, to which Goldberg immediately responded, "I see your face, and I know how you feel, and you can say what you want. But by saying that it’s his fault that we lost means that there’s no responsibility taken. These guys were not playing at their best."
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Despite Goldberg's rejection of the idea that Trump had anything to do with the Knicks’ loss, Hostin later declared, "For me, what is also in play is that we had an impeccable vibe in New York until the orange man showed up and put the bad juju on the Madison Square Garden, now we’re going to have to go in to sage Madison Square Garden to get all the bad juju out."
She then blasted Trump for how expensive it was to secure the stadium and him getting booed by the crowd, declaring, "Don’t bring your bad karma vibe to New York!"
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin argued that it is a bad idea for any president to attend a game during a winning streak like this, noting they will be blamed for any loss. That said, she did give him credit for being a longtime fan even when the team was not doing well.
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On Monday, Goldberg defended the right of both Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani to attend the game.
"I think anybody who’s a Knicks fan should be there," she said. "You earned the right as a Knicks fan. I don’t have to like you."
"I’m sorry. Trump and Mayor Mamdani are Knicks fans and have been, they're New Yorkers," Goldberg added. "And ... there’s nothing either one of them can do to change what’s happening in this city for this team."
Outkick’s Mark Harris contributed to this report.
Athletics wild first game in Las Vegas leads to 29 runs, 11 home runs in ominous sign for area's MLB future
The team formerly known as the Oakland Athletics is now playing its home games in West Sacramento, on its way to moving to a brand-new stadium on The Strip in Las Vegas.
But in order to build up the fanbase in their eventual home, the A's have scheduled six home games at Las Vegas Ballpark this week. That stadium, which typically hosts the Las Vegas Aviators, a Triple-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, is located in the Summerlin area of the Vegas Valley. Sitting on the west side of the city means it's at the base of the nearby mountains. It also means the stadium sits at an elevation of over 3,000 feet.
Well, sure enough, Monday night's game between the Athletics and Brewers, even though the stadium has larger dimensions than an average Major League Baseball ballpark, led to one of the wildest outcomes of this season. Or any season. All thanks to being played at higher elevation than any park in baseball other than Coors Field in Denver.
The game finished 15-14 in 12 innings, just the 18th time that score has happened in any Major League game since 1900. It's only happened twice this century, and not since 2019. It was the highest scoring game of the year, by a fairly wide margin. On May 31, the Giants beat the Rockies 19-6 in, you guessed it, Colorado.
But it's not just the score that's unusual and unexpected. It was how the teams got there.
The Brewers and A's combined for a whopping 11 homers. The A's, even in a losing effort, hit seven by themselves. Two Athletics players hit two home runs each, lefties Tyler Soderstrom and Nick Kurtz. There were 31 hits between the two teams. There were 14 different pitchers used, and an incredible 441 pitches thrown, easily surpassing the previous high this year. Oh, and once the game reached the 10th inning, the Brewers scored four in the top of the inning...only to allow the A's to tie the game by scoring four runs in the bottom of the 10th.
But there's even more to it than that.
Thanks to the elevation, there were a number of extreme outlier home runs, including one from Brewers catcher William Contreras. Contreras hit a 463-foot home run, the second longest of the year, and managed to fall to his backside in the process.
On the other hand, with the ball carrying further, there was arguably the most unlikely homer of the season hit as well.
First, some backstory. With the A's down 14-11 in the bottom of the 10th, Nick Kurtz came up with a runner on second as the team's last hope. On a 2-2 count, one strike away from the game ending, he launched a ball 110 mph and 447 feet to make the score 14-13.
A's catcher Jonah Heim pinch hit, and hit what can only be described as a routine pop-up...which carried over the fence for a game-tying home run.
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Just look at the catcher's reaction after seeing the contact. Contreras has played hundreds of baseball games in his professional career. He's seen countless fly balls hit off the bat. And he was so convinced it was a game-ending flyout, he stood up and clapped his glove in celebration.
And then it carried 398 feet and over the fence, despite just a 94.6mph exit velocity. How unlikely was it that Heim's ball would wind up being a home run? Well per MLB's Baseball Savant Statcast tracking, it was a home run in 0/30 MLB ballparks. The expected batting average was quite literally .000. Every single time a ball is hit with that exit velocity and launch angle combo, it's an out. Except in Las Vegas.
It was already clear that the move to Las Vegas would be an adjustment for the team and the league. But this game and how it played out highlights just how much of an adjustment it'll be. The A's new stadium is being built on The Strip, not in Summerlin, meaning it's at a slightly lower elevation. Closer to 2,300 feet instead of 3,000. Still, it's clear the ball is going to fly out of that park. And with similar expected dimensions in the new facility, it could be yet another high-scoring slugfest when they move in for the 2028 season.
The roof may help some, especially when it's closed in the hot summer months. But if this is how the Vegas games are going to go, A's pitchers are going to be furious. And A's hitters will be must-adds in fantasy baseball. Just a few more years to find out.
LISTEN: Brian Hooker's own words appear to place him in the water the night missing wife vanished in Bahamas
A friend of Brian Hooker says a phone call he recorded days after Lynette Hooker vanished suggests her husband was in the water with her that night, an account that would appear to contradict the story Brian has told.
After leaving shore at Hope Town in the Bahamas at around 7:30 p.m. on April 4, Brian Hooker told authorities that rough waters caused his wife to fall off their dinghy. Brian Hooker paddled to shore and arrived at Marsh Harbour around 4 a.m. on April 5, authorities said.
The couple was headed back to their sailboat Soulmate, their full-time home in retirement, when Lynette fell overboard. They frequently sailed around the U.S. and Caribbean, according to their social media pages.
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Brian Hooker called fellow boater Blaine Stevenson two days after his wife Lynette vanished in the Bahamas. Stevenson told Fox News Digital that a moment in that call appears to place Brian himself in the water that night, contradicting his account that he stayed in the dinghy while she drifted away.
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"I mean she's a regular swimmer, not like a athlete or anything, but she's f------ determined, and she was hit with a flare pistol I had slid down one of the Sponsons down towards the stern and the dinghy. I took so many waves over the dingy. I bailed about five or six times. I had to bail out the cockpit, but the the inside also got wet and so, and the dinghy key was not attached to me, you know, so when we were f------ around trying to get back in the boat," Hooker said on the call.
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On the same call, on several instances Brian Hooker said he was inside the dinghy.
"The waves were three foot and I was trying to ship the oars and one of the pins on the oars broke and that f----- dropped over the side and I was yelling for her the whole time and I yelled to her that I lost the oar and I threw the anchor out and anchored the dinghy. And just yeah I yelled I couldn't see her anymore...the moon has not risen yet. And the waves were doing their thing and you know, you I saw her I think twice I threw her a flotation cushion that we used to sit on the dingy, you know right after she went in, but I didn't I couldn't tell if she got it or not."
Kenneth Engerrand, an adjunct professor of maritime law at the University of Houston Law Center and shareholder in the Brown Sims law firm, told Fox News Digital that Brian Hooker's story is "inconsistent" and said the case is "getting more damning by the minute."
"He's saying they were in water, but at the same time, he's bailing. And at the time, she's quickly, immediately away from him by the waves and the wind and whatnot. Everything about this is inconsistent," Engerrand said.
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"He's telling five different stories, and none of them are consistent. So it's as if he's just making stuff up as he goes," he added.
The U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Services concluded their four-day renewed search for Lynette Hooker's body on Monday after GPS data from Brian Hooker's phone obtained by authorities allegedly shows a discrepancy between what he first told law enforcement, sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News Digital. During their renewed search, the Coast Guard took possession of the dinghy.
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That discrepancy prompted federal U.S. authorities to seek permission from Bahamian authorities to search a new area in the Sea of Abaco with 25-foot-deep waters, the sources added. Investigators are treating the case as a homicide, according to a U.S. official.
Brian Hooker's Michigan-based attorney previously asked Americans to give him the benefit of the doubt in an interview with ABC News.
"I would ask those watching to treat him the way you would want to be treated, to give him the benefit of the doubt, and to consider that not all of us, nor you, considering your own relationships, the way you speak to one another, we all handle things in different ways," Crystal Marie Hauser said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Hauser for comment.
WNBA legend Nancy Lieberman sends urgent warning to men after disease affects her friends
Nancy Lieberman still remembers when the disease impacted her friends.
In 1986, Lieberman became the first woman to play in a men's professional basketball league when she joined the Springfield Fame in the United States Basketball League (USBL). Micheal Ray Richardson, her former teammate, died after a prostate cancer diagnosis.
"I spoke at Micheal Ray Richardson’s funeral," she said. "He happened to be my teammate when there was no WNBA."
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Lieberman said Richardson kept the disease hidden from those close to him.
"He didn’t want to tell his wife, Kim," Lieberman said. "He didn’t want to tell the family."
Former players Spencer Haywood and Alonzo Mourning, along with ESPN's Jay Harris, survived battles with the disease.
Those names now drive her message to men.
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The women's basketball legend has joined the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Ice Cube and the BIG3 to push a simple message: Ask for a PSA test.
"You must tell the doctor, ‘Check the box,’ because sometimes they will not check the box," Lieberman said.
The box is for the PSA test. PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen. The Prostate Cancer Foundation’s "Check the Box" campaign tells men to talk to their doctor, take a simple blood test and learn their PSA score.
Lieberman said the goal is to make men ask for the test when they already have blood drawn.
"It’s the PSA box," Lieberman said. "It’s the prostate-specific antigen."
Lieberman also called on women to push the men in their lives to act.
"If you’re a woman, we’re going to nudge our men and say, ‘Go to the doctor. Don’t be afraid. We are standing right with you,’" she said.
'Unchosen' LA Knight may finally be back on the path of WWE glory after King of the Ring shocker
It may, finally, be LA Knight’s time.
The long-awaited singles push that every single WWE fan has been waiting for over the years could be coming after the latest results of the King of the Ring Tournament on "Monday Night Raw."
Seth Rollins, Ricky Saints, Je’Von Evans and Talla Tonga met in a fatal four-way match in the quarterfinals of the tournament. With the way Rollins was speaking backstage, it appeared he thought Bron Breakker and The Vision were behind him. He turned his attention to the World Heavyweight Championship and Roman Reigns going into the match.
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Rollins soon learned that putting The Vision in the rearview mirror was easier said than done. Rollins was about to get the pinfall on Saints when Austin Theory stopped the referee from continuing the count. Montez Ford appeared to have Rollins’ back as his attention turned to Theory. But Breakker was there to spear Rollins.
Evans took advantage and hit an OG Cutter on Saints. He pinned Saints to pick up the shocking victory. But Evans’ win may make Knight’s path to the King of the Ring finals that much easier.
First, Knight has to win his match.
He had words for The Bloodline as he marched to the ring. He said he expected The Bloodline to be in the corner of Jey Uso when their fatal four-way match happens on "Friday Night SmackDown."
"I may be unchosen, but every single one of you chose me," Knight told the crowd in Paris. "And more importantly than any of that, I chose myself, which means I do it my way, which means I get the job done. And I make you one single, solitary promise, which is I don’t know how to quit. I don’t know how to stop. I can’t stop the undeniable kavorka and I can’t stop being L.A. Knight."
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Uso came out to fire his "warning shot" at Knight, but the "unchosen" one made it clear that he was determined to get past him, Royce Keys and Finn Balor come Friday.
Should Knight win, the path comes a bit easier. Evans has proven himself to be a worthy adversary with his incredible acrobatics in the ring. He showcased that in a six-pack ladder match at WrestleMania 42 and nearly won the Intercontinental Championship then.
On the other side, Oba Femi will take on Dominik Mysterio. The Judgment Day couldn’t get a one-up on Femi as JD McDonagh hit a chair shot but Femi was immovable. Even Mysterio, after a 619, couldn’t finish the frog splash.
But Femi, ring wise, is distracted. He wants a world title around his waist but he has his eyes focused on Brock Lesnar. Their series is tied 1-1 and appeared to be headed for a crash course at SummerSlam. Femi could easily win over Mysterio and advance to the finals at Night of Champions. If he faces Knight, Lesnar could get involved and cost Femi a shot at a title.
The storyline is written there. Knight gets his ultimate shot at Reigns – in a singles match this time – on one of the biggest stages that WWE has to offer. What happens next is up to WWE? It would definitely be a great build post-Night of Champions to possibly SummerSlam Night 1.
Knight powered WWE fans through 2023 with the summer of Knight. He got a title shot at Crown Jewel that year but lost to Reigns. He got another shot at Royal Rumble 2024, but in a fatal four way against Reigns, AJ Styles and Randy Orton.
It could be the last chance here for Knight to capture gold.
Trump locks in ICE funding through end of presidency after House passes $70B package
Republicans’ sweeping immigration enforcement and border security package cleared the House on Tuesday, ending a months-long standoff with Democrats over funding President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown agenda.
The $70 billion immigration enforcement measure passed 214-212 over the fierce objections of Democrats, who unanimously voted against the package. Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Calif., an independent who caucuses with Republicans, also joined Democrats in opposing the measure.
Meanwhile, every GOP lawmaker present voted for the Senate-passed legislation, which funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) through fiscal year 2029.
Tuesday's vote is a major victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who could spare just a handful of defections given Republicans’ fragile majority.
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The measure now heads to Trump’s desk, where he is expected to sign it into law.
The GOP-authored bill, known as the Secure America Act, provides $38 billion for ICE and a $26 billion infusion for the Border Patrol. It would also create a $5 billion funding pool to be controlled by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Kiley, who recently switched his party affiliation to independent, said he opposed the bill because it lacked reforms to immigration enforcement and bypassed the traditional appropriations process, which requires some buy-in from Democrats.
"The idea that we're actually going to now weaken one of the few pillars of sanity we have, which is the annual bipartisan appropriations process, and set this precedent that when you don't reach bipartisan agreement, you can just do an end run around it … that's hugely problematic to me," the California lawmaker told reporters.
"The whole reason I became an independent is because I think that extreme partisanship here has completely run amok, and it's doing real damage to the country," he added.
Republican leaders argued they were forced to use the partisan budget reconciliation process after Democrats repeatedly blocked Homeland Security funding bills. The legislative tool allowed GOP leadership to steer around Democrats’ opposition and pass the legislation at a simple majority threshold in the upper chamber.
"This is a piece that Democrats have said they don't want to fund because they want open borders," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said Tuesday. "They have made it crystal clear, the Democrat Party in Washington, that they want to go back to open borders. And we're not going to do that."
For months, Democratic lawmakers refused to fund ICE and the Border Patrol unless it was paired with policy reforms. The party’s hardball tactics sparked the longest government shutdown in history, which largely ended after Trump signed a partial DHS bill in April.
Top Democrats initially took a hard turn against new ICE funding beginning in January after two Americans were killed by federal law enforcement officers during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis.
Their message stayed largely the same heading into Tuesday's vote.
"Republicans are pouring your hard-earned tax dollars into an agency that has brutalized and terrorized communities and even killed American citizens," House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said Tuesday. "Republican leadership likes to talk a lot about common sense, but where is the common sense in giving this federal agency essentially unlimited funds without a single reform in place?"
Though Republicans stayed largely united in the ICE funding fight, some conservative lawmakers argued the spending measure should be paired with policy reforms codifying some of the president's executive orders.
Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., were among the GOP lawmakers who withheld their support for the package during a procedural test vote earlier on Tuesday. Johnson promised the conservative group a vote on border security legislation in the coming weeks, prompting holdouts to support the measure's advancement, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
The budget reconciliation bill’s passage comes after congressional Republicans failed to meet a June 1 deadline set by Trump to send the measure to his desk.
The quick timeline fell apart after a cohort of Republicans in both chambers revolted against Trump’s roughly $2 billion "anti-weaponization fund." Some GOP lawmakers, including moderate Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., have since proposed legislation that would curtail the president’s authority to establish the fund.
Michael Rapaport slams Zohran Mamdani over Knicks postgame chaos, vows 'not on my watch' ahead of mayoral run
A debate over Knicks fan behavior quickly turned political after Michael Rapaport took aim at Zohran Mamdani.
After the New York Knicks lost to the San Antonio Spurs on Monday night, a large crowd outside Madison Square Garden became chaotic as fights broke out and the New York Police Department became involved.
"These ain’t Knick fans or Basketball fans," he wrote on X alongside a video showing the chaos after the conclusion of Game 3 of the NBA playoffs. "This is embarrassing for NYC, D--- STAIN ZORON MANDAMI refer to this as 'kids being kids' Not on my watch, RAPAPORT 2029," Rapaport wrote.
Mamdani's office responded to Rapaport's criticism by stressing that assaults on police officers and other postgame violence will not be tolerated.
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"New Yorkers are understandably passionate about the Knicks, and the overwhelming majority of fans watched the game last night in ways that were both safe and fun," Mayor Mamdani spokesperson Sam Raski told Fox News Digital. "But the fights and other disruptive incidents – including assaults on police officers – in various parts of the city are unacceptable and will not be tolerated."
"As the NBA finals continue, Mayor Mamdani wants all New Yorkers to celebrate and enjoy this run across the city while respecting one another," the statement continued.
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"I never thought that I would even consider running for mayor of New York City, and I will do it with the best intentions. And I won’t do it the way any other political person has ever done it," Rapaport told Chris Cuomo during an appearance on News Nation.
"The only way to beat this guy is to make it and take it with New York City street fight mentality."
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"There’s no way to out-nice him. There’s no way out-slick him. I think that he’s the greatest bull cr----r in the history of politicians … and that’s saying a lot," he continued.
"But New York City needs to do something. We need to plan right now because 2029 is around the corner, and, yes, I’m running for mayor of New York City. And I will only drop out until I feel like there’s somebody who’s more qualified that could actually beat Zohran the moron.
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"My bark is a lot louder than my bite," he added. "There's no way to out-finesse this guy, out-smile this guy. It has to be a dogfight. It has to be ugly, and that's what I will do in my campaign."
Rapaport has been critical of Mamdani since the first-term mayor took office in January.
The "Only Murders in the Building" star had harsh words for the mayor after a snowstorm left NYC buried for over a week in February. "A week after the snowstorm and this is what we got Zoron the Shoveler! Filthy black snow, garbage soup, ice rinks on every corner, cars buried like fossils," he wrote on Instagram at the time.
Fox News Digital's Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.