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A relic of World War II has emerged from the Danube more than 80 years after the war ended — along with the remains of two German soldiers whose identities still remain a mystery.The Wehrmacht motorcycle — which officials identified as a DKW NZ 350-1 — was found in the Danube River in central Budapest this summer.The discovery was announced by the German War Graves Commission, an organization that works to locate, recover and identify German war dead, in August.WRECK OF DEADLIEST US NAVAL LOSS OF WORLD WAR I FOUND AFTER MORE THAN A CENTURY: ‘LOST WITH ALL HANDS’Pictures show the heavily corroded motorcycle caked in mud and rust — with its frame, wheels, fuel tank and storage boxes still largely intact.”Because the harbor mud is mixed with gas oil, the motorcycle and identification tags are well preserved,” the German War Graves Commission said in a statement, adding that the motorcycle model “was considered particularly robust and reliable at the time.”Officials also found the remains of two German soldiers while recovering the motorcycle, along with two well-preserved identification tags.Both tags were still intact. Typically, one half of a fallen soldier’s tag was left with the body, while the other was sent to the Wehrmacht Information Office so that the soldier’s family could be notified, according to the commission.EXPERTS FINALLY SOLVE MYSTERY OF TEENAGE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER 246 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATHThe identification tags found with the remains are still being deciphered, Diane Tempel-Bornett, a spokesperson for the German War Graves Commission, told Fox News Digital in a translated email.Tempel-Bornett said that despite the discovery of the tags, the identities of the two soldiers remain unknown.”The fact that the identification tags were found with the dead does not necessarily mean that they belonged to them — although that is quite possible,” she said.REMAINS FOUND IN UTAH DESERT 28 YEARS AGO WITH HELP OF A PSYCHIC FINALLY IDENTIFIED THROUGH DNA GENEALOGYThe fact that the tags were still intact could indicate the soldiers were never recovered or officially accounted for after their deaths, Tempel-Bornett said.Tempel-Bornett said identifying the soldiers can be a “long, painstaking process,” with even small details offering potential clues.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERInvestigators can glean clues from the remains, including height, age and possible origin, while personal belongings such as wedding rings, glasses, jewelry and papers can also help establish an identity. Researchers then compare those findings with military records and other historical evidence.”Here, we work closely with the German Federal Archives in Berlin,” she added.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS”Only when everything fits together is the person’s fate considered to have been clarified.”The final stage, Tempel-Bornett said, is to reach out to any relatives of the deceased.”If we have inquiries from relatives searching for them, that makes it easier,” she said. “Otherwise, our colleagues try to do so through an inquiry with the residents’ registration authorities.”TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZFor now, the identities of the two soldiers — and how they and the motorcycle came to rest in the Danube — are an ongoing mystery.”We can only speculate [on the cause of death],” added Tempel-Bornett.”Whether the dead tried to cross the frozen Danube, whether one fell, whether the dead were shot or drowned … we will only know after their fate has been clarified.”

President Donald Trump offered a roaring counterbalance to a spate of world leaders bashing Israel or appearing to equivocate between the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks and Jerusalem’s response — as one world leader was assailed for his comments on Hamas.Gaza dominated the opening day of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, despite a ceasefire, as world leaders accused Israel of continuing to displace Palestinians and undermine prospects for peace. French President Emmanuel Macron accused Israel of violating Palestinian rights in the West Bank, questioning the justification for its actions and making a remark that was translated as “Hamas was never active in the West Bank.”MIDDLE EAST TAKES CENTER STAGE AT UN AS REGIONAL LEADERS CONFRONT IRAN WAR, GAZA AND HOUTHI THREATIsraeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon challenged his claim about Hamas’ presence in the West Bank. “French President Emmanuel Macron claimed from the UN podium that Hamas has ‘never been active’ in Judea and Samaria. Just two days ago, a French citizen was murdered there,” Danon wrote on X. “Mr. President, Emmanuel Macron, do your homework before lecturing Israel. Check the facts.”Asked by Fox News Digital to clarify Macron’s remarks, a French Foreign Ministry spokesperson said: “The president meant to say that Hamas does not govern the West Bank. His remarks should therefore not be misinterpreted.”In response to the comments, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee reposted Israel’s Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism. Huckabee stated, “Hard to imagine a more out of touch with reality speech than Macron at UN. @AmichaiChikli corrects the record. Hamas is an evil scourge, and they have killed innocent American citizens.Chickli’s post noted in part that, “Since 1990, Hamas has carried out more than 80 lethal terrorist attacks originating in or directed from Judea and Samaria, murdering more than 350 Israeli civilians.” Judea and Samaria is another term used for the West Bank.Macron also accused Israel of violating Palestinian rights in the West Bank and undermining the sovereignty of neighboring Lebanon, where he said villages in the south were being “razed.” Macron questioned the credibility of the international community’s recognition of Palestinian statehood if it failed to act on the situation in Gaza. “Some claim that peace has been achieved,” he said, calling the situation “shameful.”U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) as secretary-general, opened fire on Israel’s response in Gaza, describing it as “a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything I have witnessed in all my years as Secretary-General.””Amid the turmoil engulfing the region, we must not lose sight of the devastating situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” he said, as the world approaches three years since the Hamas terror attacks that sparked the Israeli military response he spent much of his speech criticizing.At the same time, Guterres lamented the ongoing conflict in Sudan, saying the war-torn East African nation is a place the “world looks away” from wrongly.Yet his decision to single out Gaza as “the worst” devastation he had witnessed during his tenure raised questions about the international community’s uneven attention to two of the world’s deadliest conflicts. Approximately 72,000 Palestinians have been reported killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, compared with an estimated 150,000 people killed in Sudan’s civil war. Many of those killed in Gaza include terrorists.King Abdullah II of Jordan, a regional U.S. ally whose country signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1994, doubled down on the anti-Israel tenor, accusing Jerusalem of “war crimes.””In my region, from Lebanon to Yemen, to Sudan, protracted conflict is deepening humanitarian suffering,” Abdullah said. “And if anyone had any doubt that a crisis in our part of the world stays there, just look at the energy and grocery bills of ordinary families, from Mumbai to Madrid to Minnesota.”WORLD LEADERS DESCEND ON NEW YORK FOR UNGA — BUT WHO REALLY HAS AMERICA’S EAR?Abdullah said Jordanian field hospitals had been targeted during the first 300 days of the “so-called ceasefire” and lamented the deaths of Palestinian children.He also praised Trump for “pushing hard for peace” while pivoting to fault Israel for “moving the goalposts” and allegedly destroying civilian infrastructure in Gaza.”The question is, is this the behavior of a democratic state governed by law? What is unfolding across the West Bank is not a series of isolated acts. It is elements of a single policy to compel an entire population to leave their land,” Abdullah said.”And there is a name for that: forced displacement. And that is a war crime.”Abdullah also accused Israel of harboring territorial ambitions in Syria, calling on the international community to act.Just before Abdullah, President Donald Trump offered a scathing counterweight to the invective directed at the Netanyahu administration and Israel’s response to Palestinian terrorism.BRITAIN’S DRAMATIC CRACKDOWN ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS SPARKS FIERCE RESPONSE AS US BLOWBACK LOOMS”Iran will never have a nuclear weapon” was a mantra repeated by Trump from the dais, as he noted that the Khamenei regime had also celebrated Oct. 7 as a “service to humanity” while murdering thousands of Iranian citizens in recent months, according to the president.”Just imagine such a vile regime, wherever empowered to carry out large-scale terror attacks from behind a nuclear shield. This was the reality we had to confront, the reality that far too many preferred to ignore,” he said, taking occasional swipes at nations — and previous U.S. leaders — who refused to help neutralize the Iranian threat.”Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?” he asked. “But I believe we’ll make a deal right after the election,” he added, suggesting Iran is waiting to see whether Republicans retain control of Congress while noting that he himself is not on the ballot.Meanwhile, criticism of Israel continued from the dais throughout the day.Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were “statesmen” who sought solutions with courage and clarity.SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER”They were defeated by hatred,” Lula da Silva claimed, according to the U.N.’s transcript of his remarks.”Generations of Palestinians will carry the pain and trauma left by the genocide of women and children perpetrated by Netanyahu[‘s] government in Gaza,” he said.Danon told Fox News Digital that, “Unfortunately, it’s not new, but the U.N. is obsessed with Israel.””Instead of focusing and dealing with the real issues, they all gather and gang against Israel,” he said. “[It is] the weakness of the secretary general. That is why we are grateful for President Trump, who came to the U.N., delivered a very powerful speech with moral clarity, but we are used to it… Unfortunately, instead of taking practical actions to improve the world, it’s much easier to blame Israel about everything,” he said.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called Gaza “the world’s biggest graveyard for children” and compared the situation there to Holocaust-era concentration camps, continuing his history of comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.Danon said it is legitimate to criticize Israel and that its leaders welcome debate — but that the U.N. instead delved into “pure hate [and] incitement,” singling out Erdoğan, who is supposed to be a Western ally.”[He] comes here every year, compares the Israelis to the Nazis. That’s shameful. That’s shameful. And he shows that he’s an antisemite. He doesn’t really care about the Palestinians. He just wants to sow chaos and instigate against the Jewish people.”As for King Abdullah’s remarks, Danon said, “He should know better. We work with Jordan, we support Jordan, we defended Jordan in the past. But unfortunately, many leaders, when they come here, they don’t speak about the cooperation with Israel, the economical or security cooperation. They join the group and they always criticize us.”Fox News Digital’s Hannah Brennan contributed to this report.

Democrats keep saying voter fraud is a myth. Homeland Security just put numbers on the table.
Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News that DHS is investigating 1,620 cases of alleged voter fraud involving noncitizens casting ballots.
The department has made 151 arrests and is reviewing 300,000 additional cases drawn from state voter rolls.

JUST IN: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says the department is investigating 1,620 cases of alleged voter fraud involving noncitizens casting ballots in U.S. elections.
Mullin says DHS has made 151 arrests and is reviewing 300,000 additional cases.
“The president was right when he said there was a tremendous amount of fraud in the election. We continue to see that. Every single vote Kayleigh that we talk about that was at the hands of an illegal canceled out a citizen that was legally registered and able to vote.” | @kayleighmcenany @SatAmericaFNC
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“We’re scrubbing them,” Mullin said. He said investigators are comparing the rolls against people in the country illegally, legal permanent residents, and citizens to see who voted lawfully.
“The president was right when he said there was a tremendous amount of fraud in the election. We continue to see that,” he told Kayleigh McEnany. “Every single vote … that was at the hands of an illegal canceled out a citizen that was legally registered and able to vote.”
That is why so many Democrats fight to keep the rolls closed. If the lists are clean, there is nothing to hide. If they are not, the last thing they want is DHS matching names.
Mullin said the list is still growing and is compiled from the states’ own public registers. Some states cooperated. Others had to be pushed.
President Donald Trump has spent years demanding officials treat illegal voting as a crime instead of a talking point. In more than one state, movement came only after the White House made clear that looking the other way was no longer an option.
When party spokesmen insist there is “no fraud,” what, exactly, are 1,620 open cases and 300,000 files under review? An investigation is not a conviction. It is also not zero.
The larger fight is the same one behind the SAVE America Act and related election-integrity bills: proof of citizenship, clean rolls, and a system people can trust.
Representative government only works if voters believe the count is real. Without that faith, the system comes apart. People stop accepting results. They stop showing up. They stop treating the next election as a remedy.
Jan. 6, 2021, was many things. At the core was a country that no longer agreed the election machinery was honest. Democrats treat that distrust as a personality defect. They also treat every cleanup as an attack on their coalition.
The combination is obliviousness plus reflex: oppose Trump, even when he is describing a problem they used to admit existed.
Noncitizen voting is illegal for a reason. One illegal ballot cancels one legal one. Multiply that, and you do not have a close call. You have a stolen election.
Should a party that blocks access to the rolls get to lecture anyone about “protecting democracy”? Absolutely not.
Pass the law. Open the lists. Prosecute the cases. Restore the faith that makes the next election worth showing up for. If Democrats cannot live with that, they should say so and stop pretending the empty slogan is the same thing as a clean count.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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“Developments Can’t Be Ignored” As Brent Tumbles On Iran Talks, Saudi Pipeline Restart Hopes: UBS

Brent crude slipped below $99 a barrel, falling as low as $97.77 in the overnight hours, as renewed US-Iran diplomacy and prospects for restored Saudi oil exports eased supply concerns. But as Goldman Sachs energy experts warned on Tuesday, the global refining nightmare will persist through next year.

The benchmark has slipped nearly 11% since mid-month after topping out around $109.65. Reports this week of a partial restart of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and Asian buyers being slated to resume cargo loadings at Yanbu offered some relief to a tight physical market. 

Full East-West pipeline repairs could take as long as two months, according to local reports. Even limited operations would ease the immediate supply squeeze.

President Trump said US officials held “very good” talks with Iranian representatives at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner participated in the three-hour talks with their Iranian counterparts on the sidelines of UNGA.

“I feel very good right now,” Witkoff said after the meeting. He wrote on X late Tuesday that the US hopes the talks “will prove constructive and promising” and the mediators will continue their work. 

UBS energy specialist Dominic Ellis provided clients with a full view of what’s driving energy markets so far this week:

Brent is below $99/bbl, down about 3.8% from Tuesday’s high and down under 10% from the $109/bbl hit early last week, as evidence emerged of debottlenecking of Middle East oil exports and of diplomatic progress between the US and Iran.

Saudi Arabia said that flows via the East-West pipeline could partially restart in coming days, and that exports from the port of Yanbu would also restart soon. Full repairs to the pipeline could take up to 8 weeks according to press reports, but even a partial restart would alleviate some of the immediate tightness in oil markets. 

Meanwhile, Iran acknowledged that there had been discussions with the US via intermediaries on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, and said it had shared conditions for a restart of transit via the Strait of Hormuz, which it said could happen in 7 days if conditions were met. President Trump called US talks with Iranian envoys “very good”. 

Cynics will note that similar comments from the US in the recent past have not resulted in meaningful progress towards diplomatic goals, and that the US has already rejected calls for an immediate end to its blockade of Iran – one of Iran’s preconditions for an easing of restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz. 

Still, the fact that talks are taking place at all is a development which cannot be ignored, and which is likely to keep downward pressure on oil prices until there is evidence that progress has stalled. On the other hand, a breakthrough in talks could push Brent back into the $80s fairly quickly. 

The desk’s base case is that the US has a strong incentive to rely on the “carrot” rather than the “stick” in the period leading up to midterm elections in November. 

Reports on Tuesday that President Trump has made comments supportive of a US diesel export ban (despite Interior Secretary Burgum’s statement last week that a ban would not likely have the desired effect) show he is growing concerned about elevated fuel prices in the US, and a focus on diplomacy with Iran may be the easiest way to bring oil and refined product prices down in the near term. 

In the medium term, however, Iranian conditions are not likely to be acceptable to the US, and we would not be surprised at a return to the low-level conflict we’ve seen over the last month.

Crude’s retreat from triple digit territory is easing pressure at the pump, with AAA data showing the national average for regular gasoline slipping to $4.474 a gallon on Wednesday. But after a 9.3% surge this month, a modest pullback offers limited political relief for the Trump administration. Prices remain well above the politically sensitive $4 threshold, leaving the White House under pressure to turn diplomatic progress into a concrete deal.

Refer back to Goldman energy analyst Nikhil Bhandari’s Tuesday note about the prolonged refining crisis and what it means for gas and diesel prices in 2027 (read here). 

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Dallas Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones has a little more pep in his step.As it was written earlier this week, Jones told reporters there was “nothing more dangerous than an old man with money” following the Cowboys’ win over the Washington Commanders. On Tuesday, through two weeks of the 2026 season, he appeared to have Super Bowl fever already.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!It’s likely that the billionaire NFL team owner is always dreaming of getting back to the glory days of the 1990s. I mean, aren’t we all? But it has meant more to Jones to get the Cowboys back on top as the team hasn’t even appeared in an NFC Championship Game since 1995.Dak Prescott’s four touchdown passes against the Commanders and notching his name as the franchise leader in passing touchdowns has Jones energized.”I think he’s the poster child of any players I’ve been around of what you can do self-improve. He’s a product of his own work ethic,” Jones said of Prescott on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan. “He’s a product of his focus on getting better at every detail of his game. I’m happy to say that he’s a better quarterback today than he’s ever been. And he’s playing a position that, even though you might have a little diminished physical skill, it’s a position where if you approach it the way he’s approached his career, you will be a better player.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE”I’m glad we’ve got him. His record indicates the best at an overall view. … How he got where he is, is to me a noteworthy leg on his chair of being the best. And he can be the best out there as far as I’m concerned. … He’s playing at an extremely high level that gives us our best chance (to win a Super Bowl). We still have the opportunity to get him championships.”Prescott’s health will be imperative moving forward.The 11-year veteran only played eight games in 2024 and five games in 2020. He made it through 12 games in 2022.But coming off a career-high 404 completions and a fourth Pro Bowl appearance in 2025, Prescott has shown up and showed out so far in 2026. The Week 1 loss against the New York Giants appeared to be firmly in the rearview mirror.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to intervene in the case of a surrogate mother who refused to have an abortion and is now seeking custody of the child.McKenna West gave birth to the boy, whom she named Gabriel, in Texas in August after she fled from California when the parents asked her to abort the child over a heart defect. She argued in Texas court that she should maintain custody over the child despite the surrogacy agreement, but a judge in Texas ruled against her.West then appealed to the Supreme Court, but Justice Elena Kagan, who handles cases arising from California, declined to hear the case on Tuesday without issuing a written decision.SURROGATE GIVES BIRTH IN TEXAS TO BABY WITH HEART DEFECT AFTER PARENTS REQUESTED ABORTIONThe intended parents, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, signed a surrogacy agreement with West in August 2025. They point to a clause in the agreement that allowed for a termination of pregnancy in the case of a “fetal abnormality.”The child, whom they had named Rumi, was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which causes part of the heart to be underdeveloped and prevent normal blood flow. The child underwent surgery in Texas and is now “suffering from potential complications” related to the operation.HHS WARNS TEXAS HOSPITALS AGAINST DENYING LIFE-SAVING CARE TO NEWBORN WITH DISABILITYAhmed and Gilkar attempted to force West to have an abortion when the defect was initially detected, but West refused and fled to Texas, where she received support from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.Paxton signed an order stating that the child must receive lifesaving care in Texas. The case went up to the Texas Supreme Court, which ruled last week that the child could be moved to California, where the intended parents have lined up plans for medical care.Ahmed and Gilkar first ought out a surrogacy agreement after attempts at in vitro fertilization failed.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is rolling out city-funded security for grocery stores facing theft, break-ins and vandalism, fueling criticism that Seattle is spending taxpayer money to protect businesses from crime instead of doing enough to stop it in the first place.The socialist mayor announced the rollout of the security funding as part of a $1.7 million grocery-support initiative included in the city’s 2026 budget earlier this week. “Keeping our neighborhood grocery stores safe and supported is essential to making sure every Seattleite has a reliable, affordable grocery store near them,” Wilson said on social media Monday.The plan will help 10 independent grocery stores pay for improvements and get a year of business support, while stores hit hard by retail theft can get one-time funding for security upgrades and repairs.’WASTEFUL DISTRACTION’: EXPERTS SLAM MAMDANI’S TAXPAYER-FUNDED GROCERY STORESThe security funding is already drawing criticism from conservatives who argue the city is spending public money to help businesses absorb the consequences of crime rather than focusing enough resources on preventing it.”The best way to support grocery store — and all businesses — is to actually enforce the law with a fully staffed and funded police department. Giving money or resources to fix businesses that are broken by crime is a bandage on a bullet wound,” Seattle-based KTTH host and conservative commentator Jason Rantz told Fox News Digital..SMALL-BUSINESS OWNER URGES SEATTLE LEADERS TO ACT NOW ON PUBLIC DRUG USE AND SLOW EMERGENCY RESPONSE”We don’t need to think outside the box here. Just enforce the law and put criminals in jail. That works like a charm and will save everyone money and headaches,” Rantz added.”Is there no single human in Seattle willing to identify the criminals and end the crime instead,” asked an X user.”Seattle is arguably the worst city in the entire country right now, in terms of the rampant crime, widespread degradation and lawlessness that’s apparently gotten exponentially worse across the board over the last 2-3 yrs,” another user chimed in.NEW YORK SOCIALIST LAWMAKER TAKES HEAT AFTER SAYING SHOPLIFTING RESULTS FROM ‘BIOLOGICAL NEED'”That used to be called the police department. What are these security guards going to do? Make arrests? Observe & report? The criminals will walk right past the security with their stolen goods. If they detain they will be sued. Cops will not arrest the shoplifters or prosecute,” said one person.”Goodness! imagine how much nicer the city would be if they simply arrested and charged criminals and put them in jail?Normal people shouldn’t have to shop at stores with security guards. NONE of this was necessary in most parts of Seattle 15 years ago,” wrote an X user.”So we are working around the problem by increasing security instead of arresting the problem,” said another person.The city will also work with the Independent Grocers Alliance to study eight neighborhoods for potential new grocery stores, according to the plan.Wilson floated the idea of exploring a “public option” for grocery stores during her 2025 mayoral campaign, including models that could involve publicly supported or city-run grocery stores. While the new initiative is separate from those proposals, critics argued the city should focus more heavily on arresting and prosecuting retail thieves rather than spending additional money helping stores deal with the damage caused by crime.The grocery security funding was first proposed by former Mayor Bruce Harrell as $1 million for grocery-store security in his 2026 budget, specifically targeting retail theft, property damage and other crimes.City leaders pushed to cut police spending amid the 2020 “Black Lives Matter” movement and the city subsequently experienced a steep decline in police staffing, with the department falling from 1,424 officers in 2019 to 1,054 in 2024 before hiring began to rebound, the Seattle Mayor’s Office previously reported. The broader theft problem remains significant in Seattle, where police recorded nearly 7,500 larceny-theft offenses across the city’s five precincts through May, making it the most commonly reported crime category in every precinct.Fox News Digital reached out to the mayor’s office on Tuesday.

FIRST ON FOX: House Democrats paved the way for President Donald Trump’s anti-fraud division to survive beyond his presidency, but one Republican fears it’ll be a different outcome in the Senate. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., shared with Fox News Digital that he was introducing legislation that would make the National Fraud Enforcement Division permanent. It comes after a bill to do the same thing cruised through the House. The lawmaker made it official Tuesday night when the Senate reopened for business.But the Senate is a different political animal, and Democrats’ possible reticence to give Trump a win before the midterm elections may thwart his plan. Schmitt, during an interview with Fox News Digital, contended that since the sprawling Minnesota fraud scandal was unveiled earlier this year, Democrats have been on the back foot.DEMOCRATS RELUCTANTLY HAND TRUMP MAJOR VICTORY ON FRAUD PROGRAM TARGETING TIM WALZ”They’re very defensive about it, and you know the fact is that you had — maybe it had something to do with this sort of toxic empathy or suicidal empathy [they] have done on immigration where you had these Somali fraudsters and maybe, maybe their instinct to defend every group of people that came here from somewhere else, even if they’re defrauding the American people, overrode their logic.”Still, House Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., begrudgingly gave Trump a win last week and voted to make his anti-fraud task force permanent. That bipartisan vote comes as Democrats are reconciling with their messaging on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.And New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has increasingly been one of the progressive leaders of the party, warned Democrats had ceded ground on issues like quality of life and rooting out waste and fraud, and that finding waste had taken hold as a “right-wing concern” rather than an issue Democrats could champion.DEMOCRATS BEGRUDGINGLY HAND TRUMP VICTORY ON TARIFFS IN SPRAWLING SANCTIONS BILL”I know that we live in a hyper-partisan age, I get that,” Schmitt said. “But there are some things I don’t think should be partisan. Saving taxpayer money should be something we’re all focused on.””I mean these are criminals who, you know, are stealing from American taxpayers and the potential beneficiaries of important programs,” he continued.Trump first announced the creation of a new division within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to combat fraud in January 2026 following reports of staggering fraud taking place in the backyard of one of his political enemies: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.TRUMP SAYS ANTI-FRAUD EFFORTS ARE UNCOVERING BILLIONS IN WASTE, CLAIMS SAVINGS COULD BALANCE BUDGETThe unit embedded in the DOJ was officially launched under then-acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, with the goal of targeting “fraud affecting the federal government, federally funded programs, and private citizens,” according to a release by the administration.It’s chaired by Vice President JD Vance, who Trump tapped to be his de facto fraud czar, and run by Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald.Schmitt argued that “having permanence in the Department of Justice will be important so that, no matter who is president, that this remains a focus.””To me, this shouldn’t be a partisan issue at all,” Schmitt said. “But sadly, we live in a world where Democrats aren’t as focused on this, but I think we’ve got an administration that is.”And Schmitt leads the Senate’s Anti-Fraud Taskforce, launched in June, that includes only Republican members. That wasn’t by design.He said that they had extended an invitation to “Republicans and Democrats alike,” but only one side of the aisle accepted the call.”I was a little surprised. I think some offices took a look at it and, for whatever reason, didn’t want to be part of the effort,” Schmitt said. “I don’t understand that.””But, you know, of course, the offer remains open if anybody wants to,” he continued. “I just think that this is something that our people back home expect us to work together on. And I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to be a part of an anti-fraud task force.”

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Joseph Wayne Singleton, a 45-year-old musician from Opelousas, Louisiana, shared how a routine physical led to an early diagnosis that saved his life.When Singleton was 33, his wife urged him to schedule a more thorough physical. Although he underwent annual exams to maintain his commercial driver’s license, she felt those checkups weren’t comprehensive enough.”My mentality was, ‘OK, to make my wife happy, I’m going to do this and prove to her that I’m in perfect shape,'” he told Fox News Digital.JOE BIDEN SHARES HEALTH UPDATE AFTER PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSIS WHILE ISSUING WARNING TO OTHERSAlthough Singleton was too young for prostate cancer screening, his doctor decided to run a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test.”He couldn’t explain what made him do that, but he did,” he said.Singleton’s results came back revealing PSA levels that were “through the roof.” After a biopsy, he was later diagnosed with prostate cancer.”It was totally unexpected,” he said. “No symptoms.”CANCER WARNING SIGNS MAY APPEAR IN DNA YEARS BEFORE BLOOD TESTS DETECT TROUBLESingleton, who was treated at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, said the doctors had never seen prostate cancer in someone so young.After undergoing a prostatectomy to remove the prostate, Singleton said his relatively young age contributed to what he described as a “miraculous” recovery.”A couple of weeks after having the prostatectomy, I was back on airplanes flying across the country doing shows with my band,” he said. “It wasn’t as bad as it possibly could have been.””By the grace of God, I’m here now,” Singleton reflected. “It was quite an eye-opener. It made me question myself … a lot of ‘why me?'”CANCER TREATMENT DELAYS SURGE ACROSS US AS DOCTOR WARNS SYSTEM ‘NEEDS FIXING IMMEDIATELY’Singleton added, “I’m still here after all those years, and there was definitely a purpose behind everything that happened.”Part of that purpose, Singleton said, is to advocate for earlier prostate cancer screening when appropriate.”I came to the conclusion that because of the platform that I have, being a musician, that maybe it was meant for me to be an advocate,” he said. “I’m having people reach out to me from all across the country [who are] finding out about my story … and I think it’s very important.””This could have turned out so much worse had I not gotten tested early,” he went on. “I hate to think what could have happened.””If I could help prevent somebody else from going through what I might have gone through, worse than what I went through, that’s the main goal.”While Singleton advocates for earlier prostate cancer screening in younger men, even without symptoms, current screening guidelines do not recommend it.Robert Smith, Ph.D., senior vice president of cancer screening at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia, confirmed that current prostate cancer screening procedures differ depending on the patient.”The one thing most organizations agree on is that clinicians should discuss prostate cancer screening with men, emphasizing benefits, limitations and harms associated with screening, diagnosis and treatment, rather than issue a direct recommendation to undergo screening,” he told Fox News Digital.The recommended age to begin prostate cancer screening remains a topic of debate, with some guidelines suggesting as early as 45 and others recommending age 50 or 55 for average-risk men.Recommendations for when to stop screening also vary, generally ranging from ages 69 to 75 or when life expectancy is less than 10 years. Guidelines also differ on screening frequency, ranging from annual testing to every two to four years.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTERFor men at higher risk, including Black men and those with a family cancer history, Smith noted that guidelines recommend more frequent screening, starting at 40 to 45 years old.Prostate cancer screening guidelines have long emphasized weighing the benefits against the risks, including overdiagnosis, overtreatment and potential side effects such as urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction, Smith said.”However, over this period, it has become clear that prostate cancer screening is more effective at reducing prostate cancer deaths than was previously believed, and there are new strategies … to mitigate the harms associated with diagnosing and treating prostate cancer.”Guidelines on screening and treatment have evolved based on this new evidence and will likely continue to change, Smith noted.The doctor said Singleton’s diagnosis was concerning because he was in his early 30s, had no symptoms and no known risk factors. Prostate cancer is uncommon in men younger than 40, so current guidelines generally would not have recommended screening in his case.CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIESProstate cancer screening is intended for men who do not have symptoms. Men who develop symptoms — including changes in urination, blood in the urine or semen, or persistent back or hip pain — should see a doctor promptly for evaluation, experts advise.Smith noted that there is no guaranteed way to prevent prostate cancer, as its biggest risk factors — age, race and family history — cannot be changed.As with many cancers, however, research suggests that maintaining a healthy lifestyle may help lower the risk. That includes eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, avoiding tobacco and limiting alcohol consumption.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ”These are behaviors that not only reduce the risk of cancer, but also cardiovascular disease and diabetes,” Smith said. “Some studies have suggested that staying sexually active can lower risk, but results are mixed.””Regular PSA testing can reduce the risk associated with being diagnosed with an advanced prostate cancer.”