NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Detroit’s police chief is moving to fire two officers who allegedly contacted U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during routine traffic stops, which is a violation of department policy.Police Chief Todd Bettison said the officers’ actions led to detentions and ran counter to longstanding department rules prohibiting involvement in federal immigration enforcement, FOX 2 in Detroit reported.The two officers have not only been suspended, but Bettison has asked the city’s Board of Police Commissioners to approve their termination.Bettison said the Detroit Police Department does not participate in immigration enforcement activities and stressed that maintaining community trust is critical to public safety efforts.JACOB FREY SAYS MINNEAPOLIS WAS ‘NEVER GOING TO AGREE’ TO ENFORCE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS The station reported that Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., expressed support for the officers’ dismissal.”Chief Bettison and I agree that we need to make sure that our community and our residents trust the people who are trying to keep us safe,” Tlaib said.Detroit Councilwoman Mary Waters criticized the officers’ conduct, suggesting it amounted to biased policing.SEATTLE MAYOR PUSHES LOCAL POLICE TO TRACK, INVESTIGATE ICE AGENTS’ ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES “The Detroit Police Department has nothing to do with ICE, immigration,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: The partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security could have a critical impact on local disaster response without assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a public safety expert warned.In an interview with Fox News Digital, Jeffrey Halstead, the director of strategic accounts at Genasys, a communications hardware and software provider to help communities during disasters, said the DHS shutdown could impact emergency response and recovery efforts now that FEMA support has been restricted.”Every time that the government enters into one of these shutdowns, there’s a distinctive part of the federal government that is impacted, both reviewing the grant program or distributing funds from pre-awarded grant programs. This is exactly the area of DHS as well as FEMA that affects emergency managers, emergency response and recovering different cities, counties, and regions should they face a weather and/or disaster-related event,” Halstead said.Halstead, also a retired chief of police in Fort Worth, Texas, with more than 30 years in law enforcement, explained that government shutdowns delaying federal funds “drastically impacts” the local response to disasters.ICE SHUTDOWN FIGHT MIGHT RESTRICT FEMA, COAST GUARD TO ‘LIFE-THREATENING’ EMERGENCIES “I know personally, I was in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerry Baker warned that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to raise taxes on the wealthy will be “catastrophic” as the Democratic socialist clashes with state leaders over securing approval for his tax plan.”This is socialism in action, this is the Democratic Party in action and the rest of the country’s watching,” he told Fox News WednesdayBaker’s remarks on “America Reports” came after Mamdani renewed his calls to increase taxes on high earners, a sentiment firmly opposed by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.”What we are hoping for, what we will spend every day looking towards, is working with Albany to increase taxes on the wealthiest and the most profitable corporations such that a fiscal crisis is not resolved on the backs of working and middle-class New Yorkers,” Mamdani said.SMALL NEW YORK LANDLORDS ‘AT THEIR BREAKING POINT’ UNDER MAMDANI’S HOUSING POLICIES: REPORT Baker noted the Democratic power struggle between Mamdani and Hochul will not work for the mayor if he wants his plans to go through, since his tax proposal requires her approval at the state level.”He doesn’t have the option to raise income taxes without approval from…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! American speedskater Brittany Bowe will not leave the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics with a medal, but she will return home with a new ring. Team USA women’s hockey captain Hilary Knight proposed to Bowe at the 2026 Winter Games. The two first met while competing at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Knight proposed on the eve of the women’s hockey gold medal clash between the U.S. and Canada.Knight shared the moment on social media, captioning a video of the two athletes in matching Team USA gear, “Olympics brought us together. This one made us forever.” Bowe entered with two bronze medals, and Knight, a four-time Olympic medalist, will leave with a fifth — gold or silver — after Thursday’s rematch with Canada.OLYMPIC RIVALS TURNED LOVERS AS US ICE DANCER PROPOSES TO SPANISH SKATER ON VALENTINE’S DAY IN MILANKnight reflected on connecting with Bowe during the 2022 Beijing Games under COVID-19 protocols. “To have that human connection, even walking outside at a distance, it was really cool,” Knight told Olympics.com last week. Bowe said she has come to know a different side of Knight beyond her superstar persona.”Knowing her as a hockey player, it’s like this…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Carrie Underwood faced unexpected backlash during a recent “American Idol” moment, igniting a social media firestorm over politics and being “on the right side of history.”On Monday, the 42-year-old “American Idol” judge revealed on X, formerly Twitter, that she had received a less than warm reception from the audience during the long-running reality competition show’s Hollywood Week.”Spoiler alert…I get booed A LOT from our Hollywood Week audience,” Underwood wrote, adding a flushed face emoji and tagging the show.  Social media users quickly flocked to the comments section to vent their fury over Underwood’s perceived conservative leanings, with many referring to her performance during President Donald Trump 2025 inauguration ceremony.’AMERICAN IDOL’ JUDGE CARRIE UNDERWOOD BREAKS DOWN IN TEARS OVER TEEN’S EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE AUDITIONSome shared their opinions that the booing was an expression of disapproval from the audience over her purported politics.”Lol. You bet. You sang for a mad man,” one social media user wrote, as others chimed in to share their agreement and accuse Underwood of being “MAGA.” “Amen,” one X user replied.MAREN MORRIS SAYS SHE ‘LOST A LOT OF FANS’ BECAUSE OF HER POLITICAL VIEWS”100%” another added.”Indeed,” one X user wrote, with…

A red, white and blue color scheme championed by President Donald Trump will become the new look for Air Force One, the U.S. military said Thursday.The Air Force said a “red, white, gold and dark blue paint scheme” will be used for the updated jet that is slated to serve as Air Force One as well as other, smaller jets that routinely fly other top government officials.The military released a rendering of the new look that matches an airplane model that has been seen in the Oval Office for meetings with foreign leaders.The Air Force said a “red, white, gold and dark blue paint scheme” will be used for the updated jet that is slated to serve as Air Force One. (DVIDS)Boeing is in the process of modifying two of its 747-800 aircraft that are slated to replace the existing fleet of two aging Boeing 747-200 aircraft that the president currently uses and that take on the Air Force One call sign when the president is aboard.In 2018, Trump directed that those new jets would ditch the iconic Kennedy-era blue-and-white design for a white-and-navy color scheme. Instead, the top half of the plane would have been white, while the bottom,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The boyfriend of missing woman Isadora Wengel has been accused of dismembering his girlfriend in North Dakota with tools he DoorDashed to his apartment before allegedly dumping her body across state lines.Joshua Alexander Hite, 21, was arrested last Tuesday following a weeks-long investigation into the disappearance of Isadora Wengel, who was last seen on Dec. 31 by her family and reported missing on Jan. 7.”We believe based on the investigation this far that Isadora Wangle was heinously murdered,” the Fargo Police Department said. “And we, meaning the police department, collectively have probable cause to believe that Josh Hite, her boyfriend, is the person who murdered and tampered with evidence related to the disposal of her body.””We believe this to be a heinous and diabolical crime,” they added. “And, we believe that there may be some dismemberment involved.”MAN WHO NEARLY BEAT CHICAGO TRAIN PASSENGER TO DEATH WALKS FREE WITH NO PRISON TIME: REPORT Video and forensic evidence suggest that Hite — who was reportedly found with recent cuts to his hands, wrists, knees, and thighs, along with bruising on his lower back — attempted to conceal the possible murder while lying to the authorities…

Amid a review commissioned by Navy Secretary John Phelan, the Navy will be cutting back the number of mandatory uniforms issued to sailors, the service’s director of Military Personnel Plans and Policy said.In an exclusive interview with Military Times, Rear Adm. Jennifer Couture said the Navy would finally make a long-anticipated cutback to one PT uniform by next year and soon announce other seabag reductions as well.“By 2027, it will be one PT uniform,” Couture said. “That makes sense. And it is also higher-quality. It is more in line with, if you were to go to a running store out in town … the kinds of clothing you would find there.“The Navy in 2019 introduced a new PT uniform consisting of a moisture-wicking navy-blue short-sleeved shirt emblazoned with gold Navy logos and matching shorts with a 5-inch inseam and side pocket. At the time, officials said the much older PT set with its bright-yellow cotton T-shirt would eventually be phased out. But until now, no timeline has been provided for the shift.Also being considered for elimination are some of the working boot options available to sailors, Couture said. A slide presentation posted on the Navy’s HR website last year listed…

This article was originally published by Kevin Hughes at Natural News under the title: Trump Administration Escalates War on Drugs With Lethal Maritime Strikes, Signals Imminent Land Operations The Trump administration has intensified lethal naval operations near Venezuela, conducting at least nine strikes since September against suspected drug-trafficking vessels, resulting in 37 fatalities. President Donald Trump announced plans for expanded “hard” land-based strikes against cartels, following naval interdictions that reportedly reduced drug flows by 33%. Mexican cartels like MS-13 have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations to justify military action. Critics, including Colombian President Gustavo Petro and U.S. lawmakers, challenge the legality of unilateral strikes and the lack of evidence linking Venezuela’s captured ex-leader Nicolás Maduro directly to cartels. Mexico and others oppose U.S. military intervention on sovereignty grounds. The campaign accelerated after Maduro’s January extradition to the U.S. on drug charges, alongside seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers. War Secretary Pete Hegseth framed the strategy as an unprecedented “offensive” against hemispheric narco-terrorism. Future land strikes risk inflaming regional tensions, with unanswered questions about congressional authorization, Latin American backlash, and the evidentiary basis for linking Maduro to cartel operations. The Trump administration has intensified its counter-narcotics campaign in Latin America, launching…

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