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Georgia man who ran toward Capitol with shotgun pleads guilty

July 27, 2026 / 5:54 PM EDT / CBS/AP

A Georgia man who charged at the U.S. Capitol armed with a loaded shotgun and wearing body armor and camouflage clothing pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally carrying a firearm, court records show.

Carter Camacho, 18, of Smyrna, Georgia, told police officers who apprehended him outside the Capitol on Feb. 17 that he intended to confront members of Congress and “scare them into speaking the truth,” according to federal prosecutors. But he didn’t make it into the building, and nobody was injured.

Camacho is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 8 by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C. He has remained jailed since his arrest.

Camacho pleaded guilty to two counts: illegal possession of a firearm on Capitol grounds and receipt or distribution of child pornography. The latter charge stems from a search of his phone after his arrest.

Surveillance video captured Camacho exiting a parked car and running toward the west side of the Capitol, the side that is adjacent to the National Mall, with the shotgun in his hands. He complied with Capitol Police officers’ commands to stop and get down on the ground.

“This individual was challenged by United States Capitol Police officers in order to drop the weapon, which he did comply with,” U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan said in February.

Sullivan had said the man, whom he didn’t name at the time, was wearing a tactical vest and had tactical gloves. He said the shotgun was loaded, and the man was carrying additional rounds. Officers found a Kevlar helmet and a gas mask in his vehicle, Sullivan said.

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Camacho told police that he purchased the shotgun for “home defense” less than a week before he drove from Georgia to the Capitol, prosecutors said. He also said he had left pepper spray and other tactical gear in his car “just in case I don’t want to shoot anyone,” according to prosecutors.

“He further indicated that he considered using the shotgun to breach a door to be able to enter the Capitol,” they wrote.

Kaia Hubbard contributed to this report.

Senate clears way for Trump’s top spy as key anti-terror program remains in limbo

July 27, 2026 6:24pm EDT / Fox News

Clayton’s confirmation vote Tuesday would end a standoff that let the key FISA counterterrorism program go dark

By Alex Miller Fox News

Jay Clayton grilled on 2020 election claims in DNI confirmation hearing

Chad Pergram reports from Capitol Hill, highlighting Democrats pressing Clayton on his stance regarding 2020 election claims and his delayed testimony, a move orchestrated by President Donald Trump over the SAVE America Act.

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President Donald Trump’s pick to run the nation’s intelligence agencies is one step closer to clinching the job, and puts the Senate ever-closer to jump-starting a key counter-terrorism tool in the process.

The Senate advanced Jay Clayton through a key hurdle Monday night to be the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI). It comes after former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s sudden exit from the position to care for her cancer-stricken husband.

The largely partisan 51-43 vote to move Clayton, who formerly chaired the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during Trump’s first term, comes after he narrowly squeaked out the Senate Intelligence Committee on a 9 to 8 vote.

TRUMP’S DNI PICK CLEARS KEY HURDLE, REVIVING PATH FOR NATION’S TOP ANTI-TERROR SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

United States attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton, nominee to be director of national intelligence, testifies during his confirmation hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on July 15, 2026.(Anadolu via Getty Images)

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., challenged Democrats to support Clayton during the broader, final vote, but expected them to resist as they have with several other Trump nominees through his second term.

“One might think that we’d be seeing some bipartisanship from Democrats on this nominee,” Thune said. “But Democrats are playing the same partisan games with this qualified nominee as they have for so many of President Trump’s picks.”

“It’s a funny thing because Democrats have made no secret of their disdain for the current acting Director of … National intelligence,” he continued. “In fact, Democrats were so worked up over the president’s temporary choice for this position, they allowed our nation’s most important counterterrorism tool to go dark for the first time ever.”

TRUMP CONCESSION BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO STALLED FISA SPY POWERS DEAL

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The Senate will now vote on confirmation Tuesday, putting an end cap on an arduous process to replace Gabbard. When she announced her exit from the position, Trump hastily installed Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte to lead the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies in the interim.

That came as the Senate was nearing a vote on a bipartisan deal to keep the nation’s top counter-terrorism tool, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), running ahead of its expiration.

But Democrats, who railed against Pulte and accused him of being an unqualified loyalist who would weaponize the intelligence community against the president’s enemies and try to dismantle it, walked away from the deal after Trump torpedoed Clayton’s previously scheduled confirmation hearing.

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Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte attends a kick-off celebration for the “Great American State Fair” on the National Mall in Washington, DC, June 24, 2026.(Jemal COUNTESS / AFP via Getty Images)

Less than 24 hours before Clayton’s penultimate test, Pulte announced on X that he had completed his fourth round of layoffs as DNI.

“Since becoming Acting Director of National Intelligence, our team has been smartly, and carefully, reducing the size of ODNI, re-focusing ODNI on national security, the law, and the statute,” Pulte said. “As of this evening, we just finished a 4th round of thoughtful, measured layoffs. Thank you!”

The Section 702 program has since been steadily going dark, with new authorizations caught in a legal void until lawmakers reauthorize the program that has been used to thwart deadly terror attacks, including halting a mass-casualty terror plot at a Taylor Swift show in Vienna, Austria.

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Last week, only Republicans on the panel voted Clayton out of committee after he failed to satisfy Senate Democrats’ questioning on who won the 2020 election, his knowledge of Gabbard’s raid on the Fulton County, Georgia election offices, and subpoenas against New York Times reporters that his were submitted by him in his role as the top prosecutor in New York’s Southern District.

Those subpoenas were voluntarily withdrawn by the Department of Justice last week, two days after Clayton was confirmed by the panel.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

特朗普称美伊谈判进展良好 但伊朗邻国继续遇袭

2026年7月28日 06:59 / 联合早报

特朗普7月27日晚到密歇根州出席竞选活动，他告诉现场民众，美国和伊朗“正在进行非常友好的谈判”。 （彭博社）

美国总统特朗普称，美国与伊朗正在进行“良好的谈判”，双方有可能就解决冲突达成协议。

尽管特朗普态度乐观，但德黑兰方面似乎迅速试探了美国暂停军事行动的底线——沙特阿拉伯、约旦、伊拉克均报告了无人机袭击事件。

路透社报道，特朗普星期一（7月27日）飞往密歇根州出席竞选集会，他在空军一号上对随行美国媒体说，美伊谈判进展“良好”。

他说：“我们谈得很顺利。我认为很可能会取得进展，如果谈得成，那很好；如果谈不成，我们就恢复两天前做的事。”

特朗普过后在密歇根州的竞选集会告诉民众：“你无法收买他们，你必须打败他们，我们会狠狠地痛击他们。但我们先看看结果如何。目前，双方正在进行非常友好的谈判。”

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伊朗称未与美国谈判 霍尔木兹海峡仍关闭
特朗普：若美伊谈判失败 准备采取扩大军事行动

华盛顿25日突然暂停对伊朗持续两周的空袭行动，这是特朗普在这场持续五个月的冲突中，最新一次的战略急转弯。

伊朗外交部发言人巴盖伊27日称，双方仍通过调解方传递信息，伊朗并未放弃外交努力，但有关伊朗主动要求谈判的报道是“捏造的”。他说：“这不符合我们的天性。”

同日晚些时候，伊朗武装部队哈塔姆安比亚中央司令部指责美国威胁伊朗领海内的船只和油轮，并“试图实施非法海上封锁”，称此举“构成地区冲突升级”。

与此同时，沙特阿拉伯称击落多架瞄准境内石油设施包括首都利雅得的无人机，这些无人机是伊朗支持的武装组织从伊拉克境内发射，并表示沙特保留做出还击的权利。

伊朗在也门的盟友胡塞武装则说，他们袭击了向沙特红海主要港口延布输送石油的“东西管道”，这是为报复沙特无人机入侵。

Fact check: Trump is approaching 10 years of telling his Michigan ‘Man of the Year’ lie

2026-07-27 5:49 PM ET / CNN

By Daniel Dale

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at General Motors’ Milford Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, on Monday, July 27.

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For three consecutive presidential campaigns, President Donald Trump regularly told the same lie when he spoke in the swing state of Michigan. Before he even entered politics, he claimed, he was named “Man of the Year” in the state.

The problem: CNN and other media outlets repeatedly noted that this award did not exist. But Trump revived the tale once more near the end of a falsehood-filled economic speech in Michigan on Monday — and added an additional lie claiming that an initially skeptical media had eventually discovered the award story was correct.

“I was here 25 years ago, I got Man of the Year. They — oh, by the way, the press questioned that, and then they found out it was true, actually,” Trump said with a chuckle. “And I made a speech, and all I talked about was why are you letting them steal your auto industry?”

Nope. This is yet another example of the fake history that has littered various Trump addresses this month.

Approaching 10 full years after Trump debuted the “Man of the Year” lie, nobody has ever been able to find any evidence for it. The state of Michigan does not give out a “Man of the Year” award, Trump has never lived in the state, and he and his team have never specified who or what entity supposedly gave him this award and when.

In 2023, after nearly seven years of debunkings of Trump’s “Man of the Year” tales, a Republican group in Michigan created a “Man of the Decade” award and gave it to him.

But Trump made clear Monday that this is not what he was referring to, since he said he was talking about a “Man of the Year” honor he received decades ago. (Side note: in many previous tellings of the “Man of the Year” story, like one during his 2024 campaign, he has placed the supposed honor in the 2010s rather than the 2000s as he suggested Monday.)

Dave Trott, a former Republican congressman in Michigan who became a sharp critic of Trump, has offered the most plausible theory about the possible basis for Trump’s made-up story. In 2019, Trott contacted CNN to note that Trump had suggested at an event two years prior that he had received the “Man of the Year” award at a 2013 Republican dinner in Michigan to which Trott had invited Trump to make a speech.

At that 2013 dinner, Trott gave Trump gifts that included a framed copy of the Gettysburg Address. But Trott emphatically noted that nobody gave Trump any “Man of the Year” award.

At least once, Trump has acknowledged that the idea of him receiving such an honor in Michigan before his time as a politician was bewildering.

“In fact, five or six years before I even thought about running, for whatever reason they named me Man of the Year in Michigan. I said, ‘How come?’ I didn’t even understand it myself,” he said at a 2019 rally in New Hampshire — then repeated, “But I was named Man of the Year.”

美驻多伦多总领事馆外传枪响 今年第二起类似事件

2026年7月28日 07:24 / 联合早报

美国驻多伦多总领事馆外传枪声后，警方在现场拉起警戒线。 （路透社）

美国驻加拿大多伦多总领事馆外至少传出一声枪响，警方说无人受伤。这是今年发生在美国驻多伦多总领事馆的第二起类似事件。

路透社报道，多伦多市警方说，枪击发生在星期一（7月27日）凌晨4时45分许（新加坡时间27日下午4时45分）。一名值班警员听到枪声后，在位于大学大道（University Avenue）的美国总领事馆外发现武器射击痕迹。

警方说，一辆白色轿车被目击快速驶离现场。由于缺乏空中支援且嫌疑车辆车速过快，警方出于安全考量，在高速公路附近暂停追捕。

3月10日凌晨，美国驻多伦多总领事馆外也发生过一次枪击事件，警方随后逮捕三名嫌疑人。之前，多伦多地区还发生过三起针对犹太教堂的枪击事件，警方为此加强对美国和以色列领事馆外的安保措施。

Ohio’s GOP governor calls Trump’s plans to deport Haitians a “mistake”: “You’d be sending people … back to hell”

2026-07-27 7:26 PM EDT / CBS News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told CBS News the Trump administration’s plan to ramp up arrests and deportations of Haitian migrants is a “mistake,” arguing the move could bruise the state’s economy and risk putting Haitians in danger in their home country.

More than 300,000 people from Haiti are set this week to lose Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian immigration program that protects them from deportation and allows them to work, after the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s plan to end the policy for Haitians. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drawn up plans to launch a deportation blitz focused on Haitian migrants as early as this week, CBS News reported Sunday.

The operations could focus in part on the thousands of Haitians who live in Ohio, many of whom have settled in the city of Springfield in recent years. During the 2024 campaign, President Trump claimed, without evidence, that Haitian immigrants in the city were eating cats and dogs.

In an interview on Monday in Columbus, DeWine said the planned deportation operations would be “a blow to Springfield” and “a blow to the state of Ohio.”

“These are people who have helped Springfield really come back,” DeWine said, pointing to Haitians who have filled jobs and opened businesses in an economically challenged city. “The Haitians who are living there and employed there, they came there to work, and they came there because there were jobs that were not being filled by other people.”

DeWine also pointed to the dire security situation in Haiti, a deeply impoverished country that has dealt with years of political instability, with gangs controlling large swaths of territory. The country is mired in “virtual chaos,” the governor said, with “no semblance of government,” leading the U.S. State Department to warn Americans not to travel there.

The governor predicted that many Haitians would go to some other country rather than return.

“Haiti is hell today. So you’d be sending people … back to hell,” DeWine said. “Very few of these Haitians will voluntarily go back to Haiti. If they have to leave, they’ll go someplace else. They want to work. They want to support their family. They don’t want to go back to Haiti.”

Haiti has been designated under Temporary Protected Status since 2010, when the island nation was devastated by an earthquake. That status has been renewed periodically since then, allowing hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants to remain in the United States. In 2024, the Biden administration extended the status, pointing to the country’s “violence and instability.”

The Department of Homeland Security moved to terminate TPS for Haitians last year, concluding it was “not in the national interest” and arguing migration from Haiti poses a “risk” to the U.S. DHS also said the “environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home.”

Around 334,000 Haitians had temporary protected status as of last year, not including people who also have green cards, according to federal data.

The decision was part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to wind down TPS for several countries, like Syria and Venezuela. DHS argues the status — which offers reprieve for people whose home countries are unsafe due to violence or natural disasters — was meant to be temporary, but has turned into a “defacto amnesty program.”

“What we would say now is it’s closing time which means you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here,” DHS said in a statement to CBS News over the weekend, encouraging people who are about to lose their protected status to self-deport for $2,600 and a “free flight home.”

The move to revoke protections for Haitians drew lawsuits, and a judge blocked the move in February, calling it “arbitrary and capricious” and partly “rooted in racial animus.” The Trump administration fought the case to the Supreme Court, which ruled in late June that the government could move forward with plans to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria. The decision was set to be formalized on Monday.

DeWine has pushed back on Mr. Trump’s stance toward Haitian migrants in the past. In a 2024 interview with CBS News, he called the president’s claims about Haitians eating pets “something that came up on the internet, and the internet can be quite crazy sometimes.” He noted that local officials have said there is no evidence to back up the claims.

At the time, DeWine said the influx of as many as 15,000 immigrants in and around a city of less than 60,000 residents has caused some challenges, including to the local healthcare system. But he said Haitian migrants have “filled a lot of jobs” and “work very, very hard.”

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Trump demands Thune keep Senate in session until SAVE America Act passes

July 27, 2026 12:58pm EDT / Fox News

Three Republican senators have announced they will object to any effort to send the Senate into August recess

By Alex Miller Fox News

President Donald Trump doesn’t want the Senate to leave town with his flagship election security measure still on the line.

It’s less than two weeks until the upper chamber makes a jailbreak from Washington, D.C., and the schedule is already jam-packed with key items, from blockbuster confirmations to a long-awaited sanctions package targeting Russia.

But only one legislative priority matters to Trump: the SAVE America Act. And despite the political reality in the Senate, the president wants the bill passed by any means necessary.

TRUMP’S SAVE AMERICA ACT STALLS AS MCCONNELL’S ABSENCE COMPLICATES SENATE PATH

Congressional Republicans, President Donald Trump and the GOP base want voter ID turned into law, but one barrier stands in the way: the political reality of the Senate.(Leon Neal/Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including a full and deep-throated SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget, and the ever looming Debt Ceiling disaster, 1929,” Trump declared on Truth Social.

“The Dumocrats will do it on day one and can’t believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership,” he continued. “Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING & DEATH!”

GOP RIFT GROWS AS THUNE HITS BRAKES ON TRUMP’S ELECTION BILL TO AVERT SHUTDOWN

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While Congress’ annual break during August is often viewed outside the Beltway as vacation time for lawmakers, during a midterm election year, it allows for crucial hours on the road for incumbents to have face time with voters and make their pitch to keep their seat.

Republicans are hungry to campaign and sell their agenda, particularly last year’s tax cut package, Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill,” but are facing headwinds from the war in Iran and affordability issues.

And there are three races on the 2026 map that are troubling for the Senate GOP in its quest to maintain its majority: Maine, Alaska and Ohio.

Still, Trump has warned that unless the Senate passes the SAVE America Act, they will suffer the consequences at the ballot box, and he has routinely called for the elimination of the filibuster for many of his priorities, but neither has the votes to happen in the upper chamber.

TRUMP’S PATIENCE ‘RUNNING OUT’ AS THUNE FIRES BACK OVER STALLED ELECTION SECURITY BILL

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, spoke during a news conference about the SAVE America Act at the U.S. Capitol on March 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

It comes as tensions between the White House and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., are on the rise.

Last week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt warned that Trump’s patience was “running out” with Thune over the legislation, which prompted the top Senate Republican to fire back that the White House should focus its energy on Democrats blocking the SAVE America Act and work the phones to get Republicans to a “yes” vote.

Trump is also not alone in his push for Thune to cancel the upcoming break.

Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Ashley Moody, R-Fla., have all announced their intent online to object to Thune calling for recess toward the end of this work period.

“I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August — at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act — and hereby request a roll call vote,” Lee said on X.

“Do not assume you have my consent,” he continued. “You do not.”

Typically, recess or state work periods are a consent exercise in the Senate, meaning that all lawmakers agree to skip town and head back to their states to do work on the ground. But a single senator can object on the Senate floor and force a vote to decide whether the upper chamber stays or goes.

Trump and the GOP trio’s demands come at an inflection point in the Senate.

Thune has prioritized averting a government shutdown and is encouraging ongoing negotiations between Republicans and Democrats to hammer out a deal before the break begins. He’s threatened to hold the House-passed budget resolution that would, among other things, set up a rough framework to pass the SAVE America Act through budget reconciliation.

All that comes after he and other Republicans have made clear the political reality that the SAVE America Act, as written, does not have the votes to pass in the upper chamber, neither from Democrats nor the GOP.

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And whether the legislation, or a version of it, can survive the reconciliation process remains to be seen, given that, as written, the SAVE America Act is primarily policy and doesn’t have a budgetary impact — a key requirement of the party line process.

“It’s still likely to be a 60-vote exercise, even if it’s done with a budget resolution,” Thune told Fox News Digital. “Unless it’s done with, you know, structured to allow grants to states that’s incentive-based, and principally budgetary, not policy.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

Senators reject Trump’s call to make Canada pay for wildfire smoke: ‘Ridiculous’

July 27, 2026 2:39pm EDT / Fox News

Trump suggested tariffs or damages after Canadian wildfires degraded air quality in Chicago, Detroit and New York City

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Senators disagreed with President Donald Trump putting Canada on notice over the wildfire smoke that “poisoned” American air quality, calling on the country to pay the U.S. damages. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)

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Republican and Democratic senators are rejecting President Donald Trump’s call for Canada to pay damages to the U.S. over smoke from ongoing wildfires that he said have “poisoned” the air in many American cities.

“I think the president’s being ridiculous,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told Fox News Digital.

“Nobody can control the direction of the wind,” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said. “Even President Trump can’t do that.”

TRUMP BLAMES CANADA FOR WILDFIRE SMOKE, SAYS POLLUTION COSTS SHOULD BE ADDED TO TARIFFS

Sen. Peter Welch departs from the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol Building on July 25, 2024, in Washington, D.C.(Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)

Trump floated the idea after complaining that smoke from nearly 900 Canadian wildfires has degraded air quality across large swaths of the U.S. He told reporters at Joint Base Andrews last week that he spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the FIFA World Cup final about the issue.

“I told them, I mean, ‘You got to stop these fires from coming in and, you know, poisoning our air,’” Trump told reporters about his exchange with Canadian officials.

He continued, “If we can help them, we’ll help them. But maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs.”

Trump also took to Truth Social in recent weeks claiming he threatened to increase tariffs in a phone call with Carney, as a response to the wildfires creating hazardous air quality in the U.S. — particularly in major cities like Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis and New York City.

CANADIAN WILDFIRE SMOKE IGNITES CROSS-BORDER FEUD OVER OTTAWA’S ‘WILLFUL NEGLIGENCE’

President Donald Trump called for Canada to pay damages to the U.S. for wildfire smoke spreading into American cities, causing hazardous air quality levels.(Eric Lee/Getty Images; Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., called for better management of both Canadian and American forests, arguing America is also “guilty” of improperly handling forests to reduce the likelihood of wildfires spreading.

“I’m mostly just interested in active management of the forest, and America is just as guilty,” Marshall said.

“We have not actively managed our forests, and that’s why in Canada and America both have led to these large fires,” he continued. “We haven’t properly managed them.”

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While the senators Fox News Digital interviewed largely rejected Trump’s proposal, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is introducing legislation to hold Canada accountable for the impact its wildfires have had on U.S. air quality.

” I don’t think the Canadians want those fires any more than we do,” Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said about the call to charge Canada.

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“Those are natural-caused fires, you know, we’re getting wildfires all over the world,” Welch said. “Beyond anyone’s control – it’s the weather.”

The raging wildfires are believed to have emerged from thousands of lightning strikes across North America in early July.

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‘Shame on you’: Sherrill knew voter-roll bombshell was coming when she called Trump a liar, DOJ official says

July 27, 2026 2:23pm EDT / Fox News

The assistant attorney general suggested Sherrill was aware of noncitizen voting revelations before signing an anti-Trump statement

By Charles Creitz

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon sounded off to Fox News Digital after analyzing New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s revelation of motor-voter noncitizens being added to the rolls, suggesting she knew before attacking Trump.

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The Justice Department’s top Civil Rights official accused New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill of criticizing President Donald Trump’s election integrity claims even though she already knew her administration was about to disclose a major voter registration problem.

In his July 16 address, Trump accused China of acquiring sensitive voter data and said U.S. intelligence agencies hid that revelation from the public while also alleging several Democrat-run states, including New Jersey, have large numbers of noncitizens registered to vote.

Department of Homeland Security data released in concert with the speech found more than 35,000 potential noncitizens are on the Garden State’s rolls.

“When the president came out with his Primetime speech last Thursday, I believe in the sequencing of events that has been laid out, she already knew that this revelation was forthcoming,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said.

‘SHADOW GOVERNMENT’: TRUMP CLAIMS INTEL COMMUNITY BRAGGED ABOUT HIDING CHINESE MEDDLING

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., speaks during an interview in New York City on Friday, May 2, 2025. Sherrill is the New Jersey Democratic nominee for governor.(Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“She knew it, and she still went online and called the president a liar and said he was exaggerating — Shame on you, governor.”

Dhillon said governors willing to cooperate with the DOJ would receive assistance but warned states refusing to do so could face lawsuits.

“It’s a bipartisan problem, actually. And I’m really looking forward to helping everyone who will work with us fix this problem. And if they won’t work with, we’ll sue them and we’ll still fix the problem.”

Following Trump’s address, Sherrill signed on to a statement with 23 other Democratic governors attempting to throw cold water on the president’s wide-ranging claims, calling him a liar, as Dhillon said.

“It’s deeply alarming that President Trump continues to try to undermine free and fair elections. No amount of lies and conspiracy theories can change the fact that our country’s elections have repeatedly been proven to be safe and secure,” read the rebuke, formally led by Kentucky Gov. Andrew Beshear.

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Sherrill’s co-signed statement went on to accuse Trump of trying to “intimidate and silence voters” while claiming Democrats are the ones “actually making life better for American families by lowering costs, creating jobs and protecting our freedoms.”

“Ours is a winning message, which is why he is trying to undermine democracy.”

Dhillon said Sherrill and all other governors should join with DOJ to investigate every substantive claim of election integrity violations, warning it is their own citizens who stand to be hurt.

“Every single person who voted illegally canceled out the vote of a New Jersey voter; that is shameful,” she said.

“And instead of pointing fingers at the president, which is what Governor Sherrill did… she should be raising her hand to work with the federal government to clean this up ASAP because that’s the vow she took when she ran for office and she got sworn in as the governor of her state is to protect her citizens, and her citizens have a right to vote.”

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Dhillon’s letter gave Sherrill five business days, expiring Tuesday, to turn over voter data in the case. Meanwhile, Sherrill indicated to WCBS that she wouldn’t be complying.

“It is not a surprise … the Trump administration wants to immediately weaponize this against people as opposed to focusing on making sure we’re running free and fair elections,” the Democrat said.

Asked about the accusation Sherrill knew about her own state’s motor-voter scandal when she accused Trump of being a liar, Sherrill spokesman Sean Higgins pointed Fox News Digital to comments she made after touring a grocery store in Essex County to sign unrelated legislation.

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In response to a reporter’s question on the scandal, Sherrill said her administration is moving quickly because Jerseyans deserve transparency.

“We’re running an independent investigation right now to get to the bottom of exactly how this happened and what’s going on, but it is not a surprise to me that the federal government that the Trump administration wants to immediately weaponize this against people as opposed to focusing on making sure that we’re running free and fair elections,” Sherrill said.

Pennsylvania, New York and several other states have also resisted DOJ requests for voter registration data, arguing federal law and state privacy protections limit what information can be shared.

The DOJ has also sued officials in some of the states over the election integrity crisis, including New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell.

Debt-ridden Democrats tap a surprising asset as collateral for $15M loan

July 27, 2026 12:42pm EDT / Fox News

The committee holds $18.5M in debt against $16.3M cash on hand while the RNC sits on $128.5M with no debt

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As the Democratic National Committee (DNC) shouldered significant debt and fell behind its GOP equivalent, Democratic leadership decided to use its headquarters as collateral for a $15 million loan, according to public records.

The loan, first reported by NOTUS news outlet, was taken out in 2025 as the DNC struggled to keep pace with the Republican National Committee’s fundraising efforts ahead of the midterm elections.

While taking out loans ahead of high-stakes races is common, and using property as collateral to do so is not unheard of, the line of credit secured by the DNC was the largest ever taken out by the committee for an off-year election, according to NOTUS. The terms of the loan allow the DNC to withdraw an additional $5 million beyond the $15 million it already has taken, public records show.

“This is not new,” a DNC official told Fox News Digital Monday of the loan. “The loan documents were publicly released in November, and the DNC’s building was also used as collateral in our prior lines of credit in 2019, 2018, 2014 and many other years.”

Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin speaking from the DNC’s home studio.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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What is new, however, is the DNC’s considerable debt.

The financial gap between Democrats and Republicans, as well as the former’s higher-than-usual debt load, could leave the DNC with less flexibility to support candidates in the midterm elections. The national party’s debt and smaller cash reserves could limit its ability to respond quickly, invest broadly and compete with the GOP’s far larger war chest, a boon to conservatives who are currently struggling in the polls.

As of June 30, the DNC has $18.5 million in debt against just $16.3 million in cash on hand, according to campaign finance records. For comparison, the DNC ended 2022, the previous midterm cycle, with $30.5 million in cash against roughly $420,000 in debt.

The Republican National Committee, by comparison, had $128.5 million in cash with no debt as of June 30, per Federal Election Commission records.

That the DNC is using its headquarters as collateral for a loan isn’t necessarily a sign that the organization is in its death throes. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, another major organization run by the party, used all of its assets as collateral for a $20 million line of credit in 2024, per a federal filing.

“Ken gaslighting us about the DNC’s finances and not being transparent about the financial situation makes us doubt if he can oversee the DNC during the most important primary of our lifetime,” an anonymous DNC member told NOTUS.

The DNC’s heavy debt load has been accompanied by some cuts to spending.

For one, the DNC will not be making its traditional transfers to House and Senate campaign committees.

Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin, standing alongside Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker at an event in Chicago on Aug. 5, 2025, pledges Democrats “won’t back down” as they push back against mid-decade redistricting efforts by President Donald Trump and Republicans(DNC)

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Over 2025 and into 2026, the RNC has consistently outraised the DNC and has maintained a much larger war chest. Other national Republican committees, such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee, have also raised more than their Democratic counterparts.

The financial outlook for Democrats isn’t all bleak. Individual Democratic candidates running in key elections, such as the Senate races in Georgia and Ohio, have raised significantly more money than Republican counterparts.

Amid its financial troubles, the DNC has made moves to tighten the lips of its leadership. Axios, citing two sources familiar, recently reported that the organization asked its leadership team to sign nondisclosure agreements ahead of a meeting about the party’s finances.

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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin spoke to DNC members after the meeting was adjourned.(Fox News Digital/Paul Steinhauser)

Decisions like that, however, have not stopped the leaks from coming out of the DNC.

One source told NOTUS that Democratic Party chair Ken Martin has had trouble convincing donors to make maximum donations, hamstringing efforts to raise large amounts of money. Other sources recently told The New York Times that Martin had a fit of rage in which he threw his phone at an aide’s desk.

“It pisses me off when I see leaks out of this building,” Martin reportedly told staffers in May, according to the Times. “No more of that s–t. No more.”

Despite the criticism, Martin remains publicly optimistic about the DNC’s finances.

“The current DNC has raised the most money of any DNC without the White House in the 198-year history of the Democratic Party,” he wrote in a July 20 Substack article. “Through June 2026, this DNC reported total receipts of more than $207 million. During the comparable 18-month period of the last Trump-era cycle, when Democrats were also out of the White House and rebuilding toward a midterm election, the DNC reported $109 million.”

Internally, however, some staff do no share Martin’s assessment.

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“They just have no money, and no clear path to either pay off their debt incurred by Ken,” one source familiar with DNC fundraising told the Washington Post in April.

The New York Times recently reported that the DNC asked vendors it worked with no to send it bills until after Election Day, which the committee defended as standard practice. DNC leadership has also faced scrutiny for spending nearly $1 million in party work in U.S. territories, constituencies that will ultimately have no bearing on the outcome of the midterm elections, despite being strapped for cash.