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Wisconsin will enshrine the state's voter ID law in the state constitution after voters approved the proposal on Tuesday.

The Associated Press called the vote at 9:48 p.m. EST.

Wisconsin already requires that voters have photo ID in order to participate at the polls, but the measure now elevates that law to a constitutional amendment. 

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President Donald Trump celebrated the law being added to the state constitution on Truth Social after the vote was called Tuesday night.

"VOTER I.D. JUST APPROVED IN WISCONSIN ELECTION. Democrats fought hard against this, presumably so they can CHEAT. This is a BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS, MAYBE THE BIGGEST WIN OF THE NIGHT. IT SHOULD ALLOW US TO WIN WISCONSIN, LIKE I JUST DID IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, FOR MANY YEARS TO COME!" the president wrote.

Nine states, including Wisconsin, require that voters present photo ID, though Wisconsin's requirements are the strictest, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. There are laws in 36 states requiring or requesting that voters show some sort of identification, the NCSL said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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PAWAUKEE, Wis. — The liberal-leaning candidate won a high-profile and historically expensive election in Wisconsin on Tuesday, protecting progressive majority control of the battleground state's Supreme Court, which is likely to rule on crucial issues like congressional redistricting, voting and labor rights, and abortion.

Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel, a former state attorney general who currently serves as a state circuit court judge in Waukesha County. Schimel, the conservative-aligned candidate in the race, was endorsed by President Donald Trump.

With a massive infusion of money from Democrat-aligned and Republican-aligned groups from outside Wisconsin, which turned the race into the most expensive judicial election in the nation's history, the contest partially transformed into a referendum on Trump's sweeping and controversial moves during the opening months of his second tour of duty in the White House.

Also front and center in the electoral showdown was someone who, along with Trump, was not on the ballot: billionaire Elon Musk, the president's top donor and White House adviser.

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"I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world, for justice in Wisconsin. And we won," Crawford said in her victory speech, in her home base of Madison, Wisconsin.

And pushing back against her critics, Crawford said "my promise to Wisconsin is clear. I will be a fair, impartial, and commonsense justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court."

Schimel conceded minutes after the Associated Press called the race, telling supporters in suburban Milwuakee that he had spoke to Crawford and that "the numbers aren't going to turn around and we're not going to pull this off."

"We'll get up to fight another day. But this wasn't our day," he added.

Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, who has taken a buzz saw to the federal government workforce as he steers Trump's recently created Department of Government Efficiency, dished out roughly $20 million in the Wisconsin race through aligned groups in support of Schimel.

And Musk, in a controversial move, handed out $1 million checks at a rally in Green Bay on Sunday evening to two Wisconsin voters who had already cast ballots in the contest and had signed a petition to stop "activist judges."

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Wisconsin's Democrat state attorney general sued to block the payments, but the state Supreme Court refused to weigh in.

Calling the election a "super big deal," Musk said it was critical to the Trump agenda.

"I think this will be important for the future of civilization," he said. "It’s that significant."

Musk wasn't the only mega-donor on the right playing in the Wisconsin showdown.

Shipping magnates Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, who are among the biggest conservative contributors in the nation, also provided millions in support of Schimel and the Wisconsin GOP.

"If you told me six months ago this was what was going to happen, I would not have believed it. But yeah … some parts of this are way beyond my control anymore," Schimel said in a Fox News Digital interview during a bus tour stop Monday just outside Green Bay.

Schimel, who launched his bid 16 months ago, added that "other people can treat this how they want. If they think they want to make it a referendum on the president or Elon Musk, so be it."

"This is a referendum on Wisconsin," he said. "Can we restore objectivity to the Wisconsin Supreme Court?"

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Schimel also leaned in to the endorsement from Trump. A TV ad running in the closing stretch of the race spotlighted that voting for Schimel would protect Trump's agenda. The candidate also wore a "Make America Great Again" hat at some campaign stops during the final weekend ahead of the election.

Schimel spotlighted his final blitz to reach out to voters.

"We are doing six to eight rallies every single day in cities across the state," he said. "People are turning out in huge numbers, and we’ve got other surrogates going out around the state where we’re not, doing the exact same thing. It’s absolutely about getting those voters out."

And Schimel also got a boost from the conservative powerhouse organization Americans for Prosperity. The group said its grassroots army has connected with nearly 600,000 voters in Wisconsin since last November's election.

Trump, who narrowly carried Wisconsin in both of his White House victories, said the state is important because its Supreme Court can settle disputes over election outcomes.

"Wisconsin’s a big state politically, and the Supreme Court has a lot to do with elections in Wisconsin," the president said Monday at the White House. "Winning Wisconsin’s a big deal, so, therefore, the Supreme Court choice … it’s a big race." 

Schimel's camp and other conservatives repeatedly argued that a continuation of the liberal majority on Wisconsin's high court could lead to unfavorable congressional redistricting in the state, which could spell doom for two Republican lawmakers: Reps. Derrick Van Orden and Bryan Steil, chair of the House Administration Committee.

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Asked about the conservatives shining a spotlight on potential congressional redistricting, Crawford told reporters on Monday that "it's just not appropriate for me as a judge to express a view on that, especially on an issue that someday could come before the Wisconsin Supreme Court again. That's why I don't speak to the issue."

Tuesday's election was the first statewide contest held since Trump returned to the White House, and it was an opportunity for plenty of voters to vent against the president and his policies.

Crawford enjoyed a surge in fundraising, thanks in part to an energized base eager to resist Trump and Republicans.

"People are really motivated and want to make sure that we protect the Wisconsin Supreme Court," Crawford said in a Fox News Digital interview after a rally in Madison on the eve of the election.

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Crawford argued that voters "don’t want to see some outsider, some billionaire, come in and try to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is what Elon Musk is trying to do."

At her rally, Crawford said "this election is going to determine all of our fundamental rights and freedoms."

But Crawford also benefited from outside money, with roughly $2 million infused into the race by left-leaning financier George Soros, long a boogeyman of the right. Billionaire progressive Gov. JB Pritzker of neighboring Illinois has also spent big bucks in the race to support Crawford.

"I have gotten some generous contributions, and we’ve raised a lot of money in this race," she told Fox News. "But just to put that in perspective, in the last two months, Elon Musk has spent more than we have raised over the 10 months of this entire campaign, so his spending dwarfs that of any individual in any state supreme court ever and certainly one in Wisconsin."

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Crawford and Schimel were battling to succeed liberal-leaning justice Ann Walsh Bradley, who has served on Wisconsin's highest court for nearly three decades. Liberal-aligned justices held a 4-3 majority on the state Supreme Court heading into Tuesday's election.

The showdown drew some top surrogates to Wisconsin, including progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and MAGA star Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son.

The Democratic National Committee, in a statement following Crawford's victory, took aim at Musk.

"Make no mistake: Americans don’t want Elon Musk running their federal government and they don’t want him buying their local elections," the DNC argued.

 

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Elon Musk visited Central Intelligence Agency headquarters on Tuesday to discuss his government efficiency program. 

The visit was the first for Musk since the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is charged with rooting out wasteful federal spending and shrinking the government. 

CIA Director John Ratcliffe who invited Musk, posted a photo of him and the tech billionaire at the spy agency headquarters. 

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"Had a great visit and meeting with @ElonMusk to discuss his ideas and progress so far in making our government more efficient!" Radcliffe wrote. "I look forward to working with Elon and his team to ensure that CIA remains the premier intelligence Agency in the world."

Fox News Digital has reached out to the CIA. 

In the first months of the Trump administration, Musk and DOGE have attempted to slash government spending, including offering buyouts to and laying off workers en masse.

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Musk met with NSA chief Gen. Timothy Haugh last week to discuss the Trump administration's priorities, Politico reported. 

Earlier this month, the CIA fired some probationary employees and recent hires, according to the New York Times.

However, on Monday a federal judge in Virginia blocked the Trump administration’s move to fire more than a dozen intelligence agency employees who worked on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

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Filmmaker Oliver Stone urged legislators in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and reassess everything from the crime scene to the courtroom, including the rifle and bullets used, fingerprints and the autopsy.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order since returning to the Oval Office in January to release the long-concealed materials about the assassination of Kennedy and records on the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The 80,000 pages of JFK files were released March 18, giving experts and conspiracy theorists a trove of material to prove or disprove how Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963.

In his opening statements Tuesday, Stone, whose 1991 film "JFK" examined the investigation into Kennedy's assassination, raised an issue with the CIA's handling of files he requested to see regarding the assassination.

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"Although mandated by law from the Central Intelligence Agency, which operated and still operates as a taxpayer-funded intelligence agency that arrogantly considered itself outside our laws," Stone said, "they say things like, ‘We will get back to you on that,’ and they never do.

"Nothing of importance has been revealed by the CIA in all these years," he continued, adding other records show illegal criminal activities in every facet of U.S. foreign policy in nearly every country on Earth. "Just to begin, Cuba, Vietnam, Indonesia, Egypt, South America, the Middle East. We could write a whole separate history of our country from the viewpoint of the countries, yet we do not know and are not allowed to know anything about the CIA's true history of the United States, which is almost, I believe, the real story."

He then called for the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to reopen the investigation into Kennedy’s assassination, picking up what the Warren Commission failed to do.

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The Warren Commission, after an investigation, found no evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald or Oswald's assassin, Jack Ruby, were part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign, to kill the president. It said at the time that one bullet that struck Kennedy passed through him and struck Texas Gov. John Connally, hitting his back, thigh, chest and wrist.

Critics of the commission’s findings call it the "magic bullet theory."

"I ask the committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete," Stone said. "I ask you in good faith, outside all political considerations, to reinvestigate the assassination of this President Kennedy, from the scene of the crime to the courtroom … which never happened, but which means the chain of custody on the rifle, the bullets, the fingerprints, the autopsy that defies belief, and that if it were a murder, we'd have given to the poorest man dying in a gutter. 

"Let us reinvestigate the fingerprints of intelligence all over Lee Harvey Oswald, from 1959 to 1960 – his violent death in 1963 — and, most importantly, this CIA, whose muddy footprints are all over this case, a true interrogation."

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Stone spoke about Deputy CIA Director James Angleton, who, before he died, talked about Allen Dulles, Richard Helms and others he referred to as the "Grand Masters."

"He did say, ‘If you were in a room with them, you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell. I guess I will see them soon,’" Stone said. "This is our democracy. This is our presidency. It belongs to us. Treat us with respect."

Stone said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter in January that Trump deserved "praise" for the order to release the JFK assassination files.

Despite pleas to open the investigation, the FBI notes on its website that after conducting some 25,000 interviews and running down tens of thousands of investigative leads, "the FBI found that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone."

Oswald was killed shortly after the Kennedy assassination.

Fox News Digital’s Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.

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The City of Milwaukee is running out of ballots due to "historic turnout" on Tuesday night, as Badger State residents stand in line at polling places to decide whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court will lean conservative or liberal.

FOX 6 Milwaukee reporter Jason Calvi reported the developments on Tuesday night. At least seven polling sites have run out of ballots, per the Milwaukee Elections Commission. 

The sites are expecting more ballots soon, though the polls closed at 8 p.m. Milwaukee officials also noted that Wisconsin residents in line by 8 p.m. are still eligible to vote.

"We are working diligently to replenish ballots," the Milwaukee Elections Commission wrote on Facebook.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court currently has a 4-3 liberal majority. 

The court race has attracted attention across the country, as both Democrat and Republican-aligned groups from outside Wisconsin have dedicated money and resources to swaying the race. It's been interpreted as a referendum on President Donald Trump's second administration so far. 

Notably, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hosted an America PAC town hall in Green Bay on Sunday night, where he handed two $1 million dollar checks to two voters who signed a petition against "activist judges."

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul unsuccessfully asked for an emergency injunction to stop Musk from handing out the checks, but the state's highest court declined to hear Kaul's arguments. 

"The reason for the checks is that, it's really just to get attention," Musk said while holding a gigantic check. "It's like, we need to get attention… somewhat inevitably, when I do this… it causes the legacy media to, like, kind of lose their minds."

Musk's attorneys maintained that the payments are "intended to generate a grassroots movement in opposition to activist judges, not to expressly advocate for or against any candidate."

Fox News Digital's Sophia Compton and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

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Republican Jimmy Patronis, the former Florida chief financial officer under Gov. Ron DeSantis, fended off his Democrat opponent and successfully won the race to succeed former Rep. Matt Gaetz in Florida's special election on Tuesday. 

President Donald Trump notably carried the district - which is located in the far northwestern corner of Florida, in the Panhandle region - by 37 points in the 2024 election. 

The 1st Congressional District special election, in addition to the one in the 6th District to replace U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, were viewed by some as early referendums for Trump's second term. 

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Trump, who held a tele-town hall for Patronis late last week, voiced his support for the candidate on Tuesday morning, urging people to vote. 

"Jimmy Patronis, Chief Financial Officer and Fire Marshall for the Great State of Florida, is running an incredible Campaign for Congress in Florida’s 1st Congressional District!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

And minutes after the AP projected that the GOP would retain the seat, the president took to social media again to tout "Jimmy Patronis WINS BIG! Congratulations Jimmy. DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT!"

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The Republicans had an advantage in Patronis' race, but Valimont managed to significantly outraise her opponent, which flashed some warning signs. 

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Her fundraising topped the Republican's by a nearly five-to-one margin.

Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives last year after Trump revealed his plan to nominate him to be attorney general. However, it became clear that the controversial House Republican had an uphill battle to get support from GOP senators. 

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Just days after Trump's announcement, and after a number of meetings in the Senate, Gaetz officially withdrew from consideration. 

Pam Bondi was then nominated by Trump for the role and ultimately confirmed as attorney general.

With votes still being counted on Tuesday evening, Patronis defeated Valimont by a roughly 15-point margin.

And Democrats highlighted that their candidate overperformed.

"Democrat Gay Valimont Massively Overperforms in Florida’s 1st Congressional District As Warning Signs Flash Blinking Red for Republicans," the Democratic National Committee (DNC) argued in an email to supporters.

And DNC chair Ken Martin praised Valimont, emphasizing that "her massive overperformance in a Trump +37 district is the best performance for Democrats in the district this century."

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Trump-endorsed Republican state Sen. Randy Fine emerged victorious in one-of-two special elections in the Sunshine State on Tuesday night.

Fine will be taking over former Congressman Mike Waltz's seat in Florida's 6th Congressional District, after Waltz vacated the seat to become President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor. Fine outlasted Democrat Josh Weil, a public school employee and political newcomer who raised nearly 10 times more than Fine.

Florida's sixth district, located on the Sunshine State's Atlantic coast from Daytona Beach to just south of Saint Augustine and inland to the outskirts of Ocala, was carried overwhelmingly by former GOP congressman Waltz in 2024. President Trump also won the 6th Congressional District in 2024 by a significant margin – 30 points.

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The Republican's victory came in the closest election for Florida's sixth district since 2018, when former Congressman Waltz beat out his Democrat opponent by13 points. Each subsequent election, Waltz won at least 60% of the vote.

Tuesday's unusually close race, widely seen as a referendum on President Trump's first few months in office, carries implications for the broader battle for power in Congress.   

There were fears that a loss in both, or either, of Florida's Tuesday special elections would deal a significant blow to the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, which has dwindled since Trump plucked numerous Republican House members, such as Waltz, to join his cabinet.

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Amid these concerns, GOP New York Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be Trump's Ambassador to the United Nations was pulled.

Weil's ability to drum up a campaign war chest worth nearly $10 million, dwarfed Fine's which held a little under $1 million. However, in the final week before Tuesday's election, outside Republican-aligned groups doled out around $1 million for advertising in an attempt to help boost Fine.

Tuesday's victory notches one more seat in the House for Republicans, expanding their slim five-vote majority by one more.

Following Tuesday's victory President Trump took to social media to congratulate Fine and Fine thanked the President for his support.

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The National Security Council (NSC) has clarified reporting about National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and his staffers using personal Gmail accounts for government communications.

A report published by the Washington Post on Tuesday claimed that one of Waltz's senior aides used Gmail "for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict," according to the piece.

"While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show," the Post reported.

The piece comes a week after Waltz took responsibility for one of his staffers accidentally adding The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a sensitive Signal chat with other officials, including Vice President JD Vance.

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NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes told Fox News on Tuesday that the Post report was an attempt "to distract the American people from President Trump’s successful national security agenda that’s protecting our nation."

"Let me reiterate, NSA Waltz received emails and calendar invites from legacy contacts on his personal email and cc’d government accounts for anything since January 20th to ensure compliance with records retention, and he has never sent classified material over his personal email account or any unsecured platform," Hughes said.

Hughes said that he could not verify the Post's report about the senior NSC official because the journalist "refused to share any part of the document reported."

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"Any correspondence containing classified material must only be sent through secure channels and all NSC staff are informed of this," the official said. "It is also made clear to NSC personnel that any non-government correspondence must be captured and retained for record compliance."

Speaking to a room full of reporters last week, President Donald Trump said he believes Waltz is "doing his best," and did not fault him for the Signal leak.

"I don't think he should apologize," the president said. "I think he's doing his best. It's equipment and technology that's not perfect."

"And, probably, he won't be using it again, at least not in the very near future," Trump continued.

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The House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) is demanding that the United Nations not reappoint Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., who chairs the committee, is leading the charge to oppose Albanese.

In a letter to U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) President Jürg Lauber, the committee accuses Albanese of failing to uphold the council’s code of conduct. They also condemn Albanese for comments she made about Israel in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.

"Albanese unapologetically uses her position as a UN Special Rapporteur to purvey and attempt to legitimize antisemitic tropes, while serving as a Hamas apologist," the committee wrote in its letter. "In her malicious fixation, she has even called for Israel to be removed from the United Nations while likening Israel to apartheid South Africa."

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The committee not only criticized Albanese but also slammed the UNHRC, saying its leaders "allowed antisemitism and anti-Americanism to thrive within, with a seeming unwillingness to hold the most egregious violators of human rights to account."

"Francesca Albanese is an unabashed anti-Israel activist who has consistently done the bidding of Hamas terrorists responsible for the heinous October 7th attacks. Her appointment is a disgrace to the U.N. It’s time for the U.N. to claw back the integrity and accountability it has surrendered," Mast told Fox News Digital.

U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer lauded the "much needed" action from Congress. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Neuer said that Albanese’s reappointment would be "unlawful" and called for "consequences" from the U.S. if she visits the country.

"Francesca Albanese openly supports Hamas, spreads antisemitic tropes, and tramples the U.N.’s own Code of Conduct. Under the U.N.’s own rules, the president of the Human Rights Council is now duty-bound to convey to the plenary this and other substantial objections that have been submitted, and for the delegates to formally consider Albanese’s many violations. And yet every indication is that the 47-member body — with the EU’s complicity — is instead barreling ahead with Albanese’s reappointment," Neuer said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Albanese, who was appointed special rapporteur in 2022, has been condemned by the governments of multiple countries and faced accusations of antisemitism. Her response to French President Emmanuel Macron calling the Oct. 7 attacks "the largest antisemitic massacre of our century" sparked backlash from France, the U.S. and Germany.

The U.S. slammed Albanese for her "history of using antisemitic tropes," and said her comments were "justifying, dismissing [and] denying the antisemitic undertones of Hamas' October 7 attack are unacceptable [and] antisemitic."

The French Mission to the U.N. condemned Albanese’s response in a post on X. According to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) translation, the post read: "The October 7 massacre is the largest antisemitic massacre of the 21st century. To deny it is wrong. To seem to justify it, by bringing in the name of the United Nations, is a shame." This was just a few months after the mission condemned her "hate speech and antisemitism."

Germany retweeted France's statement and said, "To justify the horrific terror attacks of 7/10 & deny their antisemitic nature is appalling. Making such statements in a UN capacity is a disgrace and goes against everything the United Nations stands for."

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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Lee Zeldin, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Tuesday said she plans to visit the California-Mexico border to address issues pertaining to the "disgusting Mexican sewage" flowing into the United States. 

Zeldin will assess the toxic waste and sewage runoff from the Tijuana River, which has resulted in beach closures in San Diego County.

'I’ll be visiting the California-Mexico border in the coming weeks where disgusting Mexican sewage is harming our precious environment in the United States," Zeldin wrote on X. "Permanent solutions must be urgently implemented by Mexico to end decades of their filthy sewage flowing into the U.S. 

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Fox News Digital has reached out to the EPA. 

The issue of untreated sewage flowing from Tijuana, Mexico, into San Diego's beaches was exacerbated earlier this year, when, in January, the Hollister Wastewater Pump Station, which transfers sewage from Tijuana to the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, malfunctioned and spilled approximately 30,000 gallons of sewage into the river.

San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, who has raised the issue in the past, said he looks forward to Zeldin's visit. 

In an X post last month, Desmond called it "one of the biggest environmental and public health crises."

"This isn’t just a nuisance — it’s a danger. Our Navy SEALs train just north of this toxic mess," Desmond wrote. "Local families are exposed to contaminated water. Tourism suffers. And, yet, the State of California continues to look the other way. Many politicians have made promises — but delivered nothing. That ends now."

He said Mexico has failed to fix the problem and the U.S. has failed to hold the Mexican government accountable. 

In 2018, a broken sewage pipe in Mexico resulted in millions of gallons of sewage spilling into the Tijuana River, and eventually, the Pacific Ocean. Around 12 miles of beach from the border northward had to be closed at the time. 

Fox News Digital's Jamie Joseph contributed to this report. 

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Republicans also got key reinforcements for their slim House majority at an important moment. And Democrats made gains compared to 2024 in each key race.

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Republican Jimmy Patronis thanked supporters after winning the Florida District 1 House race to replace former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

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Susan Crawford, a Dane County circuit judge who was backed by Democrats in a heated race, thanked her supporters after her projected with in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

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Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington

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As the United States prepares to welcome the world for FIFA’s Club World Cup this June, golf’s Ryder Cup in September, the World Cup next year and the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, the question becomes: Will the world want to come

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Florida state Sen. Randy Fine and chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis are looking to win their congressional special elections

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U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams has stepped down as chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia

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Georgia U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath says she’s suspending her exploratory 2026 bid for governor, casting uncertainty on the Democratic field

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Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are not immediately obvious but could be critical to Tuesday’s outcome

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The Democratic base is angry

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Democrat-backed Susan Crawford won the closely-watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history.

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Republican Randy Fine won the House seat formerly held by Mike Waltz, while Republican Jimmy Patronis won the house seat vacated by Matt Gaetz.

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Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey began speaking around 7 p.m. on Monday to protest Trump policies and didn't stop till after 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

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Experts estimate far lower figures in tariffs revenue, warning that President Trump's tariffs could drive up prices for American consumers.

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Employees of the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began getting dismissal notices in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people​.

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Top ICE official calls removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on deportation flight that sent him to a supermax prison in El Salvador an "administrative error."

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After his 21-hour speech in 2013, Cruz said the most common question he was asked was about going to the bathroom.

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Top federal health leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were effectively ousted Tuesday from their posts.

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It is unclear what will happen to hundreds of pending requests for public information as the health agencies slash staff.

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Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff intends to put an indefinite hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C.

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Conservatives were unable to topple the 4-3 liberal majority in the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history.

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Republicans are hoping to add two seats back to their narrow House majority with special elections in deep-red Florida districts that have become hotly contested

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The New Jersey Democrat spoke in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. Booker’s speech was not delaying the Senate from a vote, so it was not a filibuster.

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A rundown of Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promises and where they stand.

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It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.

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Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

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President Donald Trump has punished multiple law firms that have employed his perceived political opponents.

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Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.

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T. Elliot Gaiser will be nominated to lead the influential Office of Legal Counsel, a department official said.

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A new survey found that 11 percent of Americans said they could not pay for medication and medical treatments.

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Energized against the new Trump era, and against Elon Musk, Democrats pulled off a crucial judicial victory in Wisconsin and cut into Republican margins in two Florida congressional races.

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The pause is limited to certain states while the case proceeds, narrowing the scope of an earlier order that had paused firings nationwide and led to the reinstatement of thousands of federal employees.

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Another round of “deferred resignation” offers is part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up effort to rapidly downsize the government.

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A university senate review concludes that some demonstrators who occupied Hamilton Hall were willing to leave voluntarily.

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Former federal employees went to a Capitol Hill basement to find the lawmakers. Democratic senators said that they would keep fighting as hard as they could. Most Republicans ignored the workers.

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The order comes as President Trump expands deportation efforts, including of students who have spoken out in support of Palestinians during Israel’s war in Gaza.

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The Republicans who were elected on Tuesday to fill seats left empty by Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz had President Trump’s backing.

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“The defendants have had ample notice that these deadlines would be scheduled and have already had months to complete the work,” Smith wrote.

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Customer service, enforcement both seeing revamps with money from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act.

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"Does Fox have an entrance exam to make sure you're stupid enough to host 8pm?" asked MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell in response.

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The sharp rise in security fears has raised further questions about the viability of the two-decade American military presence in Iraq.

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Stephanie Grisham also recalled a telling telephone call the former president made about his wife.

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The former president was called out on social media for a brazen new boast.

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It's "kind of going to be the whole ball game," said Elie Mystal.

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The Good Liars offered some blunt readings from a bible that could only come from the former president.

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The Maryland Democrat knocked the former president's "people" for attempting to "trivialize and diminish" the meaning of the upcoming trial.

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George Stephanopoulos pressed the New Hampshire governor, once a staunch Trump critic, about his past comments on the former president.

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President Donald Trump lauded the passage of an amendment in Wisconsin on Tuesday that will enshrine voter ID into the state constitution.

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Democrat-aligned Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford secured a victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday against Trump-backed Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge and former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, the Associated Press projected.

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A health care insurance executive is suing 'Last Week Tonight' host John Oliver for defamation over his comments about health care standards.

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) responded to the Trump administration’s threat to pull $9 billion in federal funding from Harvard over its handling of antisemitism by stating that “authoritarianism is not the answer to

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On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) lengthy floor speech. Marlow began by noting that the speech isn’t to impact any legislation that’s up before the Senate, it’s just a “Spartacus

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On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the trans athletes debate. Marlow stated, “You’ve got to take stuff to the logical conclusion, where do things go? … I feel like one college is going to

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Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R-FL) is projected to win the special election for Florida’s 6th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ.

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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) mistakenly confused Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone with former Trump adviser Roger Stone.

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) canceled the week's remaining votes Tuesday after a rare procedural vote defeat.

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During a hearing of the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) pointed out that files pertaining to former President John F. Kennedy's assassination "show no evidence of a CIA conspiracy," and said they should be focusing on Signal-Gate.

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