‘You’re next’: Liberal commentator’s deleted posts spark alarm after Kirk killing

Former ESPN host Keith Olbermann appeared to make a threat toward CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings on Monday in a series of since-deleted social media posts.

The posts were screenshotted by Townhall columnist Dustin Grage. The posts showed Olbermann directing vitriol toward Jennings nearly two weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at an event on the campus of Utah Valley University.

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“You’re next motherf—er,” he wrote. “But keep mugging for the camera.”

Jennings tagged FBI Director Kash Patel in a response to Grage’s post on X.

Olbermann appeared to be reacting to Jennings’ post about Disney restoring Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show amid uproar over its short hiatus. Kimmel was yanked off the air following remarks about Kirk’s assassination and the motives behind it.

He appeared to clarify what he wrote in a subsequent reply.

“Now we get the fascists off real tv. That’d mean your career is next, Jennings. Send a tape to Real America ‘s Voice,” Olbermann added in the thread. “But keep mugging to camera, amateur.”

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Olbermann, who was also a pundit on MSNBC, has faced tremendous backlash in recent days for his controversial posts about Kirk and Kimmel. He slighted the late conservative influencer last week after it was announced that several TV affiliates, including those owned by Sinclair, would preempt Kimmel’s show.

“Burn in hell, Sinclair,” Olbermann wrote on X. “Alongside Charlie Kirk.”

He maintained that nothing that Kimmel said in his comments about Kirk were untrue.

Last week, Kimmel accused conservatives of reaching “new lows” in trying to pin a left-wing ideology on 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson, even though prosecutors reaffirmed those ties in Tuesday’s indictment.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.

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Kimmel’s comments came one day after both FBI officials and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said that Robinson held a “leftist ideology” and was increasingly radicalized in recent years. It was also revealed that he had a romantic relationship with a transgender partner who was biologically male and transitioning to female.

‘Who ever heard of that?’: Trump mocks nations still buying Russian energy at UN

President Donald Trump on Tuesday once again called on all European partners in the NATO alliance to cut dependence on Russian oil.

In his lengthy address to the United Nations General Assembly, Trump accused NATO allies of “funding the war against themselves.”

“Who the hell ever heard of that one?” Trump mocked.

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“China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian oil,” he said. “But inexcusably, even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products, which, as you know, I found out about two weeks ago, and I wasn’t happy.”

European nations have drastically cut their reliance on Moscow’s oil following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, though they have not cut it off entirely.

Hungary, Slovakia, France, Belgium and Spain remain Europe’s top importers of Russian energy. 

While Hungary and Slovakia continue to purchase Russian oil, France is the second-largest European purchaser of Russian energy and continues to import liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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LNG has largely bypassed EU sanctions and Paris’ continued import of Russian energy is down to pre-exsisting “take or pay” contracts that run through the early 2030s that require France to either continue to import the energy or face penalties. 

Trump earlier this month took issue with European nations that continue to purchase Russian oil, but on Tuesday he adjusted his comments to include all Russian energy imports – notably a shift that came one day after France broke with the U.S. over the issue of Palestinian statehood.

“In the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war, then the United States is fully prepared to impose a very strong round of powerful tariffs, which would stop the bloodshed, I believe, very quickly,” Trump said. “But for those tariffs to be effective, European nations, all of you are gathered here right now, would have to join us in adopting the exact same measures.”

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“You’re much closer to the city. We have an ocean in between. You’re right there, and Europe has to step it up,” he added. “They have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia, otherwise, we’re all wasting a lot of time.”

Trump said he will speak with Euroepan leaders about the issue while at the UN this week.

Trump kicks Schumer, Jeffries demands to the curb, nixes White House meeting

President Donald Trump canceled a meeting with top congressional Democrats on Tuesday over “unserious and ridiculous demands” as the deadline to fund the government fast approaches.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., were set to meet with Trump on Thursday to discuss a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown before the Sept. 30 deadline.

Lawmakers are still away from Washington, D.C., this week to observe the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Senate is expected to return on Sept. 29. Meanwhile, the House is expected to be out until the deadline passes.

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But Trump nixed the meeting in a lengthy post on his social media platform Truth Social, where he blasted the duo for pushing “radical Left policies that nobody voted for.” 

“I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive,” Trump said. 

The now canceled meeting with Trump came on the heels of a letter from Schumer and Jeffries sent over that weekend where the top congressional Democrats laid the possibility of a shutdown on his and Republicans’ feet.

They argued that the Trump-backed short-term extension was “dirty,” which would mean it had partisan policy riders or spending attached to it, and panned it for continuing “the Republican assault on healthcare,” ignoring expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium subsidies, and possibly leading to the closure of hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the country.

“With the September 30th deadline fast approaching, Republicans will bear responsibility for another painful government shutdown because of the refusal of GOP congressional leadership to even talk with Democrats,” they wrote at the time.

But Trump argued that their bill would allow for the nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts in his “big, beautiful bill” to be repealed, and also blasted the Democratic continuing resolution (CR) for ending his megabill’s $50 billion rural hospital fund. 

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“We must keep the Government open, and legislate like true Patriots rather than hold American Citizens hostage, knowing that they want our now thriving Country closed,” he said. 

“I’ll be happy to meet with them if they agree to the Principles in this Letter,” Trump continued. “They must do their job! Otherwise, it will just be another long and brutal slog through their radicalized quicksand. To the Leaders of the Democrat Party, the ball is in your court. I look forward to meeting with you when you become realistic about the things that our Country stands for. DO THE RIGHT THING!”

Schumer and Jeffries last month demanded a meeting with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to strike a deal, given that Thune will need Democratic support in the Senate.

However, that meeting has so far not come to fruition — though Thune has pushed back on Schumer’s characterization and argued that if the Democratic leader wants to talk, it’s on him to make it happen.

“After weeks of Republican stonewalling in Congress, President Trump has agreed to meet this week in the Oval Office,” they said in a joint statement. “In the meeting, we will emphasize the importance of addressing rising costs, including the Republican healthcare crisis. It’s past time to meet and work to avoid a Republican-caused shutdown.”

The last time Schumer went to negotiate with Trump at the White House ahead of a looming deadline in 2018, the government shut down for 35 days, which marked the longest partial closure in history. At the time, Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., were at odds with Trump on a deal to fund construction of a wall on the southern border.

Prior to the meeting being announced, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued that if the government shuttered, it “would be the fault of the Democrats.”

“We want a clean funding extension to keep the government open, that’s all we’re advocating for,” she said.

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However, the House Republicans’ bill is relatively “clean,” save for tens of millions in spending for increasing security measures for lawmakers in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Congressional Democrats’ counter-proposal, which also failed last week, included more funding for member security, but also sought to repeal the healthcare portion of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” claw back billions of canceled funding for NPR and PBS, and permanently extend the expiring ACA credits.

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Thune noted last week that CRs “aren’t places to load big health policy changes in.”  

“I think that we are open to the conversation about what we do with the ObamaCare premium tax credit,” Thune said. “Is that something in which members, Republican senators, and I think, for that matter, Republican House members, have an interest, as well.”

“But this isn’t the place to do that,” he continued. “This is the place to fund the government, to allow our appropriations process to continue that issue.”

Electronic plot targeting senior US government officials foiled near UN General Assembly

The U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that it “dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.”

The devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.

“This network had the potential to disable cellphone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City,” Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field office, said in a video released Tuesday.

The Secret Service said it found “more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.”

“In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks. This includes disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises,” the Secret Service said. “While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.”

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“To be clear, these recovered devices no longer pose a threat to the New York tristate area,” McCool added. “We will continue working towards identifying those responsible and their intent, including whether their plan was to disrupt the U.N. General Assembly and communications of government and emergency personnel during the official visit of world leaders in and around New York City. Forensic examinations of the equivalent of 100,000 cell phones worth of data is underway.”

He said the investigation began “Following multiple telecommunications-related imminent threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials this spring.”

The Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the New York Police Department and other state and local law enforcement partners are assisting with the investigation.

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“The potential for disruption to our country’s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated,” U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran said. 

“The U.S. Secret Service’s protective mission is all about prevention, and this investigation makes it clear to potential bad actors that imminent threats to our protectees will be immediately investigated, tracked down and dismantled,” he added.

The Secret Service also said: “Given the timing, location and potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the agency moved quickly to disrupt this network.”

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President Donald Trump is set to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. 

Two young hunters in Colorado wilderness killed in ‘instant,’ coroner reveals

A lightning strike has been ruled the preliminary cause of death for the two hunters found dead in Colorado.

Conejos County Coroner Richard Martin has given his findings to multiple media outlets. He says Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko’s “[k]ind of death is just instant.”

“It’s like you’re alive, and now you’re not,” Martin told The Colorado Sun. “Just that quick. Split second.”

Martin said the men, both 25, were found under a tree with slight burns on their bodies. 

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“A slight burn is like if you take a match and stick it on your arm,” he said. “And there were only two or three of them.”

The two were reported missing to the Conejos County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) on September 13, but last made contact with their family on September 11. 

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Deputies say Porter, who was from Asheville, North Carolina, and Stasko, who is from Salt Lake City, Utah, “were reported overdue while elk hunting.” They did have a satellite device, which Porter’s aunt, Lynne Runkle, said was “not functioning.”

The two were in the San Juan Wilderness Area west of Trujillo Meadows Reservoir, according to the CCSO. The vehicle they drove to the Los Pinos trail head was found.

“Camping gear and backpacks were located in the vehicle, prompting deputies to become concerned due to heavy rain and bad weather,” the CCSO said in a news release last week. 

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“Given the change in circumstances, we will be reallocating the remaining funds — originally intended for search and rescue efforts — to help cover memorial services for Andrew and Ian, as well as to support their families during this difficult time,” Runkle wrote on Monday on the GoFundMe she organized.

As of Tuesday morning, the GoFundMe page has raised nearly $79,000.  

Neighbor calls evicted tenant ‘evil’ after police uncover disturbing evidence in closet

A Pennsylvania woman has been charged after police discovered the remains of her four infants in the closet and attic of a home she had been evicted from last month.

Jessica Marie Mauthe, 39, was arrested after her former landlord called police to the home she had lived in outside Ford City, about 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The landlord, Brent Flanigan, told WTAE-TV that he had law enforcement evict Mauthe for nonpayment on Aug. 14. 

After he began cleaning the home, he came across a trash bag in a closet that had a foul odor and something wrapped in towels that was decomposing, according to the arrest affidavit issued Thursday.

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Investigators searched the home and found the bodies of three other infants in the attic in tote bags, wrapped in towels and inside plastic bags, police said.

“Shocked. No one believed it. It’s just evil,” neighbor Carmen Felix told WTAE-TV. “How can you plop babies in the toilet? The girl across from here is a nurse, and she’s sick. She almost didn’t go to work today because she can’t get this off her mind.” 

About a year ago, Mauthe told investigators, she gave birth to a child who made several noises before she held the child “against her, where it remained until it stopped making noises and stopped breathing,” police wrote.

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Mauthe told troopers that one newborn had whimpered after she gave birth to it about six years ago, after which she passed out on the floor, according to the affidavit. When she awakened, the baby was beneath her and was not breathing, she told them.

Mauthe was charged with criminal homicide, involuntary manslaughter and multiple counts of abuse of a corpse. She is being held in the Armstrong County Jail without bail. 

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A preliminary hearing is scheduled for next week.

Blue state scrambles to stop big oil companies from fleeing after years of ‘tyranny’

Following 25 years of what oil and gas executives categorize as hostility to the industry, the state is now making a play to keep those companies from leaving. 

Concerned with the exodus of oil and gas companies, refinery closures and the expensive price of gasoline in the state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation last week that fast tracks the approval of 2,000 new wells per year over the next 10 years in Kern County, a significant oil-producing region.

Andy Walz, Chevron’s president of Americas products, said during an appearance on FOX Business, “I think it’s been a tyranny of about 25 years to get the refining business to leave California.”

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Walz told reporters last summer about Chevon’s move from California to Texas, saying the company has “been doing that because California is a tough place to do business.”

“It’s a tough place to recruit people,” he said. “It’s a tough place to move employees – a lot of our employees move up through the company, they gain experience in different geographies, different locations, and we have a lot of people who will not move to California. That makes it difficult.”

FOX Business reached out to Newsom’s office for comment.

FOX Business Network’s Lauren Simonetti said Chevron is “not overly optimistic about California’s recent charm offensive.” 

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Californians are paying $4.65 for a gallon of regular gasoline while the national average is $3.17 per gallon, according to AAA. 

There are 13 refineries currently in operation in the state. When Valero and Phillips 66 shut down theirs, that number will be down to 11. The state had 40 refineries in 1983.

Due to the exodus, California has had to rely on foreign sources for three quarters of its oil.

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Gavin Newsom said of the legislation that it “mitigates against future gasoline spikes by stabilizing the production of in-state petroleum and refinery supply and diversifying the state’s transportation fuel supply.”

Radio legend rips Jets coach for sideline celebration: ‘Doesn’t know what he’s doing’

New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn went viral over the weekend when he sprinted and danced his way down the sideline as the team took the lead against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a blocked field goal returned for a touchdown by linebacker Will McDonald IV.

Glenn’s dance became the new meme, at least for a brief moment, as a handful of social media users put an Earth, Wind & Fire song underneath the grooves.

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However, it was all for naught. Baker Mayfield led the Buccaneers’ offense down the field and Chase McLaughlin kicked the game-winning field goal. Tampa Bay improved to 3-0 on the year while New York fell to 0-3.

Glenn’s dancing didn’t appear to win over legendary New York City sports radio host Mike Francesa.

“I don’t need a cheerleader on the sideline. I don’t need one of these coaches who runs up and down with his team like he’s still playing,” he said on his Bet Rivers podcast. “You’re not playing anymore. Use your brain. You’re there to coach. You’re not playing. 

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“So, I don’t need you jumping around and running around the sideline when your team finally makes a play. That is a coach who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing. I want the guy who’s there thinking about the next play.”

Glenn made clear that his team wasn’t the “same old Jets” and were going to fight to the bitter end.

“You just said we’re 0-3, we’re 0-3. How many more games do we have left? That speaks for itself,” he said Sunday. “We have a lot of games to go play and you can build on this, you can build on this. The one thing I don’t do, which I understand that New York media tries to do, is the negative parts of it, but I’m not going to be that way.

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“I’m going to let you guys deal with that. We’re going to let you guys deal with that. We’re going to look at the things that we did well and we’re going to continue to push forward because we’re going to improve, and we’re going to make sure that we get over that hump — I do know that.”

Google offers path back for conservatives banned over political speech

FIRST ON FOX: Google vowed on Tuesday to offer YouTube accounts that were permanently banned for political speech the ability to be reinstated, and the big tech giant admitted that it once faced pressure from the Biden administration to remove content about COVID-19.

Google detailed its remarkable shift in a document, first obtained by Fox News Digital, that a lawyer for the company provided to the House Judiciary Committee.

The new policy from Google, also known by its parent company Alphabet, could affect both average users and well-known figures like FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, White House counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka and “War Room” podcast host Steve Bannon, all of whom were permanently banned in recent years for COVID-19 or election-related content.

“Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” the lawyer representing Google wrote.

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Bongino ended his conservative radio show, which livestreamed on Rumble, when he joined the administration this year. He has attributed his popularity on that platform to permanently losing his YouTube account in 2022. YouTube permanently banned Bongino, who had one of the most followed accounts on the platform, for spreading what it said was COVID-19 misinformation about masks.

The document from Google also noted that YouTube “values conservative voices on its platform” and acknowledged that the creators “have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.”

The document included a section about the Biden administration and said White House officials at the time pushed Google behind the scenes to remove perceived misinformation related to COVID-19. The lawyer for Google also noted that the big tech platform censored content independently of the Biden administration based on its internal policies but that the company has since rolled back those policies.

“Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies,” the lawyer wrote.

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The administration “created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation,” the lawyer added.

Reached for comment, a Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital it did not have anything more to add besides what was in the document.

Google’s revelations came in response to a yearslong Republican-led investigation by the committee into big tech companies, including Google, that censored and suppressed content on their platforms related to COVID-19, the 2020 election and Hunter Biden. 

YouTube’s posture follows Meta similarly shifting last year toward denouncing the Biden administration’s pressure tactics, which were well-documented in emails provided to the committee.

Meta revealed at the time that it was doing away with third-party fact-checkers, a move then-President Joe Biden called “really shameful.” YouTube has not used outside fact-checkers and vowed that it “will not empower fact-checkers to take action on or label content” on the platform.

Parallel to the congressional investigations was a lawsuit brought by two Republican attorneys general over social media censorship. Discovery in that case largely mirrored what the committee uncovered. The Supreme Court ultimately did not decide on the merits of the case, Murthy v. Missouri, and instead found that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring it. But the lower courts had largely sided with the plaintiffs, including a judge who found the federal government seemed to have “assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.'”

The high court’s decision disappointed Republicans, who had hoped for a landmark ruling that social media companies’ censorship practices violate the First Amendment. The case also explored jawboning, which involves the government pressuring private companies to censor their speech.

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The term jawboning has resurfaced in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, after ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel suggested on his show that the suspect Tyler Robinson was a member of the “MAGA gang.” Authorities have said Robinson felt Kirk spread hate and that he engraved his bullet casings with gamer-inspired antifascist messaging.

Kimmel also repeatedly expressed sympathies for Kirk’s family and condemned the shooting. Still, ABC and owners of its affiliate stations suspended Kimmel’s show. ABC lifted its suspension beginning Tuesday, but one of the affiliate owners, Sinclair Broadcast Group, said it will continue to replace Kimmel with other programming.

Concerns with jawboning arose because Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr made a veiled threat about Kimmel’s remarks ahead of ABC pulling him off air. The FCC has regulatory authority over broadcasting networks, including ABC, but still must abide by the First Amendment.

“Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way,” Carr told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson. “These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

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In addition to the censorship concessions, Google also criticized the European Union’s Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act and told the House Judiciary Committee it will remain “vigilant” in the face of legal obligations from other countries.

The EU laws have drawn bipartisan scrutiny in Congress over concerns the foreign laws will force big tech companies to follow more expansive regulations and to ramp up content moderation in a way that could affect American users. Google agreed on Tuesday that the EU laws “place a disproportionate regulatory burden on American companies.”