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The office of a House Democrat who played a prominent role in former President Trump’s first impeachment is now pushing back against GOP-fueled criticism that he should not be on the task force investigating the attempted assassination of the former president.Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who came under fire last year for saying Trump “has to be eliminated,” is among the Democrats being considered for a place on the bipartisan commission to study the July 13 shooting at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital. “As someone with a lifelong commitment to democracy and the rule of law, Congressman Goldman immediately clarified a misstatement from last November to emphasize his strong condemnation of all political violence. The Congressman demonstrated with pointed questioning during congressional hearings last week that the Secret Service must be held accountable for its unacceptable security lapse, and he is determined to ensure such a failure never happens again,” Goldman’s spokesperson Madison Andrus told Fox News Digital.FBI WANTS TO INTERVIEW TRUMP AFTER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: SOURCEGoldman first came to national prominence as Democrats’ lead counsel during Trump’s first impeachment trial. He’s remained a vocal Trump critic since coming to Congress in January 2023.His potential placement on the commission has already invoked the ire of Trump allies since first being reported in Punchbowl News on Friday morning.Among those leading the criticism is Donald Trump Jr., who recalled that Goldman said Trump needed to be “eliminated” in a November 2023 MSNBC interview – which Goldman has since apologized for.”Democrats are trying to put Dan Goldman on the committee to investigate the assassination attempt. Just weeks ago he called for DJT to be ‘eliminated.’ Probably not the best person to have on this task force,” Trump Jr. wrote on X.TRUMP RALLY BULLET TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS CONTRADICTS FBI ‘SHRAPNEL’ TESTIMONY ON CAPITOL HILL: REPORTGoldman wrote on X in November 2023, “Yesterday on TV, I mistakenly used the wrong word to express the importance for America that Donald Trump doesn’t become President again. While he must be defeated, I certainly wish no harm to him and do not condone political violence. I apologize for the poor choice of words.”Philip Letsou, deputy communications director for the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, wrote on the site, “Democrats are evidently planning on stacking the task force to investigate the assassination attempt on Trump with conspiracy theorists like Dan Goldman.”The House voted to establish the commission in a unanimous 416-0 vote last week. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has said the panel will have seven Republicans and six Democrats, chosen by himself and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., respectively.As of Friday morning, Jeffries’ office told Fox News Digital that no final decisions had been made.But a second source who spoke with Fox News Digital said that another possible contender is Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., who served as State’s Attorney for Prince Georges County for nearly a decade from 2003 until 2011, before coming to Congress in 2023.On the GOP side, a senior Republican lawmaker told Fox News Digital that “it seems like half our members want to be on the task force.”A third source who spoke with Fox News Digital said Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., was in strong consideration to play a prominent role on the panel. Kelly, whose district the shooting took place in, was present when the shooting occurred.Kelly was also the leader of the resolution establishing the task force that passed the House this week.



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The drone scandal surrounding the Canadian women’s soccer team could have bigger implications than just this year’s Games in Paris. Head coach Bev Priestman was removed from her position on Thursday night after two staff members were sent home from Paris after an investigation found that analyst Joseph Lombardi had used a drone to spy on New Zealand’s practice sessions. “Over the past 24 hours, additional information has come to our attention regarding previous drone use against opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,” Canada Soccer CEO Kevin Blue said in a statement. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”In light of these new revelations, Canada Soccer has made the decision to suspend Women’s National Soccer Team Head Coach, Bev Priestman for the remainder of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and until the completion of our recently announced independent external review.” ​The revelation that there may have been previous unethical recordings of opponents comes amid Canada’s pursuit of a title defense in the Olympics. The women’s team won gold in Tokyo and won their first match against New Zealand on Thursday – prior to Priestman’s dismissal. Priestman, who sat out of Thursday’s match, was likely aware of the drone usage, Canadian Olympic Committee CEO David Shoemaker said during a press conference. He also hinted that there could be trouble with Canada’s gold medal performance in Tokyo because of it. CANADA SOCCER STAFFER GIVEN 8-MONTH SUSPENDED PRISON SENTENCE FOR OLYMPICS DRONE CONTROVERSY”We’ve gathered some additional information ourselves that made me conclude that she was highly likely to have been aware of the incidents here in Saint-Etienne,” Shoemaker told reporters. “There now appears to be information that could tarnish that Olympic performance in Tokyo,” he continued. “It makes me ill. It makes me sick to my stomach to think that there could be something that calls into question… one of my favorite Olympic moments in history, that women’s team winning that gold medal against all odds in COVID restrictions.”Amid pending investigations from FIFA, the IOC and Canada Soccer, officials have not outwardly expressed a pattern of spying but they have pointed to multiple instances. Blue said there was also an incident involving the men’s national team at Copa América. He said it was his understanding that it did not have an impact on the competitive integrity of the match but would not offer details.He added that the players on the women’s team were not involved in any unethical behavior themselves. The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter. 



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As support for presumed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris continues to roll in following President Biden’s announcement that he would not be seeking a second term, a former president is now throwing in his support.In a video endorsement, former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama called on Americans to join them in getting to work to elect the vice president, and gave their full support and commitment to doing everything they can to make her the next President of the United States.Barack Obama can be heard first greeting Kamala, with Michelle chiming in as well.HARRIS EDGES CLOSER TO TRUMP IN NEW POLL CONDUCTED AFTER BIDEN’S WITHDRAWAL”I can’t have this phone call without saying to my girl Kamala: I am proud of you. This is going to be historic,” former first lady Michelle Obama said.”We called to say Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” former President Obama says following his wife. The former president then calls Harris a “happy warrior.”HOW VP HARRIS IS NARROWING DOWN HER LIST OF VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 2 WEEKS BEFORE DNC: REPORT”Well, the— look, you’re a happy warrior,” former President Obama said. “Indeed,” Harris answers back.”And the country needs a happy warrior,” the former first lady said.TRUMP QUICKLY MOVES TO DEFINE HARRIS AS ‘MORE LEFT THAN BERNIE SANDERS’The endorsement comes as Harris for President kicks off a Weekend of Action marking 100 days until Election Day.The Obamas’ endorsement adds to the growing support for the vice president’s candidacy, including endorsements from labor unions, advocacy groups, and dozens of Democratic elected officials.”It’s time for us to rally around you, your candidacy. This is not on you, it’s not just on you and Doug, it’s on all of us. … We’ve got to register, we’ve got to vote. … So, let’s all roll up our sleeves and make it happen,” the former First Lady said in a statement. 



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The Mexican drug kingpin Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as “El Mayo,” who co-founded the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel was taken into custody in El Paso on Thursday, according to the Department of Justice.Also taken into custody was Juaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of the cartel’s other co-founder, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.”The Justice Department has taken into custody two additional alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world,” U.S. Attorney General Merick B. Garland said. “Ismael Zambada Garcia, or ‘El Mayo,’ cofounder of the Cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of its other cofounder, were arrested today in El Paso, Texas.” Zambada Garcia and now-jailed drug lord “El Chapo” founded the Sinaloa Cartel.‘SYMBOLIC’ $4.6B PUNISHMENT AGAINST CARTEL THAT MURDERED AMERICANS TAKES CREATIVE LEGAL TURN TO BECOME REALITYA federal law enforcement source told Fox News Joaquin Guzman Lopez surrendered to U.S. authorities, but El Mayo was captured. Guzman Lopez cut a deal with U.S. authorities, and turned on El Mayo, the source explained.Guzman Lopez got on a private airplane with El Mayo and instead of heading south to Mexico like El Mayo thought, the plane went north to El Paso where the two were taken into custody.”El Mayo,” who the Department of Justice was offering a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction, now faces a litany of indictments for crimes related to drug trafficking and organized crime in the United States.”Today, the FBI and DEA arrested two alleged cartel leaders who have eluded law enforcement for decades,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said, adding that El Mayo and Guzman Lopez will now face justice.”Garcia and Guzman have allegedly overseen the trafficking of tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl into the U.S. along with related violence. These arrests are an example of the FBI’s and our partners’ commitment to dismantling violent transnational criminal organizations like the Sinaloa Cartel.”MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROMISES TO TAKE ON THE CARTELS WHO ARE ALREADY FIGHTING BACKIn February, U.S. federal prosecutors charged Zambada Garcia with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, which U.S. officials say is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.The superseding indictment extended the dates of previous indictments from May 2014 to January 2024, and at the time it was filed, Zambada Garcia was at large.Guzman was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn in February 2019 and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.‘MOST RUTHLESS’ MEXICAN CARTELS OPERATE IN ALL 50 STATES, BRING TURF WARS TO US: DEAZambada Garcia continued to evade capture and allegedly continued to run the Sinaloa Cartel from Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in February.According to the superseding indictment, Zambada Garcia, from 1999-2024, led a continuing enterprise responsible for the importation and distribution of massive quantities of narcotics, which generated billions of dollars in profits.In his efforts to ensure the cartel remained successful, Zambada Garcia allegedly employed individuals to obtain transportation routes and warehouses to import and store narcotics and “sicarios,” or hit men, to carry out kidnappings and murders in Mexico to retaliate against rivals who threatened the Sinaloa Cartel.The millions of dollars generated from the operation were then transported back to Mexico.”El Mayo and Guzman Lopez join a growing list of Sinaloa Cartel leaders and associates who the Justice Department is holding accountable in the United States. That includes the Cartel’s other cofounder, Joaquin Guzman Loera, or ‘El Chapo’; another of El Chapo’s sons and an alleged Cartel leader, Ovidio Guzman Lopez; and the Cartel’s alleged lead sicario, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, or ‘El Nini.'” Garland said. “Fentanyl is the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, and the Justice Department will not rest until every single cartel leader, member, and associate responsible for poisoning our communities is held accountable.”In light of Guzman’s trial conviction, his name has been removed from the superseding indictment against Zambada Garcia.Reuters contributed to this report.



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The Las Vegas Raiders do not like Patrick Mahomes, and they’re not afraid to say it.Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs and the Raiders are AFC West rivals, and their battles are always tense.Although, Mahomes and the Chiefs have owned the division for quite some time.Fans got a glimpse of how chippy things can get between the two squads during Netflix’s “Quarterback” series when Maxx Crosby and Mahomes exchanged words after getting physical.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMWith training camps back in session, the rivalry is back on.At Raiders camp, players passed around a Kermit the Frog puppet in a Mahomes jersey with a wig that resembled the three-time Super Bowl winner’s hair.Throughout his career, Mahomes has been the butt of jokes about his voice, which is often compared to a Muppet’s.Ahead of the Chiefs’ eventual Super Bowl run, the Raiders seemed to have exposed the Chiefs. Despite not passing for a single yard in the final three quarters on Christmas Day, the Raiders still came away with a 20-14 win at Arrowhead.Mahomes, though, has owned the Raiders throughout his career. He is 10-2 against Las Vegas. And in those dozen games, Mahomes has a 109.6 passer rating while throwing for 3,573 yards, 30 touchdowns and just four interceptions and completing 66.2% of his passes. So, perhaps it isn’t wise for the Raiders to poke the bear.VIKINGS’ JORDAN ADDISON SAYS HE WAS IN ‘DARK PLACE’ AFTER RECENT SUSPICION OF DUI ARRESTThat Christmas Day loss apparently lit a fire under the Chiefs, who rattled off six consecutive wins to take home their second straight Super Bowl.The Chiefs don’t need much motivation. They have been loud about their hopes to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls. They’ve been taking about it practically since scoring the walk-off touchdown in the Super Bowl in February.Their first matchup of the 2024 season will come Oct. 27, right after the Chiefs’ 2024 Super Bowl rematch against the San Francisco 49ers.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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Vice President Kamala Harris’ handling of the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit paints a preview of how a Harris administration would handle U.S.-Israel relations if elected, a GOP Jewish advocacy group claims.Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. on Monday after being invited by members of Congress to address lawmakers during a joint session. Harris, who became the likely Democratic nominee for president after Biden withdrew from the race, was not present to greet Netanyahu on the tarmac when he arrived. The Israeli prime minister delivered his address to Congress Wednesday, where he detailed the horrors of the country’s war against Hamas. Harris declined to preside over the address and instead attended a sorority event in Indiana.Anti-Israel protests broke out across Washington D.C. ahead of Netanyahu’s big speech, where agitators burned the American Flag, called the Israeli prime minister a “war criminal,” and vandalized a Liberty Bell replica with pro-Hamas writing.ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS BURN AMERICAN FLAGS, ACCUSE NETANYAHU OF BEING ‘WAR CRIMINAL’ AS HE ADDRESSES CONGRESSA leader from the Republican Jewish Coalition, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to lobby for conservative interests, has said that if Harris is elected, he expects her to follow in President Biden’s footsteps regarding Israel moving forward.”If you thought Joe Biden was bad on issues of top concern for pro-Israel voters, Kamala Harris is far worse,” Sam Markstein, RJC national political director, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “It took her a full day to issue a weak condemnation of the pro-Hamas mobs that burned American flags and chanted vile antisemitic slogans at Jews in Washington, D.C. – with zero mention of any concrete action she would take to hold them accountable. It should be easy to condemn antisemitism – the real question is what she will do to confront it, and her statement speaks for itself,” Markstein added. “Clearly, her priorities are not our priorities – and if elected, we can expect more of the same.”Harris condemned the protests in a statement Thursday: “Yesterday, at Union Station in Washington, D.C., we saw despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters and dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric. I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the State of Israel and kill Jews.”Netanyahu’s U.S. visit comes at a critical moment in Harris’ campaign, as she works to replace Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket and make her case to voters just four months before Election Day.GOP LOOKS TO REVOKE VISAS FROM PARTICIPANTS IN VIOLENT PROTESTS AHEAD OF NETANYAHU ADDRESSHarris has said that she supports Israel’s right to defend itself since the October 7 attack, but also highlighted calls for a ceasefire in the region. The vice president met with Benny Gantz, a rival of Netanyahu and member of Israel’s wartime cabinet, in March. That same month, Harris became the first administration official to call for an “immediate ceasefire” in the conflict.But anti-Israel protests erupted on college campuses across the country in the spring, and in June, Harris expressed sympathy for the agitators.”They are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza,” Harris said in an interview with The Nation. “There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their points. But we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it.””Kamala Harris and the Democrats will reap what they’ve sowed in this election – from undermining the US-Israel relationship to unprecedented lows and overseeing a spike in antisemitism to record high,” Markstein said. “The Jewish community is more energized than ever to help elect Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States to restore law and order to our cities and colleges so that American Jews can walk the streets and campuses without fear. November 5, 2024 cannot come soon enough.”Fox News’ Michael Lee and Emma Colton contributed to this report.



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President Biden delivered an approximately 11-minute address to the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday. While sitting behind the Resolute Desk, surrounded by portraits of American presidents, Biden spoke of his decision to discontinue his re-election campaign and laid out his plan for the remainder of his term. The 81-year-old president, after recovering from a reported COVID-19 case last week, also spoke repeatedly about “defending democracy.” Here are five key takeaways from the address that comes at a pivotal moment of the election cycle as Vice President Harris, with Biden’s endorsement, vies to become the Democratic nominee for president. BIDEN ADDRESSES DECISION TO DROP OUT OF 2024 RACE, INTENDS TO COMPLETE TERM IN WHITE HOUSE1. Biden offers an explanation about deciding to step aside from the race The president said that when he was elected to office, he promised to “always level with you, to tell you the truth.” That truth, Biden said, is that the “sacred cause of this country is larger than any one of us,” and those dedicated to the “cause of American democracy must unite to protect it.” “In recent weeks, it’s become clear to me that I need to unite my party in this critical endeavor. I believed my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America’s future all merited a second term. But nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy,” Biden said. “That includes personal ambition. So I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. It’s the best way to unite our nation. You know, there is a time and a place for long years of experience in public life. There’s also a time and place for new voices. Fresh voices. Yes, younger voices. And that time and place is now.” 2. Biden vows to reform the Supreme Court The president laid out his plan for the remaining six months of his first term. “I’m going to call for Supreme Court reform because this is critical to our democracy, Supreme Court reform,” Biden said, without elaborating. He also vowed to “continue to lower costs for hard-working families,” grow the economy, defend personal freedoms and civil rights “from the right to vote to the right to choose.” The president said he would continue work on the “cancer moonshot,” which was part of his 2020 campaign promise to end cancer as we know it and mobilize the federal government to speed progress in cancer research.  TRUMP SLAMS BIDEN’S ‘TERRIBLE’ OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS ON ABRUPT EXIT FROM 2024 RACE: ‘IT WAS A COUP’3. Biden condemns political violence, without directly addressing the assassination attempt on former President Trump. “I’ll keep calling out hate and extremism. Make it clear [that] there is no place, no place in America for political violence or any violence that ever. Period,” Biden said, while listing priorities for the rest of his term. Trump survived an assassination attempt on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sending a unifying shock wave throughout the Republican Party, which formally named him their nominee the following week. 4. Biden references “kings and dictators” when reiterating his support for Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee “I’d like to thank our great Vice President, Kamala Harris. She’s experienced. She’s tough. She’s capable. She’s been an incredible partner to me and a leader for our country. Now the choice is up to you, the American people. When you make that choice, remember the words of Benjamin Franklin’s hanging on my wall here in the Oval Office, alongside the busts of Doctor King and Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez,” Biden said. The president recalled how, when Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, he was asked whether the country would be a monarchy or a republic. Franklin famously was quoted as responding, “a republic, if you can keep it.” Biden also touted his more than 50 years of service to the nation. “The great thing about America is here, kings and dictators do not rule. The people do,” he said. Biden has previously accused Trump of wanting to be a dictator.Biden noted the country emerged from the “worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, [and] the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” 5. Biden boasts that he is the first U.S. president of this century without Americans at war anywhere in the world

“I will keep working to ensure America remains strong, secure in the leader of the free world. I’m the first president of this century to report to the American people that the United States is not a war anywhere in the world,” Biden said. The claim comes as the Biden administration received heavy criticism over its botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. During his debate against Trump last month, Biden made the stunning omission of the 13 U.S. service members killed at Abbey Gate when claiming no U.S. troops were killed while he was in office. Biden in his Oval Office address also vowed to “keep rallying a coalition of proud nations” to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from taking over Ukraine, promised to make NATO “more powerful and more united than any time in all of our history” and said he would support allies in the Pacific, claiming that it is no longer “conventional wisdom” that China would surpass the United States. Regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, Biden vowed to “end the war in Gaza, bring home all the hostages to bring peace and security to the Middle East.” 



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BETHEL PARK, Pa. — FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed on Wednesday that Thomas Crooks’ family had more than a dozen firearms in their Pennsylvania home and that father Matthew Crooks legally sold his son the weapon that the 20-year-old would use in his assassination attempt on former President Trump.”We located a number of firearms associated with the shooter and his family,” Wray told the House Judiciary Committee. “I think it was a total of … 14 in the house.””The weapon that he used for the attempted assassination was an AR-style rifle that was purchased legally,” Wray said. “We believe, based on what we’ve seen, that his father, after purchasing the gun, legally sold the gun to his son.”This revelation came on the same day that Mary Crooks, the mother of the would-be Trump assassin, was pictured outside for the first time since her son opened fire at the rally in Butler.The gunman’s mother, who is blind, was guided by her husband from their blue Toyota Tacoma into their Bethel Park home around 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Matthew Crooks opened her car door for her and held her hand as they entered the house.TRUMP SHOOTING: TIMELINE OF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW GUNMAN EVADED SECURITYThe younger Crooks was a “fairly avid shooting enthusiast,” Wray said during Wednesday’s testimony.In addition to the AR-15 and magazines for the rifle, a bulletproof vest and “crude” explosive devices that could be detonated remotely were found in Crooks’ car after he was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, Wray said.The FBI director said the agency is still searching for a manifesto or other clues that could determine the 20-year-old Crooks’ motive for the attack that nearly killed Trump, injured two rallygoers and killed retired volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore on July 13. He added that the bureau’s behavioral analysis unit was assembling a profile of the shooter.DETAILS ABOUT HOW TRUMP SHOOTER SCALED BUTLER RALLY ROOF EMERGE IN FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY’S TESTIMONYTRUMP SHOOTER WAS NOT ONLY SUSPICIOUS PERSON AT BUTLER RALLY: PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE COMMISSIONERThe FBI has conducted more than 400 interviews in their investigation of the shooting. Typically, the FBI does not discuss ongoing investigations, but Wray said on Tuesday that “the attempted assassination of the former president was an attack on our democracy” and that he “recognize[d] the congressional and public interest in this case.”The gunman’s father told reporters this week that his family was not ready to comment on their son’s actions.”We’re going to release a statement when our legal counsel advises us to do so. Until then, we have no comment,” he told Fox News Digital before beginning to load groceries into his vehicle outside a Shop ‘n Save near the family’s home. “We just want to try to take care of ourselves right now. Please, just give us our space.”



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Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:59:34 -0400[Video ID]An anti-Israel protester holding a Hamas flag at a demonstration in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday at first told Fox News Digital that she had “no message” for reporter Griff Jenkins before adding “Free Palestine. That’s my message.”When asked if she supports Hamas, she said “I support the resistance.” Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:20:51 -0400[Video ID]Anti-Israel protesters raised the Palestinian flag over Washington, D.C.’s Union Square on Wednesday during a chaotic protest in which an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an American flag were also burned.The protesters were demonstrating against Netanyahu’s address to Congress.Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:17:18 -0400Actress and activist Susan Sarandon addressed a group of anti-Israel protesters on Wednesday, telling them to loud cheers: “We are here today to reject the normalization of genocide.”The massive group of protesters had gathered to demonstrate against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Congress on Wednesday.From the stage, the “Thelma & Louise” star told protesters, “I would like all of you to join me in a message to our brothers and sisters in Palestine,” adding in a call and response: “We see you … We hear you … We will raise your voices. No one is free until everyone is free!”Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:33:49 -0400[Video ID]Pro-Hamas agitators were seen tagging a Christopher Columbus statue in Union Square with “Hamas is coming” and burning an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as an American flag.They were also seen flying a Palestinian flag over Union Station after taking down the American flag.The agitators were protesting Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday.Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:30:33 -0400The White House condemned the anti-Israel agitators who descended on Washington, D.C., Wednesday in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress. “Identifying with evil terrorist organizations like Hamas, burning the American flag, or forcibly removing the American flag and replacing it with another, is disgraceful,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a comment to Fox News Digital Wednesday evening. “Antisemitism and violence are never acceptable. Period. Every American has the right to peaceful protest. But shamefully, not everyone demonstrated peacefulness today.” Read the full story by Emma Colton by clicking here.Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:37:40 -0400[image]A total of 23 pro-Hamas agitators have been arrested by different law enforcement agencies as of Wednesday evening.The United States Park Police (USPP) released a statement announcing that at least eight anti-Israel agitators were arrested on Wednesday afternoon during an unruly protest. At least nine more were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) as of 6:00 p.m., and United States Capitol Police (USCP) arrested six more.The USPP reported that a crowd at Columbus Circle “damaged and destroyed park property, including vandalizing statues and fountains, tearing down and burning flags, and starting several small fires.””Following efforts by the United States Park Police to calm the crowd, which continued to ignore law enforcement instructions, the permit for the event was revoked at approximately 3:30 p.m. today and everyone was directed to leave the area,” the press release continued.Ages of the nine arrested by the MPD, according to a release, range from 15 to 32. Charges included Assault on a Police Officer and Crossing a Police Line.According to the USPP, National Park Service conservators will begin working on removing red paint from the statues and fountains at Columbus Circle on Thursday morning.”It may take multiple treatments over several days to remove all of it,” the statement added.Fox News Digital’s Andrea Vacchiano contributed to this update.Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:17:56 -0400[Tweet URL]Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican from Texas, tweeted out a message of support for Israel after pro-Hamas agitators caused mayhem in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.Williams posted a photo of his office with two signs near his door. One sign read “I Stand With Israel,” and another read “‘Chickens For KFC.'””I will always stand with our greatest ally, Israel,” Williams wrote.The second sign was a reference to a speech Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made before Congress that day, when he brought up protesters’ ignorance about Hamas’ ideology.”Some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming gays for Gaza. They might as well hold up signs saying ‘Chickens for KFC.’ These protesters chant ‘From the river to the sea.’ But many don’t have a clue what river and what sea they’re talking about,” Netanyahu said.Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:50:35 -0400[Video ID]A Jewish man, who expressed offense at the phrase “Hamas is coming” after he saw it tagged on a Christopher Columbus statue outside of Union Station that was vandalized on Wednesday, was harassed and followed.The man told the demonstrators he was offended by their language, causing some of them to start shouting at him and calling him Hitler. It wasn’t clear if they had been the ones to write “Hamas is coming” on the statue.“Do you support terrorists?” he asked the agitators who were already following him down the street.“Don’t worry, we’ll find you. We know who you are,” one agitator could be heard saying.“He’s a nicely dressed White gentleman,” a woman agitator was heard screaming.As they chanted “Free, free Palestine” the Jewish man interjected “from Hamas!”Calling the man a “p—-,” one of the agitators accused him of “killing children” in Gaza.“Enough!” the man said to the agitator, adding “We don’t back down from you and we don’t back down from f—— terrorists!”The situation quickly escalated into a screaming match with the man and one of the agitators in each other’s faces.Finally, the man and a woman who had joined him were let inside a locked building by a security guard with the agitators trying to follow.One of the protesters told Fox News that they decided to harass him because he was a “White gentleman. We were asking his position on Gaza.”One of the protesters told Fox News that the man had provoked them by calling them “terrorist scum” and said that the “art on the memorial was disgusting,” referring to the vandalism.He added, “He didn’t want to stop, and I don’t stop.”The woman then turned on the Fox News reporter, rhetorically asking if Palestinians have the right to defend themselves, adding that asking if they support Hamas is a “red herring.”She added that people who don’t agree with them want to accuse them of being “terrorists because we’re supporting the people of Gaza.”Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:33:49 -0400[image]Rep. Brian Mast called out the anti-Israel agitators who burned American flags on Wednesday in a scathing post on X.Mast, a Republican from Florida, wrote that he “fought and bled for the American Flag,” in an emotional post.”My friends lost their lives in battle for the American Flag,” he wrote. “And when they came home, the American Flag was draped over their caskets.Mast also linked the protests to Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.”Yet, the people Kamala Harris is courting burn the American Flag,” the post continued. “Shame on them.”During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Harris has been “unwavering” in her support of Israel.”Let me just first say that the vice president has been unwavering in her commitment to the security of Israel,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “As you know, she’s been a partner with this president for the past four years, not just domestic issues, but obviously also foreign policy issues.”Harris did not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday. Instead, she spoke at a sorority event in Indianapolis.Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:12:38 -0400[image]The United States Park Police (USPP) announced that it is seeking information about the anti-Israel protesters who assaulted officers and damaged property in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon.”We’re seeking information to help identify members of the crowd who assaulted officers or damaged property,” the USPP said in a statement. According to the agency, protesters started small fires and burned flags at Columbus Circle, which is outside Union Station.The USPP asks anyone with information to contact their tip line at 202-379-4877 or e-mail [email protected], 24 Jul 2024 18:55:12 -0400[Article URL]Pro-Hamas agitators descended on the nation’s capital Wednesday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress.The agitators vandalized statues outside Union Station at Columbus Circle as well as burned American and Israeli flags.One piece of vandalism read “F— ISREAL,” with Israel misspelled.Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:18:36 -0400[image]Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tore into Gaza cease-fire demonstrations across the U.S. and accused Iran of funding those protests during an impassioned address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.”I have a message for these protesters. When the tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are praising, promoting and funding you, you have officially become Iran’s useful idiots,” Netanyahu said.”Some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming gays for Gaza. They might as well hold up signs saying ‘Chickens for KFC.’ These protesters chant ‘From the river to the sea.’ But many don’t have a clue what river and what sea they’re talking about.”Read the full article about Netanyahu by Julia Johnson and Liz ElkindWed, 24 Jul 2024 18:18:05 -0400[image]Anti-Israel agitators are reportedly behind the release of larvae in a famous D.C. hotel to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to the nation’s capital.Netanyahu traveled to D.C. to meet with lawmakers and deliver a joint session address to Congress on Wednesday. Anti-Israel agitators have gathered throughout the capital to protest his trip, targeting the Watergate Hotel where he is reportedly staying during the visit.A video filmed within the hotel shows maggots and crickets released in various common spaces, with one shot showing a table full of mealworms while the Israeli and American flags stood in the background.”Palestine protestors manufactured chaos at the Watergate Hotel last night so that Netanyahu, Israeli Mossad agents, and the Secret Service had no peace as they continue to terrorize our people,” the Palestinian Youth Movement’s DMV chapter posted on their social media, alongside the video.Read the full article about the Watergate Hotel by Aubrie SpadyWed, 24 Jul 2024 18:34:34 -0400[image]Anti-Israel demonstrators descended on Washington, D.C., on Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in a scene that quickly turned chaotic. At least one demonstrator, whose face was covered, was spotted by Fox News carrying what appeared to be the flag of the terrorist group Hamas while others were heard shouting “allahu Akbar.”At Union Station, agitators burned an American flag and vandalized a statue with the words “Hamas is coming.” They also took down American flags and flew the Palestinian flag instead. The U.S. Capitol Police later advised that “No flags under our protection have been removed or vandalized. Our officers will enforce the law if anyone attempts to remove a flag in USCP jurisdiction. To clear up inaccurate reporting.”Read the full article about anti-Israel protests by Danielle Wallace and Brie Stimson



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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Former President Trump is back on the campaign trail Wednesday – with a stop in the crucial swing state of North Carolina.But the Republican presidential nominee – in his first rally since President Biden’s blockbuster announcement Sunday that he was suspending his re-election bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer – is facing a dramatically altered 2024 race.The president’s immediate backing of Harris ignited a surge of endorsements by Democratic governors, senators, House members and other party leaders in supporting Harris and by Monday night the vice president announced that she’d locked up her party’s nomination by landing commitments of backing from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates to next month’s Democratic National Convention.IT’S A MARGIN OF ERROR RACE BETWEEN TRUMP AND HARRIS But Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley says even though Trump’s now facing a new opponent at the top of the Democrats’ ticket, the GOP’s strategy “does not change…at all.””We have been running our race, and we are going to continue to run our race,” Whatley, a former North Carolina GOP chair whom Trump installed as RNC chair in March after clinching the Republican nomination, emphasized in a Fox News interview.WHAT’S NEXT FOR HARRIS NOW THAT SHE’S SEEMINGLY LOCKED UP THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION?Whatley, speaking at the rally site at Charlotte’s Bojangles Coliseum, spotlighted that Trump and the RNC will relentlessly tie Harris to Biden’s polices on border security, fighting inflation, crime, and other top issues in the 2024 election.”The Democrats not only have a messenger problem, they have a message problem. And Kamala Harris is doubling down on every single one of Joe Biden’s failed policies. It’s the Biden-Harris administration, the Biden-Harris campaign. And she is picking up that mantle,” he argued.The RNC chair emphasized that Trump “has absolutely united the Republican Party in a way we haven’t had in generations. Now it’s time to unite the country around that vision of making America great again.”Trump narrowly won North Carolina in his 2020 election defeat to Biden, and Democrats see an opportunity to flip the state this November.The trip by Trump to North Carolina – which he narrowly carried in his 2020 re-election defeat to Biden -is the second in two months. The last time Trump was in North Carolina, he was watching NASCAR in Concord over Memorial Day weekend. The state is one of seven crucial battlegrounds that decided the 2020 contest and is likely to once again heavily influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.”We continue to focus on the Blue Wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and the Sun Belt states of North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, where the Vice President’s advantages with young voters, Black voters, and Latino voters will be important to our multiple pathways to 270 electoral votes,” a memo from the Harris campaign spotlighted hours before Trump arrived in North Carolina.Whatley said Trump, in his speech in North Carolina, needs to “continue his conversation with every American family, talking to every single American voter about his vision for a better America. He is going to be the one who is going to restore our southern border, restore our economy, restore our standing in the world, and really be the one around that vision.”But expect Trump to also take aim at Harris, as he’s amped up his verbal attacks on the vice president since Sunday in posts on this Truth Social platform.Among other things, the former president called her “Dumb as a Rock” and “a totally failed and insignificant Vice President.”Harris is also turning up the volume. In a tease of her argument against Trump, Harris is pointing to her law enforcement resume as she spotlights Trump’s legal controversies.”As many of you know, before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general of California. Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” Harris said on Monday in a line she repeated the next day.”Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type,” she emphasized as she pointed to Trump’s multiple lawsuits and criminal cases, many of which are ongoing.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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Conservatives on social media are praising a blistering ad launched by Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick linking his opponent, Sen. Bob Casey, to the policies of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.”Kamala Harris is inspiring and very capable, the more people get to know her they’re going to be particularly impressed by her ability,” a clip of Casey says at the start of the ad released by McCormick on Tuesday.The ad then goes into a variety of clips of Harris promoting progressive policies and labeling her the “most liberal nominee ever.”In the ad, Kamala is quoted calling for the elimination of the filibuster, banning fracking, decriminalizing illegal immigration, abolishing ICE, defunding the police, mandating a gun buyback program, and other liberal policies.GOP SENATE CANDIDATE TIES OPPONENT TO BIDEN DEBATE: BOB CASEY KNEWThe ad, which was viewed over 1.5 million times in 24 hours, was quickly praised by conservatives on social media. “Most comprehensive anti-Harris ad I’ve seen so far,” journalist Mairead Elordi posted on X.”Wow,” American Enterprise Institute fellow and Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen posted on X.”Attention Republicans,” conservative commentator and author Matt Walsh posted on X. “This is how you attack Kamala Harris. Here’s the blueprint.”LETTER FROM SEN. BOB CASEY RESURFACES ON BIOLOGICAL MALES’ PARTICIPATION IN FEMALE SPORTS”The most radical presidential candidate in American history – just listen to her,” GOP Sen. Bill Hagerty posted on X. “America would never be the same if even half of these policies were carried out.””One of the most brutal and effective ads I’ve seen in a while,” Trump delegate Christian Ziegler posted on X. “Just play this every moment from now until November on TV. Good work by whomever cut this one.””This messaging is perfect,” Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe posted on X.”Congrats to Dave McCormick’s team… this is brilliant,” 1776 Project PAC Founder Ryan James Girdusky posted on X. “Now get it streaming online and on tv.”In a statement to Fox News Digital, Bob Casey for Senate spokesperson Maddy McDaniel said, “David McCormick is desperately trying to avoid answering for his support for a dangerous abortion ban and his record of investing millions in China’s largest fentanyl producer while fentanyl trafficked from China kills thousands of Pennsylvanians.”Casey’s seat is widely regarded as one of the best chances Republicans have to take back control of the U.S. Senate in November. The Cook Political report ranks the race as “Lean D.”



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Last month, Jake Paul said that former President Trump will most likely get his vote, and understandably so. He was rather emotional about the assassination attempt on the former president.A gunman opened fire on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 during a rally, and a bullet clipped his right ear. Paul thinks it was by the grace of God that it was not worse.”It’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen and probably will ever see. I think there would have been a civil war if something would have hit him. But I think that’s like the divine intervention, for sure. I believe that God stepped in and saved him,” Paul said on his brother Logan’s podcast, “Impaulsive,” which Trump himself appeared on earlier this year.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”We saw the action of God right in front of our eyes,” Logan responded.”It’s quite literally ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ And I think that’s also probably why God had this exact situation happen – because He saw the path that we were going down with,” the YouTuber-turned-boxer added. KEITH OLBERMANN CALLS FOR MLB TO ‘CONFISCATE’ CARDINALS FRANCHISE AS HE ACCUSES THEM OF TRUMP CELEBRATION”And I’m not even gonna say, like, it’s Democrat-Republican, what does it matter? It’s the people who are running the government now, the path that they were leading us to was gonna be catastrophic and terrible. And I think God really intervened, like, ‘we need this guy right now. Everyone needs to flip sides. We can’t have a close election – we need a landslide. We need this guy to come back in and make America great again.'”Appearing on “Jesse Watters Primetime” last month, Paul discussed his biggest issues with the current state of the country.”I know people are struggling with jobs, mortgages are too much for people to afford, inflation, prices are going up, is minimum wage rising,” Paul said. “People are having trouble paying off and going to school, and then they’re feeling like, “Hey, I have this college degree, but what has this gotten me?'”Trump officially accepted the GOP nomination for this year’s election. He will now, more than likely, face Vice President Kamala Harris in the race as President Biden announced on Sunday he will not seek re-election.Paul recently earned his 10th professional victory over the weekend, defeating Mike Perry by a sixth-round TKO. He is now set to face Mike Tyson, his original opponent from this past weekend, on Nov. 15 in Dallas.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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New video footage shot by a rally goer shows the assassination attempt on former President Trump before a sniper took out the shooter after he opened fire.Jon Malice shot the footage as he and his family watched the campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, next to the American Glass Research (AGR) building, which Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to scale to a clear line of sight to Trump, who suffered injuries to his ear from the shooting. One spectator was killed and several others were injured in the incident.Crooks, 20, appeared to fire eight shots before he was killed by sniper fire.”I noticed about two minutes before the shooting started, the people were starting to say, ‘hey, he’s climbing up here, he’s crawling around, he’s doing this, he’s doing that,” Malice told Fox News. “We just kind of ignored it because we thought it was some person trying to get a better view.”ROOFTOP BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS CONFUSION AMONG OFFICIALS, RIFLE SHOOTER USED IN DEADLY ATTEMPT ON TRUMP”I want to say three, then maybe five [rounds were heard],” he added. “And then I heard the two counter sniper rounds.”Fox News was told by a source that one shot came from a local sniper, while the other came from a Secret Service sniper, which was ultimately the kill shot.Malice, a military veteran, said he was surprised by the lack of security around the event site. “One of the first things I noticed when we walked up, none of us have been vetted,” he said. “We’re all along the fence. We all have view of the stage. We can see Trump.”Malice also said all the witnesses near the AGR building did not have to go through metal detectors because they were outside the rally site, despite having a clear and close view of Trump.One video Malice captured was taken by a dash camera.”We were just looking for parking because everything was blocked off,” Malice said when asked to explain what he saw when the video was taken. “But this particular road here, I noticed a lot of cars were parking there. So we just kept driving around and we thought it was safe. And, as I was going back to my videos later, I noticed somebody who looked like crooks crossing the street and zoomed in on it.”SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR CHEATLE RESIGNS AFTER MOUNTING PRESSURE IN WAKE OF TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT”Turned out it really was him,” he said. “So it’s a video of him, we think leaving his vehicle. There was a gray Hyundai, looked like a Sonata, that was parked there … He wasn’t carrying anything. He was just in his, you know, just his regular clothes. No backpack or anything. Just walking to the building. And then about two minutes after that, somebody else shot a video of him on that side of the building, through the fence.”Malice said one video he has shows Crooks pointing his rifle at him.”Right before he was shot by Secret Service, he had rolled over, got up,” he said. “I have a picture of him with his rifle up and his rifle turned towards me and the other guys that were standing behind the tree, and at that second Secret Service shot him.”He also said he was surprised that Secret Service was not on the roof Crooks was stationed on.



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Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that in lieu of co-presiding over the speech to a joint meeting of Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she will attend a previously scheduled event in Indiana, the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Grand Boule in Indianapolis.Since it is a “joint” meeting of the House and Senate, the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, who is the Vice President, usually preside. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said today that it may be “unprecedented” not to have the Vice President preside. However, there have been multiple instances over the years in which the President Pro Tempore has presided.KAMALA HARRIS TO SKIP NETANYAHU’S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS, WHILE TOP DEM SENATOR BOYCOTTS ALTOGETHER One such instance came during Netanyahu’s 2015 speech to a joint meeting of Congress – the last time Netanyahu spoke to Congress.Then-Vice President Biden did not co-preside with then-House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Instead, then-President Pro Tempore of the Senate Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) presided. In 2011, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard spoke to a joint meeting of Congress. However, then-Vice President Biden did not preside over that meeting, either. It was Boehner and then-President Pro Tempore Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii).ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS INVADE CAPITOL HILL BUILDING ON EVE OF NETANYAHU ADDRESSThere have been other instances as well. However, it is extremely rare to have someone like Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the acting chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, preside over a joint meeting of Congress. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) is the president pro tempore of the Senate now. She will also not co-preside with Johnson during the joint meeting.The controversy unfolds amid a chaotic scene on Capitol Hill, as massive swarms of pro-Palestinian protesters are occupying the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building right now. Police have made some arrests. There’s an elevated threat environment, especially following the shooting of former President Trump. Right now, massive fences are encircling the Capitol. These are the same types of fences which police put up after the Capitol riots. The campus will be locked down for much of tomorrow. Many Democrats will not be attending the Netanyahu speech, in protest of the Israeli leader’s prosecution of the war in the Gaza Strip.When acting Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin co-presides over the joint meeting of Congress, he will not be the first non-VP or non-President Pro Tempore to do so.In fact, late Sen. David Pryor (D-Ark.) was the last non-VP or Senate President Pro Tempore to preside over such a meeting, which occurred when South Korean President Roh Tae-woo spoke to a joint meeting of Congress on October 18, 1989. He shared the responsibility with late House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.).Fox News’ David Unsworth contributed to this report.



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A 12-year-old Tennessee girl is charged with suffocating her 8-year-old cousin as she slept while they were visiting family, prosecutors said last week. Home security video shows the girl, who will turn 13 this week, allegedly used bedding to suffocate her cousin on July 15 at a home in Humboldt, 98 miles northeast of Memphis, and then cleaned up the victim and re-positioned her body, authorities said.The younger girl was sleeping in ther top bunk of the bunk beds they shared. The older girl is charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence.SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER MISSING GEORGIA WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN TENNESSEEThe victim’s mother, Rayana Smith, identified her as Demeria Hollingsworth, Fox 59 reported. “She liked to read books, go swimming, play outside, ride her bike every day, play with the kids in the neighborhood, play with my friends’ kids. My baby was sweet,” Smith told the news outlet. Fox News Digital has reached out to Smith, who said the girls were staying with their grandmother for the summer. Before the killing, they had both argued over an iPhone, she said. MISSISSIPPI FAMILY FEARS RETALIATION FROM CARJACKERS CAUGHT ON HOME CAMERA: ‘IT’S NOT SAFE'”When they told me about that, I should have just gone to get my kid,” she said. “But they were having fun for the summer and I didn’t think she would kill my baby.” Frederick Agee, the District Attorney General for the 28th District in West Tennessee, said his office is petitioning Juvenile Judge Mark Johnson to transfer the child to Circuit Court to be tried as an adult, which would allow for a weightier sentence.”I consider this to be one of the most disturbing violent acts committed by either an adult or juvenile that my office has prosecuted,” he said in a statement.A service for Hollingsworth will be held on July 26, according to a GoFundMe page created by her mother. Metro Nashville Public Schools confirmed to Fox News Digital that Hollingsworth attended Cockrill Elementary School. “The Cockrill community is mourning the unexpected loss of Demeria Hollingsworth, a beloved student who had been part of Cockrill since Pre-K. Demeria was known for her hard work, intelligence, and sweet demeanor,” school Principal Casey Campbell said in a statement provided by the school district. “She was cherished by everyone who knew her. Her passing has left all of us at Cockrill devastated. She will be greatly missed.”



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