Former 'Jeopardy!' host says it's a 'real challenge' to be a liberal and defend Israel

Former "Jeopardy!" host Mayim Bialik said it's been a "real challenge" to be a liberal and be an outspoken supporter for Israel following the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. 

Appearing on Wednesday's installment of "The Sage Steele Show," Bialik was asked about the overall silence coming from Hollywood as the war between Israel and Hamas has unfolded. 

"Like what we talked about with this, you know, the Trauma Olympics, right? There seems to only be room for one pain in this kind of conversation," Bialik told Steele. "There's room for everyone's pain. You can hold all those things at once."

"It's a real challenge to be a liberal person who also believes that Israel has a right to exist. I'm a bleeding heart liberal, though. It's very a very strange place to be. It's a strange intersection," Bialik said.

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The former "Big Bang Theory" star continued, "When Oct. 7 happened, and all around the world, before Israel even, you know, had the time to collect the bodies, there was celebration. That struck a very deep chord with Jewish people all over the world. And, you know, the Jewish people are often the canary in the coal mine. We're often the first that is scapegoated. And yeah, it's very painful."

"Have you had conversations with friends who have voices and have chosen to stay silent?" Steele asked. 

"Yeah," Bialik responded. "I think that anyone who thinks that you should celebrate the massacre of innocent people, that's a very different conversation. But even with my kids, my older one especially, you know, there's a conversation to be had about what does it mean when antisemitism rises because of the policies of the Israeli government — which, we may not agree with the policies of the Israeli government — but what does it mean when there's a world increase in hatred towards one group of people because of the policies of a government that doesn't even represent them? That's called problematic." 

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Bialik went on, "So, to me, there's a real kind of distinction to be made, and yeah, I don't understand people celebrating terrorism against any people… It's been very painful. I have a lot of family in Israel, the vast majority of my family is in Israel. And it's complicated, and [I've got] family on all sides of the political spectrum. And I have family in uniform right now, you know. But again, the actions of the Israeli government should not have any impact on the way people treat Jews in your college dorm."

Bialik has been among the most outspoken Hollywood celebrities to speak out following Oct. 7.

In November, the Emmy-nominated actress called out feminist groups for their silence on the brutal crimes Hamas terrorists committed against women. 

"There has been an abhorrent and conspicuous absence of women’s organizations around the world unequivocally condemning the systematic rape and torture of women on October 7 by Hamas," Bialik wrote on social media platform X. "Brutal gang rapes, sexual torture, and murder of fetuses happened- period. Where are the ‘BELIEVE THEM’ voices?" 

"These crimes against women were in many cases documented by the terrorists themselves and broadcast for the world to see," she added. "Those of us who have fought for women’s rights and have sought to shout from the rooftops when women’s bodies are being used in war for the sadistic pleasure of perpetrators are astounded at how the world has been silent surrounding this."

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Massachusetts stabbing spree suspect Jared Ravizza was 'laughing' during movie theater attack, mom says

A Massachusetts mother who says her daughters were among the victims of a stabbing spree that left six injured across two towns over the weekend is alleging that the suspect was "laughing the whole time" during the attack. 

The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office says 26-year-old Jared Ravizza of Chilmark – a town on the island of Martha’s Vineyard – is now facing multiple charges following his arrest in connection to stabbing attacks at an AMC movie theater in Braintree and at a rest stop in Plymouth on Saturday night. 

"I got a call from my sister that my oldest daughter had called her [and] that I needed to get to the AMC movie theater right away because they had been stabbed. Honestly, I just got in my car and headed right there," Lisa Dembowski told reporters regarding the first incident, in which Braintree Police say four young females between the ages of 9 and 17 sustained "non-life-threatening injuries." 

"So they were the only four people in this movie theater. They had just sat down. They had just got their concessions. And I guess he came up behind them in the row – they were in the second row – and he came up behind them," Dembowski added. "My oldest was leaned over to get something. He got her in the back and then my other daughter in the top of the chest. Then, my last daughter across her arm – laughing the whole time – and then got their friend and then ran off." 

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Dembowski said her daughters are now "physically fine" but are "shaken up" and "terrified that they could just go to a movie on a Saturday night and this could happen, someone could just walk into a movie theater and do this." 

Officials say the movie theater stabbing happened around 6 p.m. before Ravizza allegedly carried out a second attack targeting McDonald’s employees at a rest stop along Route 3 in Plymouth about an hour later. 

That attack, the district attorney’s office says, left a 21-year-old female and 28-year-old male injured. 

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"Investigators reviewed surveillance video from the McDonald’s restaurant that appears to show Ravizza allegedly reach through the drive-thru window and stab the male victim with a large knife," the office said. "Video then shows Ravizza leave the drive-thru in a black Porsche, park the car, go inside the McDonald’s, and stab the second female victim." 

Ravizza then allegedly fled the scene before being taken into custody around 7:15 p.m. in Sandwich, a town on Cape Cod.  

"A witness at the McDonald’s reported the motor vehicle plate registration to Massachusetts State Police, and it was determined that the black 2018 Porsche Macan was registered to Ravizza," the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said. "Police also learned that a BOLO had [been] issued for Ravizza’s arrests for other incidents." 

He is now facing charges including assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and is set to make his first court appearance Tuesday.

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Israeli excavators discover 2,300-year-old gold ring at City of David site

Israeli researchers digging in Jerusalem’s City of David archeological site have uncovered an "exceedingly well-preserved" 2,300-year-old gold ring that is believed to have belonged to a boy or girl that lived in the area during the Hellenistic period. 

The piece of jewelry, which is "made of gold and set with a red precious stone, apparently a garnet," has "accumulated no rust nor suffered other weathering of time," the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Monday. 

"I was sifting earth through the screen and suddenly saw something glitter," Tehiya Gangate, a City of David excavation team member, said in a statement. "I immediately yelled, ‘I found a ring, I found a ring!’ Within seconds everyone gathered around me, and there was great excitement."

"This is an emotionally moving find, not the kind you find every day," she added. "In truth I always wanted to find gold jewelry, and I am very happy this dream came true – literally a week before I went on maternity leave."   

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The Israel Antiquities Authority says the ring was "recently found in the joint Israel Antiquities Authority-Tel Aviv University excavation in the City of David, part of the Jerusalem Walls National Park, with the support of the Elad Foundation." 

It will be put on display to the public in early June during Jerusalem Day. 

"The ring is very small. It would fit a woman’s pinky, or a young girl or boy’s finger," the IAA cited Dr. Yiftah Shalev and Riki Zalut Har-Tov, Israel Antiquities Authority Excavation Directors, as saying. 

Tel Aviv University Professor Yuval Gadot and excavator Efrat Bocher added that, "The recently found gold ring joins other ornaments of the early Hellenistic period found in the City of David excavations, including the horned-animal earring and the decorated gold bead."   

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"Whereas in the past we found only a few structures and finds from this era, and thus most scholars assumed Jerusalem was then a small town, limited to the top of the southeastern slope ("City of David") and with relatively very few resources, these new finds tell a different story: The aggregate of revealed structures now constitute an entire neighborhood," they said. 

"They attest to both domestic and public buildings, and that the city extended from the hilltop westward. The character of the buildings – and now of course, the gold finds and other discoveries, display the city’s healthy economy and even its elite status. It certainly seems that the city’s residents were open to the widespread Hellenistic style and influences prevalent also in the eastern Mediterranean Basin," the researchers added. 

The IAA says "Gold jewelry was well-known in the Hellenistic world, from Alexander the Great’s reign onward" as "his conquests helped spread and transport luxury goods and products." 

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Biden urged to outlaw antisemitic Palestinian ‘terrorist’ group banned in Germany, Israel

JERUSALEM – The Biden administration is facing new calls to sanction Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which has links to Iran’s regime and the U.S.-designated terrorist movement Hamas. 

Germany outlawed Samidoun in November and Israel classified the Palestinian organization as a terrorist entity in 2021. 

"If the U.S. is going to get serious about the pro-Hamas mobs who’ve wreaked havoc on U.S. campuses, they will have to take action to ban Samidoun and investigate their allies and supporters," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the LA-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Fox News Digital.

Samidoun has chapters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Iran, as well as in numerous European states: Sweden, France and Spain. 

Nancy Faeser, German federal minister of the interior, said in a November statement, "Today, I banned all activity in Germany by Hamas, a terrorist organization whose aim is to destroy the State of Israel. Samidoun is an international network which disseminates anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda while claiming to promote solidarity with prisoners in different countries. Samidoun also supported and glorified various foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas… Banning the activity of Hamas and Samidoun, and dissolving Samidoun Deutschland, will put a stop to such demonstrations of hate in Germany."

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She added, "With its spontaneous ‘celebrations’ here in Germany following the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel, Samidoun revealed its antisemitism and absolute lack of regard for human life in an especially abhorrent way."

When approached about the German and Israeli bans of Samidoun, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "We are aware that Germany banned Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. We do not comment on deliberations, or potential deliberations, related to the U.S. terrorist designation process."

The State Department spokesman added, "Unlike many of our foreign partners, the United States, under the First Amendment, cannot designate organizations based solely on hateful speech. As a matter of law, in order to designate any group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization the Secretary of State must determine that it is a foreign organization that engages in terrorist activity that threatens the security of United States nationals or our national security."

Terrorism experts have, however, noted that Samidoun’s links to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) meet the criteria for a ban.

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The role of Samidoun during the pro-Hamas campus protests has drawn greater scrutiny from experts.

On May 16, Steven Stalinsky, the counterterrorism expert and executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), wrote on the Fox News op-ed page, "Also lending its support to U.S. students was a coalition of jihadi Gaza student organizations representing Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, and others. Its statement of ‘solidarity’ with the ‘Student Intifada in the United States,’ translated into English and published by the PFLP affiliate Samidoun on April 25, saluted the American students who are ‘rising up to put an end to the Zionist-U.S. genocide’ and lauded their ‘work to transform their universities into 'Popular Universities for Gaza.'"

MEMRI also posted a video of a speech by the Canadian-based Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator of Samidoun, who glorified Hamas’ mass murder of roughly 1,200 people on October in southern Israel. Hamas murdered over 30 Americans on Oct. 7 and kidnapped more than 250 people.

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Kates said on April 26 in Vancouver, British Columbia: "We demand a free Palestine from the River to the Sea. And we stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic and brave actions on October 7. As they said, long live October 7th! And we say today: long live October 7th!"

The Canadian authorities arrested Kates for her pro-Hamas terrorism speech. On the other side of the Atlantic, Herbert Reul, the interior minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, dismantled and outlawed on May 16 the NGO Palestine Solidarity Duisburg because it provides support to Hamas and Samidoun. 

Reul said, "This ban comes at the right time and sends the right signal. In many cases, solidarity with Palestine hides nothing other than hatred of Jews – as is the case with the organization that was banned today. We will use all legal options to combat antisemitism and ideological support for terrorism. Today, the state has shown a clear stance against extremism."

Yet, the ban of Samidoun and its activities in Germany has not been a complete success. Dr. Rafael Korenzecher, the publisher of the German-Jewish newspaper Jewish Review (Jüdische Rundschau in German), told Fox News Digital, "The half-hearted bans on Samidoun and Hamas, which still leave too much leeway for anti-Jewish activities, come far too late and are purely alibi actions by the responsible political actors to divert attention from the fundamental."

According to the recently released domestic intelligence report from North Rhine-Westphalia, the number of Hamas operatives rose from 150 in 2022 to 175 in 2023. In 2003, Germany along with the EU, formally sanctioned Hamas as a terrorist entity. Germany, however, did not strictly enforce the ban and it became a hotbed of Hamas membership, recruitment and fundraising.

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The German state of Baden-Württemberg has taken a lax approach to Hamas. The state’s Green Party governor, Winfried Kretschmann, has refused to ban Palestine Committee Stuttgart – an NGO that has raised funds for Samidoun. The capital city of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, allows the contact information of the Palestine Committee Stuttgart to appear on the municipal webpage.

Professor Michael Wolffsohn, a prominent German-Jewish historian and commentator on modern antisemitism and Islamism, told Fox News Digital that the "structural problem" in Germany can be grounded in former German Chancellor "Angela Merkel’s migration policy. Not just in the years 2015-16. Hundreds of thousands of times, Islamic antisemites were allowed into the country unchecked. Only attention was paid to right-wing extremism, which was also certainly dangerous, and left-wing extremism was downplayed as partners of the Islamists."

Wolffsohn warned, "It's not just about this or that federal government. You also have to look at the state governments and municipalities," while noting that also includes the "the police and judicial authorities."

The future for Jews in Germany appears bleak based on the massive outbreaks of Jew-hatred since Oct. 7. Just last week, nearly 4,000 German Muslims, leftists and ordinary Germans protested against Israel in front of the main synagogue in Munich, Bavaria.

"Jewish life in Germany is becoming increasingly impossible," Korenzecher said. "Illegal migration from predominantly Islamic countries, where hatred of Jews and Israel is partly propagated by the state and is virtually part of the raison d'être there, is an existential threat to Jewish life." 

Fox News Digital approached Samidoun for a comment.

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Trump attorney concerned jury instructions could be biased toward prosecution: 'Zero confidence' in this judge

Trump attorney Alina Habba said she has "zero confidence" that the jury who will determine the outcome in the former president's New York trial will be given instructions "in an appropriate manner," telling Fox News on Sunday that she's concerned the judge could deliver instructions that are biased in the prosecution's favor.

"This judge is the judge that determines the jury instructions. The jury instructions are the roadmap for non-attorneys and jurors to follow the law. It's going to be critical and frankly, at this point, I have zero confidence in the fact that this person, who should not be sitting on the bench right now, will do the right thing and give jury instructions that are in an appropriate manner without any persuasion towards the prosecution," she told "Sunday Morning Futures" guest anchor Sean Duffy over Memorial Day weekend.

Judges provide instructions to jurors on how to interpret law relevant to the case at hand before deliberations begin. 

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Many legal experts, including Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz and Jay Town, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, have argued that Judge Juan Merchan visibly favored the prosecution throughout the trial as they sought to prove Trump offered or discussed offering money to adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal to keep his alleged affairs with them a secret prior to the 2016 presidential election.

The former president has denied the affairs and pled not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.

Habba, who has been Trump's legal voice for some time, echoed concerns from many who argue the case has no merit, that it is past the statute of limitations and no criminal offense has been directly identified.

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"There was no case… We've been sitting here. We saw no facts, and the last resort for the prosecution is going to be this judge with political motivations, going to give them instructions on how to decide the fate of a former president and the future president of the United States," she told Duffy.

At the same time, hosts and guests featured on mainstream media outlets have admitted to problems with the case, particularly in former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's flawed witness testimony.

Now the jury awaits instructions from Judge Merchan after closing arguments begin next week. Habba said the time gap is concerning since the jury could potentially be swayed to make a decision to convict Trump in the time leading up to deliberations.

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"They should have been sequestered because, in my opinion, these jurors are handling something that is completely unprecedented and unwarranted in America and for them to be able to be out and about on a holiday weekend with friends and families who have opinions, who are watching the news, the TV is on the background at the pool party… I have serious concerns if they're left wing and they're watching MSDNC, as my client calls it, or CNN, they're not going to get fair news," she said.

Habba added that she is concerned that friends and family could potentially sway jurors' decisions.

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Rafael Nadal, 37, dismisses notion this is his last French Open: 'Don't assume that'

Rafael Nadal has missed each of the last four grand slams but is making his return to the French Open, where he plays his best.

The 37-year-old has dominated the clay his entire career, and 14 of his 22 grand slam wins have come at Roland Garros, including his most recent just two years ago.

Injuries hampered his 2023 season, and he was out for almost a full year, dropping out of the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time in nearly 20 years before finally returning to the Brisbane Invitational in December.

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Another injury, though, forced him to miss the Australian Open, and age may finally be catching up to Nadal.

It wasn't that long ago he was dominating. His 2022 French Open victory was his second consecutive grand slam, as he had won the Australian Open for the second time earlier that year.

Nadal will turn 38 June 3, the day before the Open's quarterfinals begin, and he's hinted this year could be his last. But on Saturday, he kept the door open.

Players, fans and the media have been assuming it will be his farewell appearance at the French Open.

Asked whether that's accurate, Nadal channeled Felix Unger.

"Don’t assume that. It’s a big, big chance that it’s going to be my last Roland Garros," Nadal said. "But if I have to tell you it’s 100% my last Roland Garros? Sorry, but I will not. Because I cannot predict what’s going on."

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In the first round, the Spaniard drew Alexander Zverev, the No. 4 player in the world who went toe-to-toe with Nadal in the 2022 French Open semifinal before a gruesome ankle injury forced Zverev to miss the rest of the season.

While Nadal has often intimated retirement is beckoning, he said Saturday he doesn't "want to close, 100%, the door," because he is enjoying playing tennis, he likes traveling with his wife and young son and, he added, "I was not able to explore yet the proper way how I will be able to play, being in, again, more or less healthy conditions, playing without limitation."

He asked Saturday for a halt to questions about his future while he figures things out.

"Give me some time," Nadal said. "Maybe in one month and a half, I'll say, ‘OK, it’s enough. I can’t keep going.’ But today, in some way, I cannot guarantee that that’s going to be the last one." 

Nadal and Zverev will take the court on Monday at 6 a.m. ET.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Sunny Hostin vents about Charlamagne tha God failing to endorse Biden on ‘The View’: 'It was irresponsible'

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin lashed out at a popular Black radio host on Thursday after he refused to endorse President Biden in the upcoming election.

"I thought it was irresponsible to say that both candidates are trash, when you're comparing President Biden, someone who's done incredible things for this country and someone who is facing 88 charges, and four indictments and is clearly criminal, in my view," Hostin reacted afterward on "The View: Behind the Table" podcast. 

Hostin was referring to her interview the day before with Charlamagne tha God on "The View." There, Hostin and her co-hosts badgered "The Breakfast Club" host to endorse the president. 

Charlamagne, who has been an outspoken critic of Biden, said that he would be voting in November but called both candidates "trash."

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On the behind-the-scenes podcast afterward, Hostin said she was "disappointed" by their guest's take, believing it was crucial for someone like him to take a public stand backing Biden.

"Charlamagne has a huge following. You have politicians who go on his show. ‘The Breakfast Club’ is always trending. What we don't need now is voter apathy. We don't need the couch. And if someone like Charlamagne can get up there and say, 'This guy is a threat to democracy and Joe Biden isn't. He has done A, B, and C. I'm going to vote for him, I'm going to endorse him,'" she continued.

Hostin conceded that many endorsements don't sway elections, but argued it was more a matter of standing on principle when democracy was "at stake" if Donald Trump wins.

"[When you're talking about] our democracy being on the very precipice of becoming a theocracy or perhaps a dictatorship, it's not the time to step back, Charlamagne. It's not the time to sit this one out. It's not the time to take your ball and go home. So I'm disappointed," she confessed.

She went on to praise Charlamagne as "smart" and "thoughtful;" but said she didn't appreciate his reluctance to endorse Biden, particularly when he was likely to vote for him. 

"He is going to vote for Joe Biden. Then say it, don't dance around it," she scolded. "This is not the time to sit it out. Too much is at stake."

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While on "The View" this week, the hosts repeatedly asked Charlamagne to endorse Biden.

Hostin told Charlamagne an endorsement would carry significant weight. Whoopi Goldberg said his viewers needed him to help break through the difficulty with the media and suggested a Biden endorsement might help. 

"The reality is I think both candidates are trash, but I am going to vote in November, and I'm going to vote my best interest, and I’m going to vote for who I think can preserve democracy," Charlamagne said. "So if I think both candidates are trash and I don’t feel like endorsing one, would you rather me endorse an individual or endorse the fact that, hey, we need to go out and protect democracy."

The radio host predicted that the candidate who energized his base more effectively would win the November election.

"It feels like his base is pretty pissed off at him," he said of Biden. 

Hostin jumped in and said, "Help him out, help him out!"

Charlamagne laughed and said, "Help him out by doing what?"

He also warned that Trump was a threat to democracy several times during the appearance.

"I’m sitting here telling my listeners that you have somebody out there who is a threat to democracy, you have somebody who said they want to suspend the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election," he said. "You saw this person try to lead an attempted coup of this country, and I’m telling people that this guy’s a threat to democracy."

"There’s only two candidates out there, so if I’m saying that about this individual, the choice is clear, right?" Charlamagne added.

Fox News' Hanna Panreck contributed to this article.

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Utah children's book author accused of killing husband speaks out for 1st time: 'This means war'

Kouri Richins, the Utah mom of three and children's book author accused of fatally poisoning her husband in 2022, is speaking out publicly for the first time since her husband's death.

Richins, now 35, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated murder and drug possession after she allegedly killed her husband of nine years, Eric Richins, on March 3, 2022 with illicit fentanyl in an attempt to collect millions in life insurance funds.

"I’ve been silent for a year, locked away from my kids, my family, my life, living with the media telling the world who they think I am, what they think I’ve done or how they think I’ve lived," she said via recorded statements given to the "Dateline: True Crime Daily" podcast's Andrea Canning through a spokesperson. "And it’s time to start speaking up."

"You took an innocent mom away from her babies," she said, according to the podcast. "And this means war." 

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Richins' comments come just days after her defense team filed a request to withdraw from her case on May 17, citing "irreconcilable and nonwaivable situation."

"My defense team has been forced to withdraw from my case," Richins said in another recorded statement. "Represented or not, we all know and should understand there’s only so much I can say. But what I will say is this withdrawal was not my choice. And it was not a personal choice of any counsel on my defense team."

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In another May 17 filing, Richins' defense team filed a motion to disqualify state prosecutors, "and specifically Chief Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth, due to his involvement in severe violations that compromise the integrity of adversarial fairness." Her former lead defense attorney, Skye Lazaro, alleged that prosecutors improperly obtained evidence, including jail calls and a letter considered confidential due to attorney-client privilege, to help build their case against Richins.

Prosecutors allege that Kouri, then 33, killed Eric, 39, as a means to collect millions in life insurance funds and flip a $2 million Wasatch County mansion that was under construction at the time of Eric's death, an investment that his family said he did not approve of.

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The night Eric died, authorities say he, Kouri and her mother, Lisa Darden, were celebrating Kouri's recent closure of the mansion in question, according to Summit County court documents.

Kouri allegedly made a cocktail for her husband spiked with fentanyl that evening. A medical examiner determined that Eric had more than five times the lethal amount of the illicit opioid in his system when he died. The examiner also found "16,000 ng/ml of Quetiapine," described as an "atypical antipsychotic medication that is "widely used as a sleep aid," in Eric Richins’ gastric fluid, new charging documents state.

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The next day, Kouri allegedly closed a deal on the mansion "alone" after her husband was pronounced dead.

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The suspect has also been charged with attempted murder in connection with an earlier Valentine's Day incident, when she allegedly tried to poison her husband's sandwich. Eric noticed something was wrong and took his son's EpiPen, as well as a Benadryl, and survived, according to court documents.

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Kouri has maintained her innocence in her husband's death.

Following her husband's death, she wrote a children's book about grief titled, "Are You With Me?" and made local media appearances promoting the book in which she discussed her husband's death as her inspiration behind the book.

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Smoking ban bill set to be shelved due to election

Rishi Sunak's flagship ban on smoking for people born after 2009 runs out of time to pass into law.

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Election poll tracker: How do the parties compare?

How do people say they will vote in the UK general election? Our poll tracker measures the trends.

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Washington pilot who had gone missing found dead in plane that crashed in forested area

A Washington pilot who had gone missing over the weekend was found dead by search and rescue crews in crash debris in a heavily forested area, officials said.

Jerry Riedinger, 69, of Issaquah was located inside his wrecked 2001 Extra Flugzeugbau 300/L around 1:30 p.m. Monday near Humpback Mountain west of Snoqualmie Pass, the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) said.   

Riedinger's wife reported him missing around 6 p.m. Sunday after he failed to arrive at his scheduled destination of Ephrata after flying out of Arlington Municipal Airport around 4:30 p.m. 

Riedinger, a Seattle-area lawyer and experienced airshow pilot, was the only person aboard the plane at the time of the crash. He was last seen flying at an altitude of approximately 8,000 feet when he lost connection with ground crews. 

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Search and rescue teams of more than 220 people utilized cellphone and flight data to locate the crash site off I-90.

"WSDOT offers our sincere condolences to the entire Riedinger family for their loss," the agency said in a news release. "WSDOT is thankful for those who provided their time or expertise during the search mission."

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The King County Sheriff's Office and National Transportation Safety Board will continue investigating the crash.

"There was a little bit of weather in the area, so that may have played a part in it. Other than that, we don’t know. It was a highly capable aircraft and an experienced pilot," Tom Peterson, WSDOT Air Search and Rescue Coordinator, told KOMO News.  

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Pochettino leaves Chelsea after one season

Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino leaves the club after one season at Stamford Bridge.

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Why the BBC could track down a people-smuggling kingpin before the police

Barzan Majeed is believed to have controlled the trade across the English Channel yet remained free.

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Putin and Xi no longer have a partnership of equals

Vladimir Putin’s visit to China was a show of strength, but in reality he needs Beijing's support for his war in Ukraine.

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Is the move to electric cars running out of power?

There has been an unexpected slowdown in sales of electric cars. Could this be more than a blip?

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Children plot Chelsea Flower Show takeover

This year's event includes junior judges and a "no adults allowed" garden designed by children.

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Glen Powell believes he and Sydney Sweeney are Hollywood's next dynamic duo: 'It's like Julia and George'

Following the massive success of their romantic-comedy "Anyone But You," Glen Powell believes he and co-star Sydney Sweeney are the next burgeoning duo in Hollywood.

"What I'm really proud of on ‘Anyone But You’ is Sydney and I took a gamble that people would pay their $15, leave the house, get the sitter, whatever it means, to show up to the theater for a movie that's just about love," Powell shared on "Sunday Today with Willie Geist."

The movie, which premiered days before Christmas 2023, grossed nearly $220 million at the box office.

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"Sydney and I want to get back in the trenches together," Powell said of wanting to work with Sweeney again.

"It's like Julia [Roberts] and George [Clooney]. You know, Matthew [McConaughey] and Kate [Hudson]. You know these people that work together over and over and over again," he said, comparing himself and Sweeney to two of Hollywood's most famous co-starring duos. 

Roberts and Clooney are famously close friends, having starred in six movies together. McConaughey and Hudson have starred in two rom-coms with one another.

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"It's when you find somebody that you have a great creative partnership with and somebody you can really trust, you want to just keep doing that. There's no reason to do it any other way."

Powell and Sweeney's chemistry was so palpable in not only the movie, but also its press tour, that rumors circulated that the two were more than just friends. They have both denied this.

The film follows their characters Ben and Bea, who, despite hating each other, pretend to be in a relationship to appease their friends and family.

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"I'll pretty much give Sydney all the credit for this. I don't have the mental capacity to pull anything like this off, but she's very smart," Powell told Business Insider of leaning into the dating rumors. "She's very smart. And look, Sydney and I do have authentic chemistry. I had such a wonderful journey with her on this thing."

"The only reason it made things harder for me to lean into that stuff was that I was going through a very real breakup amid a promotional tour," he shared. 

Powell's split from girlfriend Gigi Paris only fueled the speculation with Sweeney. "I was with someone that I really loved and cared about and was trying to kind of make sense of a lot of stuff," he added.

"It was a lot easier for Sydney to lean into something like that because she's in a very committed and wonderful relationship, and she's very happy. So, it was a little harder for me," he said. Sweeney is engaged to Jonathan Davino.

Despite all the controversy their relationship sparked, Powell says he and Sweeney are actively looking for more projects to work on together.

"My agent's going to hate me for saying this, but we are reading," he told Geist.

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Massive Dell data breach hits 49 million users; what this means for your privacy and security

Computer maker Dell faced a huge security challenge after a cyberattack stole information for approximately 49 million customers. 

Dell confirmed that the type of information stolen includes people’s names, postal addresses, and Dell hardware and order information, such as service tags, item descriptions, order dates and different warranty information.

Menelik, the threat actor behind the attack, openly told told TechCrunch how he extracted such a huge amount of data from Dell without being detected.

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Menelik set up several partner accounts within the Dell company portal which, when approved, allowed the hacker to use a brute-force attack to access customer data. A brute-force attack consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases hoping to eventually guess correctly.

The hacker sent more than 5,000 requests per minute to the page for nearly three weeks, and Dell did not notice anything. After sending nearly 50 million requests and scraping enough data, Menelik sent multiple emails to Dell, notifying the company of the vulnerability. It took Dell nearly a week to patch it all up, according to the hacker. Dell confirmed to TechCrunch that it received the hacker's email notification of the vulnerability.

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Dell sits as the No. 3 PC vendor in the world behind Lenovo and HP, and the affected accounts represent a small fraction of its user base. The company communicated this statement to affected users:

"We are currently investigating an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of customer information related to purchases from Dell. We believe there is not a significant risk to our customers given the type of information involved."

We reached out to Dell and a representative for the company provided us with this statement:

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"Dell Technologies has a cybersecurity program designed to limit risk to our environments, including those used by our customers and partners. Our program includes prompt assessment and response to identified threats and risks. We recently identified an incident involving a Dell portal with access to a database containing limited types of customer information including name, physical address, and certain Dell hardware and order information. It did not include financial or payment information, email address, telephone number or any highly sensitive customer data. 

"Upon discovering this incident, we promptly implemented our incident response procedures, applied containment measures, began investigating, and notified law enforcement. Our investigation is supported by external forensic specialists. We continue to monitor the situation and take steps to protect our customers’ information.  Although we don’t believe there is significant risk to our customers given the type of information involved, we are taking proactive steps to notify them as appropriate."

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There’s no immediate aftermath of this data leak. Dell believes the risk to its customers is not significant since financial and payment information, email addresses and phone numbers were not stolen in this attack. However, the risk of phishing or even major malware and ransomware attacks still exists. The threat actors might try sending personalized letters with infected drives, a tactic seen before.

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There's a good chance this data leak has already been sold on the dark web. The hacker posted the information for sale on the dark web and then took it down quickly, which often happens when someone buys the whole database. If you're a Dell customer who bought hardware between 2017 and 2024, be very careful about any messages you get in the mail claiming to be from Dell, especially if they ask for personal information.

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In the wake of the cyberattack on Dell, consider taking several proactive steps to protect your personal information:

1. Change your passwords: Although Dell says your personal details like phone number and email address haven’t been leaked, it’s still advisable to change the password of your Dell account if you have one. Consider using a password manager to generate and store complex passwords.

2. Avoid tech support phone scams: Since the hackers have your data, they may try to get in touch with you, posing as a Dell employee. Always verify if the tech support person you’re talking to actually works for Dell. Be skeptical about all unsolicited phone calls, and don’t provide any personal information.

3. Be wary of mailbox communications: Bad actors may also try to scam you through snail mail. The data leak gives them access to your address. They may impersonate people or brands you know, and use themes that require urgent attention, such as missed deliveries, account suspensions and security alerts.

4. Report any suspicious activity: If you notice any suspicious activity related to your Dell accounts or purchases, report them to security@dell.com. This may include unauthorized purchases, unusual login attempts, or changes in account information.

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5. Monitor your accounts and transactions

You should check your online accounts and transactions regularly for any suspicious or unauthorized activity. If you notice anything unusual, report it to the service provider or the authorities as soon as possible. You should also review your credit reports and scores to see if there are any signs of identity theft or fraud.

6. Use identity theft protection

Identity Theft protection companies can monitor personal information like your home title, Social Security Number (SSN), phone number and email address and alert you if it is being used to open an account.  They can also assist you in freezing your bank and credit card accounts to prevent further unauthorized use by criminals. See my tips and best picks on how to protect yourself from identity theft.

7.  Invest in personal data removal services: While no service guarantees complete data removal from the internet, utilizing a removal service can be beneficial for those seeking to monitor and automate the deletion of their personal information from numerous sites over time. Check out my top recommendations for removal services here.

Dell’s recent data leak highlights the lapse in the computer maker’s security infrastructure. The attackers being inside the network for an extended period is especially troubling. Given Dell's role in providing hardware and software solutions, including backup and recovery tools, for critical infrastructure, a thorough investigation into its code and supply chain for signs of tampering is crucial. Dell is working with law enforcement and third-party security experts to investigate the incident, so that’s a step in the right direction.

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Why is this small town mayor accused of being a Chinese spy?

The Philippines investigates a mayor as it faces increasing sea tensions with China.

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Modi’s India: A decade of popularity and polarisation

Indian PM Narendra Modi is eyeing a historic third term after a decade in power.

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Man jailed for killing pensioner in what judge calls 'terrorist act'

Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid stabbed 70-year-old Terence Carney in Hartlepool in October in "revenge" for the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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Channel crossings since start of year at record high

The number of migrants crossing the Channel since January 1 is 9,681, according to Home Office data.

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What did ICJ ruling mean in South Africa's genocide case against Israel?

The ICJ ruling has come under intense scrutiny, centring on the word "plausible". What did the court mean?

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Russia gives British diplomat in Moscow a week to leave

The expulsion of Adrian Coghill comes after his counterpart was removed from Britain last week

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Algerian man found alive in cellar after 26 years

Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.

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Chiefs' Harrison Butker's 'homemaker' remark to women during commencement speech draws massive backlash

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker went after President Biden over his stance on abortion as a Catholic in his commencement speech at a private Kansas college over the weekend.

But it was what he said to the women in the audience at Benedictine College that garnered a lot of backlash on social media in the days since his address. He urged women to embrace the title of "homemaker."

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"For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives," the Super Bowl champion said. "I want to speak directly to you briefly, because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross this stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.

"I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I’m on this stage today and able to be the man that I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I’m beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker."

It was that part that drew a ton of reaction on social media.

"It’s disgusting that he’s up there standing in front of women who quite obviously have CAREER aspirations and telling them that they should ONLY be ONE thing, and lean into that," NHL, MLB and WWE broadcaster Jackie Redmond wrote on X. "Unlike men, who can wear many hats without issue of course."

Former NFL sideline reporter Lisa Guerrero wrote, "Hey @NFL - If you want to continue to grow your female fan base and any other marginalized group (straight white men are already watching your product), come get your boy."

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The Ringer’s Lindsay Jones wrote, "for the record: harrison butker can go kick rocks."

NFL Network’s Jane Slater added, "Harrison Butker, 3 words. Bless Your Heart."

Sports writer Mike Lupica added, "Harrison Butker isn’t qualified to give a commencement address at a driving school."

The Chiefs didn’t comment on Butker’s speech.

The Carolina Panthers selected Butker with the No. 233 overall pick in the 2017 draft. But he never played in the regular season for them.

He joined the Chiefs and has played in 107 games for them since then.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Harry and Meghan's charity back in good standing

US charity authorities say Archewell's registration is in order after a warning notice.

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Fury & Usyk should 'speak out' on Saudi human rights

Amnesty International urges Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk to speak out about the need for 'urgent' human rights reform in Saudi Arabia.

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I want to enjoy this week as much as possible - Hayes

Chelsea boss Emma Hayes wants to "enjoy this week as much as possible" as she prepares to bid farewell to the club.

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'It just shattered' - Nemo explains broken Eurovision trophy

Returning from the contest, Swiss singer Nemo was greeted by hundreds of fans at Zurich Airport.

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8 of the most important health stories this week, in case you missed them

Fox News Digital publishes a range of health and wellness pieces all week long to keep you in the know.

Health coverage includes articles on new medications, mental health challenges, groundbreaking resources, personal medical dramas and more.

In case you missed them, here are a few of our biggest health stories from this week.

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These are just a few of what's new. 

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A 10-year-old girl in Pennsylvania is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant — and her mother is on a mission to find the perfect match. Fox News Digital talked to Ashleigh Walter about the importance of joining the donor registry. Click here to get the story.

More than half of surveyed nurses say they're likely to leave the profession. Find out the source of their frustration — and what they say needs to change in the field. Click here to get the story.

An orangutan in a protected Indonesian rainforest site who sustained a facial wound treated the injury himself, researchers say. Learn the amazing story of how he did it. Click here to get the story.

For those who are struggling to get enough sleep, the ABCs may be the key to getting more Zzzs. Sleep experts chimed in on why this method works. Click here to get the story.

For those who are experiencing their first Mother’s Day after losing a mom, a mental health expert offered five tips for navigating the difficult emotions. Click here to get the story.

The official guidance is for women ages 40 to 74 to get mammograms every other year, but some experts call for the recommendations to include older women as well. Click here to get the story.

Cholera, a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, continues to surge around the world. As vaccines remain in short supply, experts warned about the global risk. Click here to get the story.

Eating yogurt regularly could reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to the FDA. Nutritionists weighed in on the potential benefits and also urge caution. Click here to get the story.

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'Meet hot, single firemen, score a prize': Newest way women are finding their love matches

In the year 2024, plenty of people are tired of swiping away in an effort to find a love match. 

Amid all the dating app fatigue, some people are going back to basics by getting out of the house and socializing to find a potential life partner. 

Single and The City, an events-based company, is helping match people looking for a specific type of person, no matter what type of person that might be. 

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The desired might be someone who’s a first responder — a firefighter, police officer or emergency medical technician. Or it might be someone who's fit and active. Single and The City founder Amber Soletti, an Austin native, said there’s something for everyone. 

"It was 2008 [and] I was living in New York City working in the beauty industry, where the few men at my work were either gay or married," she told Fox News Digital about her background. 

She added, "I was not meeting the type of singles [that] I was interested in dating and decided I needed to start my own singles company to raise the bar — with the goal of meeting someone through one of my events."

Today, Single and The City hosts events for singles to mingle in New York City; Austin, Texas; and New Orleans, Louisiana. 

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Soletti said Single and The City hosts events based on "dating dealbreakers," such as ones based on physical preferences, common interests or backgrounds. 

One of Soletti’s most popular events is called the "Rescue Me" singles party — which is where women "get to mix and mingle with NY’s most eligible first responders."

The events, which typically bring in anywhere from 75 to 250 people, require men to show their agency ID at the check-in to prove they are first responders. 

From there, icebreaker cards are given out to women with first responder trivia questions to allow women to approach different men without feeling nervous or uncomfortable. 

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"Women also get a red dot at check-in, which is their vote for the hottest first responder that they stick on the guy they think is the hottest," she said.

Other popular events include Ivy League dating, finance dating, size matters, Fleet Week and Jewish speed dating.

Ivy League dating is for those who went to Ivy League schools; size matters is for taller people looking for a taller spouse; and Fleet Week dating is hosted during New York City's annual Fleet Week. 

Soletti told Fox News Digital that Single and The City has seen a 67% increase in attendance this year from last — saying it’s largely due to people having app frustration and fatigue. 

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"With dating apps and sites, there is a ton of time invested and wasted reading profiles, swiping, corresponding and waiting for a response," she said.

"In-person events are a great way to meet a large number of singles in one evening and to quickly assess if you have chemistry with someone and want to go on a first date."

Relationships expert Alana Carvalho, known online as The Codependent Perfectionist, told Fox News Digital that social events for dating are a "yes" in her book. 

"It’s so difficult to find [a] connection, and dating websites just aren’t cutting it for a lot of singles," she said.

"I often find that my clients feel further disconnected and disenfranchised by online dating," she added, "so I highly encourage any in-person meet-ups."

Soletti said she recommends that people who are going to singles events keep an open mind and not put too much pressure on one night. 

"You can’t go to a few events, not meet anyone you like and say that you are done with singles events [because] they don’t work," she said.

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Instead, she said, "when you get frustrated, or the prospect of meeting someone seems overwhelming, you just need to remember that different singles come out to each event and that all it takes is one."

Carvalho recommended being "hopeful and optimistic" that you will find "someone you just naturally feel a connection with."

Soletti, 5’10, met her 6’7 husband Juan Cabrera at a "size matters" speed dating event that she threw back in 2012. 

Today, the pair have a six-year-old daughter named Nola, who often comes to events and helps with check-in and handing out name tags. 

"I’m happy to say [that] I’m one of my own success stories," said Soletti. 

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Putin set to replace Shoigu as defence minister

Russian President Vladimir Putin set to replace long-standing ally Sergei Shoigu as defence minister - reports

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Thousands march in Georgia over foreign influence bill

Opponents fear the government's bill will silence critics ahead of parliamentary elections later this year.

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Pelosi rebuked to her face during Oxford debate after condemning Americans clouded by 'guns, gays, God'

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was rebuked as an "elite" during a recent Oxford Union debate, where she argued that populism in the United States is a threat to democracy.

Pelosi — a self-described "devout" Catholic — said during the April 25 debate that certain Americans, whom she considered to be "poor souls who are looking for some answers," refuse to accept the answers Democrats give them on particular topics due to their beliefs about "guns, gays, [and] God."

Challenging Pelosi's position in the debate about populism, Winston Marshall, a musician who was once a part of Mumford and Sons and now hosts the "Marshall Matters" podcast for The Spectator, spoke in opposition to the Oxford Union motion that "This House Believes Populism is a Threat to Democracy." 

The Oxford Union at the UK's famed university holds itself as a defender of free speech, and has hosted events with numerous U.S. politicians in the past, including former Republican House Speakers Newt Gingrich and Kevin McCarthy.

Marshall argued at the April 25 debate that the meaning of the word "populist" has been changed by "elites [who] have failed" to align with their own narrative.

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"'Populism' has become a word used synonymously with ‘racist.’ We've heard ‘ethno-nationalist,’ we have ‘bigot,’ we have ‘hillbilly,’ ‘redneck,’ we have ‘deplorable,’" Marshall said. Pelosi had argued in her remarks that contemporary American populism currently had an ethno-nationalist character. 

"Elites use it to show their contempt for ordinary people," Marshall said.

Marshall argued that the change in meaning of the word "populist" is "a recent change," and pointed to a 2016 speech delivered by then-President Barack Obama, who he said "took umbrage with the notion that Trump be called a populist."

"If anything, Obama argued that he was the populist. If anything, Obama argued that Bernie was the populist," he said. "Something curious happens. If you watch Obama's speeches after that point, more and more recently, he uses the word ‘populist’ interchangeably with ‘strong man,’ ‘authoritarian.' The word changes meaning. It becomes a negative, a pejorative, a slur."

Highlighting the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, which he believed to be "a dark day for America, indeed," Marshall said: "I'm sure Congresswoman Pelosi will agree that the entire month of June 2020, when the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, was under siege and under insurrection by radical progressives, those, too, were dark days for America."

At that point, Pelosi raised her hand and said: "There is no equivalence there. . . .  It is not like what happened on January 6th, which was an insurrection incited by the President of the United States."

"My point, though, is that all political movements are susceptible to violence and, indeed, insurrection," Marshall said. "Populism is not a threat to democracy. Populism is democracy. And why else have universal suffrage if not to keep elites in check?"

Marshall said he was "rather surprised" that Pelosi was arguing in favor of the motion as he thought "the left was supposed to be anti-elite" and that the "left was supposed to be anti-establishment."

"Today, particularly in America, the globalist left have become the establishment," he continued. "I suppose for Mrs. Pelosi to have taken this side of the argument, she'd be arguing herself out of a job.

Marshall went on to claim that "populism is the voice of the voiceless" and that the "real threat to democracy is from the elites."

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"Now, don't get me wrong, we need elites. If President Biden has shown us anything, we need someone to run the countries," he said. "When the president has severe dementia, it's not just America that crumbles, the whole world burns."

Marshal shifted his focus to examining the elites, saying he believes that Trump should have accepted the results of the 2020 presidential election.

"So should Hillary in 2016, so should Brussels and Westminster in 2016, and so, too, should Congresswoman Pelosi instead of saying the 2016 election was, quote, ‘hijacked.’"

"It was," Pelosi interjected, drawing laughter from those in attendance.

"That doesn't mean we don't accept the results of it," she added.

During his speech in opposition of the motion, Marshall also took aim at the social media companies that suspended Trump from their platforms following the January 6 Capitol protests and the mainstream media.

"Mainstream media elites are part of a class who don't just disdain populism, they disdain the people. If Democrats had put half their energy in delivering for the people, Trump wouldn't even have a chance in 2024 … you've had power for four years. From the fabricated Steele Dossier, to trying to take him off the ballot in both Maine and Colorado, the Democrats are the anti-Democrat party," he said.

"Populism is not a threat to democracy. But I'll tell you what is: It's elites ordering social media to censor political opponents," Marshall said. ". . . It's Brussels, D.C., Westiminster, mainstream media, big tech, big Pharma, corporate collusion and the Davos cronies."

Delivering remarks prior to Marshall, Pelosi said, "Democracy is the rule of law, democracy is free and fair elections, democracy is about independent judiciary, it's about freedom of the press to have transparency and to have accountability of elected officials to the people."

"It's about all of that, and that is everything that the populist regime in Washington, D.C., is against," she added. "Ethno-nationalistic populism, as is the threat to democracy, is about threatening what they call elites, a free press," she said. "It's about fighting issues that relate to free and fair elections, where we have voter suppression to the nth degree under this regime and its resistance to passing the Voting Rights Act, the John Lewis Act, all of that."

At one point, while speaking about those who may consider themselves a part of the populist movement and/or are "poor souls who are looking for some answers," Pelosi said, "We've given them to them, but they're blocked by some of their views on guns – they have the three Gs, guns, gays, God, that would be a woman's right to choose — and the cultural issues cloud some of their reception of an argument that really is in their interest."

The motion debated by Marshall and Pelosi ultimately received a passing vote from those attending the Oxford Union event, 177 to 68.

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England's Gill, 17, breaks 45-year-old 800m record

Hertfordshire 17-year-old Phoebe Gill moves to joint second in this year's women's world 800m rankings by clocking a sensational 1:57.86 in Belfast.

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GB's Neita wins 100m at Doha Diamond League

Britain's Daryll Neita beats American Tamari Davis to claim victory in the women's 100m at the Diamond League meeting in Doha.

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NYC sued for denying in vitro fertilization coverage to gay male employees

New York City is facing a lawsuit from a gay male employee who argues that the city's policy of only providing in vitro fertilization coverage to women is discriminatory.

The Thursday lawsuit was filed by former assistant district attorney Corey Briskin and his husband, who say they had to put off plans for IVF due to the lack of financial support.

City policy currently only covers IVF procedures in cases where the employee or their partner are infertile.

The lawsuit comes as the New York City Council is considering legislation that would change the city's rules, mandating IVF coverage for all employees regardless of marital status or sexual orientation, Reuters reported.

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"No court has yet opined on the issue of whether gay men can be denied IVF benefits given to other employees," Peter Romer-Friedman, a lawyer for Briskin and his husband, told the outlet.

ALABAMA PROVIDERS SUSPEND IVF TREATMENTS AFTER STATE COURT’S RULING AS FERTILITY EXPERTS WEIGH IN

The lawsuit claims that withholding IVF coverage violates the city's guarantees against discrimination based on sexual orientation as well as the equal rights and due process protections in the U.S. Constitution.

IVF issues have been thrust into the spotlight in recent months thanks to questions about how the practice interacts with some abortion restrictions.

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling caused three state fertility clinics to stop offering IVF services. The Alabama ruling prompted a wave of national Republicans to come out in support of IVF, while some conservatives said it is an issue best left to individual states.

ALABAMA HOUSE, SENATE PASS PROTECTIONS FOR IVF AFTER COURT RULING

Democrats, however, have used the ruling as a political cudgel against the right, claiming that Republicans would crack down on IVF access and reproductive health measures nationwide – an attack that those on the right have denied.

Just one cycle of IVF treatment could cost between $15,000 and $30,000, depending on the clinic and a person’s medical history. Briskin and other gay male employees would only be able to access IVF through surrogacy.

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Watch: Prince William plays volleyball on Newquay beach

The Prince of Wales is visiting a beach in Cornwall to meet members of local lifesaving clubs.

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'I thought they hated me' - Lyon on Ashes, Lancashire and Bazball

Nathan Lyon hopes to make a big impression for Lancashire, but the Australia great has unfinished Ashes business too.

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Could Israel & Hamas agree a ceasefire?

Plus, Rachel Reeves says the government is “gaslighting” Britain on economy

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Explainer: What are tactical nuclear weapons and why is Russia training with them now?

Russia's Defense Ministry said Monday that the military would hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons — the first time such an exercise has been publicly announced by Moscow.

A look at tactical nuclear weapons and the part they play in the Kremlin's political messaging.

Unlike nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles that can destroy entire cities, tactical nuclear weapons for use against troops on the battlefield are less powerful and can have a yield as small as about 1 kiloton. The U.S. bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II was 15 kilotons.

PUTIN'S INAUGURATION: FRANCE WILL SEND DIPLOMAT, GERMANY AND BALTIC STATES WILL NOT

Such battlefield nuclear weapons — aerial bombs, warheads for short-range missiles or artillery munitions — can be very compact. Their small size allows them to be discreetly carried on a truck or plane.

Unlike strategic weapons, which have been subject to arms control agreements between Moscow and Washington, tactical weapons never have been limited by any such pacts, and Russia hasn’t released their numbers or any other specifics related to them.

Since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly reminded Western nations about Moscow’s nuclear might in a bid to discourage them from increasing military support to Kyiv.

Early on in the war, Putin frequently referenced Moscow’s nuclear arsenal by vowing repeatedly to use "all means" necessary to protect Russia. But he later toned down his statements as Ukraine's offensive last summer failed to reach its goals and Russia scored more gains on the battlefield.

Moscow's defense doctrine envisages a nuclear response to an atomic strike or even an attack with conventional weapons that "threaten the very existence of the Russian state." That vague wording has led some pro-Kremlin Russian experts to urge Putin to sharpen it to force the West to take the warnings more seriously.

Putin said last fall that he sees no reason for such a change.

"There is no situation in which anything would threaten Russian statehood and the existence of the Russian state," he said. "I think that no person of sober mind and clear memory could have an idea to use nuclear weapons against Russia."

Last year, Russia moved some of its tactical nuclear weapons into the territory of Belarus, an ally that neighbors Ukraine and NATO members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania.

Belarus' authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, had long urged Moscow to station nuclear weapons in his country, which has close military ties with Russia and served as a staging ground for the war in Ukraine.

Both Putin and Lukashenko said that nuclear weapons deployment to Belarus was intended to counter perceived Western threats. Last year, Putin specifically linked the move to the U.K. government’s decision to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing shells containing depleted uranium.

Neither leader said how many were moved — only that Soviet-era facilities in the country were readied to accommodate them, and that Belarusian pilots and missile crews were trained to use them. The weapons have remained under Russian military control.

The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, which has a 673-mile border with Ukraine, would allow Russian aircraft and missiles to reach potential targets there more easily and quickly, if Moscow decides to use them. It has also extended Russia’s capability to target several NATO allies in Eastern and Central Europe.

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Lawmakers introduce legislation holding UNRWA accountable for joining, assisting Hamas terror attack in Israel

Members of Congress are looking to take action against a United Nations agency serving Palestinian refugees in Gaza, amid reports the international organization assisted the Hamas terror group.

Reps. Brian Mast, R-Fla., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., are introducing legislation that would demand the U.S. State Department does everything it can to return American tax dollars that went to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

"For way too long, UNRWA has masqueraded as a relief organization, while in reality serving as an incubator for Palestinian terrorists. Intelligence reports indicate that as many as 10% of UNRWA workers have direct links to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihadists," Mast said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

He added: "It’s ludicrous that our hard-earned American tax dollars were going to fund this crap. The State Department needs to do everything it can to recoup this money."

DOSSIER REVEALS INFORMATION USED TO EXPLAIN UN AGENCY'S DEEP TIES TO HAMAS IN GAZA

The legislation comes after allegations surfaced that at least a dozen UNRWA employees joined or otherwise assisted Hamas terrorists during their overnight attack on Israeli border communities on Oct. 7. The attack left more than 1,200 people dead, and Hamas took more than 200 hostages from a music festival and from their homes back into Gaza.

After reports that some UNRWA members helped Hamas, the Biden administration announced on Jan. 26 that it would stop additional taxpayer dollars from going to the agency.

Just days before the freeze, however, the administration had already transferred $121 million to UNRWA.

Mast and Gottheimer’s bipartisan bill hopes to recoup that sum to the U.S.

The legislation is part of a continued effort from the U.S. — and other countries — to separate itself from the agency.

ISRAEL URGES PALESTINIANS TO EVACUATE RAFAH AHEAD OF EXPECTED GROUND OPERATION IN HAMAS STRONGHOLD

U.S. intelligence in February said it was likely some employees of UNRWA participated in the attack, but it also said it could not verify Israeli allegations of wider links between the agency and UNRWA, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In March, the Israeli government named 12 UNRWA employees who had ties to and assisted Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel in a dossier that it shared with several of its allies. Three were suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of the hostages or keeping them in their homes.

The agency fired the 12 employees named in the allegations, but the damage was already done and UNRWA lost hundreds of millions of dollars from donors after the dossier was sent.

The information includes allegations that approximately 1,200 employees shared some connection with Hamas — including around 17% of UNRWA teachers (out of a total 8,300) and around 20% of UNRWA school principals and deputy principals (out of a total 500) are members of Hamas. Ties to the group extend to UNRWA workers in positions related to relief and humanitarian aid, with about 10% of the 151 relief workers, and members of UNRWA’s health services.

The dossier also included excerpts from textbooks used in the agency’s school curriculum that allegedly include glorification of martyrdom and antisemitic tropes. Maps provided to children in their textbooks show a singular land where Israel and the Palestinian territories exist but labeled as a singular Palestine.

After the report surfaced, Congress passed legislation to defund UNRWA until 2025. 

Other governments similarly cut financial ties to UNRWA.

The report and subsequent response comes years after former President Trump took action against UNRWA when he was serving in the White House.

Fox News’ Peter Aitken contributed to this report.

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