A former American Airlines flight attendant who prosecutors said "took advantage of his position of trust" to secretly record and "exploit" innocent young girls in airplane bathrooms was sentenced in Boston federal court Wednesday.Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced to 18 and a half years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, according to court documents.In a sentencing memo, federal prosecutors described how Thomspon targeted unaccompanied minors and lured them to bathrooms he rigged with a hidden camera "for his own sexual gratification.""Estes Carter Thompson III took advantage of his position of trust as a flight attendant to select among the passengers on his flights innocent children who he could exploit, directing them to an aircraft bathroom that he had set up as a secret recording studio, recording videos of the childrens bodies in one of their most private moments, and then storing, editing, and revisiting those videos, all for his own sexual gratification," the memo said. "In so doing, he robbed five young girls of their innocence and belief in the goodness of the world and the people they would encounter in it, instead leaving them with fear, mistrust, insecurity, and sadness."AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANT ACCUSED OF RECORDING MINORS USING AIRCRAFT LAVATORIES: DOJThompson, who was indicted in April 2024, pleaded guilty on March 6, 2025, to charges of attempted sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor.The case began when a 14-year-old girl on one of Thompsons flights to Boston discovered a cellphone taped to the lid of a lavatory toilet in September 2023. Authorities later alleged that Thompson had filmed at least four other girls between the ages of 7 and 14 using airplane bathrooms over a nine-month span in 2023.U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick called his actions "appalling" and said the child victims had lost their "innocence" because of what he did, according to the Associated Press.At his sentencing hearing Wednesday, Thompson apologized and described his actions as "selfish, perverse and wrong."IRATE AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER ALLEGEDLY PUNCHED FLIGHT ATTENDANT, KICKED, SPIT ON POLICE OFFICERSA lawyer representing the victims families,Paul Llewellyn, praised the outcome and criticized American Airlines handling of the situation in a statement to Fox News Digital on Thursday."We are pleased that the perpetrator has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term so that he can no longer prey on young girls," Llewellyn said."But no family should ever have to endure what these families have gone through," he added. "Its deeply troubling that an American Airlines employee was able to exploit his position in such a calculated and invasive way.American Airlines owes these families and the public answers and meaningful reforms to ensure this can never happen again."FLORIDA MAN CONVICTED POSING AS FLIGHT ATTENDANT TO GET DOZENS OF FREE FLIGHTSAmerican Airlines previously apologized after the company's "outside counsel" appeared to blame one of the victims in a prior court filing, evoking outrage from the lawyer representing the victims. The filing said the girl "knew or should have known" that the lavatory "contained a visible and illuminated recording device."According to a civil lawsuit, the girl took a photo of the phone taped to the toilet seat and showed it to her parents back at their seats. Her father then made a beeline for the plane's flight attendants with the photo and yelled, "What the hell just happened in the first-class bathroom with my daughter?"American Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on Thursday.Thompson will serve his sentence at FMC Butner in North Carolina and intends to undergo both sex offender-specific treatment and substance abuse treatment, according to the sentencing memo.His attorney, Scott Lauer, declined to comment to Fox News Digital on Thursday.Fox News' Chris Eberhart and the Associated Press contributed to this story.

A Massachusetts man has been arrested for allegedly stealing $113,000 worth of Pokmon cards and collectibles from a shop in a smash-and-grab heist. Richard Jovahn Nunes, 24, was taken into custody in Taunton on Monday and charged with six counts of receiving stolen property over $1,200, the New Bedford Police Department said."I appreciate the support of the Taunton Police Department in helping bring this case to a successful resolution," said police Chief Jason Thody. "I also want to thank Detective Nicole Rodriguez for her solid investigative work and persistence in following up on leads that ultimately led to an arrest and the recovery of stolen property."WOMAN SEVERELY BEATEN DURING INVASION AT BEANIE BABIES TYCOON'S HOME: REPORTThe investigation into the theft began on July 8 when officers responded to a break-in at 1st Edition Collectible.Surveillance footage obtained by WPRI-TV shows someone wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a mask smashing through the glass front door. The suspect climbed through the shattered door and opened a display case before putting collectibles into a backpack and running back out the front door.The theft lasted around 30 seconds, the report states.On Monday, New Bedford police Detective Nicole Rodriguez got a lead after someone, later identified as Nunes, allegedly attempted to sell a Base Set Unlimited Green Wings Booster Box, valued at $30,000, which matched an item that was stolen during the burglary.Later that day, Rodriguez was contacted by an unidentified location in Taunton that reported Nunes allegedly had tried selling Pokmon cards in a separate attempt, police said.POLICE ARREST INTERNATIONAL TRAVELER ALLEGEDLY CARRYING NEARLY $3M IN DRUGS BOUND FOR BRAZIL"Based on the rarity and value of the booster boxes involved, detectives determined that it was highly unlikely the same person would possess both without being connected to the original theft," a police statement said.Nunes was arrested soon after. At the time, he had a warrant for a felony, police said.A search of an apartment where Nunes had been staying yielded a shoebox containing serialized and graded Pokmon cards matching those stolen from 1st Edition Collectibles, authorities said.The cards found in the apartment were identified as:In a Facebook post, 1st Edition Collectibles thanked the police and other collectible shops in the area. The store also announced that proceeds from sales of its "Comeback Collection T-shirts" will be donated to charity."Crime Doesnt Pay and Karma is Real," the post states.In Florida, a trading card shop took a big hit on Monday after a masked suspect broke into the business and stole nearly $30,000 worth of Pokmon cards. Within 75 seconds, a suspect stole between $25,000 and $30,000 worth of rare Pokmon cards, according to FOX 35 Orlando.

A Jewish-American national security group is sounding an alarm about how America and Israels enemies may exploit low missile stockpiles after the 12-day war with Iran.Defending Israel and the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar from Iranian counterstrikes cost the U.S. and Israel between$1.48 billion to $1.58 billion, according to an analysis by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), and burned through a large portion of missile interceptor stockpiles.Both the U.S. and Israel now face an "urgent need" to replace those stocks and sharply increase production rates.The U.S. had roughly 632 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors before June 13, the day Israel began its offensive in Iran. About 540 interceptors remain in its arsenal based on JINSAs calculations of interceptor deliveries and use, according to the report.IRAN SAYS IT CAN STRIKE THE US AND ISRAEL FOR TWO YEARS. DOES IT REALLY HAVE THAT POWER?In addition, the two Patriot missile interceptor systems responsible for defending Al Udeid, the U.S.'s largest base in the Middle East that's home to 10,000 soldiers, reportedly used roughly 30 Patriot interceptors against the 14 Iranian ballistic missiles targeting the site June 23, The interceptors cost about $3.7 million each, totaling $111 million.Iran launched 574 medium-range ballistic missiles toward Israel and the U.S. airbase in Qatar after Tel Aviv and Washington conducted strikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites between June 13 and June 24, when the conflict ended in Iran's counterstrike in Qatar.Lt. Gen. Thomas Bergeson, former chief of U.S. Central Command,said the U.S. and its allies needed to do more to invest in nonkinetic interception mechanisms, or systems that can neutralize a threat without explosive force, which would be much cheaper in defending against future attacks."There's any number of operational test and developmental testing going on with a cheaper bullet than a multibillion-dollar interceptor to shoot down a relatively inexpensive missile or UAS," he said. "Any electro-magnetic interference capability, a microwave laser EMP, whatever that can screw up, the guidance system or the proportion of that particular system is something that could be cheaper."You can have literally hundreds if not thousands of rounds in one interceptor at very low cost."While the cost for the U.S. and Israel was high, the cost for Iran was greater between $1.1 billion and $6.6 billion. Air defenses saved Israel about $13.5 billion in property damage.Iran used up between a third and a half of its ballistic missile arsenal during the 12-day conflict, suggesting Iranian assertions it could have continued striking Israel for years if it wanted were overblown.Replacing its missile stockpiles will be even more costly given that Israel struck many of its launchers and production sites.IRAN-LINKED HACKERS THREATEN TO RELEASE NEW TROVE OF EMAILS STOLEN FROM TRUMP'S INNER CIRCLE AFTER STRIKESBut the U.S. used up 14% of its global stockpile of prized THAAD missile interceptors. Americas THAAD system accounted for nearly half of all interceptions due to "insufficient" capacity of Israels Arrow interception system.It would take three to eight years to replenish the THAAD interceptors used in the 12-day war at current production rates.Patriot interceptor production is more robust than THAAD, according to the report, but the U.S. is providing a number of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine. So, its unclear how many remain in the stockpile.If the U.S. and Israel fail to urgently replenish their interceptor inventories especially THAAD and Patriot systems they risk entering the next crisis with dangerously thin defenses, according to the report. Adversaries may take note of the extended gap between munitions use and stockpile replenishment, which leaves U.S. bases across the world open to vulnerabilities.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"Irans large-scale missile campaign may have revealed vulnerabilities in Israeli and U.S. air defense systems, providing lessons that Iran or other U.S. adversaries could exploit in the future," the report said.The Pentagon could not immediately be reached for comment on its plan to replenish missile interceptor stocks.

Ex-President Joe Biden's former chief of staff ignored reporters on his way out of an interview with congressional investigators on Thursday after a marathon grilling behind closed doors.Ronald Klain served as White House chief of staff for the first half of Biden's term. He also reportedly played a key role in helping the former leader prepare for what proved to be a disastrous first and only 2024 election debate against current President Donald Trump.Klain sat with staff and some lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee for hours for a voluntary transcribed interview.COMER DISMISSES BIDEN DOCTOR'S BID FOR PAUSE IN COVER-UP PROBE: 'THROWING OUT EVERY EXCUSE'Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is investigating whether Biden's top White House aides concealed signs of mental decline in the then-president, and if that meant executive actions were signed via autopen without his knowledge.Lawmakers who briefly attended the interview, however, called him "credible.""I think he is telling what he knows accurately," Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told Fox News Digital.On the other side of the aisle, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told reporters, "He answered every single question. He was fully cooperative."Klain is the sixth former Biden administration aide to appear for Comer's probe and the third to appear voluntarily.Former White House physician Kevin O'Connor, as well as senior advisors Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal, all appeared under subpoena.FAR-LEFT FIREBRAND SAYS SHE 'NEVER HAD A CONCERN' ABOUT BIDEN'S MENTAL STATE AS HOUSE PROBE HEATS UPEach also pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions.Longtime Biden aide Ashley Williams and former staff secretary Neera Tanden both appeared voluntarily.Like the previous five before him, the longtime Democratic operative did not answer questions from reporters either before or after his interview.

Progressive Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, is once again renewing his call to impeach President Donald Trump, vowing to drop new articles of impeachment soon. He likened his crusade against Trump to the biblical David versus Goliath and anti-Trump activists as "one million Davids.""This is what's important, President Trump is a Goliath. He has military might. He has persons who are loyal to him in the military and the judiciary and in the Congress. But for every Goliath, there is a David," said Green, adding, "But in this case, we have nearly one million Davids, one million Davids willing to take on and challenge the president for his unconstitutional behavior. And I say to you that this number is growing."In June, the House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to quash Greens bid to impeach Trump. Lawmakers agreed to table the measure in a 34479 vote. A vote to table is a procedural mechanism allowing House members to vote against consideration of a bill without having to vote on the bill itself.A majority of House Democrats joined Republican lawmakers to kill Green's resolution, a sign of how politically caustic the effort appears to be. Just 79 Democrats voted to proceed with the impeachment vote, while 128 voted to halt it in its tracks.DNC CHAIR SAYS 'WE WANT EVERYONE' IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY INCLUDING 'LEFTISTS' LIKE MAMDANIDespite this, Green said he was undeterred, telling reporters on Wednesday "were not going to make this a one-off" and "there's also a set of articles that I have not presented that I will be presenting. This is not the last time."Asked whether he believes pursuing impeachment is productive given the Republican House majority, Green answered, "it is always a good time to impeach.""I think focusing on impeachment is productive whenever there's a breach of the Constitution," he said. "The timing is not associated with when you have a majority in the House, it's not associated with when it feels good, it is always good to impeach when a president violates the Constitution. It really is that simple."IMMIGRANTS NEEDED FOR REDISTRICTING PURPOSES,' HOUSE DEM ADMITS IN VIRAL CLIP: QUIET PART OUT LOUDBesides being known for repeatedly attempting to impeach Trump, the Texas Democrat is also known for infamously disrupting the presidents joint address to Congress in March by shouting and waving his cane at him.Green was removed from the House floor after repeatedly disrupting the beginning of the president's speech, a move that the Democrat called"invidious discrimination."House lawmakers voted to censureGreen over the disruption. Ten Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the measure. Green himself voted "present," along with first-term Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala.BETO O'ROURKE DROPS F-BOMB AS HE URGES DEMS TO 'MEET FIRE WITH FIRE' AGAINST GOP REDISTRICTING PLANS IN TEXASWhen reached for comment by Fox News Digital, the office of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., referred to his comments on the censure on X, formerly Twitter, this week.Johnson posted, "Rep. Al Greens shameful and egregious behavior during President Trumps Joint Address disgraced the institution of Congress and the constituents he serves. Despite my repeated warnings, he refused to cease his antics and I was forced to remove him from the chamber. He deliberately violated House rules, and an expeditious vote of censure is an appropriate remedy. Any Democrat who is concerned about regaining the trust and respect of the American people should join House Republicans in this effort."

Lies and lying people comprise the sorry epitaph of Barack Obamas presidency. The Big Lie was that then-candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 presidential election. It derived from a phony dossier commissioned and financed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Obamas national security team happily peddled to destroy his successor. It begat an even bigger whopper that "Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump" and "aspired to help" his election chances. This notorious deceit was inserted in the official Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that was ordered by Obama himself and conjured up by his CIA Director John Brennan.DNI GABBARD CLAIMS DEEP STATE ACTORS DIDNT WANT TRUMP-RUSSIA INFORMATION TO 'SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY'None of it was true.The bogus dossier was exploited to justify the ICA. Conversely, the ICA was used to legitimize the dossier. The circular faux verification was a clever ruse. And it worked splendidly. When both documents were leaked to the gullible Trump-hating media, journalists adopted them without question as sacred gospel from the Holy Book of Obama. The Russia hoax took off like a rocket. It crash-landed on Wednesday, July 23, when Tulsi Gabbard, the director of National Intelligence, accused Obama, Brennan and others of engineering the false intelligence. "They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasnt," she added. NEW RUSSIAGATE EVIDENCE 'DIRECTLY POINT TO' OBAMA, DOJ WILL DECIDE 'CRIMINAL IMPLICATIONS': GABBARDNewly declassified documents show that a December 8, 2016, draft of Obamas Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) debunked the notion of Russian electoral meddling to help Trump. But wait that was problematic because it did not conform to the preferred narrative of Trump-Russia collusion. So, FBI Director James Comey and his cohorts reportedly scuttled it. That way, Trump, as president-elect, could not be briefed on its contents. The next day Obama convened a highly confidential meeting at the White House. The president ordered his intelligence cronies to expedite a new ICA that would reverse the PDBs conclusion and energize the collusion fiction. With his marching orders in hand, Brennan immediately went to work on it.His challenge was devising a way to contort the known evidence and contradict the consensus of nearly everyone else in the intelligence community. No problem. CIA experts on Russia who strenuously objected were sidelined and silenced. Brennan ignored their warning that there was no direct evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to elect Trump. Other intel agencies that typically contribute to the assessment were deliberately excluded to stifle dissent. Evidence shows that Brennan then selected a handful of sycophants with only one principal drafter to craft the entire ICA that bore little resemblance to the truth and established facts. BRENNAN DIRECTED PUBLICATION OF 'IMPLAUSIBLE' REPORTS CLAIMING PUTIN PREFERRED TRUMP IN 2016, HOUSE FOUNDOn January 6, 2017, the rushed-to-completion ICA was produced. It offered a remarkable transformation from the earlier PDB: "Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-Elect Trumps election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him." (Page 7 of ICA)The head-spinning about-face of intel conclusions was an immaculate conception of corrupt handicraft that belongs in the Intelligence Hall of Shame. Although Brennan denied it, numerous delusions drawn from the fake dossier were placed in the formal intelligence assessment to give it the sustenance that it otherwise lacked. Armed with both fallacious documents, Comey then met with Trump later that day in a devious but misbegotten scheme to entrap him. It failed miserably because the newly elected president had no idea what the FBI director was talking about. Obamas dirty fingerprints were all over the cooked-up intelligence claiming that Moscow helped Trump in some grand collusion conspiracy. On Wednesday, Gabbard held a news conference to lift the veil of secrecy and malevolence. She leveled the following broadside:OBAMA NOW 'SQUARELY IN RUSSIAGATE CROSSHAIRS,' JOURNALIST MATT TAIBBI CLAIMS"President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey and others, including their mouthpieces in the media, knowingly lied as they repeated the contrived narrative that was created in this January 2017 intelligence community assessment with high confidence, as though it were fact." Mincing no words, Gabbard accused Brennan of lying about his use of the dossier even though he knew it was a discredited and politically manufactured document. "He directed senior CIA officials to use it anyway," she said. As "irrefutable proof," she unlocked the 2020 report of the House Intelligence Committee that had never before been seen publicly, thanks to the machinations of then-Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who buried it as classified in a limited-access vault at CIA headquarters. The report outlined in detail the events that I summarized above.It was easy to do so because many of them are contained in the book I wrote six years ago, "Witch Hunt:" "John Brennan was instrumental in proliferating the dossier. But even before the Clinton campaign and Democrats funded Christopher Steeles project to smear Trump with the collusion hoax, the seeds of the collusion narrative were germinated by none other than Brennan." (Pages 66-67) TULSI GABBARD DETAILS BOMBSHELL CLAIMS OF OBAMA-ERA CABAL'S 'TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY' AGAINST TRUMPI recounted how Brennan boasted to the House Intel Committee in May of 2017 that he had been the first to alert the FBI about collusion. "As he exerted uncommon pressure on the FBI to pursue a counterintelligence probe on Trump, he resolved to help spread the false allegations to Congress and the media. He politicized phony intelligence and instigated the fraudulent case against Clintons opponent." (Page 68)The Russians never had "Kompromat" (compromising material) on Trump, as the dossier falsely accused. But they apparently did have it on Hillary. And that proved quite a stunner on Wednesday. The heretofore hidden House Intelligence report reveals how Russian intelligence "possessed DNC communications that in 2016 Clinton was suffering from intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness. Clinton was placed on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers and while afraid of losing, she remained obsessed with a thirst for power." Obama and Democrat Party bosses apparently knew all about Clintons mental instability and found it "extraordinarily alarming." So much so, they worried it might have a "serious negative impact" on the November election. Unlike the dossier, those shocking discoveries were not just idle gossip. The committee reviewed reams of source material and obtained corroboration during some 20 interviews with FBI agents and intelligence officers. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONHow did the Russians get their hands on the damaging material? The report explains that Putin ordered hacking operations on the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. It seems that since Putin believed Hillary would win the election, he held the "Kompromat" in his back pocket to use as potential blackmail for later use.In sending a criminal referral for possible prosecution to the Justice Department, Gabbard stated, "The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment."In response, the DOJ announced that it had formed a "strike force" to fully assess all the evidence and to investigate the next legal steps. Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to "leave no stone unturned to deliver justice." Obama denies any wrongdoing. But he should thank Trump for winning the recent landmark Supreme Court decision that provides all presidents with immunity. Ironically, the former president can now hide behind its broad protections. However, no such shield extends to others involved. It is folly to predict at this stage what prosecutions, if any, the future may hold. But the stain of corruption is already embedded in the epitaph of Obamas presidency. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM GREGG JARRETT

Oregon is facing its second lawsuit in a month over the issue of biologically male trans athletes competing in girls' high school sports.Two of the state's girls' track and field stars, Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard, filed a lawsuit against the Oregon School Athletics Association (OSAA) after an incident on May 31 when they refused to stand on a medal podium with a transgender competitor at a state title meet.Footage of the stunt went viral, as Anderson later told Fox News that officials instructed them to step away from the podium and get out of the shots of photos.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMTheir lawsuit alleges that the OSAA not only excluded them from official photos, but also withheld their medals. The suit argues that the girls' First Amendment rights were infringed upon by the officials."I recently competed against a biological male at my state track and field meet, another girl and I decided to step down from the podium in protest to the unfair competition environment," Anderson told Fox News Digital. "I am fighting to keep womens sports XX and prevent biological males in womens sports from becoming normalized. By doing this, I hope that all future generations of female athletes will have a safe and fair opportunity to excel within their sports."Fox News Digital reached out to the OSAA for a response.The girls are being represented by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI)."These young women earned their place on the podium and the right to express themselves," said Jessica Hart Steinmann, executive general counsel at AFPI. "Instead of respecting their viewpoint that girls sports should be for girls only, Oregon officials sidelined them. The First Amendment protects the right to dissent school officials dont get to reprimand students who refuse to agree with their beliefs."TRACKING THE TRANS ATHLETE HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS CONTROVERSIES SHAKING THE NATION OVER THE LAST YEARAFPI is also representing fellow Oregon girls' track and field athletes Maddie Eischen and Sophia Carpenter in a separate lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Education for its policies that allow biological males to compete in girls' sports.Carpenter and Eischen cited their experience in withdrawing from a meet that featured a trans competitor on April 18."For [Carpenter] the psychological and emotional weight of that moment became overwhelmingshe felt helpless, demoralized, and betrayed by the institutions and adults charged with protecting her equal opportunity for fair play. Ultimately, she realized that she was unable to participate in the high jump that day and withdrew from the event," that lawsuit alleges.Both Carpenter and Eischen previously told Fox News Digital the experience was "traumatic.""My experience at the Chehalem track meet and scratching myself from the meet was traumatic, something I never imagined ever having to do," Eischen said.Carpenter added, "It was emotionally traumatic trying to know what I should do and how I should respond to competing with [the trans athlete]."Carpenter said she found herself so overwhelmed with emotion from the experience, that she cried on the ride home after the meet. Now, despite being faced with "fear" of potential retaliation for filing a lawsuit, the two girls are officially in it and charging ahead with a legal battle that could garner plenty of national attention.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X,and subscribe tothe Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

FIRST ON FOX: An immigration program meant to provide permanent legal status to undocumented migrant children who experience abuse or neglect was, under the Biden administration, offered mostly to illegal immigrants older than age 18, many of whom had criminal records, according to a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report obtained by Fox News Digital.A Trump administration review of the special immigrant juvenile petition program found that between fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2024, 198,414 special immigrant juvenile petitions were approved. And in fiscal year 2024, 52% of special immigrant juvenile petitioners were over the age of 18 through a loophole that allowed classification to be offered up to age 21.Of those petitioners, 60% were male.Massachusetts, New York, Maryland and California are hot spots, states where courts routinely approve special immigrant juvenile predicate orders forlegal adults, often based solely on affidavits.Affidavits alone, often written by the petitioner or a petitioner's lawyer, are used to claim abandonment or neglect. Judges may sign off without hearings.BORDER CRISIS UNDER BIDEN REVEALS SHOCKING ABUSE OF MIGRANT CHILDREN PLACED WITH UNVETTED SPONSORS: DHSMisuse of the program didn't just occur under Biden. Since 2013, more than 600 MS-13 gang members applied for the special immigrant juvenile visa, according to the DHS report, and more than 500 of them were approved.The report also identified 853 known or suspected gang members who filed special immigrant juvenile petitions, most of whom were approved.At least 120 of those petitioning for special immigrant juvenile visas since 2013 have been arrested for murder, and more than 200 of those who had their visas approved were convicted of sex offenses and required to register on the National Sex Offender Registry.Many petitioners filed when they were older than age 18 and qualified because they were raised with one natural parent and claimed the other parent was not involved in their life, "abandonment," or did not financially support them, "neglect," according to the report.More than 100 known or suspected members of the 18th Street gang, a criminal group with origins in California and Mexico, had special immigrant juvenile petitions approved since 2013, and dozens of others suspected of involvement in the Tren de Aragua, Sureo and Norteo gangs had approved special immigrant juvenile visas, according to the report.The Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras accounted for approximately 73.6% of all filings within the special immigrant juvenile program from 2014 to 2024.In 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received a petition from a 19-year-old suspected of plotting an Islamic State terror attack in the U.S. after he requested another adult be appointed his legal guardian.But the new report found that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services decided against interviewing or requiring biometrics for those under the age of 18. Even for those 18 and older, only 36% were asked to submit biometrics.Since fiscal year 2013, nearly 20,000 special immigrant juvenile petitioners submitted conflicting birth dates,with18,407 appearing over the age of 21 based on prior records the program age cutoff.Fraud may be widespread in countries with weak documentation systems, like Bangladesh, Somalia and Yemen, where birth certificates are easily falsified, the report said.TRUMP IMMIGRATION ADVISOR TARGETS CRIMINALS EXPLOITING UNACCOMPANIED MINORS WHO ENTERED US UNDER BIDEN"Criminal aliens are infiltrating the U.S. through a program meant to protect abused, neglected or abandoned alien children," said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Matthew J. Tragesser. "This report exposes how the open border lobby and activist judges are exploiting loopholes in the name of aiding helpless children."In June, the Citizenship and Immigration Services office stopped offering deferred immigration enforcement for special immigrant juveniles. The office said it is looking at new ways to "ensure the SIJ classification remains available for the juveniles it was intended to protect."Congress first established the program in 1990 to allow young unlawful immigrants that a court has determined cannot reunify with parents due to abuse or neglect to apply for special immigrant juvenile classification, lawful permanent resident status and have an eventual path to U.S. citizenship. But, by law, there are no criminal bars or good moral character requirements for special immigrant juvenile petition approval.

The White House fired back at South Park on Thursday for mocking President Donald Trump during its season premiere.South Parks 27th season premiere on Wednesday depicted the president in bed with Satan while talking about his alleged Jeffrey Epstein cover-up, and took shots at his recent settlement with Paramount. Both scenes included crude depictions of his genitalia."This show hasnt been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention," White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital. "President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our countrys history and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trumps hot streak."'GONE TOO FAR': GOP LAWMAKERS RALLY AROUND TRUMP AFTER MUSK RAISES EPSTEIN ALLEGATIONSThe episode featured Trump suing the town of South Park and eventually reaching a settlement with the fictional Colorado town for $3.5 million and a commitment to produce pro-Trump public service ads (PSA).In one of the ads, a lifelike depiction of an overweight Trump was shown walking through a desert. A voiceover for the ad stated, "Donald J. Trump. No matter how hot it gets, hes not afraid to fight for America."As the scene continued, Trump stripped off his clothes and collapsed onto the sand naked. The next shot featured his penis shown as comically small rising and stating, "Im Donald J. Trump and I endorse this message."The voiceover added, "Trump. His penis is teeny-tiny but his love for us is large."DEMOCRATS CAPITALIZE ON GOP JEFFREY EPSTEIN FALLOUT WITH NEW DEMANDS FOR JIM JORDANThe mock PSA appeared to be a parody of Trumps recent settlement with CBS and parent company Paramount Global. Trump has said the settlement includes an eight-figure allocation set aside for advertisements, public service announcements, or other similar transmissions, in support of conservative causes by the network in the future, that will be paid for by incoming owners following a long-planned merger.South Park, which reached a $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount on Monday, which also reportedly includes 10 new episodes a year. The show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, took shots at Paramount earlier this month after its season premiere was delayed by two weeks.On X, the shows official account blamed the pending Paramount and Skydance merger for its delay. "This merger is a s---show and its f---ing up South Park," Parker and Stone said. "We are at the studio working on new episodes, and we hope the fans get to see them somehow."Elsewhere in the episode, Trump was shown dodging accusations of hiding the details of sex predator Jeffrey Epsteins case from the public, including accusations from Satan, who was depicted as Trumps lover.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREAs Trump stripped off his clothes to get into bed with Satan revealing his genitalia again Satan mentioned he heard that the president was on the Epstein list."The Epstein list? Are we still talking about that?," Trump responded."Well, are you on the list or not? Its weird that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax," Satan continued.Trump replied, "Im not telling everyone to relax! Relax, guy!"The scene appeared to be mocking Trump for rebuking his supporters who continue to ask about the Epstein files. Earlier this month, the DOJ and the FBI released a memo concluding that Epstein committed suicide in his cell, there is no "client list," and the supposed "Epstein files" are thousands of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography subject to court-ordered sealing.Since then, Trump has ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to work on releasing more files related to the Epstein case.60 MINUTES KAMALA HARRIS INTERVIEW AT THE CENTER OF TRUMP'S CBS LAWSUIT RECEIVES EMMY NOMINATIONThe White House also criticized liberals who are now praising South Park when they had previously called it offensive."The Lefts hypocrisy truly has no end for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as offense content, but suddenly they are praising the show. Just like the creators of South Park, the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows," Rogers told Fox News Digital.Paramount did not immediately respond to a request for comment.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

I would love a foldable phone. Its fun to imagine strutting into a coffee shop, flipping open your phone like youre Batman calling Alfred.But now Samsungs dropped the seventh-gen Galaxy Z Fold and Flip, Google threw in the Pixel Fold, Motorola whipped out retro with the modern Razr+, and it all sounds exciting until you start looking closer. Im giving away a new iPhone 16 Pro.Enter to win now.OPENAI AND ORACLE ACCELERATE AMERICA'S AI DOMINANCE WITH EXPANDED TRUMP-BACKED INITIATIVEFoldable phones use ultrathin flexible glass over OLED displays, combined with a mechanical hinge system. The tech allows the phone to physically bend while still displaying a full-resolution screen.The hinges are engineered to survive hundreds of thousands of folds, which maths out to up to a decade of opening and closing more than a few times a day.The Galaxy Z Fold 7 opens like a book, giving you a tablet-size 7.6-inch screen inside and a 6.2-inch screen outside.The Flip 7 folds vertically like a compact mirror thats a 6.7-inch screen when open and a 3.4-inch mini display on the outside. Perfect for glancing at texts and ignoring people in real life.Googles Pixel Fold offers a wider front screen and a slightly smaller inside display.MIKE ROWE ANALYZES HOW AI WILL IMPACT WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS AMID TECH REVOLUTIONTheyre eye-catching, no doubt. But heres the part that usually gets glossed over: The Fold 7 starts at $1,899 and the Pixel Fold at $1,799. The Flip 7 and Motorolas Razr+ are slightly more "affordable" at around $999, but still a serious chunk of change.These phones are bulkier, more fragile and harder to protect than the slab you already own.By the way, Googles dropping a new foldable on August 20, 2025.Foldables are like marriages based on chemistry: thrilling at first, full of cracks later. Theyre cool for early adopters, tech collectors and people who like showing off gadgets. Theres nothing wrong with that, just dont confuse a flashy fold with long-term value.Battery life still lags behind traditional phones. Foldable displays, while tougher than before, are still more prone to damage. And the software? Think beta, not breakthrough.You dont get more phone, you just get more surface area and more things that can go wrong.You heard it here: Apple is testing foldable iPhones behind closed doors. The rumors say 2026 for a release. One model folds like a book, the other like a flip phone. Apples waiting until the tech is truly seamless, no half-baked experiments.My advice?Sit this trend out. The wow factor fades fast, but the price tag doesnt.Get tech-smarter on your schedule:Award-winning host Kim Komando is your secret weapon for navigating tech.Copyright 2025, WestStar Multimedia Entertainment. All rights reserved.