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A mom in Georgia is facing possible jail time after her 10-year-old son was found walking alone to town, less than a mile from the family’s home.Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested on suspicion of reckless conduct on Oct. 30 over her son’s unsupervised walk, according to the Fannin County Sheriff’s Office.Patterson had taken another son to a doctor’s appointment when she left her son Soren, now 11, alone at their home in the rural town of Mineral Bluff, NBC News reported. After someone reported Soren’s wandering, deputies located him and drove him home.”It’s not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road,” Patterson told the outlet. “I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his safety.”SUSAN SMITH PROSECUTOR SAYS SHE WAS MEANT TO SERVE LIFE IN PRISON AS KILLER MOM GETS PAROLE HEARINGStill, deputies returned to the home later and placed Patterson under arrest.In bodycam footage obtained by ABC News, deputies could be heard telling Patterson she is under arrest for reckless endangerment. “And how was I recklessly endangering my child?” Patterson asked. Another deputy responded, “We’re not talking about it,” before handcuffing the mom.MINNESOTA SON, 31, ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS FATHER ‘EXECUTION STYLE’ WHILE MAKING RELATIVES WATCH: POLICEPatterson and her lawyer said that authorities offered to drop the charge if she signed a safety plan that included using a GPS tracker on her son’s phone. The mom said she is refusing to sign the plan and will fight the charge.”I just felt like I couldn’t sign that and that in doing so, would be agreeing that there was something unsafe about my home or something unsafe about my parental decisions and I just don’t believe that,” the mom told ABC News.Patterson was released on $500 bail and could face up to a year in jail under the charge.



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The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, issued a warning after receiving “specific information of a potential significant air attack” allegedly taking place on Wednesday.The embassy in Ukraine’s capital is temporarily closed following the alert and employees are being asked to prepare to shelter in place.”The U.S. Embassy recommends U.S. citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announced,” the statement said.PUTIN SIGNS REVISED DOCTRINE LOWERING THRESHOLD FOR NUCLEAR RESPONSE IF RUSSIA IS ATTACKEDEmployees have been asked to take the following actions:This comes after Ukraine fired American-supplied long-range missiles into Russia on Tuesday, marking the first time for Kyiv to do so in the 1,000 days of war, which was authorized by President Biden on Sunday.BIDEN AUTHORIZES UKRAINE TO USE US LONG-RANGE MISSILES TO STRIKE INSIDE RUSSIAThis was not the first time the embassy has issued a warning of potential danger and a significant attack. A similar warning was issued around Ukraine’s Independence Day on Aug. 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine on Tuesday, warning that any attack on Russia supported by a country with nuclear power could be grounds for a nuclear response.Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.



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Republicans hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives, though the size of that narrow margin will not be known until the final five undecided races are called.The five House races that remain uncalled as of Wednesday morning are in Alaska, California, Iowa and Ohio. The balance of power currently sits at 218 seats for Republicans, and 212 for the Democrats.Democratic incumbent Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola is in a tight race in Alaska’s at-large congressional district, where she is trailing Republican entrepreneur Nick Begich.As of Wednesday morning, Begich holds just over a 2-point lead at 48.6% of the vote compared to Peltola’s 46.2%. The vote count sits at 157,331 to 149,763 with 99% of the vote counted.WHAT TRUMP’S TRIFECTA IN HIS FIRST ADMINISTRATION ACCOMPLISHED, AND WHERE THEY FAILED: FLASHBACKRepublican Rep. John Duarte is leading former Democratic state assembly member Adam Gray in California’s 13th Congressional District, but the highly contested race remains uncalled as of Wednesday morning.Roughly 96% of the vote has been counted, and Duarte holds a slim 50.1% to 49.9% lead. The two candidates are separated by just 227 votes.Democratic challenger Derek Tran has taken the lead over Republican incumbent Rep. Michelle Steel in the 45th District. Steel had been in the lead by a few hundred votes late last week, but Tran now has a razor-thin 314-vote lead.Roughly 97% of the vote has been counted for the district.Republican incumbent Rep. Mariannet Miller-Meeks holds a less than 1% lead over challenger Christina Bohannan with 99% of the vote counted. Miller-Meeks’ lead sits at just over 800 votes.DEMOCRATS PRIVATELY GRIPE ABOUT PELOSI’S ‘DAMAGING’ POST-ELECTION COMMENTS: ‘SHE NEEDS TO TAKE A SEAT’Bohannan has requested a recount in her bid to unseat Miller-Meeks. The Associated Press has not yet called the race because the margin was close enough that it could prompt a recount. Miller-Meeks has declared victory and said she was confident in her lead.Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur leads her Republican challenger, Derek Merrin, by less than half a point with 99% of the votes counted. Kaptur’s lead sits at just 833 votes with 99% of the vote counted as of Wednesday morning.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPRaces with a margin of 0.5% or less trigger an automatic recount in Ohio.Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom, Chris Pandolfo and Jasmine Baehr and the Associated Press contributed to this report.



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Imprisoned attorney Michael Avenatti made headlines earlier this year when the one-time fierce foe of Donald Trump expressed sympathy for the former president amid his myriad criminal charges, with observers guessing he was fishing for a pardon should Trump return to the White House.Yet now that Trump is president-elect, Avenatti told Fox News Digital from his California prison that he’d be a “fool” to count on that.”If the president was so inclined, he could show some empathy and reduce my sentence or commute some of the charges,” Avenatti said in a phone interview. “I’m not holding out for that. He’s got a lot of other things on his mind right now. Perhaps someday, he may show some empathy towards me, or he may not. But I think I would be a fool to count on that at this point. And, for that reason, I’m just trying to do what I need to do and stay close to my family and my faith at this point.”A liberal media star in 2018, Avenatti rose to fame with his aggressive representation of Stormy Daniels as they sought to reverse a non-disclosure agreement she signed about an alleged affair in 2006 with Trump, which he has denied. Daniels was at the center of Trump’s conviction in New York earlier this year of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to her during the 2016 campaign.MICHAEL AVENATTI SAYS NY V. TRUMP CASE IS ‘GROSSLY UNFAIR’: ‘SERIAL KILLERS’ AREN’T PROSECUTED LIKE THISCalled an “existential threat to the Trump presidency” by Stephen Colbert, Avenatti was a constant television presence in 2018, doing hundreds of interviews on CNN and MSNBC and popping up on Bill Maher, “The View,” the cover of Vogue and more.But just as quickly as he rose, his life of crime was exposed, including stealing from clients, theft of Daniels’ book proceeds, and attempting to extort millions from Nike. Now an inmate at minimum-security Terminal Island federal prison in California, the 53-year-old says he’s trying to fix his life, and he now speaks of Trump in almost reverential tones.”The president is a force of nature… He’s likely the most effective communicator in modern times, certainly one of the most effective presidential communicators the nation’s ever known,” he said. “He’s a fighter. I don’t know of any other person that could have withstood what he has withstood over the last eight years at this point and still come out on top.”As a fellow multiple-indictee, Avenatti said he knew about the stress it puts on a person and his family.”As a guy that’s been there, I don’t know how he did it, but it’s impressive as hell,” he said.’MORNING JOE’ CO-HOSTS HOLD FACE-TO-FACE MEETING WITH TRUMP FOR FIRST TIME IN SEVEN YEARSSuch was his fame that Avenatti was floated as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 cycle – MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace memorably praised a speech he planned to give in Iowa in 2018 – but now he says the party is in such bad shape and out of step that he aligns more with Republicans. He called Trump’s decisive win over Vice President Kamala Harris predictable.”I’m a member of the Democratic Party presently, but that may change as soon as I get out of prison,” he told Fox News Digital. “I may become a Republican because the Democratic Party today is not the Democratic Party that I’ve known over the last 30 or 40 years. I’m a Bill Clinton Democrat and if Bill Clinton ran for the presidency today, he couldn’t run as a Democrat. The Republican Party has become the party of the working class, and there are very few issues that I identify with the Democratic Party on now.”Avenatti added that Democrats were rudderless and had a branding problem, and the former “Resistance” leader said such a movement was unlikely to effectively form in a second Trump term. It’s unlikely Democrats are concerned with his assessment, given the suspended lawyer’s badly damaged reputation. “I think the Democrats better start thinking about how they’re going to potentially find some common ground with him to move forward,” he said. “But this whole idea of we’re going to reconstitute the Resistance, and we’re going to make Trump the devil day in and day out, and we’re going to engage in Trump Derangement Syndrome, those days have passed. It went nowhere before, and it’s going to go nowhere in the months to come.”MICHAEL AVENATTI SAYS MANY MEDIA MEMBERS WILL DUMP YOU WHEN YOU NO LONGER SERVE THEIR NARRATIVEThe disgraced attorney scored a legal victory last month when a federal appeals panel vacated his 14-year sentence for stealing millions from his clients in California. The panel found the sentence was based on calculations of greater financial losses than were actually suffered and referred back to a judge for resentencing, according to the Associated Press. Avenatti said he believed he’d find out his revised sentence in the next four to five months and was hopeful the time would be “significantly less.”That 14-year sentence was in addition to five years he was serving for separate convictions in New York on the Nike and Daniels cases. The appeals panel discussed in October whether the California sentence should run concurrently with the time Avenatti is serving on the other charges.Fox News Digital reached out to a Trump spokesman for comment.



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MARCO ISLAND, FL – EXCLUSIVE – After some high-profile battles with President Biden’s administration the past three years, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin says that President-elect Trump’s decisive election victory earlier this month means he now has “a friend in the White House.”Youngkin, the popular Virginia governor who’s entering his final year in office, argued in an exclusive Fox News Digital interview that “as a governor who’s been driving pro-business and strong education and safe communities and lower tax rates, we now have someone in the White House who believes in all of that.””I look forward to us having the wind at our backs as opposed to in our face,” Youngkin said as he spoke Tuesday on the sidelines of the Republican Governors Association annual winter meeting, which is being held this year at a southwestern Florida waterfront resort.And pointing to his final year steering Virginia, Youngkin said “I can’t wait to see what we’re going to do having the wind at our back from the Trump administration.”HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING ON THE TRUMP TRANSITIONThere was plenty of speculation regarding Youngkin potentially serving in a top position in the second Trump administration, but the governor in a recent call with the president-elect made it clear he intends to finish out his term.But he doesn’t sound like he’s ruling out serving in the Trump administration after he finishes up in Richmond in a year.”I told the president when I called him and told him that I wanted to finish my term, that I would be available to help him at any time while I’m governor and afterwards,” Youngkin said.TRUMP FAR AHEAD OF HIS FIRST TERM PACE IN NAMING HIS CABINETYoungkin energized Republicans nationwide three years ago, as the first-time candidate who hailed from the party’s business wing edged out former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe to become the first GOP candidate in a dozen years to win a gubernatorial election in the one-time swing state that had trended towards the Democrats over the previous decade.The governor instantly became a Republican rock star and speculation stirred about a possible 2024 White House run.But Youngkin and his party suffered a setback a year ago in legislative elections that grabbed outsized national attention, as Democrats retained control of the Virginia state Senate and flipped the House of Delegates.While Youngkin wasn’t on the ballot, he had plenty riding on the results, after investing plenty of political capital on behalf of Republican legislative candidates. The results also meant Youngkin wouldn’t have a free hand during his final two years in office to push through a conservative agenda.Youngkin returned to the campaign trail this year in Virginia and a couple of key battleground states, to help campaign on behalf of Republicans up and down the ballot.And he spoke at a large rally Trump held in conservative southwest Virginia the weekend before Election Day. While Vice President Kamala Harris carried the Commonwealth in the White House race, her margin over Trump was 4.5 points narrower than President Biden’s victory in the state four years earlier, as Trump and Republicans over performed expectations.The results appear to have given Youngkin more clout ahead of his final legislative session. Democrats who over the past year were united in opposition to the governor’s proposed tax cuts, may now be receptive to negotiating.Asked if the Democrats are now ready to play ball, Youngkin said “I’m hoping they are. I think that the recognition that Virginians want to keep more of their hard-earned money has really engaged everyone in a dialogue on how to provide tax relief.”He argued the election results “demonstrated record job growth which has created surplus after surplus after surplus is driven by pro-business standards.”And he emphasized that “we’re going to come back with a big tax package again, and we’re going to make sure we’re standing strong for education and strong for public safety.””I’m optimistic,” he added, but acknowledged that “it will be a normal legislative process. We have a legislative – we’re a one seat minority in the House and the Senate – so we have to go to work to get things done.”All political eyes will be on Virginia in 2025, as the Commonwealth and New Jersey are the only two states to hold gubernatorial elections in the year after a presidential election.But Virginia governors, by law, are prevented from running for re-election to a second straight term.That doesn’t mean Youngkin will disappear from the campaign trail in 2025. He says it’s just the opposite.VIRGINIA’S YOUNGKIN ENDORSES HIS LT. GOVERNOR TO SUCCEED HIM”You’re going to see me a lot,” he touted. “We’ve got a very aggressive agenda for being governor in the last 14 months. But part of that agenda that I have is to make sure that we have [Lt. Gov.] Winsome Sears as our next governor. [Virginia Attorney General] Jason Miyares back as our attorney general and a super lieutenant governor who we will pick at our primaries.”Youngkin predicted that “Virginians are going to make clear that they want to keep doing more of what we’re doing that’s proving record job growth and opportunity and great outcomes in schools and safe communities.”The 2025 Virginia gubernatorial showdown is shaping up as a contest between Sears and Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer. The winner will make history as the state’s first ever female governor. And Sears, if she wins, will also make history as the nation’s first Black female elected governor.Youngkin pushed back when asked if Sears, who served in the Marine Corps and made history as the first woman in Virginia to hold statewide office, is too conservative for voters. “Not at all,” the governor quickly responded. “And Winsome is a commonsense conservative leader. We have been partners literally from day one. We campaigned together. We were elected together. We have governed together. And I look forward to seeing Virginians embrace her as the next governor of Virginia.”As for his own political future, Youngkin was less revealing about any future runs for elective office.Asked about a possible but unlikely run for the Senate in 2026 against longtime Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Waner, or a future White House campaign, Youngkin quickly pivoted to his day job as governor.”I have a huge year and a few months ahead of me and that’s where my focus is, and I need to finish strong, so Virginia can really continue to soar. And that’s what I’m going to spend my time on.”After that, he said “we’ll see what’s next.”Facing a follow-up question, Youngkin stayed on script, saying “we’ll see what happens down the road, but right now my sights are set on finishing strong.”



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