Controversial sex law in Midwest jolts nearly 2K trans residents into compliance rush
Kansas has officially invalidated driver’s licenses and birth certificates for transgender residents who changed their sex designation on government documents under a law that took effect Thursday.
Roughly 1,700 individuals in Kansas will be required to obtain a new standard driver’s license at a cost of $26, according to the House Substitute for Senate Bill 244.
The state’s vehicle division informed residents that no grace period will be offered for those who need to update their IDs, according to The Kansas City Star.
“Please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials. That means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credentials will be invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential,” the Kansas Department of Revenue’s vehicle division said.
The law also establishes clear rules for shared private spaces in government buildings, restricting their use to a single sex. This applies to facilities such as restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms and shower rooms where individuals may be partially or fully undressed.
The bill further reinforced a strict definition of sex and gender as an “individual’s biological sex, either male or female, at birth.”
Consequently, individuals or entities who violate the space restrictions may face significant civil penalties or potential criminal charges.
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Individuals are also given the right to take legal action if someone of the opposite biological sex violates their privacy in these spaces.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, whose veto of the bill was ultimately overridden by the Republican-led Kansas Legislature Feb. 18, had previously called it a “poorly drafted bill with significant, far-reaching consequences.”
“It is nothing short of ridiculous that the Legislature is forcing the entire state, every city and town, every school district, every public university to spend taxpayer money on a manufactured problem,” she said. “Kansans elected them to focus on education, job creation, housing and grocery costs.”
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Under the bill, entering a multiple-occupancy space designated for the opposite sex constitutes a violation. After a first warning, a second offense could result in a $1,000 civil penalty and a third or subsequent violation is treated as a class B misdemeanor.
Anyone who believes their privacy has been violated in such a setting may bring a civil lawsuit against the violator and seek $1,000 in liquidated damages, according to the bill.
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Government entities, such as state agencies or local districts, that fail to align with the new regulations are subject to steep fines. Entities face a $25,000 civil penalty for a first violation and $125,000 for each subsequent violation.
The law provides specific exceptions for entering spaces designated for the opposite sex, including custodial or maintenance work, medical or emergency aid, law enforcement duties, assisting someone who needs help or children under 9 accompanied by a caregiver.
Hillary Clinton comes out swinging after GOP grilled her during 6-hour Epstein deposition
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wasted no time criticizing Republicans after she ended a roughly six-hour grilling in the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein probe on Thursday evening.
Clinton told reporters she answered questions “repetitively, literally over and over again” after blasting Republicans for holding a closed-door deposition instead of a public hearing.
She said, however, that she would not testify again if there was a public hearing, telling reporters, “They had a chance to do it in public and I wish they had done it in public. And I think they’re making the wrong decision, avoiding doing it in public.”
“It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate — one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet — that was serving as the basis of a member’s questions to me,” Clinton said.
She also knocked Republican lawmakers for not attending the deposition of former Victoria’s Secret CEO Leslie Wexner in person.
Clinton did save praise for House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., however, “for raising a series of significant questions that I responded to about the nature of the investigation, and the areas that I thought should be explored.”
“So I appreciated that. I want to see the truth come out. So that was a reassuring way to end a very long, repetitive, deposition,” Clinton said.
She also reiterated comments from her opening statement that she did not know Epstein, and said she only knew Ghislaine Maxwell “as an acquaintance.”
When asked why Maxwell was invited to her daughter, Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, however, Clinton said she was a “plus one of someone invited.”
Clinton’s deposition began in the 11 a.m. hour and wrapped in the 5 p.m. hour in her hometown of Chappaqua, New York.
Comer said afterward that Clinton “answered most of our questions” in a “productive” deposition but said Republicans ultimately “weren’t satisfied” with what they gleaned.
“The number of times that she said, ‘I don’t know, you’ll have to ask my husband,’ was more than a dozen,” Comer said.
Former President Bill Clinton is slated to testify behind closed doors on Friday for what Comer said would be an “even longer” deposition.
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Neither Clinton is implicated in any wrongdoing related to Epstein or Maxwell, but Bill Clinton was known to have a relationship with the late financier and sex trafficker before the federal investigations into his crimes came to light.
Hillary Clinton said that relationship “ended years, several years before, anything about, Epstein’s criminal activities came to light.”
Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital that it was “frustrating” to see her “obstinate and sort of annoyed at the process.”
“She had an excuse for everything. But when you’ve got a pattern of involvement and a pattern of association, the American people deserve answers,” Timmons said.
“Honestly, I tend to find her to be fairly credible, but I mean, all of this is going to culminate tomorrow with President Clinton and he has a lot of really hard questions to answer and I don’t think that the American people are going to like his answers.”
The deposition was tense at times, a tension Clinton alluded to when she accused Republicans of breaking the rules when Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., apparently shared a photo from inside the deposition room with a right-wing influencer.
“We had a bit of a challenge in the beginning because we agreed upon rules based on the fact it was going to be a closed hearing at their demand. And one of the members violated that rule, which was very upsetting because it suggested that they might violate other of our agreements,” Clinton said. “So we had to cease the hearing for a period of time until we could get assurances that no rules would be, broken going forward.”
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It’s notable, however, that Democrats also leaked information from inside the room — but did not get any public blowback. A New York Times reporter posted reporting about the deposition on X earlier in the day while citing a “Dem member in the room.”
Bill Clinton’s deposition is also expected to kick off in the 11 a.m. hour on Friday at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center.
Dem mayor signs order directing detention of ICE officers for excessive force
Denver Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston announced an executive order Thursday directing city authorities to detain an ICE agent considered to have used excessive force against or who “assaults or shoots or kills” civilians in the Mile High City.
The announcement comes weeks after Philadelphia’s top prosecutor made headlines by likening ICE agents to Adolf Hitler’s Geheime Staatspolizei and warning of similar repercussions that have yet to be put into practice, as Johnston’s now have.
“To protect Denver, our first responders will always provide life-saving aid to anyone who is injured, no matter who injured them,” Johnston said on the steps of the city government’s plaza downtown.
“No ICE officer gets to stand in our way of saving someone’s life. To protect Denver, if we see any ICE officer using excessive force against a Denver resident, we will step in to detain that officer and remove them from the situation,” Johnston said, adding federal agents should be held to the same standard as city police officers.
“Regardless of what the federal government does, we will not abdicate our responsibility to prosecute crimes in our city.”
Johnston said the order was drafted by his appointed city attorney, Michiko “Miko” Brown.
He said Brown is a descendant of Japanese Americans who were collectively detained and sent to internment camps under an executive order signed by Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II.
Johnston gestured to the courthouse behind him, noting it was named for former Colorado Republican Gov. Ralph Carr.
In 1942, Carr took a different tack than many Western state governors and opposed Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese, German and Italian Americans across the region.
Johnston went on to say he would not abide by “abduction[s]” of residents, remarking that “no one will have to worry if their dad will be abducted when he heads to the store.”
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“[I]n Denver, we have proven time and time again that we are stronger than any obstacle we face because we are a city that turns to each other and not on each other. Through fires and floods, booms and busts, and tournaments and raids, we have stayed true to the values of the West: All are welcome. All are valued. All are protected.”
In Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner recently took to the podium in Penn Square to denounce ICE as “a small bunch of wannabe Nazis” and pledged that “if we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities.”
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That remark led to a congressional warning. House Intelligence Committee member Greg Steube, R-Fla., requested that Attorney General Pam Bondi investigate Krasner’s remarks under a federal statute that prescribes up to 10-year felony charges for threatening federal officers.
Fox News Digital reached out to DHS for comment.
Former NFL quarterback reportedly serious about comeback after retiring last year
Four-time Pro Bowl quarterback Derek Carr is reportedly serious about coming out of retirement after officially ending his NFL career last year.
Carr, 34, retired in May 2025 after 11 seasons but recently said on his podcast he would return if he is healthy and has a chance to win a Super Bowl. He also said that he had already turned down a couple of teams.
Teams with “winning aspirations have real interest” in Carr, according to NFL reporter Jordan Schultz.
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The Saints signed Carr to a four-year, $150 million contract in 2023 and still own his rights, meaning that if he were to return, a team would have to acquire him from the Saints. The Saints, who drafted quarterback Tyler Shough in last year’s draft, would presumably be willing to facilitate a trade after Shough impressed.
Even if Carr played last season, he might not have taken a snap due to multiple shoulder injuries. In March 2025, while Carr was preparing for the season, he experienced pain in his right shoulder.
The Saints announced that medical scans determined that Carr sustained a labral tear and had significant degenerative changes to his rotator cuff. The team’s medical staff and Carr considered surgery on his shoulder, but there was no guarantee the quarterback would have the same strength, function and performance he was used to.
David Carr, a former NFL quarterback and Carr’s brother, said he knows the former Saints quarterback is healthy.
In Derek Carr’s last season, he played 10 games and completed 67.7% of his passes for 2,145 yards with 15 touchdowns and five interceptions. The Saints went 5-5 in his starts.
Carr’s season was cut short when he sustained a concussion and a left hand injury on the same play against the New York Giants.
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In 169 career regular season games, Carr has a record of 77-92, a 65.1% completion percentage, and has thrown for 41,245 yards with 257 touchdowns and 112 interceptions. He spent nine seasons with the Las Vegas Raiders and two with the Saints.
Actor ordered to rehab, runs from courthouse after posting $100K bond in battery case
Shia LaBeouf appeared before a New Orleans judge Thursday for a status hearing more than a week after his Mardi Gras arrest.
Orleans Parish Criminal Court Judge Simone Levine set a $100,000 bond and ordered LaBeouf to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation after the actor was charged with two counts of battery over an alleged assault that took place on Feb. 17 during Mardi Gras.
According to the Associated Press, LaBeouf was reprimanded for allegedly yelling homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people near the French Quarter last week. The police report said LaBeouf allegedly dislocated one victim’s nose.
Levine also ordered the 39-year-old to submit to weekly drug tests.
LaBeouf posted bond following the hearing and was seen running away from the media outside the courthouse shortly after.
In a video captured by local news network WDSU, LaBeouf — who was wearing a white fleece pullover, jeans and boots — jogged away from the courthouse as members of the media attempted to follow him.
LaBeouf was charged with two counts of simple battery stemming from the Feb. 17 incident near Bourbon Street.
The “Transformer” star’s whirlwind day last week allegedly began with an early-morning bar fight in the Faubourg Marigny district of the city. Authorities responded to a simple battery on the 1400 block of Royal Street at approximately 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, when two male victims reported being assaulted, according to the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD).
LaBeouf was allegedly “causing a disturbance and becoming increasing aggressive at a Royal Street business.” When a staff member attempted to eject the actor from the establishment, LaBeouf allegedly used “his closed fists on the victim several times,” police said.
“The victims reported that LaBeouf left, but then came back, acting even more aggressive.”
Multiple people allegedly attempted to hold LaBeouf down outside the business in Faubourg, and he was eventually let up in hopes that he would leave.
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The “Even Stevens” actor allegedly struck the same victim again with “closed fists to the victim’s upper body” before allegedly assaulting another person by punching them in the nose.
“LaBeouf was again held down until police arrived,” police said. “He was taken to a hospital for treatment of unknown injuries. Upon release, he was arrested and charged with two counts of simple battery.”
LaBeouf’s representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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The following day, LaBeouf broke his silence with a two-word message posted on X shortly after 2 a.m., “Free me.” Earlier in the day, the “Transformers” actor was spotted celebrating Mardi Gras and dancing on Bourbon Street with his release papers in his mouth, WGNO reported.
The “Salvable” star was previously arrested and charged with one count of misdemeanor battery and one count of misdemeanor theft from a theft and battery incident that took place in June 2020.
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Soros-backed DA’s soft approach backfires as dismissed suspect allegedly kills dad
A Texas-based career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet is behind bars in Travis County after he was charged with murdering a father of five outside a 7-Eleven in Austin, reviving scrutiny of Travis County District Attorney José Garza and what critics call his controversial prosecutorial record and “soft on crime” approach.
Caleb Anthony Jenkins, described by police as a career criminal, was charged with murder in connection with a shooting last year that left a 25-year-old father dead outside a 7-Eleven. According to Austin police, Jenkins allegedly shot the victim and drove off.
But critics argue the killing may have been preventable. Garza’s office previously dismissed or declined to prosecute three separate gun charges against Jenkins in incidents dating back to 2022. He was also arrested in 2023 on a domestic violence charge and failed to appear in court, as Fox News reported. Most recently, he was re-arrested and released after his bond was raised.
Taken together, the developments have intensified public criticism of Garza, the Democratic district attorney backed by liberal mega-donor George Soros,
Garza, who was elected Travis County DA without prior experience as a prosecutor, has faced criticism from police advocacy groups and victims’ families since taking office. They have accused him of deliberately slow-walking certain cases and embracing lenient sentencing policies.
The criticism has sparked national attention in years past. In 2023, the family of 25-year-old Doug Cantor, who was shot and killed in the 2021 Sixth Street mass shooting in downtown Austin, criticized Garza for slow-walking the trial of the gunman.
Family members told Fox News Digital in an interview at the time that they believed Garza had put the case on the “back burner.”
“It’s very clear that his focus and attention is not on this case,” Nick Kantor told Fox News Digital in an interview reflecting on the two-year anniversary of his brother’s death — and the way Garza, who has been widely criticized for soft-on-crime policies, has handled the case.
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“He’s doing things that are clearly causing distress on the trial and on the overall outcome of the case and for getting justice for my brother,” Kantor said.
Other victims’ families cited similar behavior from Garza’s office in interviews with Fox News Digital.
While overall reported crime in Travis County has declined, opponents argue dismissal rates have been “political,” and could further endanger public safety.
It “appears that Garza has now become more of an advocate for the criminal than he has for the victim,” Dennis Farris, president of the Austin Police Retired Officer’s Association, previously told Fox News Digital.
“The prosecution is acting more like defense attorneys than they are prosecutors,” Farris said in an interview roughly one year after Garza took office. “Whatever his skewed view of what criminal justice reform is, it isn’t working. It sure isn’t working for the victims.”
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“It used to be that they got the victims’ buy-in before offering plea bargains. Now it doesn’t appear he’s even doing that, because they’re not even communicating with them, and that’s what’s leading to the revictimization of these families.”
Current and former local law enforcement officers have criticized Garza’s actions and his alleged “war on cops,” after the Soros-backed district attorney campaigned on indicting police officers and “reimagining” policing in Austin.
Soros contributed $652,000 to the Texas Justice & Public Safety PAC in the months leading up to the 2020 Travis County DA election, according to campaign finance records.
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That same PAC spent almost $1 million on digital and mail advertisements to help Garza’s campaign, as Fox News reported.
The Travis County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Foreign media outlet mocks US Olympic hockey heroes as ‘monkeys’ in a ‘zoo’
A Canadian media outlet compared the U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team to “monkeys” in a “zoo” Wednesday for attending the State of the Union address after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House.
The players entered the State of the Union address Tuesday wearing USA sweaters and carrying their newly won gold medals. Team USA defeated Canada in overtime to win gold Sunday. The Olympic win ended a 46-year drought in men’s hockey dating back to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.”
While the players’ arrival at the presidential address earned them a bipartisan standing ovation, The Globe and Mail opinion writer Cathal Kelly criticized their decision to attend.
“This was a zoo. They were the monkeys,” Kelly wrote in an article published Wednesday.
“On Tuesday, they were props for the actual star and got nothing for it but grief,” he later added.
Kelly continued, repeatedly questioning the intelligence of the Team USA athletes, noting he would be “shocked if more than a handful of them had ever read a book that wasn’t Harry Potter.”
He also criticized their USA sweaters, comparing them to an “early middle-aged Glee Club” and claiming they had a side of “sycophancy.”
“Going around in public dressed up like an early middle-aged Glee Club is not very Michael Jordan. It was the sweaters, with a side of sycophancy,” Kelly wrote.
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Trump invited both the gold medal-winning men’s and women’s hockey teams to the White House and the State of the Union.
The women’s team declined the invitation, citing scheduling conflicts.
Since appearing at the address and visiting the White House, the men’s team has faced online backlash. Several team members were photographed with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The players wore red and white USA hats, and one wore a “Make America Great Again” hat.
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But Kelly argued liberals shouldn’t be surprised by some of their political associations, noting the “only political bone in any of their bodies is the tax bone.”
“Try to remember that these men were not raised to be independent thinkers,” Kelly wrote. “They are designed from childhood to live in packs.”
“Whenever a new alpha — like the current U.S. President — wanders into their midst, even telephonically, their instinct is to roll over and start chattering,” he added.
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He noted that many athletes play alongside Canadians in the National Hockey League and said they should have “played this straight down the middle.”
“Evidently, their big idea was to lean hard into the red, white and blue. Instead of sticking it to Canada, they’d stick it to the Libs,” he added.
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But Kelly said he believes the hockey players weren’t in it for the politics, and that “if the U.S. were to elect a Communist, they’d have shown up to his party, too.”
David Spade claims Disney ‘rat f—ed’ him with $75K pay while others made millions
David Spade claimed he had gotten “rat f—ed” by Disney over his salary for the hit classic “The Emperor’s New Groove.”
Spade, known for his iconic role as Kuzco in the 2000 film, revealed he had been paid way less than other animated movie stars — joking that Disney had framed the job as “an honor” rather than a lucrative gig.
“I was the last guy to do a Disney movie where they said it was an honor and that’s why I didn’t get a lot of money,” he said on an episode of “Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade.” “And then they came out with ‘Shrek’ and everyone got 5 million bucks. I go, ‘Wait, what the f— is going on?’”
“He got $18,000,” Spade’s co-host, Dana Carvey, chimed in. “The movie made 100 billion.”
Spade quickly corrected, “No, I got $75,000, which sounds like a lot. It was a lot.”
Guest Denis Leary noted the salary wasn’t a lot for a cartoon, exclaiming that Disney “ripped you off.”
“They rat f—ed me,” Spade agreed.
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Spade previously opened up about the long, chaotic process of recording for “Emperor’s New Groove.” The original movie Spade had signed on to was a version of “The Princess and the Pauper” with Owen Wilson and Carla Gugino.
“I did that for a year and a half,” Spade said on his podcast in 2023. “Then some executive saw it, hated it and scrapped it. They kept only the idea of a talking llama.”
“It was another year and a half [of recording] … I got really crabby by the end. We were just making up stuff as we went.”
At the time, he used the reported salaries for the stars of “Shrek” to prove his claim he had been low-balled.
“They told me it was ‘an honor’ to be in a Disney movie. I was the last of the ‘honors’ — this was right before ‘Shrek,’ where everyone started getting $20 million deals. The movie did not pay for the house we are recording in.”
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Leary revealed during the latest podcast episode that he had asked for big money to create “Ice Age 6,” which is reportedly in the works.
“They didn’t know this, but I guess they were discovering. The problem is these movies – and it’s a plus, not a problem – they’re getting streamed like crazy. So now they can see the numbers of what’s really streaming. The ‘Ice Age’ movies, apparently by adults and kids, were getting streamed like crazy.”
Leary, who starred in the animated film as Diego, claimed he had been actually working with Ray Romano when he was first approached about doing the sixth installment of the franchise. All three main characters, including John Leguizamo, chose to return to make the film.
“So we did the right thing, which was basically all three of us said, ‘Hey, we need to see the script and make sure it’s going to be good,'” Leary said.
“We play hard to get, plus we need a lot of money,” he added. “So it worked out.”
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Nuclear talks backfire as Iran pushes sanctions relief while refusing key Trump terms
Talks between Iran and the U.S. wrapped up in Geneva Thursday as officials cited “significant progress” and announced a next meeting set for Vienna within days.
Yet despite senior U.S. officials describing the third round as “positive,” per Axios, Iranian state television also reported that Tehran will continue enriching uranium and rejected proposals to transfer it abroad.
According to The Associated Press , the reports claimed Iran would also push for the lifting of international sanctions — signaling it is not prepared to meet President Donald Trump’s demands.
The negotiations were carried out primarily indirectly, with Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi relaying messages between the two sides.
In a post on X, al-Busaidi confirmed that the round had concluded and said discussions would resume soon.
“We have finished the day after significant progress in the negotiation between the United States and Iran,” he said on X.
“We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals. Discussions on a technical level will take place next week in Vienna. I am grateful to all concerned for their efforts: the negotiators, the IAEA, and our hosts, the Swiss government,” al-Busaidi said.
There was no immediate public statement from U.S. or Iranian officials after the session.
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Trump’s special Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, attended the three-hour negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi was also involved, with Iranian officials presenting a draft proposal for a potential nuclear agreement with the U.S., which has key demands.
Iran insists it has the right to enrich uranium and has appeared to refuse to negotiate over other issues, including its long-range missile program and support for armed groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
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Trump, meanwhile, insists on a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program. In his State of the Union address Feb. 24, the president said he prefers a diplomatic solution.
“My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy, but one thing is certain: I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon,” the president said. “Can’t let that happen.”
As the Geneva talks unfolded Thursday, Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also wrote on X that if the main U.S. concern is preventing a nuclear weapon, that stance “aligns” with Khamenei’s fatwa and Iran’s defensive doctrine.
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He added that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has “sufficient support and authority” to come to a final agreement in the talks.
The development came as the U.S. continues assembling military assets, including a fleet of aircraft and warships in the Middle East.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.