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In perhaps the most damning act of #Resistance yet, Gavin Newsom’s California is refusing to even check if a few thousand specific registered voters are in fact noncitizens. Washington sent Sacramento a list of 20,000 suspected violations to check out; Newsom & Co. responded: Pound sand — so the feds are taking California to court. Gov. Newsom and other Democrats are screaming that Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections, or maybe to set up another claim of “fraud” if he loses — but it sure looks like they fear what they might find if they look under the...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A hiker was taken to a trauma center after being struck in the head by a cactus in Scottsdale on Saturday morning. Scottsdale Fire and Phoenix Fire crews responded to the Bell Pass Trail just after 7 a.m. on Oct. 17, after receiving a report of a woman struck in the head by the desert plant. The hiker was found roughly two miles from the trailhead in steep terrain. Paramedic e-bike teams were able to reach the woman and treat her on the scene. Using a Big Wheel and UTV, the injured hiker was taken off the...

"The first shotgun we have is the Benelli M4 drone guardian. This shotgun is based on the famous Benelli M4, but what makes it special is the advanced impact barrel, which has a series of overboards, forcing cones, and extra-long choke tubes to maximize the velocity of our tungsten shot. This tungsten shot was specially designed for drone use. It's a very hard material, and it gives us that penetrating capability at about 100 meters. We can take down class one, class 2 drones at about 100 meters using the Benelli M4 with the Norma Adler shotgun shells. We also...

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is facing lingering frustration from inside his own political backyard over the cancellation of an event that was supposed to take place on Oct. 5 with a Black civic-service group. The Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium (CT-AACES) expressed deep frustration in an email, sent to the Talarico campaign and obtained by Fox News Digital, after the campaign cancelled an event – which had 325 confirmed registrants – during Talarico's two-week absence from the campaign trail due to illness. CT-AACES said the cancellation left them with "irrecoverable financial loss," and that Talarico's campaign...

The left is not just indifferent to innovations like Musk’s flying cars. No, they actively hate such things. I have been interested in Teslas since a neighbor told me about the cars back in 2013, a year after the Model S made its debut. It was quite some time before I saw one for real. I agreed with my friend that they were spiffy-looking cars. Then I saw the video of Elon Musk revealing the Model S P85D in the fall of 2014. I was hooked. As I noted the following year, I am in some ways an unlikely enthusiast...

The National Football League says it is continuing forward with plans for the upcoming Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New Orleans Saints game in Paris, amid ongoing unrest in the French capital. The Steelers and Saints are poised to play the first-ever NFL regular-season game next weekend in Paris, at the Stade de France. Ongoing protests over school conditions in recent weeks have led to violent clashes with police. The movement, which began in the Paris region and rapidly spread nationwide, has seen teenage students in their final years of high school block access to buildings and clash with law enforcement.

A small plane crashed on a highway in San Jose Saturday with three people on board. The prop plane crashed in the area of Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Dr. shortly after 3 p.m., with two adults and a child inside, according to the San Jose Fire Department. The occupants were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries “out of an abundance of caution,” the department said. No vehicles were involved in the crash, which caused a minor fuel spill that was absorbed. Photos from the scene showed the mangled plane’s nose crushed and bent against the roadway. When asked for...

The greatest danger is not that Europe fails to recognize its mistakes, but that it recognizes them, understands their consequences, yet still cannot bring itself to act. Europe is approaching the point where choices become consequences: guaranteeing cradle-to-grave social benefits, taking in millions of unskilled immigrants, struggling with vastly different cultural expectations, and transferring national sovereignty to an all-powerful European Union aligned more with the World Economic Forum than with its citizens. All the while, economic growth, public finances, and a lack of political cohesion present unprecedented challenges that compound every problem. What happens when a society makes commitments it...

The moral architecture of Western civilization rests upon two interlocking pillars of intrinsic worth: the inviolable dignity of the human person and the correlative demand for personal freedom. These standards, far from being contingent historical accidents, constitute the decisive ethical achievement of a specific civilizational lineage. That lineage unites the Hebraic insistence upon the equal standing of every soul before a transcendent moral law with the Greco-Roman discovery of rational inquiry, constitutional restraint, and the dignity of the free citizen. The resulting synthesis produced a culture capable of generating institutions—limited government, independent judiciary, scientific method, market exchange under rule of...

There's a wonderful exchange between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in Alfred Hitchcock's final golden period masterpiece, North by Northwest. It was the last time the director would work with Grant, and the only appearance by Saint – who died this month at the age of 102 – in one of his pictures, playing a version of the "cool blonde" archetype that has embedded itself in Hitchcock's legend. Grant plays Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive accused of murder and on the run thanks to a case of mistaken identity, and Saint plays Eve Kendall, the attractive young woman who...

Elon Musk has made engineering the heroic, progressive enterprise we once thought it was, not the diddly work of guys in short sleeves with pocket protectors. In the same week that Elon Musk demonstrates his latest innovation -– a flying car -- Jeffrey Tucker examines Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary entries. These entries cover the period December 2021 to May 2023, which Tucker calls “the darkest months of the Covid era.” In the case of Musk, we see science in action, opening new and exciting possibilities. As for Fauci, we see a disturbing pattern of misusing his position to hide his...

The Left's Secret Election Playbook: Fast-Track Protest Permits & Repeal Resisting-Arrest Laws Faster protest permits. Assembly areas near polls. A messaging guide that labels opponents “election traitors.” ...repealing local nuisance laws such as loitering, disturbing the peace, and resisting arrest” That recommendation appears in Local Progress Impact Lab’s protest guidance. The progressive network is now directing elected officials to that document as they prepare for the 2026 midterms. The guide, updated in November 2025, also recommends banning tear gas and rubber bullets, limiting police dispersal orders, and promptly processing and releasing people arrested at public assemblies. It urges changes to...

I went undercover in Seattle to expose food stamp (EBT) fraud and filmed a $120 EBT card being rung up for one can of Spam and a pack of sushi. A tip from a man on the street led us to a market, a confrontation on camera, and a stolen gun that sent a mob after our security. Food stamps are supposed to feed people who are struggling. On the streets of Seattle, people told us EBT cards get sold for cash at a fraction of their value, with the cash often going straight to drugs, and we found cards...

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...when it’s time to do chores around the house, I turn on Netflix, plop my son in front of the TV, and let Disney babysit for me. He is, after all, four years old.. I didn’t realize how much this was affecting him until we passed by a toy ship from his favorite show, Jake and The Neverland Pirates. “It’s The Mighty Colossus,” my son told me, not so much speaking as shrieking. “I need it!” I said no. He erupted. He couldn’t understand why we couldn’t afford to buy every toy we saw. Soon he was in tears, thrashing...

DETROIT — Former President Barack Obama’s endorsement of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is getting a mixed reception among Black voters in Detroit, with some undecided voters saying the former president's backing isn't enough to win them over. Fox News Digital spoke with more than a dozen Black voters in Detroit, most of whom said they plan to back El-Sayed in November, but several undecided voters said Obama's endorsement had not persuaded them to support the Democrat. The reactions come as Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers seeks to win over disaffected Democrats, including Black voters in Detroit, a key...

Before he was Vice President, Elbridge Gerry was a rising leader from Massachusetts, who partook in some of the earliest and most important phases of the American Revolution. He signed the Declaration of Independence and he went on to play an interesting role in the Constitutional Convention in 1787. When he died in 1814, he was serving as the Vice President and the War of 1812 was in full swing. Today, he is the only signer of the declaration who is laid to rest in the District of Columbia. Buried nearby is Tobias Lear, a patriot who had a tragic...

Free trams, cable cars and a Circle Line that’s finally a circle – here are the cities where locals love their commuteAsk anyone stuck on a rammed platform at rush hour and they’ll tell you good public transport is worth its weight in gold. When it works, you barely notice it, but when it doesn’t, it can make or break your day (and your mood).So, which cities are getting it right? Every year we quiz tens of thousands of people about life where they live, and this time more than 24,000 locals rated their public transport on a scale of...

WARE SHOALS, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Ware Shoals Police Department said that a fight over food ended in citations for three Burger King employees on Oct. 7. Officers said that around 5:20 p.m., Ware Shoals Police Chief Tommy Clamp walked into the Burger King on Highway 25 North to purchase food. As he walked through the restaurant door, someone yelled at him to stop an employee who was walking out. Other employees and customers told Chief Clamp that a fight involving three employees had just happened in the restaurant. Chief Clamp notified 911 dispatch of the fight, and another...