Justices clash as Supreme Court appears to take stance on landmark parental rights case
Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor snapped at each other during Tuesday’s arguments over parental rights in LGBTQ curriculum after the liberal justice attempted to jump back into the questioning as Alito was speaking.
The short quarrel happened as the high court listened to arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which a coalition of parents sought to solidify the right to be informed about and opt their children out of reading LGBTQ-related material in elementary schools — which they argue conflicts with their faith.
“There is a growing heat to the exchanges between the justices. Sotomayor just tried to disagree with Alito’s portrayal and Alito pushed back and asked to allow him to finish,” Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley observed on X.
Sotomayor initially asked Mahmoud attorney Eric Baxter about a particular book titled “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” that included a same-sex relationship storyline and whether exposure to same-sex relationships in children’s books could be considered coercion.
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“Our parents would object to that,” Baxter responded.
Sotomayor continued with her line of questioning to further clarify Baxter’s objection to the books. Baxter stated, “Our objections would be even to reading books that violate our client’s religious beliefs.”
Alito then jumped in with additional questions related to the book.
“I’ve read that book as well as a lot of these other books,” Alito began. “Do you think it’s fair to say that all that is done in ‘Uncle Bobby’s Wedding’ is to expose children to the fact that there are men who marry other men?”
Baxter objected to Alito’s question. Alito then said that while the book “has a clear message and a lot of people think it’s a good message,” some with “traditional religious beliefs don’t agree with” it.
As Alito continued with his explanation, Sotomayor jumped in.
“What a minute. The reservation is—” Sotomayor began.
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“Can I finish?” Alito said.
“It has a clear moral message, and it may be a good message. It’s just a message that a lot of religious people disagree with,” Alito finished.
As arguments wrapped, the Supreme Court appeared inclined to agree with the parents.
A coalition of Jewish, Christian and Muslim parents with elementary school children in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland brought suit against the school board after it introduced new LGBTQ books into the curriculum as part of the district’s “inclusivity” initiative.
The curriculum change came after the state of Maryland enacted regulations seeking to promote “educational equity,” according to the petitioner’s brief filed with the high court.
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The parents lost both at the district court and the appellate level. The Fourth Circuit held that the parents had not shown how the policy violated the First Amendment.
The case comes at a time when President Donald Trump and his administration have prioritized educational and DEI-related reform upon starting his second term. The Supreme Court has notably also heard oral arguments this past term in other religious liberty and gender-related suits.
The high court heard oral arguments earlier this month in a suit brought by a Wisconsin-based Catholic charity group’s bid for tax relief. The decision could alter the current eligibility requirements for religious tax exemptions.
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Trump delivers blunt message about why he can’t deport ‘some very bad people’
Speaking at the White House Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump blasted courts standing in the way of his administration’s immigration agenda of deporting “some very bad people,” who he said include “killers, murderers, drug dealers.”
The president touted his administration’s progress in shutting down the border and cracking down on illegal immigration, saying, “Honestly, it’s one of the great successes; we have virtually nobody coming in illegally.”
He noted, however, that certain rulings against his deportations pose a threat to his efforts to secure the country.
“I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because, you know, we have thousands of people that are ready to go out, and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,” he said. “It wasn’t meant–the system wasn’t meant–and we don’t think there’s anything that says that.”
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Since Trump’s return to the Oval Office in January, his administration has faced hundreds of lawsuits targeting his executive orders and actions, some of which have resulted in nationwide injunctions.
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case on May 15 about three federal judges who issued separate nationwide injunctions blocking an executive order by Trump ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
On Mar. 15, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal illegal alien gang members to El Salvador.
Trump said that court rulings slowing down his deportation agenda could lead to a “very dangerous country.”
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“We were having hundreds of thousands of people a month come in under Biden, and they came in from prisons. They came in from mental institutions. They came in from gangs in Venezuela and other countries all over the world, not just South America. They were emptying their prisons into the United States, Venezuela emptied its prisons out, but many countries emptied their prisons into the Congo as an example, in Africa, emptied their prisons into the United States,” he said.
“I won an election based on the fact that we get them out,” he went on. “We’re getting them out and a judge can say, ‘No, you have to have a trial’ … the trials going to take two years, and now we’re going to have a very dangerous country if we’re not allowed to do what we’re entitled to do.”
Trump also addressed his administration’s ongoing trade war with China, saying it is up to China to make a deal work.
“Ultimately, they have to make a deal because otherwise they’re not going to be able to deal in the United States,” he said. “And we want them involved but they have to, and other countries have to make a deal. And if they don’t make a deal, we’ll set the deal because we’re the ones that set the deal.”
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The president said he expects that in whichever deal is ultimately reached, the current 145 percent tariff against China will be much lower, but noted it “won’t be zero” either.
“It used to be zero. We were just destroyed. China was taking us for a ride and it’s just not going to happen,” he said. “We’re going to be very good to China, I have a great relationship with President XI. But they would make billions and billions and billions of dollars a year, and they would build their military out of the United States on what they made so that won’t happen.”
“But they’re going to do very well,” he continued. “And I think they’re going to be happy and I think we’re going to live together very happily and ideally work together. So, I think it’s going to work out very well.”
During the Q and A Trump also put to bed rumors that he would be firing Jerome Powell from his role as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve over a disagreement about lowering interest rates.
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In response to a question on whether he had any intention to fire Powell, Trump replied, “None whatsoever. Never did.”
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“The press runs away with things. No, I have no intention of firing him,” said Trump.
“I would like to see him be a little more active in terms of his idea to lower interest rates,” he noted, adding, “This is a perfect time to lower interest rates. If he doesn’t, is it the end? No, it’s not, but it would be good timing. It would be it which could have taken place earlier. But, no, I have no intention to fire him.”
Elon Musk addresses the elephant in the room after Tesla profits tank in quarterly report
Tesla reported a revenue loss from its electric vehicles fall year over year in the first quarter.
The electric vehicle maker, run by CEO Elon Musk, generated $13.97 billion in automotive revenue in the first three months of 2025, marking a drop of nearly 20% from the same quarter last year, according to its earnings release.
During the earnings call, Elon Musk said his “time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly.” DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, has been spearheaded by Musk during the early days of the second Trump administration.
Tesla’s overall revenue – including automotive, energy generation and storage, and services and other revenue – came in at $19.3 billion for the first quarter, decreasing 9% compared to last year’s first quarter.
According to the company, fewer vehicle deliveries “in part due to the Model Y update across all four vehicle factories” contributed to the drop in its total revenue as well as “reduced vehicle average selling price, due to mix and sales incentives” and other factors.
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Earlier in the month, the EV maker, which has been dealing with protests and violence in recent months stemming from Musk’s position in DOGE, said vehicle deliveries clocked in at 323,800 for the first quarter. In the same three-month period last year, it made 386,810 deliveries.
According to Tesla, its energy generation and storage brought in $2.73 billion in revenue, a 67% jump year over year. Meanwhile, services and other revenue grew 15% year over year to hit nearly $2.64 billion in the first quarter.
The company noted that “uncertainty in the automotive and energy markets continues to increase as rapidly evolving trade policy adversely impacts the global supply chain and cost structure of Tesla and our peers.”
“This dynamic, along with changing political sentiment, could have a meaningful impact on demand for our products in the near-term.”
For quarterly net income, Tesla reported $409 million. Meanwhile, the company saw diluted earnings per share of $0.27.
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Those represented declines of 71% and 40%, respectively, according to the earnings report.
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TSLA | TESLA INC. | 237.97 | +10.47 | +4.60% |
Tesla’s operating margin posted a 343-basis-point, year-over-year decrease in the first quarter, hitting 2.1%.
In its outlook, the company said it was “difficult to measure the impact of shifting global trade policy on the automotive and energy supply chains, our cost structure and demand for durable goods and related services.”
“While we are making prudent investments that will set up both our vehicle and energy businesses for growth, the rate of growth this year will depend on a variety of factors, including the rate of acceleration of our autonomy efforts, production ramp at our factories and the broader macroeconomic environment.”
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Tesla also said it “remains on track” to start production of new vehicles in the first half of the year. More affordable vehicles are among those plans.
Tesla’s current lineup of vehicles includes the Model S, Model 3, Model Y, Model X and Cybertruck. It also produces electric semi-trucks.
Legendary musician abruptly postpones show after suffering medical ‘event’
Carlos Santana was forced to postpone a concert in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday night after he was taken to a hospital for observation after he suffered dehydration, a representative for the musician confirmed to Fox News Digital.
“It is with profound disappointment that I have to inform you all that tonight’s show in San Antonio has been postponed,” Michael Jensen of Jensen Communications said. “Mr. Santana was at the venue (Majestic Theatre) preparing for tonight’s show when he experienced an event that was determined to be dehydration. Out of an abundance of caution and the health of Mr. Santana, the decision to postpone the show was the most prudent course of action. He is doing well and is looking forward to coming back to San Antonio soon as well as continuing his US Tour. Thank you all very much for your understanding. The show will be rescheduled soon.”
The concert was part of the 77-year-old musician’s “Oneness Tour.”
The Hall of Fame guitarist is still scheduled to play in Sugar Land, Texas, on Wednesday night, in Thackervile, Oklahoma, on Friday and Tulsa on Saturday.
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Santana shared a video from his Monday night concert in Albuquerque, New Mexico, earlier Tuesday, writing, “To the Amazing fans in Albuquerque, NM. From our hearts, we wish to thank you for showing up with such beautiful energy and love in the cold & rain. You danced, you sang, and you braved the elements like true warriors of light. Your warmth and passion lit up the night more than any spotlight ever could. It was truly an honor to share our hearts music with you.”
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In January, the guitarist was also forced to postpone his Las Vegas residency because of an “accidental fall” at his home in Hawaii.
“I am sorry to say that Carlos was out taking a walk at his vacation home in Kauai. He took a hard fall, and he broke his little finger on his left hand,” a statement posted on Santana’s social media by his representative Michael Vrionis said at the time. “He had to have pins inserted in the finger. Unfortunately, he won’t be able to play guitar for approximately six weeks. Doctors do say that he will recuperate fully.”
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He added, “Carlos is doing well and is anxious to be back on stage soon. He just needs to heal,” Vrionis added. “Santana profoundly regrets these postponements of his upcoming performances, but accidents happen, and his health is our number one concern. He is looking forward to seeing all of his fans very soon.”
His residency is now expected to take place in September at the end of his tour.
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In 2022, he also canceled several concerts after suffering from heat exhaustion and collapsing during a show.
Thousands evacuate as New Jersey wildfire explodes, closes part of Garden State Parkway
BARNEGAT, N.J. — A wildfire exploding in size near the New Jersey shore caused officials to order thousands to evacuate and close a 17-mile stretch of the state’s busiest highway as dark smoke poured into the Jersey Shore region.
The Jones Road Wildfire sparked on Tuesday in the Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area near Barnegat Township in Ocean County. As of Tuesday evening, it had consumed 3,200 acres and was only 5% contained.
Some 3,000 people were told to evacuate as the fire so far is threatening over 1,300 homes and structures, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
Evacuations stretch along portions of Highways 532, 539, 72 and 9 and multiple shelters have been established for those fleeing the flames.
Additional voluntary evacuations are in place for several areas of Barnegat Township.
The busy Garden State Parkway is closed in both directions for a 5-mile stretch between exits 69 and 74 – an improvement from earlier in the afternoon when the closure extended 17 miles. Barnegat Police say the parkway will remain closed until at least midnight Wednesday morning, but residents should plan an alternate route to work Wednesday morning in case the closure needs to be extended.
Photos shared by the Garden State Parkway showed smoke covering the highway and flames nearing the road earlier Tuesday.
New Jersey Wildfire
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“With the winds calming down during the evening hours, there will be an increased amount of smoke in the area,” Barnegat Police said in a post on Facebook. “This increase in smoke will decrease visibility while driving.”
Jersey Central Power & Light reportedly cut power along the Garden State Parkway due to the wildfire, according to the Barnegat Police Department. More than 25,000 people are without power in Ocean County, according to FindEnergy.com.
“Residents should prepare for the possibility of an extended power outage as there may be damaged power lines and transformers,” Barnegat Police said.
Dark smoke and ash was observed blowing across the Garden State Parkway in surrounding Ocean County communities to the north and east, including Toms River, and closer to the beach in Seaside Heights.
Smoke billows across the Garden State Parkway in Barnegat, New Jersey on April 22, 2025.
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Forest Fire Service fire engines, bulldozers, ground crews and air support are responding to the fire.
The cause of the Jones Road Wildfire is under investigation.
Drought levels in Ocean County are abnormally dry to moderate, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, but have been worsening over the past week. Nearly 80% of the Garden State is facing some level of drought.
Sitcom star pushes back on MSNBC pundit blaming Trump and Musk for media distrust
“The Office” star Rainn Wilson pushed back on MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle for suggesting that President Donald Trump’s win and Elon Musk’s “media machine” were to blame for overall distrust in the press.
“President Trump won and tons of people were shocked or angry or frustrated and they’re tuning out, and at the same time, you have the Elon Musk media machine, because they want you to leave traditional media, they want you to go to X, which is a bastion of misinformation,” Ruhle said during an appearance on Wilson’s “Soul Boom” podcast released on April 17.
“What we need to do is just cover what’s happening in America, right? We have to cover Democrats trying to figure out what their lane is and how they’re going to get back on their feet, and we have to simply cover what this White House is doing.”
However, Wilson suggested there was a lack of interest among left-leaning media to aggressively cover problems during the Biden administration.
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“This is where I would push back, when I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration and the lack of this kind of insight and passion being directed at the previous administration, where again, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about left-leaning news media organizations were kind of like, ‘La la la la, everything’s fine,'” Wilson told Ruhle in a clip flagged by The Daily Caller.
“‘Look, the economy is great, la la la, immigration’s not that much of a problem,’ and really being Cleopatra, ‘queen of denial.’ Thank you. Boom,” he said, imitating left-leaning media.
Ruhle pushed back on Wilson and argued that the media “regularly” talked about how the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough on immigration.
“I can specifically remember when Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida sent those buses of migrants to different cities, different parts of the country which ended up being politically genius for both of them,” she said. “The media regularly talked about the fact that Biden was not doing enough in his first two-and-a-half years on immigration.”
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Ruhle went on to defend the media and referenced her own interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris last year on MSNBC.
Ruhle explained one of the questions she posed to Harris was about immigration, specifically about how voters were feeling frustrated about immigration in their local communities.
“I remember her answer was, ‘Well we had this immigration bill and Donald Trump blocked it.’ And she’s right, she’s right. Donald Trump did block the bill, but that doesn’t address how people in the country feel,” Ruhle said.
Ruhle did question Harris’ role in helping with the border crisis as she was tasked by former President Biden to deal with the root causes in 2021.
“How about the message from our Vice President?” Ruhle asked at the time. “Where is she? She was supposed to be in charge of all of these migration issues, going to those Northern Triangle countries that’s obviously not Haiti.”
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Ruhle argued to Wilson that Republicans were successful in being willing to talk about the “unpleasant things that people feel,” and pointed out that they’re often deemed xenophobic or racist for doing so.
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Loudest privacy advocates turn heads for surprising reaction to looming REAL ID rollout
With President Donald Trump back in the White House and the final rollout of federal REAL ID requirements set to take effect in May, many of the loudest privacy advocates in Washington have been largely silent.
While privacy-minded lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have spent years blasting the Patriot Act, among other measures, few are raising alarms over the Trump administration’s looming implementation of the REAL ID Act — a law passed in 2005 that critics describe as a national identification system.
Some of the privacy-hawk lawmakers remaining silent on REAL ID were very vocal when another expansion of the national security surveillance apparatus came about – the Patriot Act of 2001 – but not so when the U.S. is only days away from REAL ID implementation.
Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., were all in Congress when the Patriot Act faced ultimately-successful renewal in 2010s and when the 2020 bill amending and reauthorizing the related Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court came up for a vote.
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“Congress has a duty to safeguard Americans’ privacy, but the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act fails to adequately limit the types of information that the government can collect about Americans, and it fails to adequately limit how long the government can keep the information it collects about us,” Markey said in a 2020 statement objecting to the FISA renewal.
“I am unwilling to grant any president surveillance tools that pose such a high risk to Americans’ civil liberties,” he said.
In 2011, Merkley was one of eight senators who voted to prevent the Patriot Act renewal from even coming to the floor for debate, according to Oregon Live.
His Beaver State colleague, Wyden, ultimately voted to allow debate, but said on the Senate floor during such discourse that it needs to be potentially reconsidered.
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“The Patriot Act was passed a decade ago during a period of understandable fear,” Wyden said at the time.
“Now is the time to revisit this… and ensure that a better job is done of striking that balance between fighting terror and protecting individual liberty.”
Merkley expressed concern at the time about the Patriot Act’s ability to let law enforcement collect many types of personal data like emails and phone records.
In order to get a REAL ID, licensees must provide their Social Security number and other documentation.
While the REAL ID implementation was delayed 20 years by several factors including COVID-19, Merkley cast a “protest vote” at the time of the Patriot Act renewal that a four-year extension of the post-9/11 act was being put forth without sufficient time for debate.
In 2005, Wyden also gave a Senate floor speech opposing the first reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
Markey did not respond to multiple requests for comment, left at his Washington and Boston offices. Merkley also did not respond to a request for comment.
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A representative for Wyden acknowledged Fox News Digital’s comment request, but said the Oregonian was traveling and holding town halls with constituents back home and could not be immediately reached.
On his senatorial webpage, Wyden offered a rundown of all his comprehensive actions in favor of privacy, as well as “le[ading] the fight to address the Intelligence Community’s reliance on secret interpretations of surveillance law.”
“When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry,” he said in 2011.
Wyden was also outraged in 2013 when the NSA was found to be secretly interpreting the act to collect personal data of millions of Americans without a warrant.
In a statement to Fox News Digital on privacy concerns with REAL ID, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said REAL IDs rightly “make identification harder to forge, thwarting criminals and terrorists.”
“Eighty-one percent of air travelers [already] hold REAL ID-compliant or acceptable IDs,” McLaughlin said.
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“DHS will continue to collaborate with state, local, and airport authorities to inform the public, facilitate compliance, curb wait times and prevent fraud.”
Fox News also reached out for comment to a bipartisan series of lawmakers who have been party to pro-privacy bills or taken pro-privacy stances in the past, including Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Jury issues verdict in Sarah Palin defamation lawsuit against the New York Times
A federal jury ruled that the New York Times did not libel former Alaskan Republican Gov. Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial in the latest update to the years-long lawsuit.
The jury reached its decision after deliberating for about two hours following both sides delivering their closing arguments to the Manhattan federal court civil trial. The trial was in its second week.
In a comment to Fox News Digital, NYT spokesperson Danielle Rhoades said, “We want to thank the jurors for their careful deliberations. The decision reaffirms an important tenet of American law: publishers are not liable for honest mistakes.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Palin’s legal team for comment. It is unclear yet whether she plans to appeal the decision.
Palin, who became a national figure as the 2008 Republican vice presidential pick of the late Sen. John McCain, first sued the paper in 2017 for defamation after claiming an editorial falsely linked her to the deadly 2011 mass shooting that wounded then-Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., and killed six people. The editorial was published in response to the 2017 mass shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice that severely wounded Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.
The editorial was corrected the next day. Former editorial page editor James Bennet took responsibility for rushing the story and in tearful testimony last week apologized to Palin.
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This was the second time the New York Times was found not liable for defamation in this lawsuit brought by Palin. In 2022, a federal jury unanimously ruled in favor of the publication after U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff had already dismissed the case. Rakoff said at the time that since the case would inevitably be appealed, the court of appeals would benefit from knowing a jury’s decision despite his dismissal.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned this decision in 2024, finding that Rakoff’s decision to dismiss the case prior to the jury’s decision qualified the lawsuit for a retrial.
“We have no difficulty concluding that an average jury’s verdict would be affected if several jurors knew that the judge had already ruled for one of the parties on the very claims the jurors were charged with deciding,” 2nd Circuit Judge John Walker Jr. said at the time.
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