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More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said.Twenty others were injured in the violence that has forced thousands to flee as Colombia’s army scrambled to evacuate people on Sunday, according to William Villamizar, governor of North Santander, where many of the killings took place.COLOMBIA’S PRESIDENT SAYS COUNTRY WILL BREAK DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL OVER WAR IN GAZAAmong the victims are community leader Carmelo Guerrero and seven people who sought to sign a peace deal, according to a report that a government ombudsman agency released late Saturday.Officials said the attacks happened in several towns located in the Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, with at least three people who were part of the peace talks being kidnapped.Thousands of people are fleeing the area, with some hiding in the nearby lush mountains or seeking help at government shelters.”We were caught in the crossfire,” said Juan Gutiérrez, who fled with his family to a temporary shelter in Tibú after they were forced to leave behind their animals and belongings. “We had no time to grab our things. … I hope the government remembers us. … We are helpless here.”Colombia’s army rescued dozens of people on Sunday, including a family and their pet dog, whose owner held a pack of cold water against the animal’s chest to keep it cool as they evacuated by helicopter.Defense Minister Iván Velásquez traveled to the northeast town of Cúcuta on Sunday where he held several security meetings and urged armed groups to demobilize.”The priority is to save lives and guarantee the security of communities,” he said. “We have deployed our troops throughout the entire region.”Officials also prepared to send 10 tons of food and hygiene kits for approximately 5,000 people in the communities of Ocaña and Tibú, the majority of them having fled the violence.”Catatumbo needs help,” Villamizar said in a public address on Saturday. “Boys, girls, young people, teenagers, entire families are showing up with nothing, riding trucks, dump trucks, motorcycles, whatever they can, on foot, to avoid being victims of this confrontation.”The attack comes after Colombia suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, on Friday, the second time it has done so in less than a year.Colombia’s government has demanded that the ELN cease all attacks and allow authorities to enter the region and provide humanitarian aid.”Displacement is killing us here in the region,” said José Trinidad, a municipal official for the town of Convención, located in the North Santander region. “We’re afraid the crisis will worsen.”Trinidad called on insurgent groups to sit down and hammer out a new agreement so “us civilians don’t have to suffer the consequences that we’re suffering right now.”The ELN has been clashing in Catatumbo with former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a guerrilla group that disbanded after signing a peace deal in 2016 with Colombia’s government. The two are fighting over control of a strategic border region that has coca leaf plantations.In a statement Saturday, the ELN said it had warned former FARC members that if they “continued attacking the population … there was no other way out than armed confrontation.” The ELN has accused ex-FARC rebels of several killings in the area, including the Jan. 15 slaying of a couple and their 9-month-old baby.Army commander Gen. Luis Emilio Cardozo Santamaría said Saturday that authorities were reinforcing a humanitarian corridor between Tibú and Cúcuta for the safe passage of those forced to flee their homes. He said special urban troops also were deployed to municipal capitals “where there are risks and a lot of fear.”The ELN has tried to negotiate a peace deal with the administration of President Gustavo Petro five times, with talks failing after bouts of violence. ELN demands include that it be recognized as a political rebel organization, which critics have said is risky.



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California officials on Tuesday announced residents in certain Palisades Fire evacuation zones will be allowed to return home, as the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department increases security measures to address looting incidents.Zones C-111A, C-112B and U-030B, near Malibu, reopened to residents Tuesday afternoon, with the requirement that they pass through a Malibu checkpoint, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.The operation comes after the department announced it is enhancing operations in the Altadena Eaton Fire burn area to support recovery and ensure community safety.COUPLE WITH FAKE FIRE TRUCK BUSTED FOR IMPERSONATING FIREFIGHTERS NEAR PALISADES FIRE IN LOS ANGELES: SHERIFFOfficials said they are intensifying their efforts and “strategically” shifting operations, from strictly enforced containment measures to community support. The department said it is prioritizing the safety and recovery of residents as they begin to return to their homes and neighborhoods, and announced the creation of a specialized “Looter Suppression Team.””This dedicated unit is composed of personnel drawn from multiple LASD divisions, each bringing specialized expertise to combat looting and other criminal activities that can arise during times of community vulnerability,” according to a statement from the department. The team will operate with additional deputy personnel assigned to increase patrol operations, officials noted.The agency’s AERO Bureau will conduct aerial patrols, providing enhanced surveillance and rapid response capabilities to ensure comprehensive coverage of the affected areas, according to the statement.”Together, these efforts ensure continuous 24-hour patrolling to provide a consistent and visible law enforcement presence, particularly in neighborhoods still dealing with utility outages and heightened security risks,” officials said.The curfew order issued by Los Angeles County remains in effect, but is limited to areas under active evacuation orders, according to the agency. Those under evacuation warnings are no longer subject to the restrictions.LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES: ARMED HOMEOWNERS PATROL FOR LOOTERS INSIDE EVACUATION ZONE”As residents return to their properties, LASD is committed to assisting them during this challenging period,” officials said. “The department’s efforts aim to facilitate a smooth transition back to normalcy by ensuring safety, preventing criminal activity, and reassuring the community.”The LASD extends its gratitude to the residents of Altadena for their patience, resilience, and cooperation during these difficult times. The department remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring the safety, security, and well-being of all communities across Los Angeles County as recovery efforts continue.”Staging for residents returning home will take place at the Malibu Pier, located at 23000 Pacific Coast Highway.



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More Americans watched Fox News Channel to witness President Trump’s historic inauguration than any other network.From 11:30 a.m. through 1 p.m. ET, Fox News averaged 10.3 million total viewers with two million in the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. FOX Business additionally netted 282,000 total viewers as FOX News Media peaked at nearly 11 million viewers combined. Trailing in second place in its coverage of Trump’s inauguration was ABC with just 4.7 million total viewers. NBC came in third with 4.4 million viewers, followed by CBS with 4.1 million. CNN, on the heels of its crushing defamation trial loss, reached only 1.7 million viewers. And MSNBC, whose liberal viewership has been in free fall since Trump’s election victory in November, averaged just 848,000 total viewers. FOX NEWS’ SEAN HANNITY TO INTERVIEW PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM OVAL OFFICEFox News’ coverage, which was led by anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, made up a whopping 80% of the cable news audience share, trouncing CNN and MSNBC’s share.Fox News maintained its dominance throughout the day and into primetime. The network averaged more than six million total viewers, including one million in the key demo, from 8-11 p.m. ET. MSNBC trailed in second place with an average of 1.1 million total viewers and a paltry 93,000 viewers in the key demo. CNN came in third with one million total viewers but edged out MSNBC among key demo viewers, averaging 269,000. FOX NEWS HOST WILL CAIN SAYS NEW DAYTIME SHOW OFFERS HIM ‘EXCITING CHALLENGES’Fox News Media saw substantial growth in its digital properties compared to Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 and President Biden’s inauguration in 2021. Fox News Digital had its best day in media initiates and minutes spent since the day after the 2024 presidential election. FOX News Go’s total view time increased 83% from 2021, a 72% surge in media initiatives and a 35% increase in unique viewing devices. Fox News Media also performed strongly in engagement on social media compared to other news outlets, collecting a staggering 8.8 million interactions across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X, according to Emplifi. Fox News also dominated as the biggest news brand on YouTube, lapping NBC News with a whopping 142% more video views. FOX NEWS DOMINATES 2024 VIEWERSHIP, TOPPING CNN AND MSNBC COMBINED DURING UNPRECEDENTED YEAR OF NEWSTrump is the second president ever to serve two non-consecutive terms, the first being Grover Cleveland more than 100 years ago. Monday’s inauguration took place in the rotunda of the Capitol Building due to record cold temperatures, the first time since Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration 40 years ago. Fox News’ Sean Hannity will present an interview with President Donald Trump from the Oval Office on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET. 



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President Donald Trump revoked former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s Secret Service protection after his inauguration as the 47th president on Monday, Bolton told Fox News Digital. “I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has decided to terminate the protection previously provided by the United States Secret Service,” Bolton said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to extend that protection to me in 2021. “Bolton has faced threats from Iran going back years, including an alleged plot to assassinate him in 2021 and the Department of Justice subsequently charging a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the plot in 2022. Trump had ousted Bolton from his first administration in 2019, and Biden had granted him a security detail in 2021. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House regarding Bolton’s claim, but did not immediately receive a reply. US OFFERS $20M FOR IRANIAN IN PLOT TARGETING TRUMP’S EX-NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JOHN BOLTON”The Justice Department filed criminal charges against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official in 2022 for attempting to hire a hit man to target me. That threat remains today, as also demonstrated by the recent arrest of someone trying to arrange for President Trump’s own assassination,” Bolton continued in his statement. “The American people can judge for themselves which President made the right call.”The Iranian threats against Bolton were likely sparked by the January 2020 U.S. strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, the Department of Justice reported in 2022. Bolton served as Trump’s national security advisor between 2018 and 2019, before Trump ousted him because they “disagreed strongly” on policy issues. BIDEN SAYS TRUMP HAS NO ‘REDEEMING VALUE,’ PRETENDS TO SQUASH HIM LIKE A BUG AMID IRANIAN ASSASSINATION THREAT”I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House,” Trump tweeted in 2019. “I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.”In the following years, Trump repeatedly has slammed Bolton, including claiming he would have sparked “World War Six,” and calling him “one of the dumbest people in Government” back in 2023. TRUMP SAYS IRANIAN PRESIDENT BEING GUARDED AT UN WHILE PLOTTING ASSASSINATION ‘A STRANGE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES’Bolton also has taken his shots at Trump, claiming in a 2020 interview that Trump lacks “the competency to carry out the job.” “I don’t think he’s fit for office,” Bolton said in 2020. “I don’t think he has the competency to carry out the job. There isn’t really any guiding principle that I was able to discern, other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s reelection.”



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Democratic senators on the Armed Services Committee are currently reviewing an affidavit that alleges Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth made his second wife fear for her safety. Fox News has obtained an affidavit from Hegseth’s former sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth, which alleges that he both has an alcohol abuse problem – and he at times made his ex-wife, Samantha, fear for her safety. Danielle Hegseth was married to Pete Hegseth’s brother. She is not the sister of Samantha, Pete Hegseth’s second wife.The Senate Armed Services Committee was provided the affidavit and members are in the process of reviewing it. LAKEN RILEY ACT SET TO BECOME ONE OF FIRST BILLS TO HIT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DESKIn a statement to Fox News, Pete Hegseth’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore said, “Sam has never alleged that there was any abuse, she signed court documents acknowledging that there was no abuse and recently reaffirmed the same during her FBI interview. Belated claims by Danielle Dietrich, an anti-Trump, far-left Democrat who is divorced from Mr. Hegseth’s brother and never got along with the Hegseth family, do nothing to change that.  After an acrimonious divorce, Ms. Dietrich has had an ax to grind against the entire Hegseth family.  Ms. Dietrich admits that she saw nothing but is now falsely accusing Sam of lying to both the Court and to the FBI because of private, undocumented statements that she allegedly made 10 years ago.”Danielle Hegseth provided an anecdote in the document, recalling that Samantha once hid in a closet from her husband.NEXT OHIO SENATOR, A ‘FISCAL CONSERVATIVE,’ AIMS TO ‘GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF PEOPLE’S LIVES’But, Danielle Hegseth added that she never witnessed any abuse herself, physical or sexual, from Pete against Samantha. The affidavit provided additional anecdotes about Hegseth’s alleged heavy drinking, referring to several specific occasions, including one in a strip club. In the document, Danielle Hegseth also concluded her former brother-in-law is not fit to be Secretary of Defense, in her opinion. The committee’s Ranking Member Jack Reed, D-R.I., said in a statement, “As I have said for months, the reports of Mr. Hegseth’s history of alleged sexual assault, alcohol abuse, and public misconduct necessitate an exhaustive background investigation. I have been concerned that the background check process has been inadequate, and this affidavit confirms my fears. The alleged pattern of abuse and misconduct by Mr. Hegseth is disturbing. This behavior would disqualify any servicemember from holding any leadership position in the military, much less being confirmed as the Secretary of Defense.”Samantha Hegseth denies any physical abuse in a statement first reported by NBC News. “There was no physical abuse in my marriage. This is the only further statement I will make to you, I have let you know that I am not speaking and will not speak on my marriage to Pete. Please respect this decision,” she reportedly said. DOGE CAUCUS PLANS FOR BIGGEST IMPACT, EYEING KEY TOOLS TO EXPEDITE CUTTING WASTESen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., who is on the committee, told reporters, “This only confirms what we already know about Mr. Hegseth’s behavior and the way he has lived his life, and the kinds of opinions that he had towards women.””So we’ll let the Republicans make their own statement, but I think it just confirms we already know that he is absolutely 100% unqualified for this job, his disposition, his demeanor, the issues we have with sexual abuse, with financial mismanagement,” she said. “I am telling you, there is a great deal in this affidavit, and, any part of which would disqualify a candidate to lead our military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., another member of the committee, told reporters. OHIO GOV DEWINE PICKS LT GOV TO FILL VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT JD VANCE’S VACANT SEATHowever, Republicans on the committee aren’t necessarily going to be swayed by the allegations. New Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., who also sits on the committee, wrote on X: “This is a desperate, last-minute attempt by Dems and the media to smear Pete Hegseth and tank his nomination. Pete’s ex-wife is on record saying the claims are false, but the media doesn’t care because it hurts a Republican. Nobody should fall for this.”



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After four years of the Biden administration pushing executive policies to allow biological males into female spaces, Parents Defending Education Action (PDE) is pushing for Congress to address violence against women in athletics and calling on the NCAA to revoke its transgender policy and declare Oct. 10 “American Girls in Sports Day.”The measures have been introduced as a bill and two resolutions sponsored by Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.In an interview with Fox News Digital, Nicole Neily, president of PDE, called the Biden administration’s actions regarding girls’ sports over the previous four years “appalling.””Let’s think about the original intent of Title IX,” she said “It was put in place to protect and ensure that women weren’t losing out on opportunities as a result of their sex. And now we’re watching that happen and we’re watching girls’ sex be weaponized against them. It really turns the whole intent of the law upside down.”LEADERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD REACT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE RETURNNeily said that designating an American Girls in Sports day would “commemorate all the sacrifices and the hard work that has been put in to get to a place of equality only to watch it stripped away by the Biden administration that refuses to even respect the definition of the word ‘woman.’”Despite President Donald Trump returning to the White House this week, Neily said that it is crucial for Congress to act now.  “We can’t keep doing this whiplash back and forth every four years,” she said. “It’s critical that Congress get involved in these issues because it codifies it and locks it in.””It turns out all these administrators, all these bureaucrats, any kind of wiggle room they have to reinterpret something they will,” she said. “I mean, let’s look at how even Title IX has been weaponized and interpreted by administrative agencies over the past several years. Title IX was part of the education amendments, it was ratified in 1972, and it’s 37 words, but we’re now watching Democrats interpret one simple word ‘sex.’ They’re totally rewriting what that means [to include] sexual orientation, gender identity, and that’s not what’s in there.”Blackburn introduced the measures in the Senate earlier this month. JK ROWLING TORCHES LEFT FOR GENDER IDEOLOGY ‘CALAMITY’ AFTER TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER: ‘THEY DIDN’T LISTEN’The bill – which is titled the “Fair Play for Girls Act” – would require the U.S. attorney general to submit an analysis of violence against women in sports to Congress along with policy recommendations to protect young women competing. The analysis would include impediments to fair and safe competition for biological female athletes, the prevalence of girls losing female sports opportunities to biological males and the prevalence of sexual harassment and abuse of women and girls in athletics.Another resolution introduced by Blackburn would call on the NCAA – which manages intercollegiate sports for over a thousand universities across the country – to revoke its policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports of the opposite sex and to conform to a biological sex-based policy across all sports.Finally, the “American Girls in Sports Day” resolution would recognize Oct. 10 as a day to celebrate the accomplishments of female athletes.In addition to PDE, Blackburn’s measures have also been endorsed by celebrity female sports activist Riley Gaines, Caitlyn Jenner, the Independent Women’s Forum and several others.TEXAS AG SUES NCAA OVER TRANS INCLUSION IN WOMEN’S SPORTSNeily believes there should be bipartisan support for these measures, which she said both simply protect vulnerable girls and recognize their achievements.”Everyone has seen the videos over the past few years of the women in sports who have been physically injured, be it from a volleyball being spiked into their face [or] a field hockey ball being whipped at somebody,” she said.”There are significant biological differences between men and women,” she went on. “I mean, even let’s think about lacrosse. A male lacrosse player throws a ball an average of 85 to 95 miles an hour. And male lacrosse players wear chest protectors and helmets for that very reason. Female lacrosse players throw a ball an average of 45 to 65 miles an hour, and they do not. And so, if you have a biological male with that muscle mass, with that bone structure, throwing a ball at a girl and it hits her, I mean, there’s the real risk of serious severe bodily injury or even death.”TRUMP SIGNS DOZENS OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS, FULFILLING MANY BUT NOT ALL CAMPAIGN PROMISESAll this, she said, works to limit girls’ opportunities to fairly compete.”Having known many college athletes over the course of my life, the amount of effort that it takes to be a D1, a D2, a D3 athlete, I mean, these are students who have spent thousands of hours over the course of their life going back to a very, very young ages to get to this elite position where they are in colleges and universities,” she explained. “And so, to have a spot on a team, to have a scholarship opportunity taken away from them by someone who is deemed to be faster, purely because of their biology is something that I think is a real slap in the face to these girls who have sacrificed so much, who have worked so hard.”  



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Constitutional law attorney and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley reacted on “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday to the pardons given by President Donald Trump to nearly all the Jan. 6 rioters charged with crimes.PRESIDENT BIDEN PARDONS HIS SIBLINGS JUST MINUTES BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE JONATHAN TURLEY: Well, the Department of Justice really made the case for these pardons, and it was hard to do because most of us supported the people responsible for the riot being held accountable, it was a terrible day. But the Justice Department unleashed what one of its top lawyers called a ‘shock and awe’ campaign, and they just scooped up hundreds of people. They often demanded really excessive sentences, in my view. Most of these people were charged with just trespass or unlawful entry. Most of them were not violent. The government tended to oppose bail, they kept a number of them for a very long time in segregation. In some cases, they demanded limitations on what people could say or read or associate after they were released. All of this tended to undermine their case. So when when the president campaigned on this issue, I think a lot of people wanted to see this chapter closed and he certainly did that. I mean, this was broader than most people expected or even asked for. Trump signed pardons for approximately 1,500 defendants who were charged with crimes stemming from the riot at the U.S. Capitol, fulfilling a promise he made in December to act quickly and pardon them. Trump also commuted the sentences of six people on Monday, including the leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys extremist groups.”Tonight I’m going to be signing on the J6 hostages, pardons to get them out,” Trump said at the parade at Capital One Arena in Washington. “I’m going to the Oval Office and we’ll be signing pardons for a lot of people.”The Justice Department reported that approximately 140 police officers were assaulted during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. That included law enforcement members from both the U.S. Capitol Police and about 60 from the Metropolitan Police Department.So far, judges or a jury after a trial have convicted roughly 250 people who faced charges for their involvement in the riot, and more than 1,000 had pleaded guilty to crimes as of January.Fox News’ Diana Stancy contributed to this report.



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President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) vowed to make rooting out illegal DEI practices in the workplace a priority, she said. “Consistent with the President’s Executive Orders and priorities, my priorities will include rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination; protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination; defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work; protecting workers from religious bias and harassment, including antisemitism; and remedying other areas of recent under-enforcement,” Andrea Lucas said in a press release provided to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. Lucas was appointed to the EEOC as a commissioner in 2020 under the first Trump administration and has served in the role since. The EEOC is the federal government’s only agency authorized to investigate and sue private companies and employers over employment discrimination. “I am honored to be chosen by President Trump to lead the EEOC, our nation’s premier civil rights agency enforcing federal employment anti-discrimination laws,” Lucas said of her appointment. “I look forward to restoring evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws for all Americans. In recent years, this agency has remained silent in the face of multiple forms of widespread, overt discrimination.”FEDERAL COMMISSIONER FIRES BACK AT MARK CUBAN FOR DIVERSITY CLAIM, DELIVERS WARNING ABOUT DEI: ‘MORE PROBLEMS’Trump signed a bevy of executive actions and orders on Monday after he was sworn in as the nation’s 47th president, including ones related to diversity, equity and inclusion, better known as DEI programs. “The Biden Administration forced illegal and immoral discrimination programs, going by the name ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI), into virtually all aspects of the Federal Government, in areas ranging from airline safety to the military,” Trump’s executive order on ending “radical and wasteful” DEI programs states. “This was a concerted effort stemming from President Biden’s first day in office.” “That ends today,” the executive order reads. “Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.” EEOC COMMISSIONER RESPONDS TO SUPREME COURT RULING AGAINST RACE-BASED COLLEGE ADMISSIONSLucas echoed Trump’s views on DEI programs within the federal government and beyond in her statement Tuesday, championing that the nation “must reject the twin lies of identity politics.”TRUMP PRAISED FOR EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON BORDER, DEI, ENERGY: ‘COMMON SENSE DAY IN AMERICA'”Our employment civil rights laws are a matter of individual rights,” Lucas said. “We must reject the twin lies of identity politics: that justice is measured by group outcomes and that civil rights exist solely to remedy harms against certain groups.” “I intend to dispel the notion that only the ‘right sort of’ charging party is welcome through our doors and to reinforce instead the fundamental belief enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and our civil rights laws—that all people are ‘created equal.’ I am committed to ensuring equal justice under the law and to focusing on equal opportunity, merit, and colorblind equality.” 



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Just hours before President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Monday, a migrant caravan of more than 2,000 people set off from deep in southern Mexico with the aim of crossing into the U.S.The caravan, consisting of men, women, and children from various countries, was seen marching through the southern Mexican city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border in darkness early Monday. The migrants were carrying bags and rucksacks while migrant parents could be seen pushing children in strollers or carrying youngsters on their shoulders.It’s at least the tenth-largest caravan to walk out of Tapachula since the U.S. election, according to Border Report. It would take an adult migrant about 16 days of non-stop walking to get to the southern border.TRUMP TO DEPLOY MILITARY TO BORDER, END BIDEN PAROLE POLICIES IN FLURRY OF DAY ONE EXECUTIVE ORDERSThe caravan is on the march despite Trump signing a flurry of executive orders on Monday clamping down on illegal immigration. He also declared a national border emergency.In one order, Trump directed the federal government to resume construction of the border wall, which was largely dormant under the Biden administration. That order also ended Biden-era parole policies, including the use of the CBP One app to parole migrants into the U.S.Erkin Torres, a migrant from Colombia who is part of the caravan, said he believes that Trump’s actions cannot supersede the United Nations, inferring what he believes is his right to apply for asylum. “Just as Donald Trump takes power, he can’t surpass the United Nations, understand? United as one,” Torres told Reuters.”The world is complete and supporting us because the cause is one: better economic stability and giving a better future to those children there.”Another migrant, Maria Leidis from Cuba, said the new U.S. government will still provide a pathway for the migrants to enter the U.S. despite the CBP One app going offline. TRUMP DHS PICK NOEM PLEDGES TO END CONTROVERSIAL APP USED BY MIGRANTS ON ‘DAY ONE’ “Well, we feel quite sad because our goal is to enter, and knowing they won’t let us in breaks our hearts,” she told Reuters. “But we think that if not through this CBP One application, he’ll set another way, and we’ll enter.”Migrants form caravans because they believe there is safety in numbers, as it is hard or impossible for immigration agents to detain large groups of hundreds of migrants. Some hope to catch rides to help them on their journey, while others will make the arduous trip to the southern border by foot in the searing heat. Many caravans break up after a few days of walking, while the Mexican government says it’s been trying to break them up also amid Trump promising to impose massive tariffs on Mexico if it doesn’t stop the influx. Elsewhere, migrants waiting for an appointment via the app were left stranded at various locations along the Mexican side of the southern border.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAs well as the cancelation of the CBP One app, Trump also ordered government agencies to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), known as the Remain-in-Mexico policy. That policy from Trump’s first term, which was ended by the Biden administration, required migrants to stay in Mexico for the duration of their asylum hearings.Another order directed U.S. troops to be deployed to the border under U.S. Northern Command to prioritize U.S. border and territorial integrity in strategic planning.President Trump also designated international cartels and organizations, including MS-13 and the bloodthirsty Tren de Aragua, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT). An FTO designation allows for targeted action against members, including financial penalties.Reuters contributed to this report. 



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The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office is working to determine a woman’s cause of death after her body was found on a subway train, police said.Around 2 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to a 911 call at the Jamaica-179 Street Station, where they found an “unconscious, unresponsive and unidentified adult female” on a northbound F train, the New York Police Department said in a statement.Emergency Medical Services assisted and declared the woman dead on scene. She is possibly homeless, and between 50 and 60 years old, the New York Post reports.She was found while a conductor was doing a walk-through at the train’s first stop in the Queens borough, police told the media outlet. The woman had no signs of trauma, the Post said.  NYC GRAND CENTRAL CHRISTMAS SLASHING SUSPECT CRIES OUT TO MOTHER DURING COURT APPEARANCENo arrests have been made, and the investigation continues, the NYPD said. Amid a flurry of high-profile crime stories, New York City subway riders have voiced concerns about their safety, suggesting that violence on train cars is becoming a looming issue in the Big Apple.”You never know what can actually happen in these subway systems,” Haisley, born and raised in Brooklyn, told Fox News Digital.SUSPECT ACCUSED OF BURNING WOMAN TO DEATH ON NYC SUBWAY IS PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTHaisley suggested that an influx of people into New York City, as well as progressive crime policies, are mainly to blame for subway crimes. He specifically called out New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for failing to address issues with prison and bail reforms.”We never feel safe in the subway at all,” a female subway rider told Fox News Digital.Citing issues with homelessness and a recent incident in which a Guatemalan migrant was arrested in connection to the death of a woman who was lit on fire, the subway rider said that people now have a lot of fear when riding mass transit.FOX News’ Nikolas Lanum and Kayla Bailey contributed to this report. 



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North Carolina Tar Heels football general manager Michael Lombardi doubled down on the position that Bill Belichick has no intention of leaving the program for the NFL.Belichick had been rumored to be interested in a few NFL jobs that opened up weeks after he decided to jump to the collegiate ranks for the first time in his career. Belichick replaced Mack Brown as the head coach at North Carolina after decades with the New England Patriots.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMLombardi, who joined Belichick at the program, had expressed multiple times that Belichick would not be leaving the Tar Heels. He made the proclamation again in an interview on Monday on OutKick’s “The Ricky Cobb Show.””I think one thing everyone could agree on, whether you’re a fan of what Bill did in New England or you were a foe because he beat you in New England, the one thing we can all agree on is Bill’s really smart,” he said. “Bill knows the landscape of the NFL better than most fans do. And if Bill thought there was a job out there that was enticing to him, he would not have made the move to North Carolina.”He wasn’t looking for a job. He wasn’t collecting unemployment. He wasn’t hoping for someone to hire him. He knew there was great opportunities if he wanted to go into the NFL. What we also knew was the NFL is a slippery slope in the sense that there’s a lot of politicalness that goes on. You’re answering to a lot of different people, there’s an agenda within buildings.”Lombardi used a line from one of the greatest NFL head coaches of all time to describe why Belichick wouldn’t go back to the NFL.DALLAS COWBOYS NEXT HEAD COACH ODDS: WHO WILL REPLACE MIKE MCCARTHY?”Bill Walsh told me in 1984 when there were 28 teams in the National Football League, ‘You know, we’re only competing against eight teams here kid.’ He was right then and he was right today,” he said. “And I think that line right there sums up why Bill’s at North Carolina. Not all teams are built to win.”Not all teams are chasing the Super Bowl. Not all teams want to do it. They want to win their way, not the right way. I think that’s why North Carolina became so appealing to him, because we can build a program here the right way.”Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, also maintained that the 72-year-old head coach would stay in Carolina blue.”Pictured: two people who are overtly committed to @uncfootball,” she wrote as the caption in an Instagram photo.Belichick has been on the recruiting trail in recent weeks and landed a top defensive transfer earlier this month.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker may have been a bit overzealous on Monday as she and the rest of the city celebrated the Philadelphia Eagles’ NFC Championship berth.Parker addressed the city on Sunday ahead of a snowstorm and deep freeze that was set to impact the Northeast. Temperatures were expected to drop into the high teens on top of about six inches of snow. As she concluded, she expressed her support for the Eagles.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”Let me hear you all say, E-L-G-S-E-S, Eagles! Go birds,” she said.The sentiment was there, but fans noticed that bizarre spelling of the team and took to social media to talk about it.LIONS’ DAN CAMPBELL CONFIDENT TEAM’S SUPER BOWL WINDOW REMAINS OPEN AFTER DISASTROUS LOSS TO COMMANDERSThe Eagles did pull off a victory against the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Divisional Round to advance to the conference title game for the second time in three years.Eagles running back Saquon Barkley helped break the game open with a late 78-yard touchdown run. Then, Philadelphia held off a surging Rams offense that nearly put together a comeback to win the game or force overtime.Barkley finished with 205 rushing yards and two touchdowns.”It was fun, It was a play that I asked for,” Barkley said. “It’s a beautiful thing when stuff like that happens.”Philadelphia will play the Washington Commanders on Sunday with a trip to Super Bowl LIX on the line.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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A fire at a hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday killed at least 66 people, Turkey’s Interior Minister said.Ali Yerlikaya said at least 51 other people were injured in the disaster.”We are in deep pain. We have unfortunately lost 66 lives in the fire that broke out at this hotel,” Yerlikaya told reporters after inspecting the site.Health Minister Kemal Memisoglu said at least one of the injured was in serious condition.The fire broke out at around 3:30 a.m. in the restaurant of the 12-story Grand Kartal hotel in the resort of Kartalkaya in Bolu province, officials and reports said. The cause of the fire was under investigation.Two of the victims died after jumping from the building in a panic, Gov. Abdulaziz Aydin told the state-run Anadolu Agency. Private NTV television said some people tried to climb down from their rooms using sheets and blankets.There were 234 guests staying at the hotel, Aydin said.COLLEGE ATHLETE DIES FROM TRAGIC ACCIDENT ON SKI RESORT’S MOST DIFFICULT TRAILNecmi Kepcetutan, a ski instructor at the hotel, said he was asleep when the fire erupted and he rushed out of the building. He told NTV television that he then helped some 20 guests out of the hotel.He said the hotel was engulfed in smoke, making it difficult for guests to locate the fire escape.”I cannot reach some of my students. I hope they are OK,” the ski instructor told the station.Television images showed the roof and top floors of the hotel on fire.LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES: ANNA FARIS LOSES PACIFIC PALISADES HOME, MOLLY SIMS WEEPS OVER ‘DEVASTATED’ COMMUNITYWitnesses and reports said the hotel’s fire detection system failed to operate.”My wife smelled the burning. The alarm did not go off,” Atakan Yelkovan, a guest staying on the third floor of the hotel, told the IHA news agency.”We tried to go upstairs but couldn’t, there were flames. We went downstairs and came here (outside),” he said.Yelkovan said it took about an hour for the firefighting teams to arrive.”People on the upper floors were screaming. They hung down sheets … some tried to jump,” he said.TEEN DEAD AT SKI RESORT NEAR POSH MOUNTAIN TOWNThe government appointed six prosecutors to lead an investigation into the fire. NTV television suggested that the wooden cladding on the exterior of the hotel, in a chalet-style design, may have accelerated the spread of the fire.The 161-room hotel is on the side of a cliff, hampering efforts to combat the flames, the station also reported.NTV showed a smoke-blackened lobby, its glass entrance and windows smashed, its wooden reception desk charred and a chandelier crashed to the ground.Kartalkaya is a popular ski resort in the Koroglu mountains, some 300 kilometers (185 miles) east of Istanbul. The fire occurred during the school semester break when hotels in the region are packed.Aydin’s office said 30 fire trucks and 28 ambulances were sent to the site.Other hotels at the resort were evacuated as a precaution and guests were placed in hotels around Bolu.Meanwhile, a gas explosion at a hotel at another ski resort in central Turkey injured four people.The explosion took place at the Yildiz Mountain Winter Sports Center in Sivas province. Two skiers and their instructor were slightly injured while another instructor received second-degree burns on the hands and face, the Sivas governor’s office said.



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Two more of President Trump’s nominees will face questions from senators Tuesday, while a third, Treasury nominee Scott Bessent, will get a committee vote.Former Rep. Doug Collins, an Air Force Reserve chaplain, will testify before the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee as he seeks confirmation to lead the Veterans Affairs Department. And Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.The Senate Finance Committee, meanwhile, will convene at 10:15 a.m. and vote on whether to advance Bessent’s nomination to be secretary of the Treasury. Collins will be the first potential cabinet official to receive a hearing after Trump’s whirlwind of a first day in office. After announcing that a “Golden Age of America” had begun in his inaugural address, the president swiftly took more than 200 executive actions on Monday to see his policy vision come to life. It remains for the Senate to confirm the key officials who will carry out Trump’s orders.MARCO RUBIO CONFIRMED BY SENATE TO BE NEXT SECRETARY OF STATE, BECOMES FIRST TRUMP CABINET PICK TO BE APPROVEDFlorida Sen. Marco Rubio became the first of Trump’s cabinet picks to receive congressional approval late Monday with a unanimous vote by the Senate. His confirmation was not surprising, as many of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle praised his strong foreign policy background as a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committees. Collins is likewise not expected to face a difficult confirmation fight. A former congressman from Georgia and Navy veteran, as VA secretary he would be tasked with overseeing a beleaguered system of healthcare and benefits for the nation’s veterans. Long wait times to see providers, lack of access to community care, inadequate mental health support and budget shortfalls are just a few of many problems that have plagued secretaries past in both Republican and Democratic administrations.A report published by the VA last month showed that there were more than 6,400 suicides among veterans in 2022, fewer than 12 of 14 previous years but slightly more than in 2021. Ending veteran suicide was a top priority for the Biden administration. In November, the VA announced that veteran homelessness had fallen to the lowest number on record under President Biden, although more than 32,000 former service members remained on the streets between Jan. 2023 and Jan. 2024. Under Trump’s direction, the next VA secretary will likely also be tasked with rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the department, as well as ending Biden-era policies that provide abortions and transgender medical procedures.HUNDREDS OF VETERANS TO DESCEND ON DC TO MARCH IN SUPPORT OF PETE HEGSETH’S CONFIRMATIONCollins was due to receive a confirmation hearing last week, but an incomplete background check delayed the proceeding.While the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee convenes to question Collins at 10 a.m., the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will meet elsewhere in the Dirksen Senate Office Building to consider Stefanik’s nomination to represent the U.S. at the U.N.Stefanik, the fourth-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, is likely to face questions about her relative lack of foreign policy experience and adamant support for Israel, as well as her views on the war between Russia and Ukraine.In her opening remarks, excerpts of which were obtained by Fox News Digital, Stefanik will say that Trump sees great promise in the U.N. “if it focuses on its founding mission of international peace and security. President Trump has long advocated for peace and no new wars.” STEFANIK PLANS TO PUSH TRUMP’S ‘AMERICA FIRST’ AGENDA AT UN, MAKE SURE IT ‘SERVES THE INTERESTS’ OF US PEOPLEStefanik is expected to sail to confirmation in the U.N. role. Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, has already said he will vote for her – they are both strong Israel supporters. She served on the Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, but she went viral for her work on the other side of the table last year when she questioned university presidents and their policies surrounding pro-Gaza protests during Education Committee hearings.Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee will vote on whether to advance the nomination of Bessent, a Wall Street investor and hedge fund manager, to lead the Treasury Department. During his confirmation hearings, Bessent said the U.S. must extend the 2017 tax cuts Trump signed into law in his first term. “This is the single most important economic issue of the day,” Bessent told senators. “This is pass-fail. If we do not fix these tax cuts, if we do not renew and extend, then we will be facing an economic calamity, and as always, with financial instability that falls on the middle and working class.”Democrats pressed Bessent on the impact Trump’s tax cuts have had on the federal deficit and whether they disproportionately benefit the rich at the expense of the poor and middle classes. They also asked whether Trump’s proposed tariffs on foreign imports would increase inflation, but Bessent insisted they would not.The Treasury nominee, who hails from South Carolina, emphasized that Trump’s policies would prioritize Main Street over Wall Street.”I believe Wall Street has done great the past few years, and that Main Street has suffered. I think it’s Main Street’s time,” Bessent said.



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