Rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West deactivated his X account on Sunday following a three-day long posting spree.
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Viewers of the Super Bowl on Sunday may remember seeing a bizarre ad starring rapper Kanye West shot entirely on his iPhone.
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Rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West issued a sea of bizarre all-caps tirades on X during the hours of Thursday night and Friday morning, calling on President Donald Trump to “free” disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, praising Adolf Hitler,
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Rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West attended the Grammy Awards on Sunday where he unveiled his fully-naked wife, Bianca Censori, on the red carpet.
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President Donald Trump shocked gamblers in Las Vegas when he unexpectedly dropped by a casino floor on Saturday.
Prior to the surprise visit, Trump had addressed thousands of supporters at the Circa Resort & Casino in Sin City on Saturday afternoon. Photos and video show Trump strolling around the casino floor after the speech, while surrounded by security.
The crowd began chanting "USA! USA!" as Trump walked past the slot machines. The president was also seen briefly interacting with enthused gamblers.
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The president also naturally walked up to a craps table where a game was in progress, telling a player to "throw the dice."
When journalists shouted questions at Trump, a craps player scolded the press pool and told them, "I'm rolling here." Trump told a gambler that he was "doing a good job" before leaving.
Trump also said thank you to staff workers holding water trays, shortly after his speech focused on reducing federal taxes for hospitality workers with his "no tax on tips" campaign promise.
"Any worker who relies on tips [as] income, your tips will be 100% yours," Trump said to a cheering audience during the speech.
"Nationwide, over four million workers depend on tip income, including an estimated 700,000 single moms…here in Nevada…think of it, a quarter of the typical restaurant workers' pay comes from tips. I didn't know that," he added.
Fox News' Sarah Tobianski and Sophia Compton contributed to this report.
FIRST ON FOX — A coalition of more than 400 U.S. farm, agriculture and growers groups sent a letter to Senate leaders this week urging the swift confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump nominee Brooke Rollins to head up the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), praising her as a strong voice they see as well-positioned to speak to the interests of rural America.
The signatories included a whopping 417 national and state growers groups representing the interests of farmers, growers, hunters, ranchers, forest owners, renewable fuel associations and state departments of agriculture across the country — encompassing what they said is virtually "all aspects of American agriculture, food, nutrition and rural America."
The USDA is the agency that oversees the nation's agriculture and its practices. Its sprawling portfolio includes providing support for farmers, setting the standards for school meals and overseeing the safety of meat, poultry and eggs.
The letter was previewed exclusively to Fox News Digital and sent to Sens. John Boozman, R-La., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. — the chair and ranking member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, respectively — just one week before Rollins was slated to appear before the panel for her confirmation hearing.
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In the letter, signatories praised what they described as Rollins’ foundational knowledge of agriculture, combined with her policy and business bona fides that they said made her uniquely qualified for the role of U.S. agriculture secretary.
Rollins "has been engaged in American agriculture since an early age," they said, noting Rollins’ childhood spent baling hay and growing livestock in Glen Rose, Texas — a small town some 70 miles outside of Dallas — as well as the summers she spent working on her family’s farm in Minnesota.
Later, Rollins majored in agricultural development at Texas A&M on a scholarship, before completing law school at the University of Texas. She went on to work for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and then later served as director of the United States Domestic Policy Council during Trump’s first term as president. She then became president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, whose mission is to "advance policies that put the American people first."
The nonprofit think tank has called on Congress to restrict China's access to American farmland and has been critical of President Biden's energy policies.
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In the letter, the groups said Rollins’ agriculture and farming bona fides, policy expertise and her business experience make her uniquely prepared to "provide effective executive leadership for USDA’s important, wide-ranging activities and large workforce."
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The timing of the letter and Rollins' pending confirmation hearing, slated for Thursday, comes at a crucial time for U.S. growers groups and agribusinesses across the country.
It comes as lawmakers have stalled on a new farm bill, and on other key priorities for farmers and industry groups across the country.
The 11th-hour passage of a government spending bill in late December helped narrowly avert a government shutdown, but it failed to provide the full extent of farm aid and other agriculture subsidies in the amounts considered necessary for many in the U.S.
In the letter, the groups cited Rollins’ "close working relationship" with the incoming president, which they said will "ensure that agriculture and rural America have a prominent and influential voice at the table when critical decisions are made in the White House."
In sum, the letter said, Rollins’ leadership at USDA is necessary to help "advocate for a new farm bill, stabilize an agricultural economy in decline, support the full food and agriculture and forestry value chain, and continue American agriculture’s long history of providing the most secure, affordable and nutritious food supply in the world."
Rollins is not expected to face staunch opposition to her nomination to head up the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and lawmakers who have spoken out to date have praised both her experience and strong knowledge of the agriculture sector.
More than 92,000 people have signed a Change.org petition as of Sunday morning demanding the resignation of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as wildfires in the area continue to rage on.
The petition was started by a user named "Frustrated Californian" who accused Bass of "gross mismanagement" during the natural disaster crisis, and even called her out for not being in the country when the fires started.
Bass took major heat for traveling overseas to Ghana last week, which meant she was thousands of miles away from her city during the initial day of the destruction on Tuesday.
"Water supplies have been severely strained, billions of taxpayer dollars have been misallocated or left unaccounted for, and countless lives have been lost," the petition reads.
There are currently five active wildfires in Los Angeles County — Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth, Hurst and Archer.
Bass has been active on social media since her return to the U.S., with her latest post on X and Facebook on Saturday evening.
"Angelenos, we're still going through it and to any of you and all of you that have experienced a loss, the grief, the anger, the just utter shock. I've seen the devastation. It is unbelievable the amount of loss that people have experienced, but we have to get through this crisis and I know that we will," she said in a minute-long video.
Prior to drawing intense public scrutiny for her response to handling the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, Bass was held in the highest esteem by the Democratic Party’s most prominent figures.
President Biden once considered Bass to be a top contender for his vice presidential running mate in 2020, while former President Barack Obama previously predicted that she would be an "outstanding mayor" of the city.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patricia Heaton and Jillian Michaels are among vocal celebrities providing government officials with scathing reviews.
"This disaster did not come out of left field," Aurora Culpo, host of the podcast "Barely Filtered," told Fox News Digital. "We were well aware of the possibility for fire, and we had the preparedness of a third world country in a place that pays some of the highest taxes in the world. Those in power should be forced to take responsibility and resign."
FOX News' Gabriel Hays and Gabrielle Regalbuto contributed to this report.
A California single mother who lost everything in Altadena this week during the Eaton Fire is hailing her community’s resilience, telling Fox News Digital that "we have not lost our tenacity and our spirit."
Brenda King said Friday that she has lived in California and Los Angeles for more than 20 years, but she "always knew there was something so special about the energy of Altadena," describing it as a "paradise because of all the tender love and care that all of the citizens put into it and the way they preserved everything."
"The day the fire broke out, it's so bizarre because literally I just figured it out. I had just figured out a little promotion for myself at work," the writer and intimacy coordinator told Fox News Digital, mentioning how her 5-year-old son was going to get his own room in the property she was renting.
King recalls finding her son his "first big boy bed" on Facebook Marketplace and organizing his toys and favorite books on a shelf. Yet that vision was cut short when the Eaton Fire started bearing down on her home.
King told Fox News Digital that she was out with a friend and was driving when "suddenly I see what looks like hell opening up on the mountain."
"Just this long line, going from the top and coming towards my house. And we were just looking at it and I was like, ‘Oh my God, where is that? That's so close to my house,'" she continued.
"I was like, ‘They're going to get this under control, but I just have to go home and get my dog,’" she added.
King says she returned to her home to save her pet, grab a few of her son’s possessions and other items, including photo albums from her childhood.
She then fled Altadena, but later called a neighbor whose father remained there "and she just said, 'OK Brenda, it's gone. Everything's gone.' And I just couldn't believe it."
King says despite losing her home and nearly all of her possessions, the community she was a part of in Altadena "doesn’t go away."
"I was watching the news and I was watching my beloved city just burning everywhere," King told Fox News Digital. "And the news reporter -- I don't even think she was a resident of Altadena, but she was saying that she had been in other fire zones and she was just astonished that so many people were there and they were still helping and they were putting water on their neighbor’s lawns and they were just still there fighting to preserve whatever is left of our city, which is essentially nothing except our lives."
"People have lost their lives in Altadena. And I am so wretchedly sorry for that. But we have not lost our tenacity and our spirit," King said.
A GoFundMe titled "Help Brenda Rebuild After Wildfire Loss" has now been set up to help King in the wake of the tragedy.
"I've lived in so many different places, and Altadena was my heart," King told Fox News Digital. "I've never found happiness and community and love anywhere else in L.A. the way that I personally found it there."
The wildfires raging through Los Angeles County Friday have killed at least 10 as details are emerging about the victims, including one reported to have been found clutching a garden hose in his hand while trying to defend his family home of more than 50 years.
Victor Shaw, 66, was identified by KTLA as one of the fatalities from the devastating Eaton Fire centered around the city of Pasadena. His sister Shari told the station that Victor said he wanted to stay behind Tuesday night to try to fight the flames, but a family friend said his body was discovered the next day on the side of a road with a hose.
"They just told me that he was lying on the ground and that he looked serene, as if he was at peace," Shari Shaw told KTLA.
The five wildfires active in Los Angeles County on Friday – the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Kenneth Fire, Hurst Fire and Lidia Fire, have so far burned more than 30,000 combined acres, according to Cal Fire.
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The agency says the largest – the Palisades Fire – has scorched nearly 20,000 acres and is only 6% contained. Across the county, more than 10,000 homes and businesses have been burned.
The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a man on Thursday who was allegedly "attempting to light a fire," as wildfires continued to ravage the area.
The government has not yet released figures on the cost of the damage.
Right now, it’s impossible to quantify the extent of the destruction other than "total devastation and loss," Barbara Bruderlin, head of the Malibu Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce, told The Associated Press.
"There are areas where everything is gone, there isn’t even a stick of wood left, it’s just dirt," Bruderlin said.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office said Thursday night that it has "received notification of 10 fire-related deaths." At least five have been reported from the Eaton Fire and two from the Palisades Fire.
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Two of the dead in Altadena were Anthony Mitchell, a 67-year-old amputee, and his son, Justin, who had cerebral palsy. They were waiting for an ambulance to come and did not make it to safety when the flames roared through, Mitchell’s daughter, Hajime White, told The Washington Post.
Rodney Nickerson, an 83-year-old grandfather, was also found dead in Altadena, according to CBS News.
"We found his bones, his whole body was intact," his daughter Kimiko said to the station, which reported that Nickerson was discovered in his bed among the rubble and ash.
Another victim was identified by the New York Times as Erliene Kelley, a retired pharmacy technician who reportedly lived near Shaw and Nickerson.
"She was an angel," neighbor Terry Pyburn told the newspaper. "That’s the perfect neighbor. When you see her, you have a smile."
Fox News’ Elizabeth Pritchett and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
A New Year is upon us. It is a time of reflection for most of us. I often use this time to reflect on my deeds in the past year. What did I do that served the people in the right way? Were my intentions, however good they may be, the right ones? Or did they hurt? What can I do to improve myself and those around me? How can I continue to strengthen my relationship with my Lord?
But this time of reflection always comes with a slap to the face if you’re a Chicagoan and work to serve the people like I do: the release of the murder statistics for the past year. These tragic numbers make national news to our shame and remind us of our shortcomings as humans and neighbors. Every one of the murdered were not abstractions but individual souls worth saving and could have been saved. But we didn’t.
In this past year, until December 18, 564 Chicagoans lost their lives to murder. This is 43 fewer victims when compared with 2023 and it is significantly less than in 2021 when 797 lost their lives. There are those like Mayor Brandon Johnson who might try to sell this as progress, but how is going from 797 murders to 564 progress? Especially when most of it was self-inflicted?
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When I first began my work in Chicago in the early 2000s, the murder rate was tracking in the 600s. After me and others began serious outreach efforts to youths and gang members, we got the murder rates to track mostly in the 400s for a good run of several years.
Then we had the rise of Black Lives Matter in the 2010s and the years after the death of Michael Brown saw a tremendous rise in the murder rate. It jumped from 425 murders in 2014 to 778 murders by 2016 — largely to the police pulling back due to the anti-police sentiment of activists and politicians.
Then came the death of George Floyd and the Defund the Police movement. In 2019, before the world had even heard of Floyd’s name there were 498 murders. Then 772 in 2020, the year he died, and 779 in 2021. We lost hundreds of Black lives to the Defund the Police movement that was formed in the name of saving Black lives but, in reality, only put more power into the hands of self-serving politicians. The tragedy here is that not one politician or activist will face justice for their recklessness with Black lives.
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Previous Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot supported this movement. Current Mayor Johnson supported this movement. Both claim to know the interests and lives of Blacks and they claim to believe that Black lives matter. If that is true, then why did none of the Blacks, who lost their lives as the lawlessness increased during the George Floyd aftermath, matter?
It matters to me and so many people in my community on the South Side and also the West Side, where most of the 564 murders took place. It matters because so many of those murdered were young and in the prime of their lives. Ninety-one of the deceased were between the ages of 0 and 19. One hundred and seventy-seven were between the ages of 20 and 29. One hundred forty-five were between ages 30 and 39. Four hundred and twenty of them were Black and 110 were Latinos. Four hundred ninety-four were males. Five hundred and five of them died by gunfire.
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The one good thing about George Floyd was that it exposed the immorality of politicians and activists who exploit Black lives for cheap power. Though we were foolish enough as Chicagoans to elect the worst mayor of my life, Johnson, into office, there are many of us from community leaders to concerned citizens that realize it’s all-hands-on-the-deck time now.
We know that Black Lives Matter is a lie. We know that our politicians will not fix our failing schools — after all, what do you expect from a Mayor who refuses to return a $150,000 donation given to him by a rapper facing murder chargers? We know that the harm from Defund the Police movement still lingers. We know that our youth grow up believing more in the U.S. government than Jesus.
Aside from that, we are battling the disastrous effects caused by 60 years of liberalism. We are fighting the culture of dependency that has been ingrained into so many families generation after generation. We are fighting a culture of hopelessness.
We are fighting on so many fronts in this war, but we are making progress. We are saving lives. What we’re doing here is not magic. We use old-fashioned American principles: responsibility, accountability, merit, etc. We preach belief in Jesus and, if they are of another belief, we still encourage them. Most of all, we stress that one must have belief in themselves.
Call me a fool if you want, and if you do, answer me this: who deserves to lose their lives to senseless violence that is preventable?
Twenty people were injured on Monday after a chemical spill at a New Mexico cheese factory released toxic gas, according to officials.
The Curry County Sheriff's Office confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital. Authorities were alerted to the incident, which took place at the Southwest Cheese factory in Clovis, at around 9:15 a.m. on Monday.
When emergency responders arrived, they discovered that a chemical spill had released toxic gas in one part of the factory.
"It was learned that 8.67 gallons of acid spilled and was mixed with .61 gallons of chlorine due to an equipment malfunction," the Curry County Sheriff's Office explained in a press release. "The chemical mixture produced toxic gas that spread in one area of the facility."
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Sheriff Michael Brockett told Fox News Digital that two of the injured workers were in critical condition. In total, 14 employees were taken to two local hospitals.
Authorities did not release additional details about the severity of the injuries, but some of the ailing workers were moved in private vehicles.
"The Clovis Fire Department Hazardous Materials Response Team was activated and responded to the scene," the press release noted. "New Mexico State Police is coordinating with Southwest Cheese in cleaning the hazardous chemicals."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Southwest Cheese said that a mechanical failure caused a "chemical overflow," and employees reported "a strong smell" emanating from one of the factory's rooms.
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"The health and safety of our employees is our top priority," the company said. "Our onsite team reacted quickly, following our incident response action plan, closing off the affected area."
"Our key focus is supporting our impacted employees at this time."
According to Southwest Cheese's website, the company specializes in manufacturing hard cheeses and whey products. Its whey products include whey concentrates, which are used in dairy products like ice cream, and whey isolates, which are used in protein bars.
"Using only the freshest milk supplied by our local dairy farmers, Southwest Cheese produces premium cheeses and high quality whey protein powders for our global customers," its website reads. "Each delivery of milk is thoroughly tested for antibiotics and other contaminants. We reject all milk that does not meet our high-quality standards."
Authorities are investigating the incident. No additional details are known at this time.
Two men from Portland died searching for Sasquatch during Christmas week, according to officials.
Around 1 a.m. on Christmas Day, Skamania County Communications Center received a report from a family member of two people who were searching for Sasquatch and were missing after they had planned to return home on Dec. 24, according to the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO).
A "flock camera," also known as a license plate reader, located the men's car off of Oklahoma Road, near Willard, Washington, SCSO said.
Over three days, search and rescue resources, including more than 60 volunteers, canines, drones and ground search teams and a U.S. Coast Guard air asset searched for the men.
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"After a grueling, three-day search over difficult terrain and harsh weather conditions, the 59-year-old male and 37-year-old-male, both from Portland, Oregon, who were reported missing/endangered were located, deceased, in a heavily wooded area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest," the sheriff's office said on Facebook.
"Both deaths appear to be due to exposure, based on weather conditions and ill-preparedness," SCSO added.
The sheriff's office thanked the volunteers who spent Christmas week searching for the men through "freezing temperatures, snow, high water levels, heavy rain, downfall, and heavily wooded terrain," allowing the men to be taken home to their family.
"The Skamania County Sheriff’s Office extends our deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of the loved ones lost in this tragic incident," SCSO said.
The men's names were not released.
Back in 2019, a Travel Channel blog post said Washington was the "world's most active region" for Sasquatch sightings. Of particular note were the Blue Mountains and Okanogan County, which the Travel Channel wrote is "the locale of one of the most aggressive Bigfoot encounters ever recorded."
More than 170 people were rescued from dangling gondolas at a Colorado ski resort after being trapped for hours due to a malfunction.
A crack detected in a metal support structure prompted one of the lifts at Winter Park Resort outside of Denver to automatically shut down Saturday afternoon for safety precautions, according to media reports. It then took rescuers five hours to lower 174 people to the ground, a resort spokesperson told KDVR.
"We were going up to do our first run, my wife and I, and we stopped. Stopped for about 15 minutes and we started kind of thinking, maybe it’s unusual," skier Aleksey Dmitriyev said to the station. "I called the line, and the line saying if it’s less than 20 minutes don’t worry, call us back… Then we waited a bit longer and we started seeing ski patrol coming down and talking to people from the ground to the cabin, like saying how many of you in the cabin, all that."
"Everybody was pretty calm, ski patrol was calm and professional and assured us," he added. "It was kind of interesting because he kind of knew what he was doing, but we were a little bit concerned."
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"We skied a few runs after that, we used a different lift, of course, and it was still an OK day but once-in-a-lifetime experience," Dmitriyev also told KDVR.
Dmitriyev captured video showing a rescuer lowering himself into his stranded gondola’s cabin.
"We are going to send a seat up, we are each going to get in a seat individually and slowly lower everyone down," the man says.
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The footage then shows multiple people – including a child – being brought down to safety.
Winter Park Resort said the lift remained closed Sunday for repairs and inspections and the gondola manufacturer was on-site, according to KDVR.
As of late Sunday, a new part had been installed and testing is underway in preparation to reopen the lift, the station adds.
A prankster was recently arrested and charged after allegedly spraying bug killer on food in an Arizona Walmart, police say.
Charles Smith, 27, was charged with felony-level poisoning and misdemeanor-level criminal damage, in addition to misdemeanor charges of endangerment and theft. The Mesa Police Department confirmed the arrest in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The incident began on Dec. 19 at around 8:30 p.m., police said, when the suspect entered a Mesa Walmart "intending to film pranks for social media." He then grabbed a can of bug killer "without paying for it," according to the police's statement.
According to the authorities, Smith aimed the spray at both produce and prepared food items, such as rotisserie chickens.
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"He then sprayed the pesticide on various produce items, including vegetables, fruit, and rotisserie chickens that were available for purchase," the Mesa Police Department's statement said. "Smith filmed his face, the pesticide can, and the act of spraying. He later posted the video online."
Smith later voluntarily turned himself in and admitted to the crimes.
"Through investigative means, and with assistance from the Tempe Police Department, detectives were able to identify Smith as the suspect," the statement added. "Mesa Police contacted Smith and he turned himself in voluntarily. During the interview, Smith admitted to the theft and spraying of the pesticide."
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"Thanks to the tireless work of our officers and detectives, an arrest occurred less than 24 hours after police were notified of the incident," the police department continued. "We also extend our gratitude to the Tempe Police Department for their valuable contributions and collaboration in quickly solving this case."
Authorities added that the incident exemplifies "the potential dangers of reckless actions disguised as social media pranks."
On Sunday, Walmart told Fox News Digital that customer safety "is always a top priority," and confirmed that all tainted products were removed from shelves.
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"We have removed all directly impacted product and have cleaned and sanitized the affected area of the store," the company continued. "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers as we work to resolve this issue. We will continue to work closely with law enforcement during their investigation."
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