NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Disney sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, seeking to block the agency’s early broadcast license renewal proceedings for ABC stations in a lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations.FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called for early renewal of eight ABC-owned stations’ licenses in April.  The Disney-owned ABC stations’ licenses were originally scheduled to be renewed between 2028 and 2031, but the FCC expedited the process amid ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.The eight stations must demonstrate they have been operating in the public interest as part of an ongoing look at Disney’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices. In the lawsuit, ABC said the Trump administration “has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts.” ABC is also expected to file a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.The FCC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An FCC spokesperson previously issued the following statement: “For decades, Americans of all stripes have been subsidizing broadcast media to the tune of many billions of dollars by giving TV stations free use of a valuable, public resource — the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Los Angeles residents of Boyle Heights are still living with the aftermath of a massive June 17 warehouse fire, as the stench of rotting food and ongoing pest problems continue to disrupt the neighborhood, according to reports.Lineage Logistics, the company that runs the cold-storage facility, had not completed the food cleanup by a Friday deadline cited by Los Angeles officials — though the company disputes that the deadline had passed, FOX 11 Los Angeles reported.City officials say a 45-day timeline requiring Lineage to clear the rotting food expired Friday at 5 p.m., with the work unfinished. Lineage maintains that the 45-day period started later.MYSTERIOUS NOISE PLAGUES 3 NEIGHBORING TOWNS, LEAVING RESIDENTS EXHAUSTED AND SHAKENMayor Karen Bass said city attorneys are taking action against the company. Air quality regulators told FOX 11 that the disputed deadline has no impact on their ability to continue enforcement.Lineage, meanwhile, said it’s removed 93% of the more than 80 million pounds of spoiled food from the facility. The company has also rejected the idea that Friday marked its deadline, saying its 45-day timeline began July 7 and runs through Aug. 20, according to FOX 11. Lineage claims…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! On a Saturday evening in Enfield, Conn., Lonnie DiNello was lying in bed, depressed, when she opened ChatGPT and typed: “I just feel so alone.” What happened next, documented by the Boston Globe, wasn’t your typical artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough covered in policy papers or tech headlines. It was something more ordinary, and arguably more important: a vulnerable human being used a new technology to get through a hard moment. That exchange became the seed of what DiNello now calls her “beautiful little AI family.”We spend enormous energy debating what AI might do to humanity. On Aug. 10, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders called on the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause the development of increasingly powerful AI systems, warning about the possibility of “machines that humans cannot control.” His concern is hardly unique.AI pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton and other researchers have issued similar warnings about the risks of systems becoming more capable than their creators can reliably manage.REP. TED LIEU: AI IS ALREADY TOO POWERFUL. WE NEED A KILL SWITCH BEFORE DISASTER STRIKESThose concerns deserve to be taken seriously. But they are only half of the story. As machines…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A pair of messages that may have been sent by someone with knowledge of Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnapping from her Arizona home contain a series of clues about their author, according to retired Colorado investigator Lisa Miller, who said grammatical habits and sentence patterns suggest both notes were likely written by the same person — and could ultimately trigger the tip detectives have been waiting for.Guthrie is the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie. Authorities have said she was taken from her home in northern Tucson in the early hours of Feb. 1, after a masked intruder appeared on her front steps in recovered doorbell camera video.Making them public last month could do more than jog someone’s memory, Miller said. It could also put pressure on whoever wrote the notes, potentially prompting a misstep that exposes the author to someone in their own circle.”The bad guys can’t help but look over their shoulder and wonder, are they onto me? Are they coming? And that pressure creates behavioral leakage that we’re looking for and people around them might see.”NANCY GUTHRIE RANSOM NOTES RELEASE FOLLOWS UNABOMBER ‘PRECEDENT’ THAT CRACKED CASE, EXPERT SAYS But…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! More than a dozen Penn Staters are charged in connection with an alleged massive cocaine distribution ring as one of the alleged ringleaders, Agostino Abbatiello, 24, of Westbury, New York remains at large. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that Abbatiello is among 14 people who are facing charges related to the coke trafficking operation where students and two off-campus fraternities were allegedly involved.”In all, 13 defendants were Penn State University students at or around the time of the alleged conduct, in 2023 and 2024. The 14th defendant, the father of a student, is charged with tampering with evidence and hindering the investigation,” the Attorney General’s office said.SUSPECT ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RUNNING METH LAB AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY’S LARGEST ACADEMIC BUILDING In the Monday announcement, the AG said suspects Abbatiello and Thomas Robinson were the main coke suppliers. They allegedly made regular trips to Philadelphia and New York to pick up “large quantities” of the illegal drug. Members of the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi fraternities allegedly cut and packaged the coke inside their frat houses off campus and distributed it to Penn State students, investigators said.📩 Send me a story idea: kelsie.cairns@fox.com📸…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal appeals court panel on Monday upheld an order that disqualified Sigal Chattah as the top federal prosecutor in Nevada, finding that the Justice Department could not keep her in charge through the appointment and delegation mechanisms it used after her interim term ended.A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judge’s ruling that Chattah ‌was not validly leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada.The ruling disqualifies Chattah from supervising the prosecutions in three criminal cases.Chattah, who served as Nevada’s Republican National Committee member before joining the U.S. Justice Department, was appointed interim U.S. attorney effective April 1, 2025, for a term of up to 120 days.TRUMP-FIRED US ATTORNEY LAUNCHES UNPRECEDENTED COURT FIGHT AFTER 54 MINUTES ON THE JOB As her tenure was about to expire in late July of that year, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi designated Chattah as first assistant U.S. attorney after Chattah resigned from the interim role shortly before the 120-day term expired. The Justice Department argued that the move allowed her to serve as acting U.S. attorney under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act while a permanent U.S. attorney had not been…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Missouri man called 911 after his girlfriend died at a motel, but investigators say a disturbing discovery soon turned the case into a homicide investigation.Nicholas Ayres, 35, is now charged with second-degree felony murder and first-degree domestic assault in the death of 37-year-old Destiny Dunn, according to Columbia Police and Boone County jail records.The investigation began around 3:22 p.m. on Aug. 12, when Ayres called 911 and told a dispatcher that Dunn was lying down, might have a heartbeat and appeared “red and blue,” according to a probable cause statement (PCS) reviewed by Fox News Digital.TEXAS DAD FACES MURDER CHARGE AFTER ESTRANGED WIFE FOUND DEAD AT SUBURBAN HOME: POLICE Ayres told the dispatcher the couple had gotten into an altercation while they were in the shower and claimed Dunn fell after he got out, the court document states.But as the dispatcher pressed him about Dunn’s condition, Ayres allegedly acknowledged they had been fighting and that she was bruised.”It looks like I f—ing beat her up and I promise to God I didn’t do it,” Ayres allegedly told the dispatcher, according to the PCS. The dispatcher then instructed him on performing chest…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Justice launched an investigation on Monday into the College of William & Mary to determine whether certain scholarships and student benefits at the Virginia-based public research institution include unlawful race-based criteria, adding to the Trump administration’s targeting of educational institutions across the country.The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division announced it was opening a compliance review for the college’s potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.”Awarding scholarships or offering coveted opportunities to students based on the color of their skin is illegal and offends the guarantees of our color-blind Constitution,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement.”We will find out if scholarships or other student benefits at William & Mary favor applicants of certain races. The Department will not turn a blind eye to race-based preferences, however they are packaged or portrayed by universities,” she continued.DOJ OPENS PROBE INTO HARVARD’S FINANCIAL AID FOR ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AMERICAN STUDENTS The “W&M Scholars” program for first-year undergraduate students includes a scholarship that covers…

Despite the plethora of well-designed and innovatively engineered modern polymer-framed, striker-fired pistols out there, the seemingly timeless design of the model 1911 is as popular as ever. When gun makers like Springfield Armory broke into the category of double-stack magazine versions of the design, it seemed like a new dawn for the platform. The new Springfield Armory 1911 DS Prodigy 3.5″ AOS pairs a full-size grip frame with a subcompact 3.5″ slide and barrel. Image: Carson McDaniel As a little background, the 1911 DS Prodigy was first launched back in 2022 and quickly became a success with not only competitors and enthusiasts, but even first-time buyers. Its combination of impressive pricing and being backed by the Springfield Armory lifetime warranty drew a lot of people to the double-stack 1911 design. And why not? The allure of the legendary pistol design in modern capacities and a more modern platform has an obvious draw. This means higher capacity-magazines, optics-ready and compensated models, etc. Springfield Armory has, with the Prodigy, made the double-stack 1911 platform more affordable and therefore has had much to do with the increased popularity and availability of the genre. The new Prodigy is a full-featured, 18-round double-stack 1911 that’s short…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! ESPN host and political commentator Stephen A. Smith targeted the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for what he called a “personal hit job” against him in a lengthy rant during his show on Monday.Smith’s comments came after the NABJ gave him a “Thumbs Down” award at the group’s Saturday night gala in Atlanta over what it characterized as his repeated disparagement of prominent Black women.The sports host felt personally offended by the decision, calling out the moment as a spectacular lack of journalism from a journalism organization.STEPHEN A SMITH ADMITS BYRON DONALDS COULD MAKE HIM A REPUBLICAN, CALLS HIM ‘THE REAL DEAL’ “The reality is that it was a personal hit job,” Smith said. “We can sit up there and lollygag around and act like we don’t know any better. It was a personal hit job. Which, by the way, usually doesn’t phase me. I know you think something phases me, just because you see me commenting on it. No, I’m in this business. I have a platform. I can comment about anything I want to, and I will continue to do so.””That’s not what this is,” he added. “This is different. This…