Would-be Trump assassin’s daughter screams and runs from court after verdict read
The daughter of 59-year-old Ryan Routh, who was convicted on Tuesday of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump during his 2024 presidential campaign, stormed out of the courtroom after the verdict, cursing at the press and making threats.
The drama came after Routh was found guilty of all charges against him, and seemingly tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen several times before four U.S. Marshals restrained him.
His daughter, Sara Routh, stood up in the courtroom and started cursing in front of the jury.
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“Don’t do anything. I will get you out,” Sara Routh said. “What the f—. F—. He didn’t hurt anybody. This is not fair. This is all rigged — you guys are a–holes.”
She stormed out of the building, telling the media to “go away” and “get the f— out of my face.”
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Ryan Routh, who represented himself, was convicted of five criminal counts, including attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, and multiple gun charges.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
As Ryan Routh departed in a black SUV, Sara Routh chased after it, repeatedly shouting, “I love you.”
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Sara Routh and her brother, Adam Routh, walked to their car, as she continued to berate the press.
One reporter asked, “Is your dad OK?” to which she replied, “He’s better be or everybody’s f–king dead… You can all go to hell. It’s all yall’s fault. F–king lies. Spreading lies about my f—ing father.”
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Adam Routh, who appeared to remain calm during the meltdown, ushered his sister into the car.
As the media crowded the vehicle, he pointed and asked reporters to move out of the way, before driving off.
Kimmel breaks silence amid suspension drama, posts photo of liberal TV icon
ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, having recently weathered the temporary suspension of his show, posted a photo of himself Tuesday with the late Norman Lear, who was once singled out by former President Richard Nixon as one of his “enemies.”
After days of being at the center of a national political firestorm about free speech and the differences between “cancel culture” and “consequence culture,” Kimmel posted a photo of himself with Lear on Instagram with the words, “Missing this guy today.” It marked his first public comments since he was taken off the air last week and comes just hours before his return Tuesday night.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” had been pulled off the air after Kimmel’s remarks about the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk sparked outrage, a veiled threat from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and two major ABC affiliate owners yanking his program across the country. Kimmel had falsely suggested the alleged killer was a MAGA supporter, although he’s reportedly said he was taken out of context.
The Walt Disney Company announced Monday that after “thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel, it decided to return the show to the airwaves. Sinclair and Nexstar, two major ABC affiliate owners, will continue to preempt the show, however.
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Lear was a legendary screenwriter and producer who died in 2023 at the age of 101. His sitcoms were massively popular in their day and touched on social topics, including racism, homosexuality and war. Some of his hit shows he created and produced include “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Good Times.”
Lear was also known for having been on Nixon’s list of political opponents across a variety of industries and institutions.
The list became well known during investigations by the Senate Watergate Committee in June 1973, when then-White House Counsel John Dean disclosed a memo entitled “Dealing with our Political Enemies.”
In a 2016 interview with Democracy Now!, Lear likened Nixon to Donald Trump, then a candidate for president.
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Kimmel has become one of Trump’s fiercest critics on the late-night circuit and has even raised money for the Democratic Party.
His feud with Trump and the conservative movement has come at a unique time, when many argue the late-night talk show format is seeing its twilight, with streaming and podcasts becoming alternate options for entertainment.
Kimmel himself has evolved over the years from a more apolitical comedian to one more focused on left-leaning punditry, potentially alienating viewers.
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Macron calls Trump after police block him for motorcade: ‘I’m waiting in the street’
French President Emmanuel Macron’s push for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations clashed sharply with Donald Trump’s message — but the two leaders’ rivalry also played out in the streets of New York in an unexpected way.
At the UN General Assembly, Macron formally announced France’s recognition of a Palestinian state, insisting the move was “essential to peace.” Trump, speaking today, blasted the recognition as a “reward” for Hamas’s “horrible atrocities, including October 7,” that would only prolong conflict.
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But away from the UN stage, the two presidents collided in an unusual moment when Macron was stopped at a crosswalk by New York police as Trump’s motorcade rolled through Manhattan. “Sorry President, everything is frozen, the motorcade moving now,” one officer told him. Macron, visibly frustrated, replied, “If you don’t see it, let me cross.”
With the road blocked, Macron picked up his phone and called President Trump directly. According to a video circulating online, the French president said: “Guess what, I’m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you.” Only after the call was the road eventually cleared.
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Macron then walked through the city for nearly half an hour, trailed by passersby who stopped him for selfies. One person planted a kiss on his head. Macron laughed off the encounter, saying, “It’s just a kiss, makes no harm.”
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France’s embassy in the U.S official X account leaned into the moment with humor: “It’s a good thing our presidents have each other on speed dial… If you’ve ever had to walk through NYC during UNGA, this is 110% relatable content.”
Zelenskyy reacts to President Trump’s ‘to the very end’ pledge: ‘I think he understands’
Colombian President Gustavo Petro used his UN General Assembly speech Tuesday to blast President Donald Trump’s anti-drug policy as violent, ineffective, and rooted in domination rather than public health.
Petro argued that Colombia has achieved record cocaine seizures and extraditions under his government, yet Trump “decertified” the country, a move he called unjust and politically motivated.
Petro denounced U.S. missile strikes in the Caribbean that he said killed unarmed Colombian youths under the false pretense of stopping traffickers. He insisted his approach—voluntary crop substitution and anti-trafficker enforcement—was more humane and effective than militarized crackdowns.
He also alleged that Trump’s foreign policy toward Colombia, Venezuela, and the Caribbean was influenced by Colombian politicians connected to drug mafias and paramilitaries.
“This is why I speak to you as a decertified president — I’ve been decertified by President Trump without him having any right to do this, a human right or a divine right or any sensible reason,” Petro said.
He continued, saying the anti-drug policy was not meant to stop cocaine going into the U.S.
“The anti-drug policy is to dominate the people of the south as a whole,” Petro said. “You shouldn’t look at the drugs. You should look at who has the power and who dominates.”
First lady Melania Trump used the United Nations
General Assembly (UNGA) stage Tuesday to deliver a warning and a call to action: children must be protected as technology races ahead.
Trump unveiled her new initiative “Fostering the Future Together” in her remarks, a global coalition of nations dedicated to advancing children’s well-being in the digital era through education, innovation and technology.
Opening in a moment of reflection, the first lady urged leaders to see childhood imagination not as trivial, but as a rehearsal for innovation later in life.
“As children, we all played marbles, flew paper airplanes and ran with the string in our hand, watching our kites lift off,” she said. “Great minds have turned marbles into microchips, paper airplanes into drones and kites into satellites.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday his relationship with President Donald Trump has strengthened, noting their teams are now more closely aligned on intelligence and battlefield assessments.
In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Zelenskyy said he welcomed Trump’s remarks after their United Nations meeting, underscoring Trump’s pledge to back Ukraine “to the very end.”
“President Trump was more positive in it, and he showed that he wants to support Ukraine to the very end,” Zelenskyy said. “It was a surprise for me, [it] was very positive signals from the side that Trump and America will be with us to the end of the war.”
He added that Trump recognized the need for greater pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin and stressed that ceding Ukrainian territory would not halt Russian aggression.
“I think he understands…that we can’t just swap territories. It’s not fair,” Zelenskyy said. “I think that it’s not about territories, it’s about the position of Putin. He will continue. If we will give them more than he really wants, he will continue. So, the question of how to stop the war is just to stop Putin’s ambitions.”
French President Emmanuel Macron urged world leaders at the UN to revive “effective multilateralism,” warning that only collective action—not divisions between blocks—can confront nuclear proliferation, climate change, and humanitarian crises, and insisting nations act with the resolve of the UN’s founders.
During a speech before the General Assembly on Tuesday, Macron argued that only collective action can address the issues facing the world.
He rejected a world split into blocks of North versus South or West versus global South, and insisted that respect, cooperation and shared rules are essential.
Macron emphasized that the UN’s failures do not stem from the institution itself, but instead from powerful states blocking progress. Ultimately, he urged leaders to act in unison.
“We have one responsibility. That is to act together and build this multilateralism once again with the same faith, with the same resolve as the founding fathers of this Assembly,” he said. “We need to do that with even more effectiveness, but with the same will.”
French President Emmanuel Macron used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to issue a stark warning about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, calling the program a destabilizing threat that could soon trigger renewed international sanctions.
Macron said France, Germany, and the U.K. have already activated a mechanism to restore penalties in response to Tehran’s breaches. He added that Iran must grant full International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access and either “make a gesture” toward accountability or face consequences.
“The next steps to come will be decisive,” Macron said. “Either Iran makes a gesture and goes back to the path of peace and accountability that make it possible to get back on course, and for the IAEA to do its work and for stockpiles to be transferred or sanctions will have to be imposed.”
The White House said President Donald Trump’s United Nations address delivered a powerful rejection of “destructive globalism,” urging sovereign nations to defend their borders and unite against terrorism, mass migration, biological warfare, and threats to cultural identity.
During his speech, Trump emphasized the strength of America, his record on ending wars and his vision of strong borders and national sovereignty. He also sharply criticized the UN for inaction and what he described as the enabling of harmful globalist agendas.
““The entire globalist concept of asking successful, industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally — and it must be immediate,” Trump said.
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He argued that real peace comes from saving lives, not international prizes, and positioned his policies as a break from “failed approaches of the past.”
“A dramatically better future is within our reach — but to get there, we must reject the failed approaches of the past and work together to confront some of the greatest threats in history,” he said.
The president also targeted open borders and global migration systems while urging countries to defend free speech, religious liberty and national independence.
“Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should, too often, it is actually creating new problems for us to solve… The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders… The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them,” Trump said. “Any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently evil — yet that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done.”
President Donald Trump reignited his feud with London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday, accusing him at the United Nations General Assembly of pushing the city toward sharia law.
“I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed,” Trump said. “Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.”
The remarks drew swift backlash in the UK. Parliament Member Rosena Allin-Khan wrote on X that U.S. ambassador Warren Stephens should be “summoned and challenged over Trump’s Rampant Islamophobia.”
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She added, “Trump continually spreads lies. In London, we celebrate our diversity and reject racists and bigots. London is the greatest city in the world in huge part due to Sadiq Khan’s leadership.”
Health Secretary Wes Streeting also came to the mayor’s defense, insisting Khan is not attempting to impose Islamic law on the city.
“This is a Mayor who marches with Pride, who stands up for difference of background and opinion, who’s focused on improving our transport, our air, our streets, our safety, our choices and chances,” he wrote. “Proud he’s our Mayor.”
Khan himself has previously addressed the issue. In 2008, as MP for Tooting and Minister for Community Cohesion, he said the burden was on advocates of sharia courts “to persuade us why they should do it,” warning that such tribunals could entrench discrimination, particularly against women.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told the United Nations General Assembly that the UN, in its current form, is undemocratic, unrepresentative, and failing to uphold global peace, pointing to Africa’s lack of permanent representation on the Security Council.
“The United Nations Security Council has proven to be ineffective in its current form and composition, in carrying out its charter mandates to maintain international peace and security,” Ramaphosa said.
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He stressed that Africa, with its 1.4 billion people, and South America are entirely excluded from permanent seats on the body, calling the omission “unjust.”
“We can no longer accept that a large portion of the world’s population is not represented in the United Nations Security Council,” Ramaphosa said. “My own continent, Africa, home to 1.4 billion people, as well as South America, are not represented in the United Nations Security Council. This is unjust.”
Ramaphosa urged urgent reforms to make the Council more democratic, representative, and accountable.
President Donald Trump convened a high-stakes meeting with Arab leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, underscoring what he described as a critical effort to secure the release of captives being held in Israel, according to reports.
“This is the group that can do it,” Trump said as he sat alongside regional leaders, according to a report by Al Jazeera. Included in the talks was Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, a key diplomatic player often involved in delicate mediation efforts across the Middle East.
Expressing optimism about progress, Trump added, “I think we’ll be able to do it.”
Calling the gathering “my most important meeting,” Trump positioned the talks as central to his UN visit.
The remarks highlight both the urgency of the hostage issue and Trump’s attempt to project leadership on the world stage during the General Assembly.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt demanded anyone who intentionally caused an escalator at the United Nations in New York City to stop with President
Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stepped onto it, to be investigated and fired “immediately.”
“If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately,” she posted on X.
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Leavitt also shared a screen shot from a report by The Times, noting that the publication reported about the escalators being stopped on Sunday.
The clip read, “To mark Trump’s arrival, UN staff members have joked that they may turn off the escalators and simply tell him they ran out of money, so he has to walk up the stairs.”
The escalator was not the only thing to shut down on Trump. As the president addressed the UN on Tuesday, the teleprompters also malfunctioned, forcing him to speak on his own.
President Donald Trump said that he believes Ukraine, with the backing of the European Union, could secure back all of its territory as the war between Russia and Ukraine persists.
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday. “With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option.”
“Why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win,” Trump said. “This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like ‘a paper tiger.’”
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to discuss ending Hungary’s imports of Russian oil with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
The confirmation came when pressed by reporters about his ally continuing to purchase Russian energy despite Trump’s repeated calls for NATO nations to cease all financially beneficial ties for Moscow.
“He’s a friend of mine,” Trump said, according to multiple reports. “I have not spoken to him, but I have a feeling if I did he might stop, and I think I’ll be doing that.”
It is unclear if Trump could see much success in getting Hungary, the largest European purchaser of Russian oil, to cease its energy dependence on the aggressor nation.
Earlier in the day, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó signaled that Budapest had no plans to divert where it receives its energy needs from.
“For us, energy supplies are a purely physical question,” he told The Guardian. “It can be nice to dream about buying oil and gas from somewhere [besides Russia]…but we can only buy from where we have infrastructure.
“And if you look at the physical infrastructure, it’s obvious that without the Russian supplies, it is impossible to ensure the safe supply of the country,” he added.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which funds aid for Palestinians, has been riddled with scandal following Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
For years, educational materials used in UNRWA
schools have come under scrutiny for fomenting anti-Israel bias. Hamas tunnels have been found beneath UNRWA facilities. Several UNRWA employees were also found to have participated in the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.
Following the claim and subsequent proof of possible participation, multiple countries, including the United States, pulled funding from UNRWA. JNS reported that UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini recently said Arab states’ donations have declined by 90% over last year’s donations.
President Donald Trump announced that he would reevaluate UNRWA’s funding in a February executive order. A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital in August that the organization “is irredeemably compromised” and that the Department of State “seeks its full dismantlement.”
When Donald Trump
took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), his speeches often broke from the polished, multilateral tone that typically defines the event. In 2017, his debut address was among the most fiery in recent UNGA memory. He issued a stark warning to North Korea, vowing to “totally destroy” the regime if it threatened the United States or its allies. The blunt language underscored his America First posture, signaling a dramatic shift away from diplomatic restraint.
In subsequent years, Trump leaned heavily into themes of sovereignty and nationalism. He criticized global institutions
for overreach, urging countries to defend their independence and interests rather than cede authority to international bodies. He also used the platform to press allies on defense spending, confront Iran’s regional behavior, and highlight trade imbalances with China.
“We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism,” Trump said in 2018.
“The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots,” he said in 2019.
President Donald Trump says countries in NATO should be allowed to shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their territory.
“Yes I do,” Trump said while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York City following the president’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning.
The comments come as the president tried over the summer to broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, including meeting with Russian President Vladmir Putin in Alaska in August, as the Kremlin says talks are currently on hold.
Prior to his comments on NATO, Trump said in his remarks to the UN General Assembly that NATO countries should stop buying Russian oil.
“China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian oil,” he said in his speech. “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.”
The Russian war against Ukraine kicked off in February 2022.
President Donald Trump gained praise from the right on social media after calling out the United Nations during his address on Tuesday morning.
“I ended seven wars, dealt with leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal,” Trump said.
“All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up! It’s empty words and empty words don’t solve war,” he continued.
The remarks won praise from people who are critical of the United Nations.
“If you only watch one thing today, make it President Trump calling out the do-nothing United Nations to their faces,” Republican activist CJ Pearson posted to X with a clip of the speech.
“He just made the case for leaving the U.N. They do nothing for the world,” one user wrote.
“His follow-up on immigration was spot on as well!” another replied.
“This is called courage. This is called strength. We have the best leader in the world,” a third user said.
“Bold American leadership! Right to their faces. And the formula is so simple, even a child can figure it out. 1: Prioritize it. 2: Put forth an honest effort. And the results speak for themselves. So what is the U.N. for, if it can’t, or won’t, do the one thing it exists for?” a fourth stated.
In addition to criticizing the international body as a whole, Trump directly criticized Europe over illegal immigration and called on Hamas to release their remaining hostages.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used his address from the United Nations General Assembly to call out Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip against Hamas as a “genocide” on the Palestinian people.
After nearly two years of war, about 65,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, a figure that includes roughly 20,000 children, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
“For the last 23 months, a child has been murdered by Israel in Gaza every hour,” Erdogan told world leaders from the UN. “People are now being killed not with weapons, but with the weapon of starvation.
“Can we possibly have a reasonable reason for this brutality in 2025?” he questioned as he displayed several graphic pictures of children suffering in Gaza.
“In Gaza, children’s hands, arms and legs are being amputated without out anesthesia,” Erdogan continued. “This represents the lowest point of humanity. Human history has not witnessed such bloodshed within the last century. All of this is happening before our very eyes.”
Erdogan applauded the efforts by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in condemning Israel and its ongoing military operations in Gaza. He also called on more nations to recognize the “state of Palestine” – which Turkey has observed since 1988.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II
said that Palestinian statehood is an “indisputable right,” as he accused Israel of violating other countries’ sovereignty amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The international community must stop entertaining the illusion that this government is a willing partner for peace,” Abdullah said at the United Nations General Assembly’s debate on Tuesday. “Far from it. Its actions on the ground are dismantling the very foundations on which peace could stand, and intentionally burying the very idea of a Palestinian state.”
“How long before we hold all nations to the same standards?” Abdullah said. “How long before we recognize the Palestinians as people who aspire to the same things you and I do? And we act on that recognition. How long before we recognize that statehood is not something Palestinians need to earn? It is not a reward. It is an indisputable right.”
President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the western nations who have thrown their support behind the Palestinian people by saying they will break with the U.S. and Israel, and for the first time, acknowledge Palestinian statehood.
“As everyone knows, I have also been deeply engaged in seeking a cease-fire in Gaza. Have to get that done. You have to get it done,” Trump said.
“Unfortunately, Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace. We can’t forget October 7th, can we? Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state…this would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th,” he added.
Trumps comments came one day after French President Emmanuel Macron announced his nation would recognize a Palestinian state, which followed similar announcements made by the U.K., Australia, Canada and Portugal.
French President Emmanuel Macron is pressing ahead with a two-state solution conference at the United Nations on Monday, despite strong opposition from the Trump administration, casting it as a pathway to end the Gaza war and restart peace efforts. President Donald Trump dismissed France’s recognition of Palestinian statehood outright, while U.S. U.N. counselor Morgan Ortagus told delegates, “Make no mistake — this resolution is a gift to Hamas.”
Atlantic Council analyst Jean-Loup Samaan said Macron’s push was a gamble to boost France’s role with Arab allies and respond to domestic pressure after pro-Palestinian protests at home, warning that it may remain a “mere rhetorical exercise” without U.S. support or Israeli consultation.
Speaking in Paris ahead of the vote, Macron warned that Israel’s offensive “can only lead to disaster for both peoples and risks plunging the region into a cycle of permanent war.” Last Friday, the General Assembly endorsed the French- and Saudi-led New York Declaration by a vote of 142–10, with 12 abstentions.
The resolution calls for irreversible steps toward Palestinian statehood, condemns Hamas, and demands the release of hostages.
President Donald Trump refused to get over the temporary teleprompter issues he endured at the beginning of his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, not only repeatedly highlighting it during his speech, but in a social media post after.
“It was a great honor to speak before the United Nations. I believe the speech was very well received,” Trump said in a Truth Social post, noting that his address focused on energy and immigration.
“I hope everybody gets to watch it,” he continued. “The teleprompter was broken and the escalator came to a sudden hault as we were ridding up to the podium, but both of those events probably made the speech more interesting than it would have been otherwise.”
“It is always an honor to speak at the United Nations, even if, their equipment is somewhat faulty,” Trump added.
President of the United Nations General Assembly is Annalena Baerbock confirmed following Trump’s address, which was highly critical of the UN, that the teleprompter had resumed working order.
President Donald Trump
slammed the United Nations for not aiding as he and his administration seek peace in conflicts around the globe and for “creating new problems” for the U.S. and member nations, while questioning its purpose and also offering “the hand of American leadership and friendship” to all countries in the body.
The president, during his first address of his second administration to the United Nations General Assembly, highlighted renewed American strength while slamming the international body.
“Not only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should, it, too often, is actually creating new problems for us to solve,” the president said. “The best example is the number one political issue of our time: the crisis of uncontrolled migration. It is uncontrolled. Your countries are being ruined.”
The president said the U.N. is “funding an assault on Western countries and their borders.””
The U.N. is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States, and we have to get them out,” Trump said. “The U.N. also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens.”
He added: “The UN is supposed to stop invasions — not create them and not finance them.”
This is an excerpt of a story from Brooke Singman.
As world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, the debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is expected to dominate the agenda.
The focus follows last week’s overwhelming passage of the French- and Saudi-led New York Declaration, which called for irreversible steps toward Palestinian statehood. France, Great Britain and Canada, along with several other countries, are expected to formally recognize a Palestinian state this week in New York.
But Israeli analyst Nadav Eyal explains that the U.N.’s credibility on the issue is deeply compromised. “In 2024, the United Nations General Assembly rebuked or condemned Israel 17 times in different decisions, while the rest of the world combined got six condemnations or rebukes,” Eyal told Fox News Digital, adding, “That’s an example of how the U.N. singles out Israel
, and it’s one of the reasons why criticism that comes from the U.N. or its bodies is not considered credible in Israel, or by countries and administrations that support Israel.”
The U.S. is by far the largest contributor to the U.N.’s regular budget and peacekeeping dues, which are reassessed every three years based on a formula that considers a nation’s Gross National Income (GNI), population, and debt rates.
The U.S. currently contributes around $1.5 billion a year to the U.N., roughly 22% of the U.N.’s overall regular budget, which equates to roughly 0.2% of Washington’s annual federal budget.
But concerns over the U.N.’s spiking assessment rate in the 90s which neared 30%, prompted lawmakers in 1994 to pass a cap on what it would allow the U.S. to contribute to the U.N.’s peacekeeping dues at 25% of the U.N.’s assessed rate.
The U.S. currently pays 22% of the regular budget and is assessed at 27% of the peacekeeping budget
, meaning that extra two percent of assessed dues goes unpaid.
China, which is the world’s second largest economy now accounts for nearly 16% of the U.N.’s regular budget and nearly 19% of its peacekeeping dues.
President Donald Trump called on countries to be proud of their heritage in his closing remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday morning.
Trump said that each country represented in the hall has “a noble history and a proud heritage that makes each nation majestic and unique, unlike anything else in human history or any other place on the face of the earth.”
“Our ancestors gave everything for homelands that they defended, with pride, with sweat, with blood, with life and with death. Now the righteous task of protecting the nations that they built belongs to each and every one of us. So together let us uphold our sacred duty to our people and to our citizens,” he later added.
“Let us protect their borders, ensure their safety, preserve their cultures, treasure, and traditions, and fight, fight, fight for their precious dreams and their cherished freedoms,” the president continued.
During his address, Trump criticized Europe over its high influx of immigration, saying that the continent is in “serious trouble” if it does not curb illegal immigration.
President Donald Trump cautioned that Europe is in a crisis due to an influx of illegal immigration, calling it “unsustainable.”
“The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them,” Trump said. “In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime, and deplete our social safety net.”
Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump
repeatedly labeled climate change a “con job” in his address to the United Nations General Assembly’s debate on Tuesday.
“This climate change, it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you’re involved in that,” Trump said. “No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong.”
Trump also blasted Asian countries and accused them of dropping garbage in the ocean that then makes its way to U.S. shores.
“They dump much of their garbage right into the ocean. And over about a one week and two week journey. It flows right past Los Angeles. You’ve seen — it massive amounts of garbage, almost too much to do anything about flowing past Los Angeles, past San Francisco. And then somebody will get in trouble because you dropped a cigarette on the beach. The whole thing is crazy.”
“The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that have put down, to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune and making a fortune,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump cautioned that Europe is in a crisis due to an influx of illegal immigration, and warned that U.N. countries are “going to hell” in the “failed experiment of open borders.”
“Europe is in serious trouble,” Trump said in his address to the United Nations General Assembly’s debate on Tuesday. “They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe. Nobody is ever. And nobody’s doing anything to change it, to get them out. It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it.”
The Trump administration has taken a tough stance against illegal immigrants to advance Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
“The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them,” Trump said. “In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime, and deplete our social safety net. We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people, and I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens as well.”
President Donald Trump is demanding the release of hostages captured by Hamas, stressing that the Oct. 7 attacks cannot be forgotten.
“Those who want peace should be united with one message: Release the hostages now. Just release the hostages now,” Trump said during his United Nations General Assembly address in front of various international leaders, with some applause, as he also criticized “ransom demands.”
Israel estimates that there are still 48 hostages, but only 20 are still alive, Fox News previously reported.
“We have to stop the war in Gaza immediately. We have to stop it. We have to get it done. We have to negotiate. Immediately have to negotiate peace. We got to get the hostages back,” Trump said.
“We want all 20 back,” he added, highlighting the efforts of special envoy Steve Wikoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that got “most of them back.”
“But I always said, the last 20 are going to be the hardest. And that’s exactly what happened. We have to get them back now,” he said.
President Donald Trump touted the success of strikes against Iran earlier this year – and reaffirmed that the U.S. is committed to never permitting Iran to possess a nuclear weapon.
“Three months ago, when Operation Midnight Hammer, seven American B-2 bombers dropped the 14 30,000 pound each bombs on Iran’s key nuclear facility, totally obliterating everything,” Trump said in his address to the United Nations General Assembly’s debate on Tuesday.
“No other country on earth could have done what we did,” Trump said. “No other country has the equipment to do what we did. We have the greatest weapons on Earth. We hate to use them, but we did something that for 22 years people wanted to do with Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity demolished.”
Operation Midnight Hammer targeted Iranian nuclear facilities Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan in June. Altogether, the operation included more than 125 U.S. aircraft, including B-2 stealth bombers, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine. A guided-missile submarine also launched more than two dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at key Iranian targets, he said.
Trump also said that “almost all” of Iran’s former military commanders are now dead.
President Donald Trump struck a critical tone when he took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly debate on Tuesday and questioned “what is the purpose of the United Nations?”
Trump once again claimed that since re-taking office he has ended seven wars, including the conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“Its too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations,” Trump said as the President of the UNGA Annalena Baerbock and UN Secretary-General António Guterres looked on from behind.
“All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle,” Trump continued. “And then a teleprompter that didn’t work.”
“The United Nations wasn’t there for us. They weren’t there,” he said. “That being the case, what is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN has such tremendous potential.”
President Donald Trump, who is known for his off-the-cuff speaking style, cracked a joke about the broken teleprompter at the opening of his United Nations General Assembly address in New York City.
“And I don’t mind making this speech without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter is not working,” he said, getting laughs in the room.
“I feel very happy to be up here with you, nevertheless. And that way you speak more from the heart. I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble,” the president continued.Trump then referred to paper notes throughout his remarks.
During his address, the president said that the United States has the “strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships and the strongest spirit of any nation on the face of the earth.”
He also highlighted peace efforts the U.S. was involved in, including between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” he later added, saying it appeared to be working again. “By the way, it’s working now. Just went on. Thank you. I think I should just do it the other way,” he said.
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly began earlier this month under the theme “Better Together: 80 years and more for Peace, Development and Human rights, highlighting the urgency of delivering Sustainable Development Goals and reinvigorating global cooperation.”
The biggest event for UNGA 80 is the High-Level Debate that begins on Tuesday, Sept. 23, when President Trump will address the world from the podium. Other world leaders scheduled to speak include the leaders of Iran, Israel, the U.K., Turkey and France.
Other events include a France–Saudi Arabia conference on the push for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine question, something the Trump administration has criticized as rewarding Hamas. Other events include summits on climate action, AI governance, preventing noncommunicable diseases and promoting youth involvement in policymaking.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took an apparent jab at President Donald Trump in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday when he called out “arbitrary sanctions” in the wake of the administration’s objection to the prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
“There is a clear parallel between the multilateralism crisis and the weakening of democracy, authoritarianism is strengthened when we fail to act in the face of arbitrary acts. When the international society falters in defending peace, sovereignty and the rule of law, the consequences are tragic,” he said.
The Brazilian president did not directly call out Trump, but his comments came just hours after the U.S. slapped sanctions on the wife of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw the prosecution of Bolsonaro, leading to his conviction of organizing a coup in an attempt to remain in office following his 2022 electoral loss to Lula da Silva.
“There is no justification for unilateral and arbitrary measures against our institutions and our economy, the aggression against the independence of the judiciary, branch of power is unacceptable,” Lula da Silva said. “This interference in domestic affairs as aided by a subservient far right who is nostalgic of past hegemonies, false patriots plan and publicly promote actions against Brazil.”
New York City police began arresting protesters outside the United Nations on Tuesday after demonstrators sat in the crosswalk on 42nd Street in an apparent attempt to block access to the building, accounts on social media said.
The protesters carried anti-President Donald Trump signs, and according to some on social media, the event was an attempt to block his entrance into the UN ahead of his address to the United Nations General Assembly.
Though the protesters appeared to be jamming up traffic, the demonstrations remained peaceful even as police officers began removing the protesters from the area.
The NYPD has limited traffic in front of the UN in a move to better secure the building housing the world’s leaders for the week.
The United States Secret Service dismantled a serious telecommunications “threat” near the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
The plot, if successful, could have taken down phone lines in New York City, where the event is being held.
The devices were located within 35 miles of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly, but there was no sign that the meeting itself would have been targeted.
“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,” the Secret Service said.
Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field office, said in a video released Tuesday that the plan could have had extremely serious implications.
“This network had the potential to disable cellphone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City,” he said.
The Secret Service said it found 300 SIM servers, along with 100,000 SIM cards at multiple locations. McCool said that investigation began in the spring, and the recovered devices no longer pose a threat to the New York tristate area.”
More work is now underway to see if there are similar threats and more details about who was behind the network.
Fox News’ CB Cotton and Greg Norman contributed to this report.
This year’s United Nations General Assembly forum marks the 80th anniversary of when the body was established in the wake of World War II.
The theme is “Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,” though it comes during arguably one of the most contentious periods since the world’s deadliest war ended.
The major areas of focus will be the wars in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, and Sudan, which are not only contributing to mass humanitarian concerns and crises, but they are threatening global security that could have far reaching consequences.
Issues like climate action, human rights, global health, hunger, international reform and emerging issues like Artificial Intelligence governance will also all be addressed in the high-level meetings.
While most of the world’s national leaders will attend the forum, including leaders embroiled in some of the most complex international conflicts like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are not expected to attend the UNGA this year.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is the U.N.’s main deliberating body and includes all 193 members of the international body.
The UNGA holds power in its diplomatic and consensus-building, though it does not possess legal authority and carries weight through its unifying stances on political and morally driven issues.
Though it can pass resolutions, like this month’s endorsement of a Palestinian-Israeli two-state solution and the condemnation of Hamas in a push to end the war in the Gaza Strip, it cannot enforce geopolitical action through military action or sanctions, like the U.N. Security Council can.
The General Assembly can debate and highlight chief humanitarian and international issues, approve the U.N.’s budget, elect members to the security council and it appoints the U.N. Secretary-General based on the Security Council’s recommendation.
President Donald Trump plans to speak “bluntly” about how he thinks “globalist ideologies risk destroying successful nations around the world” in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning.
This will be Trump’s first address to the group in his second administration, and he’s expected to highlight peace negotiation wins by the United States in Armenia and Azerbaijan; Thailand and Cambodia; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among others.
In addition, the president will also likely discuss his efforts against narcoterrorism originating in Venezuela, including recent military strikes against drug cartel boats in the southern Caribbean.”
President Trump has effectively restored American strength on the world stage,” a White House official told Fox News Digital in an exclusive preview.
“His historic speech at the United Nations General Assembly will highlight his success in delivering peace on a scale that no other president has accomplished, while simultaneously speaking bluntly about how globalist ideologies risk destroying successful nations around the world.”
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Each September, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) brings world leaders to New York City — friends and foes alike. That often raises a question: why does the United States allow adversarial leaders, from Iran to Venezuela, to speak on American soil?
The answer lies in the UN’s founding agreements. As host country, the U.S. is bound by the 1947 Headquarters Agreement, which obligates Washington to allow transit and access for diplomats and member-state representatives to UN facilities, regardless of political disputes. Even during the Cold War, when tensions with Moscow ran high, Soviet leaders spoke at the Assembly.
Russia is still a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
By honoring these commitments, the U.S. reinforces its role as steward of the UN system, projecting consistency and respect for international law. Denying entry to foes outright would risk undermining both America’s credibility and the legitimacy of the institution itself.
That said, the arrangement isn’t without limits or conflict. The U.S. sometimes imposes restrictions on certain delegations’ movements or issues visas selectively, citing national security or foreign policy grounds.
In a historic move this year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked and denied visas for some officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian Authority (PA) — including President Mahmoud Abbas — ahead of the 2025 UNGA. Washington cited U.S. laws against so-called “pay for slay” payments to terrorists and obligations under its peace-commitment legislation. Critics argue this is the first time an entire foreign delegation has been blocked.
The United States remains by far the U.N.’s largest financial backer, contributing billions in taxpayer dollars every year to keep the sprawling international body afloat.
Roughly one-third of the U.N.’s funding comes from Washington: about one-fifth of its regular operating budget, plus large sums for peacekeeping, humanitarian programs, and specialized agencies like the World Health Organization and the U.N. Refugee Agency.
President Biden
increased U.S. contributions to the U.N. system, from approximately $11.6 billion in 2020 to about $18.1 billion in 2022.
But in mid-July, Congress included in a rescissions package a measure to claw back $1 billion from the organization.
The U.S. gave about three times as much as the next-largest contributor, Germany ($6.8 billion), and more than six times what Japan contributed ($2.7 billion) that year.
Historically, the U.N. has particularly depended on the U.S. for funding global aid programs.
In 2022, it provided half of all contributions to the World Food Programme, and about a third of all contributions to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and the International Organization for Migration.
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 United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, it added.
Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report
Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent will meet with Argentinian President Javier Milei alongside President Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday.
The meeting comes on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
On Monday, Bessent said
said “all options” to aid the Argentinian president, an ally of Trump, were “on the table,” suggesting the U.S. may look to providing financial aid just months ahead of Milei’s race for re-election.
“Argentina is a systemically important U.S. ally in Latin America, and the U.S. Treasury stands ready to do what is needed within its mandate to support Argentina,” Bessent wrote on X.
These options could include loan provision to Argentina’s central bank, “direct currency purchases” and “purchases of U.S. dollar-denominated Argentine government debt from Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund,” he confirmed.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaaat at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Monday.
Syrian representation at the UNGA this week is the first time any Syrian leader has been at the UN in six decades.
Details of the meeting remain unknown, but come as the Trump administration has signaled a willingness to establish diplomatic relations with Syria and as Damascus continues to lobby the U.S. to drop all sanctions previously imposed during the previous Bashar al-Assad regime.
The meeting followed the pronouncement by the Trump administration over the weekend that it was ending the protected status for all Syrians residing within the U.S. and gave them 60 days to leave the country or face deportation.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) begins its high-level week on Sept 22, with the debate starting on Sept. 23 at 9 am from its headquarters in New York City.
The debate will be held “without interruption for nine working days,” according to U.N. guidelines, though six days are “usually sufficient to accommodate all speakers.”
Some of the top speeches including President Donald Trump will be on Fox News and Fox News Digital. The debate can be streamed from the U.N.’s official live streaming platform, UN Web TV, or on platforms like YouTube for live and archived coverage.
The General Debate is not open to the public for in person attendance due to the extremely high security precautions that are taken, and attendees must be credentialed diplomats, staff or media personnel.
Each day will offer different themes and events, including a two-state solution for Palestinians, climate action plans, international financial initiatives, the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, AI governance and nuclear disarmament.
When President Trump addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly, his message is expected to be anchored on three pillars: peace, sovereignty, and liberty. His administration has signaled that these themes will define America’s approach to the U.N. and global engagement.
On peace, Trump is expected to call for sharper accountability in peacekeeping missions, according to U.S. priorities outlined by Ambassador Dorothy Shea, Acting U.S. Representative.
The U.S. wants operations to have clear goals, measurable outcomes, and resources aligned with results — not open-ended mandates. This reflects a broader skepticism of global institutions that lack efficiency or accountability.
Sovereignty, long central to Trump’s worldview, will again figure prominently at UNGA 80: he is expected to emphasize the right of nations to chart their own course. His team has cautioned against international rules perceived to stifle innovation or weaken national independence — a continuation of his America First posture.
Finally, liberty will be presented as non-negotiable. Trump is expected to defend freedoms of speech, religion, and political opposition — and to push back against efforts to censor or silence dissent.
The U.S. pays about 22% of the U.N. budget, yet critics say it gets little in return, arguing that the body is dominated by non-democracies, hostile to American interests, and fixated on condemning Israel.
President Donald Trump told reporters in February that the U.N. has “got great potential…but they got to get their act together. It’s not being well run, and they’re not doing the job.”
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, told Fox News Digital, “Calls for the U.S. to leave the U.N. reflect the deep frustration of millions of Americans who see their tax dollars funding a body that obsesses over condemning Israel while giving dictatorships a free pass.”
Critics point
to the planned election of an Iranian regime official to the U.N.’s top human rights body as proof of its moral crisis.
“I’m not calling for America to pull out. But Washington must hold the U.N. to account…What’s at stake is whether the U.N. remains a moral voice—or slides further into irrelevance as a platform for tyrants,” Neuer said.
New York City
takes center stage in global diplomacy this week as world leaders convene for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The annual meeting, regarded as the preeminent diplomatic gathering of the year, brings together presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers from across the globe to debate pressing issues and set the tone for international relations in the year ahead.
Among the most closely watched attendees are U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose actions often draw scrutiny at the Assembly
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is also expected to attend, as is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Topics expected to dominate the week include conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, global economic stability, climate change, and the role of emerging technologies in international security.
Behind the scenes, bilateral meetings are likely to carry as much weight as the speeches delivered from the UN podium, as leaders seek to broker deals, ease tensions, and reinforce alliances.
The world’s attention turns once more to the question of whether the UN can foster cooperation in an era of growing geopolitical divides — including the war in Ukraine and Israel’s offensive in Gaza.
Sheriff’s office takes action against officer who allegedly posted ‘I am Antifa’
A sheriff’s office in North Carolina terminated one of its detention officers after he allegedly posted “I am Antifa” on social media.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced on Monday that Detention Officer Brian Edwards was terminated from his position after learning of “concerning social media posts,” according to a news release.
“I am Antifa,” an account belonging to Edwards posted to Bluesky on Friday. “And I will never comply with a fascist regime.”
Following Edwards’ post on social media, Orange County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Tina Sykes placed Edwards on administrative leave and an investigation was opened.
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According to the sheriff’s office, the investigation “confirmed violations of both the Standards of Conduct and the Speech, Expression, and Social Networking sections of the policy manual.”
As a result, Edwards was terminated from his position at the sheriff’s office.
Edwards told WRAL he disagrees with how the sheriff’s office handled his situation.
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“I respect the sheriff’s office, but I disagree with how my situation was handled. I’m focused on moving forward and won’t be commenting further at this time,” Edwards said.
Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood said, “We must maintain the public trust as we go about our mission to protect, serve, and treat everyone with dignity and respect.”
According to a Feb. 2024 post by the sheriff’s office, Edwards began working at the law enforcement agency sometime in 2022.
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“Brian used to be a correctional officer in a state prison in Caswell County. Although the responsibilities there were similar, more laws govern his current work. Detention Center inmates have more rights, primarily because most are still facing charges; they are not already convicted. Brian appreciates the increased complexity,” the sheriff’s office wrote.
Fox News Digital reached out to Edwards and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for comment.
Daughters of woman found brutally murdered in desert found alive 36 years later
After more than three decades, investigators identified a woman found stabbed to death in the Arizona desert in 1989 and located her two infant daughters who vanished at the time of her death.
Marina Ramos, of Bakersfield, California, was found naked with multiple stab wounds Dec. 12, 1989 in Mohave County, Arizona, about 50 miles south of Las Vegas.
While detectives determined she was killed at that location, they were unable to identify her because Ramos’ DNA did not yield any matches.
In February 2022, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit resubmitted fingerprints from the case file to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, and the FBI matched the prints to “Maria Ortiz,” an alias used by Ramos, who had been arrested for shoplifting in Bakersfield in 1989.
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Family members later confirmed Ramos disappeared that same year and was last seen with daughters Elizabeth, then 14 months old, and Jasmin, then 2 months old.
For more than two years, the sheriff’s office put out press releases, posted on social media, reviewed broadcast television reports and tested Ramos’ family members’ DNA to find out what happened to the two girls.
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In August, investigators found the two daughters through a DNA match and learned they were abandoned in a park restroom in Oxnard, California, in December 1989, just two days after their mother’s body was found in Arizona.
According to police reports, a passerby heard children crying in the women’s restroom and found the girls lying on the wet floor without any adults nearby.
The girls were placed in foster care and “stayed there for a significant amount of time” before being adopted by a family in Ventura County, where they were raised together, according to authorities.
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“While we are excited to announce that one part of this 36-year-old mystery has been solved, the search for the suspects involved in the homicide of Marina Ramos continues,” sheriff’s office officials wrote in a statement.
A witness in the area told officers she saw a Hispanic woman and two Hispanic men with the two girls at the park.
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The woman was carrying the younger child in a yellow blanket, and one of the men was carrying the older child, according to the witness. They were seen traveling in a black pickup.
Anyone with information about the investigation is asked to contact the sheriff’s office.
Overlooked heart attack triggers could put millions at risk, researchers warn
Heart attacks don’t always look the same — and a new study from Mayo Clinic highlights the key differences between how they affect men and women.
The most common cause of heart attacks overall is clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), but in people under 65 — particularly women — there are often other factors at play.
Atherosclerosis is responsible for 75% of men’s heart attacks, but only 47% of women’s cardiac events, data shows.
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In the study, which was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers analyzed more than 15 years of data on 1,474 heart attacks.
They found that more than half of heart attacks in women under age 65 were caused by “nontraditional factors.”
Those included embolisms and spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), among other factors.
The researchers also found that the underlying causes of women’s heart attacks were often overlooked or misdiagnosed.
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SCAD — a rare but serious condition that occurs when a tear develops within the coronary artery — is nearly six times more common in women compared to men.
It is often misdiagnosed as a typical heart attack caused by plaque buildup, which could result in stents being placed unnecessarily, the researchers noted.
People who experienced heart attacks caused by stressors like anemia or infection had higher five-year mortality rates, the study found.
“Recognizing and correctly diagnosing these nontraditional heart attacks allows for more appropriate care and better long-term outcomes,” the release stated.
Less than 3% of heart attacks were “truly unexplained.”
“When the root cause of a heart attack is misunderstood, it can lead to treatments that are less effective — or even harmful.”
“This research shines a spotlight on heart attack causes that have historically been under-recognized, particularly in women,” said Claire Raphael, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., an interventional cardiologist at Mayo Clinic and first author of the study, in a press release.
“When the root cause of a heart attack is misunderstood, it can lead to treatments that are less effective — or even harmful.”
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Senior author Rajiv Gulati, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Division of Interventional Cardiology and Ischemic Heart Disease at Mayo Clinic, said the research highlights the need to rethink how heart attacks are approached, particularly in younger women.
“Clinicians must sharpen their awareness of conditions like SCAD, embolism and stress-related triggers, and patients should advocate for answers when something doesn’t feel right,” he said in the release.
“Understanding why a heart attack happened is just as important as treating it,” Raphael added. “It can mean the difference between recovery and recurrence.”
Dr. Bradley Serwer, a Maryland-based cardiologist and chief medical officer at VitalSolution, an Ingenovis Health company that offers cardiovascular and anesthesiology services to hospitals nationwide, was not involved in the study but commented on the findings.
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“It is crucial to recognize that not all heart attacks are identical or caused by the same events,” he said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “Being young, healthy and female does not guarantee immunity from heart attack.”
The cardiologist emphasized the importance of listening to your body and realizing that no one is immune from a heart attack.
“It is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle, exercise, avoid smoking and know the status of any chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol,” he advised.
“The most effective advocate is a well-informed patient,” Serwer added. “It is crucial to be aware of your medical history, medications and specific cardiac risk factors.”
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In the event of new onset chest pain, shortness of breath or severe exertional fatigue, the doctor said it’s essential to seek immediate medical attention.
“Do not ignore the symptoms because you may be considered low risk for a heart attack,” he said.
“Being young, healthy and female does not guarantee immunity from heart attack.”
The study does have some limitations, Serwer noted, including a lack of ethnic diversity.
“The research also did not account for severity of the underlying medical conditions,” he said.
Overall, this study serves as a reminder that there are many different causes of heart attacks, Serwer said.
“We need to keep an open mind when evaluating a younger patient with potential cardiac symptoms. There is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to treating heart attacks in the young.”
Vegas resorts slash prices with unprecedented 5-day deal as visitor count falls
As Sin City tourist numbers continue to decline, the Las Vegas tourism agency has launched an unprecedented citywide event that it’s calling “The Fabulous 5-Day Sale.”
“This limited-time sale will deliver incredible deals on resorts, restaurants, entertainment and experiences, extending a citywide invitation to visitors to rediscover the magic, energy and unbeatable value of Las Vegas,” the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) said in a statement.
The deal began Monday and will last until Friday — with discounts on hotels, shows, dining and other events.
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Popular resorts are taking part in the event, with the Bellagio offering up to 25% off rooms with a $100 daily food and drink credit, while the Venetian is offering up to 33% off suite rates, plus a $50 cocktail credit.
Fontainebleu is offering 20% off stays with no resort fee and a $50 daily dining credit with free parking.
Seventy-five hotels and resorts are listed as offering discounts, according to the LVCVA.
The city launched a $35 million “Welcome to Fabulous” campaign in September.
The Las Vegas monorail is offering a “buy-one-ticket-get-one-half-off” deal, while MGM Resorts has a “special-for-two-attractions” deal for $55.
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There were 3,089,300 visitors to the city in July, compared to over 3.5 million for the same period last year, while occupancy on the Strip dropped 7% from 86.5% in 2024, according to the LVCVA.
Even as tourism is down, some visitors told Fox News Digital they think the city is busy.
A woman named Katherine from College Station, Texas, said it was her third time visiting Vegas.
“We’ve still seen a ton of people,” she said. “So it doesn’t seem like [it’s slow] to us.… It still seems pretty busy.”
One traveler, Oren from Ireland, said he was in town for a wedding with his family. It was his first time in Sin City.
“It’s not too busy. I prefer it not being too busy, to be honest.”
“To me, it would be busy anyway, but it’s my first time here,” he said. “It probably is a lot busier, but you can see the price and stuff is probably scaring people away.”
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Canadians Janice and Faith traveled to Vegas along with their husbands, who came to the city for a conference.
“It’s quite busy, and even at lunch we need reservations,” said Faith. “It is quite busy, and lovely, so it’s the same old Vegas.”
Janice added, “We don’t feel like anything is down in Vegas right now. It’s very busy.”
Matt from London shared that this was his second time visiting the city.
“It seems pretty mellow during the day. It depends on where you go,” he said. “If you go to the Bellagio fountain, it was very busy there because everyone went to see the fountain show.”
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“To be honest, it’s been so long since I came, I can’t remember what it was like last time. But I quite like the vibe at the minute,” he added. “It’s not too busy. I prefer it not being too busy, to be honest.”
Latest twist in SJSU trans volleyball scandal brings another lawsuit into the mix
Former San Jose State University women’s volleyball assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose has filed a lawsuit against the Board of Trustees of the California State University (CSU) system. SJSU is one of 23 California-based schools that are part of the CSU system.
Batie-Smoose’s contract was not renewed when it expired in February, after being suspended from the team in the middle of the season for filing a Title IX complaint over the program’s handling of a transgender athlete on its team and a female player who objected to the trans athlete.
Now, Batie-Smoose is alleging wrongful termination, claiming she “suffered and continues to suffer lost wages, loss of professional reputation and opportunity, emotional distress, and other damages.”
“Defendant’s actions were willful, intentional, and/or taken with reckless disregard for Plaintiff’s federally protected rights,” the lawsuit states.
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“Other coaches who did not oppose the inclusion of a biological male on the women’s volleyball team or who did not advocate for the rights of female athletes, were not subjected to suspension, termination or any discriminatory actions as was Plaintiff.”
A spokesperson from San Jose State University responded to the lawsuit.
“We are aware of the filing and have no further comment, due to pending litigation,” the spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Batie-Smoose’s Title IX complaint against the school, which she filed at the end of last October, first brought to light allegations that the transgender athlete, Blaire Fleming, conspired with an opposing player to have teammate Brooke Slusser spiked in the face during a game.
Slusser previously joined a lawsuit against the NCAA and filed another against the Mountain West Conference, citing her experience of being made to share changing spaces and hotel rooms with Fleming without being told Fleming’s birth sex.
Batie-Smoose was then suspended at the start of November, while the allegations against Fleming prompted an investigation by the Mountain West into the situation.
The Mountain West’s investigation determined that sufficient evidence could not be found, however, Fox News Digital later reported that the law firm hired to conduct the investigation, Willkie Farr & Gallagher (WFG), is the same firm that is representing the Mountain West against Slusser’s lawsuit, which also contain the allegations against Fleming of conspiring to have Slusser harmed, as seen in public records obtained by Fox News Digital.
Slusser also previously told Fox News Digital that she had a conversation with a teammate who was interviewed as part of WFG’s investigation.
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“Based on what I was told, exactly what one of my teammates had seen go on that night — about talking about the scouting report and leaving the net open — was told to those lawyers. So, that should have been sufficient evidence [of the alleged plan by Fleming],” Slusser told Fox News Digital, adding she wants to see the investigation reopened.
“People are telling you this happened, and it’s not second-hand information. She sat there and heard the conversation between Blaire and [former Colorado State volleyball player] Malaya [Jones]. So, to me, just from what I know without even having to dig deep into this investigation, there is sufficient evidence, and they were told sufficient evidence.”
Fox News Digital cannot independently verify that Slusser’s teammate corroborated the allegations against Fleming when speaking to investigators.
WFG later deleted a Nov. 27 online press release from its website that announced the legal victory to keep Fleming eligible. The page is still viewable via an online archive. Fox News Digital has asked WFG multiple times why the page was deleted but has not gotten a response.
Meanwhile, Batie-Smoose previously told Fox News Digital what she recalled during the Oct. 3 game against Colorado State in which Fleming was accused of conspiring with opposing player Malaya Jones to have Slusser spiked in the face.
“Close to the end of that set was when [Fleming] overpassed a serve right on top of the net for Malayla to hit toward Brooke Slusser, and then those two were kind of always doing eye contact and making smirks up to that point. But then, when that happened, they both laughed, and [Fleming] said, ‘Thank you,’ and that’s when Blaire blew her a kiss,” Batie-Smoose alleged.
Weeks after her contract was not renewed in February, Batie-Smoose’s home in Scotts Valley, California, was vandalized in a shooting.
Scotts Valley Police Department Captain Scott Garner previously told Fox News Digital that officers determined that the weapon used was a pellet gun, and was investigated as an act of vandalism. The pellet had been recovered by police. Nobody was harmed and no suspect or motive was determined.
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Batie-Smoose said she previously received hostile emails about her stance on Fleming and trans inclusion in women’s sports. She also claimed to have had in-person altercations with individuals in Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley who disagreed with her stance.
“People recognize me in the community and I’m in an area that’s speaking out and speaking to fight for women’s sports, I’m in an area with some crazies and I definitely believe it was a target on me for speaking out,” she said.
Meanwhile, SJSU is under an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for its handling of the situation involving Fleming and Slusser.