Police say teen who opened fire in school cafeteria had been ‘significantly influenced’

Investigators say the now-deceased gunman who opened fire at a Nashville, Tennessee, high school on Wednesday, killing a female student and injuring another student before turning the gun on himself, was “significantly influenced” by web-based material found on sites “most would find harmful and objectionable.”

On Wednesday, Metropolitan Nashville police identified 17-year-old Solomon Henderson as the shooter at Antioch High School who killed Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, and injured a 17-year-old student who suffered a wound after being grazed by a bullet. The latter has since been treated and released from the hospital.

In a news release on Thursday, police said the investigation into the murder-suicide inside the school’s cafeteria determined that Henderson fired 10 shots from a 9 mm pistol within 16 seconds after entering the room.

The handgun, police said, was loaded with nine rounds when it was recovered by investigators. A magazine loaded with seven rounds was also recovered from the cafeteria floor.

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Just prior to entering the cafeteria, the investigation found, Henderson went into a nearby restroom where he posted photos to social media.

Police previously believed Henderson took a bus to school on Wednesday, but they have since confirmed that his mother drove him to school.

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When investigators searched Henderson’s residence, they were not able to find any other firearms or gun parts.

While no firearms were found, detectives have since found two documents they believe were created by Henderson on non-traditional websites – one was 51 pages, the other was 288 pages.

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The documents and other evidence found at the residence, police said, are being closely looked at by homicide unit detectives as well as detectives from the Specialized Investigations Division and the FBI.

“It is clear that Henderson was significantly influenced by web-based material, especially that found on non-traditional sites that most would find harmful and objectionable,” police said.

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Additionally, it was learned the pistol was purchased by an individual in Arizona in 2022 and had not been reported stolen. 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is helping police determine how Henderson acquired the handgun.

House lawmaker proposes amendment allowing Trump to serve third term

One of President Donald Trump’s top congressional allies introduced a resolution on Thursday evening to allow the commander-in-chief a third term.

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is pushing a new amendment to the Constitution that would give a president three terms in office, but no more than two consecutive four-year stints.

The amendment would say, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

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The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, prevents a person from serving as president for more than two terms. 

It was passed by Congress in 1947 in response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning four terms in the White House. Roosevelt died the year after he was elected to his fourth term in the 1944 presidential election.

But in a statement released to media on Thursday, Ogles said Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal.”

“To that end, I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment on presidential terms,” Ogles said. “This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring that we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

Trump made comments about serving a third term to House Republicans during a closed-door speech late last year, but multiple sources who attended the event told Fox News Digital that the then-president-elect was joking.

Earlier this month, Ogles unveiled a bill to authorize Trump to enter into talks to purchase Greenland after he expressed interest in doing so.

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The “Make Greenland Great Again Act” would have authorized Trump to enter negotiations with Denmark over purchasing Greenland, a territory located in North America but with longstanding cultural and geopolitical ties to Europe.

“Joe Biden took a blowtorch to our reputation these past four years, and before even taking office, President Trump is telling the world that America First is back. American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat, and House Republicans are ready to help President Trump deliver for the American people,” Ogles told Fox News Digital at the time.

Harris reportedly in close contact with Hillary Clinton as speculation swirls

Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ future remains unclear months after her election loss to now-President Donald Trump.

As she grapples with navigating next steps, Harris has spoken with family and close friends, including the one other person who has been in her exact position: Hillary Clinton, New York Magazine reported. The two have reportedly spoken several times since Harris’ defeat.

Some have speculated that she will stage a gubernatorial run next year in California, as her close friend, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, is limited on terms and can’t run again. Others think she still has her eye on the Oval Office and will launch another bid for the presidency. Shortly after the election, Harris reportedly told advisors not to make any plans that would preclude her from seeking the presidency in 2028, according to New York Magazine.

The former vice president has not spoken directly about her future, but she has hinted that she’s not done with politics. Last week, just days before the end of her time as then-President Joe Biden’s VP, Harris addressed a room of staff as she participated in the decades-long tradition of signing her desk drawer. During her brief remarks, Harris said she would not “go quietly into the night,” saying that “our work is not done.”

The comments she made to staff echoed a message from her concession speech in which she told supporters, “While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign.”

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After her 2020 bid for the presidency failed, Harris was given a clear path forward as Biden’s pick to be his running mate. While Biden seemed to imply that he would be a one-term president, he announced his re-election campaign in April 2023.

However, after a disastrous debate that highlighted ongoing issues, Biden made the historic decision to drop out of the race in July 2024. This was just one week after a gunman nearly killed Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania.

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Shortly after dropping out of the race, Biden endorsed his VP, moving her to the top of the ticket. Some believed this move could have hurt her prospects, as voters saw her nomination as a coronation, in stark contrast to the “save democracy” message channeled by the Democrats.

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Harris and Clinton have more than election losses in common. Both were backed by a long list of Hollywood A-listers, whose endorsements ultimately did not help. Not even Taylor Swift could make the “Harris Era” happen.

“The outcome of this election is not what we hoped, not what we fought for, not what we voted for,” Harris said in her concession speech. “But hear when I say … the light of America’s promise will always burn bright as long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting.”

Belichick’s North Carolina contract reveals eye-popping salary — and juicy incentives

Bill Belichick has already been on the recruiting trail, but it’s officially official that he’s North Carolina’s next head football coach after he signed his contract. 

And it’s a contract with eye-popping numbers. 

The Tar Heels released Belichick’s deal, which continues through the end of 2029, Thursday. The 72-year-old will be making $10 million per season, though his official base salary is $1 million. 

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The other $9 million will be coming from what is described as “supplemental income.”

Belichick, the six-time Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots, immediately becomes one of the top 10 highest-paid head coaches in college football. Seven coaches made $10 million or more in 2024, according to USA Today. 

The highest-paid coach in the country is Georgia’s Kirby Smart at over $13 million per season. Clemson’s Dabo Swinney ($11.13 million), Texas’ Steve Sarkisian ($10.6 million), USC’s Lincoln Riley ($10.043 million) and Ohio State’s Ryan Day ($10.021 million), fresh off a national championship win, round out the top five. 

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Like many other contracts, Belichick’s has incentives that would trigger massive paydays if they’re met, including a $750,000 bonus if the Tar Heels reach the College Football Playoff. If they win a national title, Belichick would receive a $1.75 million bonus. 

Other incentives include a $150,000 bonus for reaching a bowl game as well as a $350,000 bonus if the team makes an “elite” non-playoff bowl. Those would include the Pop-Tarts Bowl, Gator Bowl, Duke’s Mayo Bowl and a few others. 

Finally, a top 25 ranking at the end of the regular season would also trigger a $250,000 bonus for Belichick. And he’d like get his $350,000 bonus for an elite bowl game if the Tar Heels finish in the Top 25.

There is also confirmation that Belichick does have a buyout clause, which was widely reported as North Carolina’s stipulation if he were to leave for a job in the NFL. If Belichick leaves UNC before June 1, the university is owed $10 million. After June 1, the buyout drops to $1 million. 

However, despite multiple NFL teams reportedly reaching out to Belichick, he said during his introductory press conference he’s in Chapel Hill to stay. 

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He’s already showing his commitment to the program by hitting the road and talking to recruits as he aims to build a playoff roster through the new NIL system. 

Reporters at major news outlet admit bosses inexplicably killed negative Biden stories

Two former Politico reporters spoke candidly about efforts made by their bosses to either slow-walk or completely quash their reporting on the Biden family during their time at the news outlet. 

Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, now journalists for Axios and Puck respectively, reflected on their time at Politico on Palmeri’s “Somebody’s Gotta Win” podcast. 

Caputo called out Politico’s “ill-fated headline” downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 election. 

“I mean, Politico, my former employer, and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors,” Caputo said in the exchange, which was shared Thursday on YouTube. “I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.”

Caputo was referencing Politico’s report, which had the headline “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say,” on the open letter signed by 51 intelligence officials declaring that the material from Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the earmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.” The report came days after The New York Post published its bombshell reporting about the laptop in October 2020. 

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Caputo also shed light on a report he had written in 2019 that stemmed from opposition research from a rival Democratic campaign of then-candidate Joe Biden regarding a “tax lien” of Hunter’s pertaining to his work at Ukrainian energy company Burisma. 

“And I wrote what would have been a classic story saying, you know, ‘The former vice president’s son was slapped with a big tax lien for the period of time that he worked for this controversial Ukrainian oil concern, or natural gas concern, which is haunting his father on the campaign trail.’ That story was killed by the editors,’ Caputo said. “And they gave no explanation for that either. So that the general experience- obviously the public doesn’t know about those things.” 

When reached out by Fox News Digital, Caputo provided video showing the original Word document created May 8, 2019 of his tax lien reporting on Hunter Biden. 

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Palmeri similarly shared an experience at Politico regarding the “serious reporting” she had done on then-President Biden’s son. She had broken the story of Hunter Biden’s gun incident that led to a felony charge for lying about his drug use on a gun form. 

“I spent three months on it, I went to the laptop shop, and I did all of the reporting in Delaware, and I did all of that. But yeah it had, it had to be like much- it had to be 100% nailed down,” Palmeri told Caputo. “I had everything, you know, the police reports… I’m a solid reporter. But I do wonder if it could have, if it would have been published a little quicker if it was a different type of story.”

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Palmeri expanded on how her bosses dragged their feet before running her story.

“I certainly had to push very hard to get that reporting published. Like, it was a constant, ‘Hey, when are we going to do this? Hey, when are we going to get this out there? Hey, when we’re going to do this?’ Because it was so difficult. Like it was kind of a known feeling that like, it’s gonna be difficult to report stuff that’s really tough on the Biden administration and family. It’s just like a culture.” Palmeri told Fox News Digital. “And I think when the culture is that a reporter has to push so hard that it just creates a feeling that there’s not an interest in that type of reporting. And ultimately, you know, we work to be published and to get our editors to support our work.”

Palmeri said she first obtained the police report shortly after Biden’s inauguration in late January 2021, but her story wasn’t published until late March 2021.

“I just think if it was a Trump kid, it would have been published much sooner,” Palmeri said. “I just had to work really hard to like- you’re like ‘Hey, what’s going on with the story? Hey, what’s going on with the story? Like, what’s going on with the story?’ We gave the White House a lot of time, like a week or so to respond. I don’t know if that would have been the case for a Trump story.”

The former Politico journalist went on to cite the “honeymoon phase” of the Biden administration as being a factor behind the slowed pace of her story. 

“I think a lot of people there, including reporters, wanted to get on the good side of the new administration,” Palmeri said. “And so I could understand the reluctance to put out a piece like that within the first few months.”

Palmeri also suggested her bosses wouldn’t run the story unless she was able to link it to a federal agency.

“It had to be about the fact that the Secret Service was involved,” Palmeri told Fox News Digital. “I just think the fact that, you know, the president’s son is getting in a domestic dispute that involves a gun being thrown out next to a school is pretty shocking. And the police had to be involved.”

“I think they preferred that angle because I think it increased the gravityof the situation. The fact that the Secret Service may have been improperly used to cover up what could have been a crime if the gun was found and used by someone else. The blanket fact that he lied on the gun form, which I had. I had the gun form and I pointed out that he lied on it. But in the piece, we downplayed it and said, ‘Although many people lie on gun forms and are not prosecuted for it’ which is true, by the way. But it’s not like the headline wasn’t ‘Hunter Biden lies on gun form,’ which is a felony. That was not the headline even though I had the gun form in which he lied,” she continued.

“They felt like for it to be worthy of being published, it had to rise to that occasion that a federal department was involved and they misused power, basically. Like the crime itself was not important- was not worthy of just running the story on that alone,” Palmeri went on to say. “In fairness, they wanted to make sure the story was buttoned up, but they also felt like it needed to be elevated beyond the crime, the obvious crime which we had from the form. We had to nail down that element of the Secret Service part.”

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A spokesperson for Politico previously released a statement pushing back at Caputo and Palmeri’s comments made on the podcast by touting how its journalists “led the way on wide-ranging reporting on the business dealings of Joe Biden’s closest relatives” as well as its verification of the Hunter Biden laptop, suggesting the former staffers have “a case of false memory.”

The spokesperson even called their claims “bulls—.”

“Our editors uphold rigorous standards, ensuring every story is thoroughly vetted and ‘buttoned up’ before publishing. This approach reflects our unwavering commitment to accuracy and accountability—principles that have guided us and will continue to do so,” the statement read. 

Politico did not immediately respond to follow-up questions sent by Fox News Digital. 

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Several members of the media have reflected on their past coverage of Biden in recent months, particularly after his disastrous CNN debate performance that put his cognitive decline on full display.

Fox News contributor Joe Concha compared reporters speaking out about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal to those who waited to address the former president’s mental decline and legitimacy of the COVId lab leak theory.

“It completes what has become a trend in the media,” he said. 

Jay Leno’s surprise gives LA firefighters ‘great morale booster’ amid devastation

Renowned comedian and former television host Jay Leno shares how he helped serve hot meals to California firefighters, praising them as “the best fire department in the world.”

Since the outbreak of the Los Angeles County wildfires, a wave of critics have come forth condemning California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other elected officials for their lack of preparedness regarding the response.

“Let me tell you something: These guys can eat. They all look like the guy in a Brawny paper towel ad. These big, beefy guys,” Leno said on “The Will Cain Show,” recalling how they handed out 700 lbs of ribs and 400 lbs of chicken.

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Leno detailed how he had a “great five days” helping out Los Angeles first responders, describing how they were able to eat and continue running a fire response like a “military operation.”

“I was at Bagram Air Force Base. It reminded me of that — airplanes coordinated with guys on the ground, guys on the ground that got big maps laid out of where they think the fire is going to go,” he said.

“You know, you hand them a rib, they eat the rib, they point to it [the map] and they’re talking to the helicopter. I mean, it’s really a military operation,” Leno added.

Leno expressed how he was impressed with all the first responders and their ability to avoid the “blame game” regarding who was at fault for the fires. He applauded them for focusing on putting out the fires and keeping people safe.

“You know the great thing about it? No blame game. These are firemen and women,” Leno said, explaining how they were focused on questions like, “How can we put this out?” and, “What do we need to do?”

Leno said that even off the record, none of the firefighters were blaming “this person or that person.” 

“It was all about, ‘How do we fight this fire?’ And the morale was good,” Leno said.

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When Leno handed out hot meals to first responders, he brought a Burbank California Christie fire truck from 1914 just to “cheer them up a little bit.”

“You know, like, I thought maybe having that fire engine might look like I’m showing off a little bit. But one of the chiefs said this was such a great morale booster to see this almost 100-year-old fire engine roll in, it’s all bright and shiny in the midst of all this dirt and all this gray,” Leno said.

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“So it turned out to be a win-win all the way around,” he said. “It was just a wonderful experience for me. I just enjoyed it so much.” 

Grammy winner gives away money for gender surgeries after Trump’s executive order

Folk artist Lucy Dacus recently announced she is donating to individuals seeking transgender medical operations in an apparent attempt to get back at President Trump’s executive orders regarding gender and transgender individuals.

Dacus, who is one-third of the Grammy-winning all-female music group “boygenius,” told her X followers on Wednesday that she will give $500 to each person who comments on her status with a link to donate to their transitions, up to $10,000.

“If trans people wanna comment surgery gofundmes, I’m gonna give away 10k in $500 increments until it’s gone, & if other people wanna scroll through and make donations, please do,” Dacus wrote.

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“The government will never be the source of our validation or protection, we have to do it ourselves,” the singer added, signaling she made the offer as a political protest.

Dacus’ post came two days after President Trump signed an executive order, titled, “Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.”

The EO clarifies that it is U.S. policy to recognize two sexes, male and female, and that men and women are biologically distinct, along with addressing how agencies should handle these directives.

Left-wing critics slammed Trump’s order immediately. ACLU lawyer and trans person Chase Strangio said this week that it “enhances the risk that transgender people face in society.”

Dacus’ post went viral, getting over one million views in just over a day, along with a multitude of commenters sharing links to their GoFundMe pages where the singer and her fans could donate to their procedures.

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One user, Carter Tucker, asked Dacus to help pay off the debt from a recent gender procedure. 

“I had my surgery in November but still have about 4k I owe to the hospital. Anything helps! Thank you for doing this, Lucy!” the user wrote.

Another shared a GoFundMe page for their friend, stating, “my homie Patrick abt to have his top surgery!!!”

The 29-year-old Dacus came out as queer in 2016. In addition to her own pro-LGBTQ activism, she and her “boygenius” bandmates – Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker – write music exploring LGBTQ themes and together boast a legion of LGBTQ fans. 

During their 2023 tour, the band led a “F— Ron DeSantis” chant onstage at Coachella to protest the anti-LGBTQ bills the Florida governor signed into law. 

The group also performed in drag in Nashville that year to protest Tennessee’s law restricting drag performances considered “harmful to minors.” 

The law was eventually struck down in 2023.

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Dacus did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.