Republican firebrand makes choice on whether she will try to oust Democrat senator
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a top House ally of President Donald Trump and a MAGA firebrand with a national following, is passing on a 2026 Senate run.
The three-term conservative lawmaker who represents a solidly red district in northwest Georgia, in a lengthy statement announcing her decision that was posted to social media on Friday night, took aim at Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff, a top GOP target whom Republicans view as extremely vulnerable in next year’s midterm elections.
But Greene saved much of her venom for fellow Republicans, many of whom feared a polarizing campaign if Greene became the party’s 2026 nominee in Georgia, and for the institution of the Senate itself.
“Someone once said, ‘The Senate is where good ideas go to die.’ They were right. That’s why I’m not running,” Greene wrote as she announced her decision.
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And Greene argued, “Here’s the hard truth: the Senate doesn’t work. It’s designed to obstruct the will of the people and protect the Uniparty’s grip on power. Nearly everything requires 60 votes to pass, and even when we have a majority, a pack of Republican Senators always votes “no” on the bills that matter most.”
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Greene’s announcement came four days after two-term Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who was the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s top recruit in battleground Georgia, revealed that he would also pass on a Senate bid.
The popular conservative governor, who is term-limited and prevented from seeking re-election in 2026, was the GOP’s dream candidate to take on Ossoff, as Republicans aim to expand their 53-47 Senate majority in next year’s elections.
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Greene, in her statement, claimed, “Beating Jon Ossoff? That would be easy. He’s a silver-spoon progressive who’s never held a real job or worried about putting a roof over his family’s head.”
“So, Jon Ossoff, you can stop with the fundraising emails and campaign ads claiming I’m your opponent. I’m not running,” she added.
While criticizing Ossoff, Greene turned up the volume on her own party, including “the same elites who scoffed at me when I first ran for Congress in 2020.”
“Most elected Republicans, propped up by consultants and rich donors, fail to deliver on their campaign promises. Why? Because their donors and handlers don’t want change. They want to protect their own interests, not yours,” Greene charged.
She took aim at “the Republicans who see Trump as a speed bump,” and argued that “polling has become so dishonest that most people barely pay attention to it anymore. Voters are sick of the consultants who keep getting rich whether we win or lose.”
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Greene described herself as “effective, fearless, and relentless, not because I serve the Republican Party, but because I serve the American people.”
But she added that “I won’t fight for a team that refuses to win, that protects its weakest players, and that undermines the very people it’s supposed to serve… To the elite retreaters, the consultants, and the establishment: consider this your warning.”
In the wake of Kemp’s announcement, GOP Rep. Buddy Carter, who represents coastal Georgia, launched a Senate campaign this week. Other Georgia Republicans expressing interest in running are Reps. Mike Collins and Rich McCormick, state Insurance Commissioner John King, state Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and State Sen. Greg Dolezal.
Georgia-based Republican consultants tell Fox News they expect a crowded and competitive primary.
Greene, earlier this year, said that she was also considering a run for Georgia governor. And in her statement, she didn’t rule out a gubernatorial run in the race to succeed Kemp.
Trump considers slashing tariff on China ahead of weekend negotiations with Beijing
President Donald Trump on Friday morning said that an “80% Tariff on China seems right!” adding on Truth Social that the final number would be up to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
An 80% tariff on Chinese goods coming into the U.S. would be nearly half of the current 145% tariff on the Asian country.
Minutes earlier, he posted: “CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA — WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!! CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!”
It was the first time the president has put out a specific number, after previously suggesting the tariff could be lowered.
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Trump’s suggested lower tariffs come ahead of weekend talks between Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer and Chinese economic tsar He Lifeng in Switzerland.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a press briefing Friday, “That was a number the president threw out there, and we’ll see what happens this weekend,” adding that Trump wouldn’t unilaterally lower the tariff and China would be required to make “concessions.”
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Earlier this week, Trump said that China is eager to make a deal with the U.S.
“Scott’s going to be going to Switzerland, meeting with China,” Trump told reporters Thursday at the White House. “And you know, they very much want to make a deal. We can all play games. Who made the first call, who didn’t make them? It doesn’t matter. Only matters what happens in that room. But I will tell you that China very much wants to make a deal. We’ll see how that works out.”
The Trump administration announced widespread tariffs for multiple countries on April 2, following criticism that other countries’ trade practices are unfair towards the U.S.
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The administration later adjusted its initial proposal and announced on April 9 it would immediately impose a 145% tariff on Chinese goods, while reducing reciprocal tariffs on other countries for 90 days to a baseline of 10%. China responded by raising tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%.
White House unleashes on Democrat leaders for ‘outright breaking the law’ at ICE facility
FIRST ON FOX: The White House is blasting Democrats for “prioritizing the welfare of illegal aliens over American citizens,” after “outright breaking the law” and storming an ICE facility in New Jersey.
On Friday, Reps. Rob Menendez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman and LaMonica McIver, all New Jersey Democrats, entered ICE’s Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, N.J. and were held up inside the first checkpoint, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News.
The three lawmakers were outside the facility with a group of protesters when the gates opened to allow an ICE bus in. The lawmakers then rushed through the gates and past security, DHS said.
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Ras Baraka, was arrested at the ICE detention facility where the three members of Congress also stormed the gate, demanding they be allowed to conduct an “oversight visit.”
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Baraka, a top Democratic gubernatorial candidate, was arrested at the scene for trespassing, authorities said.
The White House is blasting the Democrats, telling Fox News Digital they are “crossing the line.”
“As always, Democrats are prioritizing the welfare of illegal aliens over American citizens – except now they’re crossing the line between meaningless political street theatre and outright breaking the law,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News Digital.
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Activists have demanded entry into the facility in recent days, saying the GEO Group, the building’s new owner, is unlawfully preventing it from being inspected. A lawsuit filed on behalf of the City of Newark on April 1 alleges that GEO Group failed to permit entry to safety inspectors and violated city construction code, including by conducting electrical and plumbing renovations without proper oversight.
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The Department of Homeland Security said the allegations by Newark politicians that Delaney does not have the proper permitting is false.
Coroner reveals manner of death for NFL legend’s agent after golf cart tragedy
Jeff Sperbeck, the longtime agent, business partner and friend of John Elway, died after he was involved in a serious crash involving a golf cart. Sperbeck was 62.
Elway, a former Denver Broncos quarterback, was reportedly driving the motorized vehicle at the time of the deadly accident.
The Riverside County (California) coroner confirmed that Sperbeck died on April 30 at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California. The injury had occurred four days earlier in nearby La Quinta.
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On Friday, the coroner’s office ruled Sperbeck’s death accidental and said he had died as a result of blunt head trauma.
“The Cause of Death is ‘Blunt Head Trauma,’ and the Manner of Death is ‘Accident,’ and the Mode of Death (How the injury occurred) is ‘Passenger fell from golf cart.’” the coroner’s bureau said in the statement obtained by Fox News Digital.
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The statement added that the injury occurred when the “passenger fell from” the golf cart.
Last week, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco made it clear that investigators had found “nothing” to suggest that criminal activity had taken place during the incident. “This appears to be a horrific accident,” Bianco told the Post, noting that “a couple” of the people involved in the incident “happen to be very high-profile celebrities,” Bianco told the Denver Post.
“And that makes this more of an issue than it probably should be,” Bianco said at the time, noting that his department had received a “massive media inquiry” after the news broke. “We’re doing everything we can to make sure that this is what it appears to be, and just an accident,” he added.
Elway released a statement on April 30 saying he was left “heartbroken.”
“I am absolutely devastated and heartbroken by the passing of my close friend, business partner and agent Jeff Sperbeck,” Elway said in a statement, via ESPN. “There are no words to truly express the profound sadness I feel with the sudden loss of someone who has meant so much to me. “
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Elway won two Super Bowls with the Broncos and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Former child star gets brutally honest about Alec Baldwin feud: ‘I was so insecure’
Shia LaBeouf is speaking candidly about a troubling time in his career.
The controversial actor, who’s been working in Hollywood since he was a child, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter to promote his new film, “Henry Johnson.” During their conversation, LaBeouf discussed his former feud with fellow actor Alec Baldwin, whom he briefly worked with for a Broadway show called “Orphans” in 2013.
LaBeouf was originally supposed to star opposite Al Pacino, but when Pacino left the production, Baldwin replaced him – something that LeBeouf struggled with. As he explained to THR, he was solely to blame for their issues, because he was “not a nice guy” at the time.
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“By the time Baldwin got there, it was almost unfair,” he said. “So he’s dealing with both my fractured little weak ego, right? All this hard prep that I’d done for two years, and my desperate need to show him all my prep, or that he would accept me somehow. I was so insecure. Well, that got contentious in the room. Then he got competitive. That’s just what our relationship turned into.”
He continued, “I’d be off book, he’d be on book, and he didn’t want me to look at him be off book. That makes it hard to play these scenes out or block this thing even. And no fault against him, he had two weeks to come in because Pacino [dropped out]. I had built the whole thing based on my relationship with Pacino. And that’s gone. So I was kind of heartbroken. When he came in, I’m living in the park, and I’m on steroids, and I’m not in a good way.”
“Fear will make you move different. I found it came from having absolutely no spiritual life … It made me a piece of s–t. Not a nice guy.”
When asked to elaborate, LaBeouf said, “I was sleeping in Central Park. They keep horses there at this little fire basin. And there’s a whole lot of room around there where you can just chill. You got to move every three or four hours, and the guy comes around, but you can spend most of your time there.”
He confessed that his issues with Baldwin “got insane,” but said that the two are “good” now.
“Me and him are good because he’s gone through a lot,” he shared. “I’ve gone through a lot. We’ve both been able to send each other love and make it right before all the madness happened on both sides. We made it right. He’s a good guy. He’s just like me. Fear will make you move different. I found it came from having absolutely no spiritual life. . . . It made me a piece of s–t. Not a nice guy.”
“I was sleeping in Central Park. They keep horses there at this little fire basin. And there’s a whole lot of room around there where you can just chill.”
LaBeouf has since found his faith. Last year, he received the sacrament of confirmation after converting to Catholicism. He even expressed interest in becoming a deacon.
“Me and Alec would never have these problems now,” he acknowledged. “But I was in an island.”
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Baldwin did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
In a 2014 piece he wrote for Vulture, Baldwin spoke about his experience with LaBeouf, admitting that “there was friction between us from the beginning.”
“LaBeouf seems to carry with him, to put it mildly, a jailhouse mentality wherever he goes. When he came to rehearsal, he was told it was important to memorize his lines. . . . I, however, do not learn my lines in advance. So he began to sulk because he felt we were slowing him down. You could tell right away he loves to argue. And one day he attacked me in front of everyone. He said, ‘You’re slowing me down, and you don’t know your lines. And if you don’t say your lines, I’m just going to keep saying my lines.’”
He “snorted” at LaBeouf, and the two had a terse exchange in front of the rest of the cast. Afterward, Baldwin asked for a break, then took the director and stage manager aside and told them, “One of us is going to go.”
He wrote, “I said, ‘I’ll tell you what, I’ll go.’ I said don’t fire the kid, I’ll quit. They said no, no, no, no, and they fired him. And I think he was shocked. He had that card, that card you get when you make films that make a lot of money that gives you a certain kind of entitlement. I think he was surprised that it didn’t work in the theater.”
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While LaBeouf struggled to get along with Baldwin at the time, he told THR that other A-list stars were there for him when he needed to make a change, naming Mel Gibson as someone who has “always been very lovely” to him.
“He held my hand when I was really s—-ing on myself,” he recalled. “Dude really stepped up for me in big ways. Him, Sean Penn, James Brolin — these guys got me to sobriety. They got around me and kept me alive.”
LaBeouf briefly acknowledged the public perception of him after years of controversy that included former girlfriend FKA Twigs filing a lawsuit against him in 2020 for the alleged abuse she suffered during their relationship. The lawsuit is ongoing, and he has denied the allegations, but he said that he understands there is “all this myth already about how I’m a dog-killing, monstrous piece of s–t.”
Now, he is interested in rehabilitation.
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“I hope my whole life is squaring things, getting it right,” the actor said. “It’s what I want to do with the rest of my life. And there’s a lot of things to get right. I’m blessed that I still have this craft and I’m still allowed to do it at a high level with the highest. It feels like a f—ing miracle. It’s all part of the same thing — God’s everything or nothing.”
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Bishop says pope’s ‘intriguing’ name gives clue into how he will handle political divides
American author, speaker and theologian Bishop Robert Barron was at the Vatican this week to witness the election of a new pope, and he shared his thoughts with Fox News Digital about Cardinal Robert Prevost’s “intriguing” new papal name.
Papal names are often very symbolic with regard to how a Pope will serve as the leader of the Catholic Church. Typically, Pope’s select the names of predecessors they admire or want to emulate. Prevost ultimately went with Leo XIV in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903.
“He could have been Francis II, and we would have said, ‘Oh, there he is clearly in the line of Francis.’ He could have been John Paul III, then we would have thought, ‘Oh, he’s very much in that more conservative line.’ He could have been John XXIV, and we say ‘Oh, now he’s a real revolutionary liberal, et cetera,'” Barron said. “The fact that he went back, well over 100 years, to this very interesting and pivotal figure … our new pope was saying, I too, want a critical engagement with the modern world, not simply a ‘no,’ but also not simply a ‘yes,’ not simply an acquiescence to it.”
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Barron pointed out that Leo XIII was a pivotal figure due to the timing of his reign, which came during a moment when the Church was contending with the tremendous political and philosophical upheavals of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as the French and American Revolutions, and the introduction of philosophies such as Marxism.
“The church’s first reaction [to these changes] was very negative. It was a great ‘no’ to modernity. By the end of the 19th century, I think, with a certain distance and a certain critical intelligence, the church was willing to enter into a more, call it, creative engagement with modernity. And I think Pope Leo the 13th represents precisely that,” Barron said.
The bishop pointed to the Rerum Novarum to further his point, an encyclical letter issued by Pope Leo XII in 1891.
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“In that document, [Leo XII] is a fierce opponent of Marxism, a fierce opponent of socialism and communism, a great defender of private property and of the market economy,” Barron said. “So you say, ‘Okay, there’s that great ‘no’ to the left-wing economic revolutions.’ At the same time, in that same letter, [Leo XII] comes out strongly in favor of the right to form unions. He comes out very strongly in favor of what we call the universal destination of goods.”
“In fact, Pope Leo says in that letter, once the requirements of necessity and propriety have been met in your life, the rest of what you own belongs to the poor,” Barron continued. “That’s not a just a standard, boring, mainstream point of view. That’s a pretty revolutionary statement. But notice the lovely balance in that letter between ‘yes’ to private property, the great ‘no’ to socialism and Marxism, but the great ‘yes’ to the universal destination of goods. Leo sets the tone thereby for the rest of Catholic social teaching that followed him.”
In conclusion, Barron said he thinks Prevost’s selection of Leo XIV makes the new pope “a very interesting player” in terms of the debate between the Right and the Left in politics.
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“[Leo XVI] doesn’t fit – and I’ve said this 1,000 times – he and other great representatives of Catholic social teaching don’t fit into our categories of left and right,” Barron said. “They don’t fit into Democrat-Republican, they’re in a space beyond those distinctions. So, I think that’s what’s perhaps most interesting about him.”
High school athletes beg district to not make girls compete against trans players
A public school district is in the process of transferring from Nevada’s high school sports conference to California’s so it can avoid Nevada’s new policy that keeps biological males out of high school girls’ competitions and locker rooms.
The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District (TTUSD) in Truckee, California, is leaving the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) to join the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF).
The change will go into effect in Fall 2025 and comes after the NIAA voted to ban male athletes from the girls’ category during its April 2 Board of Control meeting. It was made in order to comply with President Donald Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order. However, California has continued to defy the order and enable trans inclusion in girls’ sports.
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Multiple TTUSD parents and girls’ athletes pleaded with school officials not to make the switch to California’s federation at the Truckee Unified school board meeting Wednesday night.
Not only did they speak out the notion of letting trans athletes in girls’ sports, but many speakers also pointed out that other details of the switch would affect the district’s sports teams’ ability to conduct their seasons, including travel and scheduling changes that would bring about potential weather complications for outdoor events.
The current setup with Truckee competing in the NIAA allows its teams to travel east into Nevada for most of its away competition, as the town sits near the northern California-Nevada border. But with the coming change, the student athletes could soon have to travel west for most of their away competition.
This means that students will often have to travel through California’s Donner Pass, a 7,056-foot-high mountain pass. During winter, the pass is known for being dangerous due to extreme weather conditions like heavy snowfall, strong winds and icy roads. The high elevation and frequent storms contribute to treacherous travel conditions, including the potential for avalanches.
Truckee high school girls’ track and field athlete Ava Cochram expressed her fears of playing against trans athletes.
“Men generally have more muscle mass, higher lung capacity and greater bone density that gives them greater advantages, physically, in sports, and I think that it’s very unfair to watch all of our hard work as women to go down the drain,” Cochram said. “I do not have anything against trans people, but I think this is a violation of our privacy.”
Truckee High School girls’ soccer, track and basketball athlete Kenzie Zilstorf lamented the idea of changing with trans athletes in the same locker room, and having to increase the risk of travel with the change.
“It’s even more bad if a woman has to go in the locker room with a man and change with them. There’s two genders, a man and a woman,” Zilstorf said. “And I think it’s unfair that we have to take a dangerous drive to risk our lives over the summit when there’s snow, all because of a privacy rule. This is wrong.”
North Tahoe High School girls’ soccer player Anna Holly said she isn’t even going to be playing girls’ soccer anymore because of the change.
“It’s sad for me, because this is the only time I get to play soccer in my life, and I really do enjoy it, but I’m choosing basketball over that,” Holly said. “And biologically, boys are born with greater speed and strength than girls, and having to play against them, they do have an unfair advantage, and I would not feel safe with them. There’s also safety concerns about how much stronger they are than us.”
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TTUSD still defended its decision to switch to CIF in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
“A recent Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) policy change made on April 2, 2025, directly conflicts with California state law, specifically the California Education Code’s mandate against discrimination and protection of student privacy. Given the direct conflict between the NIAA’s recent policy changes and the mandates of California state law, TTUSD viewed joining a California athletics association as a necessary action to ensure legal compliance,” read a statement from the TTUSD to Fox News Digital.
TTUSD also said it anticipates the new arrangements will lead to shorter travel times for its student athletes for away competitions, despite concerns over the Donner Pass.
“TTUSD is working with CIF on details related to league assignment, schedules, and travel distances. We anticipate that the overall mileage student-athletes travel within the CIF will be less than our current travel schedules,” the district’s statement read.
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CIF is one of many high school sports conferences located in blue states to defy Trump’s executive order since it was signed on Feb. 5.
It is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for its defiance of the order, and Education Secretary Linda McMahon has warned Governor Gavin Newsom that his state could be subject to federal funding freezes if it continues to defy.
CNN commentator roars with laughter over ‘View’ host’s claim about Biden’s honesty
CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings laughed at fellow network commentator Ana Navarro Thursday night after she insisted former President Joe Biden doesn’t “tell many lies.”
The conservative commentator burst out laughing at Navarro – also a co-host on ABC’s “The View” – after she denied reporting that Biden had told former Vice President Kamala Harris to leave “no daylight” between their agendas while she campaigned for president last year.
Navarro recounted that Biden denied the “daylight” comment during a live interview on “The View” earlier in the day and said she believed him, adding that she doesn’t think he lies often.
Jennings asked her of Biden, “You think he’s ever told a lie?” Navarro replied, “I don’t think he tells many lies,” prompting Jennings to bend over laughing.
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The clash came several hours after Navarro and her “View” co-hosts spoke to Joe and Jill Biden on the set of the ABC talk show Thursday morning, asking him about claims made in a new book that he requested that Harris leave “no daylight” between them.
“Well, look, first of all, I did not advise her to say that, number one. Like I said, I was vice president. I understand the role, number one,” he said. “Number two, I think it was, I think she was talking about, she wouldn’t have changed the successes we had, not opposed to, we wouldn’t change anything at all. She has to be her own person, and she was.”
Biden’s response conflicted with reporting in “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” the book written by reporters Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen in the aftermath of the 2024 election.
Biden’s alleged request to his then-vice president was seen as one of the contributing reasons for her loss. Critics have claimed Harris didn’t do enough to separate herself from her ex-boss’s unpopular presidency.
Jennings confronted Navarro over the answer she received from Biden on her other show, suggesting she’d rather believe Biden’s statements over Parnes and Allen’s reporting.
“It’s been reported. He told [Harris] point-blank – he told her point-blank, ‘No daylight, kid. No daylight,’” the conservative said, as Navarro tried to speak over him.
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“The View” co-host shot back that Jennings, a media critic, was buying the journalists’ claims without much skepticism.
“Oh, because reporting can never be wrong?” she asked.
“Are you attacking the journalism around it?,” he replied.
“You think reporting can never be wrong? You come in and you come on here and you attack reporting every night! We actually asked him the question directly,” Navarro responded, referencing her interview with Biden.
Jennings rejected Biden’s response, saying, “There’s critical reporting about this guy, and he told her point-blank, ‘No daylight.'”
After Jennings laughed at her denial that Biden wasn’t being honest, Navarro hit back, “No. You know why you don’t get to laugh like that? Because you support a guy who lies every freaking day and lies continuously. You support a guy who cannot acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election, and that lies about it.”
By this point in the discussion, the two were almost yelling at each other, prompting CNN anchor Abby Phillip to end the segment.
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Following the interview, Jennings continued defending his point on X, sharing the image of Allen’s headline mentioning Biden’s alleged “daylight” claim.
In the post, the CNN commentator invited the authors of the Biden book to refute Navarro and Biden’s statements, writing, “Care to weigh in, @amieparnes and @jonallendc? You’ve been called liars here on the ‘no daylight kid’ moment – but my bet is you’ve got it right and Joe Biden can’t remember what he had for breakfast yesterday. This will not age well.”
Allen replied to Jennings on Friday morning, declaring “We stand by our reporting, which @TheView noted was deeply sourced.”
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In a follow-up post, Allen even argued that Biden had not even denied the “daylight” claim specifically.
He wrote, “Also, Biden was asked a two-part question. 1) Harris saying ‘there’s not a thing that comes to mind’ on The View. 2) that he encouraged her to have ‘no daylight’ from him. He answered the first — ‘I did not advise her to say that’ — and ignored the second. Roll tape.”
Left-handed people could be at higher risk for some neurological disorders
Left-handedness and certain neurological disorders could go hand-in-hand, a new study revealed, though the researchers and others acknowledged potential limitations.
While about 10% of people in the world are left-handed, people with autism are 3.5 times more likely to have the trait, according to an international team of researchers that analyzed data from over 200,000 individuals.
The study, published in the journal Psychological Bulletin, indicated that left- and mixed-handedness also appear more often in people who have diagnoses such as schizophrenia, autism and intellectual disability.
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Mixed-handedness refers to a situation in which people may use their left hand for a certain task and their right hand for others, according to psychology experts.
This is slightly different from ambidexterity, which is the equal use of both hands.
“The key takeaways of this study are that alterations in hand preference from the norm (i.e., right-handedness) are associated especially with psychiatric and psychological conditions that affect the language system (e.g., dyslexia or schizophrenia) or affect neurodevelopment through an early age of onset (e.g., autism or ADHD),” lead author Dr. Julian Packheiser told Fox News Digital.
He is a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.
“Correlation doesn’t imply causation — and being left-handed does not mean someone will develop autism or schizophrenia.”
Not all neurological conditions showed a link to people’s dominant hand.
Depression and dyscalculia (a math learning disability), for example, showed no meaningful difference in hand preference compared to control groups, the study found.
Language factor
The researchers also determined that “atypical handedness” may be associated with long-term linguistic symptoms like stuttering and dyslexia.
“In most people, the dominant side of their brain is typically where speech, language, logical thought processing and hand preference is located,” Dr. Earnest Lee Murray, a neurologist with West Tennessee Medical Group, told Fox News Digital.
He was not involved with the new study.
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“People who are left-handed or ambidextrous often don’t have such a dominant one-sided brain — rather, the key portions of language can be divided between both sides,” Murray also said.
The study also examined the likelihood of atypical handedness in clinical populations, or groups of people diagnosed with a specific set of health conditions compared to a control population.
“We suspected that left- and mixed-handedness could be associated with disorders whose symptoms are related to language,” said Packheiser in a press release about the study.
“Language, like handedness, has a very one-sided location in the brain, so it stands to reason that the development of both and their disorders could be linked.”
Timing is key
The researchers also considered other factors that could come into play, such as the age at which a person might exhibit symptoms.
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It appears that the earlier a disorder’s symptoms emerged, the more frequently researchers saw cases of left- and mixed-handedness.
The researchers hypothesized that left- and mixed-handedness could be associated with diseases that occur very early in life, because the dominant hand is determined at a very early age – possibly even before birth.
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In the womb, thumb-sucking at 10 weeks’ gestation is heavily linked to which hand will be preferred later in life, they noted.
The connection could help experts potentially understand the way brains are organized and how they develop.
“The study has implications when understanding ways of finetuning the neurorehabilitation of patients with one-sided brain conditions, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis or traumatic brain injury,” Murray said.
Potential limitations
Jonathan Alpert, a Manhattan-based psychotherapist and author, said the study was “interesting,” though he emphasized its limitations.
“Correlation doesn’t imply causation — and being left-handed does not mean someone will develop autism or schizophrenia,” Alpert, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital.
“Handedness is just one of many factors that can be associated with neurological traits, and these findings should be interpreted with caution to avoid unnecessary alarm or stigma.”
Alpert called for more research to understand the relationship, if any, between handedness and mental health.
Lead author Packheiser agreed the results are “purely correlational.”
“We have no causal evidence that developing a psychiatric disorder linked to language or neurodevelopment causes a change in handedness, or whether changes in handedness cause any disorder,” he told Fox News Digital.
“Individuals from the general public should therefore never be alarmed if their child prefers to use the left hand,” the researcher said.
“But given the rise of mental disorders in the population, it is important to better understand them.”