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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Hezbollah following its alleged assassination attempt against him and his wife, calling it a “grave mistake.””The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake,” Netanyahu wrote in a X post Saturday. “This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future.”Issuing a stark warning to Iran and the “Axis of Resistance,” which includes Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, the prime minister said Israel is determined to achieve its war objectives following the Oct. 7 attack and “change the security reality in our region for generations.””I say to Iran and its proxies in its axis of evil: Anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price; We will continue to eliminate the terrorists and those who dispatch them; We will bring our hostages home from Gaza; And we will return our citizens who live on our Northern border safely to their homes,” he wrote.”Israel is determined to achieve all our war objectives and change the security reality in our region for generations to come,” Netanyahu said. UAV LAUNCHED TOWARD ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU’S PRIVATE RESIDENCE IN CAESAREANetanyahu’s vow to hold Hezbollah accountable came after a UAV was launched towards his private residence in the coastal city of Caesarea on Saturday morning.Netanyahu and his wife were not home when the incident happened, his spokesperson told Fox News.No injuries were reported in the incident. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu had not been at his private residence for several days.The Israeli military said that three drones had been fired from Lebanon on Saturday towards the prime minister’s house, but two had been intercepted.IDF VIDEO: ISRAELI TANK FIRES AT BUILDING WHERE HAMAS LEADER YAHYA SINWAR WAS BARRICADED BEFORE BEING KILLEDThere were reports of some minor damage to the residence but Fox News Digital couldn’t confirm that report.Following the assassination attempt, Netanyahu released a video message, confidently declaring that “we’re going to win this war.””Two days ago we took out Sinwar, the terrorist mastermind whose goons beheaded our men, raped our women and burned our babies alive,” he said. “We took him out, and we’re continuing to battle with Iran’s other terrorist proxies.””We’re going to win this war,” he said.U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, the Pentagon spokesperson, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said.WHO WAS YAHYA SINWAR? THE ISRAELI PRISONER TURNED TERRORIST HAMAS LEADER KILLED BY IDF TROOPSRyder said that Sec. Austin reviewed U.S. force-posture adjustments, including the recent deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system to reinforce Israel’s defenses in the face of threats from Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Iranian proxies. The Secretary also told Minister Gallant that he was relieved Netanyahu was safe following the attack.Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote on X that he spoke with Netanyahu, saying that the prime minister remained “undettered.””I spoke with my friend Prime Minister Netanyahu today, and I am happy to report he is safe, in good spirits, and undeterred,” Johnson said. “I told him America stands strong with Israel and reiterated our ongoing commitment to help counter Iran and its terrorist proxies. This is a crucial.”Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion and Younat Friling contributed to this report.



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Benjamin Glaze, a former “American Idol” contestant best known for being on the receiving end of an unplanned kiss from Katy Perry during his 2018 audition, has been arrested for alleged possession of child sexual abuse material in Oklahoma. According to the Tulsa Police Department’s Facebook page, Glaze was allegedly discovered to be in possession of child sexual abuse material in April 2024, after the Tulsa Police Sexual Predator/Digital Evidence Recovery Unit (Spider Unit) received a tip about alleged criminal activity by the 26-year-old. “As part of the investigations, the Spider Unit obtained a search warrant for Glaze’s residence,” according to Tulsa Police. “During the search, a smartphone was recovered that was found to contain over 700 images and videos of child sexual abuse material.KATY PERRY SURPRISES ‘IDOL’ CONTESTANT WITH KISS, AND HE SAYS HE WAS ‘UNCOMFORTABLE'”On 10/18/2024, an arrest warrant was issued for Benjamin Isaac Dewitt Glaze for Aggravated Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. Glaze was located and arrested on the afternoon of 10/18/2024 by the Spider Unit and booked into the Tulsa County Jail for his warrant.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSA representative for the Tulsa Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. In 2018, Glaze, who was 19 at the time of his “Idol” audition, took his shot in front of judges Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. During his audition, Glaze mentioned that his job as a cashier allowed him to meet “cute girls,” to which Bryan jokingly asked if he’d kissed a girl and liked it, a nod to Perry’s famous pop song.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER”I have never been in a relationship, and I can’t kiss a girl without being in a relationship,” he said.Perry asked him to come over and give her a kiss on the cheek, though she wasn’t entirely satisfied and asked for another. This time, Perry quickly turned to face him and planted a surprise kiss on Glaze. “Would I have done it if she said, ‘Would you kiss me?’ No, I would have said no,” Glaze told The New York Times. “I know a lot of guys would be like, ‘Heck yeah!’ But, for me, I was raised in a conservative family, and I was uncomfortable immediately. I wanted my first kiss to be special.”Fellow judge Bryan defended Perry at the time, telling “The Morning Show” the pop star was simply “working hard” to make “fun TV.””It’s unfortunate that stuff like that turns into a story that big,” the country crooner said. “I watched an actual interview where Ben, the kid that was involved, said that he was cool with everything.”I gotta back Katy on that.”



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The parents of a Massachusetts high school senior who used artificial intelligence (AI) for a social studies project have filed a lawsuit against his teachers and the school after their son received detention and a “D” grade.”He’s been accused of cheating, and it wasn’t cheating, there was no rule in the handbook against AI,” Jennifer Harris, who along with her husband, Dale, are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in Massachusetts’ Plymouth County District Court last month against the Hingham High School administration and the school district, told Boston 25 News. The lawsuit alleges that their son will “suffer irreparable harm that is imminent” over the grade that his parents say kept him out of the National Honor Society, which they claim is threatening his standing with top tier colleges. “So, our argument to the school was could you fail him with a 59 instead of a 53 so he can have a B minus? He’s applying to top tier schools,” Harris told the news station. “He’s applying to Stanford, he’s applying to MIT. They see a ‘C’ [grade] and it’s going in the trash.”HUMANOID ROBOT COULD BE FUTURE OF AFFORDABLE IN-HOME CAREHarris said that the school “basically punished him for a rule that doesn’t exist,” saying that the school’s code of conduct handbook never mentioned the use of AI in projects until their son was punished, WCVB-TV reported. She added that her son argued “it’s well documented that AI is the property of the person who generated it,” WBZ-TV reported.While the school called it plagiarism, the parents and their lawyer disagree. “There’s a wide gulf of information out there that says AI isn’t plagiarism,” Peter Farrell, who is representing the family, told WCVB. Harris told the news station that their son had already missed rolling admissions at his choice schools, adding that he had received a perfect score on his ACT. EDDIE VAN HALEN’S BROTHER WANTS AI TO COMPLETE THE BAND’S UNRELEASED MUSICThe student’s father argued that while the school can’t “undo” some of his punishments, they can change his grade, allow him into the National Honor Society and make it clear that he didn’t cheat on his paper. “You already made him redo the paper, you can’t undo the Saturday detention,” he told WCVB-TV. “But there are some things you can fix right now and do the right thing.”CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHingham Public Schools didn’t immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment on Saturday, but has previously told news outlets the district couldn’t comment on ongoing litigation.



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Cuba’s government said it was working again to reestablish electrical service across the island after state-run media earlier on Saturday reported the national grid had collapsed for a second time in 24 hours.The country’s top electricity official, Lazaro Guerra, said on a morning TV news program that another grid malfunction in western Cuba had forced technicians to begin anew connecting three important power plants to the system, temporarily stalling progress.CUBAN POWER PLANT FAILURE LEAVES MILLIONS IN THE DARK IN ISLAND-WIDE OUTAGE”I can not assure you that we will be able to complete linking the system today, but we are estimating that there should be important progress today,” Guerra said.Just prior to Guerra’s statement, CubaDebate, one of the island’s state-run media outlets, said the grid operator, UNE, had reported a “total disconnection of the national electro-energetic system.”Guerra did not directly confirm the total collapse, leaving some confusion as to what exactly had taken place.Cuba’s electrical grid first failed around midday on Friday after one of the island`s largest power plants shut down, suddenly leaving more than 10 million without power.Even before the grid’s collapse, an electricity shortfall on Friday had forced Cuba’s communist-run government to send non-essential state workers home and cancel school classes for children as it sought to conserve fuel for generation.But lights began to flicker on in scattered pockets across the island early in the evening on Friday, offering some hope that power would be restored.Cuba’s government has blamed weeks of worsening blackouts – often 10 to 20 hours a day across much of the island – on deteriorating infrastructure, fuel shortages and rising demand.Strong winds that began with Hurricane Milton last week had also complicated the island’s ability to deliver scarce fuel from boats offshore to feed its power plants, officials have said.Fuel deliveries to the island have dropped off significantly this year, as Venezuela, Russia and Mexico, once key suppliers, have reduced their exports to Cuba.Key ally Venezuela slashed by half its deliveries of subsidized fuel to Cuba this year, forcing the island to search elsewhere for far more pricey oil on the spot market.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPCuba’s government also blames the U.S. trade embargo, as well as sanctions under then-President Donald Trump, for ongoing difficulties in acquiring fuel and spare parts to operate and maintain its oil-fired plants.The United States on Friday denied any role in the grid collapse in Cuba.



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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., weighed in on President Biden ending his re-election campaign this year, saying that her concerns about Biden running again were not about the president himself but about his campaign.Pelosi made her most recent comments about Biden stepping down from the campaign in a new interview with CNN host Christiane Amanpour that aired Saturday morning. Amanpour asked her about reports that she had a major role in convincing Biden to step down, asking her why it was the right move for the party.”Now, my concerns were around the campaign, not about the candidate,” she said, adding, “He‘s fabulous.”PELOSI DEMURS ON IF ‘EVERYTHING IS OK’ BETWEEN HER AND BIDEN: ‘YOU’D HAVE TO ASK HIM’Pelosi was one of several Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who reportedly called on Biden to step down following a disastrous debate performance in June.Amanpour broached the topic by asking Pelosi if she has spoken to Biden since he was replaced by Vice President Harris at the top of the ticket.”I haven’t spoken to him since July, but of course, we‘ve been out of session for a while and I‘ve been on the campaign trail constantly,” she said, stating that she has “great respect for the president.””I think his legacy is a very substantial one for our country. It is our legacy too. I did not want that to be lost,” Pelosi said, following up by saying she had problems with the campaign, not Biden himself.”But the campaign, I thought, was not going in the right direction, and I expressed my concern about that,” she added.Pelosi made similar points in a recent interview on The Guardian’s Politics Weekly America podcast. “I have the greatest respect for him. I think he’s one of the great consequential presidents of our country,” Pelosi said in the interview posted Tuesday. “I think his legacy had to be protected. I didn’t see that happening in the course that it was on, the election was on.” She continued, telling the U.K. outlet, “My call was just to: ‘Let’s get on a better course.’ He will make the decision as to what that is. And he made that decision. But I think he has some unease because we’ve been friends for decades.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREDuring an interview with CBS News in August, Biden said that Democratic lawmakers urged him to step aside.”A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic, you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say – why did – and I thought it’d be a real distraction,” Biden told CBS News’ Bob Costa.On CNN, Amanpour asked the congresswoman whether she believes the Democratic Party could have won the election if Biden was still on the ticket. Pelosi replied, “You see, it’s hard to ask me that question because I don’t understand how anybody could vote for Donald Trump, but they do and so we have to be prepared.”She did admit to being concerned that Biden’s age was going to be a challenge for the party. “I do think there was a generational thing though that had to be recognized – the two of them – so old to be running for president.”CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPFox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.



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