Secret Service altercation outside Obama’s DC home leads to suspension of officers

Two U.S. Secret Service officers have been suspended after reportedly fighting with each other in front of former President Barack Obama’s Washington D.C. mansion last week.  

The two uniformed officers were outside Obama’s residence around 2:30 a.m. on May 21 when one called for a supervisor to come immediately before “I whoop this girl’s a**,” according to an audio recording posted online. 

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In addition to the audio, a video published Tuesday by RealClearPolitics shows the female officers punching and shoving each other.

“I need a supervisor out here… immediately before I whoop this girl’s a**,” one of the women said into the radio, the report states. 

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The Secret Service confirmed the fight with Fox News Digital. 

“The individuals involved were suspended from duty and this matter is the subject of an internal investigation. The Secret Service has a very strict code of conduct for all employees and any behavior that violates that code is unacceptable.”

“Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,” the spokesperson added. 

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It wasn’t clear what prompted the fight between the two officers. 

Melania Trump shuts down rumors about real reason for president’s feud with Harvard

A spokesperson for first lady Melania Trump shut down a “completely false” theory that her husband, the president, is warring with Harvard University because her son, Barron, was supposedly not accepted to the school.

The Palm Beach Post first reported that first lady spokesperson Nicholas Clemens said, “Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false.”

This comes amid online rumors that President Donald Trump is targeting Harvard with federal funding cuts because Barron, who just finished his freshman year at New York University, was supposedly rejected by the school.

The Trump administration is asking all federal agencies to find ways to terminate all federal contracts with Harvard amid an ongoing standoff over foreign students’ records at the Ivy League school. Harvard has already sued in federal court seeking the restoration of about $3.2 billion in federal grant funding frozen by the administration since last month. 

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In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump accused Harvard of being “very antisemitic” and said he was considering giving the school’s federal funding to trade schools “all across our land.”

“What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!” he wrote.

In a letter Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed Harvard’s leadership that the university had lost its “privilege” of enrolling foreign students as a result of the institution’s “refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security with pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ policies.” 

On Friday, Judge Allison Burroughs, a President Barack Obama appointee, granted Harvard a temporary restraining order, preventing the government from revoking the Ivy League school’s certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. The program permits the university to host international students with F-1 or J-1 visas to study in the U.S.

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Trump said this week that Harvard is being “very slow” to turn over information on foreign students. 

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“We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country,” Trump wrote.

“Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason!” he wrote. “The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) – But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!” 

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

Musk ‘disappointed’ by Trump-backed spending bill amid $36 trillion debt crisis

Elon Musk said he is “disappointed” by the costs of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” passed by Republicans in the House last week.

“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk told “CBS Sunday Morning” in an exclusive broadcast interview.

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The remarks by Musk, who recently stepped back from running the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, are in contrast to Trump, who backed the legislation, which still needs Senate approval. 

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed 215 to 214 in the House. All Democrats and two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, voted against the bill. House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris, R-Md., voted “present.”

The bill is a victory for Trump and House Republicans, who overcame policy disagreements to deliver on Trump’s key campaign promises, including an extension of his 2017 tax cuts and no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security. 

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It aims to cut roughly $1.5 trillion in government spending. The U.S. government is still more than $36 trillion in debt and has spent $1.05 trillion more than it has collected in the 2025 fiscal year, according to the Treasury Department.

The bill still faces hurdles. 

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The Senate is tasked with passing its own version. Republican leaders are hoping to send the bill to Trump’s desk by the Fourth of July. 

Actress lashes out at Trump’s changes to Kennedy Center: ‘Should get blown up’

Broadway veteran Patti LuPone lashed out at President Donald Trump for his overhaul of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and called for the building to “get blown up,” in an interview published Monday.

In February, Trump fired several Kennedy Center board members, including the president and chairman, and replaced them with pro-Trump figures, who then named the president as chairman.

In a post to Truth Social announcing the changes, Trump vowed to make the performing arts center “great again,” by removing board members who did not share his administration’s “vision for a Golden Age in arts and culture.” Trump said that drag shows “targeting” children were one example of programming at the Kennedy Center that would end under his leadership.

His actions stirred backlash in the theater and film world, with multiple artists resigning from their roles or canceling upcoming performances at the Kennedy Center in protest.

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LuPone, 76, slammed the Trump takeover in new comments to New Yorker writer Michael Schulman.

“She’s even angrier at the rest of the country,” Schulman wrote. “She told me, more than once, that the Trumpified Kennedy Center ‘should get blown up.’”

LuPone also told the outlet that she wished that the Trump administration would “Leave New York alone.” She has been an outspoken critic of Trump over the years.

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Ahead of the 2020 election, LuPone said she was considering moving to Ireland if Trump won.

On the Tony Awards red carpet in 2017, she said that she would not perform for Trump if he came to one of her shows, “because I hate the mother—.”

Richard Grenell, president of the Kennedy Center, slammed LuPone’s comments in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

“The far left has morphed into violent extremists. This is completely unacceptable – from the same people who claim to be for tolerance and diversity. Everyone should condemn these radicals,” Grenell said.

LuPone did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. 

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital, “President Trump cares deeply about American arts and culture, which is why he is revitalizing historic institutions like the Kennedy Center to their former greatness.”

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Kamala Harris warns world situation resembles 1930s era in leaked video

Leaked video shows former Vice President Kamala Harris warning that the state of the world is eerily similar to the 1930s.

In a rare appearance since leaving the White House, videos have surfaced of Harris at a Q&A during the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference (AREC 2025). Toward the end of the Q&A, the host noted his admiration for former President Barack Obama, asking Harris what has made him so successful.

“I think one of the very special aspects of who he is, is he really is a student of history and that gets back to my earlier point about, for each of us, understanding the context in which we exist,” she said in the footage leaked online. It’s critically important, because coupled with the enthusiasm that comes with ambition and optimism, we must be the clear-eyed focus of understanding where we’ve been.”

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The former vice president then argued, as a “student of history” herself, that the world’s current state echoes one of the darkest parts of the 20th century.

“I do worry, frankly, about what’s happening right now in our world,” she said. “I do worry that it is important that we remember history. It’s important we remember the 1930s. It’s important that we remember that history has taught us that isolation does not equal insulation.”

Harris went on to argue, “It is important that we understand and remember history which taught us the interdependence and interconnection between nations. History that has taught us the importance of relationships of trust, the importance of friendships, integrity, honesty.”

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She added, “There is so much about foreign affairs that is just like the importance of having good friendships, consistency, honesty, being there for each other when you need them, holding up standards, international rules and norms.”

Lara Trump reveals story behind CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s ‘a little bit too late’ apology

Since releasing the damning book on the Biden presidency “Original Sin” earlier in May, CNN anchor Jake Tapper has faced scrutiny for his past coverage of former President Joe Biden’s alleged decline in office.

Although Tapper has admitted to insufficiently reporting on Biden’s health concerns, the CNN anchor went on to apologize to Fox News host Lara Trump, whom he previously rebuked for raising concerns in 2020. 

While Trump does “appreciate” the apology, she said “it feels a little bit too late.”

“Jake Tapper saying that this is like a Watergate-level type of situation, now that he played a role in it, it feels a little bit too late to me. I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and has come out and said that I was right,” Trump said Tuesday on “The Ingraham Angle.” 

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Trump said Tapper called her about two months ahead of the release of “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” During the call, he told Trump he would apologize on TV for his exchange with Trump in October 2020 on CNN. 

During an October 2020 episode of “State of the Union,” Trump raised concerns about then-candidate Biden’s mental acuity, but Tapper quickly rebuked her for her comments.

“I think you were mocking his stutter,” Tapper said, in part, at the time. “And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline.” 

Five years later, Tapper admitted Trump was “right,” reiterating the admission during an appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” this week.

“Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she [Lara Trump] was right, and I was wrong. I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline,” Tapper said during Monday’s show, claiming that the Biden cover-up was “worse” than the Watergate scandal. 

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While Tapper has been vocal about his prior reporting, Trump argued he cannot “discount his role” in the unfolding Biden presidency scandal.

“No matter how much he wants to come out now and say, ‘You know what, we’re going to start calling the shots like we see them actually now.’ It’s too late,” Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

“You can’t do this time and time again to people and continue to lie to people in the way they did and think that you’re going to get any different result. It’s the reason Donald Trump is in the White House right now,” she continued.

Texas authorities capture two escaped New Orleans inmates after high-speed chase

Texas authorities released video showing the pursuit and arrest of two New Orleans jail inmates who escaped on May 16.

Both Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald were arrested on Monday following a high-speed chase that ended in Walker County, Texas, according to the Louisiana State Police. Donald and Tate were arrested by the Texas Department of Public Safety in an operation that included several law enforcement agencies.

Video released by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows the suspects’ vehicle going in the wrong direction before eventually being stopped by law enforcement officials. 

Body-camera video shows one of the men being pulled out of the SUV’s passenger window by Texas authorities, when he was then re-arrested. The other inmate was pulled out of the car through the passenger door.

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“Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald were arrested on May 26th after leading law enforcement officers from several agencies on a high-speed chase through the Huntsville area,” the Huntsville, Texas Police Department wrote on Facebook. “The pursuit ended near US 190 and Geneva, where both subjects were taken into custody.”

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Tate and Donald escaped the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 16 along with eight other inmates at the facility.

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Donald was initially charged with second-degree murder, aggravated battery, possession of a firearm or weapon by a felon and obstruction of justice. Tate was charged with simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling, possession of a firearm or weapon by a felon, illegal carrying of a weapon, motor vehicle theft and multiple drug counts.

Lenton Vanburen, who also escaped from the Orleans Justice Center, was also arrested on Monday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

According to WDSU, Daishanae Massey was arrested on Tuesday and booked on a charge of accessory after the fact. Fourteen people have been arrested for allegedly helping the inmates who escaped. Massey is accused of helping Antoine Massey, according to officials.

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Two men who escaped the facility are still at large: 

• Antoine Massey, 32, faces charges of domestic abuse involving strangulation, theft of a motor vehicle and a parole violation.
• Derrick Groves, 27, faces three counts of attempted second-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and battery of a correctional facility employee.