Four Israelis held hostage by Hamas were freed in a daring raid in central Gaza on Saturday.

Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andri Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40, were all rescued, the Israel Defense Forces said after the mission, the BBC reported.

The hostages were rescued during a “complex” operation at two locations in Nuseirat, central Gaza, the IDF said.

They are the first rescued since two others were freed during a raid in February.

Israel says that another 130 hostages remain in Gaza, though a high percentage of them could be dead as a result of deprivation from captivity.

Cheers erupted on the beaches of Tel Aviv after lifeguards announced the successful operation, videos of the moment circulating on X showed.

Video of Argamani embracing her father after being reunited was broadcast by Israel News 12.

Argamani’s mother has terminal brain cancer and had prayed to see her daughter again.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Argamani by phone after the raid.

She and the other three former hostages are in good health and recovering at Tel HaShomer hospital in central Israel, Haaretz reported.

Noa Argamani was abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7.

She was just rescued by the IDF with three other hostages and reunited with her father. pic.twitter.com/JxMg5A4uQM

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) June 8, 2024

“On behalf of the entire people of Israel, I thank the IDF, the Shin Bet, the Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces for an impressive and daring rescue operation, and I wish for the speedy return of all our abductees to their families. Israel Lives!,” Herzog said in an X post Saturday.

Footage of Argamani being dragged into Gaza by Hamas terrorists circulated widely after the vicious Oct 7 attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead.

More recently, Argamani had been featured in propaganda videos broadcast by the group.

The Saturday raid was the largest single recovery of hostages captured by Hamas, bringing the total number of rescued up to seven.

In October Israel successfully rescued IDF corporal Ori Megidish.

In February, they recovered Fernando Simon Marman and Louis Har.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office will investigate what a GOP state senator described as a “pay-to-play” scheme involving Gov. Katie Hobbs.

State Sen. T.J. Shope, R- District 16, sent a letter to Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes on Wednesday expressing concerns that Gov. Hobbs may be using the state Department of Child Services to increase payouts to companies which donate to her.

I am deeply concerned by recent reports in the media outlining what can only be described as a pay-to-play scheme between Governor Katie Habbs’ Office, the Arizona Department of Child Safety, and political donors,” Sen. Shope wrote. “Elected officials are bound by an oath to uphold the laws of our state and to be prudent stewards of taxpayer money.”

This scheme, he added, may constitute bribery, fraud, illegal use of state money and a conflict of interest.

“I respectfully request your office examine the facts surrounding the Department of Child Safety’s alleged decision to approve a nearly 60% rate increase for Sunshine Residential Homes and determine if conduct by any of the involved parties warrants criminal or civil investigation,” he continued.

The AG’s office replied on Thursday, confirming it would launch an investigation into the allegations. Sen. Shope marked the occasion by reposting a comment on X from an Arizonan saying “a NUKE just went off in Arizona.”

🚨A NUKE just went off in Arizona. https://t.co/1Ky2igBGrz

— J.P. Twist (@jp_twist) June 7, 2024

Gov. Hobbs did not appear to acknowledge the pending investigation Friday afternoon.

Update:

Infowars On The Edge: Alex Jones Gives A Bankruptcy Updatehttps://t.co/H1uLn5JrJc pic.twitter.com/Mhrfqm3G4A

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) June 7, 2024

Original:

Alex Jones will liquidate his assets to help pay off a $1.5 billion defamation judgment against him after he was sued by the families of the children who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting for saying that the massacre was a hoax.

Jones, the host of the popular Infowars site, has asked a US judge to convert his bankruptcy into a Chapter 7 liquidation, giving up on an effort to settle the judgments related to his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Jones believes that “there is no reasonable prospect of a successful reorganization” of his debts, most of which stem from $1.5 billion awarded in defamation lawsuits, his attorneys said in a court filing late on Thursday.

A Chapter 7 liquidation would not allow Jones to escape paying the legal judgments, but it offers a streamlined procedure for selling his assets under the supervision of a court-appointed trustee.

Courts in Texas and Connecticut have ordered Jones to pay $1.5 billion to the relatives of 20 students and six staff members killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Bankruptcy can be used to wipe out debts and legal judgments, but the judge overseeing Jones’ case ruled in October that most of the defamation verdicts cannot be legally discharged because they resulted from “willful and malicious injury” caused by Jones.

Jones said Tuesday on his “Alex Jones Show” that the Sandy Hook families were trying to shut down his broadcasts with “a made up kangaroo court debt.”

A spokesman for the Sandy Hook families declined to comment on Thursday.

Jones claimed for years that the Sandy Hook killings were staged with actors as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns. Jones has since acknowledged that the shooting occurred.

The Sandy Hook families said that Jones’ conspiracy theories caused grieving parents to endure years of threats and harassment, while Jones profited by driving traffic and sales on his Infowars website.

Jones had asked the Sandy Hook families to vote for a bankruptcy settlement that would have paid them $55 million, but they unanimously rejected the deal.

The Sandy Hook families instead offered their own proposal for liquidating Jones’ assets, and US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez will consider approving the Sandy Hook families’ plan at a June 14 court hearing.

Because the bankruptcy will likely result in the liquidation of Jones’ assets, Jones would prefer to liquidate his assets in a lower-cost and more streamlined court procedure, according to the court filing.

Jones initially filed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which allowed him to retain control of his assets while working toward a debt restructuring plan.

But Chapter 11 requires more spending on attorneys’ fees and court fees than a Chapter 7 liquidation, and those costs now come with “little benefit,” Jones’ attorneys wrote.

Earlier this week, Jones let out a bizarre war cry and sobbed uncontrollably as he claimed the feds were trying to shutter his Infowars platform.

WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark is not expected to be on the plane to Paris this summer, according to a report.

The Indiana Fever rookie will reportedly miss out on the 12-player squad for the 2024 Summer Olympics in the French capital, despite being the WNBA’s No. 1 Draft pick.

Instead, head coach Cheryl Reeve and the selection committee is said to favor veterans such as A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart, according to The Athletic.

Clark was one of 14 players called up to a training camp with Team USA in April but was unable attend as it came in the midst of Iowa’s run to the NCAA championship game.

‘You always want to grow up and be on the Olympic team, but lucky for me, I have the opportunity of possibly not doing that because I want to be at the Final Four playing basketball with my team,’ Clark said after receiving her invite.

‘But if not, that’s where I’ll be. People that are on that roster are people that I idolize and have idolized growing up. Just to be extended a camp invite is something you have to be proud of and celebrate and enjoy.’

While at Iowa, Clark became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA Division I basketball. She also rose to become among the biggest names in American sports.

She went on to be selected by the Fever with the No. 1 overall pick in April’s draft and has averaged 16.8 points on 37.3 percent shooting, 6.3 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game in 12 starts.

She scored a career-high 30 points on 7-of-13 three-point shooting in the Fever’s 85-83 win over the Washington Mystics on Friday night.

However, Reeve has reportedly favored experience in her roster selection as Team USA looks to defend their Gold in Paris.

Wilson, Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner, Alyssa Thomas, Napheesa Collier, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young, Sabrina Ionescu, Chelsea Gray and Kahleah Copper are expected to be named to the squad, according to The Athletic.

The WNBA season will be taking a hiatus from July 21 to August 14 for the games with the Americans opening the tournament in Group C against Germany, Japan and Belgium.

The USA will kickstart its quest for another medal on July 29 against the Japanese.

Team USA is eyeing its eighth consecutive Olympic basketball gold medal – and 10th overall – in Paris.

The discovery of the potential for thousands of tons of lithium to be extracted annually from wastewater generated by fracking in the Marcellus Shale leaves proponents of a green energy future at a crossroads, Republicans said Thursday.

A University of Pittsburgh study suggested processing byproducts from natural gas production in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale basin could potentially meet nearly half of U.S. lithium needs. The typical electric vehicle (EV) requires nearly 18 pounds of lithium to power its battery. That figure grows exponentially for Teslas, according to reports.

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., who represents much of the Marcellus territory, told Fox News he wants to see those on the left change their tune.

“Now nearly 40% of our nation’s domestic need for lithium can be found right here as a byproduct of fracking,” he said. “I fully expect every single Democrat to join Republicans in supporting domestic natural gas development.”

“[There are] 100,000 union jobs the industry supports in Pennsylvania alone,” Reschenthaler said, while criticizing progressives in the Democratic Party for opposing the same fossil fuel speculation that led to the reported lithium boom.

“Under the Biden administration, Republicans have fought to unleash American energy while Democrats increased our dependence on China and other foreign adversaries with their disastrous rush-to-green agenda,” he said.

In the study, published in Nature’s “Scientific Reports,” estimates of annual lithium yields from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale totaled 1,278 tons. The Marcellus Shale range covers large swaths of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia.

One of the researchers, Justin Mackey, told KDKA that in addition to supplying substantial amounts of lithium, processing the wastewater in that way “reduce[s] the cost of remediating and handling” it, adding there may likely be similar lodes of lithium in West Virginia and Ohio shale deposits that could lead to an “economic boom.”

One top Pennsylvania state lawmaker expressed delight at the discovery and, like Reschenthaler, called on Democrats to come to the table.

State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the GOP’s 2022 gubernatorial nominee, said common ground should be found on the prospect of fracking to produce both natural gas and electric battery components.

“The great irony is the same climate extremists who oppose harvesting fossil fuels under all circumstances are dependent on lithium for solar panels and for the battery components they need for things like electric cars, which often are powered on electricity generated by natural gas,” he said.

“Fracking may provide the cleanest, most environmentally friendly way to produce natural gas energy and harvest the domestic lithium we need for the green future endorsed by my colleagues on the extreme left.”

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican who has battled the Biden administration over its stringent energy regulatory adjustments, said “what America needs most is more energy, not less,” and that the Pennsylvania lithium discovery has the potential to change the U.S. energy game.

“We also need to store the energy for when the wind’s not blowing and the sun isn’t shining. If we can develop lithium, an essential component of EVs and batteries, as a byproduct of legacy oil and gas production, that is a win-win for America,” he said.

Pennsylvania’s senior senator, Democrat Bob Casey Jr., struck a positive tone over the development, highlighting the potentially multifaceted value of such mineral lodes.

“This is an opportunity to source a critical mineral right here at home to both support American jobs and manufacturing, as well as reduce our reliance on countries like China,” Casey said.

“I am interested in learning more about the potential lithium can bring to Pennsylvania’s economy.”

Fox News Digital reached out to several other top Democrats, including Green New Deal co-sponsors Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Edward Markey, D-Mass., for comment about their stance on obtaining EV components from fossil fuel-based sources but did not receive responses.

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., told Fox News Digital the lithium discovery is a “significant development” but added there is still a “moral obligation to wean ourselves off dirty fossil fuels and raise the bar on mining domestically and internationally.”

“Sourcing lithium and other critical minerals from waste could potentially reduce the environmental footprint of our mineral supply chains, but it must be done responsibly. It’s critical that we align our environmental regulations with legislation that will ensure the safeguarding of local ecosystems and communities from the adverse impacts of irresponsible mining and fossil fuel extraction,” Grijalva said.

Requests for comment were also sent to other relevant lawmakers, including Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio and Senate Energy Chairman Joe Manchin, I-W.V., whose states comprise part of the Marcellus range.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said technology like hydraulic fracturing has made the U.S. the “world’s leading oil and natural gas producer.”

“It appears these technologies may also have the potential to unlock significant amounts of lithium, a mineral needed in batteries for electric cars.”

In addition to lithium exploration, some lawmakers have in past years called for the U.S. to step up its game on the prospecting of rare earth minerals that are otherwise sourced from China and Africa and also needed for green technologies and telecommunications.

In 2018, Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., told Fox News that his Hazleton area, once the epicenter of coal mining, should be further utilized and explored.

“Studies have shown the Appalachian coal fields in Pennsylvania contain some of the highest concentrations of REEs (rare earth elements) in the country,” Barletta said.

“Researchers have found ways to extract REEs from Appalachian coal byproducts that are more environmentally friendly than traditional methods and require less energy,” he wrote at the time.

The suicide note of Maine’s deadliest mass shooter has been revealed as part of the release of 3,000 files which lay bare horrifying details of the attack.

Robert Card killed 18 and left 13 injured during the rampage at a Lewiston bowling alley and bar in October last year.

The spree sparked a huge manhunt for Card, 40, who was found dead in a trailer two days after the carnage.

Now his handwritten final words have been released, showing his anguished state of mind.

‘Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story,’ Card wrote. ‘I guess I just wanted to play cornhole with my hot girlfriend and be left the (expletive) alone.’

Card had recently been dumped by his partner who was supposed to be playing in a bowling league at the same alley he opened fire on, according to an FBI profile included in the tranche, the Boston Globe reports.

The profile states she was not there at the time of the attack, ‘but easily could have been’.

The documents also revealed harrowing information about the immediate aftermath of the attack as officers in hot pursuit of the suspect described having to walk past dying victims as they begged for help.

‘They grab at our legs and try to stop us and we can not help them,’ wrote Lewiston Officer Keith Caouette. ‘We have to walk by and continue to search and hope they are alive when we come back around.’

He told one man lying on the floor to ‘hang in there,’ but by the time he returned to him, the man had died.

Another police officer’s first instinct was that an act of domestic terrorism had been committed, underscored by the heavy police presence and flashing blue lights.

‘I truly felt like we were at war,’ Auburn Lt. Steven Gosselin wrote.

Others described the horrific scenes inside the bowling alley and bar and grill.

Cellphones rang on bloodied tabletops as tablecloths and a pool table cover turned into makeshift stretchers.

‘A quick scan of the building revealed blood and flesh scattered throughout the business,’ Lewiston Detective Zachary Provost wrote of the bowling alley.

‘I also could smell the heavy odor of gunpowder mixed with burning flesh.’

At the peak, the law enforcement presence was immense with 16 SWAT team and officers from 14 different agencies, along with eight helicopters and additional airplanes, and an underwater recovery team, wrote state police Lt. Tyler Stevenson.

‘I have experienced several large-scale manhunts in my career, but this was, by far, the largest manhunt I have been a part of,’ he wrote.

Officers used lasers to map the shooting scenes, searched Tracfone purchases at a Walmart in the event Card had a burner phone and even retrieved data from the infotainment system of Card’s Subaru.

Someone who played cornhole with the shooter spoke with police about Card, describing him as ‘in his own little world, but not in a bad or awkward way.’

Card was an Army reservist who had been acting increasingly erratically in the months leading up to the shooting.

On September 16, police tried to speak to Card at home but got no answer. They failed to enact the state’s ‘yellow flag’ laws which enable officers to remove guns from vulnerable individuals.

In March a state commission found this to be a clear failure, although Sagadahoc Sheriff Joel Merry insists his team acted appropriately based on the information they had.

By October 19, Card had started hearing voices, according to one report from a person working at a store he delivered bread to.

The report said Card knew the voices were talking about him and ‘maybe you will be the ones I snap on’.

In addition to the chaotic scene in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, police also had to contend with pranksters hindering their investigation.

This included false tips and one person claiming to be Card by speaking through an audio filter on TikTok.

The trove of documents were published on Friday before the website crashed. Officials in Maine said they should be available again by 5pm Monday.

When the news of the Hunter Biden laptop broke in 2020, it was originally dismissed as Russian disinformation. Now, it has been entered as official, legitimate evidence in court in Hunter’s federal gun crime trial.

Here are five of the most shocking instances where the laptop was dismissed as illegitimate.

Politico reports on letter from intel officials who claimed laptop was Russian disinformation

Soon after the Hunter Biden story was published by the New York Post on Oct. 14, 2020, media outlets were quick to suggest that the laptop in question was part of a complex operation by Russia to impact the U.S. Presidential Election.

The narrative by the media stemmed in part from an open letter penned by 51 former intelligence officials, who claimed that the laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

The letter was first reported and circulated by Politico, which ran the headline “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.” U.S. intelligence officials suggested that the emails on the laptop may have been hacked and altered by the Kremlin to incriminate Hunter.

Among the signatories were former Director of National Intelligence-turned-CNN analyst James Clapper, former CIA Director-turned-MSNBC analyst John Brennan and former CIA chief of staff-turned-MSNBC analyst Jeremy Bash. Clapper later distanced himself from the letter.

Politico and the former intelligence officials who signed the letter are under renewed scrutiny after the laptop was formerly entered into evidence this week and confirmed legitimate by the FBI as part of Hunter’s federal gun crime trial.

When asked for comment, Politico stressed that its article made clear that claims of potential Russian interference were the opinions of the former intelligence officials, not the outlet itself.

Twitter uses Big Tech might to block Hunter Biden story and punish New York Post

When the New York Post’s bombshell report was first published with weeks to go before the 2020 election, Twitter was quick to limit or block sharing of the story in an unprecedented display of coordination. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has also admitted the social media platform was wrong to intervene in the Hunter Biden story.

Twitter, which was renamed X after Elon Musk bought it years later, went to unprecedented lengths to prevent the Post’s story from being shared, claiming that it stemmed from “hacked material,” which was false.

The tech giant barred anyone from tweeting out the articles or sharing them privately through direct message. Twitter even locked the Post’s account and told the outlet it could only be unlocked if it deleted its tweets promoting its reporting. The Post refused and eventually regained access to its account.

Vijaya Gadde, who was terminated from Twitter after Elon Musk acquired the platform, told a congressional committee in February 2023 that she ultimately approved the decision to block The Post’s report about Hunter’s laptop and its contents, but said the move should have been reversed quicker.

’60 Minutes’ insists laptop cannot be verified during Trump interview

In one of the most memorable media conversations regarding the story, Trump appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes” shortly after the thread emerged and called the laptop “one of the biggest scandals” he had ever seen. But interviewer Lesley Stahl insisted there was no way to conclude the laptop or its contents were real.

“Excuse me, they found the laptop. Lesley. Listen,” Trump said, as Stahl repeatedly interjected that the laptop could not be verified.

“What can’t be verified?” Trump asked.

“The laptop!” Stahl exclaimed.

“Why do you say that?” Trump responded, before further arguing the laptop was legitimate.

Stahl also rebuked Trump’s suggestion that Hunter was embroiled in a “scandal.”

Stahl’s employer, CBS News, confirmed in 2022 via its own forensic investigation that the laptop and its contents were legitimate. The admission prompted many Trump allies to vilify Stahl, and Hunter Biden’s trial has reignited criticism of the veteran journalist.

NPR calls laptop story a ‘distraction’ and says it doesn’t want to ‘waste’ readers’ time

On the morning of the second presidential debate between then-candidate Joe Biden and then-President Trump, NPR, which had up until then ignored the scandal surrounding Hunter’s laptop, offered a quote explaining its editorial standard.

“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions. And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way,” NPR managing editor Terence Samuel said.

The comment came in response to an NPR radio listener who could not understand why the story had been ignored.

NPR would later go on to suggest that the laptop was “discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations.”

Joe Biden dismisses son’s laptop during debate against Trump

During the final 2020 presidential debate against Trump, Biden said the laptop was a “bunch of garbage” that “nobody believes.”

“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plant,” the elder Biden said of the laptop at the time.

His comments received no pushback from the debate moderator.

The White House had previously been warned by U.S. intelligence agencies prior to the laptop that Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer at the time, was the target of a Russian intelligence operation to feed false information to the then-president. Giuliani had the laptop hard drive in his possession before it was handed over to the New York Post.

Contemporaneous and current Biden aides Kate Bedingfield, Andrew Bates and Neera Tanden also pushed the claims of Russian disinformation based on the letter from intelligence officials.

“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say,” Jen Psaki, who later served as White House press secretary, wrote in October 2020, which was retweeted by now-Domestic Policy Council director Susan Rice.

After President Biden took office, several news organizations, including CNN, MSNBC, NBC News, CBS News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico and NPR verified the laptop’s legitimacy to some degree.

Kate Middleton has broken her silence ahead of the annual Trooping the Colour parade next weekend in honor of King Charles III’s birthday.

On Saturday, the Irish Guards shared a letter from the Princess of Wales — who is currently undergoing cancer treatment — in which she expressed her regret for not being able to attend the rehearsal held on June 8.

“I wanted to write and let you know how proud I am of the entire Regiment ahead of the Colonel’s review and Trooping of the Colour. I appreciate everyone trooping this year has been practicing for months and dedicating many hours to ensuring their uniforms and drill are immaculate,” Middleton’s letter, which was shared on on X, read.

“Being your colonel remains a great honor and I am very sorry that I’m unable to take the salute at this year’s Colonel’s Review,” she continued. “Please pass my apologies to the whole Regiment, however I do hope that I am able to represent you all once again very soon. Please send my very best wishes and good luck to all involved.”

The Princess of Wales signed the letter as “Colonel Catherine.”

“The Irish Guards were deeply touched to receive a letter from our Colonel, Her Royal Highness, The Princess of Wales this morning. We continue to wish Her Royal Highness well in her recovery and send Her our very best wishes. Quis Separabit @KensingtonRoyal @ArmyInLondon,” the Irish Guards wrote on X alongside images of the letter.

The Irish Guards were deeply touched to receive a letter from our Colonel, Her Royal Highness, The Princess of Wales this morning.

We continue to wish Her Royal Highness well in her recovery and send Her our very best wishes.

Quis Separabit@KensingtonRoyal @ArmyInLondon pic.twitter.com/y95rbmaeOS

— Irish Guards (@irish_guards) June 8, 2024

On Thursday, a spokesperson for Kensington Palace confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Princess of Wales will not attend the traditional Colonel’s Review to take the salute on June 8. Instead, she will continue to focus on her recovery.

The honor will fall to Lieutenant General James Bucknall, KCB, CBE. Kensington Palace hasn’t officially announced whether the princess will attend this year’s Trooping the Colour.

“King Charles and Prince William have repeatedly stressed to the Princess of Wales that she should feel no pressure to return to public duty until she is ready,” Kinsey Schofield, host of the “To Di For Daily” podcast, recently told Fox News Digital.

“The palace won’t officially give us any indication of a potential Catherine return. It is up to their doctors and ultimately Catherine’s choice,” she added.

Middleton has been keeping a low profile since she publicly announced her diagnosis in March.

“It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family,” she said in a video. “But I’ve had a fantastic medical team who’ve taken great care of me, for which I’m so grateful.”

Kate added that after cancer was discovered, she was advised to undergo “preventative chemotherapy, and I’m now in the early stages of that treatment.” She said she had told her three children – Princes George, 10, and Louis, 6, and Princess Charlotte, 9.

“I am well and getting stronger every day by focusing on the things that will help me heal in my mind, body and spirits,” said the royal. “Having William by my side is a great source of comfort and reassurance, too, as is the love, support and kindness that has been shown by so many of you. It means so much to us both.”

She also mentioned her work, saying it “has always brought me a deep sense of joy, and I look forward to being back when I move on. But, for now, I must focus on making a full recovery.”

“The princess is not expected to return to work until it’s cleared by her medical team. Early childhood will continue to be central to her public work,” a Kensington Palace spokesperson told Fox News Digital at the time.

While there’s speculation if Middleton will return to her royal duties or not, Christopher Andersen, author of “The King.” recently told Fox News Digital that he has “no doubt” the Princess will make a comeback when she’s ready.

“Kate is undergoing cancer, and it’s perfectly understandable that she’s out of the picture for the moment,” he said. “There is no doubt in my mind that Kate will return to public life once she’s satisfied that she’s done everything her doctors have told her to do to defeat her illness.”

“Kate is all about her family, but she is also all about duty to her country,” Andersen continued. “She is keenly aware of the roles she plays as Princess of Wales, the future queen, wife of a future king and mother to a future monarch. Kate didn’t spend 10 years waiting to land her prince so that she could eventually recede into the shadows.”

The judge presiding over former President Trump’s New York criminal trial notified his defense team on Friday of a comment on the court’s public Facebook page that implies one of the jurors discussed the guilty verdict with family before the trial concluded.

Fox News obtained the letter Judge Juan Merchan shared with Trump defense attorneys and Manhattan prosecutors.

“‘Today, the Court became aware of a comment that was posted on the Unified Court System’s public Facebook page and which I now bring to your attention. In the comment, the user, ‘Michael Anderson,’ states:

“’My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted! Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!’”

The comment was posted on May 29 “regarding oral arguments in the Fourth Department of the Appellate Division unrelated to this proceeding.”

The profile for “Michael Anderson” has little publicly available information, but the user identifies himself as a “Transabled & professional sh– poster.”

A Trump campaign official told Fox News Digital they are “investigating the matter.”

Al Baker, state OCA spokesperson, said Friday that “as appropriate, the Court informed the parties once it learned of this online content.”

The post came a day before Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump had pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The six-week-long trial stemmed from charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

If Hunter Biden’s defense team thought that putting his daughter Naomi on the stand would make him a more sympathetic figure in his trial on felony gun charges, they miscalculated.

Hunter’s oldest daughter, 30, clearly wanted to help her father convince jurors that he wasn’t taking drugs when he bought a gun in 2018 and signed a federal form swearing he wasn’t a drug user.

But probing questions and old text messages presented by the prosecution Friday made the president’s son look more like an erratic dad than a good father who was getting sober in the week after he bought the gun.

Hunter’s team scrambled in the aftermath of Naomi’s testimony and unexpectedly withdrew a witness — likely the president’s brother Jimmy, who was at the courthouse and was on the defense’s list of possible witnesses.

Naomi testified that when she visited Hunter while he’d been going to a California rehab center in August 2018, he appeared the “clearest” he had been since his brother, Beau, had died of brain cancer in 2015.

She recounted telling her father that she was “proud” of him and that when she saw him again in mid-October, he seemed “great” and “hopeful.”

But text messages introduced by prosecutors contradicted her description of seeing him at that time, just days after forms show he had bought a gun in Delaware and claimed he wasn’t using drugs.

Hunter’s defense team has acknowledged that he was an addict but has tried to prove he had a period of sobriety from crack cocaine — not alcohol — around the time he bought the gun on Oct. 12, 2018.

Prosecutors revealed texts between Hunter and Naomi from when he was in New York City that week. Naomi was attending law school there.

Hunter texted his daughter to swap Joe Biden’s black Cadillac for Hunter’s Ford Raptor truck that Naomi had borrowed one evening. But Hunter was unresponsive to texts from his daughter until midnight and 2 a.m., the texts showed.

After a few days of back-and-forth, they switched vehicles but then Naomi asked if she was going to be able to see her father soon:

“So no c u!?,” she texted, adding a sad emoji.

According to the text read aloud in court, she added: “I can’t take this…I just miss you so much. I just want to hang out with you.”

Hunter replied: “I am sorry I’ve been so unreachable. It is not fair to you.”

Naomi, who admitted to being “nervous” and had a bottle of water brought to her after coughing, said she didn’t recall certain texts but acknowledged that her meetings with Hunter then were often brief.

Hunter’s lawyers, led by Abbe Lowell, appeared surprised by the text messages even though they were from within days of when Hunter allegedly bought the gun.

Many Biden family members were present for the testimony including Joe and Jill’s daughter Ashley Biden, the president’s sister Val Biden, her husband Jack Owens, their daughter Missy Owens, and more.

First Lady Jill Biden had flown back from the D-Day ceremonies in France to be in attendance Friday after appearing in court earlier in the week.

When the court broke for lunch after Naomi’s testimony, Biden family members looked shaken and crowded into a small room for the defense team, which was so full of people they struggled to close the door.

Naomi hugged her father on her way out of the courtroom and held hands with her husband, Peter Neal, appearing to wipe away tears as she returned to the witness room.

When she came out minutes later, she was wearing large black sunglasses under the fluorescent lights.

Some people close to the family thought it was a bad idea for Hunter’s team to call his daughter to testify in a trial that included his relationships with strippers and extensive details of his drug addictions.

But Naomi was willing to participate and vouch for her dad.

Hunter’s uncle Jimmy Biden, who had helped get Hunter to a rehab facility in August of 2018 and was expected to testify about him getting clean, was waiting in the witness room when the defense team suddenly announced it wouldn’t call another witness for the day.

The defense team hasn’t decided whether Hunter will testify.

The trial is expected to end next week.

Retired American astronaut William Anders, who was part of the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, has died after his small plane crashed into Puget Sound in Washington State.

The 90-year-old died after the small aircraft he was piloting crashed near Orcas Island on Friday, resulting in a fireball as the plane hit the water.

Officials with the United States Coast Guard Pacific Northwest said the crash happened just before 11:45am on Friday.

Video footage shot on the Sound shows the plane flying high in the sky before it plummets as it begins a dive.

Just before the plane began to level off, the aircraft hits the water at speed with not enough altitude for Anders to pull up safely, resulting in a huge splash and fireball.

His son Greg Anders, confirmed his death saying: ‘The family is devastated. He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.’

90-Year-Old William Anders, a Former NASA Astronaut and Major General with the U.S. Air Force was Killed earlier today after his Beechcraft T-34 “Mentor” Propeller-Driver Trainer Aircraft reportedly Crashed near his Home on Orcas Island in Washington State. Anders was a Member of… pic.twitter.com/xx47ug51k1

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 8, 2024

The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office detailed how the aircraft was an old model that had been flying from north to south when it crashed down into the water and sunk.

The plane that crashed was a vintage Air Force Beech T-34A Mentor that belonged to Anders who was a resident of San Juan County.

Station Bellingham, Air Station Port Angeles, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Coast Guard are responding with search and rescue efforts.

Anders’ mission fifty six years ago on Christmas Eve 1968, came after a tumultuous year of assassinations, riots and war drew to a close in heroic and hopeful fashion with the three Apollo 8 astronauts reading from the Book of Genesis on live TV as they orbited the moon.

To this day, the mission is still considered to be NASA’s boldest and perhaps most dangerous undertaking.

That first voyage by humans to another world set the stage for the still grander Apollo 11 moon landing seven months later.

There was unprecedented and unfathomable risk to putting three men atop a monstrous new rocket for the first time and sending them all the way to the moon.

The mission was whipped together in just four months in order to reach the moon by year’s end, before the Soviet Union.

There was the Old Testament reading by commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.

Lastly, there was the photo named ‘Earthrise,’ showing our blue and white ball – humanity’s home – rising above the bleak, gray lunar landscape and 240,000 miles in the distance.

Humans had never set eyes on the far side of the moon, or on our planet as a cosmic oasis, surrounded completely by the black void of space.

A half-century later, only 24 U.S. astronauts who flew to the moon have witnessed these wondrous sights in person.

On Christmas Eve 1968, the spaceship successfully slipped into orbit around the moon.

Before bedtime, the first envoys to another world took turns reading the first 10 verses from Genesis.

It had been left to Frank Borman, before the flight, to find ‘something appropriate’ to say for what was expected to be the biggest broadcast audience to date.

‘We all tried for quite a while to figure out something, and it all came up trite or foolish,’ Borman recalled. Finally, the wife of a friend of a friend came up with the idea of Genesis.

‘In the beginning,’ Anders read, ‘God created the heaven and the Earth …’

Borman ended the broadcast with, ‘And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you – all of you on the good Earth.’

On Christmas morning, their spacecraft went around the moon for the final time.

The engine firing needed to shoot them back to Earth occurred while the capsule was out of communication with Mission Control in Houston.

Lovell broke the nervous silence as the ship reappeared: ‘Please be informed there is a Santa Claus.’

Splashdown occurred in the pre-dawn darkness on December 27, bringing the incredible six-day journey to a close. Time magazine named the three astronauts ‘Men of the Year.’

It wasn’t until after the astronauts were back that the significance of their Earth pictures sank in.

Anders snapped the iconic Earthrise photo during the crew’s fourth orbit of the moon, frantically switching from black-and-white to color film to capture the planet’s exquisite, fragile beauty.

Before the flight, no one had thought about photographing Earth, according to Anders.

Anders has said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program, given the ecological philosophical impact it had.

The photograph, the first color image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for the way it changed how humans viewed the planet.

The photo is credited with sparking the global environmental movement for showing how delicate and isolated Earth appeared from space.

The astronauts were under orders to get pictures for potential lunar landing sites while orbiting 70 miles above the moon.

‘We came to explore the moon and what we discovered was the Earth,’ Anders is fond of saying.

By July 1969, Apollo 8 was overshadowed by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moon landing.

Borman and Anders never flew in space again, and Soviet cosmonauts never made it to the moon.

Anders recalled in a 1997 NASA oral history interview that he didn’t think the Apollo 8 mission was risk-free but there were important national, patriotic and exploration reasons for going ahead.

He estimated there was about one in three chance that the crew wouldn’t make it back and the same chance the mission would be a success and the same chance that the mission wouldn’t start to begin with.

He said he suspected Christopher Columbus sailed with worse odds and recounted how earth looked fragile and seemingly physically insignificant, yet was home.

Anders said: ‘We’d been going backwards and upside down, didn’t really see the Earth or the Sun, and when we rolled around and came around and saw the first Earthrise.

‘That certainly was, by far, the most impressive thing. To see this very delicate, colorful orb which to me looked like a Christmas tree ornament coming up over this very stark, ugly lunar landscape really contrasted.’

The National Transportation Safety Board and FAA are investigating the crash.

A new Emerson College Polling national survey of U.S. voters finds 46% of voters support former President Donald Trump and 45% support President Biden in the 2024 presidential election. Nine percent are undecided. Since last month, Trump’s support has stayed the same, while Biden’s support has increased one point. When undecided voters are asked which candidate they lean toward, the race splits evenly; 50% support Biden and 50% support Trump.

Forty percent of voters say Trump’s criminal conviction of 34 felonies makes no impact on their vote this November — 33% say it makes them less likely to support the former president this November, and 27% more likely.

“Trump’s support in our polling remained the same before and after his conviction,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said. “A majority of Democrats say it makes them less likely to support Trump (51%) and a majority of Republicans (55%) say it makes them more likely to support Trump. A plurality of independents say it makes no impact (41%), while 38% are less likely to vote for Trump and 21% more likely.”

58% of undecided voters say the conviction does not impact their vote; 36% less likely, 6% more likely.

“Suburban voters break for Trump over Biden, 48% to 44%, with a gender divide: suburban men break for Trump 57% to 35% while suburban women break for Biden 53% to 38%,” Kimball said. “Biden edges out Trump among independent voters, 43% to 41%, with 17% undecided.”

Regarding Trump’s July sentencing, a plurality of voters (40%) think Trump should receive prison time for his criminal conviction, 25% think he should pay a fine, and 15% think he should receive probation. Twenty percent are unsure.

“Opinion on Trump’s sentence varies by party: 67% of Democrats think Trump should serve prison time, while 46% of Republicans think he should pay a fine; 42% of independents think he should serve prison time, 22% a fine, and 14% probation,” Kimball said.

A majority of voters (64%) say Hunter Biden’s trial has no impact on their vote in 2024, 12% say it makes them more likely to support Joe Biden, and 24% say it makes them less likely to vote for Biden. Voters were also asked one of the jury selection questions, if they believe Hunter Biden is being prosecuted because his father is President of the United States: 49% think he is not, 27% think he is, and 24% are unsure.

With third-party candidates included on the ballot test, Trump’s support decreased two points, from 46% to 44%, and Biden’s seven points, from 45% to 38%. Six percent support Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and 1% support Cornel West and Jill Stein respectively. Nine percent are undecided.

President Biden holds a 37% job approval and 53% disapproval rating.

A majority of voters, 55%, disapprove of Biden’s handling of the nation’s immigration policy, while a quarter of voters (25%) approve. Regarding Biden’s recent executive order preventing migrants from seeking asylum at the border once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500, 38% approve, 39% disapprove, and 23% are unsure.

The economy remains the most important issue for voters at 42%, a four-point increase from the Emerson May national poll. Immigration is the second most important issue to voters at 15%, followed by threats to democracy at 12%, housing affordability at 7%, crime at 6%, abortion access and healthcare at 5% respectively, and education at 4%.

The financial disclosure forms for Supreme Court justices revealed that members earned a total of $1.5 million in book income last year, went on previously undisclosed trips dating back to 2019, and scored free concert tickets to see Beyonce, according to documents released Friday by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the most recent appointee nominated by President Joe Biden, earned the most from book sales with a $893,750 advance for her memoir, followed by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who said he earned $340,000 after the recent announcement of his yet-to-be-published “legal memoir.”

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor also reported receiving book income from HarperCollins Publishers and Penguin Random House, respectively, according to a Washington Examiner review of recent disclosure forms.

Jackson also detailed that she received four tickets from Beyonce valued at $3,711.84, and she received artwork for her chambers from Lonnie Holley, Dr. Kathi Earles-Ross, and Howard University scholars for a combined value of $12,500.

Meanwhile, Sotomayor also dabbled in art and creativity by earning $1,879 from Fred Rogers Productions for a voiceover performance on an episode of the animated show Alma’s Way, a show about a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx.

Other justices reported income from teaching opportunities at various colleges. Gorsuch earned the most in this category with a $29,798 payment from teaching at George Mason University, in addition to Kavanaugh earning $25,000 from the University of Notre Dame Law School. Justice Amy Coney Barrett received $14,947 from Notre Dame.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan had perhaps the most uneventful disclosure forms this year, with neither reporting any gifts nor teaching opportunities.

Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed receiving a photo album worth $2,000 from Terence and Barbara Giroux. Terence Giroux was executive director of the Horatio Alger Association, a nonprofit organization that gives scholarships to low-income students. Thomas is an honorary member of the society’s board of directors.

Thomas’s filing also included an amendment to his 2019 disclosure involving a cruise he took in Bali, Indonesia, aboard GOP megadonor Harlan Crow‘s yacht and a trip with Crow to California. Thomas said that Crow covered the cost of food and lodging. In April 2023, Thomas became the target of extensive ProPublica reports accusing the justice of failing to report his trips with Crow, which Democrats have used in a campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the high court’s conservative majority.

After Thomas was prodded over the trips, he issued a statement saying he was previously advised that he didn’t need to report his trips with Crow, his personal friend, and has since made efforts to disclose those vacations in recent forms.

Justice Samuel Alito was the only justice to ask for a 90-day extension to file his form. All of the other high court members’ forms released on Friday were dated May 15.

“Genocide Joe” faces intense protest from his own far-left allies who want more support for Hamas from the White House.

On June 8, several revolutionary communist and other radical groups aligned with terrorists plan to surround the White House. The groups, led by the ANSWER Coalition, have organized buses from around the country to import pro-terrorist protesters to Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House:

ANSWER says they and several dozen of their favorite partner groups will “Surround the White House for Gaza,” because the Biden administration failed to protect the city of Rafah from attack in Israel’s military operation to destroy Hamas.

Remember, Hamas is a terrorist organization that raped, maimed, beheaded, and killed over 1,200 Israelis in the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.

The group explains this action on its website:

June 8 marks 8 months of US-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, and marks the 54th anniversary of the occupation of Gaza. A month ago, Biden said that the invasion of Rafah was a red line. But now, the invasion of Rafah has continued for weeks, has expanded to the entire Gaza Strip, Biden’s red line is nowhere to be seen. Instead of following through and stopping military aid to Israel, Biden has authorized billions more in weapons shipments to be used to kill and massacre Palestinians.

Biden can’t draw the line, but we can. On June 8, we will come together from across the country and surround the White House. Wearing red, and raising our demands high, we will show the world that we are the red line. We demand an immediate ceasefire, an immediate end to the siege on Gaza, the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, and an end to the occupation of Palestine.

Stop the Genocide! We are the red line! Free Palestine!

The event has dozens of cosponsors. Included in the list are several organizations tied to terrorist groups recently investigated by Restoration News. These include Al-Awda, the US Palestinian Community Network, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, By Any Means Necessary, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, Samidoun, and many others.

Also sponsoring: Several labor unions including SAG-AFTRA and radical groups like CODEPINK, Indivisible, Unitarian Universalist EcoSocialist Network, and several offshoots of the various socialist and communist parties in America.

It’s a veritable Who’s Who of the revolutionary left.

From Al Qaeda to Hamas

According to the ANSWER website, the group began to protest the United States going to war against Al Qaeda in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Seriously:

Founded just three days after the September 11, 2001 attacks, ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) initiated the massive U.S. antiwar movement opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the months prior to March 19, 2003.

Now they oppose the response by Israel after the horrific attacks of Oct. 7. So one could say they oppose particular kinds of war—when nations attacked by terrorists attempt to strike back.

Organizers have scheduled buses to transport protesters from as far away as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida, and Iowa so far.

Providing deeply flawed logic for the workers of the world to oppose Israel and the United States, the Socialist Revolution website says this about Rafah:

As we have reported in previous weeks, the southern city of Rafah was supposed to be a refuge for Palestinians displaced by Israel’s relentless war on the Gaza Strip, which has already reduced Gaza City to rubble, as well as killing and maiming at least 100,000 people. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long threatened an invasion of the southern city, claiming this is necessary to achieve Israel’s war aim of destroying Hamas.

Now, one may be excused for thinking the revolutionary communists have engaged in a bit of exaggeration in their claims. After all, that’s been their modus operandi since Karl Marx wrote his manifesto.

Professor William Jacobsen of the Cornell School of Law made note of this on X/Twitter when he discussed the large payments to leftist American reporters from the noted truth tellers in the Iranian regime:

Oct 7 denialism owes much to Grayzone, incredibly effect, see all the time false claims Israel responsible for Israeli deaths https://t.co/tuuw5TUAve pic.twitter.com/vPc5yjAXtf

— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) June 2, 2024

At Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection blog, Vijeta Uniyal reported on the misinformation surrounding Israel’s military operation in Rafah:

While the mainstream media and pro-Hamas activists are trying to pin the blame on Israel for Sunday’s blast that claimed dozens of civilians’ lives, the initial Israeli military investigation shows that the civilian deaths were likely caused by secondary explosions in a Hamas weapons dump located in a humanitarian area. The incident took place in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood in western Rafah on Sunday, an area outside the IDF’s designated combat zone.

Once again, civilians didn’t die because of the IDF. They died of a self-induced massacre when Hamas hid a pile of explosives among civilians.

That’s what these radical leftists support when they go to D.C. to surround the White House.

The FDA has recalled 28 beverages so far in 2024, The Daily Mail reported.

All but four of the drinks were recalled because they had drugs, bacteria or harmful chemicals in them that the company didn’t disclose.

The recalled drinks include a pain-relieving tea called Himalayan pain relief tea, which didn’t disclose an anti-inflammatory medication ingredient on its label.

Martinelli’s Apple Juice was also recalled because it contained arsenic, a toxic metal that may increase the risk of bladder and skin cancer.

Around 1.9 million bottles of Fiji Water, made by Natural Waters of Viti Limited, were recalled after three types of bacteria were found in the water in addition to the mineral manganese, which in high amounts can cause brain damage.

And just recently, four drinks produced by Charles Boggini Company called Pink Lemonade, Yellow Lemonade and Yellow Lemonade X, as well as the flavoring Cola Flavoring Base were recalled over food dyes linked to cancer risk.

Those dyes, which were not disclosed by the company as an ingredient, include Red40 and Yellow 5.

The dyes have benzidine, which is carcinogenic to humans and animals.

The Cola Flavoring contained undeclared sulfites, preservatives that can cause allergic skin reactions, digestive issues, and asthma in people with sulfite sensitivity, according to Cleveland Clinic.

A former FDA and USDA advisor and food safety expert at Northeastern University in Boston said that drinks are sometimes sold to the public before proper checks are done on them.

“There are a lot of drinks that have been scrutinized of late and a lot of it has to do with labeling and undeclared ingredients,” Dr. Detwiler told the Daily Mail.

The FDA faces pressure to crack down on food and beverage companies, Detwiler explained.

Here’s a list of some of the beverages recalled so far this year:

1. Schweppes Zero Sugar Gingerale
2. PepsiCo’s Mug Root Beer
3. Martinelli’s Apple Juice
4. Natural Waters of Viti Limited’s Fiji Water
5. Charles Boggini Company’s Cola Flavoring Base
6. Charles Boggini Company’s Pink Lemonade
7. Charles Boggini Company’s Yellow Lemonade
8. Charles Boggini Company’s Yellow Lemonade X
9. The Wiedemann Company’s Tapee Tea
10. Rise Brewing Organic Original Oat Milk
11. Rise Brewing Organic Vanilla Oat Milk
12. Nordic Naturals Baby’s Vitamin D3 Liquid
13. Barsotti Organic Carrot Juice
14. Trader Joe’s 100% Juice Organic Carrot Juice
15. Powerade Zero Mixed Berry
16. Powerade Zero Fruit Punch
17. Powerade Mountain Berry Blast
18. Waiakea Hawaiin Volcanic Water
19. Enfamil Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Infant Formula Powder
20. House of Coffee Beans bags
21. Longreen Reishi Coffee
22. Longreen Cordyceps coffee
23. Xlim Express Coffee
24. Yogi Echinacea Immune Support Tea
25. Sammy’s Milk Goat Milk Toddler Formula
26. Enfamil Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Infant Formula Powder
27. Crecelac Powdered Goat Milk Infant Formula
28. Mt.Capra Goat Milk Formula Recipe Kit

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was assaulted by a man in central Copenhagen on Friday evening, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.

The incident occurred at Kultorvet, a busy public square in the heart of Copenhagen. The assailant has been arrested, though the motive behind the attack remains unclear.

According to Dagens.dk, The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed the event but declined to provide further details.

Prime Minister Frederiksen expressed her shock in a written statement released shortly after the attack. While visibly shaken, she assured the public that she is otherwise unharmed.

The Copenhagen police confirmed the incident but, like the Prime Minister’s Office, offered no additional comments.

Frederiksen has been actively campaigning with Social Democrats’ lead candidate Christel Schaldemose ahead of Sunday’s EU Parliament elections.

Schaldemose clarified to Ritzau, a Danish news agency, that the Prime Minister’s presence at Kultorvet was not related to her campaign.

As of Friday night, Social Democrats’ press office has not commented on the attack.

The doctor targeted by the Biden administration for blowing the whistle on transgender surgeries that were secretly being performed by Texas Children’s Hospital was formally indicted with federal charges this week.

Eithan Haim, who revealed himself as the whistleblower earlier this year in an interview with The Daily Wire, says three armed agents arrived at his door early Tuesday to inform him that he’s been charged with four felonies. The charges are related to alleged HIPAA violations from when Haim, as a resident of Texas Children’s Hospital, was performing so-called “gender-affirming” procedures on minors even as it publicly declared that all such activity had been halted.

Haim says there is still uncertainty about what exactly he’s being charged with — he’s been ordered to appear in court next Monday where his legal team expects to learn the extent of the charges. He has long maintained that he committed no crimes, and is being politically targeted.

“I refuse to back down or to be silenced,” Haim, a practicing surgeon in Texas, posted on social media Thursday night. “But to win, we enter the arena. For us that’s federal court.”

In January, Haim told The Daily Wire that he had no regrets about coming forward to expose the transgender surgeries, saying it was his “responsibility as a doctor.”

“It’s my responsibility as a doctor, as a physician, to expose this to the public,” Haim said. “If I don’t, then this abuse can continue. I knew that future generations, like my children, would never be able to forgive me if they knew I had the chance to do something and I decided to stay silent.”

“It requires average, everyday doctors to stand up and speak out against things like this,” he said.

The indictment was first reported by journalist Christopher Rufo, who was also the journalist who reported on Haim’s initial whistleblower claims. Rufo says nothing shared with him would have constituted a HIPAA violation.

“For my own part, I can confirm that nothing in the information provided to me identified any individual; all the documents were, in fact, carefully redacted,” Rufo said.

Haim initially alerted last June, on the day of his graduation from his residency, that he was the target of an investigation by Biden’s Department of Justice, according to a target letter obtained by The Daily Wire.

Haim in January said the federal prosecution of him is political, and was determined not to back down to the federal government.

“Why should I be intimidated into silence when what we exposed was voted to become illegal, and I had not violated any privacy laws?” Haim said. “For me, it’s obvious that this is a political investigation in order to prevent this from happening at other hospitals that might be lying to the public about the existence of their programs.”

Since coming forward, Haim has raised more than $289,000 for his legal defense.

Former Donald Trump presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump 2020 Election Day operations director Michael Roman pleaded not guilty Friday in Phoenix to nine felony charges for their roles in an effort to overturn Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden.

Meadows and Roman appeared by videoconference for separate brief hearings before Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner Shellie Smith, who set an Oct. 31 trial date.

Meadows and Roman spoke during the hearings only to respond to Smith’s questions with their names and birthdates. Their attorneys spoke for them to enter their pleas of not guilty.

The indictment alleges Meadows worked with other Trump campaign members to submit names of fake electors from Arizona and other states to Congress in a bid to keep Trump in office despite his November 2020 defeat at the ballot box.

The document alleges 11 Arizona Republicans submitted paperwork falsely declaring that Trump won in Arizona. Biden won Arizona by more than 10,000 votes. The indictment also says that Meadows confided to a White House staff member in early November 2020 that Trump had lost the election.

Roman is accused in the indictment of working closely with Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn and others to organize the fake electors’ votes in Arizona and six other states.

Outside court, Roman’s attorney, Kurt Altman, promised to fight the charges.

“Mike Roman has no connection with Arizona. Why this indictment came in the first place is beyond us,” Altman told reporters. “But we’re going to face the reality and defend.”

Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, pleaded not guilty in May to nine felony charges stemming from his role in the fake electors effort. The Arizona indictment also includes felony charges against Trump attorneys John Eastman, Christina Bobb and Jenna Ellis.

Epshteyn and James Lamon, another Republican who claimed Trump carried Arizona, are scheduled to enter pleas on June 18.

Meadows and Roman previously pleaded not guilty in Georgia state court to charges alleging that they participated in an illegal scheme to try to overturn the 2020 election results.

Roman was charged in Wisconsin on Tuesday with forgery for allegedly delivering that state’s fake elector paperwork to a Pennsylvania congressman’s staffer to get them to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress was certifying the results.

Other states where criminal charges have been filed related to the fake electors scheme are Michigan, Nevada and Georgia.

Migrants continue to pour across the southern border of the US in groups of hundreds despite the Biden administration’s latest ‘crackdown’.

Video taken Thursday by The Post shows hundreds of migrants from mainly China and Turkey still crossing the border unhindered in California, then rounded up by Border Patrol.

In rural Texas Wednesday, another video obtained by The Post shows scores of migrants from Central and South America crossing onto private land in Normandy, Texas, and being rounded up by state troopers.

The migrants crossing appeared undeterred by President Biden’s executive order which said it will stop processing asylum claims after 2,500 migrants are arrested for entering the US illegally for seven days in a row — meant as a deterrent to stop people from illegally crossing the border.

The order, which went into place Wednesday, will only then lift border restrictions after the number of crossings averages 1,500 for seven consecutive days.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the purpose of the order is “to deter irregular migration.”

However, Border Patrol agents apprehended 4,000 illegal migrants on Thursday alone at the southern border and the agency had 10,000 individuals in custody that day, agency sources told The Post.

Border Patrol processing centers in San Diego — which has been the top area for illegal crossings — reached 237% capacity Thursday, holding roughly 2,300 migrants in facilities with capacity for 1,000, according to internal data.

One border agent recently told The Post they expect mass releases of illegal migrants nito the US to continue.

One of the reasons some migrants will be released is because certain countries, such as China don’t accept regular deportation flights from the US, and are slow to issue travel papers for those marked for deportation.

“I have my doubts about whether the executive order will do a whole lot. It sounds like Mexico is only going to be taking back individuals from a handful of countries.

“The rest will be processed and handed over to ICE. However, if there isn’t detention space or repatriation flights, they’re just going to get released, which is the reason this whole mess exists in the first place,” the source said.

“People are going to figure out exactly what they need to do or say to game the system. I don’t blame them. I blame the system that allows it to happen. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.”

Although the executive order says asylum applications will be halted, NBC reported migrants will still be screened by asylum officers “but under a higher standard than what’s currently in place.”

If the migrants pass that threshold, they will still be allowed into the US to pursue “other forms of humanitarian protection,” according to the outlet.

Various pathways into the US remain available, including through using the CBPOne app and various parole programs.

In January, President Biden said he “had done all I can do” and required Congress to pass border legislation.

“Just give me the power. I’ve asked from the very day I got into office,” he said at the time. “Give me the Border Patrol, give me the people, the judges — give me the people who can stop this and make it work right.”

Biden’s latest executive order comes just months ahead of the November election as polls consistently show that American voters are increasingly concerned with illegal immigration.

An audience reacted to an interview that Donald Trump and Dr. Phil released on Thursday, where Dr. Phil revealed that TikTok censored a promo of the interview and an audience member said that she had Democrat friends shifting to support Trump.

Dr. Phil played the interview for an audience after taping it. He commented, saying at that TikTok had censored his promo videos for the Trump interview before it was aired.

“We put promos on the social media platforms about the interview for people to watch, and we submitted a promo to TikTok, and they said, ‘We need to review this to see if its consistent with community standards.’

“Dr. Phil then commented that usually that reviews in his experience take a few seconds to happen. With the Trump interview promo it took about an hour; he then added that “the message came back: rejected.”

Phil called the censoring of the video “disturbing” and that they “wouldn’t put it up because it had Trump in it.”

Watch:

Dr. Phil says TikTok “wouldn’t put…up” his interview promo “because it had Trump in it” and he found that “really disturbing” pic.twitter.com/Tx2Dp8tRNf

— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) June 7, 2024

After the interview finished, one woman stood up and commented about how many of her friends that had voted for Biden in 2020 are shifting to support Trump in 2024.

A member of Dr. Phil’s audience says that many of her friends who voted for Biden are now planning to vote for Trump.

“I’m upset with my 401k, I’m upset when I go to the grocery store and they’re all voting for Trump now”

pic.twitter.com/hiKc13w5BQ

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 7, 2024

In talking about both her Republican and Democrat friends, she commented, “I had a lot of Republican friends and a lot of Democratic friends, I’m kinda neutral. But they talked about ‘good versus evil.’ And I thought, ‘Well, we’re not really in a Disney movie… You may not like him, I get that.'”

She then commented about how those same people are now saying, “‘I’m really upset with my 401k,’ ‘I’m upset when I go to the grocery store,’ and they’re all voting for Trump now.”

One audience member also commented, saying that she has seen pro-Trump videos on TikTok taken down on the social media platform, adding that it was evidence of bias.

Dr. Phil tells Trump that people have told him they weren’t fans before and had never donated to him, but now they plan to vote for Trump and have contributed to his campaign for the first time.

pic.twitter.com/CTXkFDEXGl

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 7, 2024

Another clip from the interview highlighted a shift in support to Trump that had Phil informing Trump that, during a focus group, he had someone say, “I have not voted for Trump, I have not been a Trump fan before, but I have donated to Trump, because he has inspired me. I have donated to him, and I am voting for him.”

Watch the full interview:

My one on one interview with President Donald Trump. In depth. No holds barred. A must watch. pic.twitter.com/a5SuCgVsdW

— Dr. Phil (@DrPhil) June 7, 2024