Illegal immigrant accused of killing pastor after daily morning run takes tragic turn

A distinguished Detroit-area pastor has died after an illegal immigrant from Colombia allegedly struck him with a car while he was out for a run on the morning of Nov. 3.

Pastor Stephen Singleton’s family said on a GoFundMe page for the 72-year-old pastor that he was “out on his usual daily run,” wearing a reflective vest when he crossed the street on a crosswalk and “was hit by a man who ran through a red light.”

“This man was not legally in the country and possessed no license,” Singleton’s family wrote. “[Singleton] was struck so hard that he was thrown on the windshield, breaking it. The car was damaged and had to be towed. He spoke the last words he would ever speak. He asked for my grandmother. Almost all his bones were broken. He had organ and brain damage and required extensive surgeries. The doctor placed him on life support. On November 8, 2024, he was declared brain dead and taken off support.”

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 3 confirmed in a press release that a 28-year-old Colombian national driving a 2013 Ford Focus allegedly hit the 72-year-old man while the victim was crossing Rochester Road in Rochester Hills, a suburb of Detroit. Authorities also confirmed that Singleton was wearing a reflective vest and crossing the street at a designated cross-walk when he died.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that the driver entered the U.S. illegally and was released pending a future hearing.

The driver had a valid foreign driver’s license, which is a valid form of ID in Michigan, according to FOX 2 Detroit.

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“I had to sit and watch my husband of 53 years die in front of me, and then to know that the person who did this is walking around is very difficult to deal with,” Teri Singleton, Stephen’s wife, told FOX 2 Detroit.

Singleton’s family described the pastor as a loving family man with a passion for helping others and staying active. He had 15 brothers and sisters and had been married to “the love of his life” for 53 years, his family wrote on GoFundMe.

“He never met a stranger, was a friend to everyone and made lifelong friendships,” they wrote. “His motto was everyone was his brother or sister and sharing support, wisdom and the love of the Lord was his responsibility. He was a father to the fatherless, as well as all his nieces and nephews and every child in all the neighborhoods he frequented. All our family activities and outings included every child that could fit in his van.”

He ran major marathons like New York and Boston, biked 200 miles every year for charity, and taught and played various other sports.

“His real passion was just pure love for his fellow man.”

— GoFundMe, “Tragedy Strikes!!! Please Help Support the Singleton Family”

“His real passion was just pure love for his fellow man,” the GoFundMe page reads. “Besides his family one of his greatest joys was to help. He touched many lives and gave freely to everyone. As a Pastoral Minister for the Archdiocese of Detroit for the last 52 years, he officiated over hundreds of funerals for people. Helping families who couldn’t afford to pay for a funeral, receive a dignified service. Due to his determination to make a difference, he regularly fed the homeless and would give the clothes off his back to help anyone in need. When there was a disaster, he would immediately go to help.”

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Singleton dedicated much of his life to helping others, his family said. One of his most significant volunteer trips was with a search and rescue team after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. 

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The pastor’s family is seeking donations to cover Singleton’s funeral costs and living expenses for his wife, who is partially disabled and depended on Singleton “for day-to-day care,” the GoFundMe says.

No arrests had been made in the case as of Monday. Authorities presented the case to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday, which is reviewing the case and will determine whether any charges will be filed against the driver.

Social media sounds off after judge’s ruling on trans volleyball player at center of controversy

A judge ruled Monday that San Jose State transgender women’s volleyball player Blaire Fleming will be allowed to play for the Spartans in the Mountain West Conference tournament as well as the remainder of the season. 

Federal Judge Kato Crews in Colorado, appointed by President Biden in January, denied a motion for injunctive relief in a lawsuit by college volleyball players against the conference, per OutKick.

The news led to some backlash on social media, including women’s sports activist Riley Gaines. 

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“A federal judge just ruled in favor of a male athlete who has been injuring defenseless women in volleyball for years,” Gaines tweeted. “It’s time to remove those activist judges who refuse to uphold the law as it was intended.”

More X users posted on their accounts to voice their displeasure with the ruling. 

“Not that there are enough people left with the guts to stand up for what’s right, but I would love to see all teams boycott the tournament,” one user posted. “This must end.”

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Another one added, “What a joke. We are literally living in an upside down clown world.”

A dozen women jointly filed the suit against the Mountain West and its commissioner, alleging violations of Title IX and their First Amendment rights. Among the women are SJSU co-volleyball captain Brooke Slusser and two former Spartans as well as athletes from other Mountain West schools. 

Crews, however, wrote that the plaintiffs’ request for an emergency delay “was not reasonable” and “would risk confusion and upend months of planning and would prejudice, at a minimum, (San Jose State) and other teams participating in the tournament.”

“The movants have failed to meet their burden to show irreparable harm, a likelihood of success on the merits, or that the balance of harms or equities is in their favor,” Crews wrote in his decision. 

The players were looking to have their forfeits for refusing to play against Fleming and the Spartans rescinded, which would, in turn, shift the standings heading into the tournament. They also wanted Fleming banned from the tournament. 

Instead, Crews’ ruling allows Fleming to play for the Spartans, who are the No. 2 seed and have a first-round bye. 

Boise State, Wyoming, Utah State and Nevada were among the conference teams to cancel games against the Spartans due to Fleming’s presence on the team. They were aware the forfeiture would result in a loss on their records, which ultimately helped SJSU secure their high seed. 

“San Jose State University will continue to support its student-athletes and reject discrimination in all forms. All San Jose State University student-athletes are eligible to participate in their sports under NCAA and Mountain West Conference rules,” the school said in a statement to Fox News Digital.  

“We are gratified that the Court rejected an eleventh-hour attempt to change those rules. Our team looks forward to competing in the Mountain West volleyball tournament this week.”

Fleming has been a star for the Spartans in the matches played this season, averaging 3.86 kills per serve, which ranks third in the Mountain West.

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Looking ahead to the tournament, one of the four teams that forfeited against SJSU this season is guaranteed to face them in the semifinals, as Utah State and Boise State are set to face each other in the quarterfinals. 

World’s biggest retailer rolls back ‘woke’ policies amid backlash

FIRST ON FOX: Walmart is making a slate of changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, becoming the latest in a growing list of major corporations to halt the so-called “woke” initiatives.

Anti-woke activist and filmmaker Robby Starbuck, who has been leading a campaign exposing major corporations’ woke policies, said on X on Monday that he warned Walmart executives last week that he would be doing a story on “wokeness” at the retail giant.

“Instead,” Starbuck shared, “we had productive conversations to find solutions.”

Starbuck outlined the changes Walmart agreed to make, including working to remove sexual and transgender products inappropriately marketed toward children and reviewing grants to Pride events to avoid funding sexualized content targeting kids. 

Walmart clarified that these changes have been in the works for a few years and were not a result of the conversation with Starbuck.

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Walmart confirmed to FOX Business that it plans to change how it monitors products within its marketplace and reviews the funding of grants. 

The company said some products that violated its policies have been removed, such as chest binders – products designed to flatten the chest – when marketed to children.

The company also confirmed it will review all grants, especially for community events, to ensure they promote an appropriate environment for children. However, Walmart will continue to support Pride celebrations.

The company has also decided not to extend the Racial Equity Center it launched in 2020 as a five-year initiative and will ditch the terms “LatinX” and even “DEI” altogether in official communications. It will instead focus on the term “belonging” for all associates and customers.

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Walmart also joined an array of companies in recent months – including Ford and John Deere – to end participation in the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, which is an annual survey and report used to gauge “policies, practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) employees.” 

Walmart confirmed it was notified about the Starbuck video last week. Walmart does not generally comment on politics.

In a statement to FOX Business, Walmart said it is “willing to change alongside our associates and customers who represent all of America.”

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“We’ve been on a journey and know we aren’t perfect, but every decision comes from a place of wanting to foster a sense of belonging, to open doors to opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers and to be a Walmart for everyone,” the company said.

Starbuck is taking a victory lap over Walmart’s announced changes, telling FOX Business, “Walmart is the single largest employer in the United States. Removing wokeness from Walmart has both downstream effects on suppliers and sets the tone for corporate America.”

“Changing normal operating policy at a nearly $1 trillion company is a gargantuan feat that many have tried to achieve but no one until now has actually been able to get done,” he continued. “It speaks to the strength and scale of our movement to eliminate wokeness from society and how effective I’ve been as a megaphone for the concerns of your average consumer.”

Starbuck added, “I won’t stop until wokeness is a relic of the past.”

Left-wing activists learn fate for defacing US Constitution’s display case

A pair of climate activists who vandalized the National Archives Rotunda back in February when they dumped red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution have learned their fate. 

Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were sentenced to 24 months in prison and 18 months, respectively, in the Feb. 14, 2024, attack on the U.S. Constitution housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C., U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division announced on Monday.

Zepeda pleaded guilty on Aug. 15 to felony destruction of property for dumping a fine red powder over a display case containing the U.S. Constitution in the Rotunda of the Archives building.

The cost of cleaning up after the stunt, which was intended to draw attention to climate change, exceeded $58,000, officials said.

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The vandalism also closed the Rotunda for four days, preventing students, visitors, and D.C. residents from visiting. 

Green also pleaded guilty on Aug. 13 to felony destruction of property for the red powder attack on the U.S. Constitution and, in addition, pleaded guilty to one count of injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit for his Nov. 14, 2023, defacement of a memorial to Black Civil War soldiers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial (1900).

Zepeda and Green were also ordered to serve 24 months of supervised release and to each pay $58,600 in restitution. They were also ordered to do community service, which must include cleaning up graffiti. Both were banned from D.C. and all museums across the U.S.

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Green had been charged in the assault on the Shaw Memorial only 13 days prior to joining Zepeda in the defacement of the Archives. 

According to court papers, Zepeda and Green are members of Declare Emergency, a group of activists that claim to raise awareness about climate change by engaging in a variety of criminal offenses, primarily in D.C.

During the Valentine’s Day stunt, the group retweeted footage of the Rotunda, writing: “We don’t want the end of civilization, but that’s the path we’re currently on.” 

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“Declare Emergency’s nonviolent civil disobedience is love in action everyday, not just on Valentine’s Day,” the group previously wrote. 

The group issued a statement following the sentencing stating they anticipated the sentence to be “harsh.”

“Despite lack of evidence that any damage was done, both Green and Zepeda were charged with felony destruction of government property,” the group wrote in a statement on their website. “The tempera paint powder was selected because it would do no harm, and indeed no powder entered the case.” 

Actor calls Americans uneducated and ‘very uninformed about reality’

Alec Baldwin believes that Americans have a misunderstanding of the world’s most pressing problems. 

The reason for this, he explained at a recent event, is that they’re uneducated and led astray by the mass media. 

The 66-year-old “Rust” actor, this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Torino Film Festival in northern Italy, commented on the media’s influence in reporting news. 

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“Television news in the United States is a business. They have to make money,” Baldwin said during a press conference, per The Hollywood Reporter. He added, “There’s a hole. There’s a vacuum. There is a gap, if you will, in information for Americans.”

He continued, “Americans are very uninformed about reality – what’s really going on. With climate change, Ukraine, Israel… You name it, all the biggest topics in the world, Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information.”

“There is a gap, if you will, in information for Americans.”

— Alec Baldwin

Baldwin believes that the film industry – one he’s been a part of for decades – plays a role as well. 

“That vacuum is filled by the film industry. Not just the independent film industry, not just the documentary film industry – which are very important around the world. But by narrative films, as well. Where the filmmakers and the buyers, the studios, and the networks and the streamers, are willing to go that way. They’re willing to try it.”

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Baldwin, who earned an Emmy Award for his portrayal of President Trump in 2017, also spoke about the current political climate. Asked about his fears and desires for the country now that Trump is returning to the Oval Office, Baldwin answered without directly addressing the billionaire businessman.

“Americans are very uninformed about reality – what’s really going on. With climate change, Ukraine, Israel.”

— Alec Baldwin

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“There are many challenges to face,” he said of the country. “The environment, the problem of plastic, of permafrost: there are plastic molecules in every corner of the planet. These are the real problems to solve.”

“It will be necessary for every building to have an alternative energy component,” he continued. “Every hospital, school, airport, and government building will have to have photovoltaic panels on the roof. We must force states to work on alternative energy sources. But we will never get rid of oil and gas. Can you imagine an ambulance car or a fire department car that runs on electricity and has to be refueled at a charging station?”

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In addition to receiving the accolade, Baldwin appeared in Italy to introduce a showing of his 1990 film, “The Hunt for Red October,” which he starred in alongside Sean Connery.

Former news boss sheds light on his ouster from liberal network

Former CNN boss Chris Licht spoke candidly about what led to his 2023 ouster from the network, suggesting he faced resistance to “change” from staff.

In an interview Saturday at the New York Press Club’s Journalism Conference, Licht said it was his “mission” when he was hired to restore America’s “trust” in CNN and chalked up his firing as mere “business.” He said he even remains friends with the man who fired him, parent company Warner Brother Discovery CEO David Zaslav.

Licht was then asked by ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith whether he could “pinpoint” what exactly led to his firing, citing examples like the CNN Trump town hall and the now-infamous Atlantic profile that painted him in a negative light, both having sparked backlash among staff. 

“When you try to change something dramatically, you can’t do it alone. You’ve got to build the trust of the organization. They have to believe in you. And I did not build that trust,” Licht said. “I was not able to, in the time that I was there, build trust so that people would tune out the noise and sort of follow me into that.”

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“Because of time? Or because of something else?” Smith asked.

“Time’s an element of it,” Licht responded. “We have to remember where things were at that time. It was a crazy – I think everyone could objectively say it was a crazy time, particularly in that organization, but I’m not letting myself off the hook.”

“I think when you try to have a bold way of going forward, you have to be confident and you have to show confidence in it so people follow you, but there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance and I still work on dialing that and I think sometimes I was on the wrong side of that.”

“The Atlantic article I absolutely should not have done,” he continued. “Speaking of arrogance, imagine saying yes after, by the way, saying no several times, but at the end, saying yes because you know what, when this comes out in a year, I will have saved everything. This is gonna be an article that’s going to be so positive because in a year, I did it. Imagine that arrogance now that I look back. Now, I hadn’t failed at anything before. So it was I absolutely thought, you know what, it’s been a year, they’re going to be writing about ‘wow, look at all these great things that have happened.’ So, no, I should have done that. Definitely should not have taken a reporter to the gym. If I can say one thing to anybody, do not bring a reporter to the gym.”

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Licht defended the Trump town hall as he did during the blowback against CNN, saying, “I still believe today it was the right thing to do.” And while he reiterated his regret about not disclosing to viewers that the New Hampshire town hall was filled with Trump supporters and center-right voters, he pointed to their positive reactions to then-candidate Donald Trump as being significant in its own right. 

“Remember, we hadn’t seen Trump for a very long time. That was the first time he answered very tough questions in a long time. And the fact that his shtick resonated with voters in New Hampshire, that’s part of the story, but people at home had to be told that and that’s one thing I would have done differently,” Licht said. 

He continued, “So why was it? I think it’s all of that… There are those that didn’t want change, and how I reacted to those people, you know, I picked some fights I shouldn’t have picked. There’s some things I should – some alliances I should have built, or people I should have trusted more. There’s people I should have trusted less. But, you know, there’s not a leader in any organization that doesn’t have those self-reflections.”

A spokesperson for CNN declined to comment.

Licht was handpicked by Zaslav in 2022 to help revive CNN’s viewership and restore its journalistic credibility after the network spent years building a reputation for being an anti-Trump news organization under Licht’s predecessor, Jeff Zucker. 

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CNN’s rank-and-file resisted Licht’s efforts to remove the spectacle from its coverage. Among his major moves were dismissing prominent liberal on-air figures, including Brian Stelter, Don Lemon and Jeffrey Toobin.

However, Licht had completely lost the trust of CNN staff after the network hosted Trump town hall in May 2023, which sparked unprecedented fury from within the newsroom. Licht was fired by Zaslav weeks later. 

Fast-forward to November 2024 as financial woes and dismal viewership continue to plague the network. Many of Licht’s decisions were reversed – Stelter was rehired as a media analyst, Toobin and Lemon have made multiple appearances as guests – and CNN’s anti-Trump coverage came back in a roaring fashion through Election Day. 

CNN’s current honcho Mark Thompson is now tasked with stopping the bleeding of its dwindling audience and its bottom line. CNN staffers have told Fox News Digital they’re “deeply frustrated” as significant budget cuts and layoffs are likely to rock the network in the coming months. 

Chicago Tribune rips ‘outlandish’ teachers union for demanding higher pay

The Chicago Tribune editorial board called out “outlandish” teachers unions in the city for demanding higher pay on Monday, noting the media yearly salary for Chicago Public School teachers is nearly $95,000.

“Chicago Public Schools teachers are extraordinarily well paid given the norms of their profession,” the editorial board wrote. “The median salary for a CPS teacher is nearly $95,000. That’s 21% more than teachers make in Cook County’s suburbs, where median pay is $78,000. What’s more, CPS says it pays its teachers more than any other large school district in the nation, and that’s before whatever increases they get in union contract negotiations that are ongoing.” 

The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding a 9% annual raise for teachers. The teachers’ union is calling for an extra $50 billion in funding to cover wage hikes as well as other demands.

“The Chicago Teachers Union continues to demand 9% annual raises, an outlandish ask, and is growing ever more shrill as CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and his administration try to hold the line on behalf of Chicago’s beleaguered taxpayers and in the face of heavy pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson to give CTU everything it wants,” the editorial board added. 

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The Tribune editorial board also noted that the Chicago public school system was suffering from “chronic absenteeism” among teachers.

“So, given the audacity of these CTU demands and salaries that already are among the highest in the nation, one might think that CPS teachers would be motivated to show up for work. School administrators tend to put great emphasis on student attendance, but precious little attention is paid to how frequently teachers miss work,” the editorial board wrote.

State records show that over 41% of CPS teachers exceeded 10 days of absence last year, the Chicago Tribune reported. These absences are in addition to the built-in vacation time allotted to teachers for the school year, which includes ten days for winter break, five for spring break and eight additional days off for holidays, according to the outlet. 

“Why is it that all we hear from CTU is demands for more, but we never hear anything from the union about what its members owe the taxpayers (and parents) of this city?” the Tribune said.

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The editorial board said the Chicago Teachers Union and its president, Stacy Davis Gates, should be “embarrassed.”

“And in Chicago showing up is the least we should expect from our very well-compensated public-school educators,” the editorial board concluded.

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Three food recalls that could impact your Thanksgiving grocery shopping

A lot of time and energy goes into preparing Thanksgiving dinner, so it’s important to ensure that your meal isn’t ruined by potentially contaminated food.

Several food items have recently come under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for illness outbreaks and potential contamination.

Below are three recalled foods to know about ahead of the holiday.

1. Organic carrots

The FDA announced a voluntary recall of organic carrots by Grimmway Farms in California pending an investigation of an E.coli outbreak.

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The recall includes multiple sizes and brands of bagged organic whole and baby carrots.

The organic whole carrots were available for retail purchase from Aug. 14 through Oct. 23, 2024, from the following brands: 365, Bunny Luv, Cal-Organic, Compliments, Full Circle, Good & Gather, GreenWise, Marketside, Nature’s Promise, O Organics, President’s Choice, Simple Truth, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans and Wholesome Pantry.

The recalled organic baby carrots include specific best-if-used-by dates on the bags from Sept. 11 to Nov. 12, 2024.

The brands of baby carrots include 365, Bunny Luv, Cal-Organic, Compliments, Full Circle, Good & Gather, GreenWise, Grimmway Farms, Kroger, LIDL, Marketside, Nature’s Promise, O Organics, President’s Choice, Raley’s, Simple Truth, Sprouts, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans and Wholesome Pantry.

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The recall for organic whole carrots was expanded to include different bag sizes, including Bunny Luv 50 pounds bags, Cal-Organic 15-pound and 50-pound bags, and Good & Gather 1-pound bags.

The FDA noted that these products are likely “no longer available for sale in stores,” but could be in consumers’ homes.

Other companies that used these products from Grimmway Farms are conducting their own recalls. 

“Consumers should check their refrigerators and freezers and should not eat recalled bagged organic whole or baby carrots,” the FDA wrote in the notice.

“If you have these products in your home, do not eat or use them, throw them away, and clean and sanitize surfaces they touched,” the agency recommended.

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“If you purchased organic whole or baby carrots and stored them without the original packaging and don’t know what brand they are, you should not eat them and should throw them away.”

2. Ground beef

Wolverine Packing Co. in Detroit, Michigan, has recalled ground beef products due to potential E. coli contamination.

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced on Nov. 20 that the manufacturer recalled nearly 168,000 pounds of ground beef that could have been contaminated.

The fresh ground beef products have a “use by” date of Nov. 14, 2024, and the frozen products have a labeled production date on Oct. 22, 2024.

The FSIS noted that these products were shipped to restaurant locations nationwide, and expressed concern that the contaminated meat could still be in refrigerators or freezers.

“Restaurants are urged not to serve these products,” the agency stated in the recall announcement.

“These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.”

3. Ready-to-eat meat

Yu Shang Food, Inc., located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, recalled nearly 73,000 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products due to possible listeria contamination.

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The FSIS reissued the announcement on Nov. 21, noting that all RTE products that are within their shelf life and were produced before Oct. 28, 2024, are subject to recall.

These products were shipped to retail stores across the country and were available for online purchase.

The agency warned that these products could be in the refrigerators and freezers of consumers and urged buyers not to consume them.

“These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase,” FSIS instructed.

Doctor offers safety tips

While listeria exposure can cause a variety of symptoms, from high fever to nausea and vomiting, Fox News senior medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel emphasized the dangers of E. coli infection.

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“It causes blood diarrhea and rarely kidney failure,” he told Fox News Digital. “It is generally not treated with antibiotics because it can cause the bacteria to die and spread more toxins.”

The chances of contracting illness from this E. coli outbreak are “very low,” according to Siegel. “There are over 150,000 pounds involved and only 15 known cases,” he said.

The doctor shared some recommendations to prevent infection.

“Cook your meat [at] more than 160 degrees, and don’t keep it too long,” he said. “Look for changes in color or smell.”

“Washing produce won’t always get rid of it, [but] wash your hands. Keep produce separate from uncooked meat to avoid cross-contamination.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Yu Shang Foods, Grimmway Farms and Wolverine Packing Co. for comment.