Biden aide’s answer to whether illegal immigration is a crime sends hearing into spiral
A tense exchange unfolded during a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday when Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno pressed a former Biden advisor on whether illegal immigration into the United States should be considered a crime.
“I don’t know anything about this law,” Brendan Duke, a former senior policy advisor in the Biden White House and now senior director for federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told Moreno when asked if the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act “made a mistake” prohibiting people from entering the country illegally.
“Do you think it should be a crime to enter the country illegally?” Moreno followed up.
Duke responded, “I don’t know anything about this. I’m here to talk about budgets.”
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Moreno continued to press: “Look, I’m not a lawyer, you don’t have to be a lawyer. It’s a simple question. Should it be a crime? I’ll say it slowly. Should it be a crime to enter the United States of America illegally without permission?”
Duke again said he doesn’t know anything about the specific law, prompting Moreno to ask him if he has a home. Duke said he rents a property.
“Should it be a crime for people to enter your home without permission?” Moreno asked. Duke responded, “Yes.”
Moreno pointed out that Duke was “certain” about that response but “not sure” whether it applied to America as a whole before turning his attention to the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.
“So this is the best that Democrats can come up with. Mr. Chairman, I hope the ranking member can listen for just a second,” Moreno said. “If you don’t mind, this is the best witnesses you’ve got? A guy who can’t distinguish whether it’s OK to have people enter our country illegally? Of all the millions of people that you could have chosen to testify?”
Merkley attempted to interject, and Moreno responded, “Let me finish.”
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“The best you have is a guy who has no idea what our immigration law is and isn’t sure if somebody should enter the country illegally. Another guy is a smug guy who obviously has an agenda,” Moreno said, referencing the previous witness who resisted the same question.
Merkley then urged Moreno to “stick to the facts” instead of “badgering” witnesses.
“Why don’t you ask about the actual facts?” Merkley said.
Moreno shot back: “Why don’t you do this? Why don’t you speak when it’s your turn? Oh. Because we actually taketurns.”
Moreno and Merkley continued to go back and forth, and Moreno called it “ironic” that rules about speaking order and turns are followed in the Senate but “it’s OK with you that people enter our country and skip the turn.”
“Not only are you attacking witnesses, now you’re attacking your colleagues here on the dais,” Merkley said after denying that Moreno was accurately summarizing his position.
Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., eventually interjected, and the hearing moved on, but the moment was quickly picked up by conservatives on social media.
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“INSANE,” conservative commentator CJ Pearson posted on X. “Former Biden National Economic Council official refuses to say if it should be a crime to enter the country illegally.”
Some online pointed out a man laughing in the audience during the exchange, including Heritage Action, which posted on X, “Shout out to the man cracking up in the background as the Democrats’ witness is unable to admit it is wrong to enter our country illegally. Sometimes all you can do is laugh when they try to defend this kind of lunacy.”
“Democrats can’t define a woman. Democrats can’t identify a crime. This is pathetic,” conservative commentator and former GOP congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik posted on X.
Moreno posted a clip of the exchange on X, saying, “Here’s a simple question: is it a crime to enter the country illegally? At least, you’d think that’s an easy question. But when I asked Joe Biden’s senior policy advisor, he said he didn’t know! Make no mistake: the Biden Border Crisis was a choice. President Trump solved it.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Duke for comment.
Iran challenged US with nearly weapons-grade uranium, Witkoff reveals
U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff described what he said were early threats and demands from Iran during an interview on “Hannity” Tuesday, as U.S. negotiators and Iranian counterparts explored whether a deal could be reached before talks collapsed — a breakdown that preceded the launch of Operation Epic Fury.
Witkoff offered a behind-the-scenes account of the opening exchanges in the U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations. He said Iranian representatives opened by asserting an “inalienable right to enrich” nuclear fuel — a stance the U.S. delegation opposed by insisting that Iran should not enrich uranium at all.
Witkoff said Iranian negotiators declared they controlled roughly 460 kilograms of enriched uranium to about 60% and that this material could potentially be further enriched toward weapons-grade levels in about a week to 10 days.
He explained that enrichment beyond about 20% serves no civilian purpose and is associated with weaponization.
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Iran’s negotiators told U.S. officials that the United States would not obtain through diplomacy what it could not achieve militarily — a remark he linked to June’s Operation Midnight Hammer, which targeted Iranian nuclear facilities.
Witkoff maintained that the country’s three main enrichment and conversion centers were, in fact, destroyed, but Tehran has not publicly acknowledged such destruction.
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“It was very, very clear to us that with that amount of weapons-grade material, that they had every intention of seeking a weapon. It would not be logical to us to think anything else,” he said.
The United States even offered to help Iran convert its nuclear endeavors to a civil, non-enrichment program, and, “as a little extra, we suggested to them that we would provide fuel to them for free for a long period of time,” said Witkoff.
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But Iran called the offer “an assault on their dignity,” he said, emphasizing that he viewed the stance as “subterfuge” to obscure their advance toward a nuclear weapon.
“That’s how they felt that they would have increased power in the Mideast, and it would have changed the dynamic in the Mideast, and we couldn’t allow it,” he said.
“A second North Korea in the Mideast would have been untenable, and everybody on our foreign policy team knew it, and the president was very clear-minded about it.”
Operation Epic Fury was launched by President Donald Trump as a U.S. and Israeli joint military campaign on February 28, 2026, with the goal being to destroy Iranian missile infrastructure, naval assets and nuclear capabilities to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Obama’s inner circle earned eye-popping amount during presidential center build
As construction nears completion on the long-delayed $850 million Obama Presidential Center, federal tax filings show the Obama Foundation paid CEO Valerie Jarrett $740,000 in 2024 while several former Obama White House officials collected six-figure salaries as foundation executives.
The Obama Foundation — which will operate the 19.3-acre center on publicly owned Chicago parkland — paid its CEO more than any other major presidential foundation. Salaries and benefits soared from $18.5 million in 2018 to $43.7 million in 2024, as staffing expanded to 337 employees and annual revenue reached nearly $210 million.
Jarrett, one of the Obamas’ closest advisors, took over as CEO in 2021 and is among six of the foundation’s 10 highest-paid executives who previously held senior roles in the Obama administration or campaign, according to a review of the foundation’s tax filings from 2018 to 2024.
“Illinois Democrats are truly living their best lives — making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help design the ugliest building in Chicago,” Illinois GOP Chairman Kathy Salvi told Fox News. “Their jaw-dropping salaries prove that Illinois’ culture of corruption is alive and well as Barack Obama’s top allies rake in the cash.”
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Jarrett’s compensation exceeds the most recently reported pay of leaders at several other presidential foundations. The George W. Bush Presidential Center reported CEO compensation of roughly $661,000 in 2024, while the Carter Center and the Reagan Foundation reported pay in the $500,000 range. The Clinton Foundation’s most recent filings show CEO compensation below $500,000.
Filings show that Jarrett’s pay accounted for less than 1% of the Obama Foundation’s total expenses in 2024. By comparison, CEO compensation at the George W. Bush Presidential Center represented a larger share of total expenses, while the Carter and Clinton foundations reported lower proportional pay.
Other top earners at the Obama Foundation included former administration insiders like David Simas, Obama’s former White House political director, who earned up to $626,000 annually while leading the Obama Foundation from 2017 through 2020.
Adewale Adeyemo, a senior Obama administration official and later Biden’s deputy Treasury secretary, earned roughly $540,000 during his tenure as the foundation’s first president.
Two other former Obama aides — Anne Filipic, a former White House public engagement official, and Christina Tchen, former chief of staff to Michelle Obama — each earned roughly $400,000 annually in senior foundation roles, while Michael Strautmanis, another former campaign and White House aide, has earned more than $300,000 per year.
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The compensation figures take on added relevance as the foundation prepares to open and operate the presidential center under a $10, 99-year-use agreement on publicly owned Chicago parkland, in what the foundation is calling its “permanent home.”
The campus will include a museum, an athletic center and a public library branch. It will not function as a traditional presidential library overseen by the National Archives Records Administration, marking a departure from the federally operated model used by modern presidential libraries. The Obama Foundation, whose programming is tied directly to the former president’s legacy, also runs leadership and community programs in the U.S. and abroad.
Nonprofit governance experts say executive compensation should be evaluated against comparable organizations, though political ties among top leadership can heighten scrutiny.
“Any time you are dealing with a nonprofit that is politically connected in some way, there is always a heightened risk of nepotism creeping in,” said Laurie Styron, CEO of CharityWatch, an independent charity watchdog group. “If multiple highly paid executives have ties to the former president’s administration, the public deserves significant transparency about how those hiring and compensation decisions were made.”
Styron added that high salaries are not inherently problematic and should be assessed based on market comparables and organizational complexity.
Foundation defends pay, cites large nonprofits
The Obama Foundation said executive compensation reflects market rates for large national nonprofits and is reviewed annually by its board, which uses external comparability data and compensation consultants.
“Executive salaries are based on competitive market rates for roles of the same level in similar institutions nationwide,” the foundation said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Overall, salaries throughout the foundation, across all levels, are discounted relative to those in the private sector.”
The foundation pointed to compensation levels at major philanthropic institutions, where leaders at the Rockefeller and Mellon foundations earned more than $1.4 million in 2023, and the Ford and MacArthur foundations each reported CEO compensation of roughly $1.29 million, according to public filings.
Those organizations operate with multibillion-dollar endowments, money that earns enough interest each year to cover operating costs. The Ford Foundation reports assets of roughly $16 billion, while the Mellon and MacArthur foundations each report assets exceeding $8 billion.
The Obama Foundation reported more than $1.1 billion in total assets at the end of 2024, though much of that reflects construction-related assets and restricted funds tied to the presidential center rather than a traditional invested endowment.
The Obama Foundation pledged to establish a $470 million endowment, though public filings show approximately $1 million deposited to date, according to a Fox News Digital investigation.
Under Jarrett’s leadership, the foundation reported roughly $210 million in total revenue in 2024, the vast majority — about $195 million — from contributions and grants. It reported approximately $311 million in 2023 and about $309 million in 2022, reflecting a fundraising surge tied largely to the construction of the presidential center.
Executive pay expanded after the foundation locked in the 99-year agreement with the city to operate the campus in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park and raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The center is scheduled to open in June and will add 150 full-time jobs to the foundation, which the Obama Foundation says will bring economic investment and opportunity to the surrounding South Side community.
In a video released this week promoting the Center’s upcoming opening, Obama described the campus as a symbol of optimism and forward-looking change.
“This is not a monument to the past,” Obama said. “It’s a living destination for people who refuse to accept the status quo. If you feel that way, this is your invitation to join us.”
Cowboys star Dak Prescott’s Italian wedding canceled over alleged infidelity
Dallas Cowboys star Dak Prescott and his former fiancée Sarah Jane Ramos called off their luxurious Italian wedding a month before it was set to take place and details poured out about the reason.
While Prescott and Ramos have not commented on the reasoning behind the decision to cancel their nuptials, a Page Six report on Tuesday detailed an issue that popped up in their relationship.
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Ramos called off the wedding over his alleged “ongoing infidelity issues,” a source familiar with the situation told Page Six. Ramos reportedly believed that Prescott talked to other women during their relationship and stayed with him hoping he would change his ways.
She confronted Prescott with the allegations and the two decided to call off the wedding, according to the report. TMZ Sports reported things came to a head during their joint bachelor and bachelorette parties. Ramos posted photos from her party, and Prescott was not included.
Fox News Digital reached out to reps for Prescott and Ramos for comment.
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A rep for Ramos told People that the two were “heartbroken that they’re not getting married.”
“There wasn’t any rockiness in the lead up, and there was no big argument or blow up. It was a mutual decision,” the rep told the magazine.
The two were engaged in October 2024 and share two children together.
“They love their girls, and they’re committed to raising their children together in the most loving and positive way,” Ramos’ rep added. “It’s still shocking for them since this happened so recently, and they ask for privacy while they sort everything out.”
Prescott and Ramos sent a joint note to their wedding guests announcing the cancellation of their wedding.
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“As many of you know, our wedding is currently scheduled to take place in Lake Como, Italy, on Friday April 10, 2026. It is with heavy hearts that we have made the very difficult decision to cancel our wedding,” the note read, according to TMZ Sports. “We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and we welcome your prayers.”
Gene Simmons tells Mark Ruffalo and Ben Stiller to ‘shut the f— up’ about politics
KISS frontman Gene Simmons said celebrities like Mark Ruffalo and Ben Stiller need to “shut the f— up” about politics.
The rock legend was asked by TMZ on Tuesday what he thought about actors like Stiller calling out President Donald Trump for his military actions against Iran and whether he considered it “fair.”
Simmons dismissed Stiller’s comments by sarcastically remarking, “Because everybody in the world should listen to what actors and comedians say because they’re so qualified.”
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“Basically, shut the f— up,” Simmons told TMZ. “Do your art and shut up. Nobody’s interested in your opinions, that includes me. Who I vote for. Who I like.”
He continued, “Who the f— do you think you are? People in America work hard for a living, and they don’t want to be lectured to by people who live in mansions and drive Rolls-Royces. It’s time for everybody in the entertainment industry to shut their piehole and just do your art. Nobody cares what you think. I don’t.”
Simmons then mocked Ruffalo, whom he mispronounced as “Mark Buffalo,” for frequently voicing his opinion on politics before reiterating, “I don’t care.”
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The video concluded with Simmons telling TMZ that celebrities should stay out of politics altogether.
“Or go to Kylie Jenner and ask her what she thinks of the war so far,” Simmons joked.
Fox News Digital reached out to Ruffalo’s and Stiller’s representatives for comment but did not immediately hear back.
Simmons and the rest of the members of KISS were honored at the Kennedy Center in December by President Donald Trump, whom Simmons said he has known “on and off” for the last few decades. Simmons himself has largely kept his political opinions to himself and has more recently criticized efforts to push politics onto fellow Americans.
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“It’s nobody’s business who you support,” Simmons told CNN’s “Inside Politics” in December. “Nowadays, people engage in, ‘So are you pro or,’ and my first question is, ‘Who the f— are you? Who are you?’ Since when does who I support or not support is the business of anyone except my conscience?”
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He added, “But literally, have a sense of humor. Take a pill, shut up and stop worrying what your next-door neighbor believes or doesn’t believe. It’s their America too.”
President Trump hails endorsees going 5-0 in Tuesday GOP elections
President Donald Trump took a bow Tuesday night for his 5-0 record for his endorsed candidates in the Republican elections held in Mississippi and Georgia.
“March 10th election update: 5 wins, 0 losses,” an election night image posted to Truth Social blared. “President Trump endorsements 100%.”
The image hailed a 4-0 record in Mississippi (Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss.; Reps. Mike Ezell, R-Miss.; Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss.; Rep. Trent Kelly, R-Miss.) and 1-0 in Georgia, albeit with a bullet.
“President Trump’s endorsed candidates keep winning because Republican voters trust his leadership and want America First champions in Congress,” RNC spokeswoman Emma Hall told Fox News Digital in a statement. “From cutting taxes to securing the border, every Republican candidate in the country is proudly running on President Trump’s record and competing for his endorsement because it remains the single most decisive factor in GOP primaries.”
In one of the marquee matchups, an all-party special election for an open House seat, Republican Clay Fuller earned an April 7 runoff against Democrat Shawn Harris for the seat vacated by former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., in Georgia’s “solid red” 14th Congressional District.
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“Clay Fuller is going to be a fantastic Congressman in representing the Great State of Georgia,” Trump wrote Wednesday morning on Truth Social.
“Now we have to be careful and finish it off. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
While Fuller did not earn the special election victory, and Harris won the most votes (37.3%) in a 17-candidate field that included nine Republicans, Harris only had to outdistance two Democrats. Fuller trailed Harris by only 3,000 votes at 34.9%. Republican Colton Moore finished third and out of the running at 11.6%, while no other candidate reached 5%.
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“I think the Republican Party is going to unite around us because they know that the Democrat is too dangerous,” Fuller said Tuesday night. “We can’t have a Democrat representing Georgia 14. That would be a tragedy for our community, a tragedy for Georgia 14 and a tragedy for the MAGA movement.”
The total number of votes cast across all candidates in this election result thus far is 115,823, and Republicans outdistanced Democrat votes by nearly 20 points. GOP candidates garnered a total of 59.7%, while Democrats had 39.8% and independents had less than 1%.
“Congratulations to Clay Fuller, of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, on getting such a high percentage of the vote with 12 Republicans running,” Trump wrote Tuesday night on Truth Social. “We want to make the next vote ‘TOO BIG TO RIG.’ Clay will be a GREAT Congressman — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”
Fuller was a White House fellow in the first Trump administration and is a lieutenant colonel in the Georgia Air National Guard. He finished fourth in the 2020 Republican primary that Greene won. He credited Trump’s nod for propelling him to the runoff.
“They want to know who President Trump was endorsing in this race,” Fuller said. “And that’s why they came out in droves to support him, because they want an America First fighter on Capitol Hill fighting for his policies that are going to make a difference for our community.”
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Harris said he is not worried about further Trump intervention.
“If Donald Trump wants to come and do what he wants to do, that’s his business,” he said.
The House GOP majority is a narrow 218-214 right now, making the Fuller-Harris April 7 runoff an important one for upcoming 2026 votes. There are two other vacancies awaiting special elections this year, including blue-state seats formerly held by New Jersey Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who resigned from the House in November, and the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., who died Jan. 6.
Illinois is next up on the GOP primary schedule on Tuesday, March 17, when three Trump-endorsed candidates are incumbents: Reps. Mike Bost, R-Ill., Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Darin LaHood, R-Ill.
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The next big GOP primary challenge forged by Trump is frequent MAGA foil Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., on May 19. Trump-backed Ed Gallrein is vying for that seat.
“I predict that ‘Representative’ Thomas Massie will go down as the WORST Republican Congressman in the long and fabled history of the United States Congress, even worse than Crazy Liz Chaney, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, and Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Remember, Green turns to Brown under stress!),” Trump wrote Wednesday morning on Truth Social.
“They are all misfits and losers, but Massie, who is running against a great American Patriot in the Kentucky Primary, will hopefully lose BIG. I LOVE KENTUCKY!!!”
DAVID MARCUS: GOP Senate leader refuses to budge as Republican voters threaten divorce
About 60% of Texas Republicans voted last Tuesday to end John Cornyn’s career in the Senate, but it wasn’t really Cornyn they were rejecting. It was the feckless, do-nothing GOP Senate leadership that makes “Waiting for Godot” look like a “Fast and Furious.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wound up in a virtual tie with Cornyn, and headed to a runoff precisely because Republican voters, not just in Texas, but across the country, are incandescently angry at the GOP-controlled Senate’s inability to do, well, much of anything.
This righteous fury is why Paxton’s political play in the face of a runoff was so brilliant. He said that if the Senate would pass the Save America Act, and its voter ID provisions, he would drop out, saving President Donald Trump from having to swoop in with a decisive endorsement.
For Cornyn, and more importantly for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., this occasioned a crisis, a much-needed one, in fact, as GOP voters stare across the desk at Senate leadership, like the Bobs in “Office Space,” asking, if they can’t pass a bill with massive public support, what would they say they do there?
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Thune responded Monday to growing public calls to pass the Save America Act in the stupidest, most infuriating way possible, by asserting that voters aren’t really angry, and the furor is all just a campaign by paid influencers.
The fact that Thune has not apologized for this yet is incredible. It is as condescending to working-class voters as anything a politician has ever said.
Does Thune think that 60% of Republicans in Texas voting against the Senate status quo is a sign that they think he’s doing a great job?
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It is not.
All across the country, Republican voters tell me that they are apoplectic about the Senate. Yes, they understand the arcane 60-vote filibuster stuff. They just don’t care. They want and need action from a body that refuses to act.
And it isn’t just Paxton who knows in his bones how vitally GOP voters need a win on the Save America Act, it is also Trump, who has shown a rare amount of patience with Thune’s ineptitude and incalcitrance. At least so far.
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Even Cornyn has come around, if only in the face of his own potential political demise, penning a column in the New York Post calling for the filibuster to be abandoned and the act to be passed.
But Thune, with his long, sad face and low mournful voice like Eeyore the donkey, just keeps saying, “We don’t have the votes to break the filibuster.”
Ok, John, then how about this: Any Republican senator who refuses to vote to break the filibuster loses their committee assignments, gets no money from the party and is promised a primary.
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The most dangerous thing I heard from GOP voters in Texas, and I heard it from plenty, is that they are starting to think their vote just doesn’t matter, that nothing can change anyway. And right now, who would argue with them?
I don’t know who Thune surrounds himself with who told him that the anger I see everywhere from Republican voters is just a paid influencer campaign, but I would urge him to go talk to some actual voters instead of his K Street cronies.
It was an ominous sign that more Democrats than Republicans voted in last week’s deep-red Texas primary, but not a surprise, because the demoralized aren’t eager voters. And if the Save America Act dies on the vine, even fewer will feel compelled to cast a ballot.
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In the final moments of “Waiting for Godot,” Vladimir says, “Well? Shall we go?” To which Estragon replies, “Yes, let’s go.” And then the famous stage direction, (They do not move.).
There is no direct evidence to show that Samuel Beckett was inspired by Senate Republican leadership when he wrote this, but he could have been, because it is the same old scene, over and over.
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If nothing else, Thune needs to look GOP voters in the eye and say, directly, “We hear you. We know you are angry. We see it in the primary results and we will listen to what you want and try to do better.”
Right now, Thune and Senate Republicans are like the inattentive husband who doesn’t know the divorce papers have already been filed. It may not be too late to work it out with voters, but it’s getting pretty close.
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Sheriff in Nancy Guthrie case updates his resume after report flags fudged resignation
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department updated Sheriff Chris Nanos’ public resume Tuesday after a local news report highlighted an error in his work history that appeared to glaze over an unhappy split with his first employer in law enforcement.
Nanos resigned in lieu of termination from the El Paso Police Department in Texas in 1982, according to public records cited in the Arizona Republic.
But his resume claimed he remained there until joining Pima County as a corrections officer in 1984.
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“The Pima County Sheriff’s Department recently identified two clerical errors in Sheriff Chris Nanos’ publicly posted resume,” a department spokesperson told reporters later Tuesday. “Both date discrepancies were administrative in nature and were not intended to mislead or misrepresent Sheriff Nanos’ work history.”
The statement did not address allegations in the report that he left his role in El Paso to avoid being fired.
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“For clarity, Sheriff Nanos served with the El Paso Police Department from 1976 to 1982,” the spokesperson added. “His service with El Paso PD concluded in 1982, not 1984 as previously stated. Additionally, Sheriff Nanos was promoted to the rank of captain in 2007, not 2009.”
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According to the report, Nanos served as a decoy who baited out drug dealers and would-be muggers. But he left in 1982 amid allegations of “insubordination” and “consistent inefficiency.”
In six years, he reportedly spent 37 days suspended — for allegations of excessive use of force, off-duty gambling and coming to work late or missing shifts altogether.
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Near the end of his time in El Paso, he took a 15-day suspension for allegedly sending a suspected robber to the intensive care unit after kicking him in the head during an arrest, according to police records included in the report.
The Republic also published what it described as an emailed response to its reporter’s questions, attributed to Nanos himself, after he reportedly declined to comment on the error.
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“That’s your ‘urgent’ request? You sure you don’t want to go back to my high school and ask why I got swats from the principal?” it reads. “Good luck with your hit piece.”
Nanos is in charge of the investigation into the suspected abduction of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie.
He’s taken heat over his initial handling of the crime scene, purported disputes with the FBI over bringing the bureau into the case and subsequent lab testing, conflicting statements given at different points in the case and for attending an Arizona Wildcats NCAA game while Guthrie’s adult children were filming a response to her potential abductor.
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She has been missing since Feb. 1. Nanos held three news conferences that week, with the last coming on Feb. 5. There have been none held since.
In the second, held on Feb. 3, he addressed the weight of massive media attention to the case.
“I’m not used to everybody hanging on my words and then trying to hold me accountable for what I say,” he told reporters.
More than five weeks after her disappearance, authorities have not publicly identified any suspects, persons of interest or any vehicles that could be connected to the crime.
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There is a combined reward of more than $1.2 million for information that leads to Guthrie’s recovery.
Anyone with information is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Sports Illustrated model says she’s broke after trusting team for 30 years
Kathy Ireland accused her former team of fumbling her multimillion-dollar fortune, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
The “Sports Illustrated” cover girl claimed her former business managers betrayed her trust “on a staggering and unconscionable scale” and allegedly stole millions from Ireland and her family.
Ireland’s attorney, Jill Basinger, exclusively told Fox News Digital that Kathy’s faith hasn’t wavered since she discovered the alleged deception from within her inner circle.
“Kathy’s a strong person of faith and her trust in God has really helped her and (her husband) Greg (Olsen) navigate the betrayal and the broken trust, and given her hope for the future,” Basinger said.
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Basinger, Head of Media, Entertainment and Sports for Stris & Maher LLP., added that Ireland’s “faith in God is stronger than anything else.”
“There’s no betrayal that any human being can commit that would shake her foundation,” she continued. “But that being said, people can’t behave like this. And just as a matter of human decency. It’s not right to treat someone like this. Kathy and Greg put all their trust in these folks. Their reward was to be cheated.”
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In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in a Santa Barbara court, Ireland, 62 – who Forbes once estimated to be worth $420 million through her self-titled brand – claimed her family was targeted by Jason Winters and Erik Sterling, who were allegedly at the helm of a deceptive managing scheme.
Fox News Digital reached out to Winters and Sterling for comment.
“People can’t behave like this. And just as a matter of human decency. It’s not right to treat someone like this.”
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“More than three decades ago, at just twenty-six years old, supermodel Kathy Ireland placed her faith — financial, professional, and personal — in two Hollywood insiders, who promised to ‘take care of everything’ for her,” the suit stated. “Kathy believed (and still does) in values and loyalty.
“At that young age, Kathy was building her career. She was newly married, planning to start a family. She believed in hard work. She believed in doing business with integrity. And, she believed in them, based on their promises to her. Tragically, that belief was misplaced. They were deceiving her, all along.”
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Ireland claimed Winters and Sterling told her “she was extraordinarily wealthy” and that the family would “never need to worry.”
Instead, the model claimed her former team “failed to create wealth and make investments” as promised for their family, leaving Ireland and husband Greg Olsen in extreme debt and forced to sell their family home.
“Kathy and Greg put all their trust in these folks. Their reward was to be cheated.”
It was when the couple attempted to loan money to their son for a down payment on a home when they realized that they had no funds and the defendants used their money, according to documents.
“Kathy and Greg now know there are no substantial retirement accounts,” the lawsuit claimed. “There are no prudently managed investments securing their future, as promised. There is no wealth securing their retirement and their children’s futures, as they were lead to believe.
“Instead, in the wake of Defendants misconduct, there was staggering debt, misused credit, secret loans, and missing funds.”
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She believes that “the Defendants are liable to Plaintiffs for damages in the tens of millions of dollars, if not exceeding $100 million, subject to proof at trial,” documents stated. “Defendants continue to withhold the funds they took from and owe to Plaintiffs.”
The model, Olsen, and her mother, Barbara Ireland, included four former Kathy Ireland Worldwide employees.