Ilhan Omar, facing tough primary challenger, learns her fate in Congress
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, was able to avoid the recent fate of some of her other “Squad” members in Congress, coming away with the win in the Democrat primary for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District on Tuesday.
The race featured another member of the so-called “Squad” facing off with a primary challenger, with Don Samuels, Abena McKenzie and Nate Schluter looking to make Omar the third member of the progressive group to lose a primary challenge in this cycle.
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The race featured a rematch between Omar and Samuels, who the incumbent representative narrowly escaped losing to in a 2022 primary challenge, inching out a win over Samuels by just under two percentage points before easily coasting to re-election in November.
The Democrat primary in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, which the Cook Political Report rates as “solid” Democrat, came amid a backdrop of primary defeats for Omar’s colleagues in the Squad, with Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., losing a primary challenge in June and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., losing her primary earlier this month.
This time around, Omar’s camp felt more confident, with the incumbent not facing the onslaught of advertising by United Democracy Project, a super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. (AIPAC)
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Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, which covers much of greater Minneapolis, has been represented by a Democrat in the House of Representatives since 1963, with Omar taking office in 2019.
The district has also been a dependable voting bloc for Democrats in presidential elections, with every race since 2000 going overwhelmingly to Democrat candidates.
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Video shows Walz praising Muslim cleric who celebrated Oct. 7 terrorist attack
Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., faces fresh controversy after a resurfaced 2018 video showed him praising a Muslim cleric, who once shared a pro-Hitler propaganda film and celebrated Oct. 7, as a “master teacher.”
In the last few years, Imam Asad Zaman has used his Facebook page to share official Hamas press releases, blog posts from antisemitic sites and a 2015 link to a pro-Hitler film, “The Greatest Story Never Told.” Zaman also posted on Oct. 7 that he and his organization “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks.”
On Fox News’ “Outnumbered,” Chicago-based correspondent Mike Tobin reported on The Washington Examiner unearthing a video of Walz speaking at an event hosted by Zaman’s group, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, on Feb. 16, 2018.
At the event, then-gubernatorial candidate Walz said of Zaman, “I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it. Over the time we’ve spent together, one of the things I’ve had the privilege of is seeing the things in life through the eye of a master teacher, to try and get the understanding.”
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Despite Walz referring to having spent time with Zaman, the Harris-Walz campaign told Tobin, “Gov. Walz does not have a relationship with [Zaman],” and “strongly condemns Hamas terrorism.”
This was not Walz and Zaman’s only public appearance together.
“We start to see more appearances with Zaman and Gov. Walz in 2019, January, April and May. At one point, Zaman delivers an invocation to the state of the state address,” Tobin reported. “He appeared with Gov. Walz in May of 2020, calling for calm in the George Floyd riots, and again in 2023 following a string of vandalism at mosques.”
“Sam Westrop of The Middle East Forum says Gov. Walz has been willfully ignorant of Zaman’s radicalism because he relies on the Arab or Muslim voting bloc and cannot do anything that would make him appear Islamophobic,” the Fox News correspondent said.
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Westrop said, “This is a serious problem. Under a Walz-Harris ticket, given Walz’s ability to embrace really just the worst kind of radicals within the Muslim community, one can only imagine this will be replicated at the White House level. Walz clearly doesn’t want to know about the extremists he embraces.”
Walz’s administration has also donated over $100,000 to Zaman’s group, according to state records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
The Minnesota Muslim American Society is a chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS), which the United Arab Emirates designated a terrorist group in 2014. MAS faced criticism in 2019 when a video emerged of children at a Philadelphia chapter event calling for Jewish people to be killed.
Federal prosecutors have described the MAS as “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.,” according to court records, the Examiner first reported.
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High-profile attorney who represented celebrities, athletes found dead in car
Salvatore Strazzullo, a New York City attorney best known for a string of salacious cases that caused local papers to nickname him the “Night-Life Lawyer,” was found dead in his car early Saturday in Brooklyn, according to police.
The 52-year-old Manhattan resident had more recently been facing a number of legal battles after allegedly bilking his own clients for millions, using the money for his own debts and luxurious lifestyle, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
Police found him unresponsive and unconscious in his car around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, parked near the intersection of 16th and Cropsey Avenues, an NYPD spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
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Medics pronounced him dead at the scene, but there were no immediate signs of criminality, police said. The investigation is ongoing.
The New York Times dubbed Strazzullo the Big Apple’s “Night-Life Lawyer” in a 2012 profile, outlining some of his “after-midnight” cases in the City that Never Sleeps, reporting that he’d been a nightclub manager in the 1990s before becoming a lawyer.
Over the years he represented strippers, nightclub workers and celebrities involved in mischief after dark, including a former fling of the boxer Oscar De La Hoya, who claimed she had pictures of him wearing women’s lingerie.
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Milana Dravnel, a former exotic dancer, sued De La Hoya for $100 million in 2007. Fox News reported at the time that one of the images showed the boxing legend wearing a black fishnet bodysuit and black heels. In another, he was said to be wearing a “white tutu.”
De La Hoya claimed the photos had been doctored.
According to the New York Post, the legal battle between the two surfaced allegations that the former champion known as boxing’s “Golden Boy” liked to be called “Goldie” while dressing in women’s undergarments. The parties eventually settled out of court, and both discussed the incident in an HBO documentary, “The Golden Boy,” years later.
Strazzullo’s firm’s website was down Tuesday. The Brooklyn native had an office in Bensonhurst, according to Gonzalez.
A spokesperson for the Brooklyn DA’s office declined to comment on Strazzullo’s demise Tuesday, pointing to past press releases about the allegations against him instead.
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The late lawyer was due back in a Brooklyn criminal court later this month on two separate cases involving felony charges of grand larceny and fraud in an alleged multimillion-dollar scheme that funded fancy cars, a luxe apartment in Battery Park City, fancy meals and custom suits, according to prosecutors.
He had pleaded not guilty.
Ex-NBA player wins GOP nomination to face Amy Klobuchar for Senate seat
A former professional basketball player has won the Republican primary to take on three-term Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., in the fall.
Royce White, who played with the Sacramento Kings in the NBA in 2014, bested a crowded field of candidates in the North Star State, armed with key endorsements from former President Trump’s circle.
That includes support from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.; Arizona Senate hopeful Kari Lake; and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. He was also backed by the state GOP.
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White has previously described himself as a “MAGA extremist,” according to the Star Tribune, and has closely aligned himself with the ex-president’s right-wing populist stances.
His victory appears to be a rebuke of the Minnesota GOP. White beat out retired U.S. Navy officer Joe Fraser, his top rival, despite the latter having support from two former GOP senators and a former governor.
Royce has raised just over $125,000 in individual contributions this election cycle and is heading into the general election with nearly $53,000 cash on hand.
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That’s dwarfed by Klobuchar’s $12 million in individual contributions raised. Her war chest is also larger than Royce’s. She entered the race with $6.5 million cash on hand.
Royce remains a long shot to win the general election, however. The state has trended blue in recent years, and Minnesotans have not elected a Republican to the White House since Richard Nixon in 1972.
Klobuchar, the senior senator from the state, has won re-election twice after her first campaign in 2006. She’s the first woman to represent Minnesota in the Senate.
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A moderate Democrat, she voted with former President Trump approximately a third of the time
She won in 2006 with approximately 58% of the vote, followed by 65% in 2012 and 60% in 2018.
Men’s cancer cases expected to spike nearly 100% in coming decades — who’s most at risk
The prevalence of cancer among men is expected to skyrocket globally in the coming decades, according to a new study from the American Cancer Society (ACS).
To predict future risk, Australian researchers analyzed the mortality rates tied to 30 different types of cancer among adult men in 2022, based on data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer across 185 countries and territories.
Based on those findings, they predicted that between 2022 and 2050, men’s cancer cases will spike by around 84% — going from 10.3 million to 19 million.
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Male cancer deaths are expected to increase by 93% in that same time frame, reaching 10.5 million by 2050.
Cases are expected to more than double among men 65 and older, as well as for those who live in areas with a low or medium Human Development Index (HDI, a measure of a country’s average rankings in health, knowledge and standard of living).
Poorer survival is also projected for rare cancers, such as pancreatic.
The findings were published in Cancer, the journal of the ACS.
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In 2020, men were 43% more likely to die of cancer than women, and their diagnosis rate was 19% higher, statistics show.
Men have been shown previously to engage more in modifiable risk factors for cancer, including smoking and consuming alcohol.
They are also less likely to get regular screenings for male-specific cancers, the study authors noted.
The 10 cancers with the highest age-standardized mortality rates among men are lung cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, stomach cancer, prostate cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, leukemia, bladder cancer, and cancers of the brain and central nervous system.
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To help reduce the impact of cancers on men, the researchers called for reducing modifiable risk factors and making male-specific screenings more accessible, among other efforts.
“Strengthening health infrastructure, enhancing workforce quality and access, fostering national and international collaborations, and promoting universal health coverage are crucial to reducing cancer disparities and ensuring cancer equity among men globally,” the study authors wrote.
Potential limitations
The researchers acknowledged some limitations of the study, including the quality of the data provided by some countries and territories.
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“Estimates in low-HDI and medium-HDI countries could be less accurate because the majority of these jurisdictions have relatively low-quality cancer registries and/or civil and vital statistics registration systems,” the authors wrote.
They also noted that some “measures of cancer burden, such as years of life lost or years lived with disability,” were not available in the original data and could not be included in the study.
Fox News Digital reached out to the ACS and physicians for comment.
Time’s Kamala cover fawns over Democratic nominee — with one major admission
The political press demonstrated daily that it has zero self-respect. It is fawning over the “momentum” and gravitas of Kamala Harris while the candidate has refused to do interviews or press conferences for weeks.
At the head of this servile line is Time magazine, which published a painterly portrait of Kamala with the words “Her Moment.” In between puffy clouds of prose, Time writer Charlotte Alter admitted “Harris has yet to do a single substantive interview or to explain her policy shifts. (Her campaign denied a request for an interview for this story.)”
It’s quite a contrast to Donald Trump, who Time interviewed for a cover story in April. That interview went long enough for Time.com to tell you the transcript was an “83 Minute Read.” On top of that they did a long “fact check” that was a “21 Minute Read.”
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There is no “fact check” for Kamala, since there was no interview. Instead, Alter offered repeated comparisons to pop-music superstars. She began: “The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert. The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour [of Taylor Swift]. And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama.”
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Taylor Swift came up again a few paragraphs later: “More than 38,000 people registered on Vote.org in the 48 hours after she became the presumptive nominee, eclipsing the voter-registration surge encouraged by Taylor Swift last year.”
But that wasn’t enough: “Mass enthusiasm for a woman is nothing new: Harris’s run comes just a year after the blockbuster summer of Barbie, Beyoncé, and Swift.”
Perhaps most implausibly, TIME dragged out “Star Wars” puffery. Sen. Cory Booker claimed Harris has “mastered the art of ‘arm twisting’ required to pass major legislation” for Democrats. “She has gone,” he said, “from being a Padawan to a Jedi master.”
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Overall, Alter summarized, “Harris has pulled off the swiftest vibe shift in modern political history.” The media pretend that Harris creates “vibe shifts,” as if their incessant proclamations about her “momentum” and her “joyous warrior” poses aren’t part of the vibe-shifting attempt.
Even Kamala Harris the Horrible Boss is dismissed. We’re told she’s been let down by poor staff instead. “One challenge for Harris has been the people around her. Over the years, a rotating cast of senior staff has clouded her message and raised questions about her abilities as a manager.”
Harris is accountable for nothing, while former President Donald Trump sat for a hostile interview with a Time scribe named Eric Cortellessa. He asked Trump eleven questions about the Trump prosecutions (and “revenge” for them), five questions about January 6, two about potential political violence in 2025, four on fighting the “deep state,” three on his “dictator for a day” joke, and four on whether he’d seek to overturn the 22nd Amendment and seek a third term.
When it came to being prosecuted by Biden’s Justice Department, Cortellessa lectured Trump: “I just want to say for the record, there’s no evidence that President Biden directed this prosecution against you.” Trump rejected that: “I always hate the way a reporter will make those statements. They know it’s so wrong.”
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Time, like other slavishly pro-Biden-Harris outlets, will never acknowledge that Biden’s number-three Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo’s resignation to join Alvin Bragg’s team of Trump prosecutors shreds the “no evidence” lie.
Time’s artistic Kamala cover recalls the kind of celebratory swagger they brought to a cover story on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and on Christine Blasey Ford, one of the unsubstantiated sexual-assault accusers of Brett Kavanaugh. It’s the kind of giddy propaganda that makes conservatives gag at the idea that the media provides “the first draft of history.”
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Crowd disapproves of country singer’s shirt, so he decides to get rid of it
No shirt, no problem for country star Bailey Zimmerman.
During a performance in Sin City last week, the “Hell or High Water” crooner — who was opening for Morgan Wallen on his “One Night at a Time Tour” – was forced to remove his shirt after being greeted by boos from the audience.
Zimmerman, who took the stage wearing a Las Vegas Raiders shirt, poked fun at himself on social media by sharing a fan’s video of the moment he realized the audience didn’t quite approve of his decision to rock the NFL team’s gear.
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In the video posted on TikTok, the country singer was in the middle of a performance as the crowd booed. After a confused Zimmerman pointed to his shirt and gave a thumbs down, the crowd cheered.
“You’re the man for continuing on.”
“You guys want me to take it off, or what?” he asked the crowd before removing his shirt.
The 24-year-old continued the rest of his set shirtless – and the fans were all about it.
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“You’re the man for continuing on,” one fan commented on Zimmerman’s Instagram. “That ain’t easy.”
“You handled it so well!! We definitely weren’t booing you, just the shirt!,” another explained. “The Raiders are very new to Vegas and not really the locals team. Next time in Vegas wear a Vegas Golden Knights hockey jersey and the crowd will go wild.”
A representative for Zimmerman didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Zimmerman isn’t the only country star who’s faced a confusing uproar from the crowd during a performance.
Carly Pearce recently called out a rude fan while performing at WE Fest in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, before kicking him out of the venue.
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“You can’t be mean to people and expect people to tolerate it,” Pearce told People magazine of the incident. “Especially as women, we’re conditioned to kind of just take it, and I want that stigma to go away because we deserve to be able to stand up for ourselves.”
“People need to be nicer. I hope that people are nicer and maybe think a little before they speak,” she added.
The heated altercation was captured on a video shared to X, in which the man was seen being escorted out of the Soo Pass Ranch, where the festival was being held.
“Get out of my show,” Pearce shouted from the stage, pointing directly at someone. “If you’re gonna be an a–hole, you’re gonna have to say it to me and get the f— out of my show.”
“I do not have time for d—s,” she said, garnering roars from the crowd. “See you later!”
A representative for Pearce did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment about what sparked the incident. Several users on social media claimed that Pearce was speaking directly to the crowd about her life when a man shouted, “No one cares.”
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Cosmetics giant files for bankruptcy after multiple lawsuits over cancer claims
Avon Products filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday as the beauty brand looks to address its debt and legal liabilities stemming from lawsuits that alleged its talc-based products were contaminated with cancer-causing substances.
The holding company hasn’t sold Avon products in the U.S. since it divested its North America business in 2016, but remains the holding company for the Avon brand’s operating entities outside the U.S.
Avon is known for selling cosmetics, skin care, perfume and personal care products, as well as the company’s door-to-door saleswomen.
“Today’s action and the proposed sale of Avon’s non-U.S. operations will maximize the value of our assets and enable us to address our obligations in an orderly manner,” John Dubel, chair of Avon Products, said in a release.
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Avon CEO Kristof Neirynck said the company is “focused on advancing our business strategy internationally, including modernizing our direct selling model and reigniting the brand to accelerate growth. Since becoming CEO earlier this year, I am increasingly energized by our strength and opportunities, supported by our valued Associates and nearly 2 million Representatives around the world.”
Avon’s operations outside the U.S. are excluded from the legal proceedings and will continue to operate as normal while the process plays out.
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Natura & Co., a Brazil-based firm that acquired Avon in 2020, entered into an agreement to buy the equity interests in Avon’s non-U.S. operations for $125 million in a credit bid that’s subject to a court-supervised auction process.
Natura also committed up to $43 million in financing that would, subject to court approval, provide liquidity for Avon Products to cover its obligations during the sale process.
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The Avon Company, which is the Avon brand in the U.S. and is operated by LG Household & Health Care Ltd., isn’t affiliated with other Avon entities and isn’t part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.