| Fox News - Latest Headlines | | | | Gleyber Torres' bases-clearing double gives Yankees win over Red Sox in 10 innings | | Sep 14, 2022 | | The New York Yankees are getting hot again. The Evil Empire took down their arch rival Boston Red Sox in 10 innings on Tuesday night, 7-6. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Aaron Judge hit two separate game-tying home runs, good for his 56th and 57th homers of the season. He's now four homers away from tying, and five from breaking, Roger Maris' 61. In extra innings, Gleyber Torres came up with the bases loaded in two outs, and he came up clutch with a bases-clearing double. Torres has been swinging a hot bat recently after a historically bad slump - from July 17 this past Friday, he was slashing just .177/.222/.286 with 13 RBI. But in his last three games, he is 5-for-14 (.357) with eight RBI and three extra-base hits. ROGER MARIS' SON WISHES AARON JUDGE WOULD ACKNOWLEDGE HIS FATHER HAS THE 'REAL' HOME-RUN RECORD Gerrit Cole continued his Fenway Park struggles, giving up four earned runs in his six innings of work - all of which came via the home run - He did strike out 10 batters, but he now owns a 5.52 ERA in his career at Fenway Park. He also couldn't get through three innings in the Wild Card Game in Boston last year. However, the bullpen shut Boston down, tossing four innings after Cole to close the door. It got close, as Wandy Peralta allowed an RBI single and a wild pitch that scored a run, but he struck out Rafael Devers to get the save. The Sox got on the board first with a two-run homer from Triston Casas, but Marwin Gonzalez tied it right back up with a two-run blast of his own in the third. Judge is now 19 for his last 37 with six home runs, and with his .310 batting average, he is now seriously in the AL Triple Crown conversation. The Yankees have struggled immensely in the second half, but they have very quietly won seven of their last nine games. | | | | | Twins pull Joe Ryan from no-hit bid after 7 innings | | Sep 14, 2022 | | The Minnesota Twins elected to pull rookie starter Joe Ryan from his outing despite having a no-hitter through seven innings against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Ryan was cruising, but his pitch count was at 106 when Twins manager Rocco Baldelli decided to call it quits, though history was on the line. It isn't the first time we've seen this in the 2022 campaign, dating back to April 13 when Los Angeles Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw had an even better thing going for himself, a perfect game through seven innings with 13 strikeouts against the Twins. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Manager Dave Roberts pulled him after that seventh inning because his pitch count was too high. TWINS' ROCCO BALDELLI EJECTED AFTER INTERESTING MOUND-VISIT RULING With Minnesota owning a 6-0 lead over Kansas City at the time, Baldelli decided not to push his youngster, and it seemed Ryan agreed with him considering he was already over 100 pitches. Who knows how many he would need to get the last six outs of the game? Ryan has pitched well in what’s considered his rookie season, though he had five starts in the bigs in 2021. The 26-year-old came into this game owning a 4.05 ERA in 23 starts (122.1 innings) with 124 strikeouts for a solid 9.1 strikeouts per nine innings. AARON JUDGE HITS TWO HOME RUNS TO INCH CLOSER TO HISTORY There's been one true no-hitter this season, coming from the arm of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Reid Detmers on May 10. But there have been eight combined no-hitters across the league, which was alive for the Twins after Ryan came out. However, they lost it in the ninth inning with one out, and the Royals ended up scoring three runs. It wasn't enough, though, with the Twins collecting the 6-3 win. The latest was from the Houston Astros against the New York Yankees on June 25. | | | | | A revolt against America's Queen Elizabeth coverage is building, but cable news can't stay away | | Sep 14, 2022 | | The backlash has begun. Not against Queen Elizabeth, not against the British monarchy, but against the wall-to-wall American coverage of the mourning of the monarch. Howard Stern said that "Jesus, it’s enough with the queen!...It’s America, we don’t have a queen." He called the coverage "annoying," saying he knows the queen was a nice lady and was on the throne a long time, "but we gotta get back to Trump, where are those papers that they found at Mar-a-Lago." Mediaite ran this headline: "Queen Elizabeth Still Dead, News Networks Continue to Report." (For younger readers, it’s a play on an old "SNL" running joke in which the faux anchors kept saying "Francisco Franco, still dead." LATEST TRUMP-BIDEN CLASHES HELP ILLUMINATE THE FASCINATION WITH A QUEEN "For 70 years, people in the U.K. said, ‘Long live the Queen.’ And so it goes for the news cycle following her death." I have a broader view of this–for one thing, it’s all news, including coverage of President Biden and Ukrainian forces ousting Russia from a large swath of territory, that’s been blown off the daytime cable news screens. I’ve also come to understand, in part by anchoring part of the royal coverage on Sunday’s "Media Buzz," what a deep and emotional connection many people felt, including in the States, many people, especially women, felt toward a warm and reassuring monarch who held the throne for seven decades. WHY MANY REPUBLICANS ARE SCRAMBLING AND SCRUBBING ON ABORTION I raised the question on that show about whether there has been too much coverage in America, and Martha MacCallum responded that since we don’t have a queen, there’s a natural interest in the pomp and circumstance of a royal family (not to mention, I’d add, of its many scandals). The key seems to be when Queen Elizabeth’s casket is on the move. While I was on the air, the procession was finishing its six-hour journey from her home at Balmoral Castle to the royal residence in Edinburgh, which has served that purpose since the 12th century. She would lie in rest there for one day. Watching a slow-moving caravan isn’t very exciting, though it was moving to watch the big crowds turn out as the procession crawled through small towns. By yesterday morning, the fever seemed to have broken. The cable networks were back to – Stern was right – Donald Trump. And there was plenty to chew on. The Justice Department had just issued 40 subpoenas in its investigation, including, according to unnamed sources, to Dan Scavino, Trump’s social media guru, and Bernie Kerik, who, with his mentor Rudy Giuliani, pushed claims of voter fraud. Federal agents also seized the phones of Boris Epshtyn, a former campaign spokesman and now an in-house counsel to Trump, and Mike Roman, who directed the campaign’s Election Day operation. Trump and DOJ lawyers also dueled in court before Judge Aileen Cannon, who the president got confirmed after the election, about her ruling for a special master. Justice asked to be able to proceed with parts of its probe and to set a tight deadline for the outside expert’s review; Trump wants to slow the probe and set a longer deadline. The government did agree to one of Trump’s nominees for special master Raymond Dearie, a retired federal judge in New York. Then there was an account from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, "Confidence Man," shared with CNN, where she is a contributor. She said that after initially accepting defeat, his mood abruptly changed. SUBSCRIBE TO HOWIE'S MEDIA BUZZMETER PODCAST, A RIFF ON THE DAY'S HOTTEST STORIES "I'm just not going to leave," Trump told one aide. "We're never leaving," Trump told another. "How can you leave when you won an election?" He was also overheard telling RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, "Why should I leave if they stole it from me?" What’s more, the Senate Judiciary Committee said it would investigate allegations in yet another book by the fired U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, that Trump and his inner circle repeatedly pressured him to bring indictments against such opponents as John Kerry and to block investigations of such allies as Michael Cohen. But around noon eastern, the queen coverage was back. Her yellow-draped casket was being loaded onto a Royal Air Force transport plane, to be flown to Buckingham Palace. All three cable networks took it live because it involved an official movement, although viewers were left staring at the unmoving plane for quite awhile as their royal commentators weighed in. They also covered the jet as it took off – and once it disappeared, it was back to Trump and politics and the latest inflation numbers. But when the plane landed in England, the live coverage kicked in again. For all the emotional fervor surrounding this period of mourning, there is a hard-headed business consideration for cable news: the queen’s final journey has been very good for ratings. | | | | | New York City homeless man sleeps on sidewalk with toaster oven, crisis worst 'since Great Depression' | | Sep 14, 2022 | | New York City sidewalks are showcasing a little shop of horrors. The humanitarian crisis of homelessness festers in broad daylight today just steps from the tourist-packed heart of Manhattan. One man slept on a sidewalk in the rain with trash, food and filth littered around him on West 43rd Street this past Sunday morning, exactly two blocks from where New York City drops its iconic New Year’s Eve ball in Times Square. A toaster oven sat next to the man, which he apparently used to heat his food on the sidewalk by plugging it into a light pole. New York City utility poles have an accessible box at the bottom, which contains ordinary household electrical sockets. NYC SHOPLIFTING SUSPECT PUNCHES 69-YEAR-OLD BODEGA WORKER IN ATTACK CAUGHT ON VIDEO The man slept in front of the Westside Theatre, the home since 2019 of the off-Broadway hit and tourist attraction "Little Shop of Horrors." "It just keeps getting worse," Sal "Sinatra" Salomon, a New York City singer, actor and advocate for the homeless, told Fox News Digital this week. "This is the greatest city in the world and this is unacceptable," said Salomon. The theater of the absurd proliferates even as the city's Dem leaders dump billions of taxpayer dollars into failed programs and shelters that are run by private contractors. Salomon says he spent years living on the streets and also time behind bars in state custody. The city shelters, in his opinion, "are worse than prison" — that's one reason why so many people prefer a hard life on the streets, he suggested. "Prison workers have supervisors and are trained to respect the privacy of the men in prison," he said. "Shelters are run by some loudmouth from the neighborhood who knows the mayor and hires their friends with city money." "Conditions at the shelters are deplorable," agreed State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat who represents Midtown Manhattan. ON 9/11 ANNIVERSARY, FAITH LEADERS NATIONWIDE OFFER PRAYERS, COMFORT AND HOPE FOR OUR COUNTRY "They're unsafe and inadequate," he added. "When you make that decision to lie down and sleep on the sidewalk, it means you've given up. It means you're not getting the help you need," said Salomon. Containers of food littered the street in the gutter next to man with the toaster oven, along with a shopping cart full of empty cans and bottles. Homelessness in the neighborhood "is an ongoing problem and we’re highly concerned about the welfare of these individuals," Westside Theatre general manager Terry Byrne told Fox News Digital in an interview. New York City’s homeless population has surged in recent years to 80,000 people, according to The Bowery Mission, a 150-year-old agency serving the hungry and homeless, citing federal data. "Homelessness in New York City has reached the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s," the Coalition for the Homeless reports. The New York City Department of Social Services and Homeless Services website says that 55,338 people, including more than 18,000 children, slept in city shelters on Sept. 11, 2022, the same day the man with the toaster event slept outside Westside Theatre. PORTLANDERS ARE TAKING PRECAUTIONS TO AVOID BEING ATTACKED IN RESPONSE TO RISING CRIME State sen. Hoylman used the same Great Depression comparison in an interview with Fox News Digital. "There are many people making money off this tragic situation but not delivering the services that the city needs," he said. The crisis comes despite billions spent on failed programs. New York City’s Department of Social Services and Homeless Services boasts an annual budget of $2.1 billion, while former comptroller Scott Stringer reported last year that the Big Apple spent a total of $3.5 billion on homelessness in 2020. That adds up to an annual spending of $43,750 per homeless person — about 50% more than the city spends per child on education. One Vanderbilt, New York City's newest luxury skyscraper that towers 1,401 feet over Midtown Manhattan — 151 feet taller than the Empire State Building — cost about $3.1 billion for private developers to build, according to industry sources. That total is less than the city's annual spending on homelessness. Yet heartbreaking images of the homeless living in deplorable conditions on the streets shock visitors who have flooded back to New York City this year — especially in high-visibility marquee locations in and around Times Square. In recent weeks, "The Crossroads of the World" has welcomed more than 350,000 pedestrians each day, according to the Times Square Alliance. That matches and even exceeds the pre-pandemic numbers of 2019. A person slept outside an empty storefront at the corner of Eighth Avenue and West 45th Street on Monday, wearing socks and sweatpants. The person's face was covered by a cardboard sign from New York City Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) touting "prime pay!" for workers. One man, also without shoes, sat bleary-eyed outside an entrance to the 42nd Street/Port Authority subway station at the corner of Eighth and 44th Street. His right hand rested on the filthy sidewalk, while his left arm was wrapped up inside his jersey. Steps away, a pile of debris spilled out of a trash bin at the corner of West 43rd Street, one of the busiest pedestrian intersections in Manhattan. "City leaders created this problem. It’s a manmade problem," Republican activist, former city council candidate and lifelong Manhattan resident Jackie Toboroff told Fox News Digital. She cited a long list of reasons for the city’s homeless explosion. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "They emptied the jails, they shut down Broadway and business for two years, they ruined education for children, they made drug use aspirational, their mandates forced people to lose their jobs, they flooded the city with illegal immigrants — and now we have the cost of the Biden economy," said Toboroff. Fox News Digital reached out to NYC's Department of Social Services and Homeless Services for comment. "The city needs some tough love right now, not whining and crying," said Salomon. "Everybody needs to grow up and fix the problem." | | | | | Kiely Rodni: The volunteer dive team that found her remains suspects foul play | | Sep 14, 2022 | | Oregon-based divers discovered the body of missing California teen Kiely Rodni and her car last month submerged in a reservoir, and now the search team's lead investigator says he suspects foul play. "It doesn’t add up," Doug Bishop told Fox News Digital of the circumstances of 16-year-old Rodni’s death. "It reeks of foul play." Kiely was last seen alive Aug. 6 at a high school send-off party with more than 300 people at a campground in Tahoe National Forest in Truckee, California. It wasn’t until a civilian dive team with a popular YouTube channel arrived Aug. 21 that her body and car were located using sonar technology in a reservoir that had already been searched just a quarter mile from the site of the gathering. KIELY RODNI CASE: SHERIFF CONFIRMS BODY PULLED FROM CALIFORNIA RESERVOIR IS MISSING 16-YEAR-OLD Adventures with Purpose delivered the grim news to Rodni's family and a dose of embarrassment to law enforcement. The for-profit group, which sells everything from T-shirts to fishing magnets emblazoned with the company’s logo, also has its share of critics. "To me, they’re monetizing and commercializing missing people," said Tammy Watters of Sonar Search and Recovery, a nonprofit she runs with her husband Dennis that assists law enforcement. On the day she went missing, Rodni sent her mother a text at 11:30 p.m. saying she’d be home in 45 minutes. At around 12:33 p.m., her phone pinged for the last time, and she and her silver Honda CRV vanished. Authorities launched an expansive search involving 18 local, state and federal agencies that spent over 19,000 man hours using divers, boats equipped with sonar and helicopters to locate Rodni. But two weeks of searching turned up few clues. The circumstances of Rodni’s disappearance were so puzzling investigators began probing the case as a possible abduction. Bishop, a former tow truck driver turned sonar expert, and his colleague, scuba instructor Nick Rinn, arrived with two videographers and a producer to film their search efforts. They combed Prosser Reservoir using sonar and located Rodni and the car after just 35 minutes. The small SUV was upside down under 14 feet of water about 55 feet from the shore, with Rodni’s remains in the rear cargo portion of the vehicle. The dramatic moment was captured on a YouTube documentary the group released, which has drawn more than 2 million views. "She’s in the back of the vehicle. She’s not in the driver’s seat. It looks suspicious to me," Rinn said. It was the first time Rinn had located a body or a car underwater. "It was so shocking because I couldn’t believe we came in after all that time and found it," he told Fox News Digital. "It was also a sad moment, a very emotional moment for all of us involved. No one wants to tell a parent, ‘We found your daughter and she’s not coming home.’" MISSING KIELY RODNI: A TIMELINE OF THE 16-YEAR-OLD'S DISAPPEARANCE FROM CAMPGROUND PARTY The young girl’s father, Daniel Rodni, was also stunned. "Right there?" the dad can be heard asking on the documentary. "How in the f--- could they have missed it!" "They missed her because of their lack of expertise and communication," Bishop told Fox News Digital of the law enforcement search. Adventures with Purpose, which primarily operates off public donations, has solved 24 cold cases in two years, Bishop said. "No matter where we solve a case, it creates drama, controversy and embarrassment," he added. The group uses sonar, the same technology local officials deployed in their search, which sends sound waves into the water that rebound when they strike an object and create an image. Bishop attributes his success to constant field experience. While most law enforcement agencies might use sonar once or twice a year to pull a car out of the water, Adventures with Purpose does so with far more frequency. KIELY RODNI'S FAMILY BREAKS SILENCE AFTER RECOVERY OF MISSING TEENS LIKELY REMAINS The company was founded by Jared Leisek, a diver whose initial objective was to clean up the marine environment by pulling abandoned cars from waterways. He teamed up with Bishop in 2019, who had a tow truck company at the time. They filmed their efforts, and viewers suggested they look for missing people — and they did. Bishop said they use small boats that can maneuver close to the shore, making it less likely that they miss an object when scanning a body of water. In addition, he asserted that his group has honed a unique expertise in interpreting sonar images. A car that has been submerged for an extended period of time has buildup and sediment that makes it easier to identify as a vehicle. When the sound waves bounce off a newly submerged object, it shows up as a bright flash that many people wouldn’t interpret accurately, he said. Bishop is convinced that Rodni’s tragic demise was no accident. For her vehicle to end up where it did, she would have to take a sharp left turn onto a rough dirt path about a quarter mile from the main road. Witnesses said she drank alcohol that night, but Bishop says she knew the area well and still would not have accidentally plunged into the reservoir. Authorities haven’t yet released her autopsy or toxicology reports. Even though the car’s passenger-side window was blown out and the rear driver’s side window was halfway down, Rodni’s remains were found in the cargo hatch. The vehicle would have sunk in seconds, according to Bishop, and it would make no sense for her to scramble over the row of backseats into the hatch’s confined space when there were two windows she could have climbed through. "You’re not going to crawl into the back and climb under a seat," he noted. In the documentary on the Rodni search, Bishop interviewed a roadside assistance worker identified only as Nick. He said he responded to a call for a dead battery at Boca Lake north of Prosser Reservoir and that the help request came Aug. 7, more than 10 hours after Rodni’s phone pinged for the last time, he said. Nick said he responded to the call and was met by a teen girl and another man and that both were acting strangely and standing at an awkward distance from each other. It turned out the car didn’t have a dead battery and that the gear shift was in neutral. The teen then repeatedly asked him how to connect her seat belt. Nick said he later saw missing posters for Rodni and realized they were the same person, according to the documentary. Investigators later obtained surveillance footage of the bizarre interaction and confirmed that the teen was either Rodni or someone who looked like her. The Nevada Sheriff’s Office said they would not provide any updates on the case until November. Bishop said the lengthy delay suggests something other than an accident. But Tammy Watters of Sonar Search and Recovery, a nonprofit that has found 104 missing people underwater since 2005, called Adventures with Purpose irresponsible for publicly broaching their foul play theory. "They’re not the police, they’re not investigators," she said. "That call is for law enforcement to make. If you have the proper experience you wouldn’t go blabbing like this." She slammed Bishop for announcing the recovery of Rodni on Facebook before law enforcement even arrived at the crime scene and one day before the sheriff’s office confirmed the remains belonged to the missing teen. "That was very not right," she said. Watters sold Adventures with Purpose their first sonar machine in 2019 after they collaborated on the Nathaniel Ashby case in Missouri. Watters identified a car in the Missouri River, and Leisek volunteered to dive in the rough currents. They eventually pulled out Ashby’s truck with his remains still inside. "I hear them saying they’re the world’s best, and I’m thinking, ‘You guys have only been doing this a few years,’" she said. Bishop said he became a certified diver in 2020. Watters was particularly upset by Bishop’s foul play theory. "Ninety percent of vehicles found with people in it, they’re normally found in the back," she said. "If it’s an SUV, they’re in the hatch." The engine is the heaviest part of the car, and it nosedives first. "As the vehicle is sinking, they’re climbing to the back to try to stay up out of the water. They’re chasing the air," Watters said. Bishop said he "highly respects" the Watterses and called them one of the most distinguished teams who do this work. "They are the godfathers of doing what we do. So, compared to them, no one has that kind of experience," Bishop added. But their operation is different. They came up in a time without social media and get their cases directly from law enforcement. "We are harnessing the power of social media to do good in the world," Bishop said. "Selling merchandise, producing a story, being a voice for the voiceless, we have to do that because that's what allows us to help the next family and spread our message." The Nevada County Sheriff's Office and Rodni's parents didn't immediately return requests for comment. | | | | | Republicans think Trump will be a midterm kingmaker. Democrats like me think he may be a spoiler | | Sep 14, 2022 | | The post-Labor Day Weekend sprint to the November midterms is officially on. The general election matchups are set and the contours of the election have taken shape. With less than two months to go, one thing is remarkably clear: while former President Donald Trump is not on the ballot, his candidates and policies certainly are. Not in recent history have we had a president, both as the incumbent and out of office, so willing to engage high-risk, low-reward, competitive political primaries. As he faces an uncertain future, one would expect that the only former president to have his home raided by the FBI would be trying to win friends and influence enemies. Instead, he has decided to declare war against his own appointees such as FBI Director Chris Wray, former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, former Attorney General Bill Barr, and others—even the architect of his legislative wins and three successful Supreme Court appointments, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Meanwhile, his decision to weigh-in on primary battles certainly tipped the scales among the MAGA base. But among centrist and independent voters, who actually decide general elections, his endorsement in battleground state races seems to be dragging many of them down with precious few weeks left in the midterm cycle. DEMOCRATS OUTPACING REPUBLICANS BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUESTS IN KEY MIDTERM STATE In November, the whole ballgame is independent voters, a group Trump has struggled with in the past. In 2020, Trump lost these voters by 9 points. Many GOP nominees tripped over themselves to secure Trump’s endorsement -- clearly a wise strategy for primary elections. However, you can bet Democrats will effectively tie those challengers to the unpopular former president. Many forget that Republicans lost two senate seats in the 2016 election even though Donald Trump swept surprisingly into office. In 2018, Republicans netted two seats, but lost seats in the key swing states of Arizona and Nevada (winning back seats in solid-red Montana, Indiana, Missouri, and trending-red Florida). And with Trump on the ballot in 2020, Democrats won the presidency and took back the Senate, winning Arizona, Colorado, and two seats in Georgia. The only upper-chamber seat to flip to Republicans that year: ruby-red Alabama. WHAT'S AT STAKE FOR REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS IN MIDTERMS NOW THAT PRIMARY ELECTION SEASON IS OVER 2022 was supposed to be the year the GOP would easily win back control from a 50-50 senate but, with just two months to go, Republican prospects are dimming for the Party shaped in Donald Trump’s image. His primary-endorsed Senate candidates in Arizona, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are vastly underperforming their Democratic rivals in both polling and fundraising. In fact, many of these races would not even be competitive for my Party had Trump not given his endorsement. That is not to say that all Trump-endorsed candidates will fail this November. The former president often makes it a habit of endorsing candidates who are already going to win in the Fall, and then claims credit for their success. Candidates like State Rep. Russell Fry in South Carolina, who defeated incumbent Rep. Tom Rice in a Republican primary, and Harriett Hageman, who beat Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, will certainly be joining the 118th Congress. CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER Ultimately, even as history tells us that the party in the White House should lose seats this year, candidates matter. Democrats like Rep. Tim Ryan in Ohio and Sens. Rafael Warnock and Mark Kelly are running much ahead of their Republican rivals because they are better candidates who know their states far better. Depending on November’s results, Republicans will have to face a reckoning as a party: will they continue to pledge fealty to Donald Trump and support his hand-picked candidates or will they realize that independent voters matter and that politics is a game of addition, not subtraction. The latter has worked quite well for Republican Governors Asa Hutchinson, Brian Kemp, Phil Scott, Larry Hogan, and Glenn Youngkin. It’s also worked for Sens. Susan Collins and Mitt Romney. They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. 2022 will test the veracity of that theory. There is no question that former President Donald Trump is a GOP primary kingmaker but come November when that supposed Red Wave hits a solid blue wall of Democrats and Independents, he may very well end up this election’s spoiler for the Republicans. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM KEVIN WALLING | | | | | Prince Harry's tell-all book: What will he reveal, and could memoir destroy relationship with royal family? | | Sep 14, 2022 | | Prince Harry penned a memoir which was set to be released this year, and cover the many unique situations he's faced as the youngest son of King Charles III, who recently ascended the throne after Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday following 70 years of service. The Duke of Sussex announced in 2021 that he signed a deal with Penguin Random House to publish a book which would cover a "firsthand account" of his life "that's accurate and wholly truthful." Initially, his tome was tentatively scheduled for a global release in late 2022 as part of a reported four-part book deal with the publishing giant. But with the Queen's death, it may be postponed into the new year, although an official release date has yet to be announced. The specific details of Harry's memoir remain unclear, but he follows in the footsteps of a few famous royals who have already opened up about life in the monarchy, and the difficulties of living in the public eye, including his late mother, Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson who divorced Prince Andrew, and even the newly appointed King Charles III. KING CHARLES III RECEIVES QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S COFFIN AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE IN LONDON "I'm writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become," Harry said in a statement. "I’ve worn many hats over the years, both literally and figuratively, and my hope is that in telling my story — the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned — I can help show that no matter where we come from, we have more in common than we think." Harry said a portion of the proceeds from the book will be donated to charity, although he did not specify which organization he would be contributing to. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex founded the Archewell Foundation shortly after departing from their royal responsibilities. "I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to share what I’ve learned over the course of my life so far and excited for people to read a firsthand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful," he said. "Prince Harry has harnessed his extraordinary life experience as a prince, a soldier, and a knowledgeable advocate for social issues, establishing himself as a global leader recognized for his courage and openness. It is for that reason we're excited to publish his honest and moving story," Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, said. PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN'S HARSH COMMENTS AND BOMBSHELL CLAIMS ABOUT THE ROYAL FAMILY: DO THEY HAVE ROYAL REGRETS? Meghan became the Duchess of Sussex after marrying Harry in May 2018 at Windsor Castle. They welcomed their first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, in 2019. Daughter Lilibet was born in June 2021. A source told Page Six recently that the book's delay may be due in part to its content. "I have heard that Harry has some truth bombs in his book that he is debating on whether to include or not," an insider revealed. "Truth bombs" are nothing new for Harry and Meghan. In 2020, they departed from royal duties due to what they described as the British media's intrusion and racist demeanor toward their family. Meghan revealed she felt suicidal before they decided to leave England and move back to her home state of California, and Harry acknowledged there was tension with his father over his decision to not only step away from his royal responsibilities, but also for his marriage to the biracial actress. "There is a lot to work through there," Harry told Oprah Winfrey during an interview released last year. "I feel really let down. He’s been through something similar. He knows what pain feels like. And Archie is his grandson. I will always love him, but there is a lot of hurt that has happened." KING CHARLES III AWAITS QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S CASKET WITH PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE Harry felt "trapped" by royal life, and said his family cut him off financially in addition to taking away any form of security after more than three decades of private assistance. "I was trapped, but I didn’t know I was trapped," Harry said. "My father and my brother, they are trapped." His feelings toward the lifestyle echoed sentiments shared by his late mother, Princess Diana, who died on Aug. 31, 1997 in a car collision in Paris. She was known as "the People's Princess" despite her disdain for the press and life in the spotlight, with paparazzi ultimately chasing her to death. The late Princess revealed to Andrew Morton in the 1992 biography, "Diana, Her True Story — in Her Own Words" that all was not well in her world, which had once been described as a "fairytale" as she had a prince for a husband and two perfect sons. Diana was in fact deeply unhappy as a royal and felt like a prisoner in a castle. She had multiple suicide attempts and revealed she suffered from an eating disorder. "Her friends and other acquaintances confirmed that behind the public smiles and glamorous image was a lonely and unhappy young woman who endured a loveless marriage, was seen as an outsider by the Queen and the rest of the royal family, and was frequently at odds with the aims and objectives of the royal system," an excerpt from the book said. She was warned by the palace to not co-operate with Morton on the book, but stayed involved, and the biography was published in May 1992. Diana separated from Charles later that year amid a host of allegations aimed at him, including an extramarital affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. During a 1995 BBC interview, Diana said her relationship with Charles was difficult and referred to his coinciding romance with Camilla. She said, "Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded." Charles and Diana's divorce was finalized on Aug. 28, 1996. The Queen reportedly wanted Diana to keep "Her Royal Highness" title, but Charles insisted the name be removed. She was still called the "Princess of Wales" as the mother to two princes, until her death a year later on Aug. 31. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER King Charles III was also not listed as the author of the 1994 "The Prince of Wales: A Biography," but collaborated with Jonathan Dimbleby in creating the book, which claimed his marriage to the late Princess Diana was forced upon him by his late father, Prince Philip. Sarah Ferguson, who was married to Prince Andrew for nearly one decade, released "My Story" in 1997, which chronicled the "frustrations, humiliations, and occasional joys of her life as a Windsor" shortly after she ended her marriage to King Charles III's younger brother. She told Oprah in 1996 that life within the royal family was "not a fairytale," and claimed, "British press at the moment is completely and utterly cruel and abusive and so invasive." "You didn't marry the fairytale, you married a man," she said at the time. "You fell in love and married a man, and then you have to come to terms with the fairytale. Now it's not a fairytale, it's real life." In her second book, "Finding Sarah: A Duchess's Journey to Find Herself," she revealed that she never knew the reason why there was a falling out with her former friend Princess Diana, but said "once Diana got something in her head it stuck there for a while." Ferguson, who has been coined "Fergie," was left out of invitations to Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, and is missing from the royal family website despite having two daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, with her ex-husband. She also still lives with Prince Andrew at the Royal Lodge, and "glowingly" speaks of him even as he continues to endure a sex abuse scandal after Virigina Giuffre sued Andrew in 2021 claiming he assaulted her under Jeffrey Epstein's behest. A settlement agreement was reached in February 2022. "And they have now been joined by the Queen’s corgis," Shannon Felton Spence, a former British public affairs officer and royal expert told Fox News Digital. "She constantly talks about how she got the best looking prince. They have maintained an extremely close relationship." "By all accounts the Yorks are a very tight-knit family," Spence explained. "A real unit. The Epstein scandal will have been very difficult, particularly for his daughters Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, and at a time when they were starting their own families. I imagine the duchess’s primary concerns were of her daughters and grandchildren through it all." Meghan, for her part, became an author in 2021 when she released her first children's book, titled "The Bench." The story, which is illustrated by Christian Robinson, was inspired by Harry's close relationship with their son Archie, as seen through a mother's eye. | | | | | Pennsylvania voters reveal what will tip the state red or blue in November | | Sep 14, 2022 | | Pennsylvanians shared whether they planned to vote Democrat or Republican in the upcoming midterm elections and what issues were influencing their decision. "Democrat because I feel like they're going to better protect our country" and "they're pro-choice," an Allentown local told Fox News. But another Pennsylvanian said he'd vote Republican. "Look around. Watch the news. It's awful. I can't do it anymore," he told Fox News. "Every time you go to the gas pump, yeah, I want to smack somebody." DEM SENATE CANDIDATE JOHN FETTERMAN DEFENDS PULLING GUN ON UNARMED BLACK JOGGER IN 2013 Lt. Gov. John Fetterman holds a five-point lead over Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race, according to a recent Susquehanna Polling and Research survey. The poll also found that voters found abortion access almost as important as the economy and inflation. "I prefer Democrats," an Allentown local, Xavier, told Fox News. "My biggest thing is just specifically about the rights." "I'm not going to pretend that I'm that hard into politics," Xavier said. "If it weren't for the fact that it's about the rights of people, like the right for people to get abortions and the right for doctors to give those abortions and not go to jail, if it weren't for the fact that those are in danger, for example, I would care a lot less." FETTERMAN TORCHED FOR SAYING ‘POORER’ PEOPLE, ‘MINORIOTIES’ LESS LIKELY TO HAVE ID TO VOTE: ‘COMPLETELY RACIST’ Fetterman, a Democrat, has claimed that Oz wants to ban all abortions and painted the Republican nominee as extreme. However, Oz has said his exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is threatened are "acceptable to most of the people that I'm speaking to on the campaign trail." FETTERMAN SAID IN 2016 HE HELD A BLACK LIVES MATTER ‘WORLDVIEW,’ CONSIDERED VIEWPOINTS TO BE ‘COMMON SENSE’ "Democrat," a teacher told Fox News, citing "education" and "women's rights" as reasons she'd be voting for that party. "I hope that the Republicans take back the House and Senate because we need to have a little more stabilization," one man, Matt, said. "I think it's great to help people. But however, I come from a family that wasn't exactly poor, we're not exactly rich, and we had to work for things." A woman named Roxy told Fox News she'd vote Democrat in part because she does "not want somebody that doesn't live here and is from Turkey." Oz, born in Cleveland, holds a dual-citizenship with Turkey. He said he would renounce his Turkish citizenship if elected to Senate. Another man, however, said he'd vote Republican "because I feel that the Democrats have let us down." | | | | | Slanted abortion media coverage through the years has sown distrust on the right | | Sep 14, 2022 | | Many conservatives don’t believe mainstream media outlets treat the polarizing issue of abortion with the nuance required to give the pro-life argument a fair shake as the left puts a spotlight on Roe v. Wade ahead of the looming midterms elections. "Everyone knows that the so-called mainstream media is dominated by Democrat reporters, so it should come as no surprise that when these Democrat reporters cover controversial issues like abortion, they're going to frame it in a way that fits their viewpoint," Article III Project founder Mike Davis told Fox News Digital. Davis, who has worked for all three branches of the federal government including for President George W. Bush, led the outside support team for Justice Neil Gorsuch’s successful confirmation to the Supreme Court. He believes the media makes "pro-abortion activists" look like they’re the mainstream while dismissing the views of pro-life conservatives, a practice that has been amplified since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year. MSNBC HOST CLAIMS PRO-LIFE CHRISTIANS ARE ‘PERVERTING THE GOSPEL,’ CLAIMS JESUS IS NOT ANTI-ABORTION "The pro-life people, the Catholic people who oppose abortion, these reporters make them look like they're extreme and outside the mainstream. These reporters pretend like abortion up until the moment of birth is within the mainstream when it's absolutely not," Davis continued. "But any reasonable restriction on abortion, including parental consent for minors, or limiting abortion in the second and third trimester, the media pretends like these are the most extremist measures." NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck feels the media coverage and tone towards abortion is one that refuses to understand or even see the pro-life argument. While Davis senses many reporters and pundits dismiss pro-life conservatives, Houck isn’t sure coastal elites have even interacted in a meaningful way with Americans from outside their liberal bubbles. "We often talk in the media business, or media watchdog business, about how the media have almost a zoo-like view of people with whom they disagree or with whom they have a different world view or life experience, where they come upon a pro-life or a conservative who is Christian, along with a lot of other mainstream conservative values, and they almost want to tap on the window, and tap on the glass, or they want to observe conservatives almost as if they're caged animals out in the wild, trying to study them and trying to understand them," Houck said, adding that many liberals can’t comprehend pro-life views. "They don't know many pro-lifers and conservatives in their families and in their friend group in Washington, D.C. and New York and Los Angeles, the three main media hubs in this country," Houck said. "And so, because of that, a lot of stories that are important to pro-lifers, such as the attacks on pro-life centers following the Supreme Court decision and the draft leak overturning Roe v Wade, it really didn't occur to a lot of folks in the left-wing media to cover those things and I think a lot of it, some of it at least, was not out of purposeful censorship or cynicism. I think it all it just did not occur to them that this thing could be happening." MSNBC’S JOY REID COMPARES SCOTUS ABORTION DECISION TO SLAVERY: ‘WHAT ALITO SAID IS, YOUR STATE OWNS YOUR BODY’ "They are very hell-bent with almost religious devotion to their pro-choice views, and anyone trying to stand in the way of that is somehow hateful and sexist and bigoted and so on and so forth," he added. Another key factor in how abortion is covered by the media is a key lack of nuance and detail when it comes to reporting on conservative views, critics argue, as well as a willful double standard on nomenclature. "Every mainstream media outlet curiously uses the term ‘anti-abortion’ to refer to pro-lifers but doesn’t use the term ‘pro-abortion' to refer to "pro-choicers,'" conservative radio host for WCBM Amber Athey said. "If you agree that a woman should have the ‘right’ or ‘choice’ to kill her child, then yes, you support abortion and are thus pro-abortion. These labels matter and are just one of the ways the media tacitly denigrates the pro-life movement in their reportage." Davis feels that Democrats "raise a significant amount of money for their candidates and causes from the abortion industry," so their allies in the mainstream media have a clear incentive to protect the source of cash. As a result, unpopular third trimester abortions are sometimes grouped with early-term abortions. "There is overwhelming support to severely limit abortions in the third trimester, but the media tries to lump the first, second and third trimesters together to make any restrictions on abortions up until the moment of birth look like it's extreme and outside the mainstream," Davis said. ‘SICK’ JOURNALIST FANTASIZES ABOUT ALITO’S DEATH, COMPOSES ‘PREWRITTEN OBITUARY’ FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Houck agrees and feels there is a "purposeful lack of nuance" in the media’s coverage of abortion. "I think that's very clear that there is no difference in the media's eyes between a 30-week abortion, 38-week abortion and a three-week abortion," Houck said. "The media loves to challenge the GOP on abortion, and they are running for office, so it's fair, but they don't challenge the Democrats on what limit -- if any -- they would place on abortion. Talking to all candidates on abortion would be balanced. But that is not happening," Kristi Hamrick of Students for Life told Fox News Digital. Examples of over-the-top abortion opinions and one-sided reporting are plentiful. CNN’s Ana Navarro controversially evoked her own family members who have special needs when attempting to justify abortion legalization. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough suggested pro-life Christians are misbelievers because there is "nothing" in the Bible that says abortion is wrong, and his colleague Joy Reid compared states determining if abortion is legal to slavery. MSNBC’s "The Cross Connection" featured a debate in which a guest called pro-life Republicans "fascists." New York magazine claimed the pro-life movement relies on "undemocratic tools." "The View" co-host Whoopi Golberg told ABC viewers that God supports abortion. MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill said the GOP wants "dogs sniffing women at airports" to prevent out-of-state abortions. KAVANAUGH ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IGNORED BY SUNDAY SHOWS NBC News Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor recently claimed that she has spoken to a number of Republican women that are voting for Democrats for the first time because of "enthusiasm" surrounding abortion, while a Washington Post columnist likened support of abortion restrictions to a "modern-day Inquisition." Left-wing outlet Teen Vogue urged readers to "fight like hell" for Democrat Stacey Abrams in the Georgia gubernatorial election because "lives are at stake" over abortion restrictions. Other examples are more subtle, and on occasion, viewers have a good idea where reporters billed as nonpartisan stand on the polarizing issue even if they don’t acknowledge it until after leaving the industry. Kate Smith, who covered "abortion access" for CBS from 2018 until 2021, quit her job last year so she could speak out on abortion rights. She had long come under fire from conservative critics for bringing an agenda to her reporting during her time at CBS News and was once called "Planned Parenthood's Ambassador to CBS News" in a scathing profile by National Review. The profile noted Smith’s friendly coverage of Planned Parenthood and tendency to rely on pro-choice sources and opinions in her news articles. Last year when Smith quit CBS, she immediately spoke out about her support for abortion rights, and she has since joined Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, as its senior director of news content. FORMER CBS REPORTER BECOMES PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S 'NEWS CONTENT' DIRECTOR "It's noteworthy that CBS had Kate Smith as its abortion reporter and then Kate went in-house to Planned Parenthood. So, Planned Parenthood didn't have to have their outside spokespeople at CBS do their bidding anymore. They just brought Kate Smith in-house," Davis said. Sometimes bias is obvious only to viewers tuned into the media landscape despite attempts by the reporter or pundit to masquerade as neutral. Such was the case earlier this year, as CNN relied on then-chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin for punditry regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The decision raised eyebrows, as critics felt Toobin has a severe conflict of interest. CNN BLASTED FOR HAVING JEFFREY TOOBIN DOMINATE SCOTUS COVERAGE AFTER HE PRESSURED MISTRESS TO HAVE ABORTION Toobin, a reliably liberal pundit who has since left CNN, fathered a child in 2009 with Casey Greenfield, the daughter of Toobin's one-time CNN colleague Jeff Greenfield. Toobin urged Greenfield to have an abortion, reportedly even offering money to terminate the pregnancy. Toobin was later taken to court after he denied the child was his, but was ordered to pay child support after he was forced to take a DNA test which proved he was the child's biological father. "Absolutely wild to have CNN go to Toobin for abortion commentary," GOP strategist Matt Whitlock reacted. "If anyone knows anything about forced abortion it's Toobin," Versus Media podcast host Stephen Miller quipped. Toobin offered a grim prediction if abortion becomes outlawed nationally, pointing to similar bans in Central and South American countries, saying, "The rate of abortion does not go down when abortion is banned... what's different is that women die and women are horribly mutilated because abortion is conducted in an unsafe way." Davis noted that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade more than two months ago, but Americans aren’t exactly seeing "women dying in back alley abortions like the Democrats proclaimed would happen," which would surely command wall-to-wall coverage by the mainstream media if the tragic scenario predicted by Toobin actually occurred. "What's happening is, democracy is working in the 50 states. Kansas just rejected abortion regulations, and so it's going to be up to the states instead of five unelected, lifetime-appointed justices on the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., who are deciding these issues," Davis said. The media has even attempted to hold corporate America’s feet to the fire when it comes to abortion. The Washington Post published a report on how the video game industry has been "mostly silent" on the fight to preserve Roe v. Wade and tried to get some of the biggest names in gaming to plant their flag on the battlefield. Business magazine Fast Company similarly sought out corporations to take a stand on abortion by urging them to take a "survey," CBS host Nate Burleson pressed Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan about whether his company will cover travel expenses for women to get abortions in other states, and CBS' Gayle King asked United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby if he intends to "speak out publicly about these issues." Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh came alarmingly close to being the victim of an assassination attempt in June in the aftermath of the controversial Politico report of a leaked draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, but the media largely yawned at the development after an initial wave of coverage of the breaking news. The New York Times put the story on page A20 the following day, and the threat didn't make the front page of USA Today or the Chicago Tribune. MSNBC's primetime shows between 8 and 11 p.m. ignored it that evening, and the Sunday talk shows on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN ignored it completely. LEGALLY RECOGNIZING 'PERSONHOOD' OF UNBORN BABIES WILL 'HARM' 'HEALTH' OF PREGNANT WOMEN: NY TIMES GUEST ESSAY A study by Houck's NewsBusters, a right-leaning media watchdog, found ABC, CBS and NBC's morning shows on Thursday, the day after the incident, devoted three times more coverage to previewing that evening's primetime Jan. 6 committee hearing than the threat to Kavanaugh's life. Many suspect that abortion will be highlighted ahead of the critical upcoming midterm elections, as Democrats and their allies in the press feel it’s an issue that could help them at the polls. "We've been seeing from ‘CBS Mornings’ in particular, one of the broadcast network shows, that they are continuing to focus on abortion and try to make abortion a focus, portraying it as the number one issue for voters, while sometimes hilariously slipping into the piece either towards the end or buried somewhere in the middle, that, oh, actually, voters believe that is the economy," Houck said. Aaron Gardner, a Republican candidate for State Senate in Michigan, was recently featured in a four-minute segment on CNN. "State of the Union" anchor Dana Bash went around the Michigan State Fair speaking with attendees as the network’s on-screen graphic said, "In battleground Michigan, abortion politics take center stage." Bash spent the first two minutes of the segment speaking with voters who are concerned about the GOP stance on abortion, spotlighting Republican Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon’s conservative views and highlighting Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s pro-choice agenda. NBC’S ALCINDOR SAYS REPUBLICAN WOMEN VOTING DEMOCRAT FOR FIRST TIME OVER NEW ‘ENTHUSIASM' ON ABORTION Bash then spoke to Gardner, who was essentially the token conservative to offer the opposing view. He believes Michiganders are much more concerned with issues such as jobs, if their kids are safe in school, the housing market, the cost of gas, rising crime rates and the economy, but was only on-screen for about 20 seconds. "Mainstream media isn’t only informing the public about issues. They are putting their thumb on the scale by attempting to dictate what issues are important the voters by editing quotes to fit their narrative," Gardner told Fox News Digital. "This is not journalism -- it is political advocacy. Right now, mainstream media is pushing an issue such as abortion, to misguide the public and distract them from the issues they think about upon waking up." Bash managed to find a critic of Whitmer at the state fair, who told CNN that he preferred Dixon, but she needs "to be more liberal with that abortion situation." When CNN shared the clip on social media, the quote about needing to be more liberal with abortion was used to promote the segment. As Americans are hit with hidden agendas, bias by omission and refusal to understand the pro-life argument, Houck feels the "pretty huge double standard" can be easily summed up simply by noting the lack-of attention given to the March for Life compared to glowing coverage the Women’s March receives from the mainstream media. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "From 2013 to 2016, there was only a combined one minute and 40 seconds on those four Marches for Life. And in 2017, because Donald Trump had taken the White House with the support of pro-lifers, the coverage had ballooned to nearly 22 minutes, but that still paled in comparison to over 75 minutes on the broadcast network morning and evening newscasts looking at the Women's March, and things only went downhill from there," Houck said. Fox News’ Andrew Kugle, David Rutz and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report. | | | | | Zero arrests in at least 16 Jane's Revenge attacks on pro-life organizations | | Sep 14, 2022 | | Not a single arrest has been made in the more than a dozen attacks on pro-life organizations across the country claimed by left-wing pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge. Jane’s Revenge has claimed responsibility for at least 18 arson and vandalism attacks on crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) and other faith-based organizations throughout the U.S. since the May 2 leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. The Federal Bureau of Investigation first told Fox News Digital in June that it had launched an investigation into the targeted vandalism. The FBI said in a Sept. 7 statement that it was still investigating the "series of attacks and threats targeting pregnancy resource centers, faith-based organizations, and reproductive health clinics across the country, as well as to judicial buildings, including the US Supreme Court," but it made no mention of Jane’s Revenge specifically. "The incidents are being investigated as potential acts of domestic violent extremism, FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act violations or violent crime matters, depending on the facts of each case," the FBI told Fox News Digital in an email. "The FBI takes all violence and threats of violence very seriously, and we are working closely with our law enforcement partners at the national, state and local levels to investigate these incidents." LETTER SIGNED BY RADICAL ABORTION GROUP JANE'S REVENGE DECLARES ‘OPEN SEASON’ ON PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS Jane’s Revenge, formed this year, has claimed responsibility for at least 18 acts of vandalism and arson nationwide in the name of abortion rights. The first of the attacks occurred on May 8 at Wisconsin Family Action in Madison, which was firebombed and vandalized with the threat, "If abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either." No arrests have been made in the case, which is still considered active, police told Fox News Digital. "Not only have no arrests been made, but to the best of my knowledge, no person of interest as even been apprehended or brought in for questioning," Wisconsin Family Action President Julaine Appling told Fox News Digital on Monday. Appling said she hasn’t heard from any federal or local authorities regarding the case since early June. The same day of the attack in Madison, Jane's Revenge posted its first communiqué on the anonymous blogging host noblogs.org with a picture of the vandalism and demanding "the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days." REPUBLICANS PUSH DOJ TO PROTECT PRO-LIFE CENTERS FROM ‘ASSAULT’ BY VIOLENT ACTIVISTS In another online statement on June 15, Jane's Revenge suggested it had local cells operating around the country and would continue its violence, calling it "open season." "Your thirty days expired yesterday. We offered an honourable [sic] way out. You could have walked away. Now the leash is off. And we will make it as hard as possible for your campaign of oppression to continue. We have demonstrated in the past month how easy and fun it is to attack. We are versatile, we are mercurial, and we answer to no one but ourselves," the statement said. Since the Madison attack, Jane’s Revenge has claimed to have carried out more than a dozen additional acts of vandalism on pro-life organizations. Fox News Digital has reached out to the police departments investigating each incident and found that not a single arrest has been made or publicized. Jane’s Revenge claimed it carried out the vandalism on May 14 at Alpha Pregnancy Center in Reisterstown, Maryland. "An arrest has not been made in reference to this case," the Baltimore County Police Department told Fox News Digital. "Our detectives are following up on leads and have been in communication with our federal partners throughout this investigation." Jane’s Revenge claimed responsibility for the May 22 defacing of Saint Michael Parish in Olympia, Washington. "That investigation is still open at this time. No arrests have been made," the Olympia Police Department told Fox News Digital. "If anyone has information about that crime, please call the Olympia Police Department at 360-753-8300." FBI INVESTIGATING ATTACKS ON PREGNANCY CENTERS AS POTENTIAL ACTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENT EXTREMISM Jane’s Revenge claimed responsibility for the smashed windows and graffiti at Next Step Pregnancy Services on May 25 in Lynnwood, Washington. "No arrests have been made," Lynnwood Police Department told Fox News Digital. On May 30, vandals targeted the Dove Medical Center in Eugene, Oregon, in a rowdy demonstration organized by Jane’s Revenge. While multiple arrests were made that night for disorderly conduct, no one was arrested for spray-painting "ABORTION IS HEALTHCARE" on the building. "We didn’t make subsequent arrests or have investigations after the incident on June 24/25 was over," the Eugene Police Department told Fox News Digital. "There were no arrests made for property destruction that night." Jane’s Revenge claimed responsibility for two attacks on June 2, one on the Agape Pregnancy Resource Center in Des Moines, Iowa, and another at the Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center in Washington, D.C. No arrests were made in either case, police told Fox News Digital. COTTON: GARLAND MUST RESIGN OVER DOJ INACTION ON JANE’S REVENGE, MORE THAN 50 ATTACKS ON PRO-LIFE GROUPS The Metropolitan Police Department told Fox News Digital that the case in D.C. is currently classified as "suspended," which means every reasonable avenue of investigation has been pursued and exhausted, and the case is no longer active until and unless any additional information is presented. Jane’s Revenge claimed credit for two more attacks on June 7, one on CompassCare Pregnancy Services in Amherst, New York, which resulted in the injuries of two firefighters, and one at the Mountain Area Pregnancy Services in Asheville, North Carolina. No arrests have been made in either case and the investigations are ongoing, police told Fox News Digital. There have been no arrests in the June 8 attack at Options360 Women's Clinic in Vancouver, Washington, which is still being investigated, police told Fox News Digital. Vandals splattered the building with red paint and spray-painted it with "Jane’s Revenge." On June 14, Jane’s Revenge claimed responsibility for smashing windows and spray-painting "ABORTION IS LIBERATION" at Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life in Minneapolis. Police told Fox News Digital no arrests were made, and the case is currently "closed." Jane’s Revenge claimed credit for the June 20 vandalism at Redford Pregnancy Care Center in Michigan. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, police told Fox News Digital. The Respect Life Ministry office in Hollywood, Florida, the Lennon Pregnancy Center in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, the Life Choices clinic in Longmont, Colorado, and the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center in Lynchburg, Virginia, were also hit with vandalism on May 30, June 19, June 25 and June 25, respectively, in separate attacks claimed by Jane’s Revenge. Those police departments did not respond to Fox News Digital’s inquiries, but the four clinics said they’re not aware of any arrests being made. "The FBI is continuing to follow leads," a Blue Ridge spokesperson told Fox News Digital. Jane’s Revenge also claimed responsibility for the July 8 vandalism at Clearway Clinic in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Aug. 18 vandalism at Bethlehem House in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Those two centers and the police departments investigating each case did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment. Fox News Digital compiled only the attacks specifically claimed by Jane’s Revenge and not the dozens of additional attacks that are attributed to the group due to similar tactics and messaging. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, in June demanded that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland resign over the Biden administration Justice Department’s inaction on prosecuting Jane's Revenge members for the wave of attacks. Cotton, who is the ranking member for the subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism, the Intelligence Committee and the Armed Services Committee, has called on the DOJ to investigate Jane’s Revenge as a "domestic terrorist organization." Fox News’ David Rutz contributed to this report. | | | | | |
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