Substance sprayed on Rep Ilhan Omar during Minneapolis event identified: report

A man accused of attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., during a town hall event on Tuesday reportedly sprayed what is believed to be apple cider vinegar on the congresswoman.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, was seen on video lunging at Omar while spraying an unknown substance on her shirt.

Right before the attack, Omar called for the resignation or impeachment of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, following multiple fatal shootings involving federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis.

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Witnesses could be heard commenting on the foul odor of the substance, which was later identified by a hazmat team as apple cider vinegar, Alpha News reported.

Omar’s office issued a statement after the attack, noting the substance was sprayed with a syringe.

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“Unacceptable. Violence and intimidation have no place in Minneapolis,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey wrote in a statement. “We can disagree without putting people at risk. I’m relieved Rep. Ilhan Omar is okay and appreciate MPD for responding quickly. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated in our city.”

Kazmierczak, who was previously convicted of two DUIs, is charged with third-degree assault and was booked into the Hennepin County Jail.

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The Minneapolis Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that the FBI is leading the investigation.

The FBI and Omar’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

Mayor unharmed in apparent RPG attack; police kill three suspects after pursuit

A Filipino mayor escaped unharmed after an apparent rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack on his convoy in broad daylight Sunday in the southern province of Maguindanao del Sur, authorities said. 

The Philippine News Agency (PNA), the country’s state-run news outlet, reported that Mayor Akmad Ampatuan was inside a bulletproof vehicle when the attack occurred at around 6:30 a.m.

Video of the incident shows two men stepping out of a white van, one holding what appears to be an RPG and another carrying a gun.

One of the men then lowers the launcher and aims it down the street.

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He fires the weapon before jumping back into the vehicle, moments before a black SUV turns onto the road and is struck by the blast.

PNA reported that the mayor’s backup vehicle, a pickup, was also hit by gunfire during the attack.

Police and military forces later killed three suspected attackers in a pursuit.

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The motive for the attack was not immediately known.

“The mayor is safe,” Anwar Kuit Emblawa, the mayor’s executive assistant, told the PNA.

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Two members of Ampatuan’s security detail were injured, though their wounds were not life-threatening.

The outlet said the mayor has survived two previous assassination attempts in the past five years.

Bruce Willis ‘doesn’t know’ about dementia diagnosis, wife reveals in update

Emma Heming Willis is sharing new details about husband Bruce Willis‘ frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. 

During Wednesday’s episode of the “Conversations with Cam” podcast, the 47-year-old opened up about a condition of FTD that affects a person’s ability to recognize his own illness. 

“I think they think this is their normal, and it’s not for everybody,” she said. “There’s this neurological condition that sort of comes with FTD and other types of dementia as well called anosognosia, where your brain can’t identify what is happening to it,” Heming Willis said. 

“So, where people think this might be denial, they don’t want to go to the doctor, like, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine.’ Actually, this is the anosognosia that comes into play. It’s not denial. It’s just that their brain is changing. This is a part of the disease.”

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“I think that’s like the blessing and the curse of this is that [Bruce] never connected the dots that he had this disease, and I’m really happy that he doesn’t know about it,” she added. 

Emma said Bruce is “still very much present in his body” and explained that his family has “adapted” with him. 

“He’s still very much present in his body,” she said. “His disease has, these diseases are, for the most part, usually a slow progression. So, we have progressed along with him. We have adapted along with him. So, when someone says to me, ‘Does Bruce still know who you are?’ Yes, he does. Because he doesn’t have Alzheimer’s, he has FTD. So, we have a way, he has a way of connecting with me, our children that might not be the same as you would connect with your loved one, but it’s still very beautiful. It’s still very meaningful. It’s just different.”

In March 2022, it was announced that Willis would be “stepping away” from his acting career due to an aphasia diagnosis. It was later announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, also known as FTD.

FTD is “the result of damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain,” according to the National Institute on Aging. “Many possible symptoms can result, including unusual behaviors, emotional problems, trouble communicating, difficulty with work or difficulty with walking.”

Last year, during the ABC special “Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey,” Emma sat down with Diane Sawyer to detail Bruce’s last few years since he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

Emma told Sawyer that remembering Bruce’s initial diagnosis has been hard for her.

“It’s really gray for me where Bruce’s disease started to come in. He always loved taking the girls to school, and then those school runs just started to not happen as much, and I thought that is so weird,” she said. 

Emma wouldn’t say anything to her husband and opted to “just step in and do it” instead.

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The actor’s wife first noticed signs of his health decline long before his diagnosis. Emma noticed the “alarming” warning signs when Bruce’s “warm” personality began to change, and he started skipping family events.

“For someone who is very talkative and very engaged, he was just a little more quiet. When the family would get together, he would kind of just melt a little bit,” she told Sawyer.

“It felt a little removed, very cold, not like Bruce, who was very warm and affectionate,” she continued. “To [go] the complete opposite of that was alarming and scary.”

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Emma shared that in the early stages of Bruce’s disease, she “didn’t understand what was happening” and wondered how she could “remain in a marriage that doesn’t feel like what we had. It doesn’t feel like a marriage anymore.”

She said she had those conversations with him, asking him, “Are you OK?” and he dismissed it. “It just got very bumpy and very confusing,” Emma told Sawyer.

When Sawyer asked if there were days when she sees him as he used to be, she said, “We get moments. It’s his laugh, right? Like, he has such, like, a hearty laugh. And, you know, sometimes you’ll see that twinkle in his eye, or that smirk, and, you know, I just get, like, transported. And it’s just hard to see, because as quickly as those moments appear, then it goes. It’s hard. But I’m grateful. I’m grateful that my husband is still very much here.”

Viral ‘bananas and rice’ Somali woman arrested in connection to Minneapolis riot

A Somali American woman who went viral for describing her identity as “bananas and rice” was one of 16 people arrested in Minneapolis and accused of participating in a riot as federal authorities escalated enforcement after clashes with protesters.

The woman, Nasra Ahmed, 23, of Minnesota, rose to national prominence after remarks she made during a Jan. 21 news conference comparing Somali American identity to a cultural mix she described as “bananas and rice,” a phrase that quickly spread across social media.

“It’s kind of like bananas and rice,” Ahmed said. “People don’t think you can eat bananas with rice, but that’s what it’s like to be Somali and American.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday she is in Minneapolis as federal authorities step up enforcement after recent unrest involving federal law enforcement, announcing the arrest of 16 people accused of assaulting or impeding federal agents.

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“I am on the ground in Minneapolis today,” Bondi wrote on X. “Federal agents have arrested 16 Minnesota rioters for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement — people who have been resisting and impeding our federal law enforcement rights.

“We expect more arrests to come,” Bondi added. “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: NOTHING will stop President Trump and this Department of Justice from enforcing the law.”

Bondi also shared the names and images of those charged under a federal law that makes it a crime to assault, resist or impede federal officers while they are performing their official duties.

Those named include Christina Rank, Abdikadir Noor, Madeline Tschida, Nitzana Flores, Helicity Borowska, Quentin Williams, William Vermie, Paul Johnson, Gillian Etherington, Joshua Doyle, Kirubele Adbebe, Margaret Sager, Ilan Wilson-Soler, Ahmed, Alice Valentine and Matrim Charlebois.

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The confrontations have intensified since the fatal shooting of 37-year-old American citizen Alex Pretti, who was killed Jan. 24 by Border Patrol agents during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.

The shooting, the second fatal encounter involving federal agents in the city this month, has fueled ongoing protests and heightened tensions between demonstrators and law enforcement.

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An ICU nurse, Pretti appeared to be trying to help a woman who agents had knocked to the ground when he was sprayed with an irritant and shoved down, according to video and witness accounts. An agent was later seen removing his lawfully owned gun from his waistband before other agents fired several shots, killing him.

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The incident followed unrest earlier this month over the ICE-involved killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

Justice Department officials have said protecting federal agents has become a priority amid rising confrontations during protests and enforcement actions.

Alan Rickman’s widow reveals deadly cancer warning sign most people miss

Alan Rickman’s widow, Rima Horton, spoke out on the 10-year anniversary of his death about his battle with pancreatic cancer.

Rickman, who was known for his roles in “Die Hard,” the “Harry Potter” franchise, “Love Actually,” “Robin Hood Prince of Thieves,” “Sense and Sensibility” and more, died at age 69 on Jan. 14, 2016, after a six-month fight against the disease.

Horton issued a warning about pancreatic cancer symptoms while appearing on “BBC Breakfast” via The Independent on Tuesday.

“The biggest problem is that by the time that people find out they’ve got it, it’s too late,” she said.

She added, “The symptoms are so difficult to work out. What we’re trying to do is raise money for a breathalyzer test which could provide an early diagnosis.”

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Horton said chemotherapy extended his life expectancy an extra six months, but noted that the treatment “didn’t cure it.”

“He had so much more to give. There were so many more things he could have done,” she reflected.

All seven Harry Potter hardcover books signed by 12 cast members, including Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Grint, Matthew Lewis and more, will be up for a drawing, according to Pancreatic Cancer UK. 

Proceeds raised will “help fund life-saving research, campaigning and specialist nurse support,” according to the organization.

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“Ten years on since he died from pancreatic cancer, we’re raising vital funds in his memory to change the future for everyone affected by his devastating disease,” the organization’s Instagram shared.

Pancreatic cancer’s early symptoms include weight loss, light-colored stool or floating stools, dark-colored urine, itching, loss of appetite, belly pain that spreads from the sides to the back and yellowing of the skin and eyes, according to the Mayo Clinic.

The disease begins as a growth of cells inside the pancreas; the organ is part of the digestive system, and helps make enzymes to digest food, as well as hormones for managing blood sugar, per the website.

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network reports that the five-year survival rate is 13% as of January 2026 (for all types of pancreatic cancers combined).

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Fed’s Powell dodges questions on DOJ investigation in first appearance since probe

A Justice Department criminal investigation, criticism from senior Trump administration officials and a looming successor announcement set the stage for a politically charged exchange that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell largely avoided Wednesday.

Powell spoke after the Fed’s interest rate decision, marking his first appearance since the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into his congressional testimony on the Fed’s headquarters renovation.

Reporter: “Can you say whether the Fed has responded to the subpoenas?”
Powell: “I have nothing for you on that today.”

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In a separate line of questioning, Powell was asked if he would stay at the Federal Reserve after his term as chair, which ends in May.

Reporter: “Have you made a decision on whether you would remain as a governor of the Federal Reserve?”
Powell: “No, and once again, I have nothing for you on that today.”

Reporter: “Why would you want to leave at all under the circumstances?”
Powell: “Again, I don’t want to get into this. There’s a time and place for these questions, and it’s not something I’m going to get into today.”

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When asked about conversations with lawmakers, Powell also declined to discuss them.

Reporter: “Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, said he will block any Fed nominee, including the chair, until this investigation into you is resolved. Do you support this move by the senator? And what conversations have you had with the senator?

Powell: “I’ve got nothing for you on that.”

Powell referred questions related to the probe to his rare Jan. 11 video statement, a sharp break from his typically measured approach. He confirmed the investigation and said he respected the rule of law and congressional oversight but described the action as “unprecedented” and driven by political pressure.

“This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings,” Powell said in a video statement Jan 11.

“The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president.”

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The project to update the Federal Reserve’s two main Washington, D.C., office buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood is expected to cost $2.5 billion and is being paid for by the central bank, not taxpayers. The Fed funds its operations without congressional appropriations, drawing revenue primarily from interest on government securities and fees charged to financial institutions.

In June 2025, Powell told members of the Senate Banking Committee, “There’s no new marble. There are no special elevators. They’re old elevators that have been there. There are no new water features. There are no beehives, and there’s no roof garden terraces.”

Powell also told lawmakers that no one “wants to do a major renovation of a historic building during their term in office.”

“We decided to take it on because, honestly, when I was the administrative governor, before I became chair, I came to understand how badly the Eccles Building really needed a serious renovation,” Powell said, adding that the building is “not really safe” and not waterproof.

Major European nation legalizes up to 500,000 undocumented migrants, sparking backlash

As the United States experiences negative net migration due to President Donald Trump policies, Spain is heading in the opposite direction, announcing plans to grant legal status for up to half a million illegal migrants.

Spain’s Socialist-led government approved a royal decree on Tuesday, allowing unauthorized immigrants who entered the country before the end of 2025 and who have lived there for at least five months and have no criminal record to obtain one-year residency and work permits with possible pathways to citizenship.

While many European governments have moved to tighten immigration policies — some encouraged by the Trump administration’s hardline approach — Spain has taken a different path. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his ministers have repeatedly highlighted what they describe as the economic benefits of legal migration, particularly for the country’s aging workforce.

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Spain “will not look the other way,” Migration Minister Elma Saiz told reporters at a news conference, saying the government is “dignifying and recognizing people who are already in our country.”

The plan has sparked a fierce political battle, as conservatives and the populist Vox party have condemned what they describe as an amnesty that could fuel irregular migration.

Vox leader Santiago Abascal wrote on social media that the measure “harms all Spaniards,” arguing critics of his party are motivated by fear of Vox’s growing influence. 

“They are not worried about the consequences of Sánchez’s criminal policies,” Abascal wrote. “They are worried that Vox will gain more strength.”

Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that “Spain’s decision appears calculated to increase the lure of Europe as a destination for illegal migrants in general, causing problems for all of its neighbors. 

“If Spain wishes to become a repository for such people, then I’m sure other European countries would appreciate signing agreements to transfer their own illegal migrants there. Absent this, we will all be paying the price for Spanish largesse.”

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Ricard Zapata-Barrero, a political science professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, told Fox News Digital, “This is not a symbolic gesture. It is a direct challenge to the dominant European approach, which treats irregular migration primarily as a policing issue. Spain, instead, frames it as a governance problem, one that requires institutional capacity, legal pathways and administrative realism rather than more detention centers and externalized borders.”

He said Spain’s immigration system had been showing signs of strain for years.

“When hundreds of thousands of people live in irregularity for years, the issue stops being an individual failure and becomes a structural one,” Zapata-Barrero said. “In this context, regularization is not leniency — it is governability.

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“In a Europe closing in on itself, Spain has taken a step that sets it apart — not because it is ‘softer,’ but because it is more pragmatic,” he added. “Whether this becomes a model or a counter-model inside the EU remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: Spain has launched a political experiment that Europe will watch closely.”

SJSU responds to Trump admin proposal to apologize for trans athlete scandal

San Jose State University responded to a U.S. Department of Education announcement on Wednesday that found that the school has been in violation of Title IX due to its previous handling of a transgender athlete on its women’s volleyball team. 

“San Jose State, a member of the California State University system, received notification from the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights regarding its investigation into athletics participation on our past women’s volleyball teams. The Department informed the University of the outcome of its investigation and its findings. The University is in the process of reviewing the Department’s findings and proposed resolution agreement,” an SJSU statement said. 

“We remain committed to providing a safe, respectful, and inclusive educational environment for all students while complying with applicable laws and regulations.”

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The Education Department has given the university 10 days to comply with a series of agreements or risk “imminent enforcement action.”

The necessary terms include:

• Issue a public statement to the SJSU community that SJSU will adopt biology-based definitions of the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ and acknowledge that the sex of a human – male or female – is unchangeable;
• Specify that SJSU will follow Title IX by separating sports and intimate facilities based on biological sex;
• State that SJSU will not delegate its obligation to comply with Title IX to any external association or entity and will not contract with any entity that discriminates on the basis of sex;
• Restore to individual female athletes all individual athletic records and titles misappropriated by male athletes competing in women’s categories, and issue a personalized letter of apology on behalf of SJSU to each female athlete for allowing her participation in athletics to be marred by sex discrimination; and
• Send a personalized apology to every woman who played in SJSU’s women’s indoor volleyball (2022–2024), 2023 beach volleyball, and to any woman on a team that forfeited rather than compete against SJSU while a male student was on the roster—expressing sincere regret for placing female athletes in that position.

The Department of Education launched an investigation into the university last February after a highly publicized college volleyball season that saw seven teams forfeit games to SJSU amid the controversy.

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Former SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser joined multiple lawsuits against the NCAA, the Mountain West Conference and representatives of the university after alleging she had been made to share changing spaces and bedrooms with trans teammate Blaire Fleming in 2023 without being told that Fleming is a biological male.

Former assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose was suspended and later not re-signed to a new contract after filing a Title IX complaint against the school for its handling of Fleming.

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon addressed the findings in a statement on Wednesday.

“San Jose State University caused significant harm to female athletes by allowing a male to compete on the women’s volleyball team – and when female athletes spoke out, SJSU retaliated. Today, we found SJSU in violation of Title IX, and we will hold them accountable,” McMahon said. 

Among the department’s findings, it determined that a female athlete discovered that the trans student allegedly conspired to have a member of an opposing team spike her in the face during a match. ED claims that “SJSU did not investigate the conspiracy, but later subjected the female athlete to a Title IX complaint for ‘misgendering’ the male athlete in online videos and interviews.”

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In 2025, the Department of Education came to resolutions with the University of Pennsylvania for its handling of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, and Wagner College for its handling of transgender fencer Redmond Sullivan. However, it was unable to reach agreements with state agencies in Maine and California, resulting in Department lawsuits. 

SJSU’s response will determine the next chapter in the president’s mission to “save women’s sports.” 

Man accused of nearly beating  train passenger to death walks free with no prison time: report

A man accused of nearly beating another passenger to death aboard a Chicago train will not spend any time in prison, according to local reports.

According to CWBChicago, citing court records, 45-year-old Jesus Ramirez will not serve any prison time after he allegedly beat up a passenger on a CTA Pink Line train on April 10, 2024.

According to the outlet, he pleaded guilty to aggravated battery on Monday. Ramirez was sentenced to two years but received credit for over a year spent on electronic monitoring. His term was further halved under Illinois law, which applies to most charges.

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The Chicago Police Department, in April, asked for the public’s assistance after the attack aboard the public train.

According to police, Ramirez allegedly approached the CTA passenger and punched the victim in the face. They said he then continued to punch and kick the victim in the face and body.

The department said Ramirez and the 37-year-old victim did not know each other when they crossed paths. Authorities said the pair exchanged words and the situation turned physical.

The escalation and attack were caught on surveillance video and the Chicago Police Department released photos of the suspect, later identified as Ramirez.

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According to CWBChicago, the victim spent about a week in a coma and roughly two months hospitalized with a scattered brain bleed, traumatic brain injury, broken ribs, a temporal bone fracture, ear damage, and a fractured nasal bone.

During an early court appearance, Judge Ankur Srivastava said Ramirez “nearly beat [the] victim to death on the CTA.”

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Ramirez was initially booked in the Cook County Jail with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm charges, but three months later he was released on an ankle monitor.