Man arrested after disrupting Senate debate on Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
A man was arrested by Capitol Police on Sunday after interrupting the Senate debate on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” shouting from the Senate Galleries that the lawmakers are “horrible.”
Allen D. Rogers, of Florida, was arrested for unlawful conduct after he refused to obey officers’ orders to stop the disruption, according to police.
“At approximately 7:00 p.m., our officers arrested a man who started being disruptive in the Senate Galleries,” police said in a statement.
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The interruption happened between speeches by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on the Republican-backed spending bill.
Rogers was heard shouting criticisms at lawmakers from the galleries, including “you people are awful” and “you’re horrible,” although most of what he said was intelligible. His remarks appeared to be targeting Republican lawmakers.
Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., was the presiding officer at the time of the disruption.
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McCormick was seen looking up and to his left into the gallery and repeatedly saying “the Sergeant at Arms will restore order in the gallery” while Rogers was shouting attacks at lawmakers.
Fox News has reached out to Capitol Police for additional information on this incident.
Satellite photos reveal ongoing activity at bombed Iranian nuclear site
Recent satellite imagery has revealed ongoing activity and fresh evidence of significant damage to tunnels and access roads at Iran’s underground Fordow uranium enrichment site caused by last week’s airstrikes.
The facility was targeted by Israeli forces on June 23, one day after the U.S. carried out strikes using bunker-buster bombs.
The new high-resolution satellite imagery, collected by Maxar Technologies, shows an excavator and several personnel positioned immediately next to the northern shaft on the ridge above the underground complex.
The crane also appears to be operating at the entrance to the shaft, where several additional vehicles are seen below the ridge, parked along the access path that was built to access the site.
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Maxar’s photos also reveal the complete destruction of a facility north of the site, surrounded by more craters and scattered dust. One more crater and visible burn marks are seen on a western access route.
Analysts believe the primary goal of the strikes was to hinder access to the sites and complicate repair efforts.
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Both the United States and Israel have stated that these military actions were aimed at hindering Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran has rejected these accusations, maintaining that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful.
The Fordow site, which is buried within a mountain near Qom, about 60 miles southwest of Tehran, was bombed by the U.S. on June 22, resulting in six prominent craters and a noticeable spread of grey debris, according to satellite photos.
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On the following day, Israel confirmed it had conducted a second strike on Fordow, specifically targeting the roads leading to the facility. Iranian officials later acknowledged this attack.
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters during a Pentagon briefing last Sunday that while all three Iranian nuclear sites targeted in the strike “sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,” the full damage would take time to assess.
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The latest strike on Fordow comes as the Israel Defense Forces said Israel also launched a series of strikes targeting the notorious Evin prison and several Iranian military command centers in an “ongoing effort to degrade the Iranian regime’s military capabilities.”
NYC candidate Mamdani refuses to denounce controversial phrase in NBC interview
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was repeatedly pressed by NBC News host Kristen Welker on Sunday about why he doesn’t want to condemn the phrase, “globalize the intifada,” insisting that he didn’t want to “police language.”
“I want to ask you about an issue that has divided New Yorkers in recent weeks. You were recently asked about the term ‘globalize the intifada,’ if it makes you uncomfortable. In that moment, you did not condemn the phrase. Now, just so folks understand, it is a phrase that many people hear as a call to violence against Jews,” Welker said. “So I want to give you the opportunity to respond here and now, do you condemn that phrase, ‘globalize the intifada?'”
Mandami, a Democratic socialist, defeated former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the mayoral primary last week.
“That’s not language that I use. The language that I use, the language that I will continue to use to lead this city, is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights,” Mamdani responded. “And ultimately, that’s what is the foundation of so much of my politics, the belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that, to have meaning, have to be applied to all people and that includes Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
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Welker asked Mamdani once again if he condemned the phrase.
Mamdani said he had spoken to several Jewish New Yorkers regarding their concerns about antisemitism and added, “I don’t believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech.”
“Ultimately, what I think I need to show is the ability to not only talk about something but to tackle it and to make clear there is no room for antisemitism in the city. We have to root out that bigotry and, ultimately, we do that through the actions, and that is the mayor I will be, one that protects Jewish New Yorkers and lives up to that commitment through the work that I do,” he continued.
Welker asked again why he wouldn’t just “condemn” the phrase, citing those who care about the language and feel concerned over the phrase.
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“My concern is, to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible, takes me into a place similar to that of the president, who is looking to do those very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing an op-ed, putting them in jail for protesting. Ultimately, it is not language that I use. It is language I understand there are concerns about, and what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions,” Mamdani said.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., called on Mamdani to denounce the phrase on Thursday during a heated exchange with WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer.
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During an interview with Stephen Colbert ahead of the primary, Mamdani was also pressed on antisemitism in New York.
“Does the State of Israel have the right to exist?” Colbert asked the 33-year-old Democratic socialist.
“Yes,” Mamdani responded. “Like all nations, I believe it has the right to exist and a responsibility also to uphold international law.”
Canada folds on digital services tax after Trump suspends trade talks
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will resume trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump after Canada said late Sunday it was rescinding a digital services tax on American tech companies.
The Canadian government said it was rescinding the Digital Services Tax “in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States.”
“Consistent with this action, Prime Minister Carney and President Trump have agreed that parties will resume negotiations with a view towards agreeing on a deal by July 21, 2025,” Canada’s Department of Finance said in a news release.
It added that a June 30, 2025 collection will be halted, and legislation is pending to rescind the Digital Services Tax Act.
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Canada’s digital services tax took effect in June 2024 and requires large businesses, whether they’re headquartered in Canada or elsewhere, to pay a 3% tax on revenue earned from engaging with online users in Canada if they meet certain conditions.
Trump terminated trade discussions with Canada on Friday, citing the digital services tax on American tech companies like Amazon, Meta, Google, and Apple, among others, as the reason.
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“They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Trump said the administration will inform Canada within the “next seven day period” of what tariff it will pay to do business with the U.S.
The president added in his post that Canada is “a very difficult Country to TRADE with” and claimed that Canada has levied tariffs of up to 400% on U.S. dairy products.
The breakdown in trade talks followed the two leaders’ G7 meeting early this month, and Carney saying they had agreed to wrap up a new economic agreement within 30 days.
The U.S. is Canada’s largest trading partner, while Canada is the largest importer of American exports and one of the top three sources of U.S. imports.
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Canada had escaped Trump’s broad tariffs imposed in April but faces 50% duties on steel and aluminum.
SJSU trans athlete scandal grows amid new revelations and legal battle escalation
EXCLUSIVE: San Jose State University’s transgender volleyball player controversy reignited last week. Fox News Digital reported that the Mountain West Conference hired the same law firm to investigate the trans athlete’s misconduct allegations that the conference was using to defend the athlete’s eligibility for the conference tournament in court.
The White House released a statement addressing the revelation, and now the lawyer leading a lawsuit against SJSU and the Mountain West on behalf of 11 current or former conference women’s athletes, William Bock, has spoken out against the conference in the aftermath of the revelation.
“It is outrageous, improper, and deceptive that the MWC hired the same law firm to both conduct a supposedly independent investigation of its member SJSU and defend the MWC in a federal lawsuit about MWC’s joint conduct and actions with SJSU,” Bock said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
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Fox News Digital reported on June 24 that the Mountain West hired the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (WFG) to investigate allegations against Blaire Fleming of conspiring with an opponent to have teammate Brooke Slusser harmed during an Oct. 3 game.
The Mountain West hired the firm to handle the investigation in the same month that the same firm represented the conference to protect Fleming’s eligibility in a request for preliminary injunction to have the trans athlete disqualified from women’s competition and the conference tournament.
The investigation closed after just three days, and documents obtained by Fox News Digital showed that investigators repeatedly incorrectly dated the game as being played on Oct. 2.
The WFG attorney who led the investigation into allegations against Fleming, Tim Heaphy, later offered the school legal counsel to help it navigate a federal Title IX investigation over the same situation, as seen in public records obtained by Fox News Digital. The offer was declined.
Bock said the revelation “astonished” him.
“I was astonished to learn WFG was representing the MWC against Brooke Slusser’s lawsuit at the same time another lawyer from that firm was supposedly independently investigating the attempt to injure Brooke and whether SJSU and the MWC adequately investigated those facts,” Bock’s statement continued.
“Hiring WFG to perform such conflicted and mutually exclusive roles suggests that Commissioner Nevarez and the MWC had no interest in discovering the truth. Instead, the MWC has long been focused solely upon advancing the interests of SJSU and pushing the narrative that men should be allowed in women’s college sports locker rooms and showers and to compete against women in college sports.”
Bock called for the U.S. Department of Education to look into the situation.
“The report from Fox News provides more evidence of the MWC’s scheme to work side-by-side with SJSU to promote trans ideology and harm women athletes while hiding the truth from the public. The conclusions from the WFG investigator favoring MWC’s and SJSU’s positions in federal court allowed his law partners to continue to milk the MWC for legal fees and then positioned that same investigator to later seek to monetize his relationship with the MWC to defend SJSU in a federal investigation over the very claims he supposedly ‘independently’ investigated,” Bock’s statement said.
“These shocking revelations of conflicts of interest entirely discredit the MWC and will hopefully be fully investigated in the reported probe of SJSU’s conduct by the U.S. Department of Education. Certainly, this investigator is likely to become a key witness in Brooke Slusser’s federal lawsuit against the MWC and SJSU, as his hiring and conduct is additional evidence that the MWC worked hand-in-glove with SJSU and was far more concerned with promoting a narrative than protecting women.”
Bock leads Slusser’s lawsuit against SJSU and the Mountain West, and also leads a larger lawsuit against the NCAA led by former college swimmer and current “OutKick” host Riley Gaines.
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Bock previously called the conference’s investigation into Fleming’s allegations “inadequate, and anything but thorough” in a Nov. 17 statement and called for the evidence to be disclosed.
No evidence was ever disclosed by the conference, as Fleming went on to finish out the season, earn all-conference honors and even led SJSU all the way to the Mountain West championship game. The trans athlete traveled and roomed alongside female teammates to Las Vegas in the final week of November for the conference tournament.
After leading the investigation that cleared Fleming’s charges in November, Heaphy reached back out to San Jose State’s university legal counsel Dustin May on Feb. 6, offering to help navigate a federal probe. President Donald Trump just signed an executive order to try and enforce that mandate just weeks into his presidency on Feb. 5. And just one day after that, Trump’s Department of Education launched an investigation into SJSU over the Fleming situation.
May declined Heaphy’s offer on Feb. 18, but Heaphy responded the next day, writing, “Please let me know if we can help in any way on this or other issues.”
None of WFG’s attorneys have been accused of violating any applicable rules of professional conduct.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Mountain West, San Jose State and Willkie Farr & Gallagher for a response to Bock’s statement.
The DOE’s investigation into SJSU’s handling of the situation involving Fleming is ongoing.
The White House provided a statement addressing the recent revelations to Fox News Digital.
“President Trump is committed to ending the dangerous and unfair participation of men in women’s sports and restoring common sense. President Trump will continue to speak out and take immediate action against schools that are jeopardizing the safety of female athletes,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston said.
Meanwhile, Bock is continuing his lawsuit against SJSU and the Mountain West on behalf of Slusser and the other 10 players on the lawsuit.
Bock’s office filed a response to motions to dismiss the case on June 23. The response made mention of the allegations against Fleming of misconduct.
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WFG and the Mountain West’s legal battle to keep the trans athlete in the women’s tournament was successful, as federal Judge Kato Crews, appointed by President Joe Biden in January 2024, ruled in favor of Fleming’s eligibility on Nov. 25.
Two days later, after a failed appeal by the plaintiffs, the firm posted an online press release announcing the legal victory to keep Fleming eligible to play.
But that webpage has since been deleted. Fox News Digital asked why the page no longer exists, but Willkie Farr & Gallagher did not respond to the inquiry.
Archived data shows the original press release stating, “Willkie secured a high-profile win for collegiate athletic conference Mountain West Conference in a suit brought by members of San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team and other Mountain West teams that played against SJSU.”
Fox News Digital previously reached out to the Mountain West, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, San Jose State University and its head volleyball coach Todd Kress regarding the previous findings. No response has been provided by those parties.
May’s office initially responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment after providing the public records, requesting a list of questions and background information be provided before speaking. Fox News Digital did not provide the information or list of comments, and requested a virtual or phone interview.
May’s office then responded with the statement, “Any speculation that the firm or attorney mentioned in your inquiry represented SJSU or the CSU is unfounded.” Fox News Digital had not posed that question or any other stipulation, only an interview request, at that point.
Fox News Digital later followed up with May’s office requesting an interview to address other questions, and fulfilled his office’s request to provide background information on what would be discussed.
May’s office responded saying, “He will not be available,” and has not responded to request for further comment.
Murder rates plummet after major cities boost police budgets despite activist pressure
Some major cities have spent recent years increasing support for their police and saw a drop in homicides, something one law enforcement group says indicates an “absolute rejection” of efforts to defund them.
Cities such as Philadelphia, Denver, Minneapolis and New York City have increased their police budgets and have seen lower homicide rates in the first quarter of 2025, compared with 2024.
The Major Cities Chiefs Association, which compiled data from Jan. 1–March 31 in 2025 and 2024, showed that several cities with increased funding for police also experienced a drop in homicides.
Philadelphia saw a 28% decrease in homicides year to date, while Minneapolis saw a 54% decrease, and Denver experienced a decrease of almost 59%.
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According to the New York City Police Department, there has been a 28% decrease in murders year to date.
All of these cities have something in common: Local lawmakers voted to increase police budgets in 2024, despite pressure from activists who wanted to defund the police.
City officials in Minneapolis voted to increase their police budget by 6% in 2024, according to MPR News. New York City also increased funding to its police department in 2024.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who took over the department in November 2024, said in a January op-ed for the New York Post that her focus on recidivism is helping make the city safer.
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“Make no mistake: These crime reductions were achieved thanks to the hard work and grit of New York’s Finest – but we know that many New Yorkers don’t feel safe,” Tisch said. “Their perception of public safety has become their reality, and we know why: surging recidivism. . . . The deck has been completely stacked against our cops by a shocking lack of accountability for crime.”
National Police Association spokesperson Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith told Fox News Digital that the drop in murders shows that Americans are rejecting the “defund the police” movement.
“I really do believe that what we are seeing in 2025 is an absolute rejection of the ‘defund the police movement,’ the ‘re-imagining police movement.’ The law enforcement profession always has room for reform. There is always room for change, but this whole cloth ‘let’s eliminate the police by defunding them’ didn’t work. People died because of it, and now the American public is wholeheartedly rejecting it,” Smith said. “And the American law enforcement officer sees that.”
Smith said it shouldn’t be a shock that “more police work equals less crime.”
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“Obviously, this is something that we have been talking about for the last five years. And we have, you know, we have been trying to explain to the American public that you do need law enforcement, and when you need law enforcement, law enforcement needs resources. And finally, I think the public, the politicians, the media are catching up with that idea,” she said.
Pennsylvania residents fight subpoenas in Bryan Kohberger’s Idaho murder case
A group of Pennsylvania residents is due in court for a series of hearings on whether they should be compelled to travel to Idaho for Bryan Kohberer’s upcoming quadruple murder trial.
The 30-year-old former criminology Ph.D. student is a Pocono Mountains native who drove home from Washington State University between the slayings of four University of Idaho undergrads on Nov. 13, 2022, and his arrest on Dec. 30 of that year.
Seven Pennsylvanians have been asked to testify, according to court records. Of those, at least five have been requested to testify for the defense. Each will have a chance to argue before a Pennsylvania judge why they should not have to travel before they can be forced to testify.
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Many of them have ties to Kohberger, 30, going back a decade or more.
“It could be a strategy to engender sympathy for him in the eyes of the jurors,” said Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago-based attorney and law professor at Northwestern University. “It could be also done as a way to lay the foundation to prevent him from receiving the death penalty if convicted.”
The prosecution has a pile of evidence against him, Stoltmann noted, and Judge Steven Hippler recently threw out Kohberger’s “alternate perpetrator” theories, finding that the defense had no evidence to suggest any of its four proposed other suspects had any connection to the scene or motive to kill the victims.
“A defense ‘win’ would be a life sentence without parole rather than the death penalty,” he said. “The entire mental health disclosure about him being autistic is for the same purpose.”
To that end, testimony from people who knew him growing up could humanize him before the jury.
Here’s what we know about the witnesses:
Jesse Harris
Harris runs the boxing gym where Kohberger told his former employers that he trained daily, according to public records obtained by Fox News Digital. Defense attorney Anne Taylor has requested his presence for two days of trial, according to a subpoena.
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Ann Parham
Parham is an advisor at the high school Kohberger attended. She has already reached an agreement to testify and is no longer required to attend Monday’s hearing, according to court documents. She was subpoenaed by the defense, and her presence has been requested for two days of trial.
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Ralph Vecchio
Vecchio’s connection to Kohberger was not immediately clear, but he has been requested by the defense for two days. He is the president of Colonial Auto in Stroudsburg.
Maggie Sanders
Sanders’ connection to the defendant is also unclear. Her hearing has been rescheduled for July 7 due to international travel, according to court documents. Defense attorney Elisa Massoth is asking for her presence for two days of the trial.
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Brandon Andreola
Andreola’s connection to Kohberger is also unspecified in court documents. Massoth has subpoenaed him for two days of the trial.
William Searfoss
Searfoss is a jail guard in Monroe County. Kohberger was briefly housed in his facility between his arrest at his parents’ home in Albrightsville and his extradition to Idaho. Searfoss’ subpoena had not yet been published by the court as of the time of writing.
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Anthony Somma
Somma is believed to be a former classmate of Kohberger’s. According to a Facebook account under his name, he graduated from the same technical school that Kohberger once attended. The suspect did not graduate – he was kicked out of a youth law enforcement program before he switched over to study HVAC. He left that program a year later. Somma’s subpoena was also not immediately available.
Trial is set to begin on Aug. 11. The exact timing of each potential witness’ testimony remains unclear.
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Initially, DeSales University professor Marie Bolger had also been summoned to court, but her name was removed from a later filing. In a 2023 interview with the Daily Mail, Bolger said Kohberger was one of her brightest students and one of only two she had recommended for Ph.D. programs in a decade as a criminology professor.
Bolger told the outlet she had never met Kohberger in person and had only taught him over email and Zoom during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She helped him work on his graduate thesis, which centered on “how and why criminals commit their crime,” she said.
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Kohberger obtained a master’s degree from DeSales before moving on to Washington State University, about 10 miles from the off-campus home where he is accused of killing Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
Royal family ‘iced’ out Prince Harry, Meghan Markle for speaking up, expert claims
Prince Harry and Prince William’s relationship is said to be severely fractured – not because of the Duke of Sussex’s royal exit, but due to the deafening silence from his brother.
“At this point, Harry’s resentment towards William seems less about the Sussexes’ actual exit in 2020 and more about what came after: the silence, the distance, and the sense that the family iced them out because they dared to speak up,” royal commentator and podcast host Amanda Matta told Fox News Digital.
“There simply has to be frustration that the family won’t engage in good faith with the points that Harry has raised, even though he’s done so publicly,” Matta added.
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Matta’s statements came shortly after a royal insider claimed to Us Weekly that there is “lingering resentment” between the battling brothers.
“Harry left a large gap in William’s world, not just personally but practically,” the source told the outlet. “The whole idea was for Harry to work hand-in-hand with William and to divide and conquer during William’s monarchy. So Harry not being there is tough. [William] feels deserted by his brother – not that he would ever say that out loud.”
The insider claimed to the outlet that William, who is heir to the British throne, plans to lean more on his cousins, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, as he prepares for the future of his reign.
“Currently, and for the foreseeable future, the relationship between Prince Harry and Prince William remains deeply fractured, with really no sign of any reconciliation,” British royals expert Hilary Fordwich claimed to Fox News Digital.
“Their lives and priorities have diverged dramatically since Harry decided to depart from royal duties. Harry is still harboring lingering resentment toward William, as evident in his comments. He has whined about both the estrangement and his sense of being unsupported, particularly regarding issues like security.”
“Harry has stated he has ‘forgiven’ family members, but his actions and public statements suggest his constant dwelling on past grievances, his ongoing frustration and disappointment instead of focusing, as his brother has done, on serving others,” Fordwich claimed.
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But Matta sees things differently for Harry, who is continuing to raise his young family in California.
“I don’t think Harry regrets leaving royal life behind, but he may regret how completely that choice cut him off from his father and brother,” she explained. “And I’d imagine there’s frustration that no one has ever stepped outside the palace machine to reach out… even now, with Charles and Kate facing serious illnesses.”
“As for whether William is jealous of Harry’s freedom… if he is, he’d never phrase it that way,” said Matta. “He’s too rooted in the idea of his duty to openly admit wanting anything else. But you can see hints of that in how he’s quietly carving out more space for his personal life, seizing more privacy for his wife and kids and taking more control over his platform. He may not want Harry’s lifestyle, but he’s taken note of what boundaries look like from his brother.”
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped back as senior royals in 2020, citing the unbearable intrusions of the British press and a lack of support from the palace. That year, they moved to the wealthy, coastal city of Montecito.
Since their exit, the couple has aired their grievances in interviews, documentaries and Harry’s 2023 memoir, “Spare.” His story is dominated by his rivalry with William, and the death of their mother, Princess Diana, in 1997.
In his book, Harry appears to be tormented by his status as a royal “spare” behind William. He recounts a long-standing sibling rivalry that worsened after Harry began a relationship with American actress Meghan Markle, whom he married in 2018.
He said that during an argument in 2019, William called Meghan “difficult” and “rude,” then grabbed him by the collar and knocked him down. Harry suffered cuts and bruises from landing on a dog bowl.
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Neither Buckingham Palace nor William’s Kensington Palace office has commented on any of the allegations.
In May of this year, Harry said he wanted to reconcile with his family after losing a court battle over his publicly funded security. The 40-year-old said his father, 76, wouldn’t speak to him.
“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” said Harry. “I don’t know how much longer my father has.”
Sources previously told People magazine that Harry’s letters and phone calls to his father go unanswered. Royal experts told Fox News Digital that Harry’s relationship with William is nonexistent.
“I think it is clear the supposedly inseparable siblings had less in common than we imagined,” royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told Fox News Digital.
“‘Spare’ made this pretty clear. Harry resented the way he was treated as a bit of a joker and the royal wild child. He was also traumatized by the death of his mother and resentment about security issues stems directly from this – this was very clear in his angry interview recently on the BBC.”
“William undoubtedly and rightly feels betrayed by Harry as [the interviews and memoir] were so damaging,” Fitzwilliams claimed. “At the heart of this is the fact that he feels he cannot trust his brother or Meghan ever again.”
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According to Us Weekly, the distance between the brothers only grows as they continue to go separate ways.
“William and Harry are separated by more than an ocean,” royal historian Marlene Koenig told Us Weekly. “There are no plans for a reconciliation. They are two brothers living very separate lives.”
Fordwich agreed.
“Prince William… has a full life, full of purpose and a fabulous extended family,” she said, noting that now, more than ever, he is dedicated to the crown.
“He has zero reason to ever want the… meaningless life his drifting brother has fallen into,” said Fordwich.
Fitzwilliams pointed out that in July 2027, Harry is hosting his Invictus Games in Birmingham. There is a possibility that an olive branch could be extended to meet with his father and brother while he’s in his home country.
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“William and [Princess] Catherine are highly unlikely to attend,” he said. “What develops from it, if the king does go, might conceivably be constructive.”
While Harry and Meghan are no longer working royals, royal expert Ian Pelham Turner does believe that a family reconciliation would benefit William’s reign.
“I interviewed a group of young graduates the other day, all in their early 20s, where we discussed how they perceived the future and the values of the royal family,” he told Fox News Digital. “Consistently, they felt they were over privileged, a dinosaur from the past.”
“Should Charles manage to remain on the throne another 10–20 years, William and Kate may become an irrelevance,” he claimed. “The sands of time may be running out, so perhaps William should reconsider his strategy and bring Harry, Meghan and family back into The Firm.”
Bartenders ‘annoyed’ by Gen Z’s drinking habit that’s costing bars money
In bars across America, fewer young bargoers – those born in the late 1990s or early 2000s – are opening tabs, instead choosing to close out and pay after every drink, The New York Times recently reported.
Does the trend bother bartenders? Fox News Digital asked a few for their thoughts.
“Is it annoying to close out the tab after every single drink for bartenders? And the answer is yes. Unequivocally, that is annoying,” said Derek Brown, a bartender and founder of Drink Company, a hospitality consulting agency in Washington, D.C.
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“You have so many things to do as a bartender throughout your shift, and closing out the tab, if you have to do it throughout the evening when somebody’s ordering two, three drinks — it takes time, and it’s frustrating and annoying.”
Today’s younger generation isn’t the first to annoy bartenders, Brown clarified.
“Every generation has its quirk,” he said.
Still, while it may not seem like a big deal to customers, closing out after every drink is a nuisance to those on the other side of the bar, especially when things are busy, Brown said.
“When somebody comes in and says, ‘I’ll take a cocktail,’ great, and then somebody comes behind and says, ‘I’ll close it out,’ you have to turn around, you have to go to the [point-of-sale machine], and you have to turn around and go back to making drinks,” Brown said.
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“All of this while being congenial, keeping a smile, making sure people are taken care of — it can be just a really, really annoying habit between all the other things you have to do. But it is part of the job.”
Some younger people claim that paying as they go is a better way to manage their drinking money.
“Once you’ve had two drinks, then the third one comes a lot faster and easier.”
“This is the positive side of this, right?” Brown said. “If you’re closing out every time, it’s true. You’re going to be able to monitor how much alcohol you’re drinking throughout the evening.”
Brown said “fiscal responsibility” is important from the consumer perspective.
“Once you’ve had two drinks, then the third one comes a lot faster and easier,” he said.
Others have expressed concerns about leaving their credit cards behind or in the hands of the bartender.
One way bars solved this problem was with a new system in which a customer’s card is swiped once and then immediately returned.
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“In that case, it’s not that difficult,” Brown said. “You keep your card. You put it in your pocket. That’s what we learned.”
Still, nothing stops a person from paying drink by drink.
“Somebody can just keep asking to open and close it [all] evening,” Brown said. “We just have to smile and do our best.”
Another reason for the decline in bar tabs could be that fewer young adults, in general, are drinking.
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A 2023 Gallup poll found that 62% of adults under age 35 say they drink, a 10% decrease over the previous 20 years.
“It depends on what kind of night I’m trying to have.”
Katie Fites, a former bartender in Tallahassee and recent graduate of Florida State University, said she doesn’t have a blanket rule when deciding whether she’s going to open a bar tab.
“It depends on what kind of night I’m trying to have,” she told Fox News Digital.
“If I know that my friends and I are going to be staying in one spot for the night, I will leave a tab open. But if I think that we’re going to be bouncing around and there’s a possibility I’ll forget I’ve left my tab open and leave, I will not leave my tab open.”
Fites worked at a popular college bar that didn’t allow tabs — so most people paid in cash.
Those who did pay with a card, however, were subject to a $10 minimum.
Card payments can not only slow down bartenders on a busy night, they can also be costly to a bar owner’s bottom line.
Credit card fees, which range from, on average, 2% to 4% of the transaction, are assessed with every swipe, according to Doug Kantor with the Merchants Payments Coalition (MPC).
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These swipe fees totaled a record $187.2 billion in 2024, an increase of 70% since the pandemic, per the MPC.
That means less money for the bars.