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LAS VEGAS — The FBI has been discussing bringing new tech tools into the Nancy Guthrie investigation, sources told Fox News Digital over the weekend.They declined to elaborate.Morgan Wright, the CEO and founder of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, said he believes the tools are likely focused on one of three areas Monday.”The solution to this case is going to be, I think, something technical, something that they come up with — new ways of analyzing data,” he told Fox News Digital. “I’m looking at the video, the video forensics, signals analysis, blockchain kind of stuff.”FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XVideo forensics could include technology that enhances publicly known or unknown video to help identify either the suspect or his vehicle. Signal analysis could include cell-site or ad-tech data analysis. And the blockchain could expose whoever was behind the ransom and extortion attempts, whether they were legitimate or not.”If I’m going to put it into three buckets, I’d say it’s going to come out of one of those three buckets,” Wright, the editor and host of the “Crime: Reconstructed” Substack and podcast, added.SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERInvestigative genetic genealogy could still provide a major breakthrough, he said, but that’s not new tech.NANCY GUTHRIE’S FRONT DOOR BLOOD EVIDENCE POINTS TO ‘SINGLE ABDUCTOR’: FORMER FBI PROFILERHe said he believes the publicly known evidence shows there was only one kidnapper involved, in part because only one person appears on video, and no one has come forward to claim the reward of over $1.2 million.SEND US A TIP HERE”I don’t know that there’s anything else to indicate a second person,” he said.That’s likely why the suspect was seen struggling to obscure the camera and eventually took it with him, he added. Not to hide his face, which was already covered, but to mask the suspect vehicle.LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCAST”The blood trail stops at the edge of the driveway,” he said. “So we know there was a car.”The investigation, which kicked off four months ago Monday after Guthrie’s suspected abduction from her home in Tucson, has already involved the use of state-of-the-art Bluetooth detection deployed over the neighborhood in a helicopter and the groundbreaking recovery of Nest doorbell camera video.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? FIND MORE ON THE TRUE CRIME HUBThe Bluetooth “sniffer” was flown around the area in the hope that it could pick up signs from Guthrie’s pacemaker device.She did not have a cloud subscription for her cameras, and the physical device itself was missing before police arrived to investigate her disappearance. But the FBI and Google teamed up to recover images that show a masked man on her doorstep on the night of her abduction as well as several weeks earlier.The Guthrie family is urging anyone with information to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. There is a combined reward of more than $1.2 million for information that breaks the case.Anonymous tips can also be sent to Tucson’s Crime Stoppers affiliate, 88-Crime, at 1-520-882-7463.

A Democratic candidate waging a high-stakes bid for one of the most competitive congressional districts in the country touted connections to a group pushing to keep laxer restrictions around commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) for undocumented immigrants.Rebecca Cooke, running in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District to unseat incumbent Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisc., highlighted an endorsement from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).”I’m honored to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the hard-working men and women of AFSCME.,” Cooke wrote.Cooke’s alignment with AFSCME continues Democrats’ pushback against crackdowns on proof of citizenship status in certain industries.TRUMP-BACKED VAN ORDEN PROJECTED TO DEFEAT DEM CHALLENGER IN COMPETITIVE WISCONSIN DISTRICTCooke did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.Over the past year, the Department of Homeland Security has highlighted several instances where Americans were killed by illegal aliens who acquired CDLs.In one such case, Dawood Hussain, a Pakistani native, was charged in April with vehicular homicide after driving a commercial truck down the wrong way of a highway, killing a U.S. citizen in a collision.”Illegal aliens should not be operating 80,000-pound tractor-trailers on American roads,” USCIS spokesman Matthew J. Tragesser said of the incident.TRUCKER SLAPPED WITH CHARGES IN FATAL DRIVING INCIDENT PREVIOUSLY IMMIGRATED TO US ILLEGALLY: SOURCE”This tragedy, like many others, was completely preventable. Under President Trump’s leadership, USCIS remains committed to safeguarding our communities by helping to ensure dangerous illegal aliens are removed from our country, as well as supporting the president’s call for even tougher measures to prevent future truck tragedies.”As states and federal lawmakers evaluate rules surrounding CDLs, AFSCME has pushed back, arguing that the standards should remain open to encourage job maximization — even for illegal immigrants.The group published a toolkit, instructing businesses on how to circumvent restrictions on CDLs to illegal aliens.Additionally, the group has sued the Trump administration for imposing federal requirements through the Department of Transportation that would require states to secure proof of lawful immigration status.Cooke’s alignment with AFSCME is especially noteworthy in Wisconsin, a state with a trucking workforce.CALIFORNIA TO REVOKE 17,000 COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSES GIVEN TO IMMIGRANTS AMID TRUMP ADMIN PRESSUREOver 186,600 residents of Wisconsin are employed in the trucking industry, according to the Wisconsin Motor Carrier Association — a figure accounting for roughly 1 in every 14 jobs in the state.Cooke last lost a congressional election to Van Orden, 51.3% to 48.6%, in 2024.

Tesla Posts Strong Registration Growth Across Europe In May

Tesla showed signs of regaining momentum in Europe during May, posting strong registration growth across several major markets, according to Reuters. New registrations climbed to 1,750 vehicles in Denmark (+136%), 1,690 in Spain (+113%), and 858 in Sweden (+71%), based on data released by local industry groups.

Reuters writes that the trend extended across the region. Norway recorded 3,345 Tesla registrations, up 29% from a year earlier, while France saw registrations rise to 5,446 vehicles—more than seven times last year’s level.

The gains come as demand for electrified vehicles continues to strengthen across Europe. Battery-electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid vehicles represented more than two-thirds of all new registrations in April, with total electrified vehicle registrations increasing roughly 21%, according to ACEA.

Industry observers note that Tesla is benefiting from the overall expansion of the EV market, particularly in Scandinavia, while countries such as Spain are beginning to catch up in adoption. Consumer incentives, emissions-focused policies, and elevated fuel prices are also helping accelerate the shift toward electric mobility.

The recent improvement follows a difficult period for Tesla in Europe. The company lost a significant share of the regional market in 2025 as competition intensified—especially from Chinese manufacturers—while a limited refresh cycle and controversy surrounding CEO Elon Musk also weighed on demand. Registration figures from Germany and the UK, Europe’s largest auto markets, are still to come.

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As New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill blamed out-of-state agitators for unrest outside Newark’s Delaney Hall detention facility, critics pointed to the limited police presence around the site in the days leading up to the clashes.During Fox News Digital’s time on scene at Delaney Hall through Thursday of last week, there were few, if any, visits by marked New Jersey State Police vehicles — an agency under Sherrill’s control. Likewise, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka’s hands-off sanctuary city policies were evident in the scarcity of Newark police cruisers around the facility.Nonetheless, on Saturday, Sherrill said five of six people arrested Friday were from Pennsylvania and New York – the latter just a few miles from the protest.That was not enough for critics, as the leading Republican seeking to challenge Delaney Hall critic Sen. Cory Booker in November called out Sherrill for trying to take credit for fixing a problem that should not have existed to begin with.WATCH: POLICE ABSENT FROM DELANEY HALL CHAOS AS AGITATORS BLOCK ICE VEHICLES AND AGENTS USE PEPPER SPRAY”Governor Sherrill, you are an arsonist complaining about the fire you helped start. Delaney Hall is under siege,” investigative journalist Alex Zdan said of the Democrat in a statement.Zdan, who lists border security and better oversight of Big Pharma as his top issues, is considered the front-runner in Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary to take on Booker — who notably preceded Baraka as mayor.”Our brave state troopers are in harm’s way, and all you can do is complain to the media about outside agitators? Who asked them to go there, Governor?” Zdan went on.”Who was told it was a moral duty to descend on Delaney Hall and assault our brave ICE agents and troopers? You, Andy Kim, and Cory Booker. This is your mess. Own it. Restore order now.”The Department of Justice announced charges against a 27-year-old accused of shouting epithets at ICE personnel and threatening to murder an officer and his family after allegedly obtaining the officer’s identity, telling him he “ha[d] your face.”Nicholas Matthew Scelfo appears to have ties to both New Jersey and New York. The FBI said agents raided his Morristown home, while a DOJ charging document described him as being “of Brooklyn.”FBI ARRESTS PROTESTER WHO THREATENED TO KILL ICE OFFICER’S FAMILY AT NJ DETENTION CENTER PROTEST, BLANCHE SAYSHomeland Security Investigations (HSI) Newark Special Agent in Charge Spiros Karabinas said the incident was not an example of protected protest, as “calling for murder of a federal law enforcement officer and his family is not speech safeguarded by the Constitution; it is a grave criminal offense that will not be tolerated.”As Fox News Digital departed Delaney Hall on Thursday night, the first visible pair of New Jersey State Police cruisers appeared in the area — one conducting a checkpoint near Roanoke Avenue under the Pulaski Skyway and the other near New Jersey Transit’s Ironbound bus garage, which lies just south of Delaney Hall on then-agitator-ridden Doremus Avenue.By the weekend, however, Sherrill’s police were out in force with riot gear, including mounted officers among their ranks. A video shared on social media Monday showed one man approaching officers outside the Ironbound garage and taking a seat on the curb while mouthing off to police, who let him vent for a moment before quickly detaining him and pulling him behind the line of riot-shielded officers.Outside agitators were, however, among those who converged nightly on Delaney Hall, as one young man videotaped by Fox News Digital screaming at ICE was later interviewed by an independent news outlet and at one point recounted experiences “in Minnesota” — an apparent reference to similar riotous displays there.New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport has suggested most agitators had been peaceful until now while condemning a group wearing gas masks and helmets that “deliberately refused to comply with orders” and put the public “at risk.”However, in another statement over the weekend, she characterized the group as “overwhelmingly peaceful protesters who have been shining a light on the troubling conditions at Delaney Hall.””We will continue to protect the constitutional right to peaceably protest, and we denounce any violent conduct that interferes with peaceful protesting,” Davenport said.Efforts to reach Baraka and Essex County Sheriff Amir Jones prior to state police arrival were unsuccessful.Sherrill’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.A DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital that as of Monday, the perimeter around the center is “fully closed” and that federal authorities will continue to prosecute suspects who obstruct proceedings, as ICE had to repeatedly rebuff angry agitators who leaped into action every time a federal vehicle or transport van appeared on Doremus Avenue.

Democrats have a tiger by the tail.Democratic Socialists are bringing money and energy to their party, but also a growing crop of anti-American, anti-capitalist and often antisemitic candidates who scorn our country’s traditions and values. These challengers may ride today’s wave of anti-Trump sentiment, concern about AI and anger about high prices, and win in solidly Democrat areas, like Manhattan, but long term they will become an embarrassment. AOC and her Democratic Socialist colleagues are not going to breach the Oval Office anytime soon.Establishment Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer know this, but are scared to death of taking on the likes of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, for fear of being primaried by Leftist candidates and run out of office. Consequently, they have left the door open and unguarded, welcoming the upstarts. Shame on them.MORNING GLORY: DEMS’ BERNIE-BACKED OYSTER FARMER HANDS SUSAN COLLINS A MASSIVE 2026 ADVANTAGEDemocrats believe they have an excellent chance to take back control of Congress in the fall midterm elections. The war in Iran is not popular, gasoline prices are hovering at $4 per gallon, and the President’s approval ratings have declined. The stage is set for a Democrat win.But, as the far left invades their party, incumbent Democrat legislators are being pushed aside by increasingly bizarre and offensive candidates like Darializa Avila Chevalier, who in recent years denounced former President Joe Biden as a “rapist” and “war criminal” and on social media proclaimed the U.S. a “f**king disgrace.” Chevalier, who for good measure also posted “f**k Kamala Harris” and has attacked leftists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, has a shot at ousting long-time Democrat stalwart Adriano Espaillat who represents New York’s 13th Congressional district.Chevalier has a deplorable history of racist remarks, is in favor of closing all prisons, legalizing all drugs and ending U.S. military support for Israel.No one would be taking this person seriously but for her endorsement by Zohran Mamdani. New York’s Democratic Socialist Mayor shocked his party’s establishment by giving his support to Chevalier, thus undermining a five-term congressman who is head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The seat is safe, rated “Solid D” by the Cook report, but a win by Chevalier would further boost Mamdani’s power and lessen moderate Democrats’ tenuous control of the party.Chevalier is not the only far-left candidate making headlines. As the midterm looms, Democrats eager to take control of the senate are pinning hopes on the likes of Graham Platner to defeat Republican Susan Collins in Maine, Abdul El-Sayed to fill an open seat in Michigan and James Talerico who is running against Texas AG Ken Paxton for Republican John Cornyn’s seat in the Lone Star state.Platner and Talerico have had to scrub embarrassing social media histories in frantic efforts to reinvent themselves. In this internet era, your past is thankfully hard to erase, and rightly so. Disavowing something you said five years ago just because it now complicates your campaign isn’t persuasive.Platner has not only had to pretend he no longer believes vulgar posts from a now-deleted Reddit account about his appetite for masturbation, that make light of sexual assaults and other sexual topics, but has also tried to explain away a Nazi-themed tattoo on his chest. Most recently, it has come to light that his wife alerted his campaign early on about sexually explicit texts Platner sent to several women that she had discovered on the oyster farmer’s phone. He also has an account on a private messaging app called Kik that some claim is often used for sexual hook-ups.Like Platner, Texas state representative James Talerico is feverishly reinventing himself. In 2022, Talerico ran what he then described as a “non-meat” campaign, telling an audience concerned with animal welfare that climate change considerations were driving him to reduce his consumption of meat. Now, running to represent a major cattle-ranching state, and after being derided as “Tofu Talerico” by opponent Ken Paxton, the candidate declares himself a red-blooded steak lover.Talerico is also battling early comments that “God is non-binary,” and that there are six sexes, just the kinds of goofy nonsense that GOP opponents can capitalize on. Moreover, he has embraced the canard that white people are essentially racist, which is unlikely to play well in the Lone Star state.In Michigan, one of the front-runners in the Democratic Primary to fill Gary Peter’s seat is progressive Abdul El-Sayed, a far-left proponent of Medicare-for-all who wants to abolish ICE and who made headlines recently by recounting a story showcasing what critics say are serious anger management issues. El-Sayed, admitted to smashing a fifth of vodka on the floor of a liquor store in Detroit because the proprietor commented on the length of his beard, something with religious connotations among his fellow Muslims.Establishment Democrats must be horrified at the turn their party is taking. Adding to their woes, Jill Biden is hitting the airwaves trying to drum up interest in her new book. The former First Lady is doing interviews about her White House years, reminding the country of the essential lie of the Biden era, perpetuated by her and by Democrat officials, that Joe Biden was fit to serve another four years.Meanwhile, the Democrat National Committee is at war with itself, wrangling over, among other things, an incomplete and sloppy “autopsy” about how they lost in 2024. They don’t need an autopsy, they just need to listen to the few sane voices in their party which have decried Democrats’ support of biological men competing in women’s sports, defunding the police, open borders and other unpopular issues.In addition, at some point, they will have to freeze out the radical extremists who are hijacking their party and actively working against the best interest of the United States. The voters will not stand for it.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM LIZ PEEK

The next four months are anniversary heavy.Before the fireworks of the 250th Fourth of July begin, try with family and friends to agree on what we are celebrating, and try as well to articulate why and how we defend what our country has long been committed to on paper and for 250 years in actual and expanding practice.While the Semiquincentennial is upon us in a month, we are also only three months and an handful of days away from the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda on the United States.The great and the awful anniversaries are connected by that which the first proclaimed and which the second attempted to end: freedom.TRUMP LAUNCHES MASSIVE ‘FREEDOM 250’ PUSH TO IGNITE AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONThe Declaration asserted the existence of “rights” of individuals that exist before any government — no matter its form — comes into being:”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”The great day of the fourth is, from beginning to end, about love of our country because our country defends our individual rights, rights inherent in the way we are formed by God and nature. While there are several ways to enumerate our natural rights, the founders of the country thought them all sufficiently important to risk everything to declare and fight for those rights. That is the core of what we celebrating next month: our freedoms.FOR 2026, YOU SHOULD MAKE A RESOLUTION TO KNOW THE REVOLUTIONWe ought also to spend part of this celebration in reflecting on admiration for the courage of the not just those who voted “yes” on the Declaration and who would actually sign their names to it on August 2, 1776. They did the voting and the signing in the face of overwhelming odds against their success as the American colonists were choosing war with the mighty British Empire. As Justice Neil Gorsuch’s recent book for children and young adults — Heroes of 1776 — made clear, the sacrifices and suffering of our founding families were extreme and their deprivations bitter during the long war that followed.(A celebration of the day of the actual signing of the Declaration will be held on August 2 at Perry’s Victory & International Peace Memorial on the shores of Lake Erie, adjacent to the town of Put-In-Bay, Ohio. There is no more appropriate place as it was there that the Revolution announced on the 4th of July in 1776 and sealed on the 2nd was actually made enduring with the defeat of the squadron of British ships by the American Navy that effectively turned the second war with Great Britain — the War of 1812 — in America’s favor.)That first of America’s long wars ran from April 19, 1775 in Lexington and Concord where the first shots were fired until September 3, 1783 when King George’s representatives signed the Treaty of Paris recognizing the establishment of the United States as an independent and sovereign nation. The second war with Britain begun formally in 1812 followed decades of tensions between our country and its motherland. Real peace with the United Kingdom was not achieved until February, 17 1815 when the Treaty of Ghent was ratified by the United States Senate, and what was effectively 40 years of conflict with Great Britain came to a close, and the rights of Americans secured from foreign entities even as the long work of perfecting them for all Americans would take up more than another 150 years and encompass a vast Civil War and our entry into two world wars as well as numerous Amendments to the Constitution and federal laws to make the example of a free people more perfect.JONATHAN TURLEY: AOC’S WAR ON BILLIONAIRES TWISTS AMERICA’S BIRTH INTO A SOCIALIST MYTHThe Declaration became a touchstone of “the West,” with more than half of the 192 countries now represented at the United Nations having a founding document that can be called a “Declaration of Independence.” The origins of the Declaration reach far back in history, to both “Jerusalem and Athens,” to Ancient Israel and Ancient Greece. One could even argue that Ancient Persia has a hand in forming “the West” as it was Cyrus the Great who repatriated the Jews to Jerusalem and his son-in-law Darius who endorsed the rebuilding of their Temple there. Without the return of the Jews from their exile the West could not have developed as it did.The Declaration perfected the mission statement of “The West,” the long work of drafting of which can be understood to have begun with England’s Magna Carta, sealed by King John of England at Runnymede on 15 June 1215. The United States Constitution, when ratified in 1789, and amended to add the Bill of Rights soon thereafter, established the Republic that has successfully protected the rights demanded by the Declaration in theory, but only made real for all citizens only after a vast Civil War and decades of amendment and legislation.The American Republic remains the model of successful governance through the rule of law protected by the separation of the powers of government both vertically between the state and federal governments and horizontally within those governments that divide legislative, executive and judicial branches into equal branches of those federal and state governments.The First Amendment prohibits the establishment of an official religion in the United States while also protecting the “free exercise” of all faiths or none.One of the motivating hatreds of fanatics for America — like those who attacked in 25 years ago in September and those we are fighting today in Iran and its proxies — is that Americans refuse to declare one religion to be the “true” religion. All faiths or none at all are protected here. This refusal to establish a national faith — whether religious or secular — is the source of the hatred held for us by many of our enemies.Defining the extent of “the West” is difficult. America sets the standard for individual liberty, but many countries aspire to reach that level of ordered liberty. The West should be understood as any country in which the expansion of liberty and literacy is ongoing and where the rule of law controls life, not the rule of one or a few powerful people. If personal freedoms and literacy are on the rise in a country, that nation is either a part of or aspiring to join “the West.”Many nations around the world have “established” religions, including Israel and all of its neighbors. (The Pew Research Center counts 80 counties that either have an official religion or favor one or more religious groups over others.) That a country has an “established religion” doesn’t exclude it from “The West.” Any nation that protects religious minorities in the exercise of their faith and the right of citizens to speak freely is clearly part of “the West.”Many counties are on the path towards classically liberal ideals. As our own journey took almost two centuries to complete even in theory (with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act or 1965) so too other nations in the world are on their own paths towards joining wholly with “the West.”America’s 250 years of independence is the standard by which other republics are measured. The enemies of the “American system” are many and varied but they share in common a hatred of pluralism, of freedom of speech and belief, press and assembly, and ultimately self-government.AFTER EPIC FURY: HOW TO DEFEND AMERICA’S SECURITY AND VALUES IN A DANGEROUS WORLDWhen America celebrates this summer, our friends around the world will applaud our progress and our role as the deliverer of the world from its would-be totalitarian rulers in the 20th century, and as the great protector of freedom of the seas and enemy of absolutism in all of its forms in the 21st.When we celebrate on the 4th of July and the 2nd of August, we ought to keep in mind that only a few weeks later we will mourn the awful anniversary of the worst attack on America by foreigners in history. Absolutist fanatics drove the terrible events of 9/11. The fanaticism which led to the equal of the darkest of days in modern times insisted on exclusive claims of truth, claims that could not compete with those fundamental structures of the West which allow free peoples the rights of conscience.Totalitarians can be secular or sectarian. What they always must be, however, is absolutist in their truth claims, and oppressive of anyone or country that asserts freedom of thought.Which is why we ought to see both the “hot war” with Iran and its proxies, as well as the relatively new Cold War 2.0 with the People’s Republic of China and its allies, as part of the never-ending struggle of free peoples against those who would subjugate them. Ukraine and Israel are our allies in fact and usually in name because they embrace the fundamental commitment to the individual’s freedom. Their enemies are our enemies because their enemies want to snuff out the freedom the peoples of those country enjoy. Though their modern “foundings” are more than a century younger than ours, they have embraced the right path and are heading in the right direction. They are part of the West as is, for example, the United Arab Emirates and increasingly other countries in the Middle East and across the Pacific which are gradually modernizing their understanding of the rights of their peoples and the crucial need for the rule of law.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWe all ought to hope that 50 years hence on our tricentennial the great people of Iran and other counties throughout the Middle East have joined the Abraham Accords, and that our commitment to freedom of the individual has spread throughout our hemisphere.We ought also to hope that the police state that is the People’s Republic of China has evolved to a government that lifts their people up and protects their freedoms rather than persecuting them for trying to exercise their natural rights Americans have long recognized and fought and died for.This brace of anniversaries should remind every American that ours is a unique and enduring commitment to human liberty and that many in the world fear such ordered liberty and always will. But if the framers could endure on-and-off battles with the planet’s greatest power for 40 years beginning in 1775, every generation ought to know they have it within themselves to carry on that commitment to the country’s first principles.Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and host of “The Hugh Hewitt Show” heard weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh drives Americans home on the East Coast and to lunch on the West Coast on over 400 affiliates nationwide, and on all the streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel’s news roundtable, hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcasting. This column previews the lead story that will drive his radio/ TV show today.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM HUGH HEWITT

Republicans head into the 2026 midterms with a rare advantage: a concrete record of accomplishments to run on powered by President Donald Trump’s second-term successes.Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has proposed a practical midterm strategy reminiscent of his 1994 “Contract with America” that urges Republicans to run hard on their winning record.That record includes such wins as the Working Families Tax Cut, which has already brought positive effects to the economy. The “Big Beautiful Bill” extended the 2017 tax cuts, ended taxes on tips and overtime, ended taxes on Social Security for most seniors, expanded the child tax credits and childcare tax credits. It also permitted businesses to write off major investments, made permanent a 20% small-business tax deduction, loosened restrictions on oil and gas lease sales, expanded Workforce Pell grants, provided investment accounts for children and expanded access to zero-deductible telehealth.Remarkably, not a single Democrat voted in favor of this powerhouse legislation.TRUMP TOUTS POTENTIAL 20% TAX REFUNDS FROM ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’Republicans should be shouting these accomplishments from the rooftops.Compare that to the Democrats, whose much-delayed, much-hyped, then much-feared “autopsy” of what went wrong in 2024 finally hit the press. Sadly, it left out any fruitful evaluation of the real reasons for their loss — the failed policies of the Biden administration and the promises of then-Vice President Kamala Harris to enact even worse ones.In fact, Democrats only seem willing to double down on their crazy ideas, moving further away from the American mainstream to embrace their activist base. Their candidates oppose law enforcement and border security. Their candidates care more about biological men pretending to be women than real women. They field a candidate who had a Nazi SS tattoo, and another who called for the imprisonment of “American Zionists” and spouted other antisemitic phrases.DEM REP DENIES THAT GRAHAM PLATNER’S TATTOO IS ‘DISQUALIFYING,’ SAYS CANDIDATE ‘TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT’Democrat candidates care more about illegal aliens than American citizens, epitomized by the fact that not a single Democrat stood during the president’s State of the Union address when asked if they support American citizens over illegal immigrants. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries thinks continued racial division is the way to go, asking athletes to withdraw or boycott Southern universities, even though the best options for them might be universities like Alabama, Georgia or Auburn.Harris — maybe the closest thing to a party leader they’ve got — isn’t doing the Democrats any favors either. Her recent call for a “no bad idea brainstorm” focused on nothing but unconstitutional pipe dreams.Harris and other prominent Democrats openly push to fundamentally rewrite the rules of American democracy. If they had their druthers, they’d abolish the Electoral College, create multi-member congressional districts and immediately pack the Supreme Court. These positions are no longer fringe; they are the mainstream of today’s Democratic Party.REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: DEMOCRATS SAY THEY CAN STILL FLIP THE HOUSE DESPITE GOP REDISTRICTING GAINS IN THE SOUTHMarc Elias, the Democrats’ redistricting strategist, has gone so far to as to imply that the entire state government of Virginia should be thrown out and reconstituted after the Virginia Democrats’ redistricting referendum was deemed unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court. Talk about a sore loser.The Democrats simply will not learn from their mistakes. Still, Republicans aren’t guaranteed a midterm victory and, despite the proven success of their agenda, there’s more work to be done to convince voters that Trump and Republicans are the team unlocking prosperity for Americans.For example, though inflation has largely been tamed by the Trump administration, it’s still nagging enough to mention. High gas prices also remain a tangible pain point for many voters. Republicans should make the case that their energy policies have already generated over $4 billion in new lease revenues and domestic energy production. These policies — as well as a smart resolution to the Iran war — are the surest path to lasting relief at the pump.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONAnother “must do” for Republicans is to ensure the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement’s successes are getting through to moms. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has made significant progress getting America on the path to better health. Under his leadership, artificial food dyes known to contain carcinogens have been eliminated.Vaccines are being reexamined for true efficacy and requirements are being relaxed to give families more choices for their children. The “Eat Real Food” campaign encourages families to move away from the ultra-processed foods filled with unpronounceable, unhealthy chemicals and toward real, nourishing whole foods.Women care about their families’ health and are seeing positive changes on grocery store shelves and in the doctor’s office, and it’s President Trump and Republicans who’ve empowered the Make America Healthy Again transformation. In 2026, the issue of health should be just as important on the campaign trail as the economy.The midterms, like the 2024 election, will pit normal people with normal ideas against crazy. The 2026 map is receptive to Republican ideas, and Republicans have a popular and winning record. Now they need to become their own best cheerleaders and make sure every voter knows it.

Britain’s White ‘George Floyd’ Moment?

Update: Vickrum Singh Digwa, 23, received a life sentence with a 21-year minimum on Monday for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.

Judge William Mousley describes Nowak as a “much-loved, kind, hard-working and ambitious young man, devoted to his family and with a bright future.”

Mousley includes agonizing testimony from Nowak’s family: Nowak’s death has caused his sister’s world to “fall apart,” she said; Nowak’s father describes his son’s death as a “life sentence” for the family.

The judge then details the extensive lies he believes Digwa told to evade responsibility for the murder.

‘His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed’
Henry Nowak’s father says the ‘contrast’ in the police’s treatment of his son and his murderer is ‘unbearable’ in a statement after Nowak’s killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/9w8A35hpMp
— GB News (@GBNEWS) June 1, 2026
As Daily Caller noted, Mousley more or less excused the actions of the responding police officers, writing they “honestly believed that there were reasonable grounds for suspecting Henry had committed an offence and arrested him.”

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As Bruce Oliver Newsome detailed earlier via American Greatness, this had all the ingredients (except inverted) to become Britain’s white ‘George Floyd’ moment.

If police see racism before they see a man bleeding out, something has gone profoundly wrong with justice.

Police handcuffed and arrested an 18-year-old while he was bleeding out from multiple stabbings because the stabber, a Sikh, accused the victim, a white man, of racism.

The stabber showed no signs of being the victim of violence. He said the man lying in his own blood on the ground had knocked off his turban in a drunken racist attack. And for that, the police arrested and handcuffed the victim.

The victim had been stabbed once in the face, twice in the legs while trying to escape over a fence, and once in the lung. But somehow the police claim not to have been aware of his wounds.

Vickrum Digwa, the 23-year-old stabber, was carrying two blades: an 8-inch “shastar” openly, and a smaller “kirpan” around his neck and under his clothing. During the trial, the prosecutor said that Digwa had “been training with weapons since the age of 12,” slept with weapons, and used “loving terms” when speaking about the murder weapon.

Digwa’s defense barrister claimed religious allowance for openly carrying knives that are illegal for the rest of us to carry. And the judge instructed the jury to consider whether the stabber had a good reason, such as self-defense or religion, to carry his weapons. The national government says that courts should decide what is legal to carry. The police federation says there is no limit on the size of the blade that can be carried with religious allowance.

Police initially arrested and handcuffed the victim without treating his wounds and without detaining the stabber.

On Thursday, May 28, the stabber was convicted of murder. The court found that the stabber had certainly not told the whole truth. He had told arriving officers of racist provocation but denied stabbing anyone.

There is no evidence for any racism other than the retrospective verbal claims of the stabber and his brother, who arrived after the stabbings and who made a call to emergency services claiming his brother was a victim of racism. He too did not mention any stabbing.

The perp’s father and mother also showed up at the scene. The mother helped to conceal the weapons.

The victim did not know his murderer. The victim was walking home around 11:30 p.m. on December 3, 2025, from a night out with his university soccer team in Southampton. He was well-dressed and well-groomed. He had drunk less alcohol than would have put him over the driving limit. But Digwa claimed to be attacked by a racist drunk. And the police believed him.

What will the consequences for the police entail?

The police force (Hampshire) referred itself for independent investigation but is also making excuses.

They claim that the stabbings were not obvious to officers, despite a trail of blood, and despite the victim repeatedly saying he had been stabbed and couldn’t breathe.

The police force maintains that officers could not have known the victim was suffering from internal bleeding. Yet the victim had been stabbed five times, of which one stabbing went 8 cm (more than 3 inches) into his lung. The blade itself is 21 centimeters (8 inches) long.

The police force isn’t publicly pondering whether the police officers should have examined rather than arrested the victim.

The police force says the victim couldn’t have been saved, but the victim didn’t die for another hour.

The police force says it is the victim of the stabber’s lies and that its officers were obliged to act on the stabber’s false accusations of racial provocation. But aren’t officers trained in judgment, to use their freaking eyes, to not make hasty judgments, and to care for even the perps? Wasn’t the victim’s plight obvious and the other party’s rude behavior equally obvious?

Note that the police force didn’t refer itself for investigation until the day of the conviction, almost six months after the murder.

And the police force still hasn’t released bodycam footage, even though one justification for introducing bodycams was to reassure the public of impartiality in racially sensitive cases, following the BLM explosion in 2020. The trial has concluded, so there can be no concerns around contempt of court by releasing footage.

[ZH: police just released the bodycam – its not embeddable]

Note that in other cases, such as the stabbings of girls at Southport in 2024 and the rape of a child in Nuneaton in 2025, local police, courts, and national government fell over each other to cover up the non-white race of the perpetrators, to warn against white racist misinformation, and even to prosecute some of the supposed misinformers for supposedly promoting hate.

I bet the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) won’t be investigating what journalists and opposition politicians have already identified: the racism of anti-racism.

Matt Goodwin, an academic and candidate for Parliament representing Reform UK, writes that “Henry Nowak now joins a growing list of people that most people in Westminster have probably never heard of—Terence Carney, Thomas Roberts, Victoria Agoglia, Lucy Lowe, Charlene Downes, Wayne Broadhurst, Rhiannon Whyte, among countless more—all of whom happen to belong to the wrong identity group to be considered worthy of serious discussion and attention,” after being murdered or raped by immigrants or the progeny of immigrants.

The Critic’s Tom Jones tweeted that “were the races reversed, this could be a story from the Jim Crow South that became a cause célèbre of the Civil Rights movement.”

The Spectator’s David Shipley wonders whether the police are so primed to posture as anti-racist (that is: anti-white racist) that they were blind to the evidence on and from the victim because he is white and gullible towards the stabber because he is not white.

Ed West, author of the classic The Diversity Illusion, reports that even the prosecutor went out of his way to avoid accusing the perpetrator of racism. “This is not a case about Sikhism. This is not a case about racism. This is a case about murder.” But as Ed West notes, the same defender made this a case of anti-racism.

This is a case with a false accusation of racism and a false justification of anti-racism for homicide, including labeling the victim as racist partly because of his different color.

So isn’t that racist?

You won’t find such questions in the mainstream media. The Guardian does not report the police’s actions at all and was at pains to specify the justifications for carrying a kirpan.

Worst of all, where the BBC reports on the police force’s decision to refer itself for investigation, the BBC goes out of its way to claim that “Digwa . . . had used a blade he said he carried because of his Sikh faith.” In fact, the jury had not formally agreed with that claim from the defense.

Anti-racism is racism, and British police are racist.

The name of the victim is Henry Nowak. Say his name.

And remember his last words: “I can’t breathe.”

But protesters aren’t blockading the streets. Keir Starmer isn’t taking the knee. Politicians aren’t calling on the public to chant his name or his last words, unlike in the case of the career criminal George Floyd, who almost certainly died of a fentanyl overdose.

Tyler Durden
Tue, 06/02/2026 – 05:00

A U.S. soldier and a British servicemember died during military training in northern Iraq over the weekend, both militaries said.

The Cost Of The Grain That Feeds Half The World Just Posted Biggest Monthly Surge Since 2008

Asian rice prices logged their biggest monthly gain in nearly two decades in May, as a Gulf energy shock collides with an expected El Niño event later this year. The spike adds to the mounting risks of a broader food price shock that could emerge as soon as six months from now.

Any time rice prices spike, it is a major concern because the grain feeds more than half the world’s population, estimated at 3.5 to 4 billion people.

Thailand white rice, a regional Asian benchmark, surged 20% in May, the largest monthly increase in data going back to 2008, according to Bloomberg. Chicago rice futures rose 15% last month.

Seasonality:

BMI analyst Bin Hui Ong warned that an expected El Niño event later this year will unleash adverse weather conditions across major rice-growing belts in Asia, including hotter, drier conditions. She noted this adds further upside to rice prices in the months ahead.

It is not just the threat of a severe El Niño event on analysts’ radars. There are also continued elevated diesel and fertilizer costs tied to disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz. This will further weigh on rice production yields across import-reliant Asia.

Rice farming is already highly fertilizer-intensive, while irrigation systems often depend on diesel-powered pumps.

In Vietnam’s Vinh Long province, a farmer told Bloomberg that he plans to skip one of his usual three annual crops due to rising input costs and extreme heat.

Fertilizer prices in Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines have soared by nearly 50% since late February, according to the International Rice Research Institute.

The Philippines has warned that a strong El Niño could cut rice production by up to 700,000 tons, or 3.5% of its annual production target.

Already, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a basket of globally traded food commodities, is trending upward and risks a further leg higher.

Alexandra Prokopenko, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, warned in mid-March that disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz would spark shortages of energy and fertilizers, translating into higher food prices in “six to nine months from now.”

Related:

We Are 6 Months From Global Food Shortages Because Farmers Are Facing A Quadruple Whammy Crisis

Everyone Talks About The Cost Of Gasoline… Soon Everyone Will Be Talking About The Cost Of Food

Last month, ZeroHedge Debates held a roundtable to ask: How bad will the food inflation mess get?

View here:

Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld outlined where food inflation is expected to hit the hardest, on a country-by-country level, this year (see report)

Tyler Durden
Tue, 06/02/2026 – 04:15