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A bipartisan panel condemned the Secret Service’s handling of former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, saying the agency needs “fundamental” changes to be effective.The panel, made up of former senior law enforcement and government officials, warned that if there are not extensive reforms at the Secret Service, then “another Butler can and will happen again.”Butler, Pennsylvania, was the site of the first assassination attempt against Trump this year. The Secret Service faced heavy criticism for negligence and sluggish reaction speed.This is a developing story. Check back soon for updates.



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Ryan Fitzpatrick was the last New York Jets quarterback to even come close to leading the team to the playoffs.He helped New York to their only 10-win season since they made it as far as the AFC Championship during the 2010 season. However, while Fitzpatrick was on the cusp of getting to the postseason, the team narrowly missed out in 2015. The team has not been any closer.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe Jets and their fans are expecting Aaron Rodgers to take them to the Promised Land, but so far, it has been a load of disappointment. Rodgers was hurt for 17 out of the 18 weeks of the 2023 season, and this year, New York is 2-4.After the miscues on Monday night and Rodgers publicly criticizing Mike Williams for running the wrong route on the team’s final play against the Buffalo Bills and then defending himself on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Fitzpatrick criticized the quarterback’s leadership.”This response is the biggest thing I don’t understand about Aaron….can be super charismatic, his swagger gives teammates the ultimate confidence BUT,” he wrote, “why can’t he shoulder ALL the blame in the media and then get behind closed doors with Mike Williams or the whole offense or the whole team or anyone else that isn’t doing their job and tell them he needs more out of them.FOX NEWS DIGITAL SPORTS NFL POWER RANKINGS AFTER WEEK 6 OF 2024 NFL SEASON”The need to set the record straight at the expense of someone lesser than just hurts me.”Williams has not practiced since the final play on Monday for personal reasons. Trade rumors have swirled around him since the team acquired Davante Adams from the Las Vegas Raiders.New York has a chance to get its season back on track on Sunday night when they take on the Pittsburgh Steelers.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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Early in-person voting kicks off Thursday in North Carolina, one of seven hotly contested battleground states in the 2024 presidential election.Some North Carolina communities are making last-minute adjustments to their 2024 election schedules in the fallout from Hurricane Helene this month.In Buncombe County, one of the counties hit hardest by the storm, the board of elections approved new times and locations for early voting. Early in-person voting kicks off Thursday morning, with polls remaining open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Nov. 1.”We’ve got a new early voting plan,” Buncombe Board of Elections Chair Jake Quinn said in a statement. “Please everybody, spread the word.”Buncombe is also having to adjust polling locations, as some are no longer fit to serve as polling places or are more difficult to access. The county published a list of locations that are now operating for early voting.MAYORKAS CALLS ON CONGRESS TO FUND FEMA DISASTER RELIEF, WARNING ‘HURRICANE SEASON IS NOT OVER’Buncombe County voted decisively for President Biden in the 2020 election, according to state records. Biden received 96,515 votes, compared to former President Trump’s 62,412, totaling a 60%-40% split.VIDEO SHOWS HURRICANE MILTON-IMPACTED FAMILY, DOGS RESCUED FROM FLOODWATERSNearby Watauga County also released its own revised early voting schedule this month. The county’s board of elections says none of its polling places has changed, but they will now expand their timing to be open on weekends during early voting. Residents will be able to access polling places from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.”We are grateful to all the people that worked so hard to build our county’s infrastructure back so quickly. It is truly amazing to see people from all over the country pitching in to help strangers in need. That’s what America is all about. This helped minimize any disruptions to voters so that every voice can be heard. We also want to thank all the election officials who offered to work the new weekend shifts. We literally can’t do it without them,” the board said in a statement.NORTH CAROLINA MAN ACCUSED OF THREATENING FEMA WORKERS WITH ASSAULT RIFLE AMID HURRICANE HELENE CLEAN-UPBiden also took Watauga County in the 2020 election, receiving 53% of the vote to Trump’s 44%.State election officials are scheduled to hold a press conference Thursday on other measures they are taking to ensure the election goes smoothly.They say roughly 25 counties were heavily impacted by Helene, and those contain 76 polling locations. Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the NC State Board of Elections and Corinne Duncan, the Buncombe County elections director will lead the press conference.The majority of North Carolina voters in the 25 counties impacted by Helene are Republican, according to state voter registration records. Officials say 482,930 registered Republicans live in the area, compared to 294,106 Democrats. There are also 492,546 unaffiliated voters.North Carolina last voted for a Democrat president in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama won the state by 0.3 points, or 14,177 votes.Trump pulled out a convincing 3.7 point win in 2016, but that margin shrank to 1.3 points against Biden in 2020.Late last month, the Fox News Poll had the two 2024 presidential candidates just a point apart from each other, with Democrat nominee Vice President Harris at 49% and GOP nominee former President Trump at 50%. North Carolina is ranked a Toss Up on the Fox News Power Rankings.The state has become more competitive as its population has grown. Over the last full decade, North Carolina added roughly 1.1 million people, the fourth-largest gain among all states.Much of that growth has been in urban and suburban areas like those in solidly blue Mecklenburg and Wake counties.The pandemic brought more wealthy, urban Americans from surrounding states, and there are pockets of college voters as well.Rural areas have experienced some population decline, but they remain a powerful part of the state’s overall vote, and they vote overwhelmingly Republican.This is a guide to registration and early voting. For comprehensive and up-to-date information on voter eligibility, processes and deadlines, please go to Vote.gov and the election website for North Carolina.North Carolina began absentee voting for registered voters in September. Applicants do not need to provide an excuse to receive a ballot. The state must receive a ballot application by Oct. 29, and that ballot must be delivered to county officials by Nov. 5.Early in-person voting begins Oct. 17. Check the state’s website for more information. The last day to vote in-person is Nov. 2.North Carolina residents can register to vote online or by mail through Oct. 11. They can also register in-person during early voting between Oct. 17 and Nov. 2.



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A man who says he was wrongfully accused of a potential assassination attempt on former President Trump at a California campaign rally Saturday has filed a lawsuit against the sheriff who made the accusations.”They essentially dropped a nuclear bomb into my life where my life will never be the same, regardless. You know, there’s a legal word called restitution, which means to make you whole again after a calamity like this. And there is no ultimate restitution in this,” Trump supporter Vem Miller told Fox News Digital. “You know, the internet is forever. Essentially, they did incredibly damaging things to my life.” Miller, of Nevada, was arrested for possessing firearms outside the Republican presidential nominee’s rally in Coachella over the weekend, and says he was given a VIP pass to the rally and has an extensive media and political history. “They keep saying that I was trying to get into the Trump rally with guns, which is highly inaccurate. The accurate description of what I was trying to do is that I was trying to go to a private parking lot, park my car, then walk at least a quarter-of-a-mile,” Miller said. WHO IS VEM MILLER, MAN ARRESTED OUTSIDE TRUMP COACHELLA RALLY? 4 THINGS TO KNOWMiller said if he was estimating correctly, the parking area was at least half a mile away from the actual perimeter of the rally, which he says was intentionally set up that way. “It is set up purposefully that way, because guns are not the only way to assassinate people. It’s also car bombs. So you don’t want to have cars like a Timothy McVeigh-style situation near the rally. So these are two distinctly separate locations,” Miller explained. “So that has to be characterized correctly, because I would not be so foolish to think that. And I think people know at this point from my talk, my demeanor and all that stuff, my work that I’ve done, like, I’m not going to make a stupid mistake like that.”When he was stopped on his way into the rally, Miller told officers he had a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine. Miller claims he has never fired them, but he started keeping them with him when he started getting death threats. “The guns, by the way, that we’re talking about, which is, I don’t know, like a four-foot-long shotgun and a Glock. None of them are automatic. None of them are rifles. None of them are even the kind of accuracy you would need in order to execute something of this sinister proportion that I was initially being accused of. They’re not even the right guns for that. So it’s like, you know, there’s so many flaws in this,” Miller said. Miller says his life has been turned upside down since Saturday, and he is living in constant fear for his life and those he cares about, fearing “crazy guys trying to protect Trump” would try to “off him” because they think he was trying to kill Trump. MAN ARRESTED OUTSIDE TRUMP COACHELLA RALLY DENIES ASSASSINATION INTENT; HE’S ‘ALL IN’ SUPPORTING TRUMP”If you’re a headline reader, you think I’m the third Trump assassin in the company of two psychopaths, you know, two very mentally ill individuals, which is not what I am. And so that’s frightening,” Miller said. Miller filed 10 claims in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco “intentionally, maliciously and with a blatant disregard for the truth, wanted to create a narrative so as to be viewed as a ‘heroic’ sheriff who saved Presidential candidate Trump from a third assassination attempt.” The lawsuit also states that “even after being notified by both the United States Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that they did not believe Miller was a threat and declined to interview him, Bianco continued to make preposterous allegations against Miller, holding press conferences perpetuating his delusional and false narrative.”The lawsuit reads that “Riverside police engaged in deliberate and wrongful conduct and compromised police protocol, violating Miller’s constitutional rights for the purpose of promoting and engaging in a meritless and gratuitous sensational story.”Miller, 49, is a registered Republican, a member of the Clark County Republican Party’s Central Committee, and served as a Trump caucus captain during the 2024 presidential primaries, according to the complaint. He told Fox on Sunday that he is “all-in” supporting Trump.”Instead of apologizing to Miller for the false accusations made against him, Bianco compounded [his own] misconduct, perpetuated [sic] a boisterous and delusional narrative that has caused irreparable harm to Miller’s character and reputation,” the complaint read. Miller said that the one silver lining in all this is that Bianco and his department will now be investigated and properly cleaned up.”This department that has been investigated before, that has displayed multiple accounts of criminal affairs is now having to really be investigated and properly cleaned up. Because the issue here is, you know, you hear about these levels of corruption. We all know whether we’re left, right, Democrat or Republican, that there’s a lot of corruption. And the question becomes, why does this corruption happen? Why is it so rampant?” Miller said.”And I think the answer is simple….is that when people aren’t held accountable where there’s no punishment for crime, and you and I, by the way, if we did things like this, we’d be in jail, right? So, we the people, would be in jail. But apparently, once you have a title that protects you, and you could operate under the color of law and essentially, that means being a criminal, using your your title, your privilege. So that’s the issue,” Miller continued.Miller emphasized that the sheriff’s department’s behavior was unacceptable and that they need to be held accountable for their actions.COPS NAB MAN ALLEGEDLY CARRYING ILLEGAL GUNS NEAR TRUMP’S COACHELLA RALLY; SUSPECT SAYS HE BACKS EX-PRESIDENT”This is just awful behavior. The most basic thing as an officer of the law is you have to prove what is lawful or unlawful and evidence is involved. And when somebody has zero evidence but seems to be doing something for other reasons, I mean, those people do not belong in office,” Miller said. Miller added that one thing that has surprised him through all this has been the level of support he has received from his circle and people he has worked with throughout his career. “I mean, nobody ever questioned my version of the story. Nobody ever even thought that I was capable of this. You know, in order for me to be capable of this, I would have had to live a very detailed life for the last six years, been an incredibly social, pathological liar, done 800 episodes just to put a false front out there,” Miller said. “I mean, it would have to be like the greatest James Bond level. It is just something that I don’t think is even feasible for a human being to be able to establish that kind of fraud.” The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office sent a statement to Fox News Digital and acknowledged the lawsuit.”We acknowledge the lawsuit filed against the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and take such matters seriously. However, as it is pending litigation, we cannot comment on the specifics at this time. We are committed to transparency and will cooperate fully with the legal process. Our priority remains the safety and well-being of the community we serve. We appreciate your understanding as we address this matter,” the statement read. Fox News Digital’s Bryan Preston contributed to this report. 



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The United States has attacked five military sites controlled by Houthi forces in Yemen by using B-2 bombers for precision strikes against weapons storage locations.”U.S. forces targeted several of the Houthis’ underground facilities housing various weapons components of types that the Houthis have used to target civilian and military vessels throughout the region,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said in a statement. “This was a unique demonstration of the United States’ ability to target facilities that our adversaries seek to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened, or fortified.”DISAPPROVAL MOUNTS BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD AS US AVOIDS DIRECT ACTION AGAINST HOUTHI REBELSAustin said the employment of U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit long-range stealth bombers demonstrated U.S. global strike capabilities to “take action against these targets when necessary, anytime, anywhere.” “For over a year, the Iran-backed Houthis, Specially Designated Global Terrorists, have recklessly and unlawfully attacked U.S. and international vessels transiting the Red Sea, the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden,” he said. The Houthis’ illegal attacks continue to disrupt the free flow of international commerce, threaten environmental catastrophe, and put innocent civilian lives and U.S. and partner forces’ lives at risk, he said. U.S. FORCES DESTROY MULTIPLE HOUTHI WEAPONS, VEHICLES IN PAST 24 HOURS: CENTCOMAustin said the attack was approved by President Joe Biden.”At the direction of President Biden, I authorized these targeted strikes to further degrade the Houthis’ capability to continue their destabilizing behavior and to protect and defend U.S. forces and personnel in one of the world’s most critical waterways.”Again, the United States will not hesitate to take action to defend American lives and assets; to deter attacks against civilians and our regional partners; and to protect freedom of navigation and increase the safety and security in these waterways for U.S., coalition, and merchant vessels. “We will continue to make clear to the Houthis that there will be consequences for their illegal and reckless attacks. I am grateful for the professionalism and skill of the brave American troops who took part in today’s actions and who continue to stand guard in defense of our Nation.”CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPEarly assessments by the U.S. Central Command indicate that none of the strikes injured any civilians. Here’s some background about the Houthi effects in the Middle East and throughout shipping corridors in the region:This is a developing story.



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