Federal judge orders return of deported migrant to US, rejecting Trump request
BALTIMORE, MD – A federal judge on Tuesday refused to change her order requiring the Trump administration to bring back a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker deported to El Salvador, citing due process protections.
At a hearing Tuesday in Baltimore, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, a Trump appointee, rejected the government’s request to amend her earlier ruling which ordered the government to return Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan, to U.S. soil.
But she also agreed to pause the ruling for 48 hours – enough time for the government to ask the 4th Circuit to take up the case.
If the court declines, Gallagher said she will amend her ruling to set a formal timeline for the government to return the 20-year-old migrant to the U.S.
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This decision “strikes the right balance between giving the government the ability” to appeal to the higher court as they see fit – and also allows plaintiffs to seek due process in U.S. courts, Gallagher said.
Lozano-Camargo, previously referred to in court documents as “Cristian,” was deported to El Salvador in March under the Trump administration’s early wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations.
Gallagher ruled in April that the government violated a 2024 settlement between DHS and a group of young asylum seekers, including Lozano-Camargo. Under that deal, DHS agreed not to deport the migrants – all of whom entered the U.S. as unaccompanied children – until their cases were fully heard in court.
Last month, Gallagher said Lozano-Camargo’s deportation was a “breach of contract,” since his asylum case had not yet been heard, and ordered the U.S. government to facilitate his release.
Gallagher reiterated her previous decision on Tuesday. She also emphasized it has nothing to do with the strength of his asylum request, in a nod to two apparent low-level drug offenses and a conviction as recently as January. Rather, she said, it is about allowing him the process under the law, and under the settlement struck with DHS.
That settlement agreement “requires him to be here and have his hearing,” she said.
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Gallagher noted that his removal without adjudication in a U.S. court “pre-judges the outcome,” with no ability for his attorneys to challenge the case in court.
The Trump administration told the court that it had determined that Lozano-Camargo was eligible for removal under the Alien Enemies Act, citing his earlier arrest and conviction for cocaine possession in Houston this year.
On Monday, lawyers for the administration told the court that his designation as an “alien enemy pursuant to the AEA results in him ceasing to be a member” of the class that had negotiated a settlement.
At the status hearing Tuesday, Gallagher made clear her decision was based solely on due process protections.
The government is “measuring utility using the wrong yardstick” in this case, she said, adding that it is not a case of whether Lozano-Camargo will eventually receive asylum – it’s a question of process.
Process, she said, is important for various reasons – noting that even when outcomes in certain criminal cases or trials seem obvious, individuals are still entitled to a trial under U.S. law.
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“We don’t skip to the end and say, ‘We all know how this is going to end so we’ll just skip that part,'” she said.
The administration’s appeal to the 4th Circuit, should it choose to file it, is due by Thursday afternoon.
Trump shares who he’d ‘love’ to see run for president as a Democrat in 2028
President Donald Trump said he would “love” California Gov. Gavin Newsom to launch a White House bid for the Democrats, but said his response to wildfires and other issues would “pretty much put him out of the race.”
The president, during a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, took a swipe at Newsom, blasting California’s high-speed rail project.
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“A little train going from San Francisco to Los Angeles that’s being run by Gavin New-scum—the governor of California,” Trump said. “Did you ever hear of Gavin Newsom? He has got that train—the worst cost overrun I’ve ever seen. It’s like, totally out of control.”
Trump said he “always liked Gavin” and “had a good relationship with him.”
“I just got him a lot of water, you know, I sent in people to open up that water because he refused to do it,” Trump said, adding that “if they would have done what I said to do, they wouldn’t have had the fires in Los Angeles.”
“Those fires would have been put out very quickly,” Trump said.
Trump traveled to Southern California in January, just days after taking office, to see damage from the devastating wildfires that destroyed thousands of acres and more than 10,000 buildings in the Los Angeles area.
After the visit, Trump issued an executive order calling on federal agencies to overrule California regulations on endangered species to create more water availability, expedite the removal of debris in the areas affected by the fires and conduct investigations into the City of Los Angeles’ use of federal grants.
Trump also called on the Department of the Interior to immediately override existing regulations in California that “unduly burden efforts to maximize water deliveries” to the Central Valley Project, a water management effort in the state.
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Shifting back to the high-speed rail project, Trump said he has “watched a lot of stupid people build a lot of stupid things,” but that this is “the worst cost overrun I’ve ever seen.”
California’s high-speed rail project was designed to cart riders between San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours. It was expected to cost $33 billion and be finished by 2020, but the project has been riddled with funding challenges, cost overruns and delays.
The project is now reportedly expected to cost an estimated $106 billion to complete.
“This government is not going to pay,” Trump said, noting that he told Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy that the Trump administration is “not going to pay for that thing” – [it’s] “30 times over budget.”
“It was supposed to be a simple train,” Trump said.
Duffy, in February, began a Transportation Department review to determine whether the California High-Speed Rail Authority had “followed through on the commitments it made to receive billions of dollars in federal funding.”
“If not, I will have to consider whether that money could be given to deserving infrastructure projects elsewhere in the United States,” Duffy said at a news conference in Los Angeles in February.
Looking ahead to 2028, the president said he would “love” to see Newsom run for president. Newsom is barred from seeking re-election as California governor in 2026 due to term limits.
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“But I don’t think he’s going to be running because that one project alone—well, that and the fires and a lot of other things—pretty much put him out of the race,” Trump said.
Newsom has been rumored to be mulling a 2028 presidential bid but has not committed to doing so.
In a statement to The New York Times, Newsom said he wanted to work with the Trump administration on a $7.5 billion federal tax credit program to bolster the TV and film production industry.
“California built the film industry – and we’re ready to bring even more jobs home,” Newsom wrote on X on Monday. “We’ve proven what strong state incentives can do. Now it’s time for a real federal partnership to Make America Film Again.”
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The White House said Monday that “no final decisions” had been made as the administration was “exploring all options” to deliver on Trump’s directive “to safeguard our country’s national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again.”
Trump first announced in a Truth Social post on Sunday that he was authorizing the Department of Commerce and the U.S. trade representative “to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.”
Speaker Johnson gives verdict on House plan to impeach judges blocking Trump
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., signaled there is little appetite for judicial impeachments among House Republican leaders.
He said a bill passed by the House earlier this year, aimed at limiting federal district judges from issuing nationwide injunctions in most cases, was a “silver bullet” against activist judges.
Johnson refused to pull impeachment off the table indefinitely when pressed by Fox News Digital, but he cautioned that there was a high bar for such maneuvers, while noting that getting enough votes to impeach in the House and remove in the Senate is an uphill battle in itself.
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“Look, impeachments are never off the table if it’s merited. But in our system, we’ve had 15 federal judges impeached in the entire history of the country. I mean, there may be some that I feel merit that, but you’ve got to get the votes for it, right? And it’s a very high burden,” Johnson said.
“And by the way, even if we could get an impeachment article through the House on a federal judge, it’s unlikely that they would be tried and convicted in the Senate on that, with the divided number we have. So, short of that, what can we do?”
The speaker said House Republicans had “done everything within our power to solve that problem.”
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“Darrell Issa’s bill is a great response: The No Rogue Rulings Act would prohibit a single individual judgment issuing a nationwide injunction like that to stop the entire policy of an administration,” Johnson said.
“We passed it to the House, we sent it to the Senate with every expectation that they should be able to take that up. And I certainly hope they can, because, again, shouldn’t be a partisan issue.”
Some conservatives, however, are still hungry to pursue the impeachment route. They could force the House to do so by introducing a “privileged” resolution, meaning Johnson would need to take it up within two legislative days.
However, it is a politically risky undertaking that is ultimately guaranteed to fail in the Senate, where at least several Democrats would be needed to meet the two-thirds threshold for removal.
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It comes amid the Trump administration’s continued standoff with the courts over a litany of the new White House’s policies — from deportation flights to the Department of Government Efficiency.
Republicans have dismissed the rulings as political decisions by activist judges, while Democrats accuse the White House of waging war on a co-equal branch of government.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has consistently said it is complying with all lawful court orders while denouncing activist judges in court and in the media sphere.
Tensions rise between two nuclear superpowers after India launches strike on Pakistan
India said it attacked “terrorist infrastructure” in neighboring Pakistan on Wednesday in two of its occupied territories, killing at least one child and wounding two other people in what Pakistan has called a “blatant act of war.”
The Indian armed forces launched “Operation Sindoor,” which targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed, the Press Information Bureau of India said in a statement.
“Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature,” India’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. “No Pakistan military facilities have been targeted.”
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“India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution,” the statement said.
The missiles launched Wednesday struck locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country’s eastern Punjab province. A mosque in the city of Bahawalpur was struck, killing a child, and a woman and man were injured, one Pakistani security official said.
The attack occurred in a remote valley only accessible on foot or by horse, and survivors claimed after the attack that the gunmen had accused some of the victims of supporting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“In an unprovoked and blatant act of war, the Indian Air Force, while remaining within Indian airspace, has violated Pakistan’s sovereignty using standoff weapons, targeting civilian population across international border in Muridke and Bahawalpur, and across Line of Control in Kotli and Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir,” a spokesperson for Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said. “India’s act of aggression has resulted in martyrdom of civilians, including women and children. This act of aggression has also caused grave threat to commercial air traffic.”
President Donald Trump said he hoped the tension between the two nations subsides.
“It’s a shame. We just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval (Office),” he said. “I just heard about it. I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past. They’ve been fighting for a long time. You know, they’ve been fighting for many, many decades and centuries, actually, if you really think about it.”
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“I just hope it ends very quickly,” he said.
The military action comes amid tense relations between the nuclear-armed states following an April 22 attack that killed 26 people in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, a long-disputed territory that has been the source of tension between the two nations and is one of the most militarized regions in the world.
Kashmir has been a disputed region since both India and Pakistan gained their autonomy from Britain in 1947.
India has blamed Pakistan for backing the militant attack, which Islamabad has denied.
“In the wake of Pahalgam attack, the Indian leadership has once again used the bogey of terrorism to advance its sham narrative of victimhood, jeopardizing regional peace and security,” Pakistan said. “India’s reckless action has brought the two nuclear-armed states closer to a major conflict.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was monitoring the situation.
“I am monitoring the situation between India and Pakistan closely,” he wrote on social media. “I echo @POTUS’s comments earlier today that this hopefully ends quickly and will continue to engage both Indian and Pakistani leadership towards a peaceful resolution.”
Pakistani army spokesman, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif, told ARY News that the missiles were launched Wednesday from within Indian territory and that no Indian aircraft had entered Pakistani airspace.
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“This was a cowardly attack targeting innocent civilians under the cover of darkness,” Sharif told the broadcaster.
Jill Biden lands new job following four years as first lady
Jill Biden landed a new job following her four years in the White House: leading a California-based think tank’s initiative aimed at improving women’s health.
“From endometriosis to healthy aging, the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research made important investments in research and development, while making clear it will take collaboration across industries to bring these innovations to scale,” Biden said, according to a Milken Institute press release published April 29. “I am honored to join the Milken Institute as we unite leaders around a shared mission: for women everywhere to benefit from the lifesaving, world-changing research we know is possible.”
The Milken Institute describes itself as a nonpartisan economic think tank based out of Santa Monica that focuses on “financial, physical, mental, and environmental health” to “bring together the best ideas and resourcing to develop blueprints for tackling some of our most critical global issues.” Biden will serve as the chair of the think tank’s new Women’s Health Network.
Biden, who is a teacher and holds a doctorate in education, focused as first lady on the Biden Cancer Moonshot plan to end cancer, the Joining Forces initiative to support veteran families and caregivers, and launching the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
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Biden joined the Milken Institute’s 28th annual Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, Monday. Other notable guests who addressed the conference included Trump administration Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Trump administration Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.
Biden’s new role serving as chair of the Milken Institute’s initiative will focus on “galvanizing participation, collaboration, and shared action in the Women’s Health Network to improve women’s health and wellbeing,” according to the think tank’s press release announcing the former first lady’s new role.
Former President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum in 2023 that launched the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. Jill Biden led the White House initiative, which worked to beef up funding for and research into women’s health.
The Biden White House argued at the time that “TOO MANY medical studies have focused on men and left women out” and that too many of “the medicine dosages, treatments, medical school text books, are based on men and their bodies – and that information doesn’t always apply to women.”
Jill Biden said during Milken’s conference Monday that her husband had been eager to “infuse” the “federal government with money” when they launched the White House women’s health initiative in 2023.
“So one of the things we did was we got to work right away,” Jill Biden said during the Milken Institute conference Monday. “Joe said, ‘You know, let’s infuse – really, the federal government with money.’ In one year, we put in $1 billion to advance women’s research.”
“And we worked a lot through the (National Institutes of Health) and the way that they did research, and we made sure that they disaggregated the data and that they separated the research on women and men differently, and we worked with (the Department of Defense) DOD – they put a lot of money into women’s research – and then we put a lot of money in to de-risk the investment. So there were a lot of things that, really, private equity wasn’t willing to take on because it was too risky, and we thought, let’s push this forward, and let’s try to find answers more quickly.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Milken Institute Tuesday for additional comment on the former first lady’s new role, but did not immediately receive a reply.
Jill Biden worked as a professor at Northern Virginia Community College from 2009 to December 2024, when she announced she wrapped up her final semester as her husband prepared for his Oval Office exit.
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Jill Biden’s new role comes as political books recapping the Biden administration hit bookshelves nationwide, with several reporting that concerns over the president’s mental acuity and age had gripped the administration across its four years.
The book “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” for example, is set to be released in July and authored by three reporters from the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Washington Post, and reportedly details how Biden’s team chose not to have the president take a cognitive test in February 2024 due to concerns that taking the test itself would raise more questions about his age.
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Another book, Chris Whipple’s “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History,” reported that White House staffers allegedly kept Biden from socializing with others, including close allies and friends, out of fear the 46th president “might say the wrong thing or might feed the mental acuity narrative.”
Incredible air traffic control (ATC) audio captures the moment staff lost radar and radio signals while guiding planes to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey last week.
The April 28 outage lasted roughly 90 seconds. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital, writing that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s operation in Philadelphia had “temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control, unable to see, hear, or talk to them.”
The audio shows the initial moments of controllers learning of an outage at Philadelphia TRACON/ATCT.
“There is some equipment outages, so I don’t know what exactly the equipment is, but they’re having some frequency issues, and then the radar scopes are out, so they can’t have anyone depart right now,” one man is heard saying.
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I am going to move you here because I just got told that the approach lost all the radars. Three of the four radar screens went black and they have no frequencies,” another says.
Another man remarks, “I guess this is a serious issue because I have one more arrival, and now I have nobody else coming in back.”
The audio also captures controllers attempting to get more information about the outage.
“Any idea how long the departure delay is going to be?” one man asks in the audio.
I have no idea. We’re still waiting on word from Newark TRACON,” another quickly replies.
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“The approach just told me that a couple of techs went in, looked at the radar scope and walked out,” a man is heard saying. “They think it’s going to be a likely delay.”
The incident predated massive delays and cancellations at the New Jersey travel hub, which has been ongoing since Thursday.
In a statement obtained by FOX Business, the FAA addressed the staffing shortages that have contributed to the issue.
“While we cannot quickly replace [the controllers who have left] due to this highly specialized profession, we continue to train controllers who will eventually be assigned to this busy airspace,” the agency said Monday.
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“When staffing or equipment issues occur, the FAA will ensure safety by slowing the rate of arrivals into the airport. We will keep the public updated as we work through these issues.”
Comedian struggles with country life after fleeing US following Trump win
Ellen DeGeneres appeared to bite off a little more than she could chew when she took on a common household chore.
A recent Instagram video posted by the former talk show host shows DeGeneres attempting to mow the lawn at her new home in the U.K. in a video shot by her wife, “Arrested Development” actress Portia de Rossi.
“Portia thought it would be fun to film my first time on the mower,” DeGeneres wrote in the caption. “She was right.”
The video starts off with DeGeneres on a ride-on mower successfully mowing a small flat portion of her lawn, with the words “How it started” written on the screen.
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In the next clip, DeGeneres struggled to drive the lawn mower up a hill, and the on-screen caption changed to “How it ended.” The video showed DeGeneres sitting on the mower as someone assists her by pushing the machine from the back.
De Rossi can be heard struggling to hold back her laughter from behind the camera as she recorded the whole ordeal.
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The Hollywood couple first made headlines when they reportedly moved to the U.K. in November 2024 after Donald Trump was elected president. They sold one of their homes in Montecito, California, in August 2024 and sold their second home in the city in March.
“Portia thought it would be fun to film my first time on the mower. … She was right.”
“Ellen was in England house hunting in the beginning of October,” a source told People when the couple first moved. “She ended up finding a house that she loved and purchased it shortly after.”
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Shortly after news of the couple’s big move broke, the two were spotted out with a group of friends at The Farmer’s Dog in the Cotswolds, a countryside region in England. It is unclear where in the U.K. they relocated to, but they are rumored to live in the English countryside.
DeGeneres is not the only comedian who left after President Trump won the election. In a TikTok video shared in March 2025, Rosie O’Donnell shared she left the country and moved to Ireland Jan. 15, five days before Trump’s inauguration.
In the video, O’Donnell explained she “was someone who never thought I would move to another country,” but she thought it was best for her and her young child.
“I miss my other kids,” she added of her five grown children. “I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home. And I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. And when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
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When speaking with US Weekly in April, O’Donnell shared that she was “shocked” to find out the reason DeGeneres chose to flee the country.
“I’ve never really known Ellen to say anything political in her life, so I was surprised to read that she left because of President Trump. Like, that shocked me, actually,” O’Donnell said. “I’ve been a political person my whole life. Not better or worse. It’s just a different way to be in the world.
“I was very clear about the reason why I was leaving, and I don’t think it came as a surprise to anyone. We’re not really in each other’s worlds, and it’s been kind of awkward, but you know what? I wish her the best. I wish that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.”
Shedeur Sanders’ unprecedented draft slide sparks lawsuit against NFL
Shedeur Sanders’ fall from projected first overall pick to 144th in this year’s NFL Draft stunned countless NFL fans, and one fan was so shocked he is taking legal action.
An anonymous fan of the quarterback has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the NFL over the fall.
The plaintiff is a self-identified Georgia native and fan of Sanders’ college team, the University of Colorado. The lawsuit alleged leaked statements that Sanders “tanked interviews,” “wasn’t prepared” and was “too cocky,” damaged the player’s reputation and hurt his eventual draft position.
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The lawsuit suggested the situation violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“The decisions made regarding Sanders may have been influenced by racial discrimination, violating his rights as a player,” the lawsuit states.
Sanders’ slide during the draft prompted heated racial debates on social media, including an X interaction between ESPN host Stephen A. Smith and Barstool founder Dave Portnoy. Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman suggested the reason Sanders slid was because “America continues to fear strong black men.”
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However, the first overall pick in this year’s draft was former Miami quarterback Cam Ward, who is, like Sanders, Black. In fact, the last three players to be taken No. 1 in the NFL draft have been Black quarterbacks.
Still, as a result of the slide, the plaintiff claimed he had experienced “intentional infliction of emotional distress and trauma.”
“The NFL’s actions and the dissemination of slanderous statements have caused severe emotional distress and trauma to the plaintiff, resulting in frustration, disappointment and psychological harm as a fan,” the suit says. “The NFL may have engaged in unfair practices by misrepresenting the nature of the drafting process and the qualifications of players.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the NFL for comment.
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The Tuesday before the draft, NFL Media released a summary of the top 18 prospects in this year’s class.
Sanders’ section included comments from an anonymous assistant coach, who said Sanders was “the worst formal interview I’ve ever been in in my life. He’s so entitled. He takes unnecessary sacks. He never plays on time. He has horrible body language. He blames teammates. … But the biggest thing is, he’s not that good.”
An anonymous longtime executive added, “It didn’t go great in our interview. He wants to dictate what he’s going to do and what’s best for him. He makes you feel small.”
However, Sanders and his family have not expressed any such grievances about the quarterback’s draft slide. The quarterback was taken in the fifth round by the Cleveland Browns.
Sanders is expected to contend for the team’s starting quarterback job with fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel, who was taken ahead of Sanders in the third round.
The team announced Tuesday that Sanders will wear the jersey No. 12.