Pete Buttigieg tells Democrats they should embrace Trump’s campaign promise

Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg told “Pod Save America” on Sunday that it would be a good idea for Democrats to adopt the Trump campaign’s promise to expand coverage for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.

“Do you think Democrats should run on Trump’s promise from the campaign that, you know, insurance companies should be required to cover IVF and fertility treatments?” co-host Jon Favreau asked.

“I think it’s good policy,” Buttigieg answered. “I mean, if we’re really serious about being pro-family, then we need to make sure that we support that. And that means making sure whether it’s a system of direct government support or whether it’s ensuring that that’s part of what you can get from private healthcare.”

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He added, “By the way, you know, I think that the right has been weird about it, but I don’t think we should scoff at those who are interested in making sure that we encourage more people to be able to start families and have more kids if they want to, especially if the reason they’re not doing it is artificial issues around cost or access to care.”

Favreau claimed—citing a critical Washington Post report—that President Donald Trump failed to keep his campaign promise regarding IVF treatments for women during his second term. The headline read, “White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge.”

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told the Washington Post in response to its report that the president’s work to expand IVF access was ongoing. 

“President Trump pledged to expand access to fertility treatments for Americans who are struggling to start families,” Jackson said in a statement. “The Administration is committed like none before to using its authorities to deliver on this pledge.”

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In February, Trump signed an executive order aiming to expand access to IVF and other fertility treatments through the reduction of out-of-pocket costs. The order directed the Domestic Policy Council to find ways to make IVF and other fertility treatments more affordable.

Fox News Digital reached out to the DNC for comment.

Since the 2024 election, Buttigieg has criticized his party’s approach to reaching voters, going so far as to mock its obsession with diversity.

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“What do we mean when we talk about diversity? Is it caring for people’s different experiences and making sure no one is mistreated because of them, which I will always fight for? Or is it making people sit through a training that looks like something out of ‘Portlandia,’ which I have also experienced,” Buttigieg said at a forum in February.

“And it is how Trump Republicans are made,” Buttigieg added.

Texas governor vows to keep holding special sessions indefinitely until Dems return

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned state Democrats that the threat of arrest upon returning to Texas will last “for literally years” on Sunday.

Abbott made the statement during an interview on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream. He argued it is within his authority to keep the Texas legislature in a special session indefinitely, extending the penalties for Democrats who fled the state.

“I’m authorized to call a special session every 30 days. It lasts 30 days. And as soon as this one is over, I’m gonna call another one, then another one, then another, then another one,” Abbott said.

“If they show back up in the state of Texas, they will be arrested and taken to the Capitol. If they want to evade that arrest, they’re gonna have to stay outside of the state of Texas for literally years,” he added.

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The warning comes as Abbott is seeking to remove delinquent Democrats from office, arguing they have abdicated their roles under the state constitution.

“We have a situation where lawmakers are violating the law in Article 3 of the Texas Constitution where they are required to act on bills. Because they’re violating that constitutional mandate, that means they are not fulfilling their oath of office, and they can be removed from office in this legal action that I’m taking,” he said.

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At least 100 members of the 150-member Texas House must be present to conduct business, and approximately 50 of the Democrats have left. Abbott says their commitment to voting as elected state officials is a duty and is “not optional.”

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Most of the Democrats have set up in Illinois and New York, where they have received the backing of Democratic governors J.B. Pritzker and Kathy Hochul, respectively.

Alongside Abbott’s extended threat of arrest, the Republican governor has also threatened to increase the redistricting margin for his party if lawmakers don’t return to Austin.

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“What I’m thinking now is that if they don’t start showing up, I may start expanding,” Abbott said during an appearance on the “Ruthless” podcast. “We may make it six or seven or eight new seats we’re going to be adding on the Republican side.”

Trump’s foreign policy put to the test in Putin meeting on Ukraine war

President Donald Trump’s week will culminate in a high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, where the two leaders are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine and the broader state of U.S.–Russia relations on the global stage.

The summit, scheduled for Friday, has drawn international scrutiny amid concerns that Washington and Moscow could attempt to broker terms for ending the conflict without formally involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, leaving him only a tacit role in negotiations.

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Trump has previously said that Putin and Zelenskyy were close to a ceasefire deal but signaled that war-weary Kyiv would have to concede significant territory, an outcome that Ukrainians and many European allies oppose.

Russian forces currently occupy approximately one-fifth of Ukraine’s territory stretching from the Russian border to Crimea — including regions vital to the country’s economy, rich in minerals, industry, and home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

Both the White House and the Kremlin have acknowledged Zelenskyy’s request to join the talks, though no formal invitation has been extended to the Ukrainian leader. If granted a seat at the table, it would mark the first face-to-face meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022.

The summit comes as Russia’s war grinds into its third year and fifth month, with Moscow showing little sign of abandoning its efforts to erode Ukraine’s sovereignty and reassert the territorial influence of the former Soviet empire.

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The Kremlin said in a statement on Saturday that Trump and Putin are expected to “focus on discussing options for achieving a long-term peaceful resolution” in Ukraine. “This will evidently be a challenging process, but we will engage in it actively and energetically,” the statement added.

‘The US has the power to force Russia to negotiate seriously’

Over the weekend, several European leaders voiced support for Zelenskyy’s push to attend this week’s summit, amid growing concerns that Kyiv’s long-term security could be negotiated without its direct involvement.

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland and the European Commission said in a joint statement that any diplomatic solution brokered between Trump and Putin must uphold the security interests of both Ukraine and Europe.

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“The U.S. has the power to force Russia to negotiate seriously,” European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told Reuters on Sunday. “Any deal between the U.S. and Russia must have Ukraine and the EU included, for it is a matter of Ukraine’s and the whole of Europe’s security,” she added.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also voiced support for Zelenskyy’s attendance at the meeting and called the summit an opportunity to measure how serious Putin is about “bringing this terrible war to an end.” 

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Zelenskyy thanked European leaders for their support and said that “the end of the war must be fair.”

“I am grateful to everyone who stands with Ukraine and our people today for the sake of peace in Ukraine, which is defending the vital security interests of our European nations,” he said.

Mamdani’s NYC vision sparks dire warning from survivors of socialism

Vivid memories and tales of woe have left scars on two descendants of socialism, who are now issuing public warnings over the future of New York City under the rule of Democratic-socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

“When I hear some of the plans that [Mamdani] has for New York City, again, it’s that, ‘copy, paste,’” Cuban-born Miami resident Karen Rodriguez told Fox News Digital. “It’s just very triggering because it doesn’t work… You have Cubans, they make it here to the United States, and they go into a grocery store and they cry… When was the last time you cried in a grocery store? Never, right? Because it’s so normal, and we take it for granted.”

“My ears perk up any time I hear people embracing socialism, especially very privileged people like this aspiring mayoral candidate from New York City, talk about how he wants to seize the means of productions, as he talked about in the past, he doesn’t like private property,” first-generation Lithuanian-American Gabriella Hoffman also told Digital.

Hoffman and Rodriguez, stressing the election of Mamdani, expressed major concerns for New Yorkers, highlighting their own families’ struggles with “wretched ideologies firsthand.”

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While Mamdani’s campaign platform has not formally called for full-scale nationalization of industries – a system described as government controlling the means of production and the take-over of private business – his proposals include free buses, rent control and city-owned grocery stores.

Rodriguez, a former journalist and current public school teacher, said her family’s connection to communism began before she was born. Her mother’s father and sister fled Cuba for Miami under Fidel Castro’s regime during the Mariel Boatlift in 1980, which she notes as the second-largest mass immigration from Cuba.

Her mother was a 15-year-old professional gymnast in Havana when her father and sister left, choosing to stay in Cuba. Years later, her mother’s father began the “reclamo” process to bring his daughter to the U.S., but due to long immigration waiting lists, it wasn’t until 1994 that she and Rodriguez emigrated.

Rodriguez came to the U.S. at age six, shortly before turning seven, an important age milestone in her home country.

“When you are seven years old in Cuba, the government decides that you no longer need milk. So, at seven years old, they no longer give children the right to buy milk. And I was, like, a milk lover. And I would drink my milk morning and night to go to sleep,” Rodriguez explained. “So milk was super important for me because sometimes there was not a lot of other things. And for them to take that away was going to be difficult for my parents to figure out what else to feed me.”

Hoffman now leads the D.C.-based Independent Women Forum’s Center for Energy and Conservation, and is the first American-born in her family after they fled the former Soviet Union almost 40 years ago. Her parents entered the U.S. through New York City, ultimately settling in California.

Her mother and father are Lithuanian Jews who endured life under Soviet occupation in one of 15 republics of the U.S.S.R. Her maternal grandfather also survived 18 months in one of Stalin’s gulags, a brutal Soviet labor camp.

“I recall the horrors and sacrifices that my family members made, several generations, my grandparents, my parents. My parents making the arduous journey… it wasn’t an easy trip to make,” Hoffman said. “They lost some friends in the process. Some of their family members shunned them. And it was a big sacrifice to come to the United States starting anew. My parents came here virtually penniless.”

“They live the American dream, they’ve benefited from having the rights and privileges that are afforded to you as an American. And if the likes of Zohran Mamdani were to be advanced and platformed and mainstreamed, a lot of people who are fleeing actual persecution through this kind of pernicious ideology, they won’t have anywhere to go,” Hoffman added.

Both Rodriguez’s and Hoffman’s respective histories share many parallels, like limited food supply, government overwatch, electricity blackouts and brownouts and high taxation enforcing poverty.

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“We had what we call [the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution], which is like a community snitch basically. So, on every block, you have a person who is designated to keep tabs on their neighbors… And when [my family] decided to come on the boatlift, I guess that rumor started spreading that she and my grandfather were going to leave,” Rodriguez detailed.

“They thought of it as, ‘You’re a traitor, and if you’re not with me, you’re against me, so you’re opposing the regime.’ So these acts often included yelling, insults, throwing objects, vandalism, physical intimidation. And in my aunt’s case, her neighbors literally dragged her by the hair through her whole block, knowing that she was a type one diabetic since she was 11 years old,” Rodriguez said.

“You had to bribe people. You had to negotiate under the table for certain goods. My dad recalls having a stint working in medicine, in pharmacy, and he would be kind of this mediator between people who needed medicine. He would have to operate under the table to get people medicine,” Hoffman recalled.

Hoffman further described how the former Soviet Union controlled nearly all economic output, leaving individuals with little to no disposable income or choice. 

“In the former Soviet Union, it was 90% that the government taxed you,” she claimed. “It was empty shelves, a perfect metaphor for what Democratic socialism is… So taking my family’s experience, applying it to politics… as government becomes more involved and interferes more in our personal lives, especially with respect to taxation and all these other big spending measures, that’s where you’re losing the freedoms.”

Both Rodriguez and Hoffman encourage New York City voters to think critically, educate themselves on candidate platforms and speak to their neighbors.

Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment or reaction to Rodriguez and Hoffman’s testimonies.

“Listen to these stories, listen to the people that have experienced it,” Rodriguez urged. “Listen to the people who have lived it, who have gone through it, read, compare, look at your life and look at it from a perspective of being grateful and realizing what a privilege it really is to live in America.”

“When I got here from Cuba, my aunt asked me, ‘What’s the first thing that you wanna eat?” she recalled. “And I said I had never seen a strawberry in my life… only on TV and cartoons…. Is that something you want your children to experience?… That is a reality of people who live in communist countries.”

“If the likes of Mamdani are to be elected to the mainstream platform, we could see New York not only becoming ‘Moscow on the Hudson,’ ‘Caracas on the Hudson,’ maybe even something worse,” Hoffman said. “And I know some of the younger people are like, ‘Oh, that’s a tired trope. We hear about this, maybe we should experiment with this,’ but every time it’s been attempted, replicated, it always has equitable misery as a result.”

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“I just think the tone that he would adopt, and his posture, would just make New York City unattractive for investments. It would make it inhospitable. A lot of people will be leaving. He promises affordability. What his platform would deliver, ultimately, is unaffordability, high prices, energy scarcity and the like… If New York City falls in this direction, what other city will be next?”

“If he was to win, I would feel so bad for New York City,” Rodriguez concluded, adding that in her experience, “Communism is the only model of government that you can vote for, but you can’t vote yourselves out,” she warned. “Once you’re too far in, once you are fully emerged in the communist experience, and you decide that that is not for you, that’s when it’s too late.”

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Florida women discover they’re flying solo after Southwest ‘forgot about’ them

Two blind women from Florida recently discovered they were the only passengers aboard their Southwest Airlines flight from New Orleans to Orlando, saying the company needs to improve how it communicates with passengers who have disabilities.

Sherri Brun and Camille Tate were traveling together on Southwest Flight 2637, scheduled to depart New Orleans on July 14. Following a nearly five-hour delay, the two friends finally boarded their flight, only to discover they were the only two people on the plane, FOX 35 reported.

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“You’re the only two people on this flight because they forgot about you,” Brun said the two women were told.

Brun and Tate said they had waited by their assigned gate, checking Southwest’s app for updates. However, unbeknownst to them, nearly all the other passengers had been rebooked on a separate Southwest flight to Orlando that departed earlier from a nearby gate, FOX 35 reported.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, airlines must provide prompt and effective communication for passengers with visual impairments, especially during delays or rebookings and boarding changes a federal law under the Air Carrier Access Act.

Brun and Tate said that requirement was far from met. “Nobody said a word to us about another flight,” Brun said. “We were just waiting at the gate, checking the app, like everyone else.”

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“There needs to be some improvement in how they communicate with their passengers, especially those that have disabilities,” Tate said.

“We have seen inaccurate accounts that suggest we ‘forgot’ the two customers, or that we sent a plane back to get them,” a Southwest spokesperson told Fox News Digital in an email. “Neither of these is the case. … The Customers were scheduled on Flight 2637. Although it ran almost five hours late that day, it remained their same flight number throughout.”

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Southwest said it offered each of the women a $100 travel voucher as compensation for the delay.

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“We apologize for the inconvenience,” Southwest told Fox News Digital. “Southwest is always looking for ways to improve our customers’ travel experiences, and we’re active in the airline industry in sharing best practices about how to best accommodate Passengers with disabilities.”

Armed fugitives commandeer big rig in wild LA chase before vanishing into night

A pair of suspects led police on a wild chase through Los Angeles Sunday night as they carjacked multiple vehicles – including a big rig – on live TV before escaping. 

The bizarre chase began with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department tailing the suspects inside a dark-colored pickup truck believed to have been stolen. 

At some point, the pickup truck came to a stop and the suspects tried, and failed, to break into two different cars before carjacking a white big rig and taking off on Interstate 5. 

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The suspects ditched the big rig near downtown Los Angeles around 11:30 p.m. and carjacked a white pickup truck before taking off to the Boyle Heights neighborhood. 

The Los Angeles Police Department reported that the driver of the stolen pickup truck was at one point driving the wrong way on Interstate 10. The LAPD said the suspects should be considered “armed and dangerous.” 

The chase spanned the areas of Sylmar, Santa Clarita, North Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, Echo Park, downtown Los Angeles, Westlake, and Boyle Heights, per reporting from FOX 11. 

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After about an hour, the suspects appear to have fled on foot. As of early Monday, no arrests had been made. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and California Highway Patrol for comment. 

Yankees star’s humiliating blunder sparks social media mockery as playoff hopes fade

The New York Yankees have lost seven out of their last nine games, including Sunday’s matchup against the Houston Astros, and defensive plays have put them in the fans’ crosshairs.

Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger took the brunt of the mockery during the 7-1 defeat. In the top of the ninth inning, Astros batter Ramon Urias blooped one off of reliever Tim Hill in between three Yankees players in left field.

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Bellinger fielded the ball on a hop and tried to throw it to home plate to get Jose Altuve out. Instead, the ball slipped out of his hands and fell behind him. The brutal blunder allowed the Astros to take a 6-1 lead. Mauricio Dubon added one more on an infield single.

The veteran was mocked on social media as Yankees fans’ frustrations boiled over.

Bellinger has been hit or miss for the Yankees this season. He has 20 home runs in 109 games and is hitting .272 with a .810 OPS. However, in the last five games, he’s 2-for-17 with two runs scored and two walks.

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New York was only able to muster up three hits the entire game and fell to 62-56 on the season. The Yankees have fallen 6.5 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays for first place in the American League East and 2.5 games behind the Boston Red Sox for the second AL Wild Card spot.

The Yankees have committed six errors in the last nine games.

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Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected for arguing balls and strikes.

Loyal fans revolt as Cracker Barrel’s new look draws millions of angry views

As Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurants continue to undergo a physical transformation, more customers are noticing – and they’re not embracing the changes.

Cracker Barrel chief marketing officer Sarah Moore told Fox News Digital earlier this year that the Tennessee restaurant chain has been testing “various levels of remodels.” 

“We’ve been very transparent about our goal of making our stores feel brighter and even more welcoming than they already are, while maintaining that country hospitality and charm that we’re known for,” Moore said. (See the video at the top of this article.) 

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But some Cracker Barrel lovers on social media have expressed their displeasure with the changes. 

A recent Instagram video shared by Cracker Barrel includes a caption that reads, “Nothin’ a little Cracker Barrel can’t fix.”

It elicited several negative responses to the alterations.

“The remodel is 🤮,” one person wrote.

“Now this place looks like every other chain restaurant. Bland and boring,” wrote another person.

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“WHAT are you thinking with that interior?!” someone else said.

Moore told Fox News Digital that the “physical guest experience” is “rooted in our brand DNA” and that the changes being made are based on “guest feedback.”

She continued, “Items like our rocking chairs, our biscuits, our peg games, antiquities on the wall, none of that is going away. We’re just looking at ways to freshen up the experience so that we can open our door a bit wider for more guests.”

Rachel Love, a content creator living in Tennessee, caught the restaurant chain’s attention with her social media video showing off the new interior. 

The video has been viewed over 2 million times and has fetched nearly 4,000 comments since May.

Another eight-second video posted by @thecoachduggs earlier this month shows the interior of a remodeled Cracker Barrel. The caption reads, “At a remodeled Cracker Barrel. I hate it.”

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The viral video has been viewed more than 6 million times since Aug. 2.

It led to a follow-up post directed at Cracker Barrel.

“The people have spoken. Stop it,” @thecoachduggs wrote.

“HATE IT,” one person commented in the post.

“What a disaster!!” another person commented.

Moore reiterated that Cracker Barrel welcomes the feedback.

“We love feedback,” she said. “We take feedback from all channels very seriously. So, throughout this past year, when we talk about testing and all the development we’ve been doing, we have constantly pulsed various guest segments along the way.”

She said that includes loyal customers, lapsed guests and prospective diners.

“We truly want to understand how they feel about all the elements, whether it’s about the remodels or the menu or the full brand transformation framework,” she said. 

“This includes understanding … the social media narrative and really digging deep into what our fan base is saying about us.”

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But, she added, “The things you love about us will stay.”

“The things that make us truly who we are — that’s not changing.”

Utility workers digging gas lines uncover 1,000-year-old skeleton in sitting position

Utility workers unearthed two pre-Incan tombs during a routine day on the job in Peru – one of many archaeological discoveries in the country this year.

The workers, employed by the energy company Cálidda, found the burials in Lima just recently. The employees have been digging trenches in the city as part of an ongoing underground gas network project.

Both tombs belong to the pre-Incan Chancay culture, which existed in Peru from 1000 to 1470 A.D. The Inca Empire spanned from roughly 1400 to 1533 A.D., with Spanish colonization beginning soon after. 

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The two tombs were remarkably different. 

One was empty, while the other held a 1,000-year-old skeleton.

Images show excavators working to remove the remains from the soil. 

The tomb also contained four clay vessels and three “pumpkin shell artifacts,” according to The Associated Press (AP).

“Lima is unique among Latin American capitals, in that various archaeological finds are unearthed during nearly every civil project.”

The male skeleton was found in a torn cloth bundle in a sitting position. Its legs were against its chest.

Archaeologist José Aliaga told the AP the vessels contained iconography, along with some remaining black, white and red colors.

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“[It] allow[s] us to establish a connection with the pre-Incan Chancay culture,” the archaeologist said.

He added, “Lima is unique among Latin American capitals, in that various archaeological finds are unearthed during nearly every civil project.”

Local mother Flor Prieto walked through the area with her 7-year-old daughter during the excavation. 

She told the AP she’d assumed the area had always been uninhabited.

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“I always thought they were paths where no one had lived,” Prieto observed.

“But now I know that people older than the Incas have lived there … It feels so exciting.”

This is far from the first skeleton that Cálidda has come across.

Over the past 20 years, the company has made more than 2,200 archaeological discoveries.

Earlier in June, excavators in Lima unearthed a millennia-old preserved female mummy during the same utility project.

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The skeleton, which still retained a small amount of brown hair, was found just 20 inches below the ground.