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Trump hits socialist dictator with consequences for not holding his end of the bargain

President Donald Trump says he is reversing a Biden-era grant allowing Chevron to operate within Venezuela on Wednesday.

Trump detailed the decision in a lengthy post on Truth Social, stating that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had not upheld his end of the bargain.

“We are hereby reversing the concessions that Crooked Joe Biden gave to Nicolás Maduro, of Venezuela, on the oil transaction agreement, dated November 26, 2022, and also having to do with Electoral conditions within Venezuela, which have not been met by the Maduro regime,” Trump wrote.

“Additionally, the regime has not been transporting the violent criminals that they sent into our Country (the Good Ole’ U.S.A.) back to Venezuela at the rapid pace that they had agreed to,” he added.

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“I am therefore ordering that the ineffective and unmet Biden “Concession Agreement” be terminated as of the March 1st option to renew. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump continued.

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez described the decision as “inexplicable” in a statement on Telegram, arguing it was a “failed decision.”

“The U.S. government has made a damaging and inexplicable decision by announcing sanctions against the U.S. company Chevron,” Rodriguez said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later said on X that he will provide foreign policy guidance to terminate all Biden-era oil and gas licenses “that have shamefully bankrolled the illegitimate Maduro regime.”

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Chevron exports about 240,000 barrels per day of crude from its Venezuela operations, over a quarter of the country’s entire oil output.

Since his return to office in January, Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. does not need Venezuelan oil and left open the possibility of revoking Chevron’s operating license.

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During his first term, Trump pursued a “maximum pressure” sanctions policy against Maduro’s government, especially targeting Venezuela’s energy business.

Tennis legend goes after blue state gov over trans athlete policy: ‘This is not ok!!!’

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s policies regarding transgender participation in girls’ sports as another issue appeared to arise.

A triple-jump record was broken in California girls high school track and field last weekend, sparking the latest debate about trans-inclusion in girls’ sports. The issue came as California bucked President Donald Trump’s executive order keeping biological males out of girls’ and women’s sports.

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Navratilova, who has championed fairness in women’s sports, took a shot at Newsom on X.

“Seems fair to me, right??? Hey gov. Newsom- @CAgovernor- this is not ok!!! This is not what one would call progressive. In fact it’s regressive AF,” she wrote.

The California Interscholastic Federation was among the high school governing bodies in the U.S. that announced plans to continue to allow trans athletes to compete in women’s sports despite Trump’s order and the NCAA’s own policy change – which has also been criticized.

Minnesota and Maine also joined California’s stance.

Attorney General Pam Bondi warned those states earlier this week to comply with Trump’s order or face legal action.

“This Department of Justice will hold accountable states and state entities that violate federal law,” Bondi wrote in a letter first obtained by Fox News. “Indeed, we have already begun to do so.” 

Bondi was referring to the Justice Department’s move to sue Illinois and New York earlier in February for defying federal immigration laws.

“We also stand ready to sue states and state entities that defy federal antidiscrimination laws,” Bondi wrote.

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Trump directed the Justice Department and the Education Department to prioritize enforcement actions against athletic associations that deny girls an equal opportunity to participate in sports and athletic events by requiring them to compete against boys. Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from Maine schools over its gender-participation policy, which sparked a spat with Gov. Janet Mills last week.

In California, Bondi said the state “should be on notice,” amid the Department of Education’s Title IX investigation into the California Interscholastic Federation. 

“If the Department of Education’s investigation shows that the Federation is indeed denying girls an equal opportunity to participate in sports and athletic events by requiring them to compete against boys, the Department of Justice stands ready to take all appropriate action to enforce federal law,” Bondi wrote.

Bondi said the Justice Department “only wants states and state entities to comply with the law.”

“And federal law requires giving girls an equal opportunity to participate in sports and athletic events by ensuring that girls need to compete only with other girls, not with boys,” Bondi wrote. 

Bondi told Fox News that “this Department of Justice will defend women and does not tolerate state officials who ignore federal law.” 

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“We will leverage every legal option necessary to ensure state compliance with federal law and President Trump’s Executive Order protecting women’s sports,” she said.

Dem support helps Trump nominee clear key vote on path to confirmation

President Donald Trump‘s nominee for labor secretary cleared a key vote before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Thursday morning after picking up Democratic support from Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. 

Lori Chavez-DeRemer was reported favorably out of the committee by a bipartisan vote of 13-9. 

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ultimately voted against her, despite her attempts to clarify her past support for the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act during her hearing. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, did not vote. 

In addition to Hassan, Democratic Sens. John Hickenloopers, D-Colo., and Tim Kaines, D-Va., voted to advance Chavez-DeRemer. 

Her history of PRO Act backing seemed to jeopardize her confirmation odds last week, when Paul said he would not vote for her if she continued to support it. Paul’s reluctance meant Chavez-DeRemer would likely need some Democrats’ support to pass the key confirmation hurdle. 

Hassan’s support, as a Democrat on the HELP Committee, was a breakthrough for Chavez-DeRemer’s chances. 

“The Department of Labor plays an integral role in supporting workers and small businesses alike, and after hearing significant support from constituents, including members of labor unions in New Hampshire, I will support Representative Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination as Secretary of Labor,” Hassan shared in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

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Hassan admitted that she “may not agree on everything” with Chavez-DeRemer, but she is “qualified” to serve and earned “significant support” from New Hampshire voters.

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“Though we may not agree on everything, after meeting with Representative Chavez-DeRemer and listening to her testimony during her confirmation hearing, I believe that she is qualified to serve as the next secretary of labor, and I look forward to working with her to support New Hampshire’s workers and small businesses,” Hassan added. 

Chavez-DeRemer supported the PRO Act as a representative for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District but told senators during her confirmation hearing that she no longer supports overturning Republican-supported right-to-work laws under the PRO Act.

The PRO Act would effectively kill state-level laws that prevent employers and unions from requiring workers to pay union dues as a condition of their employment. Republicans oppose the PRO Act for overturning right-to-work laws. 

Chavez-DeRemer went into the committee vote without Paul’s voting plan publicly known. But, going in with Hassan’s support, Chavez-DeRemer was much less likely to be reliant on Paul to be reported favorably out of the committee. 

“If she wanted to make a public statement saying that her support for the PRO Act was incorrect and she no longer does, then I’d think about her nomination,” Paul told Fox News Digital in a statement ahead of Chavez-DeRemer’s hearing. 

“So you no longer support the aspect of the PRO Act that would have overturned state right-to-work laws?” Paul asked during the hearing. 

“Yes, sir,” she replied. 

Paul’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on how he would vote in committee, however.

Chavez-DeRemer testified before the HELP Committee on Feb. 19. 

Once reported out of committee, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., can file a motion to end Senate floor debate on the nominee, triggering a later cloture vote. Once the debate is closed, senators will cast their final confirmation vote. 

During her hearing, Chavez-DeRemer advocated for trade school investments to expand “educational pathways beyond the traditional four-year degree” to strengthen the American workforce. She said she is committed to leveling the playing field for American businesses, workers and unions. 

Chavez-DeRemer also thanked Trump and credited him with the “single greatest political achievement of our time” in building a “new coalition of working-class Americans.”

“President Trump has united a new coalition of working-class Americans like never before. With 59.6% of Teamsters backing him, historic support from African-American and Latino voters, and record-breaking turnout in once-solid blue cities and states, Americans are speaking loud and clear. They are calling for action, progress and leadership that puts the American worker first,” Chavez-DeRemer said.

Trump nominated Chavez-DeRemer for secretary of labor less than three weeks after he was elected president.

“Lori has worked tirelessly with both Business and Labor to build America’s workforce, and support the hardworking men and women of America,” Trump wrote.

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“I look forward to working with her to create tremendous opportunity for American Workers, to expand training and apprenticeships, to grow wages and improve working conditions, to bring back our manufacturing jobs. Together, we will achieve historic cooperation between Business and Labor that will restore the American Dream for Working Families,” he added.

Removing one food ingredient from your home is first step to ‘doing MAHA,’ influencer says

A supporter of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) has some strong beliefs about the rise of the movement, the biggest misconceptions about it and how people can easily incorporate some of its most basic principles into their daily routines.

Alex Clark, the Arizona-based founder of the health and wellness podcast “Culture Apothecary,” which launched in Sept. 2024, said she was involved in MAHA early on, even before Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation on Feb. 13, 2025, as President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary.

“What’s funny is, I guess I was doing MAHA — before it was MAHA — in 2021,” she told Fox News Digital. (See the video at the top of this article.)

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“I was completely radicalized on pharma and food during the pandemic,” said Clark, who is also a contributor to Turning Point USA. 

She said she started to ask questions about pharmaceutical companies — which then led to questions about “big food” and organic food.

Clark is also involving her followers in discussions about MAHA.

“I started talking about it with my audience of really young conservative women, 25 to 35 [years old], [those who are also] graduating [from] college or just starting their families,” she said. 

“And none of us really had known any of this.”

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Clark said she looks at the original creators of what is now MAHA and said its basic principles are not as new as people may think. 

She also said it’s not as politically leaning in one direction or another as some have suggested it is.

“The original MAHA people were actually crunchy, liberal feminist hippies in the ’60s and ’70s,” she said. “That was MAHA. It was never conservatives.”

Clark added, “So this idea that it’s only radical right-wing extremists who care about exercise and organic food and raw milk, that they’re all conservative crazies — that’s absolutely not historically true … It was not your suburban Republican housewife. That’s very new. And a lot of them are my audience on ‘Culture Apothecary.’”

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Clark said her audience has shifted over the years – and noted how active so many mothers have been in the MAHA movement.

“They want help. They want change.”

“There’s nobody that’s going to fight harder than a mom who’s dealing with a sick child,” said Clark. 

“They will do anything. They are desperate. They want help. They want change.”

Having a MAHA mentality isn’t intimidating, said Clark — and can be as easy as focusing on one ingredient at a time.

“Pick one ingredient that you want to learn about,” she said. 

“So, let’s say in the news you’ve heard people talking about artificial food dyes or seed oils — and you don’t know anything about any of this stuff,” she said.

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“Say [to yourself], ‘OK, I’m going to get to know what this is. I’m going to get to know what it looks like on an ingredient label. I’m going to eliminate everything from my freezer, my fridge, my pantry, that [has] these ingredients.'”

It may take some time — weeks, months or even a year, she said. 

But the goal is to feel confident when spotting the singular ingredient a person has chosen to focus on. 

Once there’s a full understanding of that item, people can then transition to other items — such as natural flavors or food dyes — and start to eliminate those things from their diets and their family’s diets as well, according to Clark.

“You can always make sure, 100% of the time, that you’re avoiding things like seed oils and artificial dyes,” she said. “Eat real food, whole food, all lowercase letters –

She added, “Whole foods, apples, grass-fed ground beef, chicken breast, eggs, asparagus, green beans and oranges … If you can afford to go the organic route, great. But if you can’t, eating even conventionally farmed ground beef that’s not organic is going to be better than [eating] ultra-processed hot pockets with mystery ingredients that you can’t pronounce.”

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“If the American mom can first pick an ingredient to focus on, to learn about — or just focus on eating real foods — that’s the best place to start in cooking meals at home,” she said. 

“The biggest price you’re going to have to pay is actually just convenience and time. It is going to take a little bit more time to make that meal at home, but actually it’s going to cost less.”

It is her belief that big food corporations will start to eliminate the very ingredients parents are trying to remove from their homes and from their kids’ public school lunches.

“[California] announced that they’re banning all artificial dyes from their schools, [and] Texas is right on their heels,” she said. 

“Texas is working diligently on this.”

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“If both California and Texas ban artificial dyes from schools or even statewide and say, ‘These have to be heavily regulated,’ or ‘We’re not having them in our states,’ the different food companies who are making products with these ingredients are going to have to change,” she said. 

“You cannot be making [your product] for all [the rest] of the 48 states,” Clark said.

Bondi throws out DEI lawsuits against police, fire departments under Biden admin

The Department of Justice has dismissed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) lawsuits brought against various police and fire departments across the country under the Biden administration, which deemed aptitude tests in certain cases as discriminatory.

The lawsuits, which the DOJ said did not show evidence of intentional discrimination, were filed in efforts to require race-based hiring after statistical disparities between applicants of different races and genders.

“American communities deserve firefighters and police officers to be chosen for their skill and dedication to public safety – not to meet DEI quotas,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

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Typically acknowledged in the proposed consent decrees, the departments used neutral selection tools, such as credit checks, exams and physical exercises, to choose candidates for the open positions, and White men tended to score or perform better.

For example, a case filed in October against the City of Durham (North Carolina), alleged “unintentional” discrimination against Black applicants because they did not pass the written test with a score of 70% or better as often as White candidates did, which resulted in fewer Black employees.

The complaint proposed getting rid of the neutral written test and “back pay and/or preferential hiring to Black candidates who were not hired because of the written exam” as solutions. The cost would have been around $980,000 in monetary relief, according to the case.

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In a different case filed against Maryland State Police in October 2024, it was suggested that the agency not use its current selection tools, which consisted of a written test with a score of 70% or better and a physical test that involved push-ups, sit-ups, a flexibility reach, a trigger pull and a 1.5-mile run.

“Because Black applicants passed the test less often than White applicants and because women passed the physical test less often than men, the Civil Rights Division concluded that Maryland was illegally discriminating against Black applicants and women,” the case said.

The suggested changes involved ditching the prior selection tools and providing a total of $2.75 million in monetary relief to Black candidates who were not hired because of written test results and women who were not hired because of physical test results.

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The DOJ said similar cases were also brought against the cities of South Bend, Indiana, and Cobb County in Georgia.

Cases dismissed on Wednesday marked “an early step toward eradicating illegal DEI preferences across the government and in the private sector,” the DOJ said.

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The ‘California sober’ lifestyle embraced by top stars still has risks, experts warn

Demi Lovato, Post Malone, Chris Stapleton, Billy Strings and Willie Nelson have all sung about being “California sober.”

What does that mean — and is it any healthier than drinking alcohol?

You don’t have to be from California to be “California sober,” but experts say you should know the risks associated with the lifestyle.

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It originates with the idea that people transition away from alcohol to a “safer” alternative using cannabis-based products, according to Dr. Cara A. Poland, addiction medicine doctor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.

Some who initially identified with the term now have a different take on what sobriety really means.

After a near-fatal drug overdose, singer and actress Demi Lovato openly shared her struggle with addiction and her own version of “California sober” in 2021, but later said she had realized “sober sober is the only way to be,” according to reports.

“Users who aim for ‘Cali sober’ need to understand the medical and psychiatric risks of cannabis.”

“Users who aim for ‘Cali sober’ need to understand the medical and psychiatric risks of cannabis, as well as the problem of medicating away emotions and the increased risk of relapse to one’s drug of choice,” Dr. Lori Karan, director of the addiction medicine fellowship at Loma Linda University in California, told Fox News Digital.

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Journalist Michelle Lhooq is thought to have coined the phrase when she wrote a 2019 essay about moving from New York to California to “save herself” in an article for Vice.com, resolving to limit her drug use to only marijuana and psychedelics.

As marijuana was already legal in California at the time, she wrote, “I call this ‘Cali sober,’ a term some people also use when they quit everything but weed.”

“‘California sober’ is generally a term used by people who are replacing a ‘more harmful’ substance with a ‘less harmful’ substance,” said Poland.

“People should be cautious with this idea of replacing one substance for another, when both are known to cause substance use disorders and are not validated treatment options.”

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People may perceive a substance as less harmful, but the risk of adverse consequences on the body depends on how that substance affects the individual, Poland added.

The concept may also perpetuate the unhealthy relationship people develop with their substance(s) of choice.

“People use addictive substances to modulate how they feel without relying upon interactions with other people or events,” Karan noted. 

“Short-circuiting this feedback loop can cover up unresolved trauma, interfere with family and career, and cause emotional arrest.”

Switching one drug for another ignores rather than resolves the underlying issues — so it is usually not a good long-term solution, according to Karan.

Potential risks of alcohol

Previous research has linked alcoholic beverages to at least seven types of cancer, including the mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus, liver, colon and breast.

In 2019 and 2020, 72% of U.S. adults reported consuming one or more drinks per week, but less than half were aware of the link between alcohol and cancer risk, according to past studies.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently issued a health advisory calling for warning labels on alcohol-containing beverages about the potential cancer risk, Fox News Digital previously reported.

“There is growing scientific evidence that no amount of alcohol is good for you,” Poland cautioned.

Some say, however, that the current concept of sobriety cannot be a one-size-fits-all model.

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While some people need full abstinence, others may find that cutting out alcohol but still partaking in some marijuana use helps them “stay balanced,” according to Kim Gamez, founder of SOBER(ISH), an online marketplace that sells a hemp-derived, micro-dosed blend that can be added to any drink for a “relaxing buzz without alcohol.”

Michigan-based Gamez shared that her mother battled alcoholism for years, where alcohol was the “real demon,” but was able to achieve more balance in her life when she found hemp-derived products.

“Before we discovered hemp-derived beverages together, she often felt left out at social gatherings where drinking was the norm,” she told Fox News Digital. “Now, with a hemp-infused cocktail in hand, she’s part of the party — without the risk, the regret or the relapse.”

Gamez noted that this kind of choice isn’t about replacing one vice with another — it’s about finding a healthier alternative that works for the individual.

Potential risks of marijuana

Karan warned that there is a lot of public misinformation about cannabis, with many unanswered safety questions — especially given the increased potency of today’s cannabis products compared with those of the 1970s.

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Humans naturally produce chemicals that are similar to the molecules in a cannabis plant, which move around the body and brain to help balance vital functions like learning, memory, sleep, pain and temperature control, according to Harvard Health.

More research is needed to fully understand the extent of this activity, Karan noted.

“Cannabis can cause memory difficulties, paranoia, psychosis, nausea and vomiting, and a myriad of other problems,” she cautioned.

Experts encourage people struggling with addiction, including alcohol use disorder, to first consult with their doctor for treatment options.

This often includes a combination of behavioral therapy and medications to reduce the risk of overdose, relapse and cravings.

“People use addictive substances to modulate how they feel without relying upon interactions with other people or events.”

There are currently three FDA-approved medications for alcohol use disorder: naltrexone, which dampens alcohol’s pleasurable effects; disulfiram, which makes people sick when they drink; and acamprosate, which restores the imbalance in the brain associated with alcohol withdrawal, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

Of the millions struggling with alcohol addiction, research shows that less than 10% who need the treatment actually get it.