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A man wearing a fake badge forced his way into a woman’s hotel room in Orlando, Florida and robbed her at gunpoint, police said.According to a release from the Orlando Police Department, authorities were called to a hotel along a busy stretch in the Sunshine State filled with vacation resorts on Aug. 23.A woman told police that an unknown man, wearing a “badge” around his neck, claimed to be a police officer and forced entry into her room. The victim told police that the suspect restrained her in handcuffs and stole her wallet while displaying what appeared to be a handgun in his waistband.The woman’s account was corroborated by surveillance footage from the hotel, which showed the suspect arrival on the hotel floor and a closeup of his fake badge.CALIFORNIA MAN TORTURED GIRLFRIEND, TATTOOED ‘DEGRADING WORDS’ ON HER CHEST BEFORE KILLING HERUsing the surveillance footage, police identified 27-year-old Michael Darren Jesse Rodriguez as the suspect.Authorities said that this was not Rodriguez’s first stunt, with the 27-year-old performing similar robberies at a Days Inn in Miami Springs and in Lantana, Florida.On Sept. 8, 2024, the Gwinnett County Police Department in Georgia apprehended Rodriguez while driving the same vehicle connected to the Orlando and Lantana incidents. KNIFE-WIELDING WOMAN SLASHES VIRGINIA POLICE OFFICER BEFORE SHE IS SHOT, BODYCAM SHOWS Detectives in Orlando traveled to Georgia to search the suspect’s vehicles, and they recovered a fake police badge, handcuffs, and additional evidence related to both cases.Orlando police obtained an arrest warrant for Rodriguez, and he was arrested on Oct. 2.Rodriguez was charged with falsely impersonating an officer to commit a felony with a weapon, false imprisonment with a weapon, and robbery with a firearm.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPOrlando police urged any other potential victims of Rodriguez to contact law enforcement at 800-423-TIPS (8477).Fox News Digital has reached out to the Orlando Police Department for comment.



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I know. I know. Hard to believe you’re seeing this, isn’t it? Happy Thursday, everyone. So, did you see Brett Baier interviewed Kamala Harris last night, Yeah. Kamala did so bad, FEMA gave her $750. Harris did so bad, Jimmy Carter woke up and demanded his vote back. Kamala did so bad, Tim Walz would have shot himself, but he can’t load a gun. Harris did so bad, Doug Emhoff can’t get any nannies to return his calls. By the way, we actually got video of Kamala driving after it was over. Here she is. You know, it was reported that Kamala showed up for the interview about 20 minutes late, but she came as soon as she finished happy hour. On the upside, it gave Bret time to give his hair two more coats of shellack. You did a great job. When Baier asked Harris when she knew about Biden’s mental decline, she replied that ‘Joe Biden is not on the ballot.’ Yes, he’s not on the ballot because of his mental decline. That’s like when asked, “when did you first know you ran over a crossing guard?” And you answer, “it doesn’t matter. He’s dead now.” ‘The View’s’ Sonny Hostin said that Harris went into the belly of the beast, leading viewers to momentarily think she was eaten by Whoopi Goldberg. Moving on.CNN SEGMENT PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON KAMALA HARRIS’ FLIP-FLOPS ON FAR-LEFT POLICIES: ‘VERY SHARP TURN’ According to a new survey, 25% of Gen Zers have brought their parents to a job interview. Who would do such a thing? And finally, YaYa Is that how you say it? Who cares? He’s dead. Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7th massacre in Israel has been killed by the IDF. Our condolences go out to his loved ones. In your face sympathizers!Okay so the FBI has quietly changed its national crime statistics. And it’s not because Hunter Biden had a hot weekend. Originally, the FBI said violent crime fell in 2022 by 2.1%. But as John Lott at RealClear Investigations found out, the FBI has now revised those numbers. Apparently, the stats were more fudged than Brian Stelter’s fingertips. He’s fat. Instead of violent crime going down by 2%, it actually went up by 4.5%. That’s a bigger swing than the one Joy Behar installed over her bed. How else is she going to get up? FBI QUIETLY UPDATES CRIME DATA TO SHOW BIG JUMP IN VIOLENCE UNDER BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN: ‘SHOCKING’Now, this 4.5% increase is on top of the already rising crime. But in an effort to gaslight us into thinking the tide was turning, they lied. There was more violent crime on top of the mayhem we already endured. The libs not only flunk math, but ethics as well. Up is down. Down is up. If libs ever started designing elevators we’re ******.Now, we got a lot of Dems watching and I want to make sure that they get it. Because for months they’ve told us violent crime has gone down since Biden was elected. Maybe they were confusing crime with his body temperature, but they told us that, like the railing around Joe’s toilet, his policies were making things safer. ABCs’ David Muir actually stopped Trump during last month’s debate to correct him on the crime stats. VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE INCREASED UNDER BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN DESPITE DEMS’ DENIALS: EXPERTSo why did Muir do that? Perhaps it was Muir’s first threesome. And feeling left out, he was compelled to insert himself into the action. Such a weird joke. But he took it upon himself to debate the Republican, which happens in every debate. And it would have been fine if maybe he was right. But he wasn’t. But all the Democrats are telling is violent crime is down. They were wrong. It’s a weird phenomenon. Democrats claim crime is down, but every time there is a shooting in America, they call for more gun control. If the Dems could they’d want you to believe Tren De Aragua is a fancy brand of bottled water. It’s a gang. Fact is, Democrats have always lived in a fantasy world when it comes to crime. When it comes to fooling themselves, they’re as honest as Doug Emhoff telling a nanny, I’ll only put it in a little. Just look at this CNN panel the other day openly baffled that there’s such a thing as the Ferguson effect. No, the Ferguson effect is a real thing. The George Floyd effect is a real thing. CNN has covered this real thing before, which is proof that even their employees don’t watch their crap. Get this, the Ferguson Effect denier, Abby Phillip even wrote about it when she was at the Washington Post. Yet now she pretends she’s never heard of it. Why? The fact is, when you demonize police and punish them for doing their jobs violent crime goes up faster than my blood pressure does when I have to share an elevator with Judge Jeanine. So crime went up, not down. But Dems always get two different things confused. It’s the same problem they have with bathrooms. Which one gets potpourri and which one gets penises? And as always, libs who live in a bubble are always astonished when somebody bursts it. No wonder trust in legacy media is lower than Tim Walz’s sperm count. A recent Gallup poll found that only 31% trust the media to be accurate even a fair amount and 36% have no trust at all. So in the end, legacy media has no way to deal with facts. So they just shut it down like a public bathroom when they see Jerry Nadler approaching. They shut it down. Go. Nadler. Don’t go, Nadler. But they’ll shut you down and they shout you down. They need to strenuously reject reality because their worldview can’t survive contact with the truth. They’re like Kamala last night or Kamala every night. And they need to be so smug about it because otherwise the shame would crush them. Look, vote for whoever you want, but if it’s based on a bunch of lies, it’s not our fault for reminding you. In fact, you might say it’s our job. Maybe David Muir should give it a try. 



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EXCLUSIVE — “Everything that the FBI and U.S. attorney and everybody else in the world says I did? I did it,” 64-year-old Rick Singer told Fox News in his first-ever interview about his sensational “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal.Not long ago, Singer was one of the most talked about and controversial men in the country. Today, he’s quietly living at a halfway house in Los Angeles, where he expects to finish out the rest of his 42-month sentence after pleading guilty in 2019 to racketeering, money laundering and obstruction charges.Singer says he’s able to leave the halfway house most days for a job with a restaurant group.”I’m the guy that’s hiding in plain sight. Nobody even knows who I am,” Singer told Fox in an exclusive sit-down interview in Los Angeles. “Now, somebody may recognize me, and I can hear people talking. But nobody cares.” COLLEGE ADMISSIONS EXPERT SENDS SHOCKING MESSAGE ABOUT IVY LEAGUE PRESTIGE: ‘IS IT WORTH THE INVESTMENT?’Singer’s charity, the Key Worldwide Foundation, billed as a way to help disadvantaged kids, took in at least $25 million in what Singer calls “donations” from celebrities like actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, with the expectation Singer would work his magic to get their kids into elite colleges.Huffman pleaded guilty for her role in the crimes and served eleven days of a two-week sentence in a California federal prison. Loughlin pleaded guilty and also served two months in a federal lockup in California.Federal prosecutors say the donations were bribes and conducted an extensive undercover investigation dubbed “Varsity Blues” to bust Singer and his accomplices.According to research conducted by Fox News, at least 50 people had pleaded guilty or been convicted in the college admission scandal as of October 2023.”I want to apologize profusely to all of the families that I’ve hurt, all the kids that I hurt. The administrators that I hurt. My own family,” Singer said in an exclusive sit-down interview in Los Angeles.Singer’s elaborate scheme centered around creating falsified and embellished college student applications complete with fake test scores, athletic experience and doctored photos. Singer recruited a network of university coaches and administrators to help him perfect the fake applications, and they accepted Singer’s money in what he refers to as “side-door” deals.When the news first broke of Singer’s scheme, the country erupted. Parents and critics alleged Singer robbed a countless number of students of their hard-earned, warranted spots in some of America’s best colleges and universities, like Georgetown, the University of Southern California and Yale University.Singer’s scandal became a monstrous media sensation, sparking months of news coverage, books, TV specials and a Netflix documentary that featured authentic recorded conversations between Singer and his clients.Despite the blowback and outrage, Singer, now a convicted felon, insists he never took a spot from a deserving student. Instead, he claims, his scheme exposed a budget tactic that higher education institutions rely on — blocking off certain “spots” on sports teams and within departments from everyday applicants and setting them aside for big donors willing to pay for a student’s entry.WHO IS WILLIAM RICK SINGER, THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CHEATING SCANDAL’S ALLEGED RINGLEADER?”In 90% of the cases, the coaches every year are calling me saying, ‘I got a spot open. I need to raise this amount of money. … Find me a family,’” Singer said.When asked specifically how he did the most harm, he said it was ruining people’s names. “The biggest thing is reputation … that they worked so hard to create and build and be great people,” Singer said.Singer acknowledges his crimes, admitting he considers the test cheating the most brazen part. But he says the college admissions offices have not faced the same intense scrutiny.”The media missed that the colleges, they’re my partner in this. It takes two parties to play,” Singer said. Fox News reached out to the three schools Singer alleges he partnered with the most — the University of Southern California, Georgetown and Yale. So far, Yale responded and has declined to comment.Singer told Fox he believes he seized on one of the three ways a student can get into college. They can get in through the “front door” with legitimate merit and grades, through the “backdoor” when a family publicly donates massive amounts of money to a university or campus or through a “side door.”  Singer says he mastered the side-door method by crafting fraudulent student applications and paying off people on the inside at a university. “This has been going on for hundreds of years. I am not that smart to make up this process,” Singer said.The former basketball coach says he thinks his side-door deals were targeted because they were done in private, yet he questions why the major backdoor donations often given in public with the expectation of favors are viewed as acceptable.Singer told Fox his scheme began in part with a student from Vancouver. Singer describes the student as intelligent but a poor test taker. So, Singer enlisted the help of Mark Riddell, which Singer says he now feels badly about, by convincing him with $10,000 to fake the Vancouver student’s final test score. Ridell went on to to become a key player in Singer’s scheme and was also convicted.OPINION: COLLEGE ADMISSIONS ARE FACING A CHEATING EPIDEMIC. COLLEGES SHOULD DO MORE TO GUARD AGAINST FRAUD”What I can absolutely tell you, what I did do that was illegal, was cheating on tests,” Singer said.Singer did not reveal entirely how the first test was cheated, but he said it involved a fake ID and described that first run as a satisfying, cinematic-like heist that paved the way for the future of his misdeeds.Singer, who considers himself a lifelong “coach,” says aside from his side-door deals, he was also always running a legitimate college coaching business he claims has helped hundreds of students get into college. Singer says business moguls and Hollywood A-listers have used his legitimate college counseling for their children.Prior to his time in the halfway house, Singer says he spent 16 months at a federal prison camp in Pensacola. Singer says he’s made friends while being incarcerated, many of whom he says were locked up for fraudulent COVID-era PPE crimes. Singer claims he’s hardly ever eaten a prison-issued meal. Instead, he tries to find healthy grocery items to create his own meals.Singer says he now wants to revolutionize college admissions and education with his new company called Future ID Stars, which he says will eliminate the need for college for high school students across the U.S. by identifying their IQ, skills and competitive edge and then placing them directly in the workforce.”We have a notion that everybody needs to go to college, and it’s the right place to be for everybody. And ‘you have to go to certain schools to be successful.’ And that’s not the truth based on tens of thousands of kids I’ve worked with,” Singer said.Singer also says he thinks experienced mothers who want to return to the workforce are a hidden source of reliable employees who have not been tapped into.Singer insists everything he does moving forward will be done legally and with the review of attorneys, something he admits he wishes he had done all along. Singer claims he’s built such a revered name in the admissions world that parents are still reaching out to him for coaching and were doing so even during his trial.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP”I walk out of the court — out of the court — and I show my attorney my phone. There’s 93 texts: “Are you still coming over next week?”    Singer admits the clock may never run out on unlawful college admissions in the United States.Asked if he thinks the college admissions system can still be gamed and if it’s still being gamed today, Singer replied, “Every day.”  



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The Cleveland Guardians were one strike away from falling behind 3-0 in the American League Championship Series – instead, they have all the momentum.A pair of two-run home runs in the ninth and 10th innings propelled the Guardians to a 7-5 win over the New York Yankees to cut their deficit in the ALCS to two games to one.All season long, the Cleveland Guardians have played a six-inning game; entering Thursday, they were 76-2 when leading after six innings, including the postseason. But Thursday night did not go as planned. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMAfter Hunter Gaddis issued a two-out walk to Juan Soto in the eighth, Emmanuel Clase came in to face the struggling Aaron Judge.Judge took Clase deep to tie the game, but the Yanks weren’t done yet. The next batter, noted October legend Giancarlo Stanton, launched a solo homer, giving the Bronx Bombers a 4-3 lead – Clase had given up two home runs in the entire regular season, yet allowed two in a three-pitch span.Gleyber Torres added a sacrifice fly to make it a two-run lead in the ninth, but down to their final out, the Guardians put the tying run at the plate. On the first pitch he saw, Jhonkensy Noel hit a long two-run homer to tie the game.The Yankees failed to score in the 10th, and the Guardians put the winning run on third with two outs, but they got much more than a single – David Fry launched a walk-off two-run home run.It’s the third walk-off home run in Guardians history, alongside Oscar Gonzalez in 2022 and Tony Pena in 1995.Luis Gil will go for the Yankees in Game 4 on Friday night at 8:08 p.m. ET, while Gavin Williams will go for Cleveland – it’s both pitchers’ first postseason outing.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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Martha Stewart can keep a secret. The home and garden guru revealed this week it was “very easy” to keep confidential the decades-old affair she recently revealed.”You have to be circumspect,” the 83-year-old told businessman Lee Brian Schrager while celebrating her 100th book Wednesday night. Schrager had asked how she kept the affair a secret all these years, joking it could be the subject of her next book.Video of the exchange was posted by the Daily Mail. MARTHA STEWART SAYS INA GARTEN STOPPED TALKING TO HER AFTER STEWART WENT TO PRISON Earlier this month, in the trailer for her new Netflix documentary, Stewart admitted she had an affair while married to her only husband, Andrew Stewart. Their marriage lasted from 1961 to 1990. “Young women, listen to my advice, if you’re married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he’s a piece of s—,” Stewart said in the trailer. “Get out of that marriage.” When a producer asked, “Didn’t you have an affair early on?” she answered, “Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that.” The new documentary covers Stewart’s marriage, her rise in the lifestyle industry and her legal woes. LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS”What does it mean to be the first female self-made billionaire in history?” Stewart asks herself rhetorically at the beginning of the trailer before laughing. She added in the trailer she was “considered crazy” as her career came together, “but it worked.” Stewart, a former model, worked as a stockbroker and then began a catering business in the 1970s that led to her first cookbook, “Entertaining,” in 1982. More cookbooks followed, and she began to make TV appearances. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERHer magazine, Martha Stewart Living, published its first issue in the winter of 1990. Stewart’s bestie, Snoop Dogg, was also at her book launch Wednesday to support her. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP”Had 2 come out n support @marthastewart48 n NYC !!! Anotha book release 4 the ppl. We appreciate U,” he wrote on his Instagram along with a photo of him posing with her and holding her new book. 



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