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Homeland Security agents in Texas successfully apprehended two Venezuelan nationals who were members of the bloodthirsty gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), which has established operations throughout the U.S.In a release Friday, the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Antonio announced that special agents arrested the two Venezuelan nationals in San Antonio during an enforcement operation targeting the violent gang on Sept. 19.The agency said that they received information that these individuals were allegedly involved in a conspiracy to illegally transport firearms.Following their apprehension, both individuals were transferred into ICE custody based on their immigration violations, HSI said. The San Antonio Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) were also involved in the arrests.TEXAS OFFERS REWARD FOR INFO ON TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBERS THAT SPREAD ‘TERROR AND CARNAGE,’ GOV ABBOTT SAYSThe TdA is a violent street gang believed to have originated in Venezuelan prisons and moved north over the last decade. SUSPECTED TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS IN AURORA, COLORADO, RELEASED ON $1,000 BONDHowever, its reputation within the U.S. has grown this year, in part, due to a number of high-profile crimes linked to the gang, with many believed to have arrived by coming across the southern border as part of the sharp increase in migration in recent years.The gang made headlines recently in Aurora, Colorado, where there have been a number of arrests and reports that the gang has taken over entire apartment buildings — something local authorities have pushed back against. TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS ARRESTED IN AURORA, COLORADO IN CONNECTION TO APARTMENT BUILDING TAKEOVER: POLICEThe apprehension of the two gang members in San Antonio came after Gov. Greg Abbot declared the gang a “foreign terrorist organization” last week while announcing that the state was taking a more aggressive approach to targeting its members. “Tren de Aragua has spread terror and carnage in every country they’ve been in, and Texas will not allow them to gain a foothold in our state,” Abbott said in a statement. “Texas will not let these thugs use our state as a base of operations to terrorize our citizens.”Abbott has directed DPS to elevate the gang to a Tier 1 gang and to create a TdA Strike Team that will identify and arrest its members. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPTipsters can provide information to authorities via the Texas Department of Public Safety’s website by calling 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.



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Owners of two NFL franchises have combined to give $4 million to help with Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.David and Nicole Tepper, the owners of the Carolina Panthers, announced a $3 million commitment to relief efforts in the Carolinas, and the Glazer family, which owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will gave $1 million.”The David & Nicole Tepper Foundation, Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC stand alongside all those who have been affected by Hurricane Helene and the devastation it has wrought across the southeast and particularly in our backyard throughout the Carolinas,” David and Nicole Tepper said in a statement. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”This is our home, and we are committed to supporting relief efforts throughout the region by providing critical resources and aiding the efforts of our heroic first responders. The impact on our community has been severe, but Carolinians are resilient and courageous, and, together, we will rebuild and recover,” the Teppers continued.The storm made landfall in the United States Thursday and affected the sports world. Two games between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets were postponed to a doubleheader Monday that could decide both teams’ postseason fates.HURRICANE HELENE FORCES BRONCOS TO PRACTICE ON INDOOR TENNIS COURTS IN WEST VIRGINIA RESORTThe Denver Broncos, who were staying at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia due to back-to-back games on the east coast, practiced on indoor tennis courts.Saturday’s Appalachian State-Liberty football game was also canceled, while the East Tennessee football team slept in buses since flooding halted its travel Friday night.FOX Corporation on Friday launched a donation drive for the American Red Cross’ Hurricane Helene relief efforts and urged viewers to help people affected by the deadly storm, the company announced. Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time when Austria votes on Sunday, tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe.Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to become Austria’s new chancellor. He has used the term “Volkskanzler,” or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Kickl has rejected the comparison.CONSERVATIVE AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR TO STAY IN COALITION WITH LEFT-WING GREENS DESPITE CONTROVERSIAL VOTEBut to achieve that, he would need a coalition partner to command a majority in the lower house of parliament.And a win isn’t certain, with recent polls pointing to a close race. They have put support for the Freedom Party at 27%, with the conservative Austrian People’s Party of Chancellor Karl Nehammer on 25% and the center-left Social Democrats on 21%.Still, Kickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria’s last election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in the European Parliament election, which also brought gains for other European far-right parties.In the 2019 election, its support slumped to 16.2% after a scandal brought down a government in which it was the junior coalition partner. Then-vice chancellor and Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache resigned following the publication of a secretly recorded video in which he appeared to offer favors to a purported Russian investor.The far right has tapped into voter frustration over high inflation, the war in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic. It also been able to build on worries about migration.”You don’t really feel safe in your own country anymore. But then you’re being branded as right-wing just because you think about safety of your own people, the kids and women,” Margot Sterner, 54, said at a Freedom Party campaign event this month.In its election program, the Freedom Party calls for “remigration of uninvited foreigners,” and for achieving a more “homogeneous” nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an “emergency law.”Gernot Bauer, a journalist with Austrian magazine Profil who recently co-published an investigative biography of the far-right leader, said that under Kickl’s leadership, the Freedom Party has moved “even further to the right,” as Kickl refuses to explicitly distance the party from the Identitarian Movement, a pan-European nationalist and far-right group.Bauer describes Kickl’s rhetoric as “aggressive” and says some of his language is deliberately provocative.The Freedom Party also calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defense project launched by Germany.The leader of the Social Democrats, a party that led many of Austria’s post-World War II governments, has positioned himself as the polar opposite to Kickl. Andreas Babler — who is also mayor of the town of Traiskirchen, home to the country’s biggest refugee reception center — has ruled out governing with the far right and labeled Kickl “a threat to democracy.”While the Freedom Party has recovered, the popularity of Nehammer’s People’s Party, which currently leads a coalition government with the environmentalist Greens as junior partners, has declined since 2019.During the election campaign, Nehammer portrayed his party, which has taken a tough line on immigration in recent years, as “the strong center” that will guarantee stability amid multiple crises.But it is precisely these crises, ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting rising energy prices, that have cost the conservatives support, said Peter Filzmaier, one of Austria’s leading political scientists.Under their leadership, Austria has experienced high inflation averaging 4.2% over the past 12 months, surpassing the EU average.The government also angered many Austrians in 2022 by becoming the first European country to introduce a coronavirus vaccine mandate, which was scrapped a few months later without ever being put into effect. And Nehammer is the third chancellor since the last election, taking office in 2021 after predecessor Sebastian Kurz — the winner in 2019 — quit politics amid a corruption investigation.But the recent flooding caused by Storm Boris that hit Austria and other countries in Central Europe brought back the topic of the environment into the election debate and helped Nehammer slightly narrow the gap with the Freedom Party by presenting himself as a “crisis manager,” Filzmaier said.The People’s Party is the far right’s only way into government.Nehammer has repeatedly excluded joining a government led by Kickl, describing him as a “security risk” for the country, but hasn’t ruled out a coalition with the Freedom Party in and of itself, which would imply Kickl renouncing a position in government.The likelihood of Kickl agreeing to such a deal if he wins the election is very low, Filzmaier said.But should the People’s Party finish first, then a coalition between the People’s Party and the Freedom Party could happen, Filzmaier said. The most probable alternative would be a three-way alliance between the People’s Party, the Social Democrats and most likely the liberal Neos.



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Social media users mocked Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery after she publicly complained about a flight attendant wishing her and other passengers a “blessed” night at the end of a recent flight.Jeffery ridiculed the flight attendant in a recent X post, saying her sendoff was evidence of “creeping Christian nationalism” in the country and pointing out all the other less Christian adjectives she could have used.”How sad and impoverished is your life that you’re offended by someone blessing you? Get a grip,” wrote Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen in response to Jeffery’s post.HARRIS DODGES QUESTION ON LOWERING PRICES BY DESCRIBING ‘MIDDLE-CLASS’ ROOTS: NEIGHBORS ‘PROUD OF THEIR LAWN’The Mother Jones journalist wrote went after the flight attendant on the social media platform Friday night, writing, “Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a ‘blessed’ night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic…”She added, “As my rowmate said, ‘this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.’”The critical post went viral, getting over three million views on X in a few hours, as well as a deluge of comments from prominent users – both conservative and liberal – outraged that Jeffery could find fault with someone being polite.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREKamala Harris campaign fundraiser Armand Domalewski rebuked Jeffery, writing, “Respectfully, I’m a pretty left-leaning guy and I wish folks a blessed day fairly often. It’s just a nice thing to say.”His comment prompted a response from the editor-in-chief, who replied, “Eh. It’s a matter of respect for the audience before you. Respecting their space and norms and wishes. Dominant cultures always feel they have a right to enforce their norms and intents. And…way off @AlaskaAir’s brand.”However, Domalewski disputed her point, adding, “As a practicing Catholic, I don’t feel like being publicly Christian is really the dominant culture here in SF lol.” Jeffery did not fire back.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREThe Blaze’s Jessica O’Donnell slammed the editor-in-chief, posting, “You have issues greater than a flight attendant’s well wishes.”Canadian conservative activist Billboard Chris shared old posts of Jeffery’s in which she herself used “God bless” or praised others for using similar language. In the list he shared was Jeffery’s post from 2020 in which she praised former President Obama’s use of the phrase “God Bless” in a speech honoring the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.”‘God bless you all, God bless America, God bless this gentle soul that pulled it closer to its promise.’ Now that’s a kicker,” she wrote at the time.The Dispatch editor-in-chief and L.A. Times columnist Jonah Goldberg ripped Jeffery, writing, “This is a bizarre and pretty indefensible overreaction, imo.”Pollster Frank Luntz asked the journalist, “Do you get alarmed if people say ‘bless you’ after you sneeze?”The Washington Examiner contributor Kimberly Ross denounced Jeffery’s post, stating, “This is not ‘creeping Christian nationalism.’ This is someone showing kindness to others. It’s not offensive. It’s not a demand for religious conversion. The issue here is you processed it as a problem that requires a public complaint while tagging the airline. Time to grow up.”CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP



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Idaho governor Brad Little commended Boise State for forfeiting its match against San Jose State University on Saturday amid controversy surrounding a transgender member of the women’s volleyball team. Boise State Athletics confirmed the decision in a statement on Saturday. The university did not provide an explanation of the forfeiture. “Boise State volleyball will not play its scheduled match at San José State on Saturday, Sept. 28,” the statement read. “Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Boise State. The Broncos will next compete on Oct. 3 against Air Force.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe republican governor, who recently signed an executive order directing the State Board of Education to ensure the safeguarding of fairness in women’s sports, released a statement praising the decision. “I applaud @BoiseState for working within the spirit of my Executive Order, the Defending Women’s Sports Act,” his post on X read. “We need to ensure player safety for all of our female athletes and continue the fight for fairness in women’s sports.” Boise State is the second school to opt out of playing against SJSU amid controversy surrounding a member of the women’s volleyball team. Blaire Fleming, a redshirt senior at San Jose State University, plays as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. Fleming, a transgender athlete, has played three seasons at SJSU after previously playing at Coastal Carolina. BOISE STATE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL FORFEITS UPCOMING MATCH AGAINST SJSU AMID CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING TRANS PLAYEREarlier this week, one of Fleming’s teammates joined several other female athletes in suing the NCAA for Title IX violations. According to the criminal complaint, Brooke Slusser claimed that she was not aware that Fleming was transgender despite sharing rooms together on team trips. Slusser also expressed safety concerns for opponents playing against Fleming. “Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upward of 80 mph, which was faster than she had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball,” Slusser’s complaint said, via the Cowboy State Daily. “The girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but still could not fully protect themselves.””One thing that’s important in this case is really the physical safety issues in volleyball,” Slusser’s attorney, Bill Bock, told OutKick. “And that’s what they’re facing in practice every day. So, it’s just a crazy, misguided policy that steals athletic dreams from women and gives them to men, and, at the same time, puts women’s health and safety in danger.”Payton McNabb, a former high school volleyball player from North Carolina, has been among the most outspoken about transgender athletes in the sport. In September 2022, McNabb was injured in a high school volleyball game when a transgender athlete on the opposing team spiked the volleyball and struck her in the face, causing her to fall backward and suffer from a concussion and a neck injury. She continues to suffer from long-term physical and mental injuries caused by the incident. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
 



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