Congress rattled by video showing missile strike on orb that would not break
A House hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) stunned lawmakers when video evidence showed a U.S. drone firing a Hellfire missile at an orb off Yemen—only for the object to remain intact and keep moving, raising urgent questions about technology beyond known military capabilities.
At a House Oversight subcommittee meeting on UFO transparency and whistleblower protection, Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., unveiled the video.
The footage showed an MQ-9 drone tracking a UAP orb as another MQ-9 launched a Hellfire missile at it. The missile struck the orb, but instead of destroying it, the round appeared to “bounce right off.”
“That’s a Hellfire missile smacking into that UFO and [it] just bounced right off, and it kept going,” journalist George Knapp said. “There are servers where there’s a whole bank of these kind of videos that Congress has not been allowed to see.”
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Lawmakers and witnesses stressed that no known U.S. technology could withstand a Hellfire strike.
“Are you aware of anything in the U.S. arsenal that can split a Hellfire missile like this…and do whatever blob thing it did, and then keep going?” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., asked each witness.
Nuccetelli and Wiggins testified that no U.S. technology is capable of surviving such a strike.
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Asked if the video frightened them, all three – Nuccetelli, Wiggins and U.S. Air Force Veteran Dylan Borland – answered “yes.”
Beyond the Hellfire video, witnesses also shared their own UAP encounters.
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Nuccetelli described the “Vandenberg Red Square,” a 2003 incident at what is now Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. At the time, it was still an Air Force installation.
He recalled hearing chaos unfold over the radio. His friend screamed, “It’s coming right at us! It’s coming right for us!” Just moments later, he said he heard them say the object “shot off and was done.”
Wiggins also recalled a “Tic Tac” encounter, noting the craft showed no “conventional propulsion signatures” as it left.
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Though the origins remain unknown, lawmakers pressed for answers, demanding greater transparency on UAPs.
Massive maritime mishap halts operations at major American trade gateway
Dramatic video shows the moment nearly 70 shipping containers fell off a cargo ship Tuesday and were left bobbing in the ocean at the Port of Long Beach in California.
The containers were stationed at Pier G, and belonged to the vessel “Mississippi,” according to a report by FOX LA.
The U.S. Coast Guard set up a 250-yard safety zone as fire and police crews responded, according to the report.
Authorities have not confirmed any injuries.
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Cargo operations are suspended while crews work to secure the containers, according to FOX LA. Authorities will investigate the cause.
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The Port of Long Beach is a U.S. gateway for trans-Pacific trade.
Voted the “Best West Coast Seaport” by industry peers, the port handles trade valued at $300 billion annually and supports 2.7 million jobs across the nation, according to the port’s website.
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Goods moving through the port originate in, or are destined for, every congressional district in the U.S., according to the port.
Supreme Court greenlights LA immigration raids as Schiff sounds dictatorship alarm
A handful of California Democrats, who are also longtime political foes of President Donald Trump, slammed a Supreme Court ruling that lifts restrictions on the Trump administration’s immigration raids in Los Angeles as “un-American” and opening the door to a “parade of racial terror.”
“@realDonaldTrump’s hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA. His administration is targeting Latinos — and anyone who doesn’t look or sound like @StephenM’s idea of an American — to deliberately harm our families and economy,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted to X on Monday evening.
Newsom, who has sparred with Trump stretching back to the president’s first administration, was reacting to a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling on Monday that the Trump administration can continue deploying immigration raids in California, which blocked a lower court’s ruling that halted such raids in the state.
The case was punted to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in July blocked ICE from conducting raids in Los Angeles County, citing that they were likely unconstitutional as federal agents were detaining individuals for “apparent race or ethnicity,” or speaking Spanish. Immigration activists had accused the federal government of targeting Latinos based on criteria such as speaking Spanish. The Ninth Circuit upheld the July order before the Supreme Court weighed in.
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Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff each issued a rebuke of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday, calling the Trump administration’s immigration raids “blatantly illegal.”
“This Administration rounded up and arrested California residents, including U.S. citizens and legal residents, based on the color of their skin or the language they speak. This is blatantly illegal, yet the Supreme Court is allowing it to happen while the case proceeds. When the history of this country’s rapid descent into dictatorship is written, Republicans in Congress and the Roberts Court will have been its primary enabler,” Schiff posted to X on Monday.
Schiff has a long documented contentious relationship with Trump, including over the Jan. 6, 2021 investigation, Trump’s first impeachment trial and the Russia investigation. The California Democrat is currently under a Department of Justice investigation for alleged mortgage fraud uncovered under the second Trump administration.
“I want the entire nation to hear me when I say this isn’t just an attack on the people of LA, this is an attack on every person in every city in this country. Today’s ruling is not only dangerous – it’s un-American and threatens the fabric of personal freedom in the U.S.” Bass added in her own message on X.
Bass and Trump have also sparred in the past, most recently over the summer when federal immigration officials first converged on the city, and back in January when wildfires ripped across Southern California and devastated the Los Angeles area.
“Let me be clear: we will not allow the White House, nor the Supreme Court, to divide us. And to all Angelenos, I will never stop fighting for your rights, your dignity, and your safety, despite this administration’s efforts to threaten them. We will stand united,” Bass continued in a press release.
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The Supreme Court’s majority did not include an explanation for the ruling. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, however, authored a concurring opinion arguing that a combination of factors — such as race — could provide authorities with reasonable suspicion to stop a person and inquire about their immigration status.
“To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered along with other salient factors,” Kavanaugh wrote.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued the dissent and argued the emergency order approving such raids was “troubling” and pointed to the majority’s lack of explanation for the move.
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Sotomayor wrote.
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The Trump administration celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday.
“This is a win for the safety of Californians and the rule of law,” Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said, according to Politico. “DHS law enforcement will not be slowed down and will continue to arrest and remove the murderers, rapists, gang members, and other criminal illegal aliens… .”
The Supreme Court order follows the Trump administration ordering immigration officials to carry out raids back in June to remove individuals illegally residing in Los Angeles, which dubbed itself a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants in November before Trump was sworn back into the Oval Office.
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Riots and protests subsequently broke out in the city as local leaders, such as Newsom and Bass, slammed the Trump administration’s illegal immigrant crackdown and offered words of support to illegal immigrants.
Fox News Digital reached out to Newsom’s, Bass’ and Schiff’s respective offices on Monday afternoon.
Judge issues ruling on Fed governor Lisa Cook amid Trump’s bid to oust her
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, allowing her to continue in her current role, for now, even as lawyers for the administration are expected to immediately appeal the decision to a higher court for review.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee based in Washington, D.C., said on Tuesday that she will be moving Cook’s request into a preliminary injunction, which has the same effect, but will last through the entire case until a decision is made, pending any appeal from the government.
The judge said Cook has shown “irreparable harm” in her time away from the Federal Reserve as she is one of the leaders in controlling monetary policy, adding that “she has lost the ability to fulfill a high-ranking, public-servant role to which she is entitled.”
The decision, which follows the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Cook over allegations of mortgage application fraud, is the latest revelation in a high-stakes lawsuit likely headed to the Supreme Court. The probe could further complicate Cook’s fight to stay in her role on the Fed board, the panel of central bankers tasked with guiding the nation’s monetary policy.
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After a hearing that lasted more than two hours on Aug. 29, Cobb indicated she would move quickly on the case — specifically on whether Trump acted unlawfully in seeking to fire Cook over mortgage fraud allegations.
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Still, she also acknowledged the inherent complexities of the case and the novel requests that both Cook’s lawyers and lawyers for the Justice Department were grappling with for the first time in court.
Last week, Cobb granted a request from Cook’s attorneys seeking additional time to file their formal motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO).
The TRO is a short-term, emergency court order designed to maintain the status quo until a full hearing can be held. In plain terms, Cook asked the court to pause the firing and keep her in office until a full legal hearing can determine whether Trump’s removal was lawful.
Trump ousted Cook on Aug. 25, which prompted her to sue him in federal court three days later. Her lawsuit names as defendants Trump, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
Cook’s lawsuit argues that Trump’s move to fire her is unlawful and undermines the Federal Reserve’s independence. The suit, which was filed in federal court on Aug. 28, does not address the allegations that Cook listed multiple houses as a primary residence on mortgage filings.
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The allegations originated with Bill Pulte, a Trump appointee to the federal agency that regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Pulte tied Cook to a trio of properties in Michigan, Georgia, and Massachusetts, which prompted scrutiny over whether Cook had misrepresented how the homes would be used.
Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether Cook has tried to enter the Federal Reserve’s Foggy Bottom headquarters since Trump issued his termination letter.
The Federal Reserve declined to say whether she has tried to work from her office, is working remotely, or retains access to the email and other resources she needs for her job.
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Her ascension marked a historic first, as she became the first Black woman to serve as a governor on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, commonly known as the Fed board.
Now, her potential removal from that same panel could mark another historic first.
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Before Cook filed her suit, a Fed spokesperson acknowledged the potential legal feud and wrote in an Aug. 26 statement that the Fed will “abide by any court decision.”
ICE agents retreat with slashed tires after showdown with roofers, protesters
A dramatic standoff in upstate New York between immigration agents, roofers and protesters ended with officials leaving the scene with slashed tires Tuesday.
The confrontation happened at a residential job site where one worker was detained and others refused to come down from a rooftop in Rochester’s Park Avenue area.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies arrived at the sanctuary city home to carry out a removal operation of the suspected illegal immigrants.
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One roofer was taken into custody, while others stayed on the rooftop, WXXI News reported.
The incident escalated quickly when more than 100 protesters gathered at the scene, according to the NPR radio station.
Some were heard chanting “shame” and called the agents “gestapo,” according to the outlet.
At one point, a CBP vehicle, the station reported, was allegedly forced to retreat on four slashed tires as the crowd clapped. A few blocks away from the scene, the SUV was towed, WHAM reported.
The four-hour standoff saw federal agents abandon their attempts to detain other workers.
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Late last month, the Rochester City Council voted unanimously to codify the city’s sanctuary policy.
The Western New York Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies helped mediate the standoff, according to WXXI.
“The coalition is committed to standing alongside farmworkers, immigrants, and migrants to ensure dignity, fairness, and access to justice,” coalition Executive Director Irene Sanchez said in a news release.
The incident came as the Trump administration has increased immigration enforcement across the country.
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“President Trump’s been clear we’re going to prioritize public safety threats and national security threats, and data shows that’s exactly what we’re doing,” White House border czar Tom Homan told reporters Tuesday. “But if you want me to sit here and bless someone being here illegally, I’m not going to do that because they cheated the system.”
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CBP and ICE did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Democrat defeats Republican in special election as GOP House majority shrinks
Democrats will hold onto a vacant congressional seat in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., in a special election seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump and his sweeping and controversial agenda.
Democratic Party nominee James Walkinshaw defeated Republican nominee Stewart Whitson in Virginia’s left-leaning 11th Congressional District, according to The Associated Press.
Walkinshaw will succeed late longtime Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, who died in May after a battle with cancer.
Heading into Tuesday’s special election, Republicans controlled the House 219-212, with three seats controlled by Democrats vacant, as well as one held by the GOP. Walkinshaw’s victory in the left-leaning district that Republicans haven’t won in nearly two decades further narrows the GOP’s fragile House majority.
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With the vast majority of votes counted on Tuesday evening, Walkinshaw appeared headed for a roughly 50-point victory margin over Whitson. Connolly won re-election by nearly 34 points last December, and by 33 points in the 2022 midterms.
“Rep-elect Walkinshaw’s victory continues the dominant trend we’re seeing so far this year – Democrats are massively overperforming in nearly every race,” Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin said in a statement.
The district is home to tens of thousands of government workers and contractors, and the federal jobs cuts by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and crime and immigration, transgender policies and even the push to release the Justice Department’s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were all in the spotlight on the campaign trail.
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“Folks in Northern Virginia and Fairfax are feeling the impact of the Trump policies. And I like to say we’re kind of on the leading edge of the Trump economy here. Everybody in Fairfax knows someone, probably someone on their street, maybe the parent of their kid’s soccer team, who has lost their job because of DOGE or the Trump policies,” Walkinshaw told Fox News Digital on Election Day eve.
Walkinshaw, a Fairfax County Board of Supervisors member who previously served as Connolly’s chief of staff, argued that “if the Trump policies continue, tariffs, the so-called big, beautiful bill, that’s going to be the case all around the country. So, I think we’re on the leading edge of that. And I think voters tomorrow are going to send a statement about that.”
Whitson also said Trump was in the campaign spotlight because of a “lot of the great policies that he’s been championing.”
Whitson, an Army veteran and former FBI special agent who oversees federal affairs for a conservative think tank, told Fox News Digital “the people in our district who have lost their job or who are worried about losing their job, they don’t need empathy. They need solutions.”
He said Walkinshaw claimed “he’s going to fight President Trump and fight the administration. And my pitch to voters in our district is: is that going to help? Is that going to help improve the situation? The answer is no.
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“We need someone to represent the people in our district who can work with any administration, whether it’s Republican or Democrat,” Whitson emphasized.
While Trump isn’t very popular in the district — the president won just 31% of the vote in his White House re-election last year — Whitson said Trump’s polices “center on … common sense.”
Charlie Sheen reveals how his massive drug habit alarmed the drug cartel supplying him
Charlie Sheen talked about his years of drug addiction on Tuesday night, saying he was doing so many drugs at one point that he was “cut off” by the cartel supplying him.
“The amount that they were selling to [his drug dealer] Marco [Abeyta] … the amount that he kept requesting from them at the frequency that he was asking for … they had never transferred that to someone who wasn’t dealing,” Sheen explained to Jesse Watters in an interview on “Primetime.”
Sheen added that the cartel believed he was “blowing through this stuff so freaking fast, he’s dealing without our permission.”
He added that to be allowed by the cartel to deal, “You’ve got to get permission from the shot callers.”
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He also discussed getting sent to rehab by CBS when he was starring on the sitcom “Two and a Half Men.”
“They sent the jet hoping I would get on it and get the rehab,” he told Watters. “That’s when I told [former CBS CEO and chairman], Les Moonves, ‘I appreciate this. You have my word, I’m going to shut it down, but I’m going to do it here at home.'”
He said it was the first time the jet had been offered to anyone in the eight years he was on the show.
“There was no bigger party to attend. There was no higher high left. And I just felt like I’d been letting people down for too long and myself included in that, and it just lost its luster. It lost its effect. It lost its seat at the table.”
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He was then fired from the show and replaced by Ashton Kutcher in 2011.
Sheen said he’s almost eight years sober now.
“It stopped working,” he said of why he decided to stop doing drugs. “I had to get to a place I had to make the decision, you know, and I had to do it for myself first, my children second, and then the rest of my family.”
He added, “There was nothing left. There was no bigger party to attend. There was no higher high left. And I just felt like I’d been letting people down for too long and myself included in that, and it just lost its luster. It lost its effect. It lost its seat at the table.”
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The documentary “aka Charlie Sheen” premieres on Netflix on Wednesday and his memoir “The Book of Sheen” was released on Tuesday.
Elizabeth Hurley marks end of summer with bikini photo and fans praise her youthful look
Elizabeth Hurley is saying goodbye to summer in style.
The 60-year-old “Austin Powers” star took to Instagram to say goodbye to summer with a bikini photo, captioning the post, “Bye bye to the best summer ❤️.”
In the photo, Hurley posed in a white Elizabeth Hurley Beach bikini, which featured gold chain detailing on the sides of the bottoms. She paired the look with dark sunglasses and let her hair blow in the wind.
Fans flooded the comments section about the star’s youthful appearance, with one writing that she’s “Putting woman half your age to shame wow 🌹😍🔥🌹.”
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“I believe you must be the hottest 60 year old on the planet ❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥,” another fan wrote. A third chimed in, calling her “The most beautiful woman in the world!!!”
This is not the first time Hurley has posted swimsuit photos. Earlier in the summer, she proved her good looks come from good genetics, when she posted a photo of her and her mother in matching bikinis to celebrate her mom’s 85th birthday.
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In the photo, her mother, Angela, posed in a one-piece swimsuit with a plunging neckline, while Hurley posed next to her in a matching bikini. Both mother and daughter accessorized their looks with a white cover-up.
While genetics play a big part in Hurley’s youthful look, she recently gave her followers advice on how to take the perfect Instagram bikini photo, when she posted a photo of herself in a tan swimsuit.
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“BAN overhead sunlight,” she wrote in the caption. “When shooting bikinis, sunrise or sunset are your best friends 😉 We shot this at 7am… By 8am, I was lounging around in one of my equally flattering @elizabethhurleybeach kaftans, feeling glamorous AND shielded from the lethal sun.”
The actress made headlines this year when she debuted her new relationship with country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. The two announced their romance on Instagram April 20 with a photo of Cyrus kissing her on the cheek.
Cyrus and Hurley first met on set while they were working on the 2022 film “Christmas in Paradise.” They reconnected when Hurley reached out to him during Cyrus’ divorce from singer Firerose after two years without contact.
“I felt like, ‘Wow, can life get any harder? Can it get any tougher?’ For me, at a certain point, it was like, ‘You can’t get knocked down any flatter than laying on your back when life is kicking you,’” Cyrus said.
“And, in this moment, this hand kind of reached out in a text message, not a physical hand, as in the one you saw in the picture. That’d be good. A friend reached out.”
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He shared he didn’t even have her number saved at the time.
“So, I text back, I go, ‘Who is this?’ And it’s like, ‘Elizabeth Hurley.’ Of all the people to reach out to me in that second that maybe I needed most,” Cyrus said. “This friend that made me laugh.”
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Gen Z demonstrators storm prisons, set fire to government buildings, officials’ homes
Nepal’s protests against the government turned violent across the Himalayan nation on Tuesday with officials confirming that at least 19 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded, Reuters reported.
Demonstrators, mainly young people from Generation Z, torched parliament and the homes of government officials, stormed prisons and forced the resignation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in the nation’s capital of Kathmandu.
Reports from local media said protesters allegedly set the home of former Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal on fire with his wife, Ravi Laxmi Chitrakar, inside the Dallu residence.
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She was critically burned, The New York Times reported, and was rushed to Kirtipur Burn Hospital, her family said.
Violent protests erupted last week after the government banned major social media platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube.
Although the ban was revoked, demonstrators said they would continue until parliament was dissolved, with many unhappy with the current political parties, blaming them for corruption, The Associated Press reported.
“I am here to protest about the massive corruption in our country,” student Bishnu Thapa Chetri told the AP. “The country has gotten so bad that, for us youths, there is no grounds for us to stay.”
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Oli, whose own home was also set on fire, resigned Tuesday. Black smoke was seen billowing from the Singha Durbar palace complex, which is the government’s main administrative home.
Officials also confirmed that two prisons in western Nepal were stormed, leading to the escape of nearly 900 inmates.
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The U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu has urged citizens to avoid large gatherings.
Nepal’s army chief, Ashok Raj Sigdel, warned the military could “take control of the situation” if the violence continues, though he appealed to demonstrators for dialogue.