Seattle Mariners superstar Cal Raleigh joined New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle to become the second switch-hitter ever to hit 50 home runs in a season on Monday.Raleigh clubbed his 50th home run of the season in the teams 9-6 win over the San Diego Padres at T-Mobile Park.Raleighs blast came in the first inning and broke a 0-0 tie. Batting right-handed, the All-Star catcher turned on Padres starting pitcher JP Sears 93-mph fastball and drilled it 419 feet into the second deck to give the Mariners a 1-0 lead.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"It doesnt seem real," Raleigh said postgame. "Fifty home runs is kind of crazy unheard of."The 28-year-old became the eighth player in MLB history to reach 50 home runs before the end of August. With the home run, Raleigh became the second Mariners player to hit 50 homers in a season.Baseball Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. did it twice, hitting 56 home runs in both 1997 and 1998.CARDINALS' WILLSON CONTRERAS TOSSES BAT AT OWN COACH AS HE ERUPTS AT UMPIRERaleighs home run was his third in his last two games. In the teams 11-4 win over the Athletics on Sunday, he hit two home runs and broke Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perezs record of 48 home runs, set in 2021."I thought I was a cool player when I hit five (homers) when I was young, in high school or something," Raleigh said.Raleigh has 30 home runs as a left-handed hitter and 20 as a right-handed hitter. In 129 games this season, Raleigh has a .247 batting average, 107 RBI and 14 stolen bases to go along with his league-leading 50 home runs.Raleigh will look to continue his hot hitting when the Mariners (71-61) play the Padres (74-58) in the second game of their three-game series.Follow Fox News Digitals sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

Meghan Trainor is clapping back at fans who said they couldn't recognize her after her recent weight loss.The "Made You Look" singer posted a TikTok of herself doing the stiletto challenge a social media trend in which people balance on random objects on one foot while wearing high heels. In her version of the challenge, Trainor can be seen balancing on two large dumbbells while dressed in black workout gear and a high ponytail."Dude.. I did not recognize her at first.. What happened!?" one fan wrote in the comments section, while another added, "Don't even recognize her anymore."MEGHAN TRAINOR'S SMILE MAKEOVER IS LATEST CELEBRITY PLASTIC SURGERY DISASTERA third added, "When you used to sing all about that bass and now you're barely a soprano."Not long after the original TikTok was posted, Trainor took to the social media app again, seemingly responding to the critics in the comments section of her first post.In the second post, Trainor gave fans a more close-up look at her makeup, as she mouthed the lyrics to Megan Thee Stallion's song, "Her." She captioned the post, "Glam team really did that.""I dont care if these b----es dont like me," she mouthed. "Cause, like, Im pretty as f---."LIKE WHAT YOURE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSNot all the comments on the original post were negative. Some of her followers complimented her new look, while others came to the singer's defense and called on others to stop body-shaming her."Omg you look like sporty barbie," one fan wrote, while another added, "People are allowed to change.""Are people really skinny shaming her rn omg let her be," another wrote. "We're allowed to change and still be supportive of not talking about other people's bodies and empowerment. Move one."Trainor showed off her slimmed-down figure in March 2025 while walking the red carpet at the 2025 Billboard Women in Music event, when she posed for photos in a black dress with a sheer skirt.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERFollowing the event, the Grammy Award-winning singer took to social media to express frustration over the fact that "so many of the questions (and comments) were focused on my body" and not on her music she also admitted to taking weight-loss medication."No, I dont look like I did 10 years ago. Ive been on a journey to be the healthiest, strongest version of myself for my kids and for me," she wrote in the caption. "Ive worked with a dietician, made huge lifestyle changes, started exercising with a trainer, and yes, I used science and support (shoutout to Mounjaro!) to help me after my 2nd pregnancy. And Im so glad I did because I feel great."

First on Fox: Nearly two dozen Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin Tuesday, calling on him to cancel funding to a left-wing environmental group accused of training and lobbying judges on climate policy, Fox News Digital exclusively learned."As attorney general, I refuse to stand by while Americans' tax dollars fund radical environmental training for judges across the country," Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told Fox News Digital of his push to encourage the EPA to end its funding of the Climate Judiciary Project."The Environmental Law Institute's Climate Judiciary Project is using woke climate propaganda, under the guise of what they call 'neutral' education, to persuade judges and push their wildly unpopular agenda through the court system," he said. "I commend President Trump's efforts to cut waste and abuse during the first eight months of his presidency, and I am optimistic that his Administration will do the right thing and halt all funding to ELI."Knudsen spearheaded the letter sent to Zeldin Tuesday, which included the signatures of 22 other Republican state attorneys general, calling for the EPA to axe its funding to the left-wing environmental nonprofit, called the Environmental Law Institute, which oversees the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP).TOP ENERGY GROUP CALLS FOR PROBE INTO SECRETIVE 'NATIONAL LAWFARE CAMPAIGN' TO INFLUENCE JUDGES ON CLIMATEThe Environmental Law Institute founded the Climate Judiciary Project in 2018, which pitches itself as a "first-of-its-kind effort" that "provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law."The group, however, has been accused of trying to manipulate judges to make them more amenable to left-wing climate litigation.The letter sent Tuesday called on the EPA specifically to end any grants and awards endowed to the group."We write to bring to your attention grants made by EPA to the Environmental Law Institute ('ELI')," the letter reads. "According to its 2024 financial statements, ELI received approximately 13% of its revenue in 2023, and 8.4% in 2024, from EPA awards. ELI also apparently still expected to receive funds from the federal government; its financial statement warned that the collectability of federal grant funds is subject to significant uncertainty related to collectability and continual funding due to (the federal grant) funding freeze or other federal actions.'"CLIMATE GROUP SCRUBS JUDGES' NAMES FROM WEBSITE AFTER UNEARTHED CHATS UNMASKED COZY TIESThe Environmental Law Institute received $637,591 from the EPA in 2024 and $866,402 in 2023 from the EPA, according to nonprofit tax documents published by ProPublica detailing the group's federal expenditures that year."The Climate Judiciary Projects mission is clear: lobby judges in order to make climate change policy through the courts," 23 state attorneys general wrote in the letter. "An alumni magazine profile said the quiet part out loud, writing that the Climate Judiciary Project co-founder was explaining the science of climate change to a group of people with real power to act on it: judges. The Climate Judiciary Projects tampering raises serious legal and ethical questions."The Environmental Law Institute, however, in recent comment to Fox News Digital, has maintained that its educational programs through Climate Judiciary Project are in accordance with the standards established by national judicial education institutions.Climate Judiciary Project educational events are done "in partnership with leading national judicial education institutions and state judicial authorities, in accordance with their accepted standards," a spokesperson for the group said in an emailed statement in July. "Its curriculum is fact-based and science-first, grounded in consensus reports and developed with a robust peer review process that meets the highest scholarly standards.""CJPs work is no different than the work of other continuing judicial education organizations that address important complex topics, including medicine, tech and neuroscience," an Environmental Law Institute spokesperson previously told Fox News Digital when asked about its educational programs.The call for EPA to slash any funds to the Environmental Law Institute was celebrated by leading groups such as the American Energy Institute and the Alliance for Consumers, who lamented in comment to Fox Digital that taxpayer funds should not be used to fund the group and that "courtroom maneuvering" threatens day-to-day life."The State Attorneys General are right to call for the elimination of taxpayer funding for the Environmental Law Institute and its Climate Judiciary Project," Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, told Fox Digital. "This is a coordinated campaign to advance the Green New Deal through the judiciary using so-called climate litigation in the courts. Its curriculum is developed by climate alarmist allies of the plaintiffs and delivered to judges behind closed doors. Public funds should never be used to finance political advocacy disguised as judicial education."O.H. Skinner, the executive director of Alliance for Consumers, which is a nonprofit focused on advocating on behalf of American consumers, remarked that "as we have long warned, the left has a plan to reshape American society by using lawsuits in courts all across the country, especially in places like Hawaii and other coastal enclaves.""The new wave of revelations about ELI is further concerning evidence of how committed the left is to imposing mandatory Progressive Lifestyle Choices through this courtroom maneuvering and how big a threat it really is to all our ways of life," Skinner added.CLIMATE LAWFARE CAMPAIGN DEALT BLOW IN SOUTH CAROLINAThe Tuesday letter specifically argued: "State consumer protection laws prohibit deceptive and misleading statements to market a product. ELI is representing its training as objective when reality shows that it is not. State Attorneys General are responsible for protecting consumers, and we are concerned by ELIs statements."The EPA has taken a hatchet to millions of dollars doled out under the Biden administration to left-wing groups and other programs deemed a waste of taxpayer funds upon Zeldin's Senate confirmation as EPA chief in January.The EPA under the Trump administration has canceled $20 billion in grants under the Inflation Reduction Act which has led to an ongoing court battle. Zeldin said in March that the $20 billion in U.S. tax dollars were "parked at an outside financial institution in a deliberate effort to limit government oversight, doling out your money through just eight pass-through, politically connected, unqualified, and in some cases brand-new NGOs."The state attorneys general reflected on the previous cuts in their call to Zeldin to do the same to ELI funding."Under President Trumps bold leadership, federal agencies and the Department of Government Efficiency have saved an estimated $190 billion, including terminating more than 15,000 grants that saved approximately $44 billion," the letter states. "You have heeded President Trumps directive and achieved monumental savings for taxpayers. You canceled $20 billion in climate grants under the Inflation Reduction Act. You cancelled another $1.7 billion in diversity, equity, and inclusion grants.3 And you canceled 800 environmental justice grants."CHINAS CLIMATE LAWFARE SHOULD COME UNDER BONDIS MICROSCOPE, KANSAS AG SAYSClimate Judiciary Project and the Environmental Law Institute previously have come under fire from lawmakers such as Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who accused the groups of working to "train judges" and "make them agreeable to creative climate litigation tactics."The Texas Republican recently has argued there is a "systematic campaign" launched by the Chinese Communist Party and American left-wing activists to weaponize the court systems to "undermine American energy dominance."Climate Judiciary Project is a pivotal player in the "lawfare" as it works to secure "judicial capture," according to Cruz, Fox Digital has previously reported.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz may be the next state leader subject to ICEs expanding detention center network, after major facilities were opened or repurposed in Florida, New Jersey, Texas and elsewhere.A private prison that shut down over a decade agoand rendered obsolete by a 2024 law banning non-governmental state penitentiariesmay be next on ICEs list.The defunct Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, near the South Dakota line, is reportedly under consideration, according to documents reported by Minnesota Public Radio News.An Appleton official told the outlet his city is not in communication with ICE at this time, but that the owner of the prison who operated it until 2010 is seeking a federal contract.BOSTONS WU FIRES BACK AT BONDI, CITING REVOLUTION, AS OTHER CITIES SLAM FEDS OVER SANCTUARY WARNINGSThe state law reportedly does not cover federal usage of private prison facilities.Fox News Digital reached out to Walz a staunch opponent of President Donald Trumps immigration enforcement framework during the 2024 presidential sweeps for comment but did not hear back by press time.In addition to Minnesotas potential prison, several other potential locations popped up on a map curated by the Washington Post that geotagged present and potential future facilities including Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Florida, which is currently in limbo due to an Obama-appointed judges ruling.Another private prison that currently holds ICE detainees among its inmates is also one of the worlds largest such penitentiaries.The RCDC or Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas, has a capacity of 3,700 beds, overall.AMERICA'S ORIGINAL SANCTUARY STATE REBUKE'S BONDI'S WARNING; DENIES OBSTRUCTION OF ICEAlso in Texas, documents reviewed by the Post included a facility dubbed "Brownsville Family" near the border-area city, which would have a 3,500-person capacity.The feds already utilize Fort Bliss in El Paso for immigration-related detentions. The move to repurpose part of the historic installation enraged the local ACLU chapter, which compared ICEs behavior to when former President Franklin Roosevelt used similar sites to intern Japanese Americans.In California City, California. outside Bakersfield plans are already in the works to house ICE detainees at another former private prison.CoreCivic, the same vendor as the prison in Walz Minnesota, forged a deal with the feds in a different blue state to repurpose its 2,560 facility, according to the Los Angeles Times.California Gov. Gavin Newsom has opposed private prisons, and a ban he signed in 2019 was overturned at the last moment by a federal court who ruled it unconstitutional if applied in federal respects, the paper reported.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe largest ICE detention center in the northeastern U.S. sits not far from Penn State in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.The Moshannon Valley Processing Center another privately-contracted facility can hold about 1,800 people, according to reports.Texas, Louisiana and California also rank in the top-three in migrant detentions, per the Times.The Post reported that at least 19 states could have the capacity for or have detention-purposed facilities by New Years.

Devarjaye "DJ" Daniel was sworn in as honorary deputy mayor for public safety in New York City on Tuesday morning.The 13-year-old cancer survivor, who was honored by President Donald Trump during his joint address to Congress earlier this year, can add the new title to his extensive law enforcement resume."I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my daddy," Daniel said on Tuesday, adding, "My dad's been driving me everywhere. No matter how tired he is, he still gets the job done. And out in Texas, we don't say we get it done, we get 'er done, like my dad says."Mayor Eric Adams teased the swearing-in ceremony by announcing that Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry would be "stepping aside" from his public safety leadership role.'NOT A POLITICIAN': FATHER OF YOUNG CANCER SURVIVOR DJ DANIEL RUNS FOR TEXAS 18TH DISTRICT SEATIn light of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office announcing four new indictments against Adams' associates last week, Adams' announcement seemed all the more likely."I will be stepping down just for a small bit today, and DJ Daniel will be taking my place as the honorary deputy mayor for public safety," Daughtry said Tuesday morning, joking about the "breaking news today."BRAIN CANCER PATIENT DJ DANIEL FACES 3 NEW TUMORS AFTER INSPIRING PRESIDENT TRUMP, LAW ENFORCEMENTAdams announced ahead of Daniel's swearing-in that the 13-year-old had set the Guinness Book of World record for being sworn into the most law enforcement agencies across the country at more than 1,350 agencies, including a role as the New York City police commissioner earlier this year.Daniel was catapulted into the national spotlight when he was named an honorary U.S. Secret Service agent during Trump's joint address to Congress earlier this year.Since then, Daniel has been honored by law enforcement agencies across the country with the support of his father, Theodis, who announced his bid for Texas' 18th congressional district earlier this month."When it comes to choosing people to serve in the critical role, we are looking for courage, commitment and experience. And you see all these stars, the silver, the diamonds. He has the experience that we need. He's battle-tested. He's a battle-tested leader with a strong record of public service, and we are proud to swear him in," Adams said.The mayor, who said public safety is his administration's top priority, announced that Daniel would visit the Empire State Building and other tourist attractions on Tuesday.Adams presented Daniel with a "Deputy Mayor DJ" uniform and then handed him a proclamation following the swearing-in ceremony."DJ initially had five months to live, and we've beaten that," Daniel shared with Fox News Digital earlier this month.Daniel was diagnosed with terminal brain and spinal cancer when he was 6 years old but has continued to defy the odds.During his congressional address, Trump described Daniel as "a young man who truly loves our police" as he named him an honorary Secret Service agent to a standing ovation from Congress.

The Department of Homeland Security released a second round of August funding for Hurricane Helene relief this week, even as the agency directs increased resources toward President Donald Trumps "mass deportation" framework.Secretary Kristi Noems latest $28 million allocation formally offered Sunday brings the months total to $124 million in funds from FEMA, which sits within DHS, for the deadly Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in Floridas Big Bend and devastated the Smokies.The funding will go to road repairs and critical infrastructure restoration which is especially needed in North Carolina and Tennessee.In that regard, a crucial stretch of Interstate 40 washed into the Pigeon River near that state line -- cutting off the lone major trucking route over the mountains, as large vehicles are prohibited on Tail of the Dragon and other regional crossings.SENATOR PETER WELCH: IM A DEMOCRAT AND WE NEED TO FIX FEMA WITH LOCAL CONTROLFEMA funds have also been allocated to debris removal and "life and property" concerns."North Carolina families suffering from this unimaginable tragedy were cruelly ignored by the Biden administration,"Noem deputyTricia McLaughlin said in a statement."Under President Trump and Secretary Noems leadership, FEMA is moving faster than ever before to get Americans the relief they need. This move to continue supporting North Carolina victims of Hurricane Helene is a testament to that fact."Trump lambasted former President Joe Bidens initial response to Helene, claiming he "didnt like reports that [he was] getting about the federal government."Trump alleged that more conservative areas of which the western half of North Carolina has many, with the notable exception of Asheville were wrongly being underserved by the feds.Biden, however, rejected the claim, cutting off a reporter who asked him about it at the time.NOEM SAYS CRITICISM OF FEDERAL RESPONSE TO TEXAS FLOODING IS ALL POLITICS: DISSERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY"He's lying, and the governor told him he was lying. I've spoken to the governor. I spent time with him and he told me [Trump is] lying. I don't know why he does this," said Biden, who had recently spoken with then-North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp around that time.Republicans also lambasted then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when he claimed FEMA was running out of funds amid allegations the agency spent large sums on the migrant crisis, according to the New York Post.However, Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., who represents a swath of storm-ravaged communities, said in a "fact-check" on his congressional website that FEMA did not divert any disaster response to the border or to foreign aid.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"FEMAs non-disaster-related presence at the border has always been of major concern to me, even before Hurricane Helene, and I will continue to condemn their deployment of personnel to the southern border, but we must separate the two issues," Edwards said, while adding that the agency informed him they had enough money for recovery needs."Secretary Mayorkas statement indicating otherwise was an irresponsible attempt to politicize a tragedy for personal gain," Edwards said.Trump later told a campaign rally in Pennsylvania that Bidens response to Helene was worse than what followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Then-President George W. Bush was memorably lambasted for praising then-FEMA Director Michael Browns response remarking "Brownie, youre doing a heckuva job," Bush said while surveying recovery efforts in Mobile.

After President Donald Trump indicated during remarks on Monday that the U.S. will allow 600,000 Chinese students in the U.S., Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene objected to that policy prospect."We should not let in 600,000 CHINESE students to attend American colleges and universities that may be loyal to the CCP," she asserted in a post on X.The number of international students in the U.S. from China for the 2023/2024 academic year was 277,398, according to data on opendoorsdata.org.Speaking at the White House Monday, Trump signaled a potential thaw in U.S.-China relations."I hear so many stories that we're not going to allow their students," Trump told reporters. "We're going to allow their students to come in. It's very important, 600,000 students. It's very important. But we're going to get along with China," he added.TRUMP OPENS DOOR TO 600,000 CHINESE STUDENTS AMID BEIJING TRADE TALKSFox News Channel's Laura Ingraham pressed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the issue on Monday's episode of "The Ingraham Angle," pointedly asking him, "Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, how is allowing 600,000 students from the Communist country of China, putting America first?"Lutnick said that Trump's view is that without 600,000 Chinese students, "you'd empty them from the top, all the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15% of universities" in the U.S. would go under.Greene suggested that if schools need Chinese students in order to remain afloat, they should go out of business because they're being held up by the Chinese Communist Party."If refusing to allow these Chinese students to attend our schools causes 15% of them to fail then these schools should fail anyways because they are being propped up by the CCP," Greene wrote in her post on X.REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE EXPLAINS WHY SHE'S EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED WITH DC LAWMAKERS"Why are we allowing 600,000 students from China to replace our American students opportunities? We should never allow that," she continued.Fox News Digital reached out to the White House on Tuesday morning for comment."And we need more trade school graduates. Trade schools are a GREAT alternative and produce the essential education and training for the most needed jobs in America with very high starting pay," Greene added in her post.TRUMP SAYS HE HOLDS INCREDIBLE CARDS THAT COULD DESTROY CHINA BUT WON'T PLAY THEM YETEarlier this year Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, "Under President Trumps leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields."

Before Bruce Willis was officially diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, the legendary actor's wife, Emma Heming Willis, began noticing "alarming" warning signs including changes to his once "warm" personality, losing interest in things he usually loved and skipping out on family outings."For someone who is very talkative and very engaged, he was just a little more quiet," Emma told Diane Sawyer in a preview clip of the ABC special "Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey," which aired Tuesday on "Good Morning America." "When the family would get together, he would kind of just melt a little bit.""It felt a little removed, very cold, not like Bruce, who was very warm and affectionate," she said. "To [go] the complete opposite of that was alarming and scary."In March 2022, it was announced that Willis would be "stepping away" from his acting career due to an aphasia diagnosis. It was later announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, also known as FTD.BRUCE WILLIS' WIFE FELT 'LOST AND ISOLATED' CARING FOR HIM AFTER DEVASTATING DEMENTIA DIAGNOSISFTD is "the result of damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain," according to the National Institute on Aging. "Many possible symptoms can result, including unusual behaviors, emotional problems, trouble communicating, difficulty with work, or difficulty with walking.""On the day Bruce got his diagnosis, we left the doctor's office with a pamphlet and a hollow goodbye. No plan, no guidance, no hope, just shock," she told the crowd during at the Women's Alzheimer's Movement Forum in Las Vegas in May. "The future we imagined simply vanished, and I was left trying to hold my family together, raise our two young daughters, and care for the man I love while navigating a disease I barely understood.""I felt lost, isolated and scared," Emma said. "What I needed in that moment at that appointment wasn't just medical information. I needed someone to look me in the eye and say, This feels impossible right now, but you will find your footing. You will survive this and you will grow because of it.'"These days, said Emma, Bruce is slowly losing his ability to talk.LIKE WHAT YOURE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS"Bruce is still very mobile. Bruce is in really great health overall, you know," she said. "It's just his brain that is failing him."She continued, "The language is going, and, you know, we've learned to adapt. And we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a ... different way."When Sawyer asked if there are days when she sees him as he used to be, she said, "We get moments. It's his laugh, right? Like, he has such, like, a hearty laugh. And, you know, sometimes you'll see that twinkle in his eye, or that smirk, and, you know, I just get, like, transported. And it's just hard to see, because as quickly as those moments appear, then it goes. It's hard. But I'm grateful. I'm grateful that my husband is still very much here."CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTEREmma will release her book,"The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path." this September."The book is the roadmap I wish someone had handed me on the day in 2022," she said in May. "I wrote it for other caregivers who are desperate for answers, aching for support, and wanting to be seen and wondering how they're going to make it through.""I've had access to world-class experts because of who Bruce is, and I know that's a privilege, so I didn't want to keep that information to myself I have a megaphone and resources that others dont."Bruce married Emma at their home in Turks and Caicos in March 2009, and they have two daughters, Mabel and Evelyn. The actor was previously married to Demi Moore for 12 years, and the friendly exes have three daughters together: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.

A New York high school student has won the right to display Bible verses on her senior parking spot after a battle over free speech and religious expression came to a close.Grand Island High School initially rejected Sabrina Steffans designs because they included Christian imagery and scripture, but after intervention from the First Liberty Institute a nonprofit legal organization dedicated to defending religious liberty the school reversed its decision, citing constitutional principles."The first [design], I wasn't very surprised that they turned that down because I do run a Bible club, and they turned down a lot of stuff in the Bible club," Steffans told Fox News on Tuesday.HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WINS FIGHT TO DISPLAY BIBLE VERSES IN PARKING SPOT AFTER SCHOOL FACES LEGAL PRESSURE"I was kind of surprised [they turned down the second design] because it was only a Bible verse, so that's when we kind of decided to take charge and move forward with this [legal action]," she added.Steffans told "Fox & Friends First" co-host Todd Piro her initial design was a picture of Salvation Mountain, a brightly-colored art installation located in the California desert, featuring murals, Bible verses, and other Christian symbols.A drawing of her proposed design also included a heart which encased a reference to John 14:6: "God is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes through the Father except through me."FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM DISPLAYING TEN COMMANDMENTS IN CLASSROOMS"They [the school] denied that completely," Steffans shared."And then there was a second design that just had a Bible verse on it with the Bible verse reference that they turned down as well. They didn't turn down the last one when it finally didn't have any religious symbols or religious references at all."First Liberty Institute Senior Counsel Keisha Russell told Fox News that the "separation of church and state" argument raised by critics "fails" because "the Constitution doubly protects religious speech under the Free Speech Clause and the Free Exercise Clause.""The Supreme Court reiterated that truth back in the Kennedy v. Bremerton case a couple of years ago, and that was a football coach who was fired for praying on the football field," she said."We have a lot of work to do in our public schools right now. We're so grateful for this win for Sabrina, but there's a lot of work to be done."Grand Island Central School District Superintendent Brian Graham previously issued a statement to CBN News, reiterating the district's commitment to "fostering an inclusive school environment that respects the rights and dignity of all students.""We also take seriously our responsibility to uphold constitutional principles, including the First Amendment," the statement continued. "While we strongly dispute any assertion that our policies or decisions violated the rights of any student, the Board of Education and District leadership, after careful consultation with legal counsel, have decided that the student in question will be permitted to proceed with her original senior parking space design."

Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro tore into John Bolton for "profiteering off Americas secrets" on Tuesday after the FBI raided his home last week in a reported classified document probe."Iserved with Bolton, and he was far too frequently a loose cannon, bent on bombings and coups Doctor Strangelove with a mustache," Navarro, who also advised Trump on trade during his first term, wrote in an op-ed for The Hill."He agitated for airstrikes, pushed regime-change fantasies, and obsessed over military solutions when diplomacy was working. Then, instead of honoring executive privilege and confidential debate, Bolton acknowledged that in writing his memoir he relied on thecopious notes he had conspicuously taken inside the White House."Bolton published a book in 2020, "The Room Where it Happened," reportedly receiving a $2 million advance for a tell-all of his time in the Trump administration. He served as Trumps national security advisor starting in 2018 but fell out with the president and left the position in 2019.BOLTON UNLEASHES ON TRUMP UKRAINE POLICY DAYS AFTER FBI RAIDNavarro accused Bolton of "sharing information about Oval Office conversations and national security that should have stayed secret either by law or under executive privilege.""That isnt service. That isnt patriotism. Thats profiteering off of Americas secrets."Navarro noted that Bolton had described confidential U.S. deliberations on how to fracture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduros control and prompt military defections."That kind of blueprint isnt something you hand to the public or to Maduros intelligence services."He noted that disclosing national defense information without authorization could violate U.S. code."If evidence is found and indictments made, Bolton may one day go to prison for shredding that Constitution, defying executive privilege, and trampling safeguards meant to protect Americas security," Navarro said. "If that happens, Bolton wont be remembered for his book tour. Hell be remembered for the sequel he writes in prison."Fox News Digital has reached out to a spokesperson for Bolton for comment.DEMOCRATS OPPOSED JOHN BOLTON FOR YEARS UNTIL THEY SOUGHT HIM AS AN ALLY AGAINST TRUMPNavarro spent four months in prison last year after being convicted of contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack.The FBI executed a search warrant on Boltons home and office on Friday.Democrats have also fumed about Boltons book: when the former national security advisor refused to serve as their star witness during the first Trump impeachment related to Ukraine, they accused him of saving the juicy details for his memoir.In June 2020, Judge Royce Lamberth found Bolton had "likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information in violation of his nondisclosure agreement obligations."Hed submitted the 500-page manuscript for a national security review, but when the review wasnt completed in four months, he "pulled the plug on the process and sent the still-under-review manuscript to the publisher for printing," according to the judge.Lamberth allowed the book to hit the shelves because"the horse is already out of the barn" the books excerpts had already been leaked and 200,000 copies had been shipped.