Tuberville fires back after Walz takes a swipe at him during fundraiser: ‘An embarrassment’
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., fired back at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Thursday after Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate sideswiped him at a Boston fundraiser.
Walz, after saying he doesn’t “name-call people,” made a crack about Tuberville, according to The Boston Globe.
“One of my roles in this now is to be the anti-Tommy Tuberville, to show that football coaches are not the dumbest people,” Walz was quoted as saying.
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Tuberville, who was the head coach at Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati and was the 2004 Coach of the Year, was critical of Walz in a post on X but told Fox News Digital he didn’t really understand where the swipe at him came from.
Walz became the defensive coordinator for Mankato West High School in Minnesota in the late 1990s, and the team won the Class 4A state title in 1999.
“I think he’s trying to make himself look good. Kind of comparing himself to a coach, which he was only an assistant coach in high school. And if he had been any good, he would’ve been a head coach, to be honest with you,” Tuberville said.
“I don’t know what he’s trying to do. He’s kind of conned his way up the totem pole, I guess. He’s second in line to being the president of the United States if they were to happen to win, which I don’t think that’s going to happen, but … if you just look at everything he’s done, it doesn’t coincide with being a coach.”
Tuberville said Walz took the shot against him because he has “nothing else to talk about” and warned that Walz and Harris need to start talking about their future for American citizens.
“We’re all — 330 million people — are just kind of around waiting for he and Kamala Harris to go on television and do an interview and talk about things that affect all of us, which are food prices, gas, the foreign wars, the border, the crime. They’re out here talking about things that don’t mean a hill of beans for the American people.
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“Sure, if you want to talk about the past, that’s fine. But the past is not going to do us any good. The future. What are you going to do for the future? You’re running for the future of the United States of America. Get out there and sell what you’ve got. And if you don’t have anything to sell, what do you do? You try to do something else. You try to ignore it. You try to put other things in front of it. You try to give some semblance of bouncing a rubber ball around a room.
“Hey, we need something that’s going to stick. And so, the American people need to know what they stand for. And neither one of them yet, in a month’s time, have got in front of the cameras and say, ‘This is what we believe in. This is the direction we’re going now.’ They’ll hit or miss on it, but we need some structure because we’re 85, 86, 87 days away from the biggest elections ever. And we got two people out there running around making jokes behind the scenes when they should be talking about serious business for the American people.”
Tuberville led Auburn to a 13-0 record in 2004, finishing with a Sugar Bowl win.
He was also the AFCA Coach of the Year, the Paul “Bear” Bryant Award winner and the Walter Camp Coach of the Year for that 2004 season. Additionally, he won the SEC Coach of the Year twice.
Tuberville added that coaching college football is one of the toughest things to do and that it’s helped him strengthen his communication skills as a senator.
“You had a lot of people that are very smart. You had some people that struggled,” he added. “Being able to communicate (to) different personalities. You gotta remember now, when you’re a football coach in college, you deal with people from all backgrounds — rich, poor, all different races, urban, rural. And then your job is to bring them all together. And if you can do that, you have a good chance for success.
“That’s what I prided myself in — to be able to talk with a young White kid from a rural area that’s very shy, that wasn’t around a lot of people to an urban kid, whether he’s Black or White, and made them feel they were part of it when sometimes it was a very hard job.
“College athletics is very hard. Being a coach is very hard. Dealing with a hundred different personnel, 120 different personalities and people that they come, all those different backgrounds. It is a challenge.
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“And it goes back to Walz. He should understand that. He should understand it. It’s one of the hardest jobs that you can ever do. To get to a point to put them in a situation where they can win and then have a chance to win championships, it’s even harder.”
ESPN fires anchor who spoke out against trans athletes competing against women
ESPN fired Samantha Ponder and Robert Griffin III on Thursday.
The Athletic first reported the shake-up and ESPN confirmed the news to Fox News Digital. Ponder was anchor on “Sunday NFL Countdown” and Griffin was an analyst who appeared on multiple shows.
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Ponder didn’t immediately comment on the decision. Griffin joked on X about getting fired on his day off, using a clip from the movie “Friday.”
The decision to fire Ponder sparked most of the outrage on social media. Riley Gaines, the host of OutKick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast, and former ESPN anchor Sage Steele were among those to defend Ponder.
Ponder was among the tiny group of personalities who called for fairness in women’s sports amid the ongoing debate over transgender inclusion in women’s sports. She also defended Kansas City Chiefs’ Harrison Butker for his faith-based speech at Benedictine College.
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A source familiar with Ponder and Griffin’s firings told Fox News Digital they were business decisions. Griffin was off of “Monday Night Countdown” in favor of the network’s new hire, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, and was still going to receive his full salary for a low-profile college football show. Ponder’s lone show was “Sunday NFL Countdown.”
The source added that Ponder and Griffin will still get what they are owed in their contracts.
Ponder joined ESPN’s Longhorn Network in July 2011 and moved up the ranks as the host of one of the company’s top NFL shows.
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Griffin, who played several seasons in the NFL, joined ESPN in August 2022. He was an analyst on “NFL Live” and a college football analyst. He joined “Monday Night Countdown” in 2022.
Gang leader wanted for 23 murders in Peru released into US by border officials in May
U.S. immigration officials on Wednesday nabbed a Peruvian gang leader wanted for nearly two dozen murders in his home country.
Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, 38, was arrested in Endicott, New York, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday.
He’s being held at a federal detention facility near Buffalo pending an immigration hearing, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.
Authorities say Torres-Navarro entered the U.S. illegally at the Texas-Mexico border on May 16. He was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol the same day near Roma, Texas before being released into the U.S. with a notice to appear for immigration proceedings, Fox News was told.
It took almost two months before federal authorities learned Torres-Navarro was wanted in Peru for 23 killings. He allegedly fled Peru after the killing of retired police officer Cesar Quegua Herrera at a restaurant in San Miguel in March, Peruvian media reported.
ICE found and arrested him and his girlfriend, Mishelle Sol Ivanna Ortíz Ubillús, on Wednesday.
Peruvian authorities say Torres-Navarro is the leader of a gang known as “Los Killers de Ventanilla y Callao.” That gang is accused of using violence to thwart rivals seeking to cut into its core business of extorting construction companies.
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Thomas Brophy, director of enforcement removal operations for ICE’s Buffalo field office, said Torres-Navarro poses a “significant threat to our communities, and we won’t allow New York to be a safe haven for dangerous noncitizens.”
“Well done by our ERO Buffalo officers who brought this individual into custody,” Brophy said in a statement provided to Fox News.
Ortíz Ubillús is being held at a processing center in Pennsylvania, according to ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System.
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Peruvian authorities have described Ortíz Ubillús as Torres-Navarro’s right-hand man. She’s said to play a prominent role in “Los Killers,” being his lieutenant and cashier.
She also has a sizable following on the social media platform TikTok where she showed off her lavish lifestyle, including designer clothes, resort vacations and shooting targets at a gun range.
Rev. Franklin Graham responds to ‘Evangelicals for Harris’ using his father’s image in an ad
Christian evangelist Franklin Graham blasted the “Evangelicals for Harris” organization for using footage of his late father in an attack ad against former President Trump.
Graham is president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, which were founded by his father, the late Billy Graham. Billy Graham was a world-famous evangelist and considered to be an icon of American culture. A statue of him was installed at the U.S. Capitol in May.
Evangelicals for Harris, formerly Evangelicals for Biden, is a project of Faith Voters, a 501(c)4 organization.
On Wednesday, the group held a Zoom conference hosted by “reparations activist” Ekemini Uwan, who has argued that “Whiteness is wicked” and the police as an institution “needs to be destroyed and rebuilt. Policing was founded on the re-enslavement of Black people.”
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A new attack ad from the pro-Harris organization against Trump juxtaposes footage of the late Billy Graham talking about confessing one’s sins with an old interview of Trump saying he wasn’t sure at the time whether he had ever asked God for forgiveness.
Franklin Graham responded on X by sharing a screenshot of the ad on the official Morning Joe account and condemning Evangelicals for Harris using his father’s image. He argued that if his father were alive, he would support Trump.
“The liberals are using anything and everything they can to promote candidate Harris. They even developed a political ad trying to use my father @BillyGraham’s image,” he wrote in a social media post. “They are trying to mislead people. Maybe they don’t know that my father appreciated the conservative values and policies of President @realDonaldTrump in 2016, and if he were alive today, my father’s views and opinions would not have changed.”
The official Evangelicals for Harris account replied, “Praying for you” along with a heart emoji beneath his post and later said in a retweet that Graham has “forsaken the gospel.”
“The issue, Franklin, is that in your worship of Trump you have forsaken the Gospel,” the group’s account posted. “We are voting for Harris but we only worship Jesus. Remember the calling to which you were called. You know the Lord’s grace is always ready to receive you.”
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At the Republican National Convention in July, the reverend said of Trump, “I am grateful and thankful for what he did as the 45th President of the United States. And I know that as the 47th President he will keep his word to the American people to Make America Great Once Again.”
He led a prayer thanking God for saving Trump’s life, after the president narrowly avoided an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania. Graham went on to implore God, “And we ask that if it be thy will that you would Make America Great Again.”
Cowboys coach apologizes for his own player’s ‘unacceptable’ behavior after intern incident
Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy says a recent incident involving Cowboys defensive tackle Albert Huggins was unacceptable.
Huggins ran into a Los Angeles Rams intern during a drill, knocking the smaller staffer to the ground in a joint practice Wednesday.
McCarthy addressed the incident Thursday.
“Obviously, his behavior is unacceptable,” McCarthy said, via Todd Archer of ESPN. “It’s something that’s been addressed. He has apologized, and I’m comfortable with his apology. I was obviously on the offensive side of the field when it happened.
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McCarthy added that he consulted with Rams coaches Sean McVay and Mike Zimmer about next steps after the initial hit.
“I had a chance to talk to Mike Zimmer and Sean McVay. When it did happen, we removed him from practice,” McCarthy said. “Frankly, when I saw the video a few hours later after the practice, I called Sean again. His response to me was, ‘You’d have been proud the way your coaches reacted.’ I just want to make sure that behavior is unacceptable. Emotional discipline in that moment. That’s not what we’re about, and he clearly understands that.”
The coaches prevented the incident from escalating. Some loud words between Rams and Cowboys players and coaches were exchanged on the field, but the drill carried on as usual afterward.
An equipment intern was reportedly standing in for a play to represent a quarterback in the pocket for a drill. The hit came on a play in which Huggins charged around Rams guard Grant Miller. When he got into the backfield, Huggins finished the play, going up to the intern and pushing him to the ground.
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The 27-year-old Huggins is 6-foot-3, 305 pounds, and he has no career sacks. He signed with the Cowboys Aug. 6 after a one-year stint with the Atlanta Falcons in 2023. He previously played for the New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots and the Cowboys’ archrival, the Philadelphia Eagles, where he started his career after going undrafted in 2019 out of Clemson.
The Rams had just come off a 13-12 preseason victory over the Cowboys Sunday.
The two teams are not scheduled to meet in the regular season this year. However, they could both be contenders for a playoff spot and a potential postseason meeting.
Authorities plead for public’s help after DNA testing suggests serial killer is on the loose
The Austin Police Department (APD) is requesting the public’s help to identify a suspected serial killer whose DNA was linked to the murders of two women in the metropolitan area.
At about 4 p.m. June 21, police responded to a call from someone who reported seeing what appeared to be a body at a home in the 2600 block of Metcalfe Road.
When officers arrived, they found a dead woman, later identified as 34-year-old Alyssa Rivera, inside an abandoned house.
A brief investigation conducted by homicide detectives and crime specialists led investigators to believe Rivera was murdered at the home by an unknown suspect.
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On July 3, police released video and images of a person of interest in Rivera’s murder. The videos showed what appeared to be a Hispanic male walking next to a woman who was taller than he was.
As the investigation continued, investigators learned of a DNA connection between Rivera’s case and the April 14, 2018, unsolved murder of Alba Jenisse Aviles in the 300 block of Old San Antonio Road in Bastrop County, Texas.
The Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the murder of Aviles, who left Club Caribe on Felter Lane in Austin on the night she was murdered.
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The club is just over 3 miles away from where Rivera was murdered, police said, and both homicides appear to be sexual in nature.
Police said while no suspect has been identified in either case, DNA evidence shows the suspect to be the same in both cases.
Austin is notorious for its share of serial killers.
Last year, Texas police and U.S. Marshals announced the arrest of Raul Meza Jr., 62, in the murders of former probation officer Jesse Fraga, 80, who had given Meza a place to stay for years, and Gloria Lofton, 66, who was found dead in her home in 2019.
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Meza is a convicted child killer who has bounced in and out of prison for decades.
On May 20, 2023, he allegedly strangled Fraga with a belt, stabbed him and severed his spine, prompting a manhunt that ended with the suspect apparently calling police and turning himself in.
Meza has a lengthy rap sheet that goes back to 1982, when he sexually assaulted and strangled an 8-year-old girl outside an Austin elementary school.
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He served 11 years of a 30-year sentence before his release. He violated parole in 1994, went back to prison and was released in 2002. Meza was on parole until 2016.
In January, law enforcement issued a search warrant for Meza’s Google account from Nov. 1, 2016, to May 29, 2023, hoping to find information tying him to a 2018 Austin cold case, as well as information that links him to at least two homicides in San Antonio.
“Meza committed additional sexual assaults after his supervised release ended in 2016, and believe data associated with the Google LLC account herein will assist investigators in corroborating Meza as a suspect in the murder of Gloria Lofton, Jesse Fraga and the shooting he admitted to in San Antonio as well as additional cold case homicides,” the search warrant said, according to a report by the Austin American-Statesman.
There is speculation one of Meza’s victims is college student Nicole Coleman, whose naked body was found in a wooded area of Austin in 2018 with signs of trauma.
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Her unsolved homicide has been like a hovering storm cloud over the city for years.
Meza’s arrest made him Austin’s first known serial killer since the “Servant Girl Annihilator,” who was believed to have killed eight women in 1885, according to city authorities, though the killer was never captured.
Police were looking at Meza in other deaths in Austin, though they told Fox News Digital at the time the deaths were not linked to a series of drownings at Lady Bird Lake near Rainey Street, where four men were found dead in a span of weeks.
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Detectives also said at the time that they had found no evidence of a serial killer or foul play in the Rainey Street and Lady Bird Lake incidents.
Still, independent investigators, concerned residents, web sleuths and tens of thousands of members of a Facebook group following the string of incidents have voiced concerns of a possible murderer on the loose in the deaths of men on Rainey Street, which is home to a strip of bars a block or so from the water’s edge.
The APD told Fox News Digital Thursday the deaths of Rivera and Aviles are not linked to the deaths near Lady Bird Lake.
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Police said the homicide unit investigates each death in the city to determine if it is suspicious, and after initial investigations, a medical examiner does a hands-on body exam to determine if there are any signs of physical injuries. After that, a toxicology exam is conducted, which could take months.
“Through this process, one death near Lady Bird Lake in December 2022 was ruled a homicide,” police told Fox News Digital. “In that particular case, the victim was shot as he was driving by two groups that had been arguing. The other deaths in and around Lady Bird Lake are not considered suspicious due to the results of these investigations.”
Police also said there is a possibility there could be more homicides linked to the suspect in the Rivera and Aviles murders. However, the APD said, it “does not have any unsolved murders that match the modus operandi” of what happened to the two women.
Criminal defense attorney Daniel W. Betts, who is running against the George Soros-supported Travis County district attorney, Jose Garza, told Fox News Digital on Thursday that once a suspect is arrested, the district attorney should keep the death penalty on the table as an option for punishment.
The death penalty is legal in Texas, and while Betts – who is a Republican – does not like the penalty, he acknowledged its importance in the case of murderers.
“I think it is important to leave it on the table and to not telegraph to criminals what we’re going to do on cases,” he said. “For cases like this in Texas, when you murder multiple people, you become eligible…for the death penalty, and if you don’t have that, and I’m not saying it’s warranted here, but leaving it off the table and saying we will never consider it like the current DA has, it’s such a horrible precedent.
“The victims here were sexually assaulted and murdered,” Betts added. “So, as district attorney, I would absolutely leave it on the table.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Garza’s office for comment on the matter.
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Investigators are continuing to seek leads regarding the person of interest shown in the video and ask anyone with information to contact them at 512-974-TIPS.
Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can contact Capital Area Crime Stoppers by visiting austincrimestoppers.org or calling 512-472-8477. Tips leading to an arrest could result in a reward of up to $1,000.
Arrests made after Perry was found dead in an apparent drowning — family responds
After news broke Thursday that five people have been arrested in connection with Matthew Perry’s death last year, his stepfather Keith Morrison and his family said they “look forward to justice taking its course.”
“We were and still are heartbroken by Matthew’s death, but it has helped to know law enforcement has taken his case very seriously,” the family told Fox News Digital. “We look forward to justice taking its course and we’re grateful for the exceptional work of the multiple agencies whose agents investigated Matthew’s death. We’re hoping unscrupulous suppliers of dangerous drugs will get the message.”
Perry was found dead of an apparent drowning in his hot tub at his home in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2023, and his death was attributed to acute effects of ketamine.
Other conditions that contributed to his death included “coronary artery disease, buprenorphrine effects,” the report said. “Prescription medications and loose pills” were found at the residence.
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“Dateline” host Morrison has been married to Perry’s mother, Suzanne Perry, since 1981 and was seen with investigators outside of Perry’s home on the night he was found.
U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Martin Estrada announced five defendants, including two doctors, were arrested and charged with multiple counts during a live press conference.
The defendants arrested are: Jasveen Sangha, 41, a.k.a. “The Ketamine Queen,” of North Hollywood; Dr. Salvador Plasencia, 42, a.k.a. “Dr. P,” of Santa Monica; Eric Fleming, 54, of Hawthorne; Kenneth Iwamasa, 59, of Toluca Lake; and Dr. Mark Chavez, 54, of San Diego.
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Estrada said at one point that the defendants distributed approximately “20 vials for approximately $50,000 in cash” to Perry for Kenneth (Kenny) Iwamasa, Perry’s live-in assistant, to distribute ketamine to the actor. During another sale, the dealers “took advantage of Mr. Perry” by selling approximately “50 vials of ketamine for approximately $11,000 in cash.”
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Iwamasa served as Perry’s personal assistant prior to his death. He allegedly conspired with Sangha, Fleming and Plasencia to illegally obtain ketamine and distribute it to the late actor, according to court documents, and Iwamasa admitted to repeatedly injecting Perry with ketamine without medical training, including performing multiple injections on the day Perry died.
“We were and still are heartbroken by Matthew’s death, but it has helped to know law enforcement has taken his case very seriously.”
Iwamasa pleaded guilty on Aug. 7 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death, and, per Estrada, has already filed a plea agreement.
Sangha and Plasencia each face one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine, and Sangha has also been charged with one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, one count of possession with intent to distribute ketamine and five counts of distribution of ketamine.
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Fleming also pleaded guilty on Aug. 8 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death, admitting that he distributed the ketamine that killed the “Friends” star.
Chavez agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine as part of his plea agreement, admitting to selling ketamine to Plasencia.
Morrison previously spoke about Perry’s struggle with addiction earlier this year.
“He felt like he was beating it. But you never beat it, and he knew that, too,” Morrison told Hoda Kotb on her “Making Space” podcast.
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He added, “He was happy, and he said so. And he hadn’t said that for a long time. It’s a source of comfort, but also, you know he didn’t get to have his third act, and that’s not fair.”
Company issues recall after hundreds hit with potentially deadly foodborne illness
Cucumbers in 31 states and the District of Columbia are being recalled after hundreds of people have reported illnesses linked to salmonella.
In an update, the Center of Disease Control (CDC) announced Salmonella Africana and Salmonella Braenderup infections, which were originally reported as two separate outbreaks.
The agency identified that 449 people were ill after eating salmonella-laden cucumbers and 125 people were hospitalized.
No one has died from salmonella linked to the infected cucumbers, the CDC said.
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The government agency revealed that an investigation linked a strain of the infection to two sources.
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One of the sources was linked to untreated canal water used by a grower in Florida.
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- Most people infected with Salmonellaexperience diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps.Symptoms usually start 6 hours to 6 days after swallowing the bacteria.Most people recover without treatment after 4 to 7 days.
- Symptoms usually start 6 hours to 6 days after swallowing the bacteria.
- Most people recover without treatment after 4 to 7 days.
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- Some people—especially children younger than 5 years, adults 65 years and older, and people with weakened immune systems—may experience more severe illnesses that require medical treatment or hospitalization.