Trump, Musk quickly weigh in after Vivek Ramaswamy jumps into governor’s race
President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on Monday separately endorsed entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio’s gubernatorial race.
Ramaswamy, who ran against Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, announced his candidacy earlier on Monday to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in the 2026 election.
Trump announced his endorsement in a post to his social media platform Truth Social.
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“VIVEK RAMASWAMY is running for Governor of the Great State of Ohio. I know him well, competed against him, and he is something SPECIAL,” Trump wrote.
“He’s Young, Strong, and Smart! Vivek is also a very good person, who truly loves our Country,” he continued. “He will be a GREAT Governor of Ohio, will never let you down, and has my COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT!”
Musk, a senior advisor to Trump, also offered Ramaswamy his endorsement a short time later.
“Good luck, you have my full endorsement!” Musk responded to Ramaswamy in a post on X.
Ramaswamy formally declared his candidacy during a rally on Monday in his hometown of Cincinnati.
“I will lead Ohio to become the state of excellence in America,” Ramaswamy told the crowd.
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“Think that sounds unrealistic? It’s not,” he said. “In fact, it wasn’t long ago that Ohio was that state. Today, young people on the internet make fun of something by saying ‘that’s so Ohio.’ But less than a century ago, people weren’t making fun of Ohio, they were aspiring to be Ohio.”
Ramaswamy, 39, dropped out of the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination to endorse Trump and become a surrogate for the current president.
President Macron shares how Trump has impacted efforts to end Russia-Ukraine war
French President Emmanuel Macron praised U.S. President Donald Trump for taking steps to end Russia’s war against Ukraine but warned the commander-in-chief to “be careful” in the negotiation process.
“We want peace. And I think the initiative of President Trump is a very positive one. But my message was to say be careful because we need something substantial for Ukraine,” he said in an interview from the Blair House Monday on “Special Report.”
“I think the arrival of President Trump is a game-changer. And I think he has the deterrence capacity of the U.S. to reengage with Russia.”
Macron, who met with Trump at the White House on the third anniversary of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, said the U.S. and France need to work together to determine lasting future security guarantees.
He emphasized the need for more than just a ceasefire in the war due to previous violations by Russia in 2014 and 2015 with regard to the Minsk Agreements.
World leaders from Sweden, Estonia, Canada, Finland and Denmark met with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv Monday to show their support for the war-torn country.
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“We all strive for peace and want to make it as reliable and lasting as possible. Today, we discussed the need for security guarantees for Ukraine and real ways to ensure an end to this Russian aggression and prevent any new one. Peace is needed,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X after meeting with key allies.
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Macron told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier he sees the possibility of a truce between Russia and Ukraine in the coming weeks.
“[A] truce on air, sea [and] infrastructures,” the French president explained. “If it is not respected, it will be the best evidence of the fact that Russia is not serious.”
During the truce, Macron suggested there would be negotiations on security guarantees, land, occupied territories and reconstruction.
The Trump administration is working to finalize a rare earth mineral deal with Ukraine that it says will recoup the tens of billions of dollars in aid Washington has sent to Kyiv.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last week that he considers the proposed deal to be a “win-win” economic partnership between the U.S. and Ukraine that signifies its interest in the country long-term.
Macron said discussions are still ongoing about European countries’ roles in maintaining peace in Ukraine once the war is over.
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“We worked very hard together with the UK prime minister to have a French-UK proposal to say we are ready to send troops, not to go to the front line, not to go in confrontation, but to be in some locations, being defined by the treaty, as a presence to maintain this peace and our collective credibility with the US backup and the US backstop.”
Councilwoman clarifies herself after mocking Trump’s border czar over his past employment
The Boston City Council member who recently mocked Border Czar Tom Homan’s employment history walked back her comments in a follow-up post about the Trump administration official.
Councilwoman Sharon Durkan, who accused Homan of spending his career “policing a town smaller than a Fenway Park crowd,” posted a clarification shortly after a Fox News Digital request for comment on Sunday evening.
“Yes, I understand that Tom Homan spent his career as a federal agent within Border Patrol & ICE, but that’s a world away from the realities of policing a major city,” Durkan explained. “His background is in immigration enforcement, not community policing – where trust and accountability are key.”
The Smith College graduate raised eyebrows after mocking Homan’s brief stint as a police officer in West Carthage, New York, implying that he was unqualified to enforce President Donald Trump’s border policy in Boston because of that experience. But Homan’s time in the small-town department only lasted from 1983 to 1984, before he became a Border Patrol agent and eventually worked his way through the ranks of the Obama and Trump administrations.
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“Laughable that someone who spent their career policing a town smaller than a Fenway Park crowd thinks they can lecture Boston on public safety,” the councilwoman’s original Feb. 23 post read. “Commissioner Michael Cox serves with distinction and earns trust with integrity.”
“Tom Homan should know, we don’t scare easy,” Durkan added.
Durkan’s remarks came after Homan called out Beantown during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, specifically calling out Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox for enforcing the city’s sanctuary policies.
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“I’m coming to Boston, and I’m bringing hell with me,” Homan said during his speech. “I looked at the numbers this morning… I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, you released them back into the street.”
“You’re not a police commissioner,” the Trump administration official added. “Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer. Because you became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop.”
Massachusetts and the greater Boston area have seen several arrests of criminal migrants in recent weeks, including an illegal immigrant connected to a violent Brazilian gang who was recently arrested in Bellingham. Cox has previously said that his department “doesn’t enforce detainers” that are filed by ICE, and that Boston cops “abide by Boston law and Massachusetts law.”
“The Boston Police Department has pretty defined rules and we abide by the law here in the state,” the police chief said on a segment of WCVB’s “On the Record” show. “We don’t enforce civil detainers regarding federal immigration law. It’s defined here in the state, and that’s just how it works.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Durkan for additional comment, but did not immediately hear back.
Canceled MSNBC host sends warning to viewers in her final show at liberal network
“ReidOut” host Joy Reid made her final bow on MSNBC by sounding the alarm about “fascism” in America.
“We begin tonight with what I think is question; when you are in the midst of a crisis and specifically a crisis of democracy: How do you resist– when fascism isn’t just coming, It’s already here? So, what, if anything, can you do about it?” Reid began her show Monday. “For one thing, you can try to learn from history, from what people in this situation, in countries around the world and in America have done before. As my friend Rachel Maddow always says, history is here to help.”
“The first rule is to fight back, to never stop resisting. Do not obey in advance, as [anti-Trump historian] Tim Snyder put it… Even if it’s scary or uncomfortable or inconvenient, just keep saying no. Or finding creative ways to say no in small ways and large,” she later said.
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Reid was later joined by her “comrades in arms” Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell, who all showered her with praise. Reid closed her show by thanking a lengthy list of staffers.
Appearing on a Zoom call Sunday night with the group Win With Black Women, Reid said she had gone through “every emotion” since she learned of her show’s cancelation from “anger, rage, disappointment, hurt,” as well as “gratitude” from the support she has received.
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While holding back tears, Reid declared “my show had value” and said she would not apologize for going “hard” on issues like Black Lives Matter, immigrants, the 1619 Project, Gaza as well as her opposition to President Donald Trump.
“I am not sorry I stood up for those things because those things are of God,” Reid said on the Zoom. “And you know, I’m a church girl too, and those are the things that I was taught were of God. So I’m not sorry. I’m just proud of my show.”
Reid’s 7 p.m. ET program, which launched in 2020, will be replaced by a show featuring Symone Sanders-Townsend, a former spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris, Alicia Menendez and RNC Chair turned MSNBC host Michael Steele, according to a source familiar with the plans. The three of them currently co-host a weekend program together.
There has been a flurry of programming changes across the Peacock network. “Inside with Jen Psaki” hosted by former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, will be replacing “Alex Wagner Tonight” in the 9 p.m. ET timeslot when MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reverts to Mondays following the end of Trump’s first 100 days in office. Wagner will remain with the network as a political analyst.
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Ayman Mohyeldin’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Katie Phang’s “The Katie Phang Show” and Jonathan Capehart’s weekend programs have all been canceled, but the three hosts will remain with the network in different roles.
MSNBC is also in talks to add Politico’s Eugene Daniels and New York University law professor Melissa Murray to potentially join the network, Fox News Digital has learned.
Additionally, NBC’s Lester Holt will be stepping down as anchor of “NBC Nightly News” later this year, focusing on his duties as “Dateline” host on a full-time basis going forward.
Alec Baldwin threatens to break Trump impersonator’s neck ‘in half’ in street confrontation
Alec Baldwin appeared to nearly come to blows with a comedian Sunday night near his apartment in Manhattan.
Baldwin, 66, appeared to be unloading luggage from a vehicle in New York City when a Donald Trump impersonator noticed the Emmy Award-winning actor.
After a vocal back-and-forth between the pair on the street, Baldwin physically threatened to snap the comedian’s “neck in half.”
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“Now now now, let me ask you a question,” Baldwin pleaded with the comedian who was identified as Jason Scoop.
“Now you realize, by the way, No. No, look at me. I want you to look at me. What, you got a camera on me,” the “30 Rock” star asked Scoop, referring to a green light beaming from his finger.
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“Do you realize my kids live in this building? I want you to know something.”
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Baldwin continued, “If this camera wasn’t here, I’d snap your f—–g neck in half and break your f—–g neck right now. You know that, don’t you?
“I’ll take that camera, and I’ll shove it up your a–.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to a rep for Baldwin for comment.
“If this camera wasn’t here, I’d snap your f—-ng neck in half and break your f—-ng neck right now. You know that, don’t you?”
This isn’t the first time Baldwin has gotten into a confrontation. In April, Baldwin smacked an anti-Israel agitator’s cellphone while inside a coffee shop after she demanded he say “Free Palestine,” in a video posted online.
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The woman approached Baldwin while he was talking on the phone at the cash register inside Maman on University Place in New York and began begging him to say “Free Palestine” and to criticize Israel amid the country’s ongoing war against Hamas terrorists.
Alec and his wife of 12 years, Hilaria Baldwin, recently opened up the doors to their family home to share their lives with TLC cameras for their reality show, “The Baldwins.”
The couple has seven children together: Carmen Gabriela, 11, Rafael Thomas, 9, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 8, Romeo Alejandro David, 6, and Eduardo Pao Lucas, 4. María Lucía Victoria, 3, and Ilaria Catalina Irena, 2.
He also has a daughter, Ireland Baldwin, with ex-wife Kim Basinger. He became a grandfather for the first time in 2023 when Ireland gave birth to daughter, Holland.
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Last year, a New Mexico judge dismissed the case against the “Beetlejuice” actor following what legal experts described to Fox News Digital as a “comedy of legal errors.”
Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter and faced up to 18 months in prison in connection to the death of Halyna Hutchins. The cinematographer died Oct. 21, 2021 after a gun Baldwin was holding discharged on the “Rust” film set.
Super Bowl champion Eagles make decision on potential Trump White House invite
INDIANAPOLIS – It’s a different time in America and the idea that the Philadelphia Eagles would skip trip to the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl victory with President Donald Trump isn’t the reality we’re in anymore.
That was the case in 2018.
Not in 2025.
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Eagles look forward to White House visit
The Eagles, winners of their second Super Bowl in seven years after beating the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this month, would love to visit Trump this time around.
“We would be honored to visit the White House,” a club source told OutKick. “It’s one of the things we had looked forward to doing, and we look forward to receiving the invitation.”
That’s the thing: The White House has yet to extend the invite.
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Seems streamlining a bloated government, saving billions, trying to broker peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and rooting for the USA hockey team takes up a lot of time. But the invite will surely come, and this time it will be accepted.
Report on shun incorrect
There were rumors and a false report from earlier this month that the Eagles had voted against making the trip.
OutKick founder Clay Travis put out that fire Monday morning.
That report seemed plausible because the Eagles and Trump had failed to come to terms on a visit after they beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2018. Amid the kneeling controversy, several players voted not to attend.
The plan then had been to send a smaller contingent of players for the ceremony, but the visit was eventually canceled.
Then the White House rescinded the invitation.
In a statement from the White House at the time, the situation had been described as the Eagles players disagreeing “with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country.”
So that trip never happened.
But this is a new day in America, folks.
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Well, feels that way for some folks. Black, Hispanic and other minorities voted for Trump in record numbers in the last election.
There is no kneeling for the anthem controversy going on right now.
And there is hope an economy that hurt a lot of people the past four years under Joe Biden – including a lot of people blue cities such as Philadelphia – can be fixed.
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The Florida Panthers became the first pro team to visit the White House since Trump began his second term to celebrate their 2024 Stanley Cup victory.
And Tiger Woods, a 2020 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, has recently spent time with Trump as well.
Trump, we believe, is a big-time sports fan. He attended the Super Bowl game the Eagles won. And he could be the most sports-minded president in memory.
So, now that the Eagles have signaled they’ll attend, you better believe Trump will issue the invite.
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It should be something to see ardent Democrat party supporter Jeffrey Lurie, the Eagles owner, gift Trump with an Eagles jersey.
Cats and dogs getting along.
Top Harris surrogate makes major admission about Trump while mocking Dems
Mark Cuban admitted this weekend that “Democrats can’t sell” and that President Donald Trump is a master at marketing, saying he is better than Paris Hilton and Dennis Rodman.
Cuban, who during the 2024 presidential campaign served as one of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ top allies and campaign surrogates, also revealed he told Harris advisors to “not even try” advising him on messaging.
“Donald Trump is a great salesperson, he really is a great marketer,” he said.
Motioning with his hands, Cuban continued: “I’d put him up there, Donald Trump, then Paris Hilton, then Dennis Rodman.”
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The comparison drew laughs from the crowd at the “Principles First” summit in Washington, D.C., to which Cuban responded, “Seriously!”
“I mean those two below are some of the best marketers I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and Donald Trump surpassed them,” he said.
Cuban, who is a businessman, TV personality and co-owner of the Dallas Mavericks, emerged as one of Harris’ most fierce supporters during the 2024 campaign. He received a lot of backlash when he appeared to insult pro-Trump women by suggesting that Trump never surrounds himself with “strong, intelligent women.“
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Despite this, he had some brutal words to say about Democratic messaging and ineptitude on Saturday.
“I learned that Democrats can’t sell worth s—,” he laughed, according to other clips that surfaced from the weekend summit. “They’re so persnickety about every little detail, and that’s why Republicans at the presidential level — I don’t want to say kicked their a– because it wasn’t a runaway — but yeah.”
Cuban said that Democrats “had no idea” how to communicate their policies to moderates and small business owners.
“If you gave the Democrats a dollar bill and said: ‘You can sell these for 50 cents,’ they would hire 50 people to try to do it and then would not know how to sell the dollar bill for 50 cents,” he continued. “If you gave it to Donald Trump and said, ‘Sell this dollar bill for $2,’ he’d figure out a way, right? He’d tell you that $2 bill is, you know, huge. … That’s the problem, and that’s what I learned.”
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He revealed that during the campaign, he told Harris staffers to not even try sharing campaign advice with him.
“It got to the point where after the first event I went to, I said to the Harris people: ‘You’re not allowed to say a word to me. I don’t care what you think. I’m just going to do what I think is right,’” said Cuban.
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“That in essence is how Donald Trump has become so successful,” he continued. “Because he’s able to put out messages and people see in him what they want to see.”
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Cuban proceeded to caution that he believes Trump is “still in the salesmanship stage” and his ability to message effectively “doesn’t mean that he can execute on them.”
“I think now people are starting to ask: ‘OK, its great to sell it. Now can you execute it on it?'” he said.
Scientists find clues on why COVID vaccine causes chronic health problems in some
For a majority of people, the COVID vaccine doesn’t cause adverse health effects — but a small percentage experience chronic symptoms that can last for months or even years.
Yale researchers recently made some discoveries about why certain people experience this condition, which they have dubbed “post-vaccination syndrome” (PVS).
In early findings, the team recognized “potential immunological patterns” that are unique to people with PVS. The hope is that this discovery will help to enable future treatments and therapies for those who are affected.
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“This work is still in its early stages, and we need to validate these findings,” said co-senior study author Akiko Iwasaki, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, in a press release.
“But this is giving us some hope that there may be something that we can use for diagnosis and treatment of PVS down the road.”
Symptoms of post-vaccination syndrome
People with this condition may suffer from excessive fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, insomnia and dizziness, according to the Yale researchers.
These typically develop within a day or two of vaccination and can worsen over time.
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“It’s clear that some individuals are experiencing significant challenges after vaccination. Our responsibility as scientists and clinicians is to listen to their experiences, rigorously investigate the underlying causes, and seek ways to help,” said co-senior author Harlan Krumholz, professor of cardiology at YSM, in the release.
“Post-vaccination syndrome is real, and has been found [to occur] from many vaccines, including COVID,” Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and Fox News senior medical analyst, told Fox News Digital.
What the study found
The researchers analyzed blood samples from 42 study participants who experienced symptoms of PVS and 22 who did not.
Those with symptoms were shown to have lower levels of two types of white blood cells. People with PVS who had never had COVID also had lower levels of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, likely because they tended to have fewer vaccine doses, according to the release.
“Post-vaccination syndrome is real, and has been found [to occur] from many vaccines.”
“Fewer vaccine doses and no viral infection means the body’s immune system has had little opportunity to develop a defense to the virus,” said the researchers.
Some of the people with PVS also had higher levels of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which enables the virus to penetrate and infect host cells. This has also been linked to a higher risk of developing long COVID.
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“We don’t know if the level of spike protein is causing the chronic symptoms, because there were other participants with PVS who didn’t have any measurable spike protein — but it could be one mechanism underlying this syndrome,” said Iwasaki.
In addition to the elevated spike proteins, other factors could increase the risk of post-vaccination syndrome. Those include autoimmunity, tissue damage and reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the researchers wrote.
“Akiko Iwasaka is a world-renowned immunologist at Yale who has studied COVID (and COVID vaccines) extensively,” Siegel pointed out.
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“In this new study, she reports that in a very small percentage of those who received COVID vaccines (and experienced prolonged side effects), there may be the presence of persistent spike protein,” Siegel confirmed.
“They may also experience immune disruption, which takes the form of elevations in inflammatory immune cells (CD8 and TN alpha) and a decrease in cells that help resolve inflammation and infection (CD4 helper cells).”
The researchers agreed that more studies are essential to guide diagnosis and treatment.
“We’re only just starting to make headway in understanding PVS,” said Krumholz. “Every medical intervention carries some risk, and it’s important to acknowledge that adverse events can occur with vaccines.”
“Our focus must remain on understanding what these people are experiencing through rigorous science and addressing the needs of those affected with compassion and an open mind.”
Siegel agreed, adding, “This needs to be further studied in terms of understanding how common prolonged COVID vaccine side effects are and how to predict them and treat them.”