Anti-ICE protests take violent turn in Minneapolis with 2 men allegedly attacked
A man was seen on video allegedly being chased into a parking garage and struck in the head with a flagpole by a mob of apparent anti-ICE agitators, as violent protests unfolded Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis.
The mob continued following the unidentified man, who was walking to a car in the garage to leave, and allegedly pepper sprayed a gash on his head and struck the wound with their hands.
“I’m trying to be done, but you guys keep harassing me,” he told the crowd, his jacket soaked with blood.
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A protester could be heard shouting into a megaphone, “Hey no seriously, this guy needs medical help—he needs mental help. The bleeding is natural for Nazis, but he needs mental help.”
“F— you Nazi,” agitators shouted as they followed him into the garage.
One woman could be heard asking if the bloodied man needed help, to which he calmly replied, “No, I’m good. Thank you though, I appreciate you.”
As he got into the car and sped away, the mob slammed on the doors and hit the vehicle with flagpoles.
It is unclear what led to the violent encounter.
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Earlier in the day, pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang was seen on video being dragged away from a demonstration by protesters.
Footage showed Lang bleeding from the back of the head as he stumbled through a crowd surrounding him.
Lang, who was pardoned after participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, was allegedly taking part in the Americans Against Islamification (AAI)’s “Crusader March on ‘Little Somalia,’” with the intention of burning a Quran at Minneapolis City Hall, when the incident took place.
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Lang was seen on video trying to get into the back seat of an apparent good Samaritan’s car, as agitators pulled the door back open, kicking into the vehicle.
A woman in the passenger seat could be heard telling protesters, “We don’t know him, stop hitting our car.”
Following the incident, Lang took to X, claiming he was also stabbed during the incident, but a plate carrier he was wearing blocked the attack.
“I was just literally LYNCHED by an anti white mob of liberals & illegal immigrants- I’m at the hospital now getting staples in my skull… Nearly ripped limb from limb in Minneapolis!!!!” Lang wrote in a post. “[Minneapolis Mayor] Jacob Frey [told] the officers at the Minneapolis Police to stand down, so they could watch me [b]eaten live on national television!!!!! PRESIDENT TRUMP SEND IN THE NATIONAL GUARD They are lynching White Christians on the streets!!!!!”
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) told Fox News Digital it is aware of social media accounts of Lang allegedly being assaulted, but that an official report has not been filed.
“MPD encourages anyone who has experienced assaultive behavior to report the incident as soon as possible and provide as much detail as they can, including the date, time, and location of the incident, a description of any suspects, and the nature and extent of any injuries sustained,” the department wrote in a statement.
Meanwhile, anti-ICE protesters continued to clash with law enforcement outside the Whipple Federal Building, where agents were attempting to keep demonstrators back from the entrance of the facility.
Footage captured agitators screaming and cursing at agents as they attempted to hold a line of formation in the street.
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office patrol cars were later seen parked in front of the building, blocking the road, as it got dark outside.
Tensions flared after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot last week by an ICE agent while allegedly blocking an operation in Minneapolis and driving toward an agent.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety announced earlier on Saturday the state’s National Guard was mobilized and staging to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies.
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However, Guardsmen have not yet been deployed to city streets.
“Minnesota sanctuary politicians have released nearly 470 criminal illegal aliens back into American communities since President Trump took office,” the White House wrote in a social media post Saturday. “ICE working every single day to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from terrorizing their state.”
Woman wakes up with 8-foot python coiled on her chest while sleeping
“Oh baby. Don’t move. There is like a 2.5-meter python on you.”
An Australian woman woke up in the middle of the night to discover a massive carpet python coiled across her chest after the snake slithered into her second-story bedroom in Brisbane, Queensland.
Rachel Bloor said she initially believed the heavy weight on her stomach and chest was her dog lying on top of her. But when she reached out under the covers, she felt something smooth move beneath her hand and realized it was not her pet.
“To my horror, I realized it wasn’t my dog,” Bloor told the BBC.
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The 2.5-meter, or roughly 8-foot, snake had made its way into her bedroom Monday night, according to the report.
Bloor said she immediately woke her husband and asked him to turn on the lights.
“He goes, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. There is like a 2.5-meter python on you,’” she recalled.
Her first concern, Bloor said, was getting the family dogs out of the room before anything escalated.
“I thought if my Dalmatian realized that there’s a snake there, it is gonna be carnage,” she said.
After her husband removed the dogs, Bloor carefully worked her way out from beneath the covers.
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“I sort of side-shuffled out,” she said.
Rather than calling a professional snake catcher, Bloor said she stayed calm and ushered the large reptile out of the bedroom herself through a window.
“I grabbed him,” she said, adding that the python “didn’t seem overly freaked out.”
“He sort of just wobbled in my hand,” she said.
Bloor suspects the snake entered through plantation shutters on her window and crawled onto the bed while she slept.
“It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter,” she said.
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The snake was identified as a carpet python, a non-venomous constrictor commonly found in Australia’s coastal regions.
Despite the frightening encounter, Bloor said she was relieved it was not another animal.
“Toads freak me out,” she said.
Snake catcher Kurt Whyte told ABC News that snake activity has increased with breeding season over and eggs beginning to hatch.
“Obviously, with this hot weather, we’re seeing plenty of them getting out and about and basking in this sun,” Whyte said.
Whyte added that while snake populations have not necessarily increased, sightings are becoming more common as housing developments expand into Australian bushland.
“They have got to find places to live, and our backyards are offering the perfect habitat,” he said.
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He warned that common household features could provide easy access for snakes seeking shelter.
“Unfortunately, the gaps in our garage doors… provide the perfect entry points for a snake,” Whyte said.
Broncos’ QB suffers shocking season-ending injury during thrilling playoff win
Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix will miss the rest of the NFL playoffs with an ankle injury suffered during a 33-30 win over the Buffalo Bills in the divisional round Saturday.
Broncos head coach Sean Payton told reporters the news after the game.
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“Not good news, on the second-to-last play in overtime, Bo fractured a bone in his right ankle. He’s schedule to have surgery Tuesday of this week, which will put him out the rest of the season,” Payton said.
If the second-to-last play of the game is truly what Payton was referencing, then it would be the play in which the Broncos simply took a knee prior to kicking the game-winning field goal. The play right before that, Nix threw an incompletion that resulted in a 30-yard pass interference call on Buffalo, which set up the Broncos in field-goal range.
The play before that, Nix ran a keeper where he lost two yards and was tackled by safety Cole Bishop. Nix was seen limping slightly after the play.
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Nix was 26-of-46 for 279 yards and three touchdowns while also rushing for 29 yards on 12 carries in the win.
“He’s such a strong, faith-based guy,” Payton said. “He’s sitting in the hallway with his family and coming over and we’re all talking to him. He knows that God’s got a plan for him and he said he had (a broken ankle) in high school and then he said he had one at Auburn.
“And I said I didn’t realize that. I said if I had known that I wouldn’t have drafted you.”
Nix, the 12th overall pick out of Oregon in the 2024 NFL draft, tied Russell Wilson’s NFL record with two dozen victories in his first two seasons. Saturday’s victory was his first in the playoffs. The Broncos lost last year at Buffalo, but Nix led Denver to the AFC’s top seed this season.
“He’s a tough cookie,” Payton said. “And this team all year has lost key players and will rise up for the next challenge.”
Payton said Broncos backup Jarrett Stidham will start at quarterback for Denver in the AFC Championship game next week at Mile High Stadium against the winner of Sunday’s Patriots-Texans divisional matchup.
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“[Stidham] is ready,” Payton said. “We’ll be ready for the next challenge.”
Wealthy hedge fund exec abandons family after shocking affair rocks marriage: memoir
Belle Burden has seemingly led a charmed life. She was born into a prominent, wealthy New York family, became a corporate lawyer and went on to marry and have three children.
But in 2020, behind the scenes, her life fell apart when her husband of 21 years, hedge fund executive Henry Davis, told her he wanted a divorce after she learned he was having an affair.
In her new memoir, “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage,” Burden goes into intimate detail about how she discovered the affair and the messy aftermath and how she survived it all.
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The voicemail
In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began shutting down New York City, Burden and her husband, who she refers to as James in her book, made the decision to leave their family home and stay in their house on Martha’s Vineyard.
With their two youngest children, daughters Evie, 15, and Carrie, 12 (their oldest child, son Finn, 17, stayed on Long Island with friends), they began their lockdown like many others, watching the news regularly and trying to navigate the unique situation.
On the evening of March 21, she got a phone call but let it go to voicemail since she didn’t recognize the number. When she listened to it, she heard a man who she described as sounding nervous, who said, “I’m trying to reach Belle. I’m sorry to tell you this, but your husband is having an affair with my wife.”
She recalled being frozen for a moment, then went to find James, assuming there was some misunderstanding. He had been looking for her at the same time, and when they found each other, she wrote that he took her into the guest bedroom, sat her down, and said, “I promise you, this meant nothing. It’s over. I love you and only you. I’m so sorry. I’m so embarrassed.”
He told her the affair had only been going on a few weeks, and that the woman was a banker he’d met through work. The conversation was interrupted by her younger daughter, and, later, Burden sent a text to the man who’d left the voicemail, asking him how long the affair had been going on.
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She wrote that he texted back with, “I think a month. But I can’t text because my wife has tried to kill herself. She’s in an ambulance.”
When she found James again, she said he was on the phone with the woman, and he told her that she’d taken “a few sleeping pills” and would be fine. Burden went through the rest of the night in a bit of a daze, struggling to process everything, and at 6 a.m. the next morning, James came into their bedroom in the same clothes he’d been wearing the night before and told her he decided he wanted a divorce.
Telling the children
After telling her he wanted a divorce, Burden wrote that James left the Martha’s Vineyard home and became distant and cold despite her attempts to communicate with him. He didn’t tell their children goodbye before leaving, he refused therapy and he allegedly texted her, “I’ll answer what I want, when I want. I’ll speak when I want. I’ll decide when I want.”
Despite his reluctance to talk through everything, she wrote that he did tell her that he wanted to tell people that their decision to divorce was amicable. She refused, and in late April, weeks after he left, she told him that they needed to tell their children the news.
He initially suggested she tell them alone, and she agreed. Later, his boss contacted her, suggesting it was important for James to be there for the conversation. He lent James his private plane so he could return to Martha’s Vineyard from where he was staying in Connecticut.
They told their son first over the phone, and she said he hung up at some point during the conversation without either she or James realizing. When he arrived at the house, he told her he only had 90 minutes before he needed to get back on the plane. They gathered in the living room with their daughters, and he told them, “Mom and I are separated, and we’re going to divorce. I haven’t been happy.”
Their 12-year-old ran out of the room crying, while their 15-year-old remained silent on the couch. Burden wrote that James then turned to her and said, “I’m starving, can you make me a sandwich?”
She recalled being shocked by the question but agreed, asking him to go find Carrie. When she was done making the sandwich, she found each of her daughters alone in separate rooms, and James in the basement, going through boxes. When she asked him what he was doing, she said he responded, “I’m looking for our prenup. If you have it, you have to give it to me.”
“I stood there, at the top of the basement stairs, holding the plate, watching him. I told him to stop, to be with the girls during his remaining minutes in the house, but he continued, pulling box after box off the shelves,” she wrote. “His duffel sat open on the floor beside the boxes, ready to receive what he found.”
The prenup had gone missing in the 21 years since they’d first signed it. He gave up the hunt when he had to leave for the airport, and she took her daughters to get takeout after he left.
Later that evening, she got a text from him that said, “That was a great visit!”
Giving up custody
Throughout the book, Burden described the change in James after he told her he wanted a divorce. At times, she wrote, she struggled to recognize him as the man she’d known for decades.
When their children were young, she devoted all her time and energy to raising them while James focused on his career, often joking, “I don’t do bath, bed or homework.” While he didn’t deal with the daily work of parenting, he did pay attention to them, she wrote, taking them on special outings and trips regularly.
But in one of the conversations they had shortly after he left her, Burden wrote that he told her, “You can have the house and the apartment. You can have custody of the kids. I don’t want it. I don’t want any of it.”
Initially, she and the children stayed in the Martha’s Vineyard house while he stayed in their apartment in the city, but in May 2020, he told her that he’d purchased a new two-bedroom apartment.
She wrote, “I looked at the sales website for the building, at the model two-bedroom floor plan and photos. It looked modern and expensive. But a two-bedroom? Would he be able to fit all three kids in one bedroom? I still thought he would want to make a home for them, that he wouldn’t follow through with his decision to have no custody, no overnights. Even if he refused formal custody, I thought the kids would stay with him now and then, that Carrie would go there after school when she chose to, that she would have a room to sleep in, that he would give her a key.”
When he moved into the apartment in February 2021, he turned the second bedroom into a home office. She said that he kept in touch with the kids through texts and occasionally took them to dinner, “but he continued to refuse a daily role in their lives.”
Burden had her lawyer sent James a custody agreement, one that gave them each 50/50 custody, assuming he “would have realized his mistake” in not seeking more time with their children by then. Instead, she wrote, “James returned the document stripped of all his time, including vacations, holidays, weeks during the summer. He included only dinner on Thursday nights.”
She admitted that she believes James genuinely thought he was being “selfless” by not making the official agreement and that he argued their children were old enough to decide for themselves when they wanted to see him. For bigger moments, like when their son had surgery, she said that he showed up, but “for everyday issues, he responded with irritation.”
Eventually, even the Thursday night dinner stopped, and she stopped trying to press him to spend more time with their children, fearing it was “dangerous” to expose her children to “more hurt, more rejection” from their father.
Court battle
Before Burden met James, she’d signed a contract with her mother, promising to get a prenup before she got married. Two months before her wedding, her family lawyer sent a draft of the agreement to her. In that agreement, anything either brought into the marriage would remain their own in case of divorce, but anything earned during the marriage and anything in joint name would be split.
She said James was “upset” by the prenup, and she ignored it for weeks, but eventually he suggested an amendment. Instead of splitting everything earned during the marriage, they’d only split the things that were under both of their names.
Her lawyer advised against it, telling her it was a “bad idea,” but she insisted, and that was the way their prenup was designed.
In July 2019, less than a year before their marriage fell apart, Burden and James had a meeting with their lawyer, and one of the things they’d planned on doing was dissolving the prenup because it was no longer fair to her. James had become incredibly successful in his career while she’d put hers on hold to raise the children, and she’d emptied her trusts, which would have been protected regardless of a prenup, to purchase their homes in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard.
She wrote, “He said, ‘Let’s table the prenup for now. We have too many other things to do. Let’s focus on the wills. I want to leave everything to you. Not in trust for the kids.’”
She recalled being “touched” by the notion, but when they met with their lawyer and conversation about the wills came up, he cut the meeting short, saying he had to get back to work.
They never adjusted their wills, nor did they get rid of the prenup, and when he filed for divorce, he continued paying for the family’s expenses, with her providing annotated credit card bills and him approving any bigger purchases. In January 2021, as part of the divorce proceedings, she received a series of documents detailing his earnings throughout the marriage, and she was shocked to find that he was much more financially successful than she knew — not because he ever hid it, she admitted, but just because she hadn’t looked into it.
She and her lawyer filed a counterclaim in the divorce case, although they knew with the prenup they didn’t have much of a chance at being successful with it. In July of that year, the judge dismissed it, and James, who hadn’t brought up the counterclaim to her directly, was “inflamed” that she’d tried to go against him.
“He said he would give me only the minimum child support required by law,” she wrote. “He said I would have to face the consequences of the prenup, of my failed counterclaim.”
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His lawyer sent her a letter, assuming that she’d want to buy James out of his claim on both houses she’d bought with her family trust, which she couldn’t afford to do. At this point, although she’d been struggling greatly with the breakdown of her marriage, things “became very dark,” so much that she began experiencing suicidal ideation.
In October 2021, just an hour before the trial was set to begin, Burden and James reached a settlement. He agreed to give up his interest in both of their homes, and he pays child support and covers medical expenses and school tuition. He did keep the money he accumulated during their marriage.
“I don’t know what finally made him decide to settle,” she wrote. “I have several guesses, but I will never know for sure. Maybe he always planned to resolve it before trial, to give me the house and the apartment. But only after he brought me to my knees.”
The aftermath
Burden admitted she doesn’t know much about James’ life now. She doesn’t know how long he stayed with the other woman or if he’s still with her. She does know he hasn’t remarried, and that while he is “kind and loving” to their children, he hasn’t had an overnight visit or a vacation or holiday with any of them since he left.
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“I don’t know if he cheated throughout our marriage or if she was his first and only affair,” she admitted. “I don’t know if he made the decision to leave suddenly after being caught, or if he’d carefully planned his exit for years. I don’t know what role the pandemic played. I don’t know how much of it was about money. I don’t know how much of it was about me.
“I don’t know why he left. I don’t think I ever will.”
Bills’ apparent game-winning catch turns into interception after referee call
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen delivered the pass that should have won the game against the Denver Broncos, only to have it turn into a freak interception that led to a 33-30 loss. Allen was then seen crying in the post-game press conference over the astonishing defeat.
During overtime of the AFC Divisional Round game on Saturday, Allen threw a deep pass right into the hands of wide receiver Brandin Cooks that would have set up the Bills in game-winning field goal range.
But as Cooks went down to the ground with the pigskin, the ball rolled into a position where Broncos defensive back Ja’Quan McMillian was able to snatch it away for an interception as Cooks lay on his back.
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The instant replay review showed Cooks was down on the ground with possession of the ball, which typically would end the play and award the Bills a completion. But enough of the ball was already in McMillan’s arms by the time Cooks hit the ground that officials did not reverse the call after looking it over.
Broncos quarterback Bo Nix went on to lead Denver into game-winning field goal territory, aided by two big pass interference calls by the Bills defense. Will Lutz nailed the field goal to send the Broncos to the AFC Championship game.
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Many fans on social media scrutinized the referees’ decision to rule the play as an interception.
“I’m sorry but in no world is that an interception,” one user wrote.
Another user wrote, “That’s not an interception.”
Another user wrote, “Cooks had it.”
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Allen, who hadn’t turned the ball over in his previous six playoff appearances, threw two interceptions and lost two fumbles on strip-sacks by Nik Bonitto. P.J. Locke also picked off Allen, ending the QB’s streak of 204 consecutive completions in the postseason.
Allen would finish the game with 283 yards and three touchdowns to go with the two interceptions. McMillian’s controversial pickoff was Denver’s fifth takeaway of the game and would be Allen’s last pass of the season.
After the game, Allen walked to the press podium in tears.
“I let my teammates down tonight,” Allen said while choking up.
The loss continued a trend of dramatic playoff heartbreak due to unusual moments in Buffalo history.
The Broncos will face either New England or Houston for the AFC title next Sunday at Empower Field at Mile High, where Denver has won 14 of its last 15 games.
It will be Denver’s first AFC championship in exactly 10 years, since the “No Fly Zone” defense that helped them win Super Bowl L.
Recently released files show bungled investigation, red tape in Nazi search
FIRST ON FOX: Multiple documents released by Argentine President Javier Milei last year reveal how Argentina’s search for Nazi war criminals, who found refuge in the country during and after the Second World War were able to avoid arrest and, for the most part, live ordinary lives.
While Argentina’s Peronist government sympathized and often knew of Nazi criminals hiding in their territory – often under their auspices – once the populist regime fell, the South American nation half-heartedly tried to keep tabs on the war-criminals hiding there.
Though while many high-profile cases went nowhere, the case of Hitler’s henchman Martin Bormann is exemplary in showing how inefficient Argentina was in its investigations.
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Bormann was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime, despite his relatively low profile in the public. He used his position as private secretary to Hitler and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery to control the flow of documents personally received by Hitler and who had access to him.
Through enormous administrative influence, he shaped policy and controlled what Hitler saw, who he met, and advised on major decisions. Bormann supported extreme antisemitic measures and was one of the masterminds of the Aryanization project. Bormann disappeared in May 1945 during the fall of Berlin. For decades, it was speculated he had fled to Argentina along the ratlines — escape routes facilitated by Nazi sympathizers. Bormann was sentenced to death in absentiaduring the Nuremberg Trials.
The files show that Bormann was one of the very few Nazis the Argentinians actively tried to pursue and bring to justice. However, most of the leads came from sensationalist press articles often devoid of factual and actionable intelligence beyond the mere mention that he was hiding in Argentina.
The files meticulously depict intelligence agencies trying to corroborate such reports and assert whether the floated false aliases matched the actual man in Argentina. Agencies followed information coming from reports in the Argentine, U.S., British and Brazilian press, along with some translations from German-language media published in Argentina by the émigré community who were suspected of harboring Nazi sympathizers.
The articles triggered extensive paper trails between the ministry of justice, intelligence bodies, border and customs agencies, the federal police, and local authorities, but were often disconnected from one another, or took a long time to be referred to the various sub-offices for action.
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As a result, multiple similar searches were carried out at various points haphazardly and a tangle of bureaucracy made authorities play catch up to press reports rather than conducting independent and rational investigations. The files are a testament that the hunt for Nazis in South America was shaped by rumor, miscommunication, mistaken identities, Cold War politics and intense media speculation.
Some of the information reviewed by Fox News Digital showed authorities took rumors such as a hunt for Bormann in the jungles of Peru, Colombia and Brazil as credible. A case of an elderly German man detained in Colombia in 1972 as Bormann (later cleared and released) despite voiced skepticism by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is also part of the files.
The diplomatic shockwaves that followed Israel’s Mossad seizing Adolf Eichmann in Argentina left local officials acutely sensitive to international scrutiny, recasting the search for Bormann as a bid to ensure the country would not be embarrassed on the world stage a second time.
A pivotal—and ultimately flawed—lead in the Bormann files emerged in 1955, when police, relying on fading testimonies about an illegal German laborer, along with rumors, seized correspondence, and aging witnesses, began pursuing a man named Walter Wilhelm Flegel.
Flegel had arrived through Chile, was missing an arm due to an accident, and had been previously arrested and brought to court twice on assault and robbery charges. Suspicions led to his arrest in Mendoza in 1960 despite his complete dissemblance, lack of education, long presence in the country, age gaps and missing factual connections that could tie him to Martin Bormann. Notwithstanding such mismatching profiles — and fingerprints — it still took a week for Argentinians to be convinced Flegel was not Martin Bormann and free him.
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Ultimately, despite continued rumors, and Argentina’s singular resolve in finally arresting one of the many Nazi fugitives thought to be in the country, human remains found in Berlin in 1972 were a match and confirmed Bormann’s death during the city’s fall through dental and cranial records. Later, in the 1990s, further DNA testing confirmed the remains found in Berlin indeed belonged to Bormann, bringing the misdirected Argentinian search finally to a close
President Trump’s new viral lapel pin ignites online sales, media buzz
President Donald Trump is no stranger to making a statement and catches the media’s attention in doing so — this time, with new lapel pins.
Trump has worn various styles over the years, some garnering more reaction than others.
Most recently, he wore a new pin he called the “Happy Trump” pin, gaining significant attention from the media and public.
Trump wore the accessory during a meeting with various high-profile oil and gas executives Jan. 9 alongside his customary American flag pin. The pin appears to be a cartoon-style depiction of Trump wearing his trademark blue suit and red tie with his mouth agape and eyebrows ruffled.
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Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy noticed the pin and inquired during the meeting.
The president explained it was a gift.
“You know what this is? That’s called a ‘Happy Trump,’” Trump quipped while showing off the accessory to the press.
“And consider the fact that I’m never happy. I’m never satisfied. I will never be satisfied until we make America great again. But we’re getting pretty close.”
The president appeared to have worn the same pin at least once before in 2025, while swearing in Tulsi Gabbard as the director of National Intelligence, according to reports.
Trump has worn other notable lapel pins, such as a golden pin that resembled a fighter jet in 2025.
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Trump wore the gold-adorned pin, which appeared to be an F-22 Raptor fighter jet, during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Sept. 25, according to reports.
During the meeting, the two leaders reportedly discussed the F-35 stealth fighter. Turkey has long sought reentry into the American fighter jet program. Trump reportedly told reporters the two would discuss the F-35.
Others close to the president, including FCC Chair Brendan Carr, have previously caught the public’s attention with lapel pins. In April, Carr wore what appeared to be a gold lapel pin shaped like Trump’s side profile.
The accessory was noticed by right-wing YouTuber and commentator Benny Johnson, who posted photos of Carr on his X account.
“Do you even understand the level of fit that [Carr] has?” wrote Johnson in the post.
Trump often wears an American flag lapel pin, popularized in the late 1960s and early ’70s by former President Richard Nixon.
According to reports, Nixon’s chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, was supposedly inspired by actor Robert Redford’s character in the film “The Candidate.”
Over time, the American flag lapel pin gained popularity.
After 9/11, the Bush administration followed suit, and former President George W. Bush and his aides donned the American flag lapel pin.
While the exact origin of the “Happy Trump” pin remains unclear — other than the president saying it was a gift — there’s a wide market of collector’s items consumers can purchase at Amazon, Etsy, Ebay, the official White House Gift Shop and other high-end jewelers.
Ann Hand, a prominent jewelry business known for the signature “Liberty Eagle” and “One Country One Destiny” pins, created a custom 2025 Inaugural pin.
The pin, “designed to honor President Trump,” features a mother-of-pearl, surrounded by gems.
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The pin is sold for $250 and is non-refundable according to their website.
FOX Business spoke with the owner, Ann Hand, who said her designs attempt to tell the “story of America.”
“We’ve done quite a few pins for Republicans and Democrats because we are totally non-partisan,” said Hand. “We just try to tell America’s story.”
FOX Business has found lapel pins designed in the shape of a flag with the numbers 45 and 47 separated by a star, Trump and Vance campaign-style pins and even a design featuring the well-known photo of Trump pumping his fist at the crowd after an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
FOX Business found a pin similar to the latest “Happy Trump” pin available for purchase on Amazon for $9.99. According to the product page, the pin was first made available Oct. 28, 2020.
At the time of publication, the pin is “currently unavailable” according to the product page.
In the hours that followed the meeting, various “Happy Trump” pins appeared to be available for sale on other platforms such as eBay.
What appears to be the same pin the president was wearing is available on eBay for $26.99, and from another seller at $30.
Since then, others have followed suit and various iterations of the pin appear to be available for sale on the platform.
The “Happy Trump” pin design also appeared to be available for purchase in the form of a water bottle sticker on platforms such as Etsy.
EBay also offers pins in the shape of the presidential seal; one is inscribed with “Donald Trump 45th President” and another supposed “gold-plated” lapel pin is of Trump’s profile, appearing to be similar to the one Carr wore previously.
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The White House Gift Shop also offers lapel pins of its own.
They include a Presidential Great Eagle Lapel Pin, a “Brooch Style” USA flag pin “as worn by President Obama” and the Great Seal of the United States.
The White House did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
‘Little House on the Prairie’ star defends husband in emotional letter to judge
Melissa Gilbert is standing firmly by her husband as Timothy Busfield faces child sexual abuse charges.
The “Little House on the Prairie” star, 61, is listed as a potential defense witness for Busfield, according to a court filing submitted Friday obtained by Fox News Digital.
The document includes Busfield’s response opposing the state’s motion for pretrial detention and names 13 people the defense may call, including Gilbert.
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In addition to being named as a potential witness, Gilbert submitted a letter to the judge voicing her support for her husband. The filing includes 75 letters written on Busfield’s behalf, many from family members and colleagues.
In her letter, Gilbert referred to herself as Busfield’s wife and outlined the history of their relationship, writing that the two first crossed paths in the 1980s before reconnecting decades later. She noted they fell in love in 2012.
“The reality is that Tim Busfield is my love, my rock, my partner in business and life. He is my comfort and my council. His joy, humor and quick wit bring sparkle to my life. Tim is, quite simply, the beating heart of our wild and wonderful extended family,” she wrote.
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Gilbert told the court she knows Busfield “better and more intimately than anyone else in his life,” describing him as a man guided by principle and compassion.
“Tim has the strongest moral compass of any human I have ever known,” she wrote. “He has dedicated his spiritual self to always being of service to others. He starts every day with kindness and compassion.”
She also pointed to what she described as Busfield’s consistently positive reputation in the entertainment industry, saying she is repeatedly approached by people eager to share their experiences working with him.
On “every single set where Tim is working,” Gilbert wrote, “multiple people” have told her he is “their favorite director ever.” She added that similar comments come from strangers “in restaurants, on red carpets and in grocery stores too.”
Gilbert also highlighted Busfield’s relationship with her youngest son, Michael, describing his role in the teenager’s life as deeply meaningful.
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“Tim nurtured and guided Michael,” she wrote. “He admonished, praised, loved, consoled, cajoled, fretted, cared for, and fed my son both physically and spiritually.”
She credited Busfield’s military background with shaping his values, saying it reinforced his commitment to “honor, integrity, compassion and care for his fellow human beings.”
As she concluded the letter, Gilbert admitted how difficult and emotional it was to address the court.
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“This is the strangest letter I’ve ever had to write,” she wrote. “So, I will close by asking you to please, please, take care of my sweet husband,” Gilbert continued. “As he is my protector, I am his, but I cannot protect him now and I think that, more than anything else, is what is truly breaking my heart. I am relying on you to protect him for me.”
On Jan. 9, an arrest warrant was issued for the director and Emmy Award-winning actor and obtained by Fox News Digital.
The police investigation into the allegations against Busfield began on Nov. 1, 2024, after a doctor at the University of New Mexico Hospital alerted officers about a case of alleged sexual abuse.
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According to an arrest warrant obtained by Fox News Digital, two 11-year-old twins allege that the director, whom they were told to call Uncle Tim on the set of “The Cleaning Lady,” had touched them inappropriately.
Busfield made his first court appearance Jan. 14 in Bernalillo County. He is being held without bond and remains in custody ahead of his pretrial detention hearing scheduled for Jan. 20.
Trump slams ‘sick’ Iranian leader as regime admits killing thousands of protesters
Iran’s supreme leader has publicly acknowledged for the first time that thousands of people were killed during recent anti-government protests, according to reporting from the BBC, as President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric and called for new leadership in Iran.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the remarks during a public address Saturday, blaming the U.S. for the unrest and violence and saying some protesters died “in an inhuman, savage manner,” the BBC reported.
The protests, which began in late December over economic conditions, later expanded into calls for an end to Iran’s ruling system.
U.S.-based Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency estimates that more than 3,000 people were killed over roughly three weeks of unrest, though Iranian authorities have not released an official death toll.
According to the BBC, nationwide internet shutdowns have made independent verification difficult, with connectivity dropping to roughly 2% of normal levels, citing data from cyber monitoring group NetBlocks.
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Videos authenticated by BBC Persian and BBC Verify show Iranian security forces firing on demonstrators during the unrest.
Trump told Politico on Saturday that “it’s time to look for new leadership in Iran,” after being read a series of hostile posts from Khamenei’s X account accusing the president of responsibility for the violence.
“What he is guilty of, as the leader of a country, is the complete destruction of the country and the use of violence at levels never seen before,” Trump said, according to Politico. “Leadership is about respect, not fear and death.”
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Trump went further in personal terms, telling Politico, “The man is a sick man who should run his country properly and stop killing people.”
“His country is the worst place to live anywhere in the world because of poor leadership,” Trump added.
Trump has previously urged Iranians to continue protesting and “take over institutions,” saying that “help is on its way,” according to Politico. The president later said he had been informed that the killings had stopped.
“The best decision he ever made was not hanging more than 800 people two days ago,” Trump told Politico, when asked about the scope of potential U.S. military action.
In a series of X posts, Khamenei accused Trump of responsibility for the violence, writing, “We find the US President guilty due to the casualties, damages and slander he inflicted upon the Iranian nation.”
In another post, Khamenei claimed, “The US’s goal is to devour Iran.”
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Trump has said in recent days he was looking at “very strong options,” including possible military involvement.
The State Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.