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FIRST ON FOX: Twenty-six Republican attorneys general joined Virginia on Monday in urging the Supreme Court to halt a lower court decision that restored the voting rights of 1,600 residents.The amicus brief backs Virginia’s contention that the ruling is overly broad and lacks standing under a provision of the National Voter Registration Act (NRVA), which orders states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance 90 days before an election. It now has the support of every Republican-led U.S. state, giving it outsize attention in the final stretch before the election.In the amicus brief, attorneys general urged the court to grant Virginia’s emergency motion and “restore the status quo,” noting that doing so “would comply with the law and enable Virginia to ensure that noncitizens do not vote in the upcoming election.”The states also sided with Virginia in objecting to the Justice Department’s reading of NVRA protections, which they said was overly broad.Moreover, they said, the law in place in Virginia was not designed to “systematically” remove residents from the voter rolls, as Justice Department officials cited in their lawsuit earlier this month.The Justice Department had argued the removals were conducted too close to the Nov. 5 elections and violated the “quiet period” provision under NVRA. That contention was backed by a federal judge in Alexandria, which ordered the affected voters back on the rolls, and upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.SWING-STATE’S SUPREME COURT ISSUES PIVOTAL RULING ON MAIL-IN BALLOTS SENT WITHOUT POSTMARK
In the amicus brief, lawyers describe the ruling as a “sweeping interpretation of the NVRA” that “converts a procedural statute into a substantive federal regulation of voter qualifications in elections—an interpretation that would raise serious questions about the constitutionality of the NVRA itself.”Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has insisted the voters were removed legally and that the removal process is based on precedent from a 2006 state law enacted by then-Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat. That process compared the state Department of Motor Vehicles’ noncitizens list to its list of registered voters. Those without citizenship were then informed that their voter registration would be canceled unless they could prove their citizenship in 14 days.Youngkin and Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares have argued the lower court rulings are “individualized” and not systematic, as the Justice Department alleged earlier this month. They argued that restoring them just days before an election is likely to inject new chaos into the voting process – an argument backed by the group of Republican states in the Monday filing.WHY TRUMP IS MAKING LAST-MINUTE STOPS AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY IN TWO BLUE-LEANING STATESYOUNGKIN VOWS TO APPEAL ‘TO SCOTUS’ AFTER US JUDGE ORDERS 1,600 VOTERS BACK ON BALLOT”This Court should reject Respondents’ effort to change the rules in the middle of the game and restore the status quo ante,” they wrote. “The Constitution leaves decisions about voter qualifications to the people of Virginia. And the people of Virginia have decided that noncitizens are not permitted to vote.”Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub. 



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Gisele Bündchen is pregnant with her third child, her first with boyfriend Joaquim Valente, according to a report. On Monday, a source told People magazine: “Gisele and Joaquim are happy for this new chapter in their life and they’re looking forward to creating a peaceful and loving environment for the whole family.”Bündchen began dating Valente, a jiu jitsu instructor, in June 2023, roughly seven months after her divorce with Tom Brady was finalized.TOM BRADY, GISELE BUNDCHEN DIVORCE MOCKED DURING NETFLIX COMEDY ROAST OF RETIRED QUARTERBACKBündchen and Brady share son Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 11. Since finalizing their divorce in Oct. 2022, the former couple has prioritized co-parenting their two children. Brady is also dad to son Jack, 17, with Bridget Moynahan; Bündchen has called herself a “bonus mom” to Jack.In March, Bündchen made comments on some challenges she has faced since entering a co-parenting relationship with the retired NFL star.GISELE BUNDCHEN IS PREGNANT, EXPECTING BABY WITH BOYFRIEND JOAQUIM VALENTE AFTER TOM BRADY DIVORCE: REPORT”I think, you know, there’s easier days than other[s], but I think, you know, it’s amazing that the kids — they’re super smart children,” she joked on ABC’S “Impact x Nightline” with Robin Roberts at the time. “They know what they can get away with. So I think it’s natural that [they have] different rules and then kids just adapt. And they’re gonna try to do what they want, and I can only control what I do,” she explained. “I think, for me, now it’s really about the balance.””Tom has time with them and I have time with them, which I think is amazing,” she said of their custody agreement. Bündchen believes that the split time has been “more enriching” for the children. “They get to learn from two different worlds and that’s wonderful for them.”In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar earlier this year, the Brazilian-born beauty alluded to her and Brady’s different parenting styles. Speaking about the starkly different circumstances in which she and her children were raised, Bündchen wants to ensure they have skills to thrive on their own. “‘The way you make your room, the way you organize and make your bed is the way you’re going to do your life,’” she admitted she’s told her children. “‘If you’re not learning here and now, then when and with who?’ LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS”Sometimes, I get pushback, especially because now they’re in two different homes and there are two different ways. But I feel like I owe it to my kids, because of what my mom taught me,” she said of her children, who go back and forth between their parents.In June, Brady spoke about co-parenting with Bündchen, admitting he thought they’d “done an amazing job.””I think, for me, when you decide to have children, that’s a big undertaking, and I don’t think you take it lightly. And I think these kids that come up under your roof, you want to provide them with values, so that when they move forward in their life, they have a real solid base and foundation,” Brady told Entertainment Tonight. “And I think myself and their mom have done an amazing job of providing that.”We’re never a finished product. The kids aren’t finished products. At the end of the day, we’re learning along with them. And all you can do is the best you can do with the opportunities that you have, and the challenges you have, and we all have unique challenges to our life that we deal with.”Benjamin, the former couple’s oldest child, was born on Dec. 8, 2009. Bündchen had him in a home birth, which she previously shared that Brady was initially against.”It was a home birth and it was funny because he didn’t want me to have a home birth,” she shared on ESPN+’s “Man in the Arena: Tom Brady” in Dec. 2021. “He was like, ‘Absolutely not,’ and I was like, ‘Excuse me, you don’t get to choose that, it’s my body.'”In Sept. 2023, Bündchen told People magazine that her son was following in his father’s footsteps and took an interest in football. Benjamin even chose to wear No. 12 on his jersey, which was a nod to Brady.”Benny’s doing football,” she told the outlet at the time. “He just started, and his first game was so nice. It was nice to go because I had all the little friends come to me and be like, ‘Oh my God, I love Benny. I love Vivi. They’re so nice. He helped me with this.'”She added, “It makes me proud to see how they’re all becoming their own little individual selves, but how their principles and their values are so strong. It makes me so happy to see that they’re flourishing into their own beings.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERBündchen and Brady’s daughter, Vivian, was born on Dec. 5, 2012. As her daughter gears up to enter her teenage years, Bündchen joked about what it’s really like to raise pre-teens and teenagers on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” in March.”You wait,” Bündchen joked. “I mean, it’s amazing having teenagers and pre-teens, but…” She noted that “you learn so much” when you have children around that age.”The most important thing [is] you have to make time to have conversations, because, I think, you know, they are changing, every day is a whole new world,” she said. “And it’s so important to kind of talk, it’s a huge thing.”In 2012, Brady told ESPN: “I grew up in a house with three sisters. I think it’s great for my boys to have a girl in the house, just to understand at least a little bit about what makes a woman tick — not that I can certainly figure that out because I can’t. She’s a beautiful little girl.”APP USERS CLICK HERE FOR INSTAGRAM POSTMore recently, Brady told Entertainment Tonight in 2016 that his only daughter has him wrapped around his finger. “It’s the worst — well, it’s not the worst for me, I think it’s the worst for my wife who’s trying to instill some discipline in her and I just give her whatever she wants. But isn’t that what men are supposed to do for daughters?” he said at the time.Brady also shares son Jack, 17, with his ex, Bridget Moynahan. The former couple welcomed their son in 2007, shortly after they broke up in 2006.At the time of Jack’s birth, Brady had already entered a relationship with Bündchen and told Howard Stern in 2020 that Moynahan’s pregnancy shocked him.APP USERS CLICK HERE FOR INSTAGRAM POST”Next thing you know, I found out that Bridget was pregnant with our son,” he said at the time. “So that was a very unique time … and it challenged me in a lot of ways, again, to grow up in a different way. It was very hard for my wife to think she fell in love with this guy, and then now this guy’s ex-girlfriend’s pregnant.””And it was very challenging for my son’s mom, you know, because she didn’t envision that either,” Brady added.In 2015, Bündchen admitted that she considered leaving Brady after learning his ex-girlfriend was pregnant.”It was a challenging thing because here I am, I’m dating this guy, everything is great and then this happens,” she said on CBS’ “This Morning’s Charlie Rose.” “So, then I felt like I didn’t know what to do… Do I just run away?”At the time, she said she couldn’t see life without Jack in it. “I think, now, eight years later, I couldn’t have asked for a sweeter bonus child,” Bündchen said.In February 2020, Gisele told her Instagram followers that she doesn’t like being called Jack’s “step mom.””I like the word ‘bonus mom’ because I feel like it’s a blessing in my life. I feel so lucky that I got to have an extra wonderful little angel in my life,” she said at the time, according to People.Fox News Digital’s Caroline Thayer contributed to this report.



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Gwen Walz, wife of Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz, indicated offering tampons in school bathrooms would help students learn to read during an appearance on Katie Couric’s podcast Sunday. Couric asked Walz about her husband being called “Tampon Tim,” a nickname coined by conservatives after he signed a bill in his state that would put free menstrual products in all school restrooms, including boys’ rooms.”If kids are hungry in school, what that does to brain and learning, you’re not going to learn to read,” Walz said. “So if you’re talking about learning to read and closing gaps then you better take away the barriers for that. If that’s tampons, then that’s tampons, right?””Take away the barriers and let’s get to the real work of this, not get lost in what are components and, as some people would say, you know, equaling the playing field or whatever it might be,” she said. COLUMNIST DEFENDS WALZ PUTTING TAMPONS IN BOYS’ ROOMS AS WAY FOR ‘KING STUD’ GUYS TO OFFER THEM TO GIRLSThe legislation says menstrual products “must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school district.” Since then, the moniker “Tampon Tim” has been used to highlight his socially progressive views.”Tim and I have always thought about removing barriers to learning and success, and whatever that barrier is, whether it be free lunch or menstruation products or knowing who you are, everyone means everyone and some things look different for some people,” Walz said. “People have different needs and they have different resources, but everyone means everyone and all of us.””So that is not an unmessy journey, but we have looked at it like, ‘What do you need to move forward, what do you need to be happy and healthy and have success and how might we most effectively and best help with that and then mind your own damn business right?'” she continued. “Then get out of the way, because and, I think that those two pieces probably describe Tim. He’s compassionate, he’s empathetic, he removes barriers.” ‘SANCTUARY STATE’: WALZ SIGNED LAW MAKING MINNESOTA DESTINATION FOR TRANSGENDER THERAPIES FOR KIDSWalz continued, adding that schools should “provide what we need to provide.””He does a great job of that, but I also think, you know, then he’s like ‘Whose business is that, like mind it yourself,’ now I have to put a quarter in the swear jar but mind it yourself, like, let’s just get on about the real important issues that we have to solve, not get caught up in people’s own personal business.””We see equity as getting people what they need to get to a specific place where we can have that conversation,” she added. Walz also discussed second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s advice and the support he has given her. ‘HE IMPREGNATED HIS KID’S NANNY’: PSAKI RIPPED AFTER CLAIMING EMHOFF ‘RESHAPED MASCULINITY’”He is such an amazing person and how he models support for his wife and empowers women and empowers me is really miraculous,” she said. “So he has, you know, had a good sense of humor about things.”Notably, Emhoff has faced allegations that he once slapped an ex-girlfriend “so hard she spun around” after she flirted with a valet and that he engaged in “inappropriate” and “misogynistic” office behavior at his Los Angeles law firm, according to the Daily Mail. Emhoff’s first marriage ended following his affair with their children’s nanny, whom he got pregnant, according to the Daily Mail. The nanny’s close friend told the outlet that she did not keep the baby, but did not elaborate further. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP



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Arizonans stuck in standstill traffic were recently entertained — and terrified — by a costumed driver who went rogue this weekend.Driver Ryan Blauvet posted the footage in a Facebook group for Prescott residents on Sunday. According to FOX 10 Phoenix, the dashcam video was filmed near Black Canyon City, which is located around 45 minutes north of downtown Phoenix.In his social media post, Blauvet said that the incident took place on Interstate 17. Drivers were stuck in standstill traffic for hours.The video shows a man in a Michael Myers-like mask holding a knife and creeping around the side of the road.CHILD DIES AT HALLOWEEN ATTRACTION DURING PRANK GONE WRONG: ‘HORRIFIC ACCIDENT’Dressed in black clothing and resembling the “Halloween” character, the man appeared to gawk at the cars’ windows and license plates.”This afternoon, traffic was parked on the 17 for 2+ hours,” Blauvet wrote on Facebook. “I saw Michael Myers running around and decided to blast the Halloween theme song.””He fell into character and made the wait more fun,” he added. Blauvet also shared a video of him fist-bumping the man. In his Facebook post, the Arizonan said that he didn’t catch the man’s name.MAN DIES IN FREAK ACCIDENT INVOLVING FROZEN HAMBURGERS: ‘DIFFICULT TO HEAR'”If anyone knows who this was feel free to forward to him or tag him,” he wrote.The video was met with amusement by local residents who enjoyed the video. The footage got over 1,000 likes in the local Facebook group.”The world needs more of this kind of light hearted fun right now. Thanks for sharing,” one Facebook user wrote.”That’s too cool!” another said.Fox News Digital reached out to Blauvet for comment, but did not immediately hear back.



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New York City is buying tickets for thousands of migrants to travel to Texas via bus or plane, from where many of them originally traveled to the sanctuary city in the first place, amid an ongoing battle between officials over how to handle the migrant crisis.New York City, which has been overwhelmed by more than 200,000 migrant arrivals since 2022, has been providing settlement options to migrants since that time. Last year, it opened a reticketing center to offer one-way plane tickets to migrants.Fox News confirms that 4,500 migrants have been sent to Texas using bus or plane tickets bought by the city. The figure was first reported by Bloomberg News.NYC PURSUING THOUSANDS OF HOTEL ROOMS TO HOUSE MIGRANTS AMID MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR COSTS: REPORT According to Mayor Eric Adams’ office, the top five destinations for migrants leaving the Big Apple are Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York State and Colorado.In total, they have issued more than 4,700 tickets and the majority, roughly 4,500, have gone to Texas. It was not clear how many of those migrants had come from buses sent to NYC from Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began bussing migrants to New York City and other sanctuary cities in 2022 in what he said was an effort to relieve pressure on the overwhelmed border communities. He chose sanctuary cities – cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement – because he said they encouraged the crisis.When asked how the program works, the mayor’s office said, “Whenever they have a desire where they want to go back to somewhere else, we buy their tickets. It is mostly planes, but we also buy bus tickets.”Abbott’s office slammed the handling of the crisis by the Biden administration and accused Adams of hypocrisy.NEW YORK CITY MIGRANT CRISIS COSTS EXPECTED TO EXCEED $5B IN 2-YEAR PERIOD – DOUBLE TO $10B BY 2025″Border Czar Kamala Harris and the federal government continues to refuse to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do their jobs to secure the border, allowing record-high levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and weapons to surge into our state and country,” spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris told Fox News in a statement.”Hypocritical Mayor Adams said busing migrants is ‘morally bankrupt,’ while Harris called transporting migrants ‘political theater’ and they’re doing the same thing themselves. Until Border Czar Harris steps up and does her job to secure the border, Texas will continue utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to the Biden-Harris border crisis,” he said.New York City has struggled with the influx of migrants, which has put a strain on social services and led to scenes of migrants lining up outside the Roosevelt Hotel.CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGESpending on the migrant crisis is expected to exceed $5 billion, and Adams has previously said costs could balloon to over $10 billion by the end of next fiscal year. Previous estimates had put that number even higher.At the peak of the crisis, the city was taking in an average of 4,000 migrants per week. But that dropped into the hundreds in recent months as the crisis at the border abated after a presidential proclamation from President Biden that limited asylum claims. Recently, the city announced it would be closing a massive tent shelter on Randall’s Island. Officials said the number of asylum seekers in shelters has dropped for 14 straight weeks and is now at the lowest point in over a year.”We’re not out of the woods yet, but make no mistake, thanks in large part to our smart management strategies and successful advocacy, we have turned the corner on this crisis,” Adams said in a statement this month. “We’re not scrambling every day to open new shelters. We’re talking about closing them. We’re not talking about how much we’re spending. We’re talking about how much we’ve saved.”



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