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Paraguay stuns four-time World Cup champions Germany in penalty shootout after controversial call

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:11:04 -0400

Paraguay stunned Germany, the four-time FIFA World Cup champions, after moving on to the round of 16 after winning 4-3 in a penalty shootout on Monday in an absolutely thrilling match with a key controversial moment sprinkled in.

That moment came in extra time, which was needed after a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes plus stoppage time between these two opponents.

Germany had dominated throughout this match, but Paraguay had made the best of their grade-A chance in the first half when Julio Enciso buried a header in the 42nd minute. The Germans were able to finally get on the board, though, in the 54th minute when Kai Havertz saw his own header flick into the back of the net.

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From there, Germany was on the offensive, getting chance after chance with some from Paraguay tossed in. But when extra time began, it seemed only a matter of time before Germany would pot another and take the lead.

It appeared to happen when Jonathan Tah rose up and smashed a header on a corner kick past Paraguay keeper Orlando Gill. The German faithful inside Boston Stadium went ballistic, but that was short-lived after the head official went to the VAR screen to review a potential foul.

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During the corner kick, Germany’s Waldemar Anton seemed to obstruct Gill’s movement toward the ball, and ultimately to defend Tah’s header. And if he was simply trying to sell the foul, it worked.

After review, the goal was annulled with the referee explaining that Anton’s actions had prevented Gill from properly getting the chance to stop the header.

After the 30 minutes of extra time, neither side was able to break the 1-1 tie. As a result, the tournament’s first penalty shootout was set to determine who would move on to the round of 16, and who would be heading home.

Things did not start off on the right foot for Germany when Havertz stepped up to the ball and saw Gill make a save. Maurício used that momentum and scored his first to immediately put Paraguay in a good position to win.

Both sides would ace their next two penalties apiece before Nick Woltemade’s attempt was saved by Gill. Paraguay, now, had a chance to win it all, but Antonio Sanabria missed the team’s fourth penalty.

Nadiem Amiri kept Germany’s hopes alive with a made shot on the team’s fifth attempt, but being that penalties are determined by five shots, Fabián Balbuena had the opportunity to win it all. However, Manuel Neuer, one of the most decorated goalkeepers in soccer history, let alone Germany’s squad, kept up clutch with a save to force another round.

With slight momentum on their side, Tah stepped up to the penalty area with the chance to get another game-winning goal, this time with his boot. But his attempt was a miserable one, belting it over the crossbar and into the stands.

Paraguay, elated after the miss, sent José Canale to the box and he didn’t disappoint. Neuer guessed the wrong way and Canale tucked his shot under the bar and Paraguay celebrated as you’d expect: pure joy.

It's the first time ever Germany has lost in penalties at the FIFA World Cup.

Germany was left shocked on the pitch, as their 2026 World Cup journey comes to a close. And it’s hard not to think what-if when they appeared to have the game-winner on the scoreboard only for it to be taken away by a call that will certainly be debated for some time.

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Meanwhile, Paraguay will now await the winner of the round of 32 match between France and Sweden, which will be played at 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday at New York/New Jersey Stadium.

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Oba Femi, Brock Lesnar to meet in Hell in a Cell match at SummerSlam

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:01:14 -0400

Oba Femi entered Atlantic City, New Jersey, to a king’s reception.

He did win the King of the Ring Tournament at Night of Champions after all and appeared set to choose his opponent for SummerSlam – Roman Reigns or Sami Zayn. Instead, Brock Lesnar interrupted Femi to a huge ovation.

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Lesnar spoke to Femi, calling "The Ruler" out for all the trash talk he’s done while Lesnar had been away from the show. But Lesnar wanted to teach Femi a lesson.

"Talk s---, get hit," Lesnar said before kicking Femi in the groin and delivering an F5 to the big man.

But it wasn’t enough to keep Femi down. He got back up and challenged Lesnar to a match at SummerSlam at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

Lesnar accepted but went a step further. He said the match will take place in a Hell in a Cell. The crowd went crazy and it was later made official.

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Raw general manager Adam Pearce made sure that Femi was OK with possibly putting off his title shot for the time being.

"The title is always going to be there. The championships are not going anywhere," Femi assured Pearce. "I’ll take that when I want it. … It needs to happen. This needs to end and I will be the one to put an end to it."

Femi and Lesnar have been at each other’s throats since before WrestleMania 42. Lesnar answered Femi’s open challenge, sparking a match at WrestleMania 42. Femi defeated Lesnar and led to Lesnar, at least for a moment, deciding to retire from pro wrestling.

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But Lesnar got his lick back and defeated Femi at Clash in Italy. Now, the two will meet once more at SummerSlam. The two-day event will take place on Aug. 1 and 2.

Bill Maher admits he enjoys watching Trump get combative with journalists in tense interviews

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:00:15 -0400

Talk show host Bill Maher praised President Donald Trump on Monday’s episode of "Club Random," saying he finds joy in seeing him confront journalists in ways he would not.

Maher has a long, chequered history with Trump, something he joked about when he attended a dinner at the White House and brought a list of insults the president has directed at him over the years. But while Maher is not shy about criticizing the president, he specifically praised him for his unique penchant for directly clashing with journalists, saying that contentious feeling toward the press is something he can relate to.

"And it's funny, you know, you want to say it back to the media and I won't about, anything, because you just don't want to pick that fight with them," Maher said as he spoke to his guest, actor Kevin Spacey. "But sometimes when I see Trump just speak his complete internal monologue without, doing things that, it's just like – he will say something, and the one I'm thinking of is like, I've wanted to say that."

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Maher recalled a specific example, "When somebody pissed him off in an interview, he just went, 'You're a terrible person!’"

"And it's like, I can't deny... there's a moment where I would have — that's exactly what I was thinking," Maher said, before listing a series of purported examples like, "'You're a terrible person,' ‘It's not a sincere question,’ ‘It's a gotcha thing,’ ‘It's a virtue-signaling thing,’ ‘You don't believe it yourself.’ ‘But I don’t.’"

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"Not our president," Maher said, appearing to praise Trump for not kowtowing to journalists.

Maher accepted the Mark Twain award at the Kennedy Center on Sunday, in what was yet another example of their relationship that involves both praise and insults.

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Maher and impressionist Matt Friend did a bit where Friend impersonated Trump, saying, "Why are we giving this low-ratings lightweight jerk the Mark Twain Award," The Washington Post reported.

Friend, depicting Trump, insisted he was more deserving of the award, and even broke into the Trump dance.

Fox News' Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.

Country star Morgan Wallen showcases Christian faith with Bible verse on cast during concert

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:44:06 -0400

Morgan Wallen put his Christian faith on display during a recent concert, taking the stage with a Bible verse written across a cast on his leg.

In videos and photos shared on social media, the 33-year-old country star wore a black cast featuring the Scripture reference "Joshua 2:21" in white writing during his show at Clemson University’s Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina on Saturday.

Joshua 2:21 (KJV) reads, "And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet cord in the window."

The verse is part of the Old Testament story of Rahab, a woman who hid two Israelite spies before the fall of Jericho. After the spies promised to spare her family, Rahab immediately tied a scarlet cord in her window as a sign of their covenant.

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According to Bible Hub's commentary on the verse, the scarlet cord has long been understood in Christian tradition as a symbol of faith, redemption and God's protection. It is also widely interpreted as foreshadowing Christ's redemptive sacrifice because it marked Rahab's household for deliverance during Jericho's destruction.

Wallen has previously spoken publicly about his Christian faith. The Grammy Award nominee, who is the son of Southern Baptist pastor Tommy Wallen and elementary school teacher Lesli Wallen, grew up singing in church before launching his music career."

During an April 2025 Spotify interview video ahead of the release of his collaboration with Post Malone, "I Ain't Comin' Back," Wallen explained that he intentionally includes biblical themes in his music.

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"Me as a Christian, I think anytime that I can throw a little hint of that in my music, I'm always all for it," he said via Taste of Country.

In 2022, Wallen released his faith-based single "Don't Think Jesus" on Good Friday. Other songs in his catalog that feature biblical language and imagery include "I Wrote the Book," "Devil Don't Know," "In the Bible," "Thought You Should Know" and "Genesis."

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During a December 2025 episode of his podcast "This Past Weekend," comedian Theo Vonn said that he participates in a Bible study with Wallen, describing the singer as "an inspiring guy" and "authentic."

Following Hurricane Helene's devastation in Appalachia in 2024, Wallen wrote Psalm 40:2 on the exposed studs of a storm-ravaged home as its owners rebuilt. He also visited flood victims in his native East Tennessee, organized a food drive and donated $500,000 to relief efforts.

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After the November 2018 shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, Wallen explained how he was leaning on his faith to cope with the tragedy.

"I don’t have any answers, but in my personal opinion, I’m a person that has faith and I believe that a lot of people have neglected God," he explained during an interview with Taste of Country.

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"We don’t put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it’s a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say."

He continued: "I believe in God. I believe that He’s real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I think throughout history there has been a lot of countries that have turned their back on Him and the result is not great. Hopefully, we can get something figured out."

Crying Mets star Bo Bichette looked like a guy second-guessing his move from Toronto to Queens

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:33:47 -0400

One of the Mets' premier acquisitions this past offseason, infielder Bo Bichette has quickly become part of the Amazins' terrible year.

Last season, Bichette helped carry Toronto to the World Series. Now, he's stuck at the bottom of the NL East, dealing with a dysfunctional front office that recently fired manager Carlos Mendoza.

Back in Toronto as the road-weary Mets opened a three-game series against his former team Monday, Bichette was asked what returning to Rogers Centre meant to him.

And the waterworks began.

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Speaking to reporters, Bichette said he gave Toronto "everything he had."

He added, "I don't know what to expect ... I gave it everything I had ... I just hope that's appreciated."

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The Mets' season has spiraled despite the additions of Bichette and Juan Soto, while former cornerstones Pete Alonso and Brandon Nimmo are gone.

With Mendoza out, frustrated Mets fans have increasingly turned their attention to President of Baseball Operations David Stearns, whose offseason overhaul has produced more questions than wins.

Things were supposed to work out in Queens. Bichette's acquisition was seen as the Mets' response after watching the Dodgers take another bite out of free agency by signing Kyle Tucker ... though Tucker hasn't quite panned out at Chavez, either.

Bichette was a two-time All-Star in Toronto.

During the Blue Jays' World Series run, Bichette batted .348 with a .444 on-base percentage despite battling a late-season knee injury. His Game 7 three-run blast off Shohei Ohtani put Toronto on the brink of its first title, but the Dodgers broke the Blue Jays' hearts in extra innings.

Bichette subsequently agreed to a three-year, $126 million contract with the Mets. He pushed his chips onto Queens, but the baseball gods landed on black. (We've all been there, Bo.)

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This moment will probably rub some Mets fans the wrong way.

Then again, Dodgers fans were able to forgive Freddie Freeman for getting emotional about his time in Atlanta. Mets fans should be able to do the same.

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'Lilo & Stitch' actress Daveigh Chase's official cause of death released two weeks after she died at 35

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:11:55 -0400

Daveigh Chase's official cause of death was released Monday, two weeks after the child star died. She was 35.

Chase's primary cause of death was from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's office.

Chronic polysubstance use was listed as a significant condition that contributed to her death.

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Chronic polysubstance use is defined as the repeated, long-term consumption of two or more substances (such as illicit drugs, prescription medications, or alcohol) simultaneously or within a short period, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Her manner of death was ruled as natural, and while she died in a hospital, her body was not brought in to the coroner's office.

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Chase's father, John Schwallier, previously told NBC News via text that his daughter "died of complications of bacterial meningitis and a blood infection."

Additionally, he said Chase "was suffering from severe malnutrition."

Her former manager, John Ryan Jr., disputed claims made in a recent crowdfunding campaign published before reports of Chase's death began circulating.

"Daveigh’s estate has plenty of means to pay for the cremation," Ryan said in a statement to Deadline. "John is next of kin and never signed any paperwork over to this so-called boyfriend."

TMZ was first to report Chase's death through her alleged boyfriend, Roy Hernandez.

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"That GoFundMe is not going toward ANY expenses for Daveigh," Ryan told the outlet. "Myself, her father, her uncle and all of us close friends who knew her for decades are encouraging people not to donate to this page."

"This man making these claims brought her into the hospital in terrible condition and didn’t let any of the family know until she passed so he can control the dialogue. Daveigh’s actual family is handling all arrangements. We have contacted GoFundMe to let them know this man started this page on his own under Daveigh's name when she was already unresponsive and urging people to report the page and not donate."

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Chase found fame at a young age when she was cast to voice Lilo at only eight years old, and worked alongside Tia Carrere and Chris Sanders to bring the Oscar-winning animated Disney film to life.

In addition to voicing Lilo in the film, Chase recorded more than 60 episodes of "Lilo & Stitch: The Series" and voiced the character in various video games and multimedia projects.

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The same year, Chase earned legions of fans in another demographic after her chilling role as "Samara" in the DreamWorks classic horror, "The Ring."

In 2003, the young actress earned the best villain award at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards, beating Mike Myers, Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe and Daniel Day-Lewis to win the trophy.

PBS CEO recounts dramatic year for organzation, calls legal battle with Trump 'the most sobering moment'

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:06:50 -0400

ASPEN, COLORADO — PBS CEO Paula Kerger recounted the "extraordinary" year her organization has had after President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans revoked its federal funding.

Appearing Sunday at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival, Kerger was asked to summarize the dramatic saga PBS underwent, which she referred to as a "year of letters," the first in January 2025 from Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr, who was probing PBS' corporate partnerships, followed by a letter that March from then-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who summoned her and NPR CEO Katherine Maher to testify before the DOGE Committee's hearing, which she noted was titled "Anti-American Airwaves."

"I repeat this all the time because of all the things in the last year, that was the most offensive," Kerger told the Aspen audience.

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She then noted the letter she received from Trump on his executive order withholding federal funding from PBS and NPR.

"The most sobering moment of the year, maybe even my life, was signing the lawsuit against the president," Kerger said. "I did feel the gravity of the moment. I mean, never in my life did I think that I would be signing a lawsuit against the President of the United States."

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The effects of the pulled funding were immediate, pointing to the scrambled effort to fund its new PBS Kids show "Phoebe and Jay" and cancelling an initiative to provide American Sign Language for children's programming.

"Our stations were counting on that money. Eighty percent of the money that comes from the federal government actually doesn't go to me or to NPR, it goes to the stations. That's where that money goes," Kerger said, before citing "50%" of the budget at PBS-affiliated station like in Cookeville, Tennessee came from federal funding.

"We've laid off 100 people. I mean, we've had very deep cuts," she later revealed.

Kerger said she turned to famed documentarian Ken Burns to help sway votes in the Senate after a bill to defund public media passed in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.

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"I am very hesitant to ask someone like him to wade in on something like this because we try to protect our creative talent, but I was desperate at the end and I knew we were really, really close," Kerger said of Burns, who was sitting beside her at the Ideas Festival. "He made calls and we had the votes, and then there was a pause for about an hour and a half and my colleague Jeremy... he and I are talking and he said, 'I think we've got it. I think he pulled it out.' And then we didn't. And we lost by one vote."

Despite the turmoil she revisited, Kerger then shared the "good part of the story," which was the creating of a "runway" for stations who heavily relied on federal money with a fundraising effort dubbed the Bridge Fund, hoping it will provide them at least two years of funding. She also boasted the addition of "a million new members of Public Broadcasting Stations" since funding was pulled last July, adding that the majority of them contribute every month.

"This has not solved our problem, So I can say proudly we're still here... but it's up to all of us to make sure if this is something worth preserving that we're leaned in together," Berger added.

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Air traffic audio captures JetBlue pilot alerting controllers: 'We collided with a drone'

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:04:34 -0400

An air traffic audio recording has captured a JetBlue pilot reporting a possible drone strike Monday morning as the aircraft was preparing to land.

The incident occurred as Flight 948 was approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) after departing Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

"We collided with a drone back there in the turn," the pilot said in a recording posted by LiveATC.

"You said you collided?" the controller asked.

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"Yep, it is right above the cockpit," he responded.

The reported encounter occurred as the aircraft was beginning its final approach sequence, about 10 to 12 miles out from JFK at roughly 3,000 feet.

The pilot said the incident specifically happened near the ASALT waypoint, a navigational checkpoint where aircraft typically line up to land.

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"It was as we were making the turn to ASALT, so about 10 miles to 12 miles outside of ASALT. We were coming over that part of land in New Jersey," the pilot said.

When asked by air traffic control whether assistance was needed, the crew declined.

"We don't need any assistance, we're just going to go ahead and land," the pilot said.

At the end of the exchange, the controller acknowledged the message, responding, "Roger, thank you."

"Sorry, I couldn't give you any more details than that," the pilot added.

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According to JetBlue, the flight landed without incident and passengers deplaned normally.

A post-flight inspection also did not reveal any damage to the aircraft, officials said.

"Safety is JetBlue's first priority, and we will assist with any relevant investigations," the airline said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

The FAA said the agency will investigate the incident.

Paris deputy mayor blames the United States' carbon emissions for deadly heat wave

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:00:52 -0400

Paris Deputy Mayor Audrey Pulvar released a lengthy statement blaming the United States for the deadly heat wave over France this past week.

"Dear American journalists and social media 'influencers': for days, some of you have been criticizing and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room. OMG, this is so rich!" she wrote on Instagram Friday.

She added, "As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing. Your cities '90% air-conditioned' are not unrelated to this. In Paris, we take responsibility."

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Pulvar, who was elected to her position in March, went on to explain that Paris has implemented measures to fight air pollution and develop energy-efficient renovations for the city, arguing that air conditioning "contributes and aggravates the problem" of global warming.

"If every American city made the same ecological transition efforts as Paris and many European cities, believe me, the whole world would be better off. So please, enough with the lecture. Just start doing your part. Best regards," she concluded.

In an additional statement on her post, Pulvar defended the left's efforts in Paris to combat climate change.

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"If we hadn’t done so, the situation today would be much worse. Yes, there is still much to be done. No, the situation is not ideal. But perhaps it would be more appropriate for one of the countries most responsible for the problem not to lecture those who are trying to find solutions for their own populations," Pulvar wrote.

Fox News Digital reached out to Pulvar and the Paris mayor's office for comment.

Paris felt record-setting heat during the week with temperatures climbing above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, AP reported. At least 48 people in France have drowned while attempting to cool off outside designated swimming areas.

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In response to the heat, French authorities have imposed alcohol restrictions in public spaces and restricted large public gatherings as the nation deployed thousands of emergency workers.

Paris also reduced hours at many of the country's famous landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to protect tourists.

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New Mexico governor demands federal reparations after accusing DEA of fueling state's fentanyl crisis

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:56:28 -0400

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is demanding the federal government pay reparations after accusing the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of allowing millions of fentanyl pills to flood her state during an undercover operation without notifying state or local officials.

Calling the alleged operation "the most derelict, despicable act in my long career," Lujan Grisham said the fallout has forced New Mexico to pour more than $1.5 billion into law enforcement, behavioral health, addiction treatment and other public safety initiatives while battling overdose deaths and widespread addiction.

"The DEA stood silently by and watched thousands of fentanyl pills get distributed with no arrests, no evidence, no notice that we know of anywhere else," Lujan Grisham said during a Monday news conference. "Someone must pay for the damage to this state, the public safety risks that will be shared by everyone here for a decade."

Lujan Grisham said she wants the federal government to reimburse New Mexico for the money it has spent combating the fentanyl epidemic, including law enforcement operations, behavioral health services, addiction treatment, overdose prevention and other public safety initiatives.

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She also called on Congress to prohibit similar DEA operations in the future, require the federal government to fully fund the costs imposed on states by such operations and hold the officials involved personally accountable.

"I've had to do this since 2019 three times," Lujan Grisham said. "We're here again, and this one, in fact, I think is the most devastating."

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The Democratic governor compared the controversy to previous federal failures she said harmed New Mexico, including the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. Forest Service's prescribed burns that sparked the state's largest wildfire. She noted the wildfire ultimately resulted in a multibillion-dollar federal liability settlement, arguing the DEA operation should lead to similar accountability.

Lujan Grisham said her administration repeatedly asked both the Biden and Trump administrations for more federal resources to combat New Mexico's escalating fentanyl crisis, including additional DEA agents and coordinated enforcement efforts, but those requests went unanswered.

"Everybody behind me and the Office of the Governor have been asking both administrations… to do more about public safety in the state of New Mexico," she said, adding that her administration held multiple meetings, sent multiple letters and requested additional resources and agents, yet "it's been remarkably silent."

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Lujan Grisham also urged lawmakers to require federal agencies to notify state and local officials before conducting similar operations, restore roughly $25 million in federal behavioral health and public safety funding she said has been cut and enact legislation preventing similar DEA tactics from being used in the future.

Her remarks came days after New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced a criminal investigation into allegations that the DEA knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach New Mexico communities while agents pursued larger criminal investigations.

The Associated Press previously reported that DEA agents repeatedly monitored, but did not seize, large fentanyl shipments between 2023 and 2025 while attempting to build broader criminal cases.

Torrez said the investigation will examine potential legal remedies, including criminal prosecution, civil litigation and structural reforms intended to prevent similar conduct by DEA agents in the future.

"The families who have lost children, siblings, and parents to fentanyl deserve the truth about what the federal government knew and what it failed to do," Torrez said in a statement.

"If the DEA stood by while poison flooded our communities, that is not a bureaucratic failure," he continued. "It is a betrayal of the people it was sworn to protect."

Torrez said his office "will pursue every legal avenue available to hold the responsible parties accountable and make certain this never happens again."

On Monday, Lujan Grisham echoed Torrez's call for accountability, saying those who approved or oversaw the operation should face consequences.

"I want the people who knew this distribution was occurring without notifying anyone and allowing it to occur over and over again held accountable," Lujan Grisham said. "My bet is many of those people are still in that DEA office."

"I am so angry. This is an outrage," she added. "They should be accountable for the length of time it's going to take us to combat the scourge of addiction and fentanyl overdose deaths."

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Fox News Digital has reached out to the DEA for comment on the matter.

Fox News Digital's Mike Sinkewicz contributed to this report.

Lions release Terrion Arnold after bond set at $1 million in armed robbery, kidnapping case

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:51:55 -0400

The Detroit Lions announced they have released cornerback Terrion Arnold, their 2024 first-round pick, following an arrest last week where he was charged with armed robbery and kidnapping.

This comes after Arnold had his bond set at $1 million on Monday by Hillsborough County Judge Christopher Sabella.

Sabella also added conditions for Arnold, which included no contact with the six co-defendants in the case as well as the witnesses. He also must surrender his passport within 48 hours, and remain confined to his home in Tallahassee, Florida, except when he would be playing, training or traveling with the Lions or making court-related appearances.

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The state also asked Judge Sabella for Arnold to be required to wear a GPS tracking device, but Arnold’s attorneys said he wouldn’t be able to play football with it on.

Prosecutors were pushing for Arnold to be held without bond but, though the charges are serious ones in Sabella’s eyes, he didn’t believe the case was strong enough to hold him in that fashion.

The 23-year-old Arnold was arrested in connection with an alleged kidnapping and robbery that investigators say occurred in February, the Tampa Police Department announced on June 25. Arnold turned himself in and was taken into custody at Orient Road Jail in Hillsborough County on Wednesday night.

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Arnold is charged with four counts of kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery.

Spokespersons for the Lions and the NFL told Fox News Digital they were aware of the situation, but wouldn’t comment any further. Now, the Lions have made their move one month before training camp kicks off across the league.

According to investigators, Arnold rented an Airbnb in Largo, Florida, where he periodically stayed with several co-defendants: Arianna Del Valle, 19; Jasmine Randazzo, 19; Lyndell Hudson II, 26; Christion Williams, 24; Boakai Hilton Jr., 23; and Freddie Hughes, 27. Authorities said other individuals also stayed at the property.

Investigators said three male victims, all in their late teens, suffered visible injuries after they were allegedly battered, held at gunpoint and pistol-whipped before being robbed and ordered to leave a residence in the 14000 block of North 46th Street in Tampa.

According to investigators, multiple personal items belonging to Arnold and others were stolen from the Airbnb on Feb. 1. Authorities said Arnold suspected two of the three victims were responsible, though Tampa police later determined they were not involved in the theft.

On Feb. 3, Arnold, Hilton, Hughes and another individual reported more than $250,000 in stolen property to the Largo Police Department.

Investigators allege that later that day Arnold and Hilton coordinated with Del Valle and Randazzo to contact one of the victims and lure him to an apartment.

Police said the three victims arrived at the apartment on Feb. 4 to meet the women, where Williams and Hudson were allegedly hiding inside a bedroom closet. According to investigators, Williams and Hudson grabbed the victims, held them at gunpoint and assaulted them.

Authorities said Del Valle streamed the incident to Arnold, Hilton and Hughes as they traveled to the apartment. Investigators also said they recovered a group chat involving the defendants in which Arnold and Hilton allegedly gave directions to Del Valle, Williams and Hudson during the assault.

According to investigators, Arnold, Hilton, Hughes and another individual arrived at the apartment around 1 a.m. Police allege Arnold directed the group inside, and that Hughes, Hudson and Williams stole the victims' personal property while the assault was ongoing.

Authorities said the victims were escorted from the apartment about 40 minutes later, forced into their vehicle and left the scene. They later reported the incident to Tampa police and identified the suspects.

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Investigators said they believe Arnold was the primary organizer of the alleged scheme based on evidence gathered during the investigation. However, Harvey Steinberg, one of Arnold’s attorneys, argued in court that the prosecutors were "not even close" to showing he knew or directed his associates in this incident.

Arnold was expected to be a starting corner for the Lions this season, making his release a big one for the depth chart. He recorded his first career interception this past season in Week 9 against the Minnesota Vikings, though he was only able to play eight games because of a shoulder injury that required season-ending surgery.

Arnold played 16 games during his rookie season in 2024, tallying 10 passes defended and 60 combined tackles.

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Emotion and feelings: How Democratic Socialists' congressional insurgency could come back to bite them

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:34:41 -0400

It’s a Democratic identity crisis.

Democratic Socialists of America are on the charge, running hot off their wins in the New York Democratic primaries last week. Their victories in multiple Congressional seats – felling both Reps. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y. – signals that the party is ready to move on from the same old, same old.

Espaillat chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Goldman was a key House staffer during the first impeachment of President Donald Trump.

"Even Dan Goldman’s not good enough for them," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Fox. "That is how radical it's become."

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Some moderate Democrats are trying to distance themselves from the left.

"That's not the same brand of politics that we have. We're not those type of Democrats," said Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., who represents a battleground district.

"There's a new group of Democratic Socialists who are socialists who are not commonsense Democrats. Who are not interested in getting things done. They're interested in throwing bombs. Not actually solving problems," said Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.

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Some Democrats are worried how far left candidates command more attention than those in the middle. Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet, D-Mich., worries that the outsized attention garnered by the left sends the wrong impression to voters.

"What they don't want is divisiveness. They don't want screaming and yelling," said McDonald Rivet.

Mainstream Democrats feel trapped in the middle as the left – specifically the New York City left – wields an outsized media and political megaphone.

"Those candidates would not have won in Virginia where I live," said Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va.

Republicans believe they are primed to nationalize the midterms. Republicans can do that by highlighting the extreme views of Democratic Socialists who captured primary victories in New York City. The GOP wants to portray their opponents as veering left.

"These are board-certified communists, right?" asked Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. "They want no police. They want no private property."

President Trump capitalized on the Democratic outcomes in his home city.

"The Democrat party is in big trouble because this isn't stopping with New York," he forecast.

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This shakeup has progressive leaders demanding transformation at the top.

"You're going to see, I think, people voting for new leadership and to change their representation," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

The Democratic Party tapped Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., to deliver their official response to President Trump’s 2025 State of the Union speech. Slotkin is a moderate who won in a battleground race in 2024 – even as the President prevailed in the Wolverine State. But during an appearance on SiriusXM, Slotkin insists on a Democratic Party management switch.

"If people can't understand that the game has fundamentally changed and they can't adapt, then they need to let others," said Slotkin. "The old models do not work for people."

Republicans believe House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is vulnerable after the DSA elected their candidates over his preferred picks in New York City.

"I think Hakeem Jeffries' friends and neighbors gave him a big middle finger," said House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky. "If you lose three elections in your hometown, that's a pretty big slap in the face."

He added that Democrats "are going further and further to the left to the point where they are full-blown, card-carrying socialists."

And then there is the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, and in some cases, antisemitic take by some of these candidates. Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, is a moderate Democrat from a swing district. He’s Jewish and one of the most pro-Israel Democrats in the House.

"There are some on the left who use Israel the way that some on the right use immigrants or trans kids as a way to divide. And I think it's terrible. It's also just not what voters want us talking about," said Landsman.

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Yours truly tangled with Rep. John Larson, D-Conn. – who once chaired the House Democratic Caucus. I pressed him about what the party would do about some candidates "who are too far to the left."

"What does that mean? That's your statement. Did the people of New York vote?" queried Larson.

I assured him that they did.

"Is that democracy?" asked Larson.

"But if some of them are antisemitic," I countered.

"Is that a democracy?" continued Larson.

"Will you stand by people if they have antisemitic views?" I followed up.

Larson finally addressed my inquiry. His answer crystallized the schism the Democratic Party now faces.

"I'm against antisemitism, if that's your question," Larson declared.

The fact that Democrats are now facing this debate robs them of valuable time on economic issues.

Landsman argued that voters would prefer candidates to stick to groceries and the price of gas.

Gottheimer echoed Landsman on kitchen table subjects.

"We should be focused on ways to actually solve problems like that. Not coming in here and using tea party tactics and trying to divide up the country and pray to socialist ideals," said Gottheimer.

So what is the party to do?

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"They’re our nominees. We're going to support them. We're going to welcome them. They're going to be part of our caucus and we're going to unite behind Leader Jeffries," said Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the Oversight panel.

But that doesn’t address the fissures. It doesn’t address how voters may perceive the party. And it doesn’t establish if these new Democratic nominees will work on behalf of the party to raise money and advocate for Democrats across the board. Or, will they become professional bomb throwers – ala what the right has endured for a while.

"It's going to be a lot harder to get things done when you get more and more extreme candidates who are here because they're interested in political celebrity. They are interested in fighting. They're interested in making points," asserted Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D.

Republicans suffered through an absolutely abysmal week. House GOP leaders had to yank multiple bills off the floor and send lawmakers home early because of internal disputes. President Trump and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., got into a shouting match about Iran. And the president even threatened to veto a bipartisan housing bill. President Trump then refused to sign the bill at the Capitol, despite his aides touting the bill and House Republicans tricking out Statuary Hall for a signing ceremony.

The President characterized the housing bill as "a yawn."

But the Democrats' internal fractures may have superseded any internecine fighting among Republicans.

"While it's not been a great week for Republicans, I think it's been a much worse week for Democrats because of these primary elections," observed Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla.

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Democrats will certainly run on economic issues and capitalize on statements by the President about basic issues like housing. But will a genuine policy debate outweigh fears about progressives nationwide?

Emotion and feelings rule in politics. And it could be a problem for Democrats if Republicans appropriate what happened in New York and Xerox it onto battleground districts across the country.

WWE's Sami Zayn talks Kevin Owens as star wrestler recovers from serious neck injury

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:12:47 -0400

Kevin Owens has been away from the ring for several months.

The last time any pro wrestling fan saw him inside the squared circle was weeks before WrestleMania 41 when he announced to the world he needed neck surgery that would keep him out of action for several months.

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Owens has been seen sparingly since then. He’s featured on "WWE LFG" as a coach and recently made an appearance on the pre-show for NXT The Great American Bash.

Fox News Digital asked one of Owens’ best friends, Sami Zayn, about him in a recent interview prior to Night of Champions. Zayn said that Owens being in a spot where he could return to the ring just takes time.

"I don’t want to speak out of school sharing his medical stuff," Zayn said. "The procedure that he had just takes time. He’s going to do his due diligence – do rehab exercises and all that. But it really is a matter of time when you’re talking about fusions and those kinds of procedures, you just need time to get to where it needs to be."

Zayn added that any of WWE’s top shows – "Monday Night Raw" or "Friday Night SmackDown" – would see a significant boost in quality from Owens’ presence.

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"I’m hoping more than anybody, I would think, that he comes back soon. I think the fans have really been … I get asked about him a lot. So, it’s clear how beloved he is and how missed he is," he said. "It goes without saying he’s an extremely valuable talent. He’s a one-of-one talent that leaves a gaping hole when you don’t have him on your roster.

"And I just think how better our show would be with him on it whether it’s SmackDown or Raw because of what he brings to the table. So, I think when he comes (back) I think it’s really gonna add just so much depth and dimension and excitement and quality programming to whatever show he lands on. It goes without saying."

Zayn and Owens have been mainstays in WWE since they each joined WWE.

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The duo have been tag team champions twice, including beating The Usos for the titles at WrestleMania 39.

Gunman kills 6 at youth welfare facility in suspected child custody dispute: reports

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:42:36 -0400

A suspect is in custody after six people were shot and killed Monday at a youth welfare facility in northern Germany, officials said.

The shooting happened around midday in Stade, a town of about 50,000 people near Hamburg. Authorities said the victims — four women and two men — all worked at the youth center or affiliated organizations. Five were pronounced dead at the scene, while a sixth died later at a hospital, according to The Associated Press, citing authorities.

Several others were wounded in the shooting, which may have been tied to a child custody dispute, the outlet reported.

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Police said the shooting happened at a facility on Dankersstrasse that houses pregnant women and young mothers with children, according to The Associated Press.

The suspect, a 45-year-old man, had an appointment at the facility earlier in the day before the shooting unfolded around midday. His 3-month-old daughter and the child’s mother were safe, Reuters reported.

The suspected gunman was arrested. Police said two others were also subject to police measures on suspicion of involvement but did not provide additional details, according to The Associated Press.

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was "deeply shocked" by the violence at a place meant to protect women and children.

"The horrific act of violence in Stade claimed the lives of six people today. I am deeply shaken by the extent of the violence in a place that is meant to provide protection," Steinmeier said.

"My condolences go to the families of the dead and injured, who must endure so much pain. My thanks go to all first responders and doctors."

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Police warned people to avoid the area after the shooting but later said there was no danger to the public. Investigators were still collecting evidence Monday evening, Reuters reported.

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Mass shootings in Germany are rare.

Earlier this year, a car plowed into a pedestrian zone in Leipzig, Germany, killing two people and leaving several others seriously injured.

Stade Police could not immediately be reached by Fox News Digital for comment.

'Pod Save America' hosts call socialist wins a 'warning sign' for Dems, slam 'moronic' far-left views

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:30:05 -0400

Co-hosts of the "Pod Save America" podcast spoke about the shockwaves in the Democratic Party after multiple democratic socialist candidates won their primaries in New York and warned that some of their views range from "moronic to abhorrent."

Democratic socialist candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier was one of three candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who won shocking primary victories in New York last week. Her history of controversial far-left rhetoric and policies has caused a wave of outrage among more traditional Democratic figures, such as strategist James Carville, who said, "There’s just some sh-- that I can’t be in the same tent with" as he proposed a formal schism and declared, "And I'm not in that f---ing political party."

"Pod Save America" host Jon Favreau, a former Obama speechwriter, played a clip of Carville's condemnation, as well as reactions from other Democrats, and turned to co-host Dan Pfeiffer for his thoughts.

"No one should dismiss this," Pfeiffer said of the incumbents who lost their seats to far-left challengers.

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"I think the thing we should take away is, like so much else that's happening in this country, when progressives beat establishment candidates — in the Second District of Maine, in the California race where Randy Villegas won, Graham Platner forcing Janet Mills out of the race — like, there's a giant warning sign for the Democratic establishment here," he said. "Where the support of people like Schumer or even Hakeem Jeffries is certainly not an asset in your campaign. It may be a detriment."

He continued by suggesting, "It is very clear that the groups on the left — Justice Democrats, Democratic Socialists of America, Our Revolution — are out organizing, out fundraising, outworking, outmaneuvering the traditional party institutions. That is happening. They have captured the energy. They're being more creative. They're being more strategic. They're being more aggressive."

This, he said, is a bellwether on multiple levels for the party and its base.

"And if you are someone in the Democratic establishment, you should be deeply concerned about what this says about where the party is, what the standing of the party is, what the ability of the party infrastructure is to actually win elections. So this is a big deal."

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However, he noted that New York is an overwhelmingly liberal area, and is not entirely representative of the entire country, and even there, moderate candidates can win in certain districts.

"Really here, the panic is over Darializa Avila Chevalier. And I will just say she might be the most left-wing candidate to ever win a Democratic primary in our lifetime," Favreau suggested.

While he said that he may have some room to forgive old tweets, there are some controversies of hers that are beyond the pale.

"Here's where I have a problem," Favreau said. "She has not apologized for attending an anti-Israel rally on October 8, 2023 — a rally that was condemned by Zohran Mamdani, AOC, and Brad Lander, who actually left the DSA because it promoted that rally — where attendees chanted that Hamas's resistance was justified the day after October 7, the day after they slaughtered a thousand Israelis. And to this day, she still defends attending that rally."

"The other problem I have – she sat for an interview with the New York editorial board last week where she said she's against all deportations," he continued. "She's for open borders because, quote, 'Bordering is a very modern construct, actually.’"

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"The borders are in our hearts and our minds," Favreau joked, before continuing, "She wants to abolish prisons and refused to say, when asked — she got four different chances on this — refused to say that a convicted murderer should be sentenced to any jail time at all."

"Now maybe she turns over a new leaf in Congress and her voting record doesn't match some of these more extreme positions. I hope so. But I think the reason I bring this up is because when Democrats get questions about this, I think the answer is easy and important to give, which is that she currently holds a range of views that go from moronic to abhorrent," the host said. "And not only do those views not align with most Democrats in the country — nearly all Democrats in the country, all elected Democrats actually, most elected Democratic Socialists — but I don't even think they align with a lot of the people who probably voted for her."

Fox News Digital reached out to Avila Chevalier's campaign but did not receive an immediate reply.

Trump unloads after Supreme Court upholds late mail-in ballots in Mississippi

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:22:13 -0400

President Donald Trump on Monday blasted a Supreme Court opinion upholding a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots received up to five days after Election Day to be counted.

The ruling in Watson v. RNC pitted Trump against some of the justices he appointed and dealt a blow to his push for stricter election rules by upholding Mississippi's practice of counting late-arriving mail-in ballots. The decision also prompted a rebuke from one of the Republican senators Trump singled out in a scathing response, after the senator noted he already supports legislation requiring ballots to be received by Election Day.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, rebuked Republicans’ arguments in the case, writing that as long as Election Day is the statutorily required date on which a vote is submitted and that "election-day statutes do not set a deadline for ballot receipt."

Trump fired back hours later on Truth Social, calling the case a "tremendous loss" for voters’ rights and saying the ruling means Congress must moot it immediately by passing the SAVE America Act.

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The bill, led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, in the House and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., in the Senate, would require nationwide voter ID and essentially ban no-excuse mail-in balloting.

"It is more important than ever to pass the SAVE America Act," he said.

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"There is no excuse for a politician, or otherwise, to be against the above three requirements," he said, citing voter-ID, proof-of-citizenship, and only distributing mail-in ballots to military members, the sick and disabled and those voters traveling away from their home precinct on Election Day.

"There is only one reason to oppose — cheating," he said, adding that the House approved the SAVE Act in three different iterations.

"In a time when there is a powerful Communist movement taking place in our country, one more dangerous than World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or Sept. 11, all Dumocrats (sic) and our five Republican Senate Hold Outs, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, and Mitch McConnell must vote to save our country."

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Fox News Digital reached out to Senate leaders John Thune, R-S.D., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., as well as each of the senators Trump mentioned.

Cassidy incredulously replied that the president may need to fact-check his missive, as the Louisiana Republican is a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act.

"I don’t know which staffer misled you, but thank you for your attention to this matter," Cassidy said, mimicking Trump’s signature statement-closer.

Trump and Cassidy have sparred in other respects, but the two appear in agreement on the bill’s contents. However, Cassidy added that it is "irresponsible" to postpone a now-paused Housing bill signing until the SAVE Act is passed because people deserve "relief… for the high cost of housing."

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Thune’s office declined further comment, while McConnell’s acknowledged receipt and said the former majority leader would share any comment if he has one in the interim.

While Trump grouped all Democrats in opposition, one maverick member of the minority has signaled he would support a pared-down version that would require voter ID.

"If the GOP wants real reform over a show vote––put out a clean, standalone bill and I’m AYE," Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said in a recent statement.

"Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote. Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail."

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If the Senate were to approve the House-passed version of the SAVE Act, it could upend or at least moot parts of the Supreme Court’s Watson decision.

Calls for the SAVE America Act’s passage mounted in the weeks before the decision as critics pointed to California’s ballot tabulation process after actor Spencer Pratt was overtaken by socialist Councilwoman Nithya Raman, D-Los Feliz, and eliminated from the runoff. Critics also cited the slow pace at which Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton were declared general election candidates for governor after a crowded primary.

Cristiano Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina Rodriguez puts a few in the back of the net at the beach in Miami

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:18:22 -0400

When Georgina Rodriguez shoots she scores. The 32-year-old mother and future wife of Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't play around, and she doesn't hesitate. When she sees the net she goes for it.

Prior to her fiancé stepping foot on the field for his sixth World Cup, she was getting the scoring started with some news of her own. She landed a new campaign with the Italian brand Calzedonia.

Rodriguez got herself on the scoreboard in a bikini as the newest "Calzedonia girl." The campaign had her modeling the swimwear on billboards in different locations around the world.

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That highlight reel was only the beginning. You haven't been paying attention if you thought she was going to travel to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami for a 0-0 World Cup game between Colombia and Portugal this past weekend and not find a beach.

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On Sunday, Rodriguez and a few of her friends were spotted on the beach by the paparazzi (see those pictures here) making the most of their stop in Miami.

On Monday, she put a few in the back of the net on Instagram with her own content from the trip to the beach.

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If you ask me, bikinis and the beach are how you make the most of a few days off in Miami, especially when you have a trip north on the schedule.

Portugal isn't playing again until they take on Croatia on Thursday. That game is set to take place at BMO Field in Toronto, Canada.

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You don't have to tell Georgina Rodriguez that. This isn't amateur hour at the World Cup. She's a veteran. She wouldn't have made it a decade in a relationship with one of the most recognizable soccer players on the planet if she wasn't.

You don't reach more than 74 million Instagram followers with poor planning.

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Collin Gosselin sends cryptic signal to mom Kate after claims she's 'spiraling' over his upcoming memoir

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:57:14 -0400

Collin Gosselin sent a thinly-veiled message to his mother weeks after announcing his upcoming memoir about growing up on reality television.

Collin, 22, shared a New York Post headline about Kate, 51, on his Instagram stories over the weekend, which read, "Kate Gosselin 'spiraling' ahead of estranged son Collin's bombshell memoir: 'She knows it's about to hit the fan.'"

He blurred out his mother's face, and shared a comment from a follower that said, "What's done in darkness will always come to light," according to People magazine.

Kate, 51, is reportedly "spiraling" over what her estranged son may reveal in his memoir, "In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood."

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"Kate had no idea this book was in the works," a source told Daily Mail before acknowledging that "Collin hasn’t spoken to his mother since she abandoned him in an institution as a young child."

"She didn’t expect any of this to ever come out. Now she’s spiraling because she knows it’s about to hit the fan."

"Jon & Kate Plus 8" aired on TLC from 2007-09, when the former couple divorced. One year later, the show was rebranded as "Kate Plus 8," which ran until 2017.

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Collin was allegedly diagnosed with a behavioral disorder and, at 12-years-old, Kate sent him to the Fairmount Behavioral Health System — a psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia.

"I was not able, with my own resources here, to meet his needs," Kate said during an episode of "Kate Plus 8." Meanwhile, "Kate Plus 8" continued to air with the seven other children. Jon claimed he didn't know that Collin had been sent to a behavioral institute until he was eating lunch with the kids one day and Collin was absent.

At the time, Kate had full custody of the children and insisted she didn't have to tell her estranged husband where Collin was because of a court order.

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While Kate has allegedly told people that there are "zero facts" surrounding Collin's claims, he reportedly has "the evidence to back everything up."

"Kate can’t stop this book from coming out but I have no doubt she wishes she could," the insider said.

Collin's sextuplet siblings — Aaden, Alexis, Hannah, Joel and Leah — and twin sisters Cara and Madelyn, were also reportedly blindsided by the memoir.

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The siblings allegedly don't "really know the truth of what happened to him" aside from what their mother relayed, the source said.

Kate's representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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Earlier this month, Collin revealed his tell-all was set for an October release, and featured an image from his childhood with his mother covering his mouth with her hand.

"For a long time, I wasn’t sure I’d ever tell this story. Growing up, millions of people watched my life on television," he wrote.

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"People felt like they knew me. They knew my family. They watched me grow up. But there was so much they never saw. For years, I kept those experiences to myself. Some because I was afraid. Some because I didn’t think anyone would believe me. And some because I just wasn’t ready."

Collin added, "Writing this book forced me to revisit some of the hardest moments of my life, but it also gave me something I’ve been searching for for a long time: my voice. This isn’t the story people think they know. It’s the story I’ve lived."

New York Times blames 'misogyny,' fans for 'Supergirl' flop after disastrous opening weekend

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:43:14 -0400

It's a predictable tale as old as time. Make bad product, blame customers when product fails.

That pattern may be most consistently used in Hollywood and the entertainment industry, where creative talent, studio executives, and actors refuse to take responsibility for its own obvious mistakes. It's become a time-honored tradition in the movie business, increasingly so in the last few years as studios and directors push more politically-motivated content into theaters. Or inject politics into a film's press and media campaign, often with little purpose other than to satisfy their own narcissism.

The latest example? "Supergirl."

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"Supergirl" represents the second entry in the DC Studios universe under new creative lead James Gunn, and was given a massive promotional and media campaign to boost ticket sales. Star Milly Alcock had full length profiles in Vanity Fair and Variety. Warner Bros. launched a $100 million tie-in with big name brands. Original hopes were that the film would make $60-$70 million domestically in its opening weekend, with similar numbers internationally.

With the official numbers now in, it made...$37 million domestically. And as a result the studio now stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, considering the massive production and advertising costs.

It's a gigantic financial loss, critics and audiences have given it mediocre to poor reviews, and given the busy summer movie season, it's possible that the film fails to reach $100 million at the US box office. In short, it's a financial and creative disaster. So who's to blame?

It'd be easy to assume that Gunn would take some of the blame; after all, he's the new head of DC, and as such, all creative decisions go through him. Maybe the Warner Bros. Studio executives, who greenlit the movie and sign off on the film's cast, plot, and direction. There's the writer, an inexperienced former actress who had just one 2018 short film on her resume.

Then there's Alcock, who made a series of bizarre, off-putting comments about men in the lead-up to release.

"It definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on," she told Vanity Fair in an interview a few months before release. "We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies. I can’t really stop them. I can only be myself."

"I didn’t even say ‘men’ — I said ‘people!’" she then said in a follow-up interview with Variety. "And they got so angry. I was like, ‘You’re proving my point. You’re proving my point!’"

She added that criticism was coming from Dads or Christians.

"And it’s from a lot of people whose profiles have no photo, who are burner accounts," Alcock said. "Or someone’s name and then ‘Dad of four, Christian,’ which is hilarious to me."

Then, in the days leading up to release, answered a question from Queerly Radio that she thought it was "beautiful" that the film didn't center around a man.

When asked whether she had "explored" her character's supposed "queerness" in preparing for the role, she answered, "It wasn't, but in honor of 'Pride month,' as I'm getting all these questions...I don't know. I think that what makes this film beautiful is that it's not centered around a man, it's not centered around love at all. I don't really know. I don't know. I don't know. She probably goes both ways."

A reasonable person might assume that those comments, which have little to do with the mission of selling the movie to potential ticket buyers, would shoulder some of the blame for the film's failure. But in the postmortem of the opening weekend disaster, it's clear that reasonable people did not work on this movie.

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In a new interview with The New York Times, Co-CEO of DC Studios Peter Safran acknowledged that the film was a disappointment, "While Supergirl didn’t meet our box office expectations, it’s just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in," he explained.

Warner Bros. executives also addressed the justifiable annoyance with Alcock's remarks, not by admitting that they were ill-advised and unnecessary, but by...blaming fans for being upset about it.

They "were surprised by both the ferocity of the backlash and its reach, believing the culture had evolved past that sort of campaign," the story reads.

And moviegoers believed that actors and creative types in Hollywood had "evolved" past the Rachel Zegler, "Snow White" model of divisive, poorly considered remarks while promoting a big budget film.

The Times also blamed the "largely male" fanbase for their "misogyny."

"Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male," it says.

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This is the prototypical response from modern Hollywood and their media partners. Nothing is their fault. It's not Alcock's fault for making the promotional campaign about her insecurity, it's not Gunn's fault for hiring an inexperienced writer, nor is it the director and creative talent's fault for making a bad movie. It's all the fans who dare to get upset when the star of a movie makes intentionally divisive comments and says a film is better because it doesn't center on men. That's "misogyny," according to the New York Times.

And it's why the industry and their supporters are struggling. Hire better actors and actresses who don't immediately turn millions of potential customers off. Make better movies that focus on quality storytelling, even if the writer doesn't check the desired demographic box. Accept that there's a limited audience for the "girl boss" archetype. Early data showed that roughly 59% of "Supergirl" moviegoers were men. Apparently "misogyny" is now women avoiding movies they aren't interested in.

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This isn't rocket science. But even the most concepts are simply too much for the entertainment industry to handle these days. That's on them, not fans.

Grizzlies trade Ja Morant to Trail Blazers, ending tumultuous tenure in Memphis: report

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:42:17 -0400

Ja Morant's roller-coaster tenure with the Memphis Grizzlies has reportedly come to an end.

The Grizzlies, who took Morant second overall in the 2019 NBA Draft, have traded the two-time All-Star point guard to the Portland Trail Blazers, according to ESPN.

Portland is sending Jerami Grant and Kris Murray in exchange for Morant.

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Morant has two years remaining on his five-year, $197.23 million rookie max extension he’s currently playing under.

Now, he joins a Trail Blazers team that already has veteran guard Damian Lillard in place, as the sixth overall pick by Portland returned home last year. However, Lillard never played in a game as he was recovering from a torn Achilles he suffered in the Milwaukee Bucks’ playoffs series against the Indiana Pacers.

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After trading Desmond Bane almost one year ago to the date, the Grizzlies now move on from Morant, a player that had a red-hot start to his NBA career as the Rookie of the Year during the 2019-20 campaign, while also winning Most Improved Player in 2021-22. His explosive scoring and clutch shooting abilities were on display, as Memphis saw a player it could build around for years to come.

But Morant’s off-the-court troubles made national headlines, beginning in Sept. 2022 when he was named a defendant in a lawsuit filed where the plaintiff accused him of punching a 17-year-old male during a pickup game at his home earlier that year. A judge determined in 2025 that Morant was acting in self-defense, which he claimed to responding authorities on the matter, and the case was dismissed.

Morant’s biggest legal issues began in March 2023 after he was investigated for flashing a gun in a strip club during an Instagram live stream. The NBA would suspend him eight games.

"Morant wielded the firearm while knowing that he was being recorded and that the recording was being live streamed on Instagram Live, despite having made commitments to the NBA and public statements that he would not repeat the conduct for which he was previously disciplined," the league said in a statement at the time.

Morant also released a statement, apologizing for his actions.

"I want to apologize to the NBA, the Grizzlies, my teammates and the city of Memphis. To Adam Silver, Zach Kleiman and Robert Pera – who gave me the opportunity to be a professional athlete and have supported me – I'm sorry for the harm I've done. To the kids who look up to me, I'm sorry for failing you as a role model. I promise I'm going to be better. To all of my sponsors, I'm going to be a better representation of our brands. And to all of my fans, I'm going to make it up to you, I promise," his statement read.

But just two months later, Morant was hit with a 25-game suspension for "conduct detrimental to the league," following an investigation into a second incident where he appeared to flash a gun again on social media.

The suspension was in effect for the first 25 games of the 2023-24 campaign.

"The potential for other young people to emulate Ja’s conduct is particularly concerning," Silver said in a statement. "Under these circumstances, we believe a suspension of 25 games is appropriate and makes clear that engaging in reckless and irresponsible behavior with guns will not be tolerated.

"For Ja, basketball needs to take a back seat at this time. Prior to his return to play, he will be required to formulate and fulfill a program with the league that directly addresses the circumstances that led him to repeat this destructive behavior."

Morant gets a fresh start now after coming off a season where he only played 20 games because of an elbow injury. The Grizzlies announced on March 24 that he would miss the remainder of the year, finishing with 19.5 points, 3.3 rebounds and 8.1 assists averaged across those contests.

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For his seven years in Memphis, Morant averaged 22.4 points, 7.4 assists and 4.6 rebounds, while shooting 46.6% from the field over 327 games.

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Rare tick-borne virus turns deadly fast as US cases reach record high, experts warn

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:40:04 -0400

A rare and potentially fatal tick-borne illness currently spreading across the United States can be traced back to a 1958 case involving a young boy on a farm.

The disease, known as Powassan virus, was named for the Ontario town near where it was first discovered.

At the time of his death, Lincoln Byers, a 4-year-old living in Canada, had a condition that medical professionals could not explain, the Boston Globe reported.

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Years later, researchers discovered a tick harboring the same virus on a dead squirrel, finally providing an answer to the tragedy, but foreshadowing a growing public health challenge.

While once considered an obscure medical anomaly, Powassan virus cases have reached historic highs in the U.S., data show.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 76 Americans were diagnosed with the virus in 2025, the highest annual total on record. Previously, the U.S. averaged just seven to eight diagnoses each year.

The virus is primarily transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected woodchuck tick or deer tick. Like other tick-borne illnesses, Powassan is most prevalent from late spring through mid-fall, when tick populations peak and outdoor activity increases.

Public health experts warn that the virus's transmission speed makes it uniquely dangerous.

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"One of the most dangerous aspects is its rapid transmission," Dr. Jorge P. Parada, a medical advisor at the National Pest Management Association in Chicago, told Fox News Digital.

"Powassan can be transmitted in as little as 15 minutes after the infected tick bites, while Lyme disease usually requires a 36- to 48-hour attachment time for transmission."

Parada noted that while Powassan remains rare compared to Lyme disease, it poses clinical concern.

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Dr. Marc Siegel, senior medical analyst for Fox News, confirmed that the virus transmits significantly faster than Lyme disease. He noted that Powassan carries an incubation period of one to four weeks before symptoms manifest.

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Initial symptoms include fever, headache, vomiting and weakness, though some infected individuals remain asymptomatic, according to the CDC.

The virus can progress to severe neurological complications, including encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and meningitis (inflammation of the spinal cord membranes).

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In severe cases, patients may experience confusion, loss of coordination, difficulty speaking and seizures, per the CDC.

Approximately 10% of Powassan cases involving severe neurological disease are fatal, and many survivors experience long-term neurological issues.

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There are currently no specific medications or vaccines to treat or prevent Powassan virus; clinical care is limited to supportive therapy, such as intravenous fluids and respiratory support.

While anyone can develop severe illness, those at the highest risk include children, older adults and immunocompromised individuals, experts caution.

WATCH: Bill Maher says Vance interview critics wouldn’t be happy unless he ‘punched him in the nose’

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:39:23 -0400

Liberal comedian Bill Maher dismissed backlash that he went too easy on Vice President JD Vance during their recent interview, arguing that critics wouldn’t have been satisfied unless the conversation had ended in a physical altercation.

"They would never be happy unless JD Vance walked out and I punched him in the nose," Maher told Fox News Digital. "That’s the only thing that would satisfy certain people."

He continued, "I don’t play that game. I like to actually talk to people."

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Maher faced criticism after Friday's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" interviewing Vance as some argued he failed to challenge the vice president aggressively enough on political issues.

"For someone who spends every Friday night railing against the Trump administration, he treated its vice president with kid gloves," an article in Variety claimed.

The two discussed the rise of socialism in the Democratic Party after three far-left progressive candidates won in New York’s primary elections last week. They spoke on how that impacts the trajectory of both sides of the aisle heading into November’s midterms, with Maher even admitting his vote could flip Republican with the direction the Democratic Party has moved toward.

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Maher walked the red carpet at the Kennedy Center Sunday night as he accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, where he spoke to reporters about his conversation with Vance.

The comedian, whose political commentary has often put him at odds with Trump and other Republicans, said his opinion of the vice president didn’t change after his interview, as he "talks to these guys all the time," referring to politicians and Republicans. He shared that his conversations with Republicans usually go well.

"Everybody's a monster till you talk to them," he said in reference to his interviews with Republicans.

He continued, "Are there things we're never going to agree on? Yeah."

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Maher pressed Vance during the interview on the Trump administration’s refusal to concede to losing the 2020 election, claiming it was "rigged" by fraudulent voting, interference and censorship in the election against former President Joe Biden.

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But Maher still commended Vance for coming on his show, sharing with Fox News Digital on Sunday that despite their disagreements, conversations with politicians like Vance don’t typically turn "hateful."

"They're happy warriors," he said in regards to Vance and other Republicans he has interviewed. "You hit them with three really, really hard-hitting things that say ‘you can't keep doing it,’ and they just answer it," Maher said. "They evade it. But they don't hold it against you. It doesn't turn hateful."

Pelosi institute launching at Berkeley after former speaker leaves Congress

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:30:18 -0400

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lend her name to a new institute at the University of California, Berkeley after retiring from Congress, with the school announcing Monday it has already raised $35 million toward a $50 million goal for the center, which will focus on representative democracy and public leadership.

The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, or NPI, opening in January 2027 when Pelosi is set to leave Congress, will serve as a hub for research, teaching and civic engagement, according to the university. The institute will also allow Pelosi, the first Californian elected speaker of the House, to co-teach a course on Congress.

According to UC Berkeley, a university known as a bastion of progressive activism, the institute will focus on four areas: strengthening American democracy, addressing major social, economic and environmental challenges, promoting human and civil rights, and "ensuring political leadership that represents the full spectrum of perspectives and backgrounds in California and the country."

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The university said locating the institute at UC Berkeley will make its programs accessible to a diverse student body, including many first-generation and low-income students, while giving future public leaders opportunities typically associated with Ivy League schools.

"The work of democracy is never finished, and securing its future is our greatest calling," Pelosi said in a statement. "UC Berkeley has a long, proud history of challenging the status quo and producing leaders who run toward the greatest challenges of our time. I am honored to partner with this exceptional community of scholars and students so we can equip the next generation with the tools they need to strengthen our democratic institutions and forge a future that serves the public good."

In a statement, Rich Lyons, chancellor of UC Berkeley, said that the purpose of the institute "will be defined and strengthened by Berkeley’s ability to bring together world-class faculty and extraordinary students and by our commitment, as the country’s preeminent public university, to advancing the greater good."

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"We intend to do more than simply study democracy; we are building this institute to strengthen it," he added.

Fox News Digital reached out to UC Berkeley for further comment.

Pelosi, 86, served two four-year stints as the first, and to date, only female Speaker of the House. Her first was from 2007 to 2011, spanning the end and beginning of the Bush and Obama administrations, and her second was from 2019 to 2023.

California state Sen. Scott Wiener and Pelosi-endorsed San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, both Democrats, are now fighting to claim her deep-blue district. A video of Wiener being screamed at and chased out of a trans rights event by anti-Israel figures in San Francisco went viral over the weekend.

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Alito blasts latest SCOTUS ballot ruling as invitation to ‘voter fraud’ risks

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:29:41 -0400

Justice Samuel Alito cautioned on Monday that the Supreme Court’s decision to allow ballots received after Election Day to be counted could lead large sections of the public to view elections as illegitimate.

While Alito had legal concerns with the majority’s ruling, arguing that they misinterpreted when the "electorate’s choice" occurs, he closed his dissent by issuing a practical warning. Allowing late-arriving ballots to determine the outcomes of elections long after Election Day will, according to Alito, severely damage the trust Americans place in their electoral system.

"Not only is today’s decision inconsistent with statutory text, legal context, historical practice, and precedent; it also threatens to produce lamentable consequences," he wrote. "The majority’s holding spawns a slurry of troubling election-law questions and risks further undermining Americans’ confidence in election integrity."

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Alito went on to describe a hypothetical scenario where the outcome of a presidential election hinges on a single state that allows late-arriving mail ballots to be counted. In the scenario described by the justice, one candidate leads by 15,000 votes on election night only for the opposing candidate to slowly gain votes and, a few days before electors are scheduled to vote, pull ahead by just under 100 votes.

"If the apparent winner the morning after the election ends up losing due to late arriving ballots, charges of a rigged election could explode," Justice Brett Kavanaugh also noted during the case’s oral arguments.

Alito didn’t simply claim that the ruling could affect how people view elections; he argued that it could open the door for fraud.

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"Today’s decision leaves open opportunities for voter fraud that may further undermine Americans’ faith in the integrity of this country’s elections. Diverse sources have recognized that mail-in ballots increase the potential for fraud," Alito continued. "In 2005, a committee chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker found that absentee voting was ‘the largest source of potential voter fraud’ in American elections."

While instances of voter fraud carried out using mail-in ballots have been recorded, there is no evidence that widespread fraud occurred in the 2020 or 2024 presidential elections.

Democrats, meanwhile, argue that allowing states to process ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive afterward, is essential to ensuring that all eligible voters have a say in who governs them.

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"I’m relieved the Supreme Court is not interfering with Washington’s mail-in ballot system," Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., wrote on X. "If you work a shift job, have young kids, or live out in the woods, you can’t just knock off for the day to go stand in line at a polling place. For decades, Washington’s secure vote by mail system has made it easy for these folks to participate in democracy and make their voice heard."

The majority, however, did not address whether allowing late ballots to be counted was good policy, stating that such a consideration is outside the scope of what the court has authority to rule on.

"Finally, plaintiffs assert that requiring ballots to be received by Election Day protects election integrity and increases voter confidence in election results," Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote. "As we have said time and again, however, policy arguments are properly directed to legislatures, not courts."