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GREG GUTFELD: So, how about that rocket launch yesterday? Elon Musk and President Trump? Watch the Starship take off from a city called Boca Chica, which is Spanish for small mouth. But while the incoming president celebrated the rocket taking off to cheering crowds, the outgoing president took off as well to a different kind of clamor.You know, usually when people scream at Joe like that, they say, ‘Sir, that’s a houseplant, not a toilet.’ But why was he in such a hurry? Maybe he really had to go – literally. And so it’s a tale of two takeoffs. One is a ride to space. Another, a ride to the rest home. But Trump isn’t traveling alone. The world seems to be along for the ride. It’s funny – just a few weeks ago, Trump was a threat to world peace when the only threat we really faced was Joe Biden mistaking our children for dinner. But now foreign leaders are suddenly making nice. Australia’s ambassador to America had previously called Trump the most destructive president in history – but now he’s congratulating him and looking forward to working closely with him. No wonder the Aussies invented the boomerang, up in Canada. Their first trans prime minister, Justin Trudeau, suddenly cracked down on unchecked immigration. He was talking tough there for a while – until somebody showed him this picture. Down in Mexico, lefty President Claudia Sheinbaum wouldn’t even acknowledge Trump’s candidacy on Election Day. Sheinbaum, Mexico has a Jewish president. Maybe she’ll agree to Trump building a Wailing Wall. You know that joke doesn’t deserve you. Then Trump said he would make public the intelligence that America had on Mexican politicians – in bed with cartels. Suddenly, Sheinbaum is cracking down on her own border – but soon Claudia might be welcoming 10 million people who should look familiar. Get ready for an influx of gangs, drug dealers and even worse, washed-up celebs.GET TO KNOW DONALD TRUMP’S CABINET: WHO HAS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT PICKED SO FAR?Trump’s triggering lefty foreign leaders like a quarter-pounder at a PETA rally. But is it all on Trump, as he himself has said? They haven’t been after him. They’ve been after you, and he’s just in the way. And the truth is, it’s you who’s had enough. It just took Trump to make it clear the world gets it. Daddy’s home and it’s time to clean up your mess. And you can’t hide behind a legacy media – which is deader than the battery in Rosie O’Donnell’s back trimmer. But really, the world wants this. The world wants this. They just needed someone to rip the Band-Aid off. It wasn’t going to be Joe or Kamala. Joe lacks the upper body strength, and Kamala doesn’t have enough accents to please the whole world. But everyone knew the planet was screwed. Hell, even the bad guys are now picking up their toys and crawling back under their rocks. Qatar has just confirmed that Hamas leaders are no longer there.For things to operate in the world, someone has to stand up once in a while and say, ‘wrap it up, guys, this is enough.’ That guy is Trump. But he’s got all of us, too. No wonder the world’s scared. It might be the one thing they’ve ever gotten right. 



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The 58th annual 2024 CMA Awards has concluded at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.Chris Stapleton was the big winner of the night, taking home three of his five nominations, including male vocalist of the year, as well as both single of the year and song of the year for his song, “White Horse.”Morgan Wallen was nominated in seven categories, the most of any artist this year, but only took home one award, entertainer of the year. Despite being the top award of the night, Wallen was absent from the ceremony.The show’s co-host Lainey Wilson also took home two trophies, including female vocalist of the year and music video of the year.LAINEY WILSON HOSTING CMA AWARDS, POST MALONE RECEIVES FIRST NOMINATION: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE SHOWBelow is a look at the 2024 CMA Awards complete winners list.Entertainer of the year: Morgan WallenSingle of the year: “White Horse” by Chris StapletonAlbum of the year: “Leather” by Cody JohnsonCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERSong of the year: “White Horse” by Chris StapletonFemale vocalist of the year: Lainey WilsonMale vocalist of the year: Chris StapletonLIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSVocal group of the year: Old DominionVocal duo of the year: Brooks & DunnMusical event of the year: “you look like you love me” Ella Langley (feat. Riley Green)Musician of the year: Charlie WorshamMusic video of the year: “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” by Lainey WilsonNew artist of the year: Megan Moroney



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An effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to block certain U.S. weapons sales to Israel was overwhelmingly rejected by the U.S. Senate Wednesday evening.Sanders’ joint resolution of disapproval, which was supported by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; and Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., intended to stop the White House’s latest arms sales to the Israeli military. An effort to block the sales of tank rounds to Israel was voted down 79-18, and a measure intending to block mortar round shipments was rejected 78-19.Speaking on the Senate floor, Sanders claimed the Israeli government is controlled “not only by right-wing extremists, but by religious zealots.””It is time to tell the Netanyahu government that they cannot use U.S. taxpayer dollars and American weapons in violation of U.S. and international law and our moral values despite receiving $18 billion from U.S. taxpayers in the last year,” Sanders said. ‘CHEERLEADING FOR TERRORISM’: TWITCH STAR CALLED FOR NEW 9/11, DISMISSED HORROR OF OCT 7″And being the largest historical recipient of U.S. foreign aid, the Netanyahu government has completely ignored the repeated requests of President Biden and the U.S. government.”The 83-year-old politician also decried living conditions in Gaza during his speech.”Right now, there is raw sewage running through the streets of Gaza, and it is very difficult for the people there to obtain clean drinking water,” Sanders said. “Every one of Gaza’s 12 universities has been bombed … as have many hundreds of schools. For 13 months, there has been no electricity in Gaza.ISRAELI OFFICIAL PRAISES STEFANIK AS UN PICK, SAYS HER ‘MORAL CLARITY’ WILL COMBAT BODY’S ‘HATE AND LIES'”As I have said many, many times, Israel had the absolute right to respond to that horrific Hamas attack as any other country would,” Sanders concluded. “I don’t think anybody here in the United States Senate disagrees with that. But Prime Minister Netanyahu’s extremist government has not simply waged war against Hamas. It has waged an all-out war against the Palestinian people.”Despite the vote, Sanders’ effort was not wholly unpopular. Earlier this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., signaled support for the Vermont Independent’s proposal.”The failure by the Biden administration to follow U.S. law and to suspend arms shipments is a grave mistake that undermines American credibility worldwide,” Warren said in a statement to The Guardian.”If this administration will not act, Congress must step up to enforce U.S. law and hold the Netanyahu government accountable through a joint resolution of disapproval.”Fox News Digital’s Jessica Sonkin and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.



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President-elect Trump chose former ambassador and Rep. Pete Hoekstra for his pick for the U.S. ambassador to Canada.”Pete is well-respected in the Great State of Michigan – A State we won sizably. He represented Michigan’s 2nd District in Congress for nearly 20 years, where he was also Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and was a great help to our Campaign as Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party,” Trump wrote in a Wednesday evening release.Trump said that Hoekstra would help the president-elect’s “American First” agenda.”In my Second Term, Pete will help me once again put AMERICA FIRST,” he wrote. “He did an outstanding job as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands during our first four years, and I am confident that he will continue to represent our Country well in this new role. Thank you, Pete!”GET TO KNOW DONALD TRUMP’S CABINET: WHO HAS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT PICKED SO FAR?Hoekstra was the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands during Trump’s first term. Prior to his ambassadorship, he served 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 2nd District of Michigan, and served as chairman and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Trump’s pick of Hoekstra on Wednesday came after he tapped former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to become U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in his new administration. 



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Republican leaders from Congress expressed “serious concern” with the Mountain West Conference about transgender women participating in women’s sports.Thirteen officials signed a letter to Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez, urging the conference to prohibit transgender athletes from playing against biological women.”We write with serious concerns about the safety and fair competition standards for female athletes participating in the Mountain West Conference,” the letter, signed by members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, says.The letter was sent amid controversy at San Jose State University, where Blaire Fleming, a transgender woman, plays for the women’s volleyball team.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMSeveral teams have forfeited games against the Spartans this season.”Title IX was established over 50 years ago to even the playing field for women. Since its implementation, women have participated in safer and fairer competition — but recent events have shown this is at risk,” the letter states. “Recently, members of your conference have forfeited games, risking their competitive standings to ensure the safety of their female athletes. The Mountain West Conference’s failure to prohibit biological males from competing in women’s sports is unfair to the women and girls who have worked tirelessly to compete at the collegiate level. We applaud the bravery of these female athletes and the universities in our home states for taking a stand to preserve Title IX when the Mountain West Conference would not.”Permitting biological men to play in women’s sports is not equitable; it is an injustice. Under these guidelines, it is only fair that biological males play men’s sports and biological females play women’s sports. Clearly, the Mountain West Conference has dropped the ball.”Life isn’t fair, but sports should be. We urge you to address these inequities in women’s sports in the Mountain West Conference immediately, and we look forward to working with you to support women in collegiate sports.”Fleming has been one of the top players in the conference and an offensive anchor for San Jose State this season, even amid the controversy. Fleming is third in the conference in average kills per serve with 3.86 and amassed 297 total kills on the year despite playing seven fewer games than expected due to forfeits. It’s helped give San Jose State the third best hitting percentage in the Mountain West. Fleming’s teammate, Brooke Slusser, is a part of the lawsuit against the NCAA, and she filed another suit alongside other Mountain West players against the conference over the alleged presence of her transgender teammate. Slusser has alleged the school deliberately hid Fleming’s natural birth sex from her and other players on the team and around the conference. San Jose State has repeatedly defended the presence of Fleming on the team. “Our athletes all comply with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies and are eligible to play under the rules of those organizations. Our volleyball team members have earned the right to compete, and we are deeply disappointed for them and with them that they are being denied those opportunities through cancellations and forfeits. We are also proud of how they have persevered through these challenges on the court,” a statement provided to Fox News Digital by a university spokesperson said.Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Boston announced on Wednesday the arrests of two illegal immigrants who have been charged with forcibly raping children in Massachusetts, as well as a third individual who was convicted of raping a child in Brazil, and was hiding in the U.S. after being caught and released at the U.S. border in 2022.The arrests come after Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said her state would not cooperate with President-elect Trump’s federal immigration enforcement efforts once he returns to the Oval Office in January.ICE said one of the suspects, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was arrested for forcible rape of a child, but was released in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by authorities, who ignored a detainer request made by the federal agency to hold or transfer him to federal custody.The suspect, 21-year-old Mynor Stiven De Paz-Munoz, entered the U.S. on Sept. 24, 2020, near Eagle Pass, Texas, and was released by U.S. Border Patrol with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice (DOJ) Executive Office of Immigration Review Judge.DEM GOVERNOR THREATENS TO USE ‘EVERY TOOL’ TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST TRUMP-ERA DEPORTATIONSHe was later arrested in western Massachusetts by Great Barrington police on Feb. 29, 2024, for rape of a child by force, rape of a child, and indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older.Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston lodged a detainer with the police department, but it was ignored, and De Paz-Munoz was released on bail before ERO Boston officers could take him into custody.He has since been charged by the Berkshire County Superior Court with the crimes, which are still pending, and he remains in custody.ICE NABS ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN MASS. CHARGED WITH SEX CRIME, AS GOV SNUBS TRUMP DEPORTATIONS”Mynor Stiven De Paz-Munoz stands accused of horrifically victimizing a Massachusetts child and represents a significant threat to our neighborhoods,” acting ERO Boston Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde said. “We owe it to the children of our New England communities to prioritize public safety above everything else.”The second suspect, 42-year-old Billy Erney Buitrago-Bustos of Colombia, was arrested by Great Barrington police on Oct. 8, 2023, for allegedly raping a child by force, statutory rape and aggravated rape.Buitrago-Gusto was admitted into the U.S. on May 4, 2016, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, though he failed to leave under the terms of his visa.WEALTHY, LIBERAL NANTUCKET, MARTHA’S VINEYARD SEES 6 ICE ARRESTS IN ONE MONTHAfter his arrest in October 2023, ERO Boston lodged an immigration arrest with the Great Barrington Police Department. Later that month, Buitrago-Gusto was arraigned in the Southern Berkshire District Court and held without bail. The charges were elevated to the Berkshire County Superior Court on March 18, which honored the immigration detainer and released him into custody of ERO Boston on Nov. 15, after he posted bail.”Billy Erney Buitrago-Bustos stands accused of the most heinous and reprehensible of crimes,” Hyde said. “We thank our law enforcement partners at the Berkshire County Jail and House of Correction for prioritizing public safety and protecting children in the communities they were appointed to serve.”The third suspect, 41-year-old Alexandre Romao De Oliveira, is a foreign fugitive convicted of raping a child in Brazil.‘LIBERATION DAY’: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP ON BORDER SECURITY, IMMIGRATIONHe was convicted in the First Criminal Court of Jaru, Rondônia, Brazil, on Feb. 10, 2022, and sentenced to serve 14 years behind bars.But according to ICE, Romao De Oliveira fled Brazil before he could serve his sentence. On April 16, 2022, Romao De Oliveira entered the U.S. near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, without admission by an immigration official, and was released from custody after being served a notice to appear before a DOJ immigration review judge.ICE Boston arrested Romao De Oliveira on Monday in the northern Massachusetts city of Methuen.”Alexandre Romao De Oliveira is a convicted child rapist who fled his home country to evade justice,” Hyde said. “Enhancing public safety starts with cooperation between law enforcement partners. Bringing this fugitive to justice is a direct result of the collaboration between ERO Boston, the ICE attaché offices around the globe, and our foreign law enforcement counterparts.”



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The Juan Soto sweepstakes is the latest free agency battle the New York Yankees are trying to win, and owner Hal Steinbrenner discussed how his meeting with the left-handed slugger and his super agent, Scott Boras, went. Or at least what he was allowed to say about the meeting. “A very honest, back-and-forth dialogue” took place, lasting a “couple hours,” according to the New York Post. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMIt’s not that Soto truly needs to be sold on playing for the Yankees. He spent the entire 2024 season with them and ended up in the World Series, in large part due to his success in the Bronx. But Steinbrenner did ask, without divulging details, what the Yankees’ player development system looks like as it plays a large role in how teams perform now and into the future. Soto is looking for a long-term home and wants to be sure his next team is competitive. Steinbrenner was asked multiple times what he believes Soto’s wishes are, and the Yankees owner responded with “No idea.” SHOHEI OHTANI, FRANCISCO LINDOR, AARON JUDGE AMONG 2024 MLB AWARDS FINALISTS”We’ll be in the mix,” Steinbrenner added.  “All I know is he’s earned this, and he’s going to go through the process.”Yankees fans await Soto’s free agency decision with bated breath, hoping their 2024 All-Star will be crushing homers for their team for a decade or more to come. But there are contenders elsewhere, including the New York Mets, who have MLB’s most wealthy owner, Steve Cohen. The Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and the World Series-winning Los Angeles Dodgers are also potential suitors. The talent Soto possesses at 26 years old is more than enough for many to believe he will receive the biggest contract in the sport’s history. Yankees fans have implored the franchise to spend whatever it takes to keep Soto at Yankee Stadium. And Steinbrenner hears the pleas and chants inside the stadium. “I’ve got ears,” he said. “I know what’s expected of me. It’s been a priority. Wouldn’t have gone out to the West Coast if it wasn’t.”We listen to our fans. Our fans really enjoyed having him in New York. He’s definitely a significant part of why we got to the World Series.”Soto slashed .285/.421/.532 with 201 homers over his first seven years in the league. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump transition, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.Here’s what’s happening…- Speaker Johnson makes clarification after statement regarding transgender House member-elect-Top 10 states where Trump outperformed in 2024-Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia says with Trump’s election, ‘we’ve got a friend in the White House’Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said he would vote to confirm his former political opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator if Oz plans to protect the government programs. “If Dr. Oz is about protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I’m voting for the dude,” Fetterman tweeted.Fetterman defeated Oz, a Republican, in Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate race…Read more’THEY MAKE US STRONGER’: Biden Defense Secretary argues women, racial diversity ‘make us stronger’ as Trump admin looms…Read moreMR PRESIDENT!?: Biden skips taking questions at G-20 in Brazil, despite reporter pleading with him…Read moreMACHINE BIAS: Biden admin warns AI in schools may exhibit racial bias, anti-trans discrimination and trigger investigations…Read moreMAJOR CHANGES: Biden makes another Ukraine policy shift with approval of sending anti-personnel mines…Read more’WOMEN’S ONLY SPACES’: Speaker Johnson announces new Capitol bathroom policy in response to controversy over trans new House member…Read more’CLEAR DEADLINE’: Biden admin Commerce Dept seeks to exhaust CHIPS Act funding before Biden leaves office…Read moreWHISTLEBLOWER’S FREEDOM: Trump Cabinet picks increase odds Edward Snowden could see life of freedom in the US…Read moreVISA ABUSE: Trump could seek to roll back habitually ‘defrauded’ immigration program, expert says…Read moreWHITAKER TAPPED: Trump taps former acting AG Matthew Whitaker as NATO ambassador…Read moreTHE SPRINT: Race to confirm Trump nominees kicks off in January – Chad Pergram…Read more’IMMEDIATE DISMISSAL’: Trump lawyers demand Bragg case be ‘immediately dismissed,’ say election ‘supersedes’ ‘political motivations’…Read moreNUCLEAR THREAT: Iran vastly increased nuclear fuel stockpile ahead of Trump return, UN agency finds…Read more’EXIT RAMP’: Trump’s cut to Biden’s EV tax credit, backed by Musk, may impact auto industry, experts say…Read moreHEAR HIM OUT: Lindsey Graham urges GOP not to form ‘lynch mob’ ahead of Gaetz confirmation…Read more’VERY PLEASED’: House passes bill to bolster geothermal energy production by increasing lease sale frequency…Read moreBATHROOM BATTLE: Nancy Mace’s effort to ban transgender Delaware Democrat from Capitol women’s restrooms gains support…Read moreSTILL WAITING: 5 uncalled House races to determine size of Republican majority…Read more’GO THE WAY OF THE DODO’: Incoming Senate Dem Elissa Slotkin torches identity politics in 2024 autopsy…Read moreWATCHERS ON THE WAY: Congressional election observers deploy to Iowa for recount in uncalled House race…Read moreTOLEDO TOSSUP: Democratic Ohio Rep. Kaptur narrowly wins re-election, keeping Republican majority at 218 seats…Read moreNEVER AGAIN: DePaul University student assaulted by anti-Israel agitator seeks legal action: ‘I will never apologize’…Read moreHISTORIC REJECTION: Calif rejects minimum wage hike…Read more’OPEN TO MEETING’: Elon Musk wants to meet Alex Soros — and Soros says he’s open to it…Read moreHITTING HOME: Illegal with suspected Tren de Aragua ties robbed Manhattan prosecutor in her apartment building: police…Read moreEX-POLL WORKER INDICTED: Ex-Georgia poll worker indicted for mailing bomb threat to polling place: FBI..Read moreAMENDMENT: Louisiana lawmakers weighing constitutional amendment that would send more juvenile offenders to adult jails…Read more’THIS IS THE RESULT’: Democrat mayor slams his own party after deadly hours-long stabbing spree…Read moreGet the latest updates on the Trump presidential transition, incoming Congress, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.



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EXCLUSIVE: Two high school cross-country runners and their families are suing a California school district, alleging their “Save Girls Sports” T-shirts were likened to a swastika.Plaintiffs Kaitlyn and Taylor, two athletes at Martin Luther King High School in ninth and eleventh grade, respectively, wore T-shirts bearing the messages “Save Girls’ Sports” and “It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY.” The girls wore the shirts after a transgender athlete, who didn’t consistently attend practices or meet key varsity eligibility requirements, was placed on the varsity team, displacing Taylor from her spot, the complaint alleged.”My initial reaction was like, I was really surprised, because it was like, why is this happening to me?” Taylor told Fox News Digital. “There’s a transgender student on the team. Why am I getting displaced when I worked so hard and gone to all of the practices, and this student has only attended a few of the practices.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMAthletic department school officials allegedly forced the students to remove or conceal the shirts, claiming they created a “hostile” environment and comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students.”It was definitely hard to hear because we’re by no means trying to be hateful,” Kaitlyn told Fox News Digital. “We’re just wearing a shirt that expresses what we believe in trying to raise awareness to a situation.”The transgender athlete, however, has been allegedly allowed to wear “trans pride” bracelets, and the school allows other forms of social messaging around campus, including a LGBTQ pride flag, the complaint noted.”The biological male transgender athlete who displaced T.S. on the girls’ varsity team had recently transferred from another local high school after breaking that school’s all-time cross-country record for the girls’ cross-country team,” the complaint said.TRANSGENDER WOMEN TO BE BANNED FROM CAPITOL HILL FEMALE BATHROOMS UNDER NEW HOUSE GOP PROPOSAL”T.S., who had held a position on the girls’ Varsity Top 7 since August 2024 was removed from the girls’ Varsity Top 7 to make room on the girls’ Varsity Top 7 for an eleventh-grade transgender student and T.S. was relegated to the junior varsity team for one of the most important meets of the season for college recruitment,” the complaint said.According to the girls’ Advocates for Faith and Freedom attorney, Julianne Fleischer, the lawsuit claims there were violations of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and their Title IX protections.In October, according to the complaint, the district’s Title IX coordinator, Bethany Scott, informed Taylor’s mother of a formal investigation into her complaint. Scott also conveyed that Taylor would not be disadvantaged by running on the junior varsity team at a key upcoming cross-country meet, but her mother argued it would harm her chances of being noticed by college scouts. By Nov. 1, after follow-ups, the district reclassified the Title IX complaint as a confidential personnel matter, claiming it did not meet the criteria for sex-based discrimination.JOHNSON DECLINES TO SAY IF TRANSGENDER REP-ELECT IS MAN OR WOMAN, SAYS HOUSE TO TREAT EVERYONE WITH ‘RESPECT’Typically, multiple factors, beyond race times, are considered for varsity selection on the cross-country team They complaint alleges that Taylor’s dedication and hard work were overlooked, and the school district failed to provide a clear explanation, forming the basis of the Title IX complaint, Fleisher said.”We’re seeing more and more women and young girls speak up and challenge these policies that are allowing biological boys to join and participate in these sports,” Fleischer told Fox News Digital. “And so there’s lawsuits that are popping up all around the country. We’re hopeful that even with the incoming administration and Congress that we’re going to see real positive change to Title IX that actually upholds and safeguards the rights of women to participate in their sports and to be safe and to be able to compete amongst one another.”Under the Biden-Harris administration, Title IX was amended to include discrimination against gender identity and sexual orientation. The Supreme Court ruled against one of Biden’s requests in August that would have permitted biological men in women’s bathrooms, locker rooms and dorms in 10 states where there are state-level and local-level rules in place to prevent it. On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump said he would roll back Biden-Harris policies on gender treatments for minors and protect women in sports.Fox News Digital has reached out to the Riverside Unified School District and Martin Luther King High School for comment.



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“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart called out MSNBC co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough for their meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday night, noting their past comparisons of him to dictators.Stewart specifically blasted the MSNBC co-hosts for defending the meeting with Trump as if it was a natural choice for them, reminding viewers that they’ve been calling the soon-to-be president a grave threat to the country for nearly a decade.In response to a clip of Brzezinski asking her critics, “why wouldn’t we” speak to Trump, the Comedy Central host replied, “Uh, because you said he was Hitler.”The married MSNBC personalities met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence last week to “restart communications” between both parties. During Monday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” they relayed that Trump was cheerful during the meeting and appeared interested in finding common ground with Democrats on major issues.CNN, MSNBC COULD RETURN TO RESISTANCE TV AFTER BEING RELIABLE ANTI-TRUMP NETWORKS DURING FIRST TERMScarborough told his viewers that they went over topics like abortion, mass deportation, and threats of retribution against political opponents and media outlets.Stewart then mocked Scarborough, saying, “Oh, I bet you really laid down the gauntlet, Joe. I bet you walked in there and let him have it, didn’t you, Joey?”Doing an impression of them speaking to Trump, he continued, “’Mr. President, your rhetoric is outrageous. I cannot in good conscience – Ooh, are those macaroons?””We’ve learned nothing!” Stewart shouted, returning to his own commentary. “Even those putting up resistance to Trump’s agenda don’t seem to understand who they’re dealing with.”Elsewhere in the segment, Stewart blasted the Democratic Party’s efforts in resisting the president-elect.JEN PSAKI SAYS DEMOCRATS ARE LOST IN THE ‘WILDERNESS’ WITHOUT A CLEAR LEADER AFTER TRUMP’S VICTORY”The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thigh. That is what is happening!” he said.Other liberals have torn into Brzezinski and Scarborough for their meeting with Trump. Rosie O’Donnell posted to TikTok on Monday, “It’s the last time I ever watch ‘Morning Joe.’ Period. End of statement.”The comedian added that their actions were “despicable” considering how much they’ve criticized him. “For months you were telling us he’s the worst thing that could happen to this country and democracy. And then you go kiss his ring? Despicable.””BREAKING NEWS: I TOLD YOU SO,” former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann wrote on X, calling the pair “Trump collaborators.””Normalizing Trump is a bad idea,” MSNBC host Katie Phang also wrote on X, in a clear reference to her network colleagues. “Period.”Fox News Digital’s David Rutz contributed to this report.



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Thirty years after South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith was put behind bars for drowning her two toddler sons, a board unanimously voted to deny her parole after she appeared on a jailhouse court feed on Wednesday morning.Smith appeared emotional and crying on the feed. “I know that what I did was horrible…I’m sorry that I put them through that…I wish I could take that back, I really do…I was just scared,” she said. “I didn’t know how to tell the people that loved them that they would never see them again…I’m sorry, I know that’s not enough…just words, but they come from my heart.”Her attorney, Tommy Thomas, told the parole board that the suicide of Smith’s father “set the stage for some serious mental health issues,” listing “postpartum depression” as an example. “I could see the pain on her face…I think that she is truly remorseful for what happened…and that she would do anything in the world to bring these children back.”He added that if Smith was to be granted parole, she would be living with her brother. The 53-year-old’s ex-husband, David Smith, arrived at the parole hearing to face the woman who killed his children, wearing a pin showing his two toddler sons.   “I’m here to advocate on Michael and Alex’s behalf and as their father,” he said as he spoke at the hearing. “God gives us free choice, and she made free choice that night to end their life. This wasn’t a tragic mistake…she purposely meant to end their life.””I’m asking that you please deny her parole today,” he said emotionally, holding back tears.””I believe the jury intended for her to serve a full life sentence,” Tommy Pope, the prosecutor who helped convict Smith in her case, told Fox News Digital. “They wanted her to spend her life and remorse for Michael and Alex and what she had done, and she has time focused on herself having sex with guards, etc.”  Pope also attended Wednesday’s parole hearing, and he asked the board to deny Smith’s parole. Pope, along with a former director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections and one of Smith’s former lovers spoke out in Fox Nation’s latest special on the case and Smith’s time in prison, “Susan Smith, The Killer Mom: 30 Years Later.” WATCH “SUSAN SMITH, THE KILLER MOM: 30 YEARS LATER” ON FOX NATION”The South Carolina State House has a better chance of getting hit with a meteor tonight than Susan Smith will have at getting parole tomorrow,” Attorney Eric Bland, who has represented victims of Alex Murdaugh, another notorious South Carolina murder case, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.”She never showed real contrition for murdering her children.”SIGN UP TO GET THE TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERBland said Susan Smith contacted her ex-husband at one point over the last several months, asking him if he’d be willing not to oppose her parole and to speak to other family members and see if they too would be willing not to oppose. “He was livid, like, ‘Are you out of your mind?’,” Bland added, noting that up until she reached out to her former husband, she might have had a chance of getting parole. “She’s delusional… It’s his children, you know, and he lost them. I mean, the wound is still as raw as I’m sure it was on the first day that they were murdered.”SUSAN SMITH’S EX-HUSBAND ‘STILL BROKEN’ 30 YEARS AFTER SONS’ MURDERS AS KILLER MOM UP FOR PAROLE, AUTHOR SAYS”Under normal circumstances… it’s been 30 years… and oftentimes, victims’ families themselves say, ‘Look, has she served enough?’ You know, we’re a very Christian state, so people believe in forgiveness,” Bland said. “Nobody I’ve spoken to… has ever had any sympathy for her whatsoever.”Here is a timeline, detailing the events leading up to, during and after Smith’s horrific crime all the way through her decades in prison: Susan Smith strapped her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander Smith, into the back seat of her car and let it roll down a ramp into John D. Long Lake in Union, South Carolina.Smith, 22 at the time, watched as it took six minutes for water to fill the car, drown her boys and sink the car to the bottom of the lake. She ran to a house near John D. Long Lake, falsely telling the homeowners that a “Black man” had stolen her car with her two sons inside. The homeowners called 911. EX-HUSBAND OF KILLER MOM SUSAN SMITH, UP FOR PAROLE, SAYS SHE CRAVES ATTENTION AND LIKELY HASN’T CHANGEDFor nine days, the young faces of Michael and Alexander Smith spread across national headlines, while authorities searched for the man Susan said kidnapped the boys. Susan and David Smith pleaded on national television for the return of their children. Pope watched the news unfold at the time and received updates from SLED on the case. “The whole story sounded highly unlikely,” Pope said in the Fox Nation special, “Never are you hearing a carjacker taking children normally.”After failing a polygraph test, Susan Smith retracted her lie about the kidnapping and confessed to killing her two sons. She was charged with two counts of murder.KILLER MOM SUSAN SMITH DISCIPLINED BEHIND BARS WEEKS BEFORE PAROLE HEARINGHundreds attended the funeral of Michael and Alexander Smith. Susan Smith’s trial began less than a year after she drowned her sons. While prosecutors argued her motive for killing the boys was that a man she was seeing at the time didn’t want children, Smith’s defense said she was suicidal and originally planned to drown with her sons before somehow pulling herself out of it.”I was very emotionally distraught. I didn’t want to live anymore! I felt like things could never get any worse,” Smith wrote in her confession letter, obtained by Fox News Digital. “I felt I couldn’t be a good mom anymore but I didn’t want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us all from any grief or harm.” KILLER MOM SUSAN SMITH THINKS PAROLE IS NOW UNLIKELY AFTER SHE WAS CAUGHT TRYING TO PROFIT OFF CASE: REPORT”I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped…I dropped to the lowest when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me. I took off running and screaming ‘Oh God! Oh God, NO!’ What have I done?”Susan Smith was convicted in the murder of her two sons, Michael and Alexander. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XThough prosecutors argued that Susan Smith should receive the death penalty, she was ultimately sentenced to life in prison. Smith received 10 disciplinary sanctions, including one for having sex with a prison guard and others for repeated drug use.Smith was charged on Aug. 26 and subsequently convicted on Oct. 3 for communicating with a victim/and or witness after speaking to a documentary filmmaker. South Carolina Department of Corrections inmates are not allowed to do interviews on the telephone or in person, according to SCDC policy, but they may write letters. Smith lost her telephone, tablet and canteen privileges for 90 days.In her talks with the filmmaker, Smith discussed her crime in depth and the events leading up to and after it, including details like “what was in the trunk of the car when it went into the water and her plans to jump from a bridge while holding the boys, but one woke up,” the incident report says.On Nov. 4, Susan Smith had spent 30 years behind bars, making her eligible for parole. Smith appeared on a jailhouse court feed for her first parole hearing on Nov. 20. Her parole was unanimously denied at the end of the hearing. She will be eligible for parole again in two years.Fox News’ Audrey Conklin contributed to this report. 



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ATHENS, Ga. — A Georgia judge on Wednesday reached a verdict for Jose Ibarra, the suspect accused of murdering Augusta University student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus in February.Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge Patrick Haggard found Ibarra guilty of all 10 counts total, including one count of malice murder, three counts of felony murder, one count of kidnapping, one count of aggravated assault with intent to rape, one count of aggravated battery, one count of hindering a 911 call, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of being a “peeping Tom.” Ibarra pleaded not guilty to all counts.”Your honor, on February 22nd of 2024, our family and friends were given a life sentence without a chance of parole. Jose Ibarra took no pity on my scared, panicked and struggling child,” Riley’s mom, Allyson Philips said in a victim impact statement on Wednesday. “There is no end to the pain, suffering and loss that we have experienced or will continue to endure on that horrific day. My precious daughter was attacked, beaten and show no mercy. She fought for our life and dignity and to save herself from being brutally raped. This sick, twisted and evil coward showed no regard for Laken or human life.”Philips described her daughter a “smart, hardworking, kind, thoughtful, and most importantly, a child of God.” She “had a personal relationship with Jesus, and she loved being the hands and feet of his hands and feet in this world,” Philips said.. “She shared her love for our Lord with others through her mission trips, working with elderly at the nursing homes and through her nursing career,” Philips said. “Laken was an amazing friend, sister, niece, daughter and granddaughter. Anyone who knew her knew about her loving heart. Laken’s life was not the only life taken on that day that Jose Ibarra attacked her. The life of her family and friends was taken to none of us will ever be the same.”John Philips, her stepfather, read Laken’s last journal entry from December 2023, which read, “To my future husband. I want you to know that I’m thinking about you and working every day to become the best wife I can be … and focusing on God and what he defines as a faithful Christian wife, so that I can best embody those characteristics.”Riley’s family and friends sobbed in court as the judge announced his verdict before noon on Wednesday.Prosecutors said Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, attacked and killed Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, while she was jogging along trails near Lake Herrick on the University of Georgia campus in Athens the morning of Feb. 22.”Laken Riley herself has given you all the evidence you need alone to find this man guilty of every single count in this indictment,” prosecutor Sheila Ross said in her closing statement on Wednesday. “She did fight, and it is a direct result of that fight that gives you all the physical evidence you need to convict him.””He killed her because she would not let him rape her,” Ross added.LAKEN RILEY MURDER: FAMILY OF SLAIN UGA STUDENT SOBS IN COURT AS WITNESSES DESCRIBE CRIME SCENE EVIDENCEProsecutors argued the “peeping Tom” incident was related to the attack against Riley because it happened just over an hour before she was killed and showed Ibarra’s intent to prey on women the morning of Feb. 22.Prosecutors said Ibarra saw Riley running along popular trails on UGA’s campus just after 9 a.m. on Feb. 22, attacked her, dragged her 64 feet into a wooded area and beat her head with a rock repeatedly, killing her.Witnesses testified that DNA matching Ibarra’s was found in Riley’s fingernails and on a jacket with Riley’s hair recovered from a dumpster near his apartment complex.”In order to find this defendant not guilty of killing Laken Riley, you would have to disbelieve DNA,” Ross said. “You would have to disbelieve fingerprint evidence.”During rebuttal on Wednesday, the prosecution played video footage of authorities interrogating Diego Ibarra the day after Riley’s murder, showing Diego identifying his brother in security camera footage throwing the jacket with Riley’s hair on it in a dumpster behind their apartment complex on the edge of UGA’s campus. Diego identified Jose based on his clothing, hat and bag.LAKEN RILEY’S ALLEGED KILLER JOSE IBARRA FLEW FROM ‘GROUND ZERO’ OF MIGRANT CRISIS TO GEORGIA”Of course I know my own brother,” Diego allegedly told police, according to Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Special Agent Lucas Beyer, one of the officers who interviewed Diego.Ibarra’s defense attorneys argued that evidence against the Venezuelan national was circumstantial, and pointed to Jose’s brothers, Diego and Argenis Ibarra, who share similarities with Jose in their DNA makeup. Diego was also seen wearing the same black, Adidas-style hat prosecutors say Jose was wearing Feb. 22 when police questioned Diego on Feb. 23. DNA matching Riley’s was found on that same hat.”The facts and the evidence in this case should leave you with some reasonable doubt,” Kaitlyn Beck said in her closing argument on Wednesday, adding later that “while the evidence in this case is voluminous, it is circumstantial.”Much of the defense’s arguments suggested Diego may have something to do with Riley’s murder. Beck said in her closing statements that “it’s more than possible that one brother’s DNA would get on another brother’s clothes.”Watch: Laken Riley, Jose Ibarra seen on trail camera footage day of murder”I agree with the state, but Laken Riley was physically fit. She was fast. She could have outrun [Jose]. But there’s another suspect in this case who was taller, who was more physically fit, who was wearing sneakers on the day of the murder. And that is Diego Ibarra,” Beck said. Prosecutors, however, noted that security camera footage from a dining hall on UGA’s campus, where Diego worked, showed Diego arriving and leaving work on Feb. 22.Argenis and Diego were subpoenaed to testify as witnesses for the defense, but the court ultimately decided not to allow their testimony because they are currently involved in their own criminal cases. Jose’s defense attorney, John Donnelly, mentioned that Diego’s defense attorney advised that he should not testify during Jose’s trial while he is currently charged with green card fraud. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED IN LAKEN RILEY MURDER ‘FAST-TRACKING’ TO LIFE IN PRISON: ATTORNEYWatch: Police enter Jose Ibarra’s apartmentOn Monday, the second day of Ibarra’s trial, the court heard a recorded prison phone call between Ibarra and his wife, Layling Franco, that was played aloud and translated by an FBI analyst who spoke fluent Spanish. Judge Haggard on Tuesday ruled that the translated call could not be submitted as evidence.LAKEN RILEY MURDER TRIAL: PROSECUTORS PLACE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SUSPECT AT SCENE IN OPENING STATEMENTS”She said that she thinks it’s crazy that they don’t have anyone else’s DNA. They only have his. And she says she doesn’t understand how someone can see someone dying and not calling [sic] 911,” FBI analyst Abeisis Ramirez testified in court Monday while translating the call for the prosecution.Ibarra and his brothers were in the United States illegally from Venezuela at the time of their respective arrests after Riley’s murder. Diego is charged with green card fraud after showing police a fake ID on Feb. 23, and Argenis has been placed on an immigration hold. Ibarra illegally crossed into the United States through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, ICE and DHS sources previously told Fox News.The three brothers lived in an apartment building less than a half mile from the on-campus park where Riley was running the morning of Feb. 22. Their apartment complex backed up to a shortcut that leads to running trails along UGA’s campus where Riley was found dead in a wooded area, partially naked and covered in leaves, that afternoon. She died of blunt force trauma and asphyxiation, according to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation medical examiner.ICE previously confirmed to Fox News Digital that Jose Ibarra had been arrested by the New York Police Department a year after he entered the U.S. in August 2023 and was “charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation.”Diego Ibarra, who worked briefly at a UGA cafeteria before his arrest in February, had ties to a known Venezuelan gang in the U.S., Tren de Aragua, according to federal court documents.



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New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleaded with state leaders in Albany for help involuntarily relocating the mentally ill homeless from the city’s streets and into care, characterizing a Monday stabbing spree as the latest casualty of New York’s inaction.”Everybody said I was inhumane, that we just want to institutionalize people,” Adams said during a press briefing Tuesday. “Well, this is the result. This is the result of not taking actions and ignoring people who need help.”Adams said city officials will analyze how shortcomings in the criminal justice and mental health systems failed accused killer Ramon Rivera, who had been arrested eight times previously before allegedly killing three people on Monday.”We have three New Yorkers who were murdered in our city by a person who was betrayed by the health care system,” he said. SUSPECT IN CUSTODY AFTER ‘UNPROVOKED’ NEW YORK CITY STABBING SPREE LEAVES 3 PEOPLE DEAD: POLICERivera, 51, was caught when a good Samaritan cab driver alerted authorities, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said. He fatally stabbed a 36-year-old man standing outside a construction site on the city’s West Side, then killed a second man who was fishing by stabbing him multiple times through his body, police said. Rivera allegedly attacked a woman a block away from the United Nations before he was taken into custody. That woman later died.DANIEL PENNY TRIAL RESUMES AS FELLOW MARINE VET EXPLAINS CHOKEHOLD TRAINING ON WITNESS STANDSurveillance footage captured by a business on West 19th Street and obtained by the New York Post allegedly shows Rivera putting on gloves and preparing a knife before the string of attacks. Law enforcement sources told the New York Post that Rivera chose his victims because they were “alone” and “distracted.”Rivera spent most of this year behind bars and finished his most recent prison sentence for a spate of burglary and assault convictions on Oct. 17, the New York Post reported.Rivera has a documented history of mental health concerns, and public records indicate he has had arrests or has been known to law enforcement in three other states, NBC News reported.AOC’S ‘RED LIGHT’ DISTRICT OVERRUN WITH PROSTITUTES AS LOCALS CALL OUT MIA ‘SQUAD’ MEMBER Adams outlined steps the city has taken to take the mentally ill off the streets and subway systems, including efforts to shift toward small mental health “clubhouses” – day centers that connect them with community, art therapy and sometimes jobs.However, Adams said that he needs help from the state’s capitol. The Supportive Interventions Act, his bill to expand the city’s authority to force the unwell off the streets and into psychiatric care, has not made it into law. “We’ve been back and forth to Albany to say let’s codify in law and give real clarity around the authority we have of dealing with people with severe mental health illness,” he said in his Tuesday briefing. Rivera was arraigned on three counts of first-degree serial murder in a Manhattan courtroom hours after Adams’ briefing. 



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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday took steps to secure the release of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, offering a $5 million reward per captive to any Palestinian who helps to secure their freedom.Netanyahu made the announcement during a trip to the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza, which splits Northern Gaza and Gaza City from the rest of the Strip, where brutal fighting has occurred for more than a year as Israel looks to eradicate Hamas.  NETANYAHU SAYS HE IGNORED BIDEN’S WAR COUNSEL – AND THREATS THAT ISRAEL WOULD BE ‘LEFT ALONE’ WITHOUT US HELP”To those who want to leave this entanglement I say: Whoever brings us a hostage, will find a safe way out for himself and his family,” the prime minister said, speaking alongside Defense Minister Israel Katz, reported Israeli press agency TPS. “We will also give $5 million for every hostage. Choose, the choice is yours, but the result will be the same. “We will bring them all back,” Netanyahu said.Fox News Digital could not immediately reach Netanyahu’s office or the White House for comment on ongoing efforts to return the hostages.The Hostage Family Forum also told Fox News Digital that it had no comment at the time of this report.There are still 101 hostages believed to be held by Hamas of the 251 people who were abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, including seven Americans. At least 33 of the hostages still held by the terrorist network are believed to have been killed. Their bodies continue to be held by Hamas as supposed bargaining chips, including three Americans. Ruby Chen, the father of one of the American hostages, Itay Chen, who was ambushed near the border while serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Oct. 7, said he “doubts” Netanyahu’s reward system will be successful.”I think [Netanyahu’s] initiative is a smoke screen and tactical but not strategic,” Chen said. The father of Itay said Netanayhu is maneuvering with this latest announcement by refusing to detail what Israel will not do, like leave Gaza, and instead “say what he is willing to offer to get all the hostages” rather than a smaller number of hostages during a cease-fire. FAMILIES OF AMERICAN OCT. 7 HAMAS ATTACK VICTIMS SUE IRAN FOR ‘CRUCIAL ROLE’ IN SUPPORTING MASSACRENetanyahu, who also met with Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the IDF, vowed that Hamas would never be able to return to power in Gaza.”Hamas will not rule in Gaza,” Netanyahu reportedly said. “We are eliminating its military capabilities in very impressive fashion. We are moving on to its governing abilities, and we are not yet done. Hamas will not be in Gaza.”The prime minister championed the success of IDF forces in combating the terrorist group and, along with his defense minister, spoke with IDF reserve brigade commanders on the Gaza coast about ongoing challenges and operational activity. The IDF in September assessed that Hamas had largely been defeated and that the remnants of the terrorist group continue to operate through guerrilla combat-based activities that will take time to dismantle. Israel has not detailed a timeline for when it will end its military operations in Gaza and peace talks earlier this year appeared to come to a standstill over apparently insurmountable disagreements regarding security corridors in the Strip. It remains unclear where peace talks stand today between Israel and Hamas. The U.S., representing Israel, was working closely with Qatar and Egypt, which represented the Hamas side, for weeks in a move to end the brutal fighting that is reported to have killed some 43,000 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, more than half of whom were reported to be women and children. However, these figures do not detail the number of terrorist deaths. Earlier this month Qatar said it could no longer be involved in mediation efforts due to a lack of willingness by both Hamas and Israel to engage in good faith attempts to end the deadly conflict.



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A mom in Georgia is facing possible jail time after her 10-year-old son was found walking alone to town, less than a mile from the family’s home.Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested on suspicion of reckless conduct on Oct. 30 over her son’s unsupervised walk, according to the Fannin County Sheriff’s Office.Patterson had taken another son to a doctor’s appointment when she left her son Soren, now 11, alone at their home in the rural town of Mineral Bluff, NBC News reported. After someone reported Soren’s wandering, deputies located him and drove him home.”It’s not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road,” Patterson told the outlet. “I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his safety.”SUSAN SMITH PROSECUTOR SAYS SHE WAS MEANT TO SERVE LIFE IN PRISON AS KILLER MOM GETS PAROLE HEARINGStill, deputies returned to the home later and placed Patterson under arrest.In bodycam footage obtained by ABC News, deputies could be heard telling Patterson she is under arrest for reckless endangerment. “And how was I recklessly endangering my child?” Patterson asked. Another deputy responded, “We’re not talking about it,” before handcuffing the mom.MINNESOTA SON, 31, ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS FATHER ‘EXECUTION STYLE’ WHILE MAKING RELATIVES WATCH: POLICEPatterson and her lawyer said that authorities offered to drop the charge if she signed a safety plan that included using a GPS tracker on her son’s phone. The mom said she is refusing to sign the plan and will fight the charge.”I just felt like I couldn’t sign that and that in doing so, would be agreeing that there was something unsafe about my home or something unsafe about my parental decisions and I just don’t believe that,” the mom told ABC News.Patterson was released on $500 bail and could face up to a year in jail under the charge.



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