by dap | Apr 4, 2025 | Fox News
The swing state of Wisconsin held a national election on April Fool’s day. The liberal Democrat won that election. Lest anyone think it was done in jest, the election results demonstrate five dynamics of which Republicans must take notice.
On its face, Wisconsin held a statewide election for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court. The Democrats held onto the seat by defeating a conservative and maintained left-of-center control of the state’s Supreme Court – nothing new.
Beneath the surface, however, other dynamics were at play. Here are six of those significant dynamics, which Republicans need to take to heart.
6. Democrats Continue to Leverage Abortion.
One of the key issues in the election was the issue of abortion. The Democratic candidate Susan Crawford leveraged that issue. On the day of the election, the following was a headline out of Milwaukee: “Wisconsin Supreme Court race in political spotlight, abortion rights on the line.” Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Democrats have won a series of elections on that issue in both Red and Blue states. Wisconsin should remind Republicans that they have yet to find a way to win over voters on that issue.
5. All Elections Are National.
There was a time when all politics were local. Today, the Democrats treat all elections as national. While it is true Elon Musk played big in the Wisconsin race, just days before the election, 77% of Susan Crawford’s donations came from out of state. That was on top of huge donations from the likes of George Soros, who “donated $2 million to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, which then gave the money to Crawford’s campaign . . . [and] Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, also a billionaire, gave $1.5 million to the state Democratic Party for Crawford’s campaign.”
That dynamic is not new. Last fall, in Orange County, California, which used to be deep Red Country, the Democrats spent $48 million on a single House seat that they won by several hundred votes. The vast majority of that money came from out-of-state. In Florida, Democrat Josh Weil received donations from all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico en route to out fundraising his Republican opponent 10 – 1.
4. Elon Musk Is the Democrats’ Bogey Man.
The day after the election, NBC posted this headline: “Democrats have a new boogeyman in Elon Musk.”
In politics, it is define or be defined.
Republicans strongly support the mission of DOGE, as do independents and many Democrats. However, Democrats have tarred Musk and are using it to their advantage.
Republicans must take that as a warning that they must undertake a massive public relations effort lest the DOGE mission get lost in the smears. Principally, Republicans must tie DOGE’s efforts to root out fraud and waste with saving Medicare and Social Security.
They literally should promote a fundraising chart that equates each dollar saved with restored Social Security and Medicare benefits.
3. Trump and the Ballot.
In history, it is well known that the party that wins the White House has trouble in off-year elections. The winning party most often is not as motivated as the losing party.
Trump’s success is principally tied to the fact that so many voters believe he is fighting for them. Simply stated, Republicans in Congress do NOT have that reputation.
As the midterm Elections approach and then the 2028 Presidential Election, Republicans can’t be the party of Washington if they expect to prevail.
2. The Economy.
The border. Women’s sports. Government waste. Judges. Deportations. Those are all important issues. Those issues helped turn the swing states. However, Trump has largely resolved those issues even as the Democrats continue to harm their poll numbers fighting him. By next November, naturally, they will slip from voters’ priorities.
That leaves the economy, which is already proving to be a weak point for Republicans. Further delays in deregulation and tax reform and any fallout in tariff policy will limit Republicans in swing states like Wisconsin. The sooner they produce economic results the better.
1. The Campaign Never Ends.
In the 24/7/365 technological/internet media era, the campaign never stops – even if you win and are in power.
As for the Democrats, despite being tone-deaf in the last election, they are now harping on how Republican policies are affecting middle-class voters and those even less fortunate. Republicans can decry their sudden shift all they want. By next November, however, Democrats will get credit for their shift. Once again, that highlights the importance of Republicans moving quickly on Trump’s economic reforms.
Finally, as the Wisconsin race proved once again, elections are about turnout. It appears that the Republican in the Wisconsin election garnered more votes than any Democratic candidate for Supreme Court in Wisconsin history – but still lost by 10 points.
That didn’t happen on election day. That was months of Democrat work, along with mail-in-ballots. Simply stated, for them, the campaign never ends. Republicans appear to be already behind in their efforts for 2026.
by | Apr 4, 2025 | Fox News
David Duchovny, who played FBI Agent Mulder to Gillian Anderson’s Scully for nearly a decade, wants to believe.
The actor, who starred in “The X-Files” from 1993 to 2002, is now hosting and producing a new History Channel series, “Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny.” The 10-part show promises to explore “the government’s most secretive, strange and mind-blowing activities that have been declassified throughout history.”
The 64-year-old told Fox News Digital that the truth is out there.
“What I find true is that there are certain things that the government has always done in secret and that’s just the way of doing business, because not everybody has our interests at heart the way we have our interests at heart,” he explained.
“There has to be some covert action from time to time,” he said. “Not everything can be transparent. What I find interesting about these particular stories, and about many stories having to do with the government, is that when you see what has been done, you realize that these are just flawed people trying to do, in some cases, the best they can. And sometimes what they’re doing is absolutely ridiculous, and you ask yourself, ‘How the hell did you think that was going to work?’”
“That can be funny, but on the other side of the spectrum, some of these actions really hurt people, so that’s not so funny,” he added.
The first episode, which premieres Friday, focuses on “Secrets and the Skies.” It details how a plane crash in North Carolina almost triggered nuclear Armageddon. And of course, there’s talk of Area 51, a remote, formerly top-secret U.S. military base that has long been the subject of UFO and space alien lore.
Duchovny hopes the episode will debunk misconceptions and shine a spotlight on the experts who weighed in.
“These files that we’re dealing with on the show are declassified and for the reasons of protecting living persons, a lot of files will be classified for the length of their lifetime, length of a normal person’s lifetime,” he said.
“So, these are true stories that we are revealing for the first time as they’ve been declassified. And that’s interesting. So, whatever we’re telling you about Area 51 is coming out of government files, that’s way better than coming out of me.”
But unlike Mulder, Duchovny is also a bit of a skeptic.
In late 2024,
over New Jersey and across the eastern U.S. Despite the many theories that quickly floated around, the star says he knows exactly what they were.
“I think they were drones,” he chuckled. “Usually, I go by Occam’s razor, which is the simplest explanation is the true one, and that would be it for me.”
Duchovny may be onto something. The FBI, the Homeland Security Department and state agencies investigated the sightings, but officials said there has been nothing so far to suggest any of the drones posed a national security or public safety threat. Authorities said many of the sightings were legal drones, manned aircraft, helicopters and even stars.
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There are also the “JFK Files.” In March, more than 63,000 pages of records related to the 1963
were released following an order by President Donald Trump. Many of the documents were without the redactions that had confounded historians for years and helped fuel conspiracy theories.
On Tuesday,
whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed Kennedy’s assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, called for a new congressional investigation.
Duchovny is not convinced.
“What’s interesting about the declassification of the JFK files is that there’s no new information about a conspiracy because there was no conspiracy. There is no conspiracy,” he stressed.
“That’s usually my point of view, is that there are some bad actors, there are some people that commit crimes,” he said. “There are some people that work for the government that commit crimes in whatever name they say they’re doing. But there’s no grand conspiracy and there’s no new information on these big-ticket conspiracy ideas. I could be wrong, but that’s my feeling.”
“I don’t have any other subjects that I would like to see uncovered,” he reflected. “But I’m sure they exist. And I’m sure as they come to my attention, they’ll be interesting. But I just don’t have that… I find the life in front of me just as interesting as any of these stories.”
And then there are aliens. He argued that given the size of the universe, then surely, we aren’t alone. But Duchovny admitted he just doesn’t think about “the extraterrestrial stuff.”
“What you realize when you go through a series like this is, yeah, there may be conspiracies, but they’re usually conspiracies between three or four people, five people, 10 people,” he said. “There’s no grand conspiracy going on and there never has been… These are just singular small groups of human beings trying some weird s— sometimes to achieve their goals. But there’s no grand conspiracy.”
And if there were, no one would keep that a secret for long, he said. For him, life alone “is an encounter with the unexplained.”
lured him in because it was based on what he was more interested in – the truth.
“I was looking around at all of these conspiracy theories floating around in this world today and not believing in 99% of them,” he said.
“And then I thought, this is interesting because these are the kinds of stories that people have a lot of theories about, and yet, here’s the truth. I’m sure it won’t stop people from thinking about conspiracies, because they’re going to think that it is just another part of the conspiracy, to come out with the truth. But… truth is stranger than fiction.”
Does Duchovny have any secrets of his own, ones that would leave Mulder loosening his tie in anticipation?
He’s not giving that up.
“All those secrets are classified until after my death,” he said. “Hopefully maybe 60 years after my death.”
by | Apr 4, 2025 | Fox News
More than half a billion dollars in federal funding to
is being halted by the Trump administration over the Ivy League’s response to antisemitism since Hamas’ 2023 attack in Israel.
A White House official said nearly $510 million awarded to the university through federal contracts and grants is on the line, The Associated Press reported, adding that the official spoke on condition of anonymity.
Fox News Digital reached out to Brown University, but did not immediately hear back.
Brown Provost Frank Doyle said in an email on Thursday to campus leaders that the school is aware of “troubling rumors” about its research money, but they don’t have any “information to substantiate” the claims, according to The AP.
has suspended federal funding to every Ivy League, besides Penn and Dartmouth, over investigations into anti-Israel protests that have taken place on their campuses since October 2023. Funding for dozens of other universities has also been impacted by investigations for the same reason.
Columbia University, which had more than $400 million in federal funding taken away, was the first Ivy League to lose money over its failure to make Jewish students feel safe on campus. The university caved to demands from the Trump administration late last month in hopes of restoring the funding.
This week, a federal
announced a review of Harvard’s federal grants and contracts, worth nearly $9 billion, as the university faces an investigation into campus antisemitism, and Princeton University confirmed dozens of its research grants have been halted.
The Trump administration has promised to be more aggressive in
after saying President Joe Biden did not hold universities accountable for their violent protests.
“Americans have watched in horror for more than a year now, as Jewish students have been assaulted and harassed on elite university campuses – repeatedly overrun by antisemitic students and agitators. Unlawful encampments and demonstrations have completely paralyzed day-to-day campus operations, depriving Jewish students of learning opportunities to which they are entitled,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement last month.
She said schools that receive federal funding “have a responsibility to protect all students from discrimination” and described the failure to do so as a reason to question if the university should be “doing business with the United States government.”
The administration has also made moves to detain and deport foreign students who participated in or orchestrated anti-Israel
The Department of Homeland Security announced last month that an assistant professor at Brown, who held an H-1B visa, was deported to Lebanon for her support of and attendance at the funeral of a slain Hezbollah leader.
Brown made headlines last year for a
who were taking over the university, promising to have its governing board vote on whether it should divest from companies linked to Israel.
The Corporation of Brown ultimately rejected the divestment proposal.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
by | Apr 4, 2025 | Fox News
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Battlestar Galactica” star Tricia Helfer feels the show was a prescient warning about
when it debuted more than 20 years ago.
“We did warn against AI while we were shooting it,” Helfer told Fox News Digital at the Beverly Hills Film Festival this week.
She continued, “It was 20 years ago, and I’ve recently re-watched it and went, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s even more relevant now.’ So I think we just really need to be careful. It’s a slippery slope between using it to our advantage and having it maybe be able to control us a little bit.”
“I think we’re a little bit far off from the humanoid Cylons yet and humanoid robots, but I don’t know, they’re coming,” Helfer added.
debuted on the SyFy channel in 2004, reimagined from the 1978 original series, and follows the battle between humans and Cylons, the humanoid sentient robots humans created that turned on them and launched a nuclear attack that nearly wiped out the entirety of humanity.
Helfer played a Cylon in the series, named Number Six, who played a key role in the story as both antagonist and ally.
Regarding AI, the Canadian-born actress said, “It’s not going away, so I think it’s something that we’re going to have to embrace. But I think one of the things ‘Battlestar Galactica’ did was warn about it. And that’s, I think, something that we need to make sure [is] that we have is regulations and an understanding of how quickly and how overwhelming this technology could become.”
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A “Battlestar Galactica” reboot was in the works at Peacock with Sam Esmail, the showrunner behind “Mr. Robot,” but it has since been halted and shopped elsewhere,
.
In 2023, Esmail spoke with
about how the new version’s view of AI would be evolving from the original.
“The world is changing way too fast for us. I mean, when we started working on it, I obviously was aware of AI, but now, four or five years later, it’s in the public consciousness and now that’s so influential in how we’re going to tell the story,” Esmail told the outlet. “The allegory piece is something that is crystallized in a different way, too. The focus is the same, which is the fear of tech and how it might take over, but this idea of just ‘the robots are going to be our overlords’ is a very facile and overly simplistic way of looking at it. Now that the audience is more sophisticated about the consequences, I think we have to match that with ‘Battlestar.’”
While Helfer believes humanoid robots are still in the somewhat distant future, there are some attempts to create them in the present day.
Suzanne Somers’ widower, Alan Hamel, recently worked with an AI company called Hollo to
of his late wife.
“I am working with Hollo, an AI company to create Suzanne AI. It’s very exciting to think about being able to interact with Suzanne’s twin,” Hamel told Fox News Digital in a statement last month.
The robot replica of Somers trained on her film and TV appearances, as well as her books, to bring back the “essence” of the
star, according to Hollo.AI CEO Rex Wong.
When it came to the Suzanne AI, Wong said, “The robot, which we did in collaboration with Realbotix, is the first of many AI versions of Suzanne, but AI Suzanne can also be accessible via call, chat and text. AI Suzanne highlights how we can extend a person’s legacy and bring it to the next generation, and one of the services we will be rolling out will be the ability to preserve one’s legacy for future generations or bring back a loved one.”
Somers died in 2023 after a long battle with breast cancer.
Hamel told the New York Post that the idea for the Somers AI-powered bot “absolutely did come from her” and that “She may have known her life was going to be shortened [after a lifelong battle with cancer].”
by | Apr 3, 2025 | Fox News
Earlier this week, Ja Morant pulled out a gun celebration, and it was reported that he was given a
after an investigation.
Well, he didn’t quite get the message, as he
on Thursday.
After hitting a three-pointer, Morant motioned his arms to that of a large gun.
The celebration occurred just over five minutes into the ball game.
Morant’s first instance of the celebration this week occurred against the Golden State Warriors. The act saw Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, two Golden State stars, visibly upset on the hardwood, with the latter trying to plead to the referee that something should be done to discipline Morant.
made the gesture blow up across the basketball world. He was suspended for eight games in March 2023 after brandishing a handgun on social media at the strip club Shotgun Willie’s outside of Denver.
Then, Morant was docked the first 25 games of the 2023-24 season after he flashed a handgun again on a social media live video.
Ahead of the suspensions, Morant found himself in trouble on more than one occasion, including one incident in which he got into a fight with a then-17-year-old during a pickup basketball game at his own home (it was ruled Morant acted in self-defense). Four days earlier, Morant had allegedly “threatened” the head of security at a Memphis mall, and a member of Morant’s group shoved him in the head.
Morant was also placed under the microscope after a January 2023 game in which an unidentified individual in the NBA star’s vehicle was accused of
at the Indiana Pacers’ team bus. It happened after some members of Morant’s entourage were involved in a confrontation with a group of people in the Pacers’ traveling party.
Fox News’ Scott Thompson and Chantz Martin contributed to this report.
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Constitutional Court on Friday removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, four months after he declared martial law, sending the East Asian country into turmoil.
The court issued its verdict more than three months after the opposition-controlled National Assembly voted to impeach him.
South Korea must hold a national election within two months to find a new president.
Yoon’s short-lived martial law declaration on Dec. 3 lasted only six hours before the liberal opposition-controlled legislature quickly voted it down.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
by | Apr 3, 2025 | Fox News
said he supports letting new moms in Congress vote by proxy, putting him at odds with House Speaker Mike Johnson.
“You’re having a baby, I think you should be able to call in and vote,” Trump told reporters Thursday on Air Force One. “I’m in favor of that.”
“I don’t know why it’s controversial,” he added.
He said he had spoken with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., one of the lead
behind the plan.
Luna and Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., are pushing a proposal that would let new parents vote by proxy for 12 weeks while caring for their newborns. With 218 lawmakers backing the move, it has enough support to force a vote.
Johnson, however, has historically opposed proxy voting, previously calling it unconstitutional and warning it was misused under then-Speaker
during COVID. But after Trump’s endorsement, Luna revealed that Johnson reached out to her.
“@SpeakerJohnson has called me after POTUS statement and we discussed limiting the vote to just new moms who cannot physically travel in event of emergency etc. This is smart,” Luna tweeted. “Remember: only 13 in US history.”
to kill the effort earlier this week, but nine Republicans joined all Democrats to block him, voting 206-222. After the loss, Johnson canceled votes for the rest of the week.
Despite the setback, Luna made it clear the issue isn’t about advancing any legislation for the president, saying she personally told Johnson as much.
It is unclear whether the issue will be brought back for a vote on
before the April Recess.
The offices of House Speaker Mike Johnson and Representative Anna Paulina Luna did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
by | Apr 3, 2025 | Fox News
Women’s fencer Stephanie Turner became a household name overnight among activists for women’s rights in sports.
A viral video of Turner kneeling to protest a transgender opponent ignited more debate about transgender inclusion in women’s sports, especially fencing.
“It will probably, at least for the moment, destroy my life,” Turner told Fox News Digital. “It’s very hard for me to do this.”
Her decision was driven by her opposition to competing against biological males.
“This is a serious issue that is happening within all sports, and it needs to be addressed. There is a difference between men and women,” Turner said. “It is a civil rights movement for women and girls, and I prioritize the safety and rights and protection of women and girls over trans-identified males.”
Her belief even overpowered her lifelong political allegiance.
Turner, a long-time registered Democrat who broke from the party for the most recent election, says she is now a “new Republican conservative.”
She switched parties over the issue of transgender athletes in women’s and girls sports.
“A small group of people is holding a much larger athlete base hostage to extremist liberal views,” Turner said.
How did it get to this point?
Turner was born and raised in Washington D.C., and now lives in deep blue Montgomery County, Maryland.
Over the years, she’s been involved in a close friend group, which includes other fencers. It also includes multiple members of the LGBT community.
“They did not know I had this opinion about transgender women in women’s sports. And one of them was one of my really good friends at the [fencing] club. He’s in the LGBT community, and a lot of my friends are also in the LGBT community. And I don’t want them to be mad at me for this. I love them on a personal level.
“I don’t want them to think that I somehow hate them. And I don’t want to lose them as friends.”
But Turner also feels she can’t have legitimate discussions with some people about the issue.
“They lie and say that estrogen can make a man a woman also to the point where you can not tell the difference, and it just becomes an insane argument.”
Turner, 31, ventured into competitive fencing 12 years ago at age 19. She joined the club at the University of Maryland and has stuck with it ever since. She later qualified to compete in USA Fencing.
“I commit a lot of time and money for this,” Turner said, citing travel, equipment and registration expenses.
Turner’s official
shows 21 podium finishes, including a gold medal in women’s foil at an event called the Trick or Retreat ROC Aug. 18 in Edison, New Jersey.
But she got to a point in her career when she had to be aware of the USA Fencing official gender eligibility policy.
The official policy allows for transgenders to compete in the women’s category in both the junior and senior level after completing one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment. Proof of compliant hormone therapy must be provided prior to competition.
USA Fencing has
announced in November 2022 to give preference when selecting host cities for national tournaments to states without laws that “harm members of LGBTQ communities” and states that do not “have laws undermining the reproductive health of women.”
“In fencing, personally, I see it quite often,” Turner said. “I have witnessed transgender fencers in women’s tournaments and girls tournaments in different age categories, specifically Y-14 (the youngest age group).”
Turner had a previous experience avoiding a trans opponent in the summer of 2013. She saw reports of a trans athlete who she had previously known as a biological male fencer, by another name. When Turner saw the athlete was listed as a competitor in that year’s Summer Nationals, she decided not to go.
“I never registered because I knew that he was going to be in there,” Turner said. “In previous years, when I had known about transgender fencers being present, I just didn’t register.”
Turner always made sure to avoid registering for events after vetting them for trans athletes.
But what she couldn’t foresee was one of them registering after she did.
That happened for the first time last weekend for a Division I-A event called the Cherry Blossom Open at her alma mater, the University of Maryland. Redmond Sullivan, who previously competed in the men’s division, according to
, was registered and placed in the same bracket as Turner.
She only learned this at 10:30 p.m. the night before her matchup with Sullivan.
By that point, she was considering a different approach to handling the situation considering how frequent trans inclusion was becoming.
“I had contemplated in the future that I wanted to avoid not registering for events, just because a transgender person was there, because it could just be every single one of my events has a transgender person,” Turner said.
“So, I was like, ‘You know what, I’m just going to give it to God. If this person shows up into my event, and they’re on my strip, then I will take a knee, and that would be God’s will.”
But Turner wanted to take things a step further, a step she knew could “destroy her life,” but she did it anyway.
Just minutes before she took the strip to kneel against Sullivan, she went to one of her closest friends on the club for a favor.
“I said, ‘I’m about to do something, and I want you to film it. I’m really nervous about it, and this is your last chance to leave if you want to,’ because I didn’t know what the reaction was going to be,” Turner said.
Her friend agreed to film the kneel, recording a scene that would be witnessed across the fencing world.
Turner was then dealt a black card, disqualified from the event and escorted out so quickly she didn’t get to say another word to her teammates, trainers or anyone else.
Turner didn’t want this role. She admits to being a private person without any social media channels who “enjoys anonymity.”
“I was hoping someone else would come forward or the board of directors would have a change of heart,” Turner said.
A nonprofit fencing organization
to USA Fencing Board Members in December, urging the national governing body for the sport to reevaluate its stance on several issues, including transgender inclusion.
“Politics aside, it is a reasonable request to form a task force to do a deeper dive on this issue in fencing and create a safe space where the voices of all women are heard without ridicule and abuse,” the letter said.
But nothing was done.
Turner is the latest combatant in the ongoing culture war over the issue of trans athletes in women’s sports. She has done a televised interview on Fox News Channel, her story has been covered by multiple media outlets and she is even featured in a commercial.
The sports activist brand XX-XY Athletics released its new commercial featuring the clip of Turner’s kneel Thursday.
For her, it’s all worth it if it means holding institutions like USA Fencing and politicians who have continued to enable trans inclusion accountable.
“It’s a litmus test for common sense in whether a politician is able to lie to your face to abide to common culture,” Turner said.
“Something needs to be done.”
USA Fencing provided a statement to Fox News Digital addressing the incident.
“USA Fencing enacted our current transgender and nonbinary athlete policy in 2023. The policy was designed to expand access to the sport of fencing and create inclusive, safe spaces. The policy is based on the principle that everyone should have the ability to participate in sports and was based upon the research available of the day,” the statement said.
“We respect the viewpoints on all sides and encourage our members to continue sharing them with us as the matter evolves. It’s important for the fencing community to engage in this dialogue, but we expect this conversation to be conducted respectfully, whether at our tournaments or in online spaces. The way to progress is by respectful discussion based in evidence.”
A USA Fencing spokesperson also told Fox News Digital Turner was not penalized for her stance against trans inclusion, but simply for refusing to fence.
“In the case of Stephanie Turner, her disqualification was not related to any personal statement but was merely the direct result of her decision to decline to fence an eligible opponent, which the FIE rules clearly prohibit,” the spokesperson said.
“According to the FIE (International Fencing Federation) Technical Rules, specifically Article t.113, a fencer is not permitted to refuse to fence another properly entered fencer for any reason. Under these rules, such a refusal results in disqualification and the corresponding sanctions. This policy exists to maintain fair competition standards and preserve the sport’s integrity.”
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by dap | Apr 3, 2025 | Fox News, Mediate
Fox News contributor Ben Domenech offered a blunt reaction to the massive tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
Speaking in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, Trump unveiled across-the-board tariffs of 10% on all imports. He also hit dozens of countries, such as China and European Union member states, with even higher tariffs. Moreover, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on all automobile imports, regardless of origin. The president justified the moves by using a chart that
other nations had imposed high tariffs on U.S. exports. Unsurprisingly, markets plummeted on Thursday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed four percent, the S&P dropped five percent, and the NASDAQ lost six percent.
A couple of hours after the closing bell, Domenech appeared on Fox News’s Special Report and said congressional Republicans could be in a politically vulnerable position because of Trump’s trade policy. He cited Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who earlier in the day quoted John Maynard Keynes by stating, “
“:
I think the president is undergoing a serious risk factor with this that is going to be felt by all of these Republicans that we have heard from today, including John Kennedy whose encouraging words were eventually
, which is not exactly a great thing to run on in terms of a midterm.
Look, I hate tariffs, I think they’re stupid. I think they’re backwards. I don’t think they help the American economy. The president has a different opinion.
Domenech went on to note that Vice President JD Vance has also spoken favorably of tariffs because they allegedly bolster American culture.
“He wants to return manufacturing to the American heartland,” Domenech continued. “He believes that’s something that is achievable. But it takes time. It’s not gonna be something that happens overnight. And the serious pain that has been inflicted with these tariffs is something that might be short-term, but short-term is relative in terms of the way that you could view it.”
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by | Apr 3, 2025 | Fox News
Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant is not expected to be punished by
for a gun-related gesture he made during a recent game.
, the league issued a warning to Morant but is not planning to fine or suspend him in response to the finger gun gesture the two-time NBA All-Star directed toward the Golden State Warriors’ bench Tuesday.
The “[l]eague ruled the celebrations were not intended to be violent in nature, but inappropriate and should refrain,” ESPN reported.
Warriors guard Buddy Hield also received a warning from the NBA.
Warriors star
nearly set the 3-point record as he scored 52 points to help lift Golden State to a 134-125 victory over Memphis.
Morant has been disciplined by the NBA multiple times throughout his career, and some of those punishments were due to gun-related incidents. The league handed down an
in 2023 after Morant flashed what appeared to be a gun during a social media livestream at a Colorado nightclub.
Later that year, Morant appeared to flash a weapon while he was in a car during another social media video. He was suspended an additional 25 games.
“Ja Morant’s decision to once again wield a firearm on social media is alarming and disconcerting given his similar conduct in March for which he was already suspended eight games,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said at the time of his second suspension.
“The potential for other young people to emulate Ja’s conduct is particularly concerning. Under these circumstances, we believe a suspension of 25 games is appropriate and makes clear that engaging in reckless and irresponsible behavior with guns will not be tolerated.
“For Ja, basketball needs to take a backseat at this time. Prior to his return to play, he will be required to formulate and fulfill a program with the league that directly addresses the circumstances that led him to repeat this destructive behavior.”
Morant was also placed under the microscope after a January 2023 game in which an unidentified individual in the NBA star’s vehicle was accused of
at the Indiana Pacers’ team bus. It happened after some members of Morant’s entourage were involved in a confrontation with a group of people in the Pacers’ traveling party.
The Grizzlies enter Thursday’s game against the Miami Heat in the eighth spot in the Western Conference standings.
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