Trump admin warns America’s largest city to clean up rampant crime with costly ultimatum
President Donald Trump’s administration is demanding that New York City’s transit authority reduce crime across the city or face big cuts to federal funding.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued the ultimatum to the Metro Transportation Authority (MTA) in a letter on Tuesday, saying the new administration is here to “restore order.” The federal government currently supplies the MTA with billions of dollars in funding.
“The trend of violent crime, homelessness, and other threats to public safety on one of our nation’s most prominent metro systems is unacceptable. After years of soft-on-crime policies, our Department is stepping in to restore order,” Duffy wrote.
“Commuters are sick and tired of feeling like they have to jeopardize their safety to get to work, go to school, or to travel around the city. We will continue to fight to ensure their federal tax dollars are going towards a crime-free commute,” he added.
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Duffy’s letter requests the MTA’s data on fare evasion, worker assaults, customer assaults and police patrols. It also requests an accounting of how the MTA has used federal funding to address safety and security in the city’s transportation system.
“I appreciate your prompt attention to this matter to avoid further consequences, up to and including redirecting or withholding funding,” Duffy wrote.
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MTA Chief of Policy and External Relations John McCarthy argued crime is “moving in the right direction” in a statement responding to Duffy’s letter on Tuesday.
“Crime is down 40% compared to the same period in 2020 right before the pandemic, and so far in 2025 there are fewer daily major crimes in transit than any non-pandemic year ever,” McCarthy said, adding that fare evasion is down 25% since COVID.
McCarthy’s statement echoes claims that MTA head Janno Lieber made in January, when he suggested that recent high-profile subway attacks have “gotten in people’s heads” to make them feel that the subway system is unsafe.
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Lieber made the comments during an appearance on the Bloomberg News’ podcast “Bloomberg Talks,” arguing that “the overall stats are positive” on crime.
“Last year, we were actually 12.5% less crime than 2019, the last year before COVID. But there’s no question that some of these high-profile incidents, you know, terrible attacks, have gotten in people’s heads and made the whole system feel less safe,” Lieber said.
DeSantis proposes solution to rein in ‘resistance’ from judges ‘sabotaging’ Trump’s agenda
As aspects of President Donald Trump’s agenda are stymied by judges amid legal challenges, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suggested that Congress could strip federal courts of jurisdiction.
“Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place. The sabotaging of President Trump’s agenda by ‘resistance’ judges was predictable — why no jurisdiction-stripping bills tee’d up at the onset of this Congress?” DeSantis wrote in a Wednesday post on X.
When someone responded by asking how such a move could pass when 60 votes would be needed to push it through the Senate, DeSantis replied, “Attach it to a ‘must pass’ bill…”
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DeSantis, who sought the 2024 Republican presidential nod but ultimately dropped out and backed Trump after the GOP Iowa presidential caucus, floated the idea of stripping federal courts of jurisdiction when replying to a tweet from U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.
“Lots of noise about impeachment. We must study every ruling & act accordingly w/ everything on the table (noting: 14 Dem votes required in Senate). But, more fertile ground… 1) House can pass a resolution stating there is/was an invasion, 2) we can defund radical courts,” Roy had posted.
EL SALVADOR’S BUKELE WEIGHS IN AFTER TRUMP’S CALL TO IMPEACH JUDGE: ‘THE U.S. IS FACING A JUDICIAL COUP’
In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Trump called for the impeachment of a judge, apparently referring to Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President,” Trump declared in the post. “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY.”
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, announced that he had introduced articles of impeachment against Boasberg.
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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement on Tuesday, “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Extraordinary episode unfolds in centuries-long relationship between US and Mexico
An extraordinary episode in the two centuries of Mexican-American relations unfolded on Feb. 27, as aircraft of the Mexican state flew northward to various locations across the United States. They carried within them 29 of the most-wanted Mexican-cartel leaders hitherto held in their own country, and now remanded to the justice of the Americans.
Most meaningfully for the receiving nation, the aging Rafa Caro Quintero stepped off a plane to the welcome of the DEA and DOJ personnel whose colleague, Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, he murdered 40 years before. Arraigned the next day in a U.S. federal courtroom, Caro Quintero was shackled with Camarena’s own handcuffs.
The United States has waited a long time for him, and for the many other cartel lords and killers who now come into its hands.
The questions are it has waited, and why it no longer waits, if only in these specific cases. Caro Quintero and the other 28 cartel leaders had been prisoners of Mexico for years, and the United States had been requesting their extradition for years. In 2022, the Biden regime even gave the Mexican government a list of desired extraditions, including Caro Quintero – but the previous year, 2021, had seen the lowest level of Mexican extraditions to the U.S. in 15 years, and things would not improve so long as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador remained president.
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The source of AMLO’s delay was no mystery: he and his ruling Morena coalition, which has nearly transformed Mexico into a leftist one-party state, have long-standing ties with narco leaders, most notably within the Sinaloa Cartel. This Mexican state-cartel synthesis, referenced directly by the White House as “an intolerable alliance,” effectively precluded meaningful and strategic cooperation between the two nations against its criminal cartels.
What has changed? In a word: Donald Trump. The American president, who was among those who rationally believed that a workable deal could be struck with AMLO and his regime at its outset, now possesses an accurate assessment of the Mexican state’s basic nature, and is making policy accordingly.
The well-known threatened tariffs, across-the-board implementation of which are now delayed for a second month to April 2, are one element and the most public-facing of the tools he has directed his administration to wield. The mere threat of them has manifestly exerted tremendous effect upon Mexican officialdom’s thinking.
Despite much discussion in Mexico that the country will simply turn to China if American trade relations are disrupted, the reality is that the country’s economy will be plunged into disarray long before any Chinese remedy takes effect.
Though the Mexican regime does not particularly care about the welfare of its people – having presided over an internal war that has seen the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans by its own cartel allies and sometimes its own armed forces – it does care for its own position and privileges, and so an economic collapse alarms it in ways that death and cruelty among its own people does not.
The other major tool wielded by the president against the Mexican state-cartel alliance has been alluded to, but never made explicit, in public. It is the threat of unilateral American military action within Mexico, and as reporting from the Wall Street Journal reveals, it was made explicit in a Jan. 31 conversation between Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and unnamed senior Mexican-military leadership, in which the latter were informed “that if Mexico didn’t deal with the collusion between the country’s government and drug cartels, the U.S. military was prepared to take unilateral action.” The Mexicans were reportedly astonished and indignant.
TRUMP’S DESIGNATION OF CARTELS AS TERRORISTS ENDS THE FICTION THAT MEXICO IS A TRUSTWORTHY ALLY
Their astonishment is their own fault: many observers have told them for years that American patience with their cartel partnerships would eventually run out. That it had no effect is partially indicative of the ideological fever dream in which the Morena regime operates. It is also, to a larger part, , because no American president has ever before brought real consequences to bear.
Their indignation, by contrast, has no defense except by reference to the perennial Mexican civic narrative that its sovereignty is forever menaced by the United States.
Yet the Mexican state routinely fails to give the respect to its neighbor that it loudly demands for itself. It partners with trafficking organizations that directly attack American sovereignty and citizenry with illegal mass migration, deadly fentanyl, and more. It establishes Morena party cells within the United States and activates them when desired.
It interferes, however ineptly, in American elections. Its armed forces are routinely encountered within the United States, often protecting trafficking cartel shipments and occasionally taking an American soldier prisoner. Its cartel partners frequently kill American citizens in Mexico, and menace Americans in the United States. It is a deeply rooted victim mentality that receives a well-earned warning from the U.S. secretary of defense and responds with wounded pride. Yet so it is.
Need it be said, a regime genuinely interested in the defense of its own national sovereignty would not surrender 30% to 40% of its national territory to cartel governance. Yet it has. A Mexican state determined to defend its territorial integrity would not back down again and again versus cartel challenges. Yet it has. It is useless to ask why: everyone in Mexico knows why. Those on the lower rungs of the social ladder risk death, and those on the upper rungs get rich.
Unlike of the modern era, Donald Trump understands this, and via his secretaries of defense and state, and others, he is delivering the message to the Mexican regime: we will respect your sovereignty as much as you respect ours. In fact, we will respect it as much as you respect .
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This, then, is the key to understanding why the Mexican state under President Claudia Sheinbaum is abruptly disgorging its prisoners into the hands of the Americans, and why it is furthermore making a show of going after cartel operations in various parts of the country. Mexican officialdom – the state and its elites – is betraying its criminal-sector partners in the hopes that it will satisfy the United States, lest the Americans go after .
It is furthermore shutting down, temporarily, the great cartel-controlled influx of trafficked persons that has numbered in the millions across the past decade. These efforts are having a real effect on cartel operations in the short run, although as the New York Times writes, they don’t expect it to last: “Cartel members said the only reason the government hadn’t really fought them until recently was because they’d bought off enough officials,” and they expect that will return.
They are probably right. Mexican grand strategy, never a robust corpus of thought, has always had as a major pillar the imperative to keep the Americans out. In the past half-century a second pillar has been erected, which is the imperative to profit from the Americans. There is a tension between the two, especially when the second conflicts with the first by virtue of cartel and trafficking operations.
Eventually the superstructure of multibillion-dollar illegal trade and the political-powerholder buyoffs that render it useful to nearly the whole apparatus of governance will reassert itself. The intent now, on the Mexican side, is simply to buy time until the Americans, believing they have secured a political win, move on to the next crisis. In that light, the sacrifice of the great mass of expendable bosses, lab men and sicarios is the price of business. There are rumors that a corrupt state governor may even be offered to placate the United States.
Then, Mexican officialdom will make the case that all this cooperation is so valuable, the Americans dare not risk it by, say, imposing tariffs or attacking cartels or indicting former Mexican presidents – in short, by doing anything that imperils the Mexican governing elites themselves. This is a potent line of argument, according to some reports with purchase in the White House itself – although not, in any reporting, with the American president himself. This author has heard it directly from U.S. government personnel in Mexico City, and has also heard it from Mexican-government personnel, expressive of an operational logic reminiscent of criminal extortion.
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The test for American policymaking now is whether it makes the mistake of believing the Mexican narrative. It ought not.
The Mexican state has done several things right since Jan. 20, 2025, but we must understand that it did so under extraordinary duress. The president had to threaten tariffs, and the secretary of defense had to threaten U.S. military intervention , to compel the Mexican government to execute on the most-basic tasks of any state: control its territory and deliver criminals to justice.
That duress is amplified by threats from its erstwhile cartel partners as well: Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, for example, now in U.S. custody, has threatened to “collapse” U.S.-Mexican relations by telling all he knows if the Mexicans fail to secure his return to Mexico.
President Trump, offering the carrot as well as the stick, has been effusive in his praise – as is diplomatically prudent – for the Mexican president in her efforts to date. His administration has simultaneously signaled that Mexican politicians are coming into American view as proper targets of justice.
What the Morena regime in Mexico now wishes to do is navigate these straits with its own powerholders and eminences essentially untouched. Chief among them is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whose long-rumored ties to the Sinaloa Cartel would likely not withstand renewed scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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If it is allowed to do so, then America will simply face a greater crisis later, when Morena has completed its openly stated transformation of Mexican society into a Venezuelan-model left-populist autocracy, cartel and trafficking operations have resumed with different narcos in partnership with the same elites, and Mexican-government solicitation of offshore balancers in China and Russia has matured into effective operational partnership.
Bad as the Mexican crisis has been for both ordinary Mexicans and Americans across the past two decades, it pales versus what will come to pass when the Morena ambition is fulfilled. We have already seen Chinese and Russian soldiers marching in review before the Mexican president in independence-day celebrations, and we have already seen that same Mexican president declare that he would have his armed forces defend the cartels against American action. These are warnings of worse to come, and we must pay attention, because they are not expressions of sentiment alone: they are .
Put differently, this is a regime that, by its nature, is not amenable to a long-term partnership with the United States.
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The bad news is that every previous American administration would have been satisfied with the Mexican offer on hand now. The good news is that this administration will likely not be.
President Trump has taken an accurate measure of the Mexican regime. What remains is to put his vision into action. Policy takes time to unfold, but we know what success looks like: neither narcos nor their friends in Mexican governance, from alcaldes to generals to presidents, are safe any longer inside Mexico. They are not safe from the long reach of the American neighbor whose citizens they have killed, whose border they have violated, and whose sovereignty they have disregarded for so very long.
Mexico’s regime wants a cooperative agreement. But America wants justice.
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Could Biden face legal battles for using autopen signature? Turley weighs in
Concerns are mounting around former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign presidential pardons and other official documents across his four years in office, though the chances of successfully challenging in court the use of an autopen on presidential pardons are “vanishingly low,” constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley said.
“Many are suggesting that the Biden pardons may now be challenged in light of the disclosures of Biden’s use of an autopen,” Turley, a Fox News contributor, wrote on X Tuesday. “The chances of such challenges succeeding are vanishingly low. Presidents are allowed to use the autopen and courts will not presume a dead-hand conspiracy.”
“Many of these were high-profile pardons, including for his own son, that Biden acknowledged publicly,” he added. “There is also a problem with standing unless the issue comes up in a government effort to indict a recipient. That does not mean that the disclosures are not deeply troubling.”
Autopen signatures are ones that are automatically produced by a machine, as opposed to an authentic, handwritten signature.
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President Donald Trump has been sounding the alarm on Biden’s prevalent use of an autopen for official presidential documents, most notably for official presidential pardons before he left office in January. On Monday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that Biden’s pardons for individuals connected to the Jan. 6 select committee investigation another are “void.”
“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” Trump wrote.
“In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level,” he added.
At the heart of the issue over the use of an autopen, which have been frequently used by presidential administrations across the decades, is concern over Biden’s mental acuity when he served in the White House. Trump said Sunday that though he uses the autopen for documents such as letters, he does not use an autopen for legally binding documents.
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Trump’s declaration that Biden’s pardons are now “void” sparked a wave of legal questions to swirl — with many legal experts reporting that this is uncharted legal territory.
“This dog will not hunt,” Turley added on X. “It may be worthy of investigation by Congress, but the pardons are unlikely to be seriously questioned by the courts.”
Michael O’Neill, the vice president of legal affairs at Landmark Legal Foundation — a conservative legal advocacy group that works to defend the Constitution — told Fox News Digital that, to his knowledge, “there hasn’t been a case where the limits of this power have been challenged.”
“Biden’s pardons at the end of his term certainly test whether there are any limits to the presidential pardon power,” O’Neill said. “Can a president issue blanket pardons encompassing any crime an individual may be accused of over ten years? This is a legitimate question that has yet to be addressed by the courts because no president has abused this authority until Biden. Another question is whether the pardons are valid if executed without the president’s knowledge — i.e. via autopen.”
“If an individual who has received a pardon is indicted, they would, most likely, assert pardon as an affirmative defense,” he added. “Lower courts would, most likely, uphold the dismissal, leaving it to SCOTUS to define the contours of the pardon power. How SCOTUS decides such a case is unknown.”
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The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project first sounded the alarm on Biden’s use of an autopen earlier in March, reporting that an autopen signature was used on the vast majority of official documents researchers reviewed, except for the signature on Biden’s official announcement that he was dropping out of the presidential race in 2024.
Heritage’s Project Oversight posted a memo on its ongoing investigation into the matter Monday, reporting that researchers are wading through copious amounts of “public documents discharging non-delegable Presidential powers containing former President Joseph R. Biden’s signature.”
The memo determined that “individuals in the Biden Administration other than the President appear to have used a device called an autopen to affix the President’s signature onto some of the most controversial clemency warrants of his Presidency.”
The Project Oversight memo offered a legal explanation that “if President Biden’s non-delegable official actions were not his own, then they are invalid.”
“Start with the Constitution,” the memo reported. “Multiple Constitutional provisions, like the pardon power, vest those powers solely in the President. In those cases, the President affixing his signature is his execution of the acts as President.”
“The Founding Fathers contemplated these issues when writing the Constitution. For example, Article I, Section 7, Clause 2 of the Constitution lays out the role of the President to sign or veto legislation. Early debates at the Constitutional Convention concerning this provision made it clear that regardless of the structure of the Executive Branch, the President would maintain a necessary affirmative approbation of legislation presented to him. The act of the President affixing his signature manually to a bill is his consent and is the very act that causes a bill to become law; it is in no way ministerial. Until he signs, there is no law,” the legal explanation continued.
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2005 under former President George W. Bush’s administration determined that the president is permitted to use an autopen to sign bills into law.
“You have asked whether, having decided to approve a bill, the President may sign it, within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to it, for example by autopen,” the opinion stated. “This memorandum confirms and elaborates upon our earlier advice that the President may sign a bill in this manner.”
The Project Oversight memo, however, hit back that the opinion is “wrong.”
“This opinion is wrong. But even that erroneous opinion was clear that ‘(w)e emphasize that we are not suggesting that the President may delegate the decision to approve and sign a bill, only that, having made this decision, he may direct a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to the bill,’” the memo said.
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Concerns over Biden’s mental acuity when he was in the White House have been under the microscope as legal questions fly over the use of the autopen and Trump’s declaration his pardons were voided.
Biden kicked off 2024 in the driver’s seat of the Democratic Party as he keyed up a re-election effort in what was shaping up to be a rematch against Trump. In February 2024, however, Biden’s 81 years of age and mental acuity fell under public scrutiny after years of conservatives questioning the commander in chief’s mental fitness.
Scrutiny over Biden’s mental fitness rose to a fever pitch in June 2024 after the president’s first and only presidential debate against Trump. Biden missed his marks repeatedly in the debate, tripping over his responses and appearing to lose his train of thought as he squared off against Trump.
The disastrous debate performance led to an outpouring from both conservatives and traditional Democrat allies calling on the president to bow out of the race in favor of a younger generation.
Biden dropped out of the race in July, with former Vice President Kamala Harris taking up the mantle in his place, though concerns over his health have continued months later as Trump speculates that Biden was unaware of signing the pardons specifically.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was peppered with questions about the autopen during Monday’s White House press briefing, saying Trump’s Truth Social was raising the question whether Biden was aware of the pardons when he signed them.
“Was his illegal signature used without his consent or knowledge? And that’s not just the president or me raising those questions,” Leavitt said on Monday. “According to the New York Post, there are Biden officials from the previous White House who raised those questions and wondered if the president was even consulted about his legally binding signature being signed onto documents.”
“And so I think it’s a question that everybody in this room should be looking into, because certainly that would propose, perhaps criminal or illegal behavior if staff members were signing the president of the United States’ autograph without his consent,” Leavitt continued.
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also recounted earlier in January to the media that Biden reportedly didn’t remember signing an executive order freezing new liquid natural gas exports in 2024, which has increased scrutiny surrounding Biden’s mental acuity.
“I didn’t do that,” the former president said in 2024, Johnson recounted during an interview with the Free Press’ Bari Weiss in January.
“Sir, you paused it, I know. I have the export terminals in my state,” Johnson said he told the president at the time. “I talked to those people in my state, I’ve talked to those people this morning, this is doing massive damage to our economy, national security.”
“I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble — who is running the country?’” Johnson said of the 2024 meeting.
“Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know,” he added.
Turley said Johnson’s comments on Biden suggest the “use of dead-hand power,” but that legally pursing a challenge will nonetheless likely be a non-starter.
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“The account of Speaker Johnson on how Biden seemed unaware of signing a major piece of legislation does suggest the use of a dead-hand power by staffers,” Turley wrote. “In the end, this is the most difficult type of allegation to pursue since the key parties will be unified in claiming full knowledge and approval by the president.”
Fox Digital reached out to Biden’s office for comment on his use of the autopen and Trump’s comments he was unaware of the pardons he signed, but did not immediately receive a reply.
’80s star left Hollywood after stalkers forced her out of the limelight
Heather Thomas experienced the dark side of Hollywood after her time on “The Fall Guy.”
Thomas revealed on the “Still Here Hollywood” podcast that after her time on the hit show, she was bombarded with scary situations involving stalkers.
Thomas was on “The Fall Guy” from 1981 until the series concluded in 1986. She took on a few other roles after the show ended, such as “Red Blooded American Girl” and “Against The Law,” but she decided to leave Hollywood behind in the ’90s.
“I was just getting so many stalkers,” she said before explaining that it was “really bad.” It got to the point where Thomas was dealing with two stalkers a week, she told podcast host Steve Kmetko.
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“I had one guy one night cut my screen in my bedroom and got in, and I shot him.”
“I had tons of restraining orders. I had two little girls, and a guy was jumping our gate with a giant buck knife. In those days, I don’t know if this is true now, but people would fixate. You could be in a soap commercial, and they would fixate on you. There weren’t a lot of stalker laws, and I just needed to be home anyway,” Thomas said.
She described her experience as being “scary” and even received some threatening items in the mail.
“Someone sent me a box of bullets, and people would send me funeral wreaths they stole from a graveyard,” the actress shared.
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Thomas continued, “I always had a bodyguard in the house because that’s where I didn’t want to come home to a dark house.”
She explained that things turned violent when a man attempted to break into her bedroom.
“I had one guy one night cut my screen in my bedroom and got in, and I shot him,” she said while clarifying that she had rock salt in her firearm. Thomas is still unsure if the intruder ever went to jail.
Thomas said that she has not been open about her stalkers in the past because she did not want to be labeled as “the lady that was stalked.”
During the podcast episode, Thomas also discussed being sexualized in Hollywood.
“I think there’s a certain amount of disassociation,” she said of the industry. “It was really my business. It would be like a woman who sold bathing suits. It was the way I sold things.”
Thomas said she was “happy” with her body because she “worked hard” for it.
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When Thomas made her debut in Hollywood, she was a student at UCLA and wanted to focus on writing and directing, but she quickly learned it was “rough” for women.
She ultimately chose to be on-camera as opposed to being behind-the-scenes because of the paycheck. Thomas said she was “making so much money” that she chose the path of “least resistance.”
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Musk corrects Biden admin’s claim on stranded astronauts in first interview since rescue
Billionaire and tech titan Elon Musk shared his congratulations to SpaceX and NASA following the rescue of two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station for roughly the past nine months.
“Thanks to the excellent work of the SpaceX team working with NASA, the astronauts are now safely home. And so congratulations to the SpaceX NASA teams on excellent work,” Musk said during an exclusive interview on “Hannity” Tuesday.
The SpaceX founder and face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) also offered a “huge note of appreciation” to President Donald Trump “for prioritizing and expediting the return.”
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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams had been on the International Space Station since June 2024. Their mission was only scheduled to last one week after the launch of Boeing’s first astronaut flight. However, after the spacecraft encountered technical issues, and NASA determined it unsafe for it to arrive back to Earth with the astronauts on board, Wilmore and Williams remained stuck at the International Space Station for months.
Wilmore, Williams, Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov made their return to Earth on Tuesday, with a splashdown off the coast of Florida just before 6 p.m. ET.
Wilmore and Williams’ return became a political issue for the Trump administration, with Musk previously telling Fox News host Sean Hannity on Feb. 18 that former President Joe Biden left the astronauts in space for “political reasons.”
Shortly after taking office, Trump tasked Musk with bringing home the two astronauts, who he said had been “abandoned” by the Biden administration.
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Trump also blasted Biden for not acting sooner.
“I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration. They have been waiting for many months on @Space Station. Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!” posted Trump at the time.
In a post-landing news conference with SpaceX and NASA officials on Tuesday, Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA Space Operations Mission Directorate Joel Montalbano was asked about Trump and Musk’s claims that the Biden administration didn’t want to bring the Starliner crew back for political reasons.
“Yeah, so I wasn’t involved in any conversations with the previous administration,” Montalbano said. “It was clear we had a request from the current administration, and the results you saw are what we saw today with the landing of Crew-9.”
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Hannity pressed Musk on the politics behind the astronauts’ delayed return, and Musk set the record straight on his communications with the previous Biden administration.
“We definitely offered to return the astronauts earlier. There’s no question about that,” Musk said.
“The astronauts were only supposed to be there for eight days, and they’ve been there for almost ten months. So, obviously, that doesn’t make any sense. SpaceX could have brought the astronauts back after a few months at most, and we made that offer to the Biden administration. It was rejected for political reasons, and that’s just a fact.”
Missing college student’s parents share reason why they asked for death declaration
The parents of Sudiksha Konanki, the University of Pittsburgh student who went missing from the Dominican Republic on March 6, have spoken out after telling authorities to declare their daughter dead.
Their statement comes after they sent a letter to La Policia Nacional, the Dominican national police force, on Monday stating that “Dominican authorities have concluded that Sudiksha is believed to have drowned.”
“Both sides of the authorities have shown us how high the ocean waves were at the time of the incident,” Subbarayudu Konanki, Sudiksha’s father, told reporters on Tuesday, adding that her death has been “difficult to process.”
Sudiksha Konanki was reported missing on March 6 from the resort where she was staying in Punta Cana. It was later revealed that the 20-year-old college student went swimming during a red-flag warning with a male hotel guest, who is considered a witness in Konanki’s disappearance but not a suspect or person of interest.
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“It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that we are coming to the terms with the fact that our daughter is gone,” Subbarayudu said Tuesday.
“We were going through too much pain all these days, and we were saddened, and we were not able to believe this.”
The witness, 22-year-old Joshua Riibe of Iowa, apparently told Dominican authorities that while they were swimming, a large wave crashed over them, according to a translated transcript of his interview to police shared with Fox News.
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He said he tried to help her and last saw her wading through knee-deep water. He then began vomiting up seawater and noticed that Konanki was no longer in sight and assumed she had returned to her hotel room. Riibe said he fell asleep in a beach chair before eventually returning to his room.
Hotel surveillance footage shows Riibe returning to his hotel room around 9 a.m. on March 6.
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Police “clarified that the person of interest is not a suspect,” Subbarayudu told reporters.
“Keep our daughter in your prayers,” he said, adding that he and his wife have other children to care for as they “try to move on” with their lives. He said Sudiksha was “very bright” and “wanted to pursue medicine,” which is why she had enrolled in pre-med at Pitt.
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Subbarayudu also said he and his wife believe in the authorities “100%.”
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia, where Konanki is from, issued a Tuesday statement sharing her family’s belief that she drowned.
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“While a final decision to make such a declaration rests with authorities in the Dominican Republic, we will support the Konanki family in every way possible as we continue to review the evidence and information made available to us in the course of this investigation,” the sheriff’s office said.
Ribbe, who is believed to be one of the last people seen with Konanki, had a hearing Tuesday concerning his writ of habeas corpus, or his challenge to the Dominican Republic’s decision to confiscate his passport and hold him in the country since March 6.
A judge ultimately agreed with Riibe that he had been unlawfully detained, and he has another hearing scheduled for March 28. It was not immediately clear when he might be able to leave the Dominican Republic.
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Riibe, a senior at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota who has not been accused of a crime but is considered a crucial witness in the case, had been held under surveillance at the resort since Konanki was reported missing.
His family has called his continued required presence in the country “irregular.”
Website claims to expose Tesla owners as cars targeted in anti-Elon Musk rage
A website called “Dogequest” has posted what it claims is the personal information of Tesla owners across the United States, an apparent act of intimidation that comes in the wake of protests against Elon Musk and the billionaire’s ties to President Donald Trump.
The website claims to “empower creative expressions of protest” through exposing the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Tesla owners, reported 404 Media, an investigative website that focuses on technology.
The Dogequest site says it will remove the Tesla owners’ identifying information if they provide proof that they’ve sold their electric vehicles, according to the report.
The report also says that the doxxing site includes a map that purportedly shows what it claims are the addresses of Tesla dealerships, the approximate locations of Tesla superchargers and the personal information of employees at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is led by Musk.
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The information posted on the website has not been verified. Fox News Digital was unable to access the website after 404 Media posted its report on Tuesday.
Tesla car owners, dealerships and charging stations have been targeted nationwide by protesters and vandals because of Elon Musk’s involvement with the Trump administration and DOGE, which aims to slash wasteful spending and fraud within the federal government.
Earlier this week, protesters struck an Oregon Tesla dealership, located 10 miles south of Portland, which was targeted by gunshots Thursday, damaging multiple cars and shattering windows, according to The Associated Press.
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Several Tesla charging stations have also been set on fire in Massachusetts. Seemingly non-violent rallies have also been held at Tesla dealerships in Michigan and New York City.
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said those taking part in the alleged vandalism on Tesla cars, charging stations and dealerships could face up to 20 years in prison.
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“So if you’re going to touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything – you better watch out, because we’re coming after you,” Bondi said Friday during an appearance on “Mornings with Maria. “And if you’re funding this, we’re coming after you. We’re going to find out who you are.”