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For Joan Collins, the fifth time’s the charm. The “Dynasty” star married husband no. 5 – producer Percy Gibson – in 2002. And after kissing plenty of frogs, Collins believes she has finally found her prince. “First of all, we were great pals before we got married,” the actress explained to Fox News Digital. “We worked together on a play… We enjoyed each other’s company. We hung out together. And we saw each other the following year. We wrote love letters – it was a gradual thing. And we realized that we were very much on the same wavelength.” JOAN COLLINS SAYS ‘DYNASTY’ CO-STAR MADE HER BLEED DURING ROUGH KISSING SCENE: ‘HE WAS SO ENTHUSIASTIC’ “He is a really nice, kind, grounded person,” the 90-year-old shared. “Many of the people that I’ve been with – and I’m not going to specify which ones – have been either neurotic, slightly unbalanced, or gotten into different things.” Collins recently shared her love story with Gibson, 58, in a new memoir, “Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends.” It details her decades-long career in Hollywood. Critics have previously pointed out the couple’s 32-year age gap. But for Collins, it’s “just a number.” She noted that it’s “never too late” to find love at any stage in life. “That’s how we both feel,” she explained. “And we were friends first, above anything else.” She noted that they both share the same drive, which has been part of the secret behind their lasting union. “I was born with a tremendous enthusiasm for life,” she said. “My mother used to say that I never kept still when I was a child. I used to do five different things at once. I would be doing a crossword puzzle, making a doll’s house, reading, painting, trying to become a detective – all at once!” CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER “Life is a gift,” she stressed. “That’s why they call it the present – it’s a gift. And so many people waste it. It’s so sad. It’s a gift, and it does not last for a long time.” In the book, Collins wrote that Gibson wasn’t concerned about the age difference because “I have great vitality and enthusiasm for life and all it has to offer.” “Percy often admits that I can wear him out!” she wrote. Today, Collins has no regrets – even after she and her former fiancé Warren Beatty called it quits. Collins and Beatty began dating in 1959 and were engaged a year later before splitting. “We were both too young, too selfish, too ambitious,” Collins reflected. “It just wasn’t right. I mean, I’ve had a lot of relationships. I had a lot of marriages. They don’t last. Luckily, you get older, and I met the man who’s the right person for me for the rest of my life. We’ve been together ever since. And we’re very, very happily married.” “Breakups happen,” Collins shrugged. “It can happen based on different things.” LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS In the book, Collins claimed that when she told Beatty she was pregnant, her then-beau told her she needed to get an abortion to protect their Hollywood careers. Even though they were already engaged, Collins said she wasn’t a fan of shotgun weddings. “He was only 23, a struggling wannabe actor with a potentially great career as a sex symbol ahead of him if the future movies he was angling for came to fruition,” Collins wrote. Collins said she did get an abortion – and there are no hard feelings against Beatty, 86. Collins admitted she wasn’t ready for motherhood either. “He was absolutely right,” she told Fox News Digital. A spokesperson for Beatty didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Collins went on to have two children with her second husband, actor/singer/songwriter Anthony Newley, and another child with her third husband, businessman Ron Kass. “Motherhood has been wonderful,” said Collins. “I’m very close to my children. We talk all the time. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”



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Plucky little cranberries have grown for millennia amid sandy soils and short summers of southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod. The Pilgrims explored and then settled this same area in 1620 — and celebrated the first Thanksgiving the following year.  “When the Pilgrims first set foot on Cape Cod, even before they saw Plymouth Rock, they may have well stepped on the American cranberry,” Richard S. Cox and Jacob Walker write in their book, “Massachusetts Cranberry Culture: A History from Bog to Table.”  Their 2012 book is a romantic ode to the quirks of New England history, geography and culture — and of its low-growing fruit. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO GAVE THE NATION OUR THANKSGIVING ORIGIN STORY: PILGRIM EDWARD WINSLOW It “seems doubtful,” however, that the Pilgrims even noticed the cranberries. “For all its tasty charms, the cranberry is hardly the sort to attract attention,” Cox and Walker say in their book. The tart, colorful cranberry’s native habitat around the Pilgrim settlement in Plymouth, and its ascension to a uniquely vibrant place on America’s Thanksgiving dinner table, are something of a coincidence — and a 20th-century phenomenon.  Credit cranberry king Marcus Urann, a true innovator of American agriculture.  Urann, most notably, invented cranberry sauce — at least the commercial canned cranberry jelly central to Thanksgiving celebrations nationwide today.  The bookish boy from Maine became an influential college scholar and then a Boston attorney before giving up the bar for the bogs. Urann purchased cranberry farms in Massachusetts early in the 20th century. He introduced a way to put cranberries in a can in 1912.  Cranberries are one of the few fruits native to the northern United States. But they have only a brief autumn harvest from late September to early November and a short shelf life. Fresh cranberries were known only in a few areas of the nation that possess the right combination of sandy soil, long summers days and long winter dormancy. SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN ON THANKSGIVING BLESSINGS, INCLUDING FAMILY, FOOD, COUNTRY: ‘TIME TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE’  Urann turned this hyper-local fruit into an international industry — and changed the flavor of gratitude in the United States. “Marcus Urann was very influential in expanding the cranberry market,” Brian Wick, executive director of Massachusetts Cranberries, told Fox News Digital. “And that influence is still felt today.” His influence is also felt today far from the soil and of the cranberry bog — in the halls of American academia. Marcus Libby Urann was born on Oct. 3, 1873, to Marcus M. and Chestina Urann in Sullivan, Maine, a tiny Downeast town on Bar Harbor.  MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FOUNDED THE AMERICAN LEGION, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR., PRIVILEGED TO FIGHT AND TO SERVE He described himself as a “bookworm” in one letter. He attended the University of Maine, where he became an undergraduate scholar of great renown and great vision. He was apparently aware of the gift of his intellect at a young age. He was also raised to believe, or grew to believe by college, that those born with great gifts were also born with great responsibility to the nation. He founded a society of elite students at the University of Maine to charge the school’s best and brightest with using their intellect for the wider good.  It’s known today as Phi Kappa Phi, a nationwide honor society of the nation’s best students. “Under the leadership of student Marcus L. Urann, who created the bylaws and constitution for the organization, the group formed the Lambda Sigma Eta Society,” Phi Kappa Phi states today — recognizing Urann, more than 125 years later, as the father of the program while a student. “Upon Urann’s graduation, the school’s president Abram Harris led the way for promoting the Society.”  His society was renamed Phi Kappa Phi in 1900, from the letters of the Greek words forming its motto, Philosophía Krateítõ Phõtôn – “Let the love of learning rule humanity.”  ‘BEST HOMEMADE’ THANKSGIVING TURKEY GRAVY THE WHOLE FAMILY WILL LOVE: TRY THE RECIPE The group soon found advocates at Pennsylvania State College (now University) and the University of Tennessee, before spreading nationally and internationally. Phi Kappa Phi chapters are found at more than 325 campuses in the U.S. and at schools as far away as the Philippines. It remains true to Urann’s mission to “engage the community of scholars in service to others.” “An analysis … of the men in my class convinced me that some of our brightest men were in danger of contributing less to society, to the university and to the state, than their ability justified us in expecting,” Urann wrote of his endeavor in 1924. “I wanted the ability of the high-rank man to be made most useful to society; also, I was looking for something which would be an inspiration to all students to work for high rank and I believed that uniting those men who were interested would be helpful.” Urann himself became an attorney in Boston after graduation. But in 1906, he decided to give it up to buy cranberry bogs in and around Cape Cod and Plymouth.  Pilgrim Edward Winslow provided our only contemporary account of the first Thanksgiving. He mentions only fowl and deer, and “our harvest being gotten in.” The harvest certainly included corn, scholars believe.  The rest of the “harvest” upon which they feasted is unknown. “But there is no evidence the Pilgrims had cranberries at the first Thanksgiving,” said Wick of Massachusetts Cranberries, despite the fact they are one of the few fruits native to North America that grow in the northern United States. It might have just been overlooked — as authors Cox and Walker suspect.  They cite colonial settler John Josselyn, who wrote in 1672 that the cranberry is nothing but “a small trailing plant” and a humble vine “that grows over Salt Marshes that are overgrown with moss.” Benjamin Eastwood, touted by Cox and Walker as one of the cranberry’s “greatest promoters,” spoke only in humble terms of his beloved fruit.  He called the cranberry a “simple, insignificant-looking plant” and a “stunted barren thing.” Urann saw the cranberry differently. He saw a global industry crawling along the bogs of Massachusetts.  “After he set up cooking facilities at a packinghouse in Hanson, Massachusetts, he began to consider ways to extend the short selling season of the berries,” Smithsonian Magazine reported in a 2013 history of cranberries. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO INVENTED THE SHOPPING CART, SYLVAN GOLDMAN, OKLAHOMA SUPERMARKET MOGUL “Canning them, in particular, he knew would make the berry a year-round product.” In 1912, Urann began processing gelled cranberries in cans — cranberry sauce. “As modest as this seems, Urann’s maneuver was revolutionary,” write Cox and Walker. “For a fruit that had been marketed almost exclusively as a fresh product, it was a radical proposal to cook and to can.” Most importantly, cranberries could now be sold to consumers far from where they were grown.  Urann pioneered other innovations in cranberry farming, too, including the process of wet-harvesting cranberries.  The tiny berries were usually plucked from dried vines by migrant workers. But cranberries, each filled with four chambers of air, float easily.  Urann realized the bog could be floated, the berries agitated from their vines, and easily rounded up while floating in the water.  Urann teamed up with fellow leaders of cranberry farming John Makepeace and Elizabeth Lee to create Ocean Spray, still headquartered in Massachusetts to this day. The name is synonymous with cranberry juice and cranberry sauce.  Ocean Spray is one of the world’s most successful farming cooperatives. It’s helped spread cranberry farming around the country and around the world — and put cranberry juices and sauces in international markets.  Ocean Spray cranberry sauce remains its signature product. The company first sold its cranberry sauce nationally in 1941 — its ridged cranberry gel a familiar site on Thanksgiving tables around the United States. Marcus L. Libby died on April 1, 1963 in Hanson, Massachusetts, where he rests in a family plot in Fernhill Cemetery.  “I do believe that anyone can do anything that he really desires to accomplish,” Urann wrote as a young man 1924, explaining the history of Phi Kappa Phi.  He lived by that example throughout his life. “A recognized giant of the cranberry industry,” The Boston Globe wrote in his April 4 obituary, dubbing Urann the “Cranberry King.” “He bought his first cranberry bog on [Cape Cod] in 1906. During the next 30 years, he built his bog holding into a complex throughout southeastern Massachusetts.” MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FIRST PLANTED APPLES IN THE COLONIES: WILLIAM BLAXTON, ECCENTRIC SETTLER The report of his death added, “He formed a cooperative which eventually dominated the industry, and organized a canning operation which grew into the industry’s single biggest buyer and distributor.” Cranberries were available only in the autumn and only fresh when Urann bought his first cranberry bog in 1906. Ocean Spray reports today that fresh cranberries account for only 5% of the fruit’s production — a testament to the exponential explosion of the industry inspired by Urann. They are sold internationally as sauce in juice, much as Urann first conceived in 1912. The United States is easily the world’s largest grower of a fruit essential to the flavor of its national holiday dinner table.  CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER American farmers grow twice as many cranberries as No. 2 Canada and about 20 times the production of third-place Chile, according to data from the Cranberry Institute in Carver, Massachusetts, next to Plymouth.  The state of Wisconsin, meanwhile, surpassed Massachusetts decades ago as the nation’s top cranberry grower.  Six out of 10 Americans say that cranberry sauce has and always will be on their Thanksgiving table, while more than one third say they “can’t live without” cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving, according to Ocean Spray.  Cranberry bogs remain a signature of the landscape in the land of the Pilgrims. “For Massachusetts and for this region, they’re so much a part of our history and our culture,” said Wick. “They’ve been part of a fabric of our region from Indigenous people until today.” Urann saw what cranberries could be far beyond the land of the Pilgrims. “I felt I could do something for New England,” Urann told the Associated Press in a story that ran around the nation on Thanksgiving in 1959.  CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “You know, everything in life is what you do for others.” To read more stories in this unique “Meet the American Who…” series from Fox News Digital, click here.  For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.



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To infinity and beyond? A NASA spacecraft has beamed a near-infrared laser nearly 10 million miles into space breaking new ground for the agency. The laser, which is encoded with test data, was fired from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft and then sent back to Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the agency said.  The test data was transmitted about 40 times farther than the distance between the moon and the earth, which NASA says is about 238,900 miles. The SpaceX Starship, for context, traveled around 93 miles into space last week.  NASA PLANS TO BUILD A SUBDIVISION OF HOMES ON THE MOON, AND IT MAY BE SOONER THAN YOU THINK The successful laser transmission, which NASA describes as a “first light,” took place in the early hours of Nov. 14, when Psyche’s laser transceiver — a cutting-edge instrument capable of sending and receiving near-infrared signals — locked onto a powerful uplink laser sent from a telescope at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Wrightwood in California. The uplink laser helped the flight transceiver aim its downlink laser back to Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. Automated systems on the transceiver and ground stations then fine-tune its pointing. The first flight is a significant steppingstone toward increasing the amount of data that can be transmitted throughout the solar system, NASA said. NASA CAPTURES STUNNING PHOTOS OF SUN’S RAYS OVER EARTH: SEE THE JAW-DROPPING IMAGES The space agency says it has long been able to communicate with spacecraft using radio frequencies, but has never been able to send information using lasers from that far into space. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft was launched in October on SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and is on a larger mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid that may shed light on earth’s formation. The mission is part of NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment. “Achieving first light is one of many critical DSOC milestones in the coming months, paving the way toward higher-data-rate communications capable of sending scientific information, high-definition imagery, and streaming video in support of humanity’s next giant leap: sending humans to Mars,” said Trudy Kortes, NASA’s director of Technology Demonstrations. Test data was also sent simultaneously via the uplink and downlink lasers, a procedure known as “closing the link” that is a primary objective for the experiment. The DSOC experiment aims to demonstrate data transmission rates 10 to 100 times greater than the state-of-the-art radio frequency systems used by spacecraft today.  Both radio and near-infrared laser communications utilize electromagnetic waves to transmit data, but near-infrared light packs the data into significantly tighter waves, enabling ground stations to receive more data, the agency said. This will help future human and robotic exploration missions and support higher-resolution science instruments, NASA said. The new comes just weeks after NASA released X-ray images of a dead collapsed star that looks eerily like the bones of a cosmic hand.



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Mac Jones’ NFL career has been considerably rocky as of late. Following a solid rookie year, that ended with Pro Bowl honors, he was benched last season in favor of Bailey Zappe. He finished the 2022 season with 14 touchdowns against 11 interceptions. The New England Patriots offense has been a point of contention this season, and the team is coming off 10-6 Week 10 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. Jones was benched once again during that game, and there is now even more uncertainty surrounding the quarterback position heading into Sunday’s matchup with the New York Giants. Longtime Patriots head coach Bill Belichick did not provide much insight earlier this week on whether Jones would be relegated to the backup role this weekend. Nevertheless, Jones appears to be doing what he can to show Belichick and the rest of the coaching staff that he is ready to start if he is called upon. “Hope so. I mean, that’s the plan,” Jones said when asked directly if he will start. “A lot of that decision-making is things I can’t control, but I can control my attitude and my effort.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Jones is also aware that certain things are simply beyond his control. “We’ve had good conversations,” Jones said. “Really what I’ve been focusing on is what I can control. Put a lot of thought into that, the things that I can control. … That’s what I can do, control what I can control.” PATRIOTS LEGEND ROB GRONKOWSKI SAYS MAC JONES SHOULD ASK FOR RELEASE NOW: ‘HE’S NOT RESPECTED’ Jones went for X-rays for an undisclosed injury after the loss in Germany. He also said that he had some bumps and bruises but isn’t limited in participation coming out of the bye week. “I have things that I’m working through; everybody does. You’re playing NFL games every week. Every week’s a car crash in its own way, so you’re trying to get back from that,” he said. “The bye week definitely helped get the body back, and I’m looking forward to finishing this thing strong.” Jones has started each of the first 10 games this season, but he has been pulled three times – twice for blowouts and once, in the Week 10 loss to the Colts, after throwing a fourth-quarter interception near the end zone.  With a chance to rally the Patriots, Bailey Zappe was 3 of 7 for 25 yards and finished by throwing an interception on a fake-spike play to seal the game. Zappe, a fourth-round draft pick in 2022, appeared in four games, starting two — both wins — last season. The Patriots also have Will Grier, who started three games for Carolina in 2019, on the roster and rookie Malik Cunningham on the practice squad. FROM OUTKICK: JETS AND FALCONS MAKE QUARTERBACK CHANGES WITH TIM BOYLE AND DESMOND RIDDER Earlier this week, offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien said Jones, Zappe and Grier all took reps in practice with the first team during the off week. Jones said he wouldn’t let that derail him. “You take advantage of the reps you’ve had, right?” he said. “I’ve played a good amount of snaps in the NFL, I feel confident that I can go out there, feel prepared based on my preparation, film study and all those things.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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By now you’ve heard the phrase Trump derangement syndrome, but maybe it’s time you graduated from syndrome to disease, because while a syndrome refers to symptoms, a disease refers to an established condition, and Trump derangement is just that. It’s a disease much like alcoholism, where what defines it is an incapability to process booze, and that delicious MAGA-martini is Trump. No pill can stop it. No therapy dog or therapy llama can alleviate it. Those who have it are already paranoid, but they’re also loons with annoying wives who are most susceptible.  The most recent victim: Joe Scarborough, who was left emotionally Scarborough’d by the 2016 election. Joe wasn’t always like this. He used to look like a normal person, but now he has the same eyes as the kid playing the banjo in “Deliverance.” It’s amazing, could be the same person, same age, really. And as you’ll see, eventually your mental functions totally deteriorate to a point where even “The View” is over your head. So, as a public service, here’s what a Trump-aholic sounds like. TRUMP VS. BIDEN: A DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE IN HOW THE MEDIA TREAT EACH CAMPAIGN JOE SCARBOROUGH: He’s not a normal candidate. He is running to end American democracy as we know it… He will imprison, he will execute whoever he’s allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read. I just keep wondering what she’s thinking while he’s doing that. Sorry, Beavis. We are looking at Trump’s path, and it’s pretty easy given he’s the most investigated, transparent political leader in history. And I said transparent, not translucent like Biden’s see-through skin. And so far, there’s no imprisonings, executions, no ending a democracy in sight. But it’s clear how the ugliness of addiction could sap your memory and reasoning ability.  As you heard, Joe believes that if Trump becomes president, he’s going to execute those who don’t agree with him, but when Trump was president, he executed exactly no one. Well, except for Soleimani, and that guy didn’t have to watch “Morning Joe” to wake up to a bomb. Joe also claims it’s Trump’s mission to replace American democracy with a dictatorship. Now, as the commander-in-chief, Trump controlled all of America’s armed forces, even the nukes. Yet hostile nations like Russia, North Korea and Canada are still standing. Also, actual dictators usually die in office, or are assassinated, or take a helicopter full of money to Europe. Instead, Trump gave up power to a senile guy who sniffs little girls. And then Donald happily went back to his golf game, and now he just does stand-up. RAMASWAMY CLASHES WITH CNN ANCHOR PRESSING HIM ON TRUMP’S ‘VERMIN’ COMMENTS: ‘GIVE ME A BREAK!’ DONALD TRUMP: He’s not into golden showers, as they say… I don’t like that idea… Adam “Shifty” Schiff with a neck like a pencil, he’s got. I said, how does he hold up that fat, ugly face with a neck… Pencil neck. TRUMP: Did anybody ever hear of Alphonse Capone? He was so mean, if you looked at him in the wrong way, he’d blow you away… He was only indicted once, I got indicted four times in a matter of seconds. You know, he sounds less like a dictator and more like Don Rickles. But you see how bad it is. You hallucinate, you start seeing all sorts of stuff that just never occurred. They should change the name from “Morning Joe” to “Morning Sickness.” What do you say? But sadly, it’s now running rampant at MSNBC. SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL: A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler and the use of the terminology like vermin… The difference though, I think, makes Donald Trump even more dangerous, and that is, he has no philosophy he believes in… All he wants is to look in the mirror and see a guy who’s president… All he cares about is selfish self-promotion. I’m beginning to think there’s something in the water over at MSNBC besides antidepressants. They got Trump on the brain and almost nothing else, apparently, including history. When you say Trump is worse than Hitler, what you’re saying is what Hitler did, killing 6 million Jews among others, wasn’t nearly as bad as mean tweets and jokes about Rosie O’Donnell. No wonder you see young leftists brandishing swastikas in protest. ‘THE VIEW’ WANTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAR DONALD TRUMP FROM PRESIDENCY: ‘CANNOT BE IN JAIL AND BE PRESIDENT’ Apparently, Hitler is just some guy who did stuff. This is next-level antisemitism, Claire. Meanwhile, back on Earth, normal Americans are concerned with what we all know is common reality. Here in the U.S., 70% of Americans are worried about the economy, which they see getting worse. On crime, according to a recent Gallup poll, 40% of Americans are afraid to walk home alone at night, although some are used to the loneliness… Over a third are afraid to drive in areas of their communities.  These are not hallucinations. These are the real experiences of the American people. So it’s no wonder Americans have bought more guns than you’ll see in Judge Jeanine’s rec room. Fifty-two percent of voters say they or someone in their household owns a firearm. Just a decade ago, 42% said they owned a gun. Kat, that’s 10 points. Fear of crime is at its highest point since 1993. Why is that? Well, it demonstrates another reality the addicts can’t see: That what they accused Trump of is in fact going on right now in the current administration. Like most addicts, they live in denial and will lie to your face about what you and I can clearly see with our own two eyes, and in San Francisco — smell with both nostrils.  For instance, it wasn’t dictator Trump who weaponized the Department of Justice with a conga line of special prosecutors, wasn’t Trump who sic’d the FBI on parents, wasn’t Trump who raided an innocent anti-abortion protester’s home with guns drawn, wasn’t Trump that prosecuted Trump for having documents he was allowed to have? Although that trial would be hilarious. Wasn’t Trump who used DOJ to get Twitter and other social media to do its bidding on COVID. It wasn’t Trump who set up a select committee that buried important videos to fashion a pre-ordained verdict regarding Jan. 6. See, what “Morning Joe” did is what shrinks call projecting, or as most of us call it, **** ****. Thank you. And for those of you who are nonbinary: bull-she-it. That way they can’t bleep it. See, they can’t bleep it if I say bull-she-it. Yeah, but to the Trump addicts on the left, little things like the well-being of the American people don’t register. It means about as much to them as personal hygiene means to somebody holed up in a crack house. According to The New York Times, the Democratic Party that tried to quit Donald Trump for three years has fallen off the wagon.  Now they’re looking to put Trump front-and-center at every opportunity. Of course, they wouldn’t do that if they actually feared he’d execute him or them, but now they long for the days when cable networks carried Trump’s rallies live. And why? Well, they need something to deflect us from what they’ve done to the country. Without Trump around, then all you got filling the airwaves is this… Is it any wonder America’s Dems have decided the best way to win next year is to lean into their addiction to all things orange. They know this country is not going to vote for the guy in the basement again. Hell, he might not even survive the stairs down to the basement. So they want their obsession to become your obsession. Forget the economy, forget crime, forget nuclear war — focus on Trump, which may not be a bad idea. The way the polls are looking, they may not have a choice. 



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Legendary western outlaw Billy the Kid was allegedly born in New York City on this day in history, Nov. 23, 1859. One of the Wild West’s most wanted men was most likely born in a poor Irish neighborhood on the east side of Manhattan, although much of the Kid’s early life is unknown or unverified, according to History.com. Billy the Kid’s original name was thought to be Henry McCarthy — but he called himself William H. Bonney. The name Bonney was his mother Catherine’s maiden name, while William was the name of her longtime companion, William Antrin. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY. NOVEMBER 22, 1963, JOHN F. KENNEDY, 35TH PRESIDENT, IS ASSASSINATED Antrin stepped in as Billy’s father figure after his biological father disappeared. It was believed that Billy first traveled west around 1865 when he and his brother — along with Antrin and the boys’ mother — moved to Indiana and then to Wichita, Kansas, in 1870. In 1873, legally married Catherine and William Antrin showed up on record in New Mexico, as History.com reports. The following year, Catherine Antrin died of lung cancer in Silver City, according to reports. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 21, 1864, ABRAHAM LINCOLN ‘PENS’ LETTER TO MRS. BIXBY After his mother’s death, Billy abandoned his brother and stepfather and became a ranch hand, History.com has noted. He reportedly killed his first victims, a group of Apache Indians, in the Guadalupe Mountains in 1876. Not long after, Billy killed a blacksmith in Camp Grant, Arizona, according to legend. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 17, 1871, NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION FOUNDED BY CIVIL WAR VETERAN OFFICERS The outlaw then took a job as British rancher John Tunstall’s bodyguard in Lincoln, New Mexico. Billy and several other gunmen were hired to protect Tunstall and his property from a rival cattle gang known as “The House.” In February 1878, Tunstall was gunned down by a posse organized by Sheriff William Brady, who supported The House. In pursuit of revenge, Billy and other former Tunstall employees started the vigilante group known as “The Regulators,” History.com also notes. The new gang murdered Sheriff Brady and spent the following weeks in shootouts with forces of The House. This became known as the Lincoln County War, which concluded after a fatal, five-day firefight in July 1878 and ended in a peace agreement as The Regulators left town. The war branded Billy as one of the west’s “most skilled gunmen,” according to history.com, but he remained wanted for the murder of Sheriff Brady. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 18, 1883, NORTH AMERICAN RAILROADS CREATE TIME ZONES, RESHAPE GLOBAL LIFE For this, he’d spend the rest of his young life running from the law. Two years later, Lincoln Sheriff Pat Garrett — a former friend of his — arrested Billy the Kid. The Kid was found guilty of the murder of Sheriff Brady in April 1881 and was sentenced to hanging.  But two weeks before his scheduled execution, the outlaw outsmarted the law. On April 28, he wrangled a gun from a jailer, shot him dead and escaped his confines in a maneuver that received national attention.  A few months later, on July 14, 1881, Garrett found Billy the Kid at a ranch near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where he was visiting a girlfriend. Garrett surprised him in the dark of night and fired a bullet through the Kid’s chest. Billy the Kid was dead at just 21 years old. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER In the four-year span from 1877 to 1881, the Kid was involved in at least nine murders, History.com reports. This includes a legendary gunfight in a New Mexico saloon in January 1880, when Billy shot Joe Grant dead for terrorizing the bar in a drunken stupor. Unlike other outlaws, Billy the Kid never robbed a train or a bank — but his first arrest occurred for stealing clothes from a Chinese laundry. Many people have theorized that the legendary gunslinger never really died by Garrett’s bullet and instead went on to live under an alias. Ever since Billy the Kid left his mark on the western frontier, the outlaw has been the subject of more than 50 films and several TV series. For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.



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A former Obama administration official has been arrested after he was seen in now-viral videos spewing racist remarks at a food cart vendor. Stuart Seldowitz, who was acting director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate from 2009 to 2011, was seen on a video posted to X on Tuesday mocking a halal vendor’s citizenship status, English-speaking skills and Islamic religion. A spokesperson for the New York City Police Department told Fox News Digital that Seldowitz was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment 2, hate crime/stalking, stalking-cause fear and stalking-at employment. “A 24-year-old male victim stated to police that an individual approached him at his work place multiple times and made anti-Islamic statements multiple times on different dates causing the victim to feel afraid and annoyed,” the police spokesperson said. VIRAL VIDEOS SHOW FORMER OBAMA OFFICIAL LAUNCH RACIST RANTS AGAINST NEW YORK CITY FOOD CART VENDOR “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?” Seldowitz can be seen asking the vendor, referring to the Prophet Muhammad. The vendor responded that he doesn’t speak English, asking Seldowitz to leave. The former Obama administration official appears to take a picture of the vendor and threatens to send it to “friends in Immigration,” as well as the Mukhabarat, Egypt’s intelligence agency. Seldowitz then said the agency would torture his family by removing their fingernails. Another video shows Seldowitz asking the vendor on a separate occasion if he has a permit allowing him to sell food on the street and if he has a visa. When Seldowitz was asked to leave, he appeared to accuse the vendor of supporting Hamas. MARYLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL SUSPENDS HATE CRIME TASK FORCE MEMBER CLAIMING BABIES MURDERED BY HAMAS WERE ‘FAKE’ “You support killing young children,” Seldowitz said.  “You kill children, not me. Go,” the vendor responded. “I didn’t kill children… If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” Seldowitz responded. Seldowitz told City & State he regrets the incident. “I regret the whole thing happened, and I’m sorry,” Seldowitz said. “But you know, in the heat of the moment, I said things that probably I shouldn’t have said.” “If I had to do it all over again, I would not have raised the religious aspect,” he said. “I don’t think I’m an Islamophobic guy. … I’ve spoken up for equal treatment of Muslims on numerous occasions with numerous different people.” Seldowitz was employed as a consultant at New York City-based lobbying group Gotham Government Relations, but has been let go. “Gotham Government Relations has ended all affiliation with Stuart Seldowitz, an individual who hasn’t contributed to our work in years,” a statement on the firm’s website read. “The video of his actions is vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm.”



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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency after a freight train derailed in Kentucky on Wednesday afternoon. Beshear’s office said in a Wednesday night statement that multiple freight train cars derailed in Rockcastle County, located in the southeastern part of the state. According to FOX 56, at least 15 train cars were involved in the incident. “By issuing a state of emergency, we are ensuring that every state resource is available to help keep our families safe,” Beshear said. “Please stay clear of this area as state, local and CSX officials respond.” The Kentucky governor also said people in Livingston, Kentucky, were being encouraged to evacuate. Fox News Digital has reached out to CSX for comment.



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The head of Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ super PAC has resigned amid internal turmoil within the organization over its strategy moving forward into 2024. Chris Jankowski, a veteran operative in Republican politics, submitted his resignation letter, effective immediately, to the board of Never Back Down on Wednesday. “Never Back Down’s main goal and sole focus has been to elect Governor Ron DeSantis as President. Given the current environment, it has become untenable for me to deliver on the shared goal and that goes well beyond a difference of strategic opinion. For the future of our country, I support and pray Ron DeSantis is our 47th president,” Jankowski said in a statement shared by Never Back Down. DESANTIS LANDS ENDORSEMENT FROM INFLUENTIAL IOWA EVANGELICAL LEADER IN RACE FOR GOP NOMINATION The group has played a significant role in DeSantis’ bid for the presidency since he launched his campaign in May, including raising nine figures to serve as an attack dog and media juggernaut for the governor. However, the operation has failed to help DeSantis break through the crowded Republican presidential field and be seen as the main challenger to former President Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP. Polls have shown DeSantis consistently in a statistical tie for second place with some of his opponents, fluctuating between former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. According to one recent NBC News report, frustration had been building in the ranks of Never Back Down, which culminated in a heated meeting last week that nearly broke out into a fist fight. CHRIS CHRISTIE TURNS UP THE HEAT ON HALEY AND DESANTIS AS HE TRIES TO BE THE TRUMP ALTERNATIVE IN GOP 2024 RACE The report said that Never Back Down’s top consultant, Axiom Strategies CEO Jeff Roe, and longtime DeSantis associate Scott Wagner clashed during the board meeting that resulted in them having to be restrained. Despite the turmoil, DeSantis’ campaign did see a bright spot on Tuesday when it won the endorsement of influential Iowa Christian leader Bob Vander Plaats. Fox has reached out to Never Back Down and the DeSantis campaign for comment. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana recently declared it will consider allowing biological males to attend the university if they have a history of identifying as women. President Katie Conboy told the faculty in an email on Tuesday about the change in policy, according to the Notre Dame student paper, The Observer.  “Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth is female or who consistently live and identify as women,” Conboy emailed.  While the college is still reportedly determining the practices that will follow from the policy change, admissions will begin considering transgender applicants in fall 2024. LIA THOMAS’ FORMER TEAMMATE SAYS ‘TRANS RIGHTS’ HAVE BEEN PRIORITIZED OVER ‘CONCERNS OF WOMEN’ A campus newspaper reported that Conboy previously assembled a “President’s Task Force for Gender Identity and Expression” that is tasked with coming up with recommendations for housing and possible education surrounding “Catholic identity and women’s college identity.”  Conboy’s email reportedly quoted His Holiness Pope Francis to justify the policy.  “Pope Francis advocates for love as the appropriate approach to those who are different from ourselves: ‘Love, then, is more than just a series of benevolent actions. Those actions have their source in a union increasingly directed towards others, considering them of value, worthy, pleasing and beautiful apart from their physical or moral appearances. Our love for others, for who they are, moves us to seek the best for their lives,” the email reportedly said.  Earlier this year, Pope Francis told journalist Elisabetta Piqué for the Argentine daily newspaper La Nación, that “Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations.” “Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women,” he added. He also noted that there is a major difference between caring for people who identify as transgender versus actually endorsing their values, noting the contrast “between what pastoral care is for people who have a different sexual orientation and what gender ideology is.” The college received blowback for its decision from current students and some alumni.  “St. Mary’s College is no longer Catholic,” Saint Mary’s student Claire Bettag, a junior, told The Daily Signal. “It is no longer a women’s institution. This is fraudulent misrepresentation at best. Every student should be entitled to a refund for fraudulent misrepresentation. An attorney should file a class action lawsuit against the college. They have abandoned their faith, and they’ve abandoned the women. No woman should be forced to share a bathroom or living quarters with a man.” PARENTS REPORTEDLY SUING SCHOOL DISTRICT AFTER IT ALLEGEDLY HELPED SECRETLY TRANSITION THEIR CHILD Some alumni spoke out against the school’s decision on social media.  “This decision is blasphemous & a complete rejection of the Church and it’s teachings on gender and sexuality,” Clare Anne Ath wrote.  “I chose @saintmarys because of its mission to serve as a Catholic, women’s college,” education reform activist Shannon Pahls wrote. “This decision is a complete abandonment of that. Extremely disappointed in my alma mater.” “I’m deeply disappointed as a @saintmarys alum in this decision. The school has betrayed its Catholic mission,” The Federalist Society Vice President and Director of Lawyers Chapters Lisa Budzynski Ezell wrote. In a separate post, she said the policy shift is “not a surprise” and that “I hope other alumnae will speak out and withhold donations.” The college has battled with social conservatives in the past over transgender issues. According to The Daily Signal, the college “denied the foundation of a Turning Point USA chapter,” because the conservative group’s messaging on biological sex didn’t “align” with the mission of the Catholic college. 



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A call to sports personality Stephen A. Smith’s podcast took a surprising turn when he was asked to compare sports legends with a Pixar character. Smith hosted “The Stephen A. Smith Show” on Tuesday when a caller known as “Danny from Wisconsin” rang in with a question that referenced “Cars” character Lightning McQueen. “When you think about the GOAT of sports you think of [Michael Jordan] with six, [Tom] Brady with seven rings, where do you rank a guy like Lightning McQueen who has seven Piston Cups?” Danny asked. After a moment, Smith responded, “I would tell you he wouldn’t be the GOAT. How are you gonna be the GOAT? Because you’re talking about the movie ‘Cars’, right? You’re talking about the movie ‘Cars,’ right? I mean, when you talk about Strip ‘The King’ Weathers and, and, and Lightning McQueen, they’re both tied with seven Piston Cups … You got somebody that’s tied with you? You got somebody that’s tied with you. Sorry, that ain’t gonna work.”  ESPN’S STEPHEN A. SMITH CALLS TITAN EXPEDITION ‘UNNECESSARY’ ASKS WHEN PEOPLE WILL ‘GET OVER THE TITANIC?’ “I know you tried to catch me with that. You didn’t think I knew that about that,” he also commented. After talking about the animated characters for a little longer, Smith ended the discussion by saying, “I am not about to sit here and argue with a grown-a– man about the movie ‘Cars.'” Smith then detoured into asking Danny’s opinion on the “Fast & Furious” franchise.  “My point is if you’re going to argue with me about something, how about it not be an animated movie like ‘Cars’? How about it be something like ‘Fast & Furious’? I would have appreciated the question better,” Smith said. ESPN’S STEPHEN A. SMITH BURNS PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE AFTER SPOTIFY EXIT “Stephen A, Cars is as real to little kids as…” Danny began. “You’re not a little kid! You’re 21!” Smith suddenly exclaimed. “You would have a point if you’re 7 years old and calling me, you’re 21 years old! What are you doing, wearing a diaper? Goodbye, man.” Smith’s podcast sometimes veers off into topics other than sports. In August, he talked about a Taylor Swift concert that he attended, praising the pop star’s performance. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “That’s the best concert I’ve ever been to in my life. Excuse my language but that s— was off the chain. Taylor Swift brought the damn house down. I was jamming to Taylor Swift. She was sensational,” Smith said.



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A small Connecticut newspaper that began publishing in February with the help of Ralph Nader has been saved from a planned shutdown after a national media company swooped in to buy it. American Business Media said Wednesday that it has acquired the Winsted Citizen, whose oversight board had decided only two days earlier that it could no longer operate because of financial woes. Terms were not disclosed. Vincent Valvo, chief executive, publisher and editor in chief of American Business Media, said the company made its offer to buy the Citizen on Monday after he heard about its possible demise. He said he wanted the newspaper to be successful. YALE NEWSPAPER ISSUES RETRACTION AFTER BACKLASH OVER CONTROVERSIAL EDITOR’S NOTE ON PRO-ISRAEL COLUMNS NEWSPAPER BLOCKS CHATGPT FROM CONTENT AMID GROWING BACKLASH AGAINST NEW TECH Valvo has longtime ties to Connecticut, having worked at the Hartford Business Journal and Connecticut Law Tribune and led the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information. He also has a home near Winsted, about 25 miles northwest of Hartford. “I look at it and I think I know what folks in this region would like to see and what I’d like to see,” Valvo said. “I have an infrastructure that can serve this and I’m like let’s do it.” American Business Media publishes seven national business magazines and produces business conferences and trade shows. Nader, the consumer advocate and four-time presidential candidate who grew up in Winsted, had hoped to buck the trend of media closures and downsizing with the launch of the Citizen. He invested $15,000 to help start it, but it soon fell into unmanageable budget deficits, said Andy Thibault, former editor and publisher of the paper. Valvo said Thibault will stay on as a contributing editor and there will be no layoffs at the Citizen, which had been publishing monthly in broadsheet form. Valvo said he envisioned expanding the paper’s online and social media presence.



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State records show that a suspended Alabama priest recently married the 18-year-old woman he fled to Italy with this summer, and an archbishop said Wednesday that he expects the Vatican to pursue the man’s official dismissal from the priesthood. PRIEST FLEES COUNTRY WITH TEEN ‘VALENTINE’ BUT POLICE MAY HAVE HANDS TIED A marriage certificate filed Monday in Mobile County shows that Alex Crow, a 30-year-old Catholic priest in south Alabama, married the 18-year-old. Crow left the country in late July with the teen who is a recent graduate of McGill-Toolen High School. Crow was not an employee at the school but sometimes visited theology classes there, news outlets reported. The marriage certificate indicates the woman turned 18 in June. Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi announced in July that he had suspended Crow and forbidden him from acting, dressing, or presenting himself as a priest. Rodi later said he saw no way for Crow to return to the priesthood. “The recent news of Crow’s civil marriage only confirms the Archbishop’s judgment. Archbishop Rodi anticipates that the Vatican will eventually laicize Alex Crow,” read a statement issued by the Archdiocese of Mobile. The district attorney in Mobile County earlier this month announced that it had closed an investigation into criminal wrongdoing in the pair’s relationship. News outlets reported that Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood said the young woman came to a meeting with an attorney and declined to answer questions.



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Actress Julianna Marguiles called out a “silence on antisemitism” in an op-ed for USA Today on Wednesday and directly addressed her “non-Jewish friends” who haven’t reached out after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.  “The events in Israel have shone a light on something I never realized: You, my loving, non-Jewish friends, have no idea of the Jewish experience, of living in our shoes, of learning from the stories of our parents and grandparents,” she wrote.  She wrote that just two of her friends reached out to see if she was okay following Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel.  “By your inaction to reach out, I immediately thought about the Jews of the Holocaust and what that must have felt like when no one spoke out, or stood up to protect them,” she said.  SEINFELD, MARGULIES, OTHER INDUSTRY HEAVYWEIGHTS RIP HOLLYWOOD’S HYPOCRISY ON ANTI-SEMITISM: ‘FAILED US DEEPLY’ Margulies added she was always quick to speak out in favor of Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ+ community. She said she spoke up when she heard “immigrant children were being held in cages.” “In the week following this horrific event, the silence on your end was deafening. My Jewish girlfriends and I huddled together, crying and trying to make sense of a world gone mad. ‘It’s 2023!’ We said to one another, ‘How is this still happening?’ I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat, I felt sick to my stomach,” Margulies wrote. She criticized the idea that people around the world were taking sides in the conflict.  “Sides???? There are no sides. This isn’t about sides; this was a terrorist act against Jews by Hamas. Just like the Nazis, Hamas’ main goal: to cleanse the world of Jews,” she wrote.  THESE CELEBRITIES HAVE SPOKEN OUT IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIANS AMID HAMAS TERROR Margulies made similar comments during Variety’s Hollywood & Antisemitism Summit in October.  “I’ve been trying to get past feeling so disheartened by it, to try and understand and work around why every single person in our industry isn’t standing up,” she said. “This isn’t your reality, it is ours. You mean no harm, you simply don’t have the full picture,” she wrote in the op-ed, noting that she had gathered with friends and the events of Oct. 7 were not addressed.  “As this understanding settled on me, my anxiety turned to hope – that perhaps, in friendship, I can say to you: We are hurting, and we are terrified, because history has shown us that this won’t end well for the Jewish people if you don’t hear our cries for help,” she continued.  Fox News’ Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.



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An Oregon judge blocked the state from enforcing a voter-approved law dubbed the nation’s “most extreme” gun control measure by critics, ruling it violates the state constitution. “This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Article I, section 27 and its continued protection of our right to bear arms,” Tony Aiello Jr., who represented two Harney County gun owners in the case, told Fox News via email. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum immediately vowed to appeal the ruling, which could eventually end up before the state Supreme Court. “The Harney County judge’s ruling is wrong,” Rosenblum said in a statement provided to Fox News. “Worse, it needlessly puts Oregonians’ lives at risk.” OREGON SHERIFFS WON’T ENFORCE NEW GUN LAW: ‘INFRINGES ON SECOND AMENDMENT’ Oregonians passed Measure 114 one year ago with 50.65% of the vote and just six of the state’s 36 counties supporting it. The law requires a permit to purchase any gun, bans the sale of magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds and has been called “the nation’s most extreme gun control Initiative” by groups like the NRA’s legislative arm. Measure 114 never took effect due to immediate legal challenges at both the federal and state level. On Tuesday, Circuit Judge Robert S. Raschio ruled both the magazine ban and permit-to-purchase requirement violate Article 1, Section 27 of Oregon’s constitution, which reads in part, “the people shall have the right to bear arms for the defence [sic] of themselves, and the State.” PUMPED UP: WHO’S LEADING THE EFFORT TO STOP BLUE STATE DRIVERS FROM PUMPING THEIR OWN GAS Much of the state’s case focused on which firearms were common at the time Oregon ratified its constitution in 1857. History professors testified for the state that firearms capable of holding many rounds were “vanishingly rare,” according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. “Semiautomatic technology and automatic technology are such profound ruptures in the history of firearms technology, that I find it very difficult to believe that anybody — even someone very well informed — in the late 1850s could have predicted the emergence of smokeless powder, detachable cartridges, automatic reloading,” said Bryan DeLay of the University of California, Berkeley. But Ashley Hlebinsky, a former firearm museum curator, testified for the plaintiffs that many early guns could fire multiple rounds and that some models with magazine-style devices existed around the time Oregon became a state. Raschio ruled that large capacity magazines were available in the early 1800s and that gunsmiths were actively trying to improve upon the technology. “The idea that Oregon’s pioneers intended to freeze the firearm technology accessible by Oregonians to antiques is ridiculous on its face,” Aiello told Fox News on Wednesday. “If there is any evidence of such an intention, Defendants certainly did not present any of it at trial.” PORTLAND WOMAN KNOCKED OUT BY ATTACKER BLAMES CITY FOR SLOW POLICE RESPONSE: ‘WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES’ The permit system has been one of the most controversial parts of the measure. Gun buyers would be required to complete an “in-person demonstration of the applicant’s ability to lock, load, unload, fire and store a firearm before an instructor certified by a law enforcement agency” — a much stricter process than what is currently required to obtain even a concealed handgun license in Oregon. Lawyers for the state argued the permit system and magazine capacity limit were necessary to curb homicides, suicides and mass shootings. In 2015, a man armed with five handguns, a rifle and several magazines killed nine people and wounded eight others at Umpqua Community College. Last year, a man wielding a shotgun and what police described as an “AR-style” rifle killed two people and injured two more at a Safeway in Bend. But Raschio wrote in his ruling that state lawyers “failed to provide any convincing evidence of a threat to public safety requiring a permitting process” and that, to the contrary, the potential delays in processing a permit application would flip the protections of the right to bear arms “on its head.” “This legal battle is not over,” Aiello wrote after the ruling. “However, we hope that the strength of the Court’s ruling gives our Attorney General pause on filing that appeal and continuing to spend millions of taxpayer dollars defending this ill-conceived ballot measure.” Federal Judge Karin Immergut previously ruled in July that Oregon’s law is in line with a U.S. tradition of “regulating uniquely dangerous features of weapons and firearms to protect public safety.” Plaintiffs are currently appealing that ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.



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