| Houston rapper 'The Breadman' gets 23 years for drug trafficking | | Sep 20, 2022 | | A 43-year-old Houston rapper known as "The Breadman" was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison for drug trafficking in the Houston area. Jermaine West pleaded guilty April 6 to 10 counts of drug trafficking related to the distribution of various drugs, including methamphetamine, cocaine and opioids, the Justice Department said. The prison time will be followed by six years of supervised released. During the court hearing, U.S. District Judge George Hanks heard prosecutors allege West also engaged in gang activity. Hanks said West "destroyed people's live" and that "for 20 years [West] played a dangerous game," and that he had "played the game and lost." TEKASHI 6IX9INE'S GIRLFRIEND ARRESTED AT MIAMI HOTSPOT FPR ALLEGEDLY SLUGGING HIM IN THE FACE West was Hood part of the Houston-based Kat Music Group rap studio. The investigation into West involved multiple law enforcement agencies and began in 2019 when authorities learned West was trafficking drugs, federal prosecutors said. West will be transferred to a federal prison to serve his sentence, the DOJ said. | | | | | Oregon man pleads guilty to breaking windows, destroying Planned Parenthood property | | Sep 20, 2022 | | An Oregon man pleaded guilty Monday to breaking windows and destroying property at a Planned Parenthood because the clinic provided abortion services. Devin Friedrick Kruse, 27, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a law passed by Congress in 1994 in response to an increase in violence toward patients and providers of abortion services. According to court documents, Kruse broke security cameras, a window, and a sign at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grants Pass, Oregon on November 23, 2021. Several days later he returned to the property, threw a concrete block through its window, tore down an intercom system, and broke several light bulbs, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a press release. NEW YORK CITY ANARCHIST GROUP PROTESTS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER THEY SAY ADVOCATES ‘AGAINST HAVING ABORTIONS’ Kruse later admitted he damaged property at the clinic because he was mad at Planned Parenthood for "killing unborn children." Kruse was charged earlier this year by misdemeanor criminal information with two counts of violating the FACE Act which is punishable by up to one year in federal prison. His sentencing is scheduled to begin in early January. As part of his plea deal, Kruse must pay restitution in full to Planned Parenthood as identified by the government prior to sentencing and ordered by the court. | | | | | California parents petition SCOTUS over Gavin Newsom's COVID-induced school closures | | Sep 20, 2022 | | The Center for American Liberty and the Dhillon Law Group, filed a petition to the Supreme Court last week to overturn a decision by the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, which dismissed the case Brach v. Newsom, regarding California's school closures during COVID. The Ninth Circuit court ruled that the lawsuit was moot because Newsom had allowed in-person education to resume. However, the petition to the Supreme Court noted that other circuit courts have "concluded that challenges to an executive’s emergency restrictions are not moot when the declaration of emergency remains in effect." The petitioners "include parents of school-age children in California who challenged Governor Newsom’s school-closure policy because they wanted to send their children to private school in person," the petition states. CONNECTICUT TEACHER'S CONTROVERSIAL WORKSHEET ENRAGES PARENTS, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS: 'FRUSTRATING AS HELL' Brach v. Newsom was filed on behalf of plaintiffs who challenged Gov. Newsom's order barring in-classroom education in over 30 counties across California. Newsom announced in the summer of 2020 that schools will remain closed at the beginning of the fall semester in more than 30 counties across California. Newsom's plan also required a county to be off the state's "monitoring list" for 14 days in order to open in-person instruction. The Vice President of Education Policy at California Policy Center Lance Christensen told Fox News Digital that "California arbitrarily closed schools at the behest of the teacher union and kept kids out of classrooms, damaging the lives of millions of kids unnecessarily." "All because they were political pawns," Christensen said. Christensen went on to say, "As the Supreme Court showed when overturning Gavin’s order on closing churches, the court’s rule should be consistent to a rule that kids deserve a right to high-quality public education without the politics and the fearmongering." OREGON PARENTS RIGHTS GROUP FILES PETITION AGAINST OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY OVER SCHOOL VACCINE MANDATE "The Supreme Court must step in and check Gavin Newsom's ability to side-step the legislative process and parental rights when unilaterally issuing decrees that have harmed millions of Californians and continue to present a risk," said CEO of the Center for American Liberty," Harmeet K. Dillon. California, as well as other states, implemented school closures at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Such measures have raised concern on the ramifications it had on student's academic performances and declining literacy rates. Fox News' Amy McGrorry contributed to this report. | | | | | Ivanka Trump spotted enjoying the last few days of summer in Miami | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Ivanka Trump is enjoying the last few days of summer in Miami. Over the weekend, Ivanka, 40, was spotted in a strapless, red bikini top with white and navy blue striped shorts as she chatted with friends under the Florida sun. Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, was seen accompanying his wife. Ivanka and Kushner live in Miami with their three children: Arabella, 11, Joseph, 8 and Theodore, 6. It appears that former president Donald Trump’s daughter is fully embracing the Miami lifestyle since she moved her family to Florida in January 2021. IVANKA TRUMP SENDS 1M MEALS TO UKRAINIAN REFUGEES The couple lived in Washington, D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood before opting for a change of scenery. Meanwhile, Trump resides in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, with his wife, former first lady Melania Trump. On Sunday, Ivanka took to Instagram and shared a video and two images of herself wakesurfing off a boat. She captioned her post with a series of surfing, wave, rainbow and even a laughing face emoji. Ivanka’s post had Instagram users wondering if the clips were from a "green screen." "Looks like so much fun!" one commenter wrote. Earlier this month, Ivanka's husband of nearly 13 years was spotted with a bandage on his neck while the family was on a boat ride in Miami. The outing came just days after Kushner, 41, underwent a second surgery for thyroid cancer at the Mayo Clinic. Kushner confirmed his second surgery for thyroid cancer, telling The National Desk he had had it the week prior, and "it was very successful." He privately battled thyroid cancer while serving as White House adviser to Trump. Ivanka recently made headlines after Chelsea Clinton said she hasn’t spoken to her since she went to the "dark side" in November 2016. During that time, Trump and Hillary Clinton were running for President of the United States. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER "I would say we were friends," Chelsea Clinton said during a recent interview on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen." "She’s not the person I called when I was curious about something for my kids or if I was debating a life decision, but we were definitely friends. And then she went to the dark side." In February 2015, Clinton told Vogue Magazine she considers Ivanka a close friend. "I still consider her [Ivanka] a very close friend, and she considers me as well," Clinton said. "We have a great relationship." "She’s always aware of everyone around her and ensuring that everyone is enjoying the moment." Clinton added. "It’s an awareness that in some ways reminds me of my dad, and his ability to increase the joy of the room. There’s nothing skin-deep about Ivanka." Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report. | | | | | MSNBC guest claims 'White people turn violent when they don't politically get their way:' 'It's what they do' | | Sep 20, 2022 | | MSNBC guest Elie Mystal slammed White people as being violent racists during an appearance on "The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross" Saturday. His remarks were made during a discussion about the Department of Justice's (DOJ) investigation into former President Donald Trump. "The cause of the problem is, of course, is Trump himself and his MAGA acolytes themselves and the people who are willing to do the violence in Trump's name," Mystal said. He was referring to Trump's remark that the American people "would [not] stand for" the DOJ indicting him. NEWSOM SLAMS ‘MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE’ MIGRANT TRANSPORTS DESPITE LAUNCHING HOMELESS BUS PROGRAM AS SF MAYOR "I think if it happened, I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before. I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it," Trump told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. Mystal argued that Trump's remarks constituted a violent threat and that said violence was unsurprising because Trump is a White man. "I guess I want to say that I'm not surprised that he's threatening this because A. He's literally done it before, and B. This is literally what conservative White folks do when they don't get their way - they turn violent," Mystal argued. "As the Black man in this country, as a person who is aware of the Black history in the New World, White people turn violent when they don't politically get their way all the damn time in this country. It's what they do," he emphasized. BUTTIGIEG CONFRONTED ON ‘ERRONEOUSLY NAMED’ INFLATION REDUCTION ACT, CELEBRATION AMID HIGH PRICES "From the perspective of a Black person, I'm kind of like, 'Welcome to the world that I've been living in America.' Because now, what we have is White domestic terrorists threatening to turn violence against non-Black people, against everybody else if the White supremacist ideology doesn't win the day and their White supremacist king is held accountable for crime," he said. Tiffany Cross, the host, agreed with Mystal's remarks. "You're not opining," she said. "That statement is rooted in history and fact." Mystal has a history of racist remarks. He previously called Black Republicans "tokens who are out here right now shucking and jiving for their White handlers." He also called for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to be prosecuted by the DOJ for "kidnapping" in reaction to their transporting illegal immigrants to other states. He said, "Imagine Ron DeSantis goes up to a group of white teenagers, offers them some candy and says, ‘Hey, I’m gonna take you to Dinsey World if you get in my van.’ And then Ron DeSantis drives them to Bush Gardens." "That’s kidnappings," he claimed, adding, "You’re not allowed to do that." | | | | | | | Titans' Taylor Lewan carted off with knee injury vs. Bills | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Tennessee Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan was carted off to the locker room after suffering a knee injury against the Buffalo Bills on Monday night. Lewan was officially ruled as questionable to return to the game. Lewan, the longest-tenured offensive lineman on the team, needed help walking off the field in the first quarter following the first offensive play of the night for the Titans. He didn’t seem to make any bad contact with a Bills player, but rather he fell to the turf and was in clear pain. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM A three-time Pro Bowler from 2016-2018, Lewan’s loss had Dennis Daley come into the game for him. Daley was a sixth-round pick out of South Carolina in the 2019 NFL Draft. JOSH GORDON GETS LATEST NFL OPPORTUNITY AS TITANS ELEVATE HIM FROM PRACTICE SQUAD The 6-foot-6, 325-pound lineman is versatile, having the ability to play guard, but he will have to deal with Pro Bowl edge rusher Von Miller for the rest of the game. Though it's unknown if he'll have to miss any time moving forward, Lewan has not played a full season with the Titans since the 2017 campaign. NFL HANDS OUT OVER $54,000 IN FINES FOR UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT, TAUNTING FROM WEEK 1 Lewan has been with the Titans since 2014, having been the 11th overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft to secure the blindside of then-quarterback Zach Mettenberger. The Titans still managed to score on their opening drive as Tennessee went for it on fourth-and-goal and running back Derrick Henry punched it in to tie the game at seven apiece. Bills fullback Reggie Gilliam got the scoring started on the Bills' opening drive with a screen that went for a touchdown. | | | | | Saints' Dennis Allen had 'conversation' with Marshon Lattimore, confused by Mike Evans suspension | | Sep 20, 2022 | | New Orleans Saints coach Dennis Allen said Monday he talked to cornerback Marshon Lattimore following his involvement in a fight with Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans. Lattimore and Evans were ejected from their Week 2 game on Sunday. But on Monday, Evans was the only one out of the two players who received a suspension. Allen was asked about whether he talked with Lattimore about the incident. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "He and I had a conversation. He understands. He understands that he can't retaliate and that's something that teams in this league are going to continue to try him on," Allen said, via the team’s website. "A lot of the instances that I can think of, it's generally been a retaliation deal." Lattimore and Evans have history as the wide receiver was suspended for pushing Lattimore to the ground in 2017. COWBOYS' MICAH PARSONS PLAYS THROUGH PAIN 'EVERY WEEK' TO BE THERE FOR THE TEAM: 'PART OF THE GAME' "I don't understand how (the NFL) comes to the conclusion of what they're coming to (with Evans). Certainly, I felt like what he did was way more egregious than what Marshon did, and it's the second time that that's happened. I'm not sure how they come up with those designations," Allen added. "These altercations typically kind of occur with the people that are involved and not people that are not involved." Lattimore is a four-time Pro Bowl cornerback and was the 2017 Defensive Rookie of the Year. Through two games this season, he had five tackles and one pass defended. | | | | | Kathie Lee Gifford urges Janice Dean to forgive Andrew Cuomo after reports his team plotted to discredit her | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Kathie Lee Gifford is urging Fox News’ senior meteorologist Janice Dean to forgive former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo months after reports surfaced that his top allies plotted to discredit her because she spoke up about the COVID-19 nursing home scandal following the deaths of her in-laws. "Pray that he comes to know Yeshua," Gifford said on a new episode of "The Janice Dean Podcast." "Pray that he becomes a good practicing Catholic like you are, goes back to his church, and you know, believes in something bigger than himself, believes in real justice, real righteousness." "If Jesus can forgive on the cross, you can forgive right now. All you have to do is say, ‘Thank you, Jesus...You have forgiven me for everything I have ever done. Lord, I choose to forgive him.’" Following the deaths of both her in-laws in 2020, Dean began speaking out on then-Gov. Cuomo's controversial policy ordering assisted-living facilities to accept COVID-positive patients in the early weeks of the pandemic. Last December, the New York Post reported Friday that fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, brother of Andrew Cuomo, was in close contact with the governor's office and expressed his desire to target the Fox News star, according to a source. So, forgiveness comes difficult for Dean. However, Gifford explained, forgiveness does not mean bending over and being a doormat. As she told Dean, she can work toward justice. POPE FRANCIS: WESTERN SOCIETY HAS 'TAKEN THE WRONG PATH' ON ASSISTED SUICIDE, ABORTION "You have such hurts because you lost two people that are precious to you and you have this sense of justice now, not just for them, but for everybody who lost somebody they love," she told Dean. "That shouldn't change... You know what that’s called in the Bible? Righteous anger. Nobody had more of a right to be angry, righteously, than Jesus, but he stayed on that cross. He could have come down as they taunted him. He chose, he said ‘Father, forgive them.’ Right now, you can do it sweetie, and I don't want you carrying this around anymore." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Gifford shared that her family lost many people through the Holocaust and explained how many survivors "learned that they had to forgive," acknowledging the cost of carrying around wounds throughout life. LISTEN TO THE LATEST EPISODE OF ‘THE JANICE DEAN PODCAST’ HERE: "The price you pay is awful, so much disease is based in loss, a lack of forgiveness and... if you can't forgive, we can't expect God to forgive us. Jesus said you've got to forgive or you can't be forgiven," she said. "You have to do it, darlin' and you'll just be so grateful. ‘Thank you, Jesus. I don't want to carry this around.’" Episodes of "The Janice Dean Podcast" are available now at foxnewspodcasts.com. | | | | | Biden economic adviser: Government policy not contributing to inflation | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Jared Bernstein, the chief economist to President Biden, joined ‘The Story’ Monday to defend the administration's actions in combating inflation, including the controversial Inflation Reduction Act. JARED BERNSTEIN: So you want to be careful not to conflate some issues here. So one issue is, is the government stepping on the fiscal accelerator? That is, is government fiscal policy contributing to inflation, say, this year? And the answer, based on over $1,000,000,000,000 of deficit reduction, is no. INFLATION IS BIDEN'S ‘TOP PRIORITY’ AS PRICES REMAIN ‘UNCOMFORTABLY HIGH:’ WH ECONOMIC ADVISER That doesn't negate the point that inflation is too high, which it is, and we're doing everything we can to help. As you played in your introduction, the last couple of months have been a respite. And, of course, gas prices have been a real bit of breathing room for American consumers. INFLATION REDUCTION ACT NOT WORKING SO FAR But if you look at the government's fiscal role, much like you described the Federal Reserve, the fiscal impulse is a strong negative from the government sector this year. That's baked in the cake. Oh, by the way, you said a lot of that is just the spending falling off. That's definitely part of it, Martha. You're not wrong. TIM SCOTT SUGGESTS ‘THE INFLATION ACCELERATION ACT’ IS A BETTER NAME FOR BIDEN'S LEGISLATION But actually, in percentage terms, the bigger increase is receipts coming into the treasury, receipts coming into the treasury up about 25% in fiscal year 22, spending down about 18%. So the percentage increase in receipts has been even larger. That is a function of the strong Biden recovery. DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP HERE WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE: | | | | | Bryson DeChambeau gets tangled in gallery rope at LIV Golf event | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Bryson DeChambeau had an unfortunate moment at the LIV Golf Invitational Chicago on Sunday. As he was trying to make his way to his ball, DeChambeau misjudged the gallery rope and walked right into it. The rope was being held up by a volunteer and didn’t give DeChambeau enough space for him to get underneath it and the rope got caught on his head. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM DeChambeau went to one knee to get back in order. One of the announcers on the stream of the event could be heard saying: "Off with his head." The Chicago tournament was held at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Hill, Ill. DeChambeau finished in 10th place shooting 6-under par in the 54-hole tournament. He was seven strokes behind British Open champion Cameron Smith. PHIL MICKELSON SAYS PGA TOUR WILL NEVER AGAIN HAVE ‘ALL THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE WORLD’ Smith shot 13-under par. He didn’t shoot above a 69 in the three rounds. He won $4 million from the $20 million purse for individual play. "I think I had to prove to myself and other people that I'm still a great player, I'm still out here to win golf tournament," Smith said. "I didn't have my best stuff, but I stuck tough and made some putts." Peter Uihlen and Dustin Johnson finished three strokes off the lead. The next LIV Golf event is in three weeks in Bangkok. The Associated Press contributed to this report. | | | | | Sen. Durbin says his son was a victim of PPP fraud, calls for more oversight of federal COVID-19 funds | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pushed for more federal oversight of COVID-19 relief funds on Monday, saying that his own family was victim to fraud related to the Paycheck Protection Program. "I think that a lot of money was wasted and stolen," Durbin told reporters on Capitol Hill. "I have a family example where my son was accused of defaulting on a $140,000 PPP loan for the Durbin construction company. There's no Durbin construction company," he said. "Somebody had stolen his identity and secured [a] $140,000 loan." Fraud related to PPP loans could be upwards of $100 billion, Department of Justice Inspector General and Pandemic Response Accountability Committee Chair Michael Horowitz told Fox News earlier this year. The revelation about Durbin's family came during a discussion about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flying 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard last week, which the Washington Post first reported was done using federal COVID-19 funds. NYC MAYOR ADAMS CONFIRMS MIGRANT DEATH BY SUICIDE AT CITY SHELTER, BLAMES TEXAS GOV. ABBOTT The American Rescue Plan set aside about $350 billion for states and local governments through the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. Interest on earnings associated with Florida's share of those funds, about $12 million, were appropriated to the Department of Transportation to implement a "program to facilitate the transport of unauthorized aliens from this state consistent with federal law." "The legislature gave me $12 million," DeSantis said at a press conference on Friday. "We're going to spend every penny of that to make sure that we're protecting the people of the state of Florida." Sen. Durbin called the flights to Martha's Vineyard a "political stunt." "He's moving people from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. For goodness' sake that money should be spent at least for the people of Florida and for a good purpose." Fox News' Kelly Phares contributed to this report. | | | | | MSNBC guest says 'only two options' for immigration: 'Letting people into this country' or 'letting them die' | | Sep 20, 2022 | | MSNBC guest Francesca Fiorentini suggested on Sunday night that America must let illegal immigrants into the country because the only other option is "death." MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin spoke with a panel about how Republican governors have been shipping illegal immigrants to areas populated by wealthy liberal elites. Fiorentini slammed Republicans but went on to suggest that both sides have been too tough on illegal immigrants in recent years. "But the reality is that cruelty on the border has been a bipartisan consensus, sadly," she claimed. "And Democrats have been dragged to the right by Republicans, further militarizing the border, giving CBP [Customs and Border Patrol] even more money. This is one of the largest federal agencies that is insanely militarized, right? It has crazy jurisdiction." BORDER AGENTS BLAST KAMALA HARRIS' BORDER CLAIM, SAY IT'S ‘FAR FROM SECURE’ The comedian suggested that the Democratic Party needs to be more compassionate to the waves of people trying to cross America’s southern border. "And so, I am looking for vision from Democrats on actually, not just humanizing migrants — which is just the lowest bar right? But truly, how can we be better than the narco gangs that these folks are running from?" she said. After suggesting many migrants have been coming from Venezuela, she recalled waves of migration from other troubled nations. "Only a few months ago, you had Haitian migrants being chased on horseback. And yet, Ukrainian migrants, refugees, have been welcomed into this country - which they should be," Fiorentini claimed. DESANTIS HITS BACK AT CRITICS OVER HIS MOVE TO FLY MIGRANTS TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD She pitched the complicated political problem in simplistic terms. "And the answer is this: It is either death or accepting folks into this country. There is only two options here. And I will go with letting people into this country instead of letting them die," she said. The host, rather than pushing back, appeared to agree. | | | | | Chiefs linebacker Willie Gay suspended 4 games due to January arrest | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Kansas City Chiefs starting linebacker Willie Gay was suspended for four games due to a violation of the NFL’s personal conduct policy. This suspension stems from a January arrest in Overland Park, Kansas, where Gay was charged with criminal property damage of less than $1,000, which is a misdemeanor. He had agreed to a diversion program for the case to be resolved. The suspension begins immediately, so Gay won’t be able to play until Week 7 against the San Francisco 49ers. He will miss games, in order, against the Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Las Vegas Raiders and Buffalo Bills. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Gay is also not allowed to use the Chiefs’ practice facility or have any contact with team officials for the next two weeks. Once that has passed, he’s allowed to enter the facility and attend meetings. JEFF BEZOS HANGS WITH ROGER GOODELL, OTHER NFL ROYALTY IN AMAZON'S THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL DEBUT Over the first two games this season, Gay has 16 tackles, which is tied for second-most on the team. He also has one quarterback hit and two tackles for loss. Gay, a second-round pick by the Chiefs in the 2020 NFL Draft, had 87 tackles in his first two seasons with Kansas City, including one forced fumble, two interceptions and seven passes defended. In the meantime, Nick Bolton, the Chiefs’ other starting linebacker, will be asked to pick up the slack. Bolton has the team lead in tackles right now at 20, and he emerged last season as a player head coach Andy Reid can trust. CHIEFS HOLD OFF CHARGERS IN BATTLE OF AFC WEST RIVALS, YOUNG PHENOM QBs The second-round pick of the 2021 NFL Draft had 112 combined tackles with a fumble recovery for a touchdown and three passes defended. He had 11 tackles for loss and three quarterback hits as well. Leo Chenal, a third-round rookie this year, and Darius Harris could fill Gay's snap count at linebacker. Carlos Dunlap will also be in the mix as the strong side linebacker. | | | | | Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat COO, Doug Ramsey, arrested for biting driver's nose after Arkansas football game | | Sep 20, 2022 | | A food executive was arrested over the weekend for allegedly biting a man's nose during a fight after a college football game. Doug Ramsey, 53, the chief operations officer of Beyond Meat, was taken into police custody Saturday on charges of terroristic threatening and third-degree battery, Fox 24 reported. The attack occurred at a parking garage near Razorback Stadium following a University of Arkansas victory over Missouri State. A police officer responded to the scene Gate 15 over a reported disturbance where two men were found with bloody faces, the report said. The officer spoke with witnesses and determined Ramsey was in a traffic lane and attempting to leave when the driver of a Subaru "inches his way" in front of Ramsey's vehicle. Ramsey allegedly got out the vehicle and "punched through the back windshield of the Subaru," according to the station, citing a preliminary police report. SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS ‘CANCER FREE’ AFTER THYROID SURGERY During the alleged attack, Ramsey allegedly bit the other man's nose, "ripping the flesh of the tip of the hose," the report said. The victim and a witness told authorities Ramsey threatened to kill the Subaru driver. People in other vehicles got out of their vehicles and helped separate the pair. He was booked into Washington County jail. Fox News has reached out to Beyond Meat. Ramsey became COO of the Los Angeles-based plant-based meat substitute producer in December 2021. He previously worked for Tyson Foods where he was president of its global McDonald's business, according to its website. | | | | | Morgan Ortagus: Inflation is 'the reality' for families ahead of midterms | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said she expects inflation to continue playing a big role in the midterm elections Monday on "Special Report." MORGAN ORTAGUS: Rarely are these competitive senate races blowouts. You typically see them within 1 to 3 to 4 points anyways. So, you know Senate races are going to be tight going into election night. What we are seeing, I think, is the continued effects of inflation. And this is not something that Republicans are trying to put at the center of the campaign. This is the reality for families around America. Families are paying $460 more a month in basic necessities. The "Wall Street Journal" has an excellent piece out today profiling what it’s like for average families to have to go to the grocery store to find things that are on sale to be able to cook for dinner. INFLATION REDUCTION ACT NOT WORKING SO FAR You even have and this has been discussed obviously on Fox. You even have members of the military that are having to go on food stamps to feed their children. You should not have to sign up to fight for your country, to give your life for your country and to feed your children with food stamps. That’s incompetence. That’s why these Republican candidates are doing better. WATCH THE FULL DISCUSSION HERE: | | | | | Country star Tim McGraw takes a tumble at his concert and falls into fans | | Sep 20, 2022 | | Tim McGraw accidentally took the whole "Just To See You Smile" thing a little too far at his Arizona concert this weekend when he fell off the stage while performing one of his hit songs. While singing his song, "I Like It, I Love It," at the Boots in the Park concert, the country crooner had almost too much rhythm while trying to recover from kneeling on the stage then moving into a squat position and subsequently allowing himself to tumble back into the crowd. In videos captured by fans, the 55-year-old tries to maintain his balance when he eventually just gives in and falls backward. McGraw seemed to recover quickly as he hops back up to greet more of his screaming fans. TIM MCGRAW AND FAITH HILL SET TO STAR IN 'YELLOWSTONE' PREQUEL The incident comes the same weekend as rapper Post Malone fell through a hole on his stage, injuring himself. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER This isn't the first time McGraw has had a scare of his own accord. In 2018, McGraw had to get medical treatment after collapsing at a show in Ireland. It's unclear if the singer and "Yellowstone" actor's wife, country star Faith Hill, was in attendance at McGraw's Sunday performance. The two share three daughters together. | | | | | US contractor freed by Taliban in swap for drug trafficker | | Sep 20, 2022 | | An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years has been released in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord jailed in the United States, the White House said Monday, announcing a rare success in U.S.-Taliban talks since the militant group took power a little more than a year ago Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran who had spent more than a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, was abducted in January 2020 and is believed to have been held since then by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. He was traded for Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban associate convicted in a heroin trafficking conspiracy who had spent 17 years behind bars before his release Monday. The exchange is one of the most significant prisoner swaps to take place under the Biden administration, coming five months after a deal with Russia that brought home Marine veteran Trevor Reed. Though his case has received less public attention than those of some other Americans held abroad, including WNBA star Brittney Griner and corporate security executive Paul Whelan — who are both held in Russia and whose relatives met with President Joe Biden on Friday — U.S. officials said the deal for Frerichs was the result of months of quiet negotiations. Those discussions gained new momentum in June when Biden agreed to grant Noorzai relief from his life sentence, setting the stage for what one administration official described as a "very narrow window of opportunity this month" to complete the deal. TALIBAN FREES LAST AMERICAN PRISONER IN AFGHANISTAN IN PRISONER SWAP WITH THE US Biden said in a statement released by the White House, "Bringing the negotiations that led to Mark’s freedom to a successful resolution required difficult decisions, which I did not take lightly." Frerichs, 60, had been working on civil engineering projects at the time of his Jan. 31, 2020 abduction in Kabul. He’s believed to have been lured into a meeting to discuss a new project and then transported to Khost, a stronghold of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network near the Pakistan border. He was last seen in a video posted last spring by The New Yorker in which he appeared in traditional Afghan clothing and pleaded for his release. He was accompanied Monday by the administration’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs and was in stable health, a U.S. official said. His ultimate destination was not immediately clear, though a Qatari Foreign Ministry official said Frerichs would soon head from Doha to the U.S. A sister of Frerichs, who is from Lombard, Illinois, thanked U.S. officials who helped secure her brother's release. "I am so happy to hear that my brother is safe and on his way home to us. Our family has prayed for this each day of the more than 31 months he has been a hostage. We never gave up hope that he would survive and come home safely to us," said a statement from the sister, Charlene Cakora. Noorzai, at the time of his 2005 arrest, hardly seemed an ideal recipient for presidential clemency. He'd been designated on a list reserved for some of the world's most prolific drug traffickers, and was prosecuted in Manhattan's federal court on charges that accused him of owning opium fields in Kandahar province and relying on a network of distributors who sold the heroin in New York. When he was sentenced to life imprisonment, the then-top federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Noorzai's "worldwide narcotics network supported a Taliban regime that made Afghanistan a breeding ground for international terrorism." Monday's deal underscored the two sides to the Taliban’s approach to illegal drugs. In April, they announced a ban on harvesting the poppies that produce opium for making heroin -- an order that also outlawed the manufacture and transportation of narcotics. However, during the years-long Taliban insurgency, they reportedly made millions of dollars taxing farmers and middle men who moved their drugs outside Afghanistan. A senior administration official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration said the U.S. government now determined that Noorzai's release would "not materially change any risk to Americans or fundamentally alter the contours of the drug trade there." Officials also took into account that Noorzai had spent 17 years in prison. They said it became clear from negotiations that releasing him would be necessary to get Frerichs home. At a press conference Monday, Noorzai expressed gratitude at seeing his "mujahedeen brothers" — a reference to the Taliban — in Kabul. "I pray for more success of the Taliban," he added. "I hope this exchange can lead to peace between Afghanistan and America, because an American was released and I am also free now." Even before their takeover of Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban had demanded the U.S. release Noorzai in exchange for Frerichs. But there had been little public indication of Washington proceeding along those lines. Eric Lebson, a former U.S. government national security official who had been advising Frerichs' family, said in a statement that "everything about this case has been an uphill fight." He criticized the Trump administration for having given away "our leverage to get Mark home quickly by signing a peace accord with the Taliban without ever having asked them to return Mark first.'' "Mark’s family then had to navigate two administrations, where many people viewed Mark’s safe return as an impediment to their plans for Afghanistan," the statement said. U.S. DONATED $780 MILLION TO AFGHANISTAN IN AID The collapse of the Western-backed Afghan government and takeover by the Taliban in August 2021 raised additional concern that progress in negotiations could be undone or that Frerichs could be forgotten. But his name was invoked last month when Biden was said by his advisers to have pressed officials to consider any risk posed to Frerichs by the drone strike in Afghanistan that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri. The Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, hailed the exchange Monday as the start of a "new era" in U.S.-Taliban relations and the opening of a "new door for talks." U.S. officials were more circumspect. Though it does not recognize the Taliban government, the U.S. does have interests at stake in Afghanistan and will continue to engage with the Taliban in addressing the hunger and humanitarian crisis gripping the country, administration officials said Monday. But officials say they remain concerned about whether the Taliban are committed to fighting terrorism and by the exclusion of girls from high schools there, an issue that drew a United Nations reprimand on Sunday. ___ Faiez reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writer Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this report. ___ This story has corrected a version earlier in the day that cited Taliban claims that Noorzai was held at Guantanamo Bay; the claim was disproved by U.S. officials. | | | | | Azerbaijan, Armenian foreign ministers meet with Blinken to boost peace after deadly clashes | | Sep 20, 2022 | | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Monday in effort to foster peace between the two ex-Soviet countries after a new round of border clashes has killed more than 200 people. Blinken brought Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov together at a New York hotel on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly. It was their first face-to-face meeting since the fighting broke out last week. Blinken, who has spoken several times to the leaders of both countries, said the U.S. was encouraged by a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan after two days of shelling. "Strong, sustainable diplomatic engagement is the best path for everyone," he said. "There is a path to a durable peace that resolves the differences." REP. WALTZ URGES BIDEN TO BE TOUGH ON ‘WAR CRIMINAL’ PUTIN AS UKRAINE WAR RAGES ON: ‘RHETORIC MATTERS A LOT’ Speaking ahead of Monday's meeting, Bayramov said his country is "satisfied with the level of relations" with the U.S. and said his direct talks with Mirzoyan were not unusual. The conflict centers around the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is ethnically Armenian but legally belongs to Azerbaijan, a situation that has resulted in decades of violence. The meeting came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned Azerbaijan’s attacks on Armenia as "illegal" during a Sunday press conference alongside Armenian officials. The Azeri government, in turn, dismissed Pelosi’s comments as "Armenian propaganda." The latest round of fighting is the worst since 2020, when, during a six-week war, Azerbaijan reclaimed broad swaths of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories held by Armenian forces. More than 6,700 people died in that fighting. The Associated Press contributed to this report. | | | | | | |
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