John Bolton indicted on classified materials retention charges after FBI raid on home
Former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton was indicted Thursday on 18 counts related to the improper handling of classified materials, Fox News Digital has learned.
According to the indictment, Bolton was indicted on eight counts of transmission of National Defense Information and ten counts of retention of National Defense information.
“From on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025, BOLTON abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor—including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level—with two unauthorized individuals, namely Individuals 1 and 2,” the indictment reads. “BOLTON also unlawfully retained documents, writings, and notes relating to the national defense, including information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland.”
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The documents Bolton transmitted were sent to two individuals unauthorized to view classified documents.
Those documents, according to the indictment, revealed intelligence about future attacks by an adversarial group in another country; a liaison partner sharing sensitive information with the U.S. intelligence community; intelligence that a foreign adversary was planning a missile launch in the future; a covert action in a foreign country that was related to sensitive intergovernmental actions; sensitive sources and methods used to collect human intelligence; intelligence about an adversary’s knowledge of planned U.S. actions; intelligence about adversary’s plans for attack conducted against U.S. Forces in another country; human intelligence using sensitive sources and methods; a covert action program; intelligence collected on the leader of an adversary nation’s military group; intelligence on an adversary’s leaders; intelligence concerning a foreign country’s interactions with an adversary; a direct statement collected via intelligence sources and methods on a foreign country; a foreign country’s intelligence describing an adversary’s planned attack on a facility; sensitive sources and methods used to collect intelligence on a foreign country; a covert action and sources and methods used; intelligence on covert action planned by the U.S. Government; intelligence confirming a foreign adversary was responsible for an attack; and intelligence on covert action conducted by the U.S. Government, a liaison partner country, and specific information about the action.
The documents were all classified as “TOP SECRET.”
As for the documents he allegedly retained, one document revealed intelligence about a future attack by an adversarial group in another country; another revealed liaison partners sharing sensitive information with the U.S. intelligence community; another revealed intelligence that a foreign adversary was planning a missile launch in the future; a covert action in a foreign country related to sensitive inter-governmental actions and sensitive sources and methods used to collect human intelligence.
Other documents revealed intelligence about an adversary’s knowledge of planned U.S. actions; intelligence about adversary’s plans for attack conducted against U.S. Forces in another country; human intelligence using sensitive sources and methods; and intelligence collected on the leader of an adversary nation’s military group.
Others revealed intelligence concerning a foreign country’s interactions with an adversary; a foreign country’s intelligence describing an adversary’s planned attack on a facility; intelligence confirming a foreign adversary was responsible for an attack; intelligence that a foreign country was considering specific force against another country; and more.
The documents range in classification from “SECRET” to “TOP SECRET.”
“The FBI’s investigation revealed that John Bolton allegedly transmitted top secret information using personal online accounts and retained said documents in his house in direct violation of federal law,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “The case was based on meticulous work from dedicated career professionals at the FBI who followed the facts without fear or favor. Weaponization of justice will not be tolerated, and this FBI will stop at nothing to bring to justice anyone who threatens our national security.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement, “There is one tier of justice for all Americans.
“Anyone who abuses a position of power and jeopardizes our national security will be held accountable,” she said. “No one is above the law.”
Bolton’s Maryland home had been raided by FBI agents in August. That search was focused on classified documents agents believed Bolton possessed.
The list of more than a dozen items seized from the Bethesda, Maryland, home of President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor was included in search warrant documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
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Among the technology seized from Bolton’s home were two iPhones — a red one with two camera lenses and a black one in a black case — and three computers, including a silver Dell XPS laptop with cables; a Dell Precision Tower computer model 3620; and a Dell Inspiron 2330 computer, according to the search warrant documents.
One Seagate hard drive and two Sandisk 64 gigabyte USB drives were also seized.
The list shows the FBI also took a white binder labeled, “Statements and Reflections to Allied Strikes…” and typed documents in folders labeled “Trump I-IV.”
Four boxes containing what federal officials called “printed daily activities” also were hauled from Bolton’s home, according to the documents.
The Aug. 22 FBI raid was linked to a probe of mishandling classified documents.
Bolton served as Trump’s White House national security advisor during his first administration, from 2018 to 2019.
A source familiar with the early stages of the investigation told Fox News Digital that CIA Director John Ratcliffe provided Patel with limited access to U.S. intelligence that served as the basis for the search warrant. The source told Fox News Digital that the evidence justified the raid on Bolton’s home.
“I can’t give you any more details than that, but let’s just say that John Bolton really had some nerve to attack Trump over his handling of classified information,” the source told Fox News Digital after the August raid.
The probe into Bolton’s alleged retention of classified documents was first launched years ago but later shut down by the Biden administration “for political reasons,” according to a senior U.S. official.
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The Justice Department under Trump’s first administration argued that Bolton’s 2020 memoir, “The Room Where It Happened,” contained classified material and sought to block its publication. A federal judge ultimately allowed the book to be published.
Justice Department lawyers argued the book contained classified national security information covering areas like U.S. intelligence sources and methods, foreign policy deliberations and conversations with foreign leaders.
In June 2021, the Biden Justice Department abandoned both a criminal inquiry and civil lawsuit against Bolton over the memoir, ending the legal battle at that time.
Bolton’s attorney said at the time that a senior career official in charge of the National Security Council’s pre-publication review process conducted a four-month review of the book and, after requiring a number of revisions, concluded that it contained no classified information.
The book contained a damning account of the Trump White House, alleging that Trump once “pleaded” with Chinese President Xi Jinping to aid his re-election campaign, among other missteps.
Trump ousted Bolton from his first administration in 2019 because the pair “disagreed strongly” on policy.
Bolton has both praised and criticized Trump since leaving his first administration.
He criticized Trump’s handling of classified documents, which led to an FBI raid on the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022 and a subsequent federal indictment, but insisted that “the legal process play out.”
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Trump initially was indicted on 37 felony counts, later expanded to 40, but the case was ultimately dismissed in July 2024.
In 2022, Bolton said Trump lacked the competence and character to be president.
However, Bolton strongly backed Trump’s military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June, calling it “a decisive action,” “the right thing to do,” and praising its potential to generate “huge change in the Middle East.”
Trump, meanwhile, often has criticized Bolton for pushing U.S. involvement in wars in the Middle East. Bolton served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush from August 2005 to December 2006.
Trump revoked Bolton’s Secret Service detail Jan. 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president, and Bolton said the move showed that Trump was coming after him.
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“I think it is a retribution presidency,” Bolton told ABC earlier in 2025, responding to Trump’s move to revoke his security clearance.
Bolton has faced threats from Iran going back years, including an alleged plot to assassinate him in 2021 and the Department of Justice subsequently charging a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the plot in 2022.
The Iranian threats against Bolton were likely sparked by the January 2020 U.S. strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, the Department of Justice reported in 2022.
Bolton did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Schumer, Jeffries duck for cover as Dems demand Republican exit big NYC race
The conventional wisdom in New York City’s mayoral race is that Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa should drop out so that the supposedly moderate independent — former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo – has a chance to beat the current Democratic candidate, socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Two things are clear. First, allowing the Marxist Mamdani to rule Gotham is a terrifying idea, what with his plans for homeless shelters on wheels (his calls for free buses) and social workers out on police calls, but second, this is a crisis completely created by the Democratic Party.
It was Democrats who changed the voting rules in New York City to benefit the far left. It was Democrats who couldn’t get former governor Cuomo enough votes in the primary. And it is Democrats who are failing to call out the threat posed by socialism.
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So, how is it possible that it falls on Curtis Sliwa, a mortal enemy of Cuomo, to sacrifice his own ambitions and dignity to save Cuomo from losing – for the second time – to a 32-year-old commie who has never had a real job?
If this is such an emergency that Sliwa must fall on his sword and abandon his priorities, then why haven’t House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both from New York, had the courage to endorse Cuomo?
The two most powerful Democrats in Washington, D.C., get to play politics, but the guy in the beret with all the cats who has been protecting his city as a Guardian Angel since before Zany Zohran was born must be principled?
Fuggetaboutit.
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And by the way, since when is Andrew Cuomo a moderate? Let’s look at some of his far-left hits as governor.
In 2017, Cuomo signed the “Raise the Age” bill protecting 16- and 17-year-olds who commit violent crimes from being charged as adults.
In 2019, he enacted bail reform ending cash bail for nonviolent felonies. That same year, he added gender identity as a protected category under New York’s human rights and hate speech laws.
Then came COVID-19, when Cuomo oversaw the deaths of thousands of seniors in nursing homes, allowed raids on Jewish outdoor funerals and went along with school closures that Gotham’s kids are still struggling to overcome.
That’s not even counting “Handsy Andy’s” 2021 resignation amid sexual misconduct allegations.
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All of these far-left positions were opposed by Sliwa. Had he been in charge since 2020, New York City would look a lot different – and a lot better – than it does today.
If Cuomo wants the 15% of the vote Sliwa commands, he’ll have to earn it. So far, he hasn’t.
Cuomo could have chosen the path of lonely Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who has called out the wacky excesses of the far left in his party and even had the decency to praise Trump’s Middle East diplomacy and the good sense to oppose his own party on the government shutdown.
Maybe if John Fetterman was the moderate alternative to become Hizzoner then it might make sense for Sliwa to debase himself by dropping out, but for Cuomo, who helped create the Mamdanis of the world? Not going to happen.
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It’s perfectly rational for a conservative New Yorker to say Mamdani is such a threat that they must hold their nose and vote Cuomo. But it’s just as rational to believe electing Cuomo is a Band-Aid on a bullet wound – or a slower free bus to oblivion.
It’s a neat little trick by the Democrats, as long as they make sure that a communist is on the ballot in our major cities, then every Republican has to vote for the quote, unquote moderate – in this case, Cuomo.
There’s a strong argument to be made here that if Sliwa and GOP voters bail out Cuomo and Democrats, the party will learn nothing and continue its leftward lurch toward the land of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
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I have spoken to people close to Sliwa, and when I start to ask them what it would take for Curtis to… they won’t even let me finish, angrily saying, “Nothing, nothing, nothing could make him drop out of this race.”
Curtis Sliwa is under no obligation to save the Democratic Party from itself, especially while its feckless leaders cower in fear before Zany Zohran.
Back in 1977 when Sliwa started the Guardian Angels, a safe subway system must have seemed like a distant dream. He lived to see it achieved – and then he lived to see it fall apart.
Curtis Sliwa is the Republican nominee for mayor, and unless Andrew Cuomo makes some serious concessions to conservative New York voters – fast – then those voters won’t vote for him even if Sliwa tells them to.
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Curtis Sliwa cannot and will not save the Democrat Party. Only Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and, yes, Andrew Cuomo can. But so far, all three lack the courage to make the stand they demand of Curtis.
So, I’ll say it again. Fuggetaboutit.
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Manhunt underway after video shows gunman ambush prominent businessman
Authorities in Macomb County, Michigan, are searching for a suspect in the attempted murder of a prominent businessman who narrowly survived a daytime ambush outside his home Tuesday morning.
According to the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), the shooting occurred at approximately 10:18 a.m. on Oct. 14, as Eddie Jawad was leaving his gated residence on 24 Mile Road near Wellington Valley Drive in Macomb Township.
Investigators believe the gunman had been watching the property for more than an hour before opening fire.
“Somebody was lying in wait for him,” Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido told Fox News Digital. “They got in there and waited for him, then started shooting at his car on the way out of his driveway. This was broad daylight in a community where families are. He’s lucky he’s alive.”
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Surveillance video shows the suspect near 24 Mile and Wellington Valley at 8:22 a.m., then entering the property around 9:30 a.m. Lucido said Jawad was grazed by a bullet during the attack but survived.
The suspect fled east on 24 Mile Road in a black Ford Escape (model year 2020–2022) with a stolen license plate, authorities said. He is described as a thin Black male, approximately 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the MCSO Detective Bureau at 586-307-9358.
Lucido, who described Jawad as a close friend, said the businessman’s response after the shooting showed his resilience.
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“Eddie went home that night, had dinner with his family, and was back at work the next morning,” Lucido said. “That’s not in his DNA to hide. The good Lord spared him, and he’s going to continue to do his work.”
Jawad is the owner of Pit Stop gas stations and convenience stores, a Michigan-based chain with more than two dozen locations. He is also involved in restaurants, property development, rentals and refining businesses.
Lucido praised Jawad as a self-made entrepreneur and an example of a local success story.
“He’s a man of the community,” Lucido said. “He actually worked in a gas station when he was younger — and look what he owns today. Probably somewhere north of 25 to 30, maybe even 40 gas stations. He’s rags to riches — bold, no-nonsense and does everything to the tens, not the nines.”
He added that Jawad “has a heart of gold” and “makes no bones about what he believes in,” describing him as a businessman who speaks his mind and gives back to his community.
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Lucido said the ambush was especially shocking given the quiet, upscale neighborhood where Jawad lives.
“This isn’t the deep dark night of an alley,” Lucido said. “This is a quiet, beautiful area where families live. You buy your homes where your schools, churches and stores are — where your families are safe. You expect to live in peace and harmony, not have gunfire on your front lawn.”
He said investigators are combing through neighborhood doorbell and surveillance video and are confident the person responsible will be caught.
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“There’s no room, no excuse, no reason to resort to violence in Macomb County,” Lucido said. “If you have differences, take them to court. But attempting to kill a man? Unacceptable. Whoever did this will be held to the fullest extent of the law.”
Lucido also underscored his office’s zero-tolerance approach to violent crime.
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“You’re going to abide by the law and you’re going to keep order — or you’re going to come and see me,” he said.
Lucido called Jawad’s survival “nothing short of a miracle.”
“When you see that video — how he avoided being killed — you can’t help but ask how,” he said. “He literally dodged the bullets. He’s a walking miracle.”
The Macomb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. Lucido said he is confident the shooter will be brought to justice.
“Eddie’s lucky to be alive,” he said. “This kind of violence doesn’t belong in Macomb County — or anywhere.”
DHS flips script on media narrative with new details about illegal teen arrested by ICE
FIRST ON FOX: Following mainstream media reporting about ICE arresting a 13-year-old boy and separating him from his family, the Trump Department of Homeland Security is setting the record straight on his suspected gang involvement and stated intent to “shoot and kill” another student.
Media outlets ran headlines such as: “Her 13-year-old son was arrested, then taken by ICE to a detention facility. The police chief calls it a first for his city” and “Mass. 13-year-old was picked up by ICE after a police interaction and now he’s hundreds of miles from home.”
However, DHS officials told Fox News Digital that the teen, Brazilian illegal immigrant Arthur Yuri De Almeida Silva Berto, is a suspected member of the “33” gang with 11 prior police complaints filed by Everett Police Department in Massachusetts for criminal behavior, including breaking and entering, vandalism, theft, fighting, ‘flash mob’ style shoplifting and more.
Berto was arrested by Everett Police on Oct. 9 after a classmate reported he had shown her a concealed gun on school property and stated he was looking for another boy he had been fighting with and that he was going to “shoot and kill him,” according to a police report obtained by Fox News Digital.
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After being alerted, police searched the school area and found Berto at a bus stop. He was searched and found with a 5.5-inch Milwaukee knife concealed on his person.
According to DHS, local officials contacted federal law enforcement and notified them of the arrest. Later that same day, ICE Boston officers took the teen into custody outside the Everett Police Department. The next day, ICE transported Berto to the Northwest Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Virginia.
An immigration court document obtained by Fox News Digital from a high-ranking Trump administration official states that based upon Berto’s recidivist criminal history and ties to the 33 gang, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations determined him to be a “public safety threat.”
According to the document, Berto entered the U.S. illegally with his family on September 24, 2021, near San Luis, Arizona. He and his family were released into the U.S. on an order of release on recognizance under the Biden administration.
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Police complaints involving Berto date back to June 2024, when Everett police responded to a disturbance involving minors and found him with other gang members, according to an immigration court document obtained by Fox News Digital from a senior Trump administration official.
In July 2024, police issued a summons for larceny over $1,200 for Berto after he was observed on video footage stealing two bicycles and a cellphone.
After further incidents involving vandalism, he was identified by police as a “high risk juvenile” in March. In April, he was charged with receiving stolen property and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. That same month, he was caught by police in a stolen vehicle with three other individuals, all wearing ski masks.
In May, he was again caught on video footage, this time participating in a 33 gang “flash mob” style shoplifting incident at a convenience store. Berto was arraigned in May by the Middlesex County Juvenile Court in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for knowingly receiving stolen property, breaking and entering and malicious destruction of property.
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In July, he was again arraigned for assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Everett Police also filed a criminal complaint against Berto for the charge of receiving stolen property over $1,200, after receiving a report that he had stolen a moped.
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“Here are the facts: this individual and suspected gang member posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet, including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, and destruction of property,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, federal law enforcement is restoring commonsense and law-and-order to our streets. This public safety threat will stay in juvenile detention pending further proceedings,” said McLaughlin.
‘Squad’ Dem spends eye-popping amount on luxury limo services in one year
FIRST ON FOX: Progressive “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s, D-Mich., campaign has spent over $35,000 on “luxury limousine services” between Oct. 2024 and Sept. 2025, according to her Federal Election Commission filings.
Tlaib’s campaign spent approximately $36,717 in payments to “Aline Luxury Limo Services,” a company based in the Detroit suburbs, according to filings reviewed by Fox News Digital. Dozens of payments were listed as “travel” and “transportation” expenses and were made over a span of approximately one year.
Individual payments to the limo service listed in the filings range from $118.80 to as high as $1,326 with several payments in the $700s and $600s.
Fox News Digital reached out to Tlaib’s campaign for an explanation of these payments, but did not immediately receive a response.
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While Aline Luxury Limo Services has no publicly available information, a now-defunct website for DTW Chauffeured Rides — a company registered at the same address as the owner — described the business as a “limousine service company providing luxury transportation for more than a decade,” according to an archived version of the website on the Wayback Machine.
The website stated the company offered a “range of vehicles, from classic limousines to modern sedans and SUVs,” and said it is “committed to providing an upscale experience at an affordable price.”
As the first Palestinian-born woman elected to Congress and someone who is widely seen as a leading progressive voice, Tlaib has regularly criticized wealth and income inequality in the U.S.
In September, Tlaib joined with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in introducing the “Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act,” which they said in a joint statement is meant to “take on corporate greed and rein in the obscene salaries of America’s top executives.”
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Tlaib criticized CEOs for making “290 times more than their average worker” and said that “working people are sick and tired of corporate greed.”
“It’s disgraceful that corporations continue to rake in record profits by exploiting the labor of their workers,” wrote Tlaib, adding, “I’m proud to re-introduce the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act with Senator Bernie Sanders to address the massive income and wealth inequality in our nation. It’s time to make the rich pay their fair share.”
At the passage of the President Donald Trump-backed big, beautiful bill, Tlaib attacked it as “an act of violence against our communities” during a time of extreme income inequality.
“At a time of extreme income and wealth inequality, while 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, this budget is absolutely devastating for the working families we represent,” she wrote in a statement.
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“Republicans are literally taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids by cutting billions of dollars in nutrition assistance. And the same lawmakers who claim that we don’t have the money to feed hungry children or make sure people in our communities have the health care they need have no problem voting to send an additional $150 billion to weapons manufacturers and endless war and $170 billion to masked agents terrorizing our communities and illegally disappearing our neighbors for profit,” wrote Tlaib.
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“Every member who voted to pass this disastrous budget betrayed the people they represent to serve the rich and powerful and deserves to be voted out of office,” she added.
‘F— Trump’: Singer unleashes expletive-filled rant during Portland concert
Actress and singer Reneé Rapp delivered a scathing critique of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Donald Trump in an expletive-laden rant during her concert in Portland, Oregon, Monday.
While performing at Portland’s Moda Center, the “Sex Lives of College Girls” star denounced the recent ICE raids in the city. The moment was shared on TikTok by former CNN journalist Don Lemon’s account.
“So let’s just f—— make it abundantly f—— clear — F— ICE. F— this administration. F— Trump,” Rapp said from the stage to raucous applause.
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Rapp appealed to anti-ICE sentiment in the city, telling the audience, “We are very, very, very excited to be here with you. You’re a wonderful. And it just happens that we’re here at the same time some people who shouldn’t f—— be here are.”
Portland has witnessed weeks of violent clashes between anti-ICE protesters and police outside a local ICE facility. Camila Wamsley, the director of ICE’s Portland office, said earlier this month the facility has endured more than 100 consecutive nights of disorder from protesters with Portland police largely absent, allegedly under orders from the mayor and the city council.
Wamsley said nightly demonstrations have escalated beyond chants and signs, with protesters allegedly launching bottle rockets and rocks at the building, using lasers to target officers’ eyes and erecting barricades to block vehicles.
The Trump administration moved to deploy National Guard troops to quell the unrest. However, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut temporarily blocked the order, calling it “untethered from reality.” She said the move would risk “blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation.”
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Local leaders also criticized Trump’s deployment plan, calling his portrayal of Portland “hyperbolic” and arguing that federal policing was unnecessary.
Rapp isn’t the only musician to denounce ICE. Country artist Zach Bryan stirred controversy when a snippet of his song “Bad News” went viral earlier this month for its anti-ICE lyrics.
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The controversy caught the attention of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, who publicly criticized the singer.
“I hope he understands how completely disrespectful that song is, not just to law enforcement but to this country,” she said in an interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
Fellow country artist Bryan Andrews went viral on TikTok with a video rant calling out the condemnation ICE raids and the Christians that support them.
“Bulls—. You don’t get to call yourself a Christian and advocate and f—— laugh when families are torn apart outside of courthouses of people trying to come here the right ways,” he said.
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Newlywed couple’s cause of death revealed after cops found them inside car
Officials in Illinois have released a cause of death for a newlywed couple found inside their car days before they were supposed to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Police in Harvard, Illinois, said the couple was found when an officer on Oct. 6 noticed a parked car with its hazard lights activated. When the officer looked in the car, he found both individuals dead.
The people inside the car were later identified as Rachel Dumovich, 29, and Brandon Dumovich, 30, from Sharon, Wisconsin, a spokesman for the McHenry County Coroner’s Office told Fox News Digital.
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The spokesman for the coroner’s office told Fox News Digital that preliminary findings show both Rachel and Brandon had died from gunshot wounds to the head. Harvard Police Chief Tyson Bauman previously told Fox News Digital that an investigation is ongoing, adding: “While a murder-suicide is a potential scenario, no final determination has been made.”
Full results from an autopsy conducted by the coroner’s office haven’t yet been released.
Police initially said both people had gunshot wounds, adding a gun was found inside the car. The McHenry County Major Investigative Assistance Team was activated for the incident.
While police told nearby residents to shelter in place after finding the dead couple, it was “later determined there was no ongoing threat to the community.”
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A wedding page on The Knot made by Rachel described the couple as “middle school sweethearts.”
Rachel described that she met Brandon in middle school when she was 12 years old and caught his attention by “stealing cologne from his locker and running away with it.”
The two stayed in “touch through many life stages and 15 years of friendship,” Rachel wrote, sharing that they began dating in 2022.
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Brandon proposed in the summer of 2023 at Big Cedar Lake near Slinger, Wisconsin, where the pair got married on Oct. 12, 2024.
“We can’t wait to share the next chapter of our love story surrounded by our friends and family!” Rachel wrote in announcing the wedding.
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Hours before her death, Rachel posted on Facebook: “Forever chasing sunsets. Wishing we were back in Greece.” The post appeared to reference the couple’s honeymoon.
People with any information are asked to contact the Harvard Police Department at (815) 943-4431 or provide information anonymously through the Crime Stoppers hotline at (815) 943-4343 or email crimestoppers@cityofharvard.org.
Former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley dead at 74 after reportedly being on life support
Kiss founding member Ace Frehley has died after suffering injuries from a fall last month. He was 74.
Frehley’s family confirmed his death to Fox News Digital.
“We are completely devastated and heartbroken. In his last moments, we were fortunate enough to have been able to surround him with loving, caring, peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions as he left this earth,” the statement from his family said.
“We cherish all of his finest memories, his laughter, and celebrate his strengths and kindness that he bestowed upon others. The magnitude of his passing is of epic proportions, and beyond comprehension. Reflecting on all of his incredible life achievements, Ace’s memory will continue to live on forever!”
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Frehley passed away peacefully surrounded by family in Morristown, New Jersey, following a recent fall at his home.
TMZ reported earlier on Thursday that Frehley was on life support after suffering from a brain bleed from the fall a few weeks ago. He had to cancel his tour dates and the outlet reported that his condition had not improved.
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Frehley was a founding member of Kiss, alongside Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss. Frehley was a member of the group from 1973 until he left in 1982. He then embarked on a solo career.
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His band, Frehley’s Comet, played for four years from 1984 until 1988. He rejoined the group in 1996 and was a member until 2002.
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Common medications linked to lasting changes in gut microbiome, large study finds
Some everyday medications could be impacting your gut health in the long term.
A large study from Estonia has found that the gut microbiome — or the ecosystem that lives in the intestines — can be reshaped by antibiotics, according to new research published in ASM Journals.
Other medicines — like antidepressants and cold medications — can also change the bacteria in your gut. These effects can build up over time and may even last for years after taking the drugs.
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The study analyzed stool samples from 2,509 individuals, linking their microbiome data with electronic health records containing up to five years of prescription history. A second stool sample was collected from a sub-cohort of 328 individuals about 4.4 years later.
The researchers investigated which drugs were associated with microbiome changes, whether the amount or duration of use strengthened these impacts, and what happened to a patient when a drug was started or discontinued.
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Of 186 drugs that were tested, 167, or 89.8%, were linked to at least one microbial effect.
Even when taken years before the study, many drugs still had an association with microbiome variation, including antibiotics, psycholeptics, antidepressants, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), beta blockers and benzodiazepine derivatives, the researchers found.
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For some drugs, more frequent or longer past use was associated with a stronger disturbance in the microbiome, suggesting that these effects accumulate over time.
The study also found that starting and stopping certain medications — particularly PPIs, SSRIs and some antibiotics — could cause microbiome shifts.
Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel shared with Fox News Digital the old saying, “You are what you eat.”
“It may turn out that you are what medications you take, too,” he said in regard to the new study.
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Siegel noted that these findings are “not surprising,” since the gut flora is fragile and can be “easily altered by active chemicals.”
“It can have short- and long-term implications for metabolic processes — and not only the health of the gastrointestinal system, but also the brain, because of direct links between the gut and brain via the vagus nerve,” he said.
The doctor added, “This is a study with important implications that should lead to a lot more research, especially connecting altered gut flora from various medications to various diseases.”
Potential limitations
The study authors pointed out a few limitations in their research, including the fact that it only focused on prescription-based drugs and did not consider the effects of over-the-counter medications.
There was also the possibility that some people taking antibiotics had underlying health conditions that could have also affected gut health. Diet, lifestyle and other factors could have also played a role.
“This is a study with important implications that should lead to a lot more research.”
Additionally, electronic health record data could have been incomplete or unclear in some cases.
The researchers also only analyzed stool samples, which means microbial changes in some gut regions could have been missed.
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“We highlight the importance of accounting for the history of drug usage when assessing disease-microbiome associations,” the authors stated in the journal publication.
“Taken together, our results expand the understanding of drug effects on the microbiome, and we encourage researchers to focus on the long-term drug effects whenever feasible.”