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surrogate is at the center of a new legal battle as she tries to protect the life of the baby boy she is carrying. After the couple that hired her told her to abort the baby following a serious but treatable prenatal diagnosis, she refused — and now, three months later, she is fighting to ensure he receives life-saving care at birth. Key Takeaways: * McKenna West thought being a surrogate would be a good way to make income for her family as a single mother, and to do something rewarding. * After she was accepted as a surrogate and...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - More elected officials in St. Paul are speaking out about the ongoing sexual harassment investigation into Mayor Kaohly Her. The mayor is accused of making inappropriate sexual comments toward the city's police chief and staff. St. Paul city council members react to Mayor Her allegations What they're saying: In a statement on Thursday, Ward 3 council member Saura Jost says she’s deeply concerned about the allegations because every city employee deserves respect and a safe, welcoming and inclusive workplace. Jost said she respects the mayor's right to due process and will not be commenting...

Spain's prime minister has blamed trafficking gangs after about 60,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. At least 57 people died during the surge, according to local media. Pedro Sánchez called the incident a "violation of Spain's territorial integrity". Italy has responded by suspending the EU's border-free Schengen arrangements with Spain. The influx comes after Spain's Supreme Court ruled that migrants stopped at sea while trying to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish enclave, cannot be summarily returned to Morocco. As of Friday evening, more than 48,000 people had voluntarily returned to Morocco, Spanish...

A serial drunk driver has been sentenced to 50 years behind bars after he was caught driving under the influence for the fifth time. A Texas jury last week found Eugenio Les Zavala, 34, guilty of driving drunk in Montgomery County on February 17, 2025, according to court records obtained by the Daily Mail. Zavala was arrested and charged last year following a traffic stop conducted by Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies, the district attorney's office said. During the investigation, Zavala refused to exit his vehicle, became 'argumentative,' and 'physically resisted' officers. His eyes were glossy, speech was slurred, and his...

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger announced on Friday that her administration has restored voting rights for more than 66,000 felons since taking office in January. The Democrats gained 66,085 new voters with this move. Their rights to serve on a jury, run for public office, and become a notary public were also restored under Spanberger's direction. "By giving these Virginians back their ability to make an impact at the local, state, and national levels, we are empowering our neighbors to take hold of their second chance,” Spanberger said in a statement. Virginia is one of three states that strips convicted felons...

LOS ANGELES - Javier Ramirez was handcuffed in the back of an unmarked car, bruised and confused, when immigration agents used a word he had never heard before. It was June 2025, and they were bragging about the raids in the Los Angeles area that swept up hundreds of immigrants - and a few U.S. citizens, like Ramirez. The unfamiliar word caught Ramirez's ear.

Prosecutors charge that LAPD officer Daniel Flores violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which prohibits recording others without their consent. Flores filed an internal affairs complaint against his LAPD colleagues after recording them making racist, homophobic and sexist comments. Flores’ lawyer said the case sends a message that “if you document bigotry inside the LAPD, you will be the one who ends up in a courtroom.” Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job. The officer, Daniel Flores, was...

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The Pentagon is confronting a growing reality after months of fighting Iran: America's stockpile of missile defense interceptors. It is shrinking so much, military planners are weighing whether they can continue the current cycle of limited retaliatory strikes. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, using open-source budget numbers provided to Congress, estimates U.S. Patriot interceptor inventories have fallen from roughly 2,300 pre-war to fewer than 827. THAAD interceptor inventories have also dropped from 452 to fewer than 278. CSIS warns rebuilding those stockpiles could take three years or more, raising concerns about protecting U.S. forces and bases worldwide if...

Evidently I have been suspended from X. I can look but not forward or comment. I don't know why; perhaps I was intemperate. They tell me that I can petition to be unsuspected. I wonder why I would bother. X is like yelling at the stars. Nothing is accomplished. Anyone else here have that experience?

Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America's botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn't testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era "Faucism," the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times. It's an unprecedented defiance of congressional will for a man who has already received a sweeping presidential pardon. Congress would do well to vote to hold Fauci in contempt. Wednesday's intense senatorial standoff followed Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) earlier release of damning excerpts...

The “Car Tunes” tour at the Savoy Automobile Museum took place from January thru May 2026. This video tour of vintage cars was originally televised in installments on Fox5, Atlanta. American passenger cars, sports cars and stock cars for drag racing 1903 – 1965 are featured.The Savoy, a fairly new museum in the central Georgia countryside north of Atlanta, is yet another good place for a car nut or a family to celebrate the USA's 250th anniversary! America's car culture helped define our country, especially since the 1950s, and changed the entire world, too.

Dashcam video from a Tesla on Philadelphia's I-76 caught a horrifying moment on camera this week, when a tire barreling down the highway slammed headfirst into a moving car. The tire is seen in one clip bouncing down the highway median before hitting a Nissan SUV in the left lane. The car's hood was smashed in, and the impact shattered its windshield. The tire was launched straight into the air on the busy highway. It is currently unclear where the tire came from. It is also unknown whether anybody was injured in the wreck. WATCH: VIDEO AT LINK.................. The incident...

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They gave him the Zo-ld shoulder. Mayor Zohran Mamdani was snubbed from eulogizing Army Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad at the fallen soldier’s Queens funeral Friday — and the embarrassing scene unfolded in real time as he fumed while waiting in vain to give his speech, sources revealed. Mamdani, who was relegated to the fourth row in the Ozone Park church, appeared to be reviewing his planned remarks on an iPad while Gov. Kathy Hochul and other dignitaries, including Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, were called to speak, a source in attendance said. “They kept calling names and then he was...

Brittney Griner and wife Cherelle are ending their marriage The WNBA star filed for divorce in Georgia on Thursday, July 31 The couple, who met as students at Baylor University, shares a two-year-old son named Bash Brittney Griner and wife Cherelle Griner are ending their marriage. The WNBA star, 35, filed for divorce in Fulton County, Ga. on Thursday, July 30, according to court records obtained by PEOPLE.

Iran has said it struck two tankers trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz under the escort of the US military as Donald Trump gathered his cabinet to discuss the stalling war and rising prices as midterm elections in the US loom. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Friday the “non-compliant oil tankers ... were struck and brought to a halt, while four other oil tankers quickly changed course and returned to their previous positions”.

Chuck Todd said on his podcast "I am a believer in pluralism" in politics. What he is clearly not a believer in is pluralism in journalism. List to the whole thing, it is only about 3 minutes long. See if he makes any sense to you.

DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is moving to dismiss charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, revealing in a Friday court filing that the damage was, in fact, “the result of flawed installation by the contractor. Pirro’s office submitted the motion to dismiss after Hearn had pleaded not guilty earlier this month to one felony count of destruction of property for the alleged June 19 incident.