Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy will make his "Big Noon Kickoff" debut on Saturday ahead of Ohio State and Texas marquee matchup to begin the 2025 college football season.Portnoys debut came with much fanfare ahead of the game. Portnoy, a Michigan Wolverines superfan, said earlier in the week he was "banned" from Ohio Stadium, suggesting it may have been because of his fervent support for the maize and blue.WATCH ON THE FOX ONE APP START YOUR 7-DAY FREE TRIAL TODAYOhio State, instead, said Portnoy wasnt banned from the stadium. He was not a part of the main desk crew for FOX. The crew would be the only ones allowed into the stadium.Portnoy appeared on "Fox and Friends" outside Ohio Stadium on Saturday and leaned into the drama, wearing a disguise."Well what happened was I got banned by coach Ryan Day from entering The Shoe. Theres a lot of animosity and a lot of hate because Ive been a Michigan truther since weve beat the crap out of them the last five years. And all weve heard is excuses out of Ohio nation. So, Ryan Day is so butthurt by me, he banned me from going into the stadium," Portnoy, who was wearing a fake mustache and an "I Love Ryan Day" hat told Fox News Channels Will Cain. "Im not allowed in The Shoe today."CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMPortnoy joined the "Big Noon Kickoff" team as part of FOX Sports partnership with Barstool Sports. Other Barstool Sports personalities are set to join him as well.No. 1 Texas will look to start the season on the right foot with a win over national champion No. 3 Ohio State.The game will start at noon ET on FOX.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

When President Donald Trump chose Saudi Arabia for his first foreign trip of the new term meeting Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in Riyadh it underscored how closely U.S. interests now track Saudi change. In turn, MBS is set to visit the White House in the coming months. The timing is notable: he turns 40 this month and marks 10 years in power, with a domestic record few leaders have matched in a single decade.The most visible shift has been in womens rights. In a nation of more than 20 million citizens, women now drive, travel without a male guardian and hold roles in law, aviation, diplomacy and the C-suite boosting household incomes and widening the countrys talent base. Women now make up about 36% of the workforce. That's a statistic that may seem normal to Americans but marks a profound societal change for Saudi Arabia.Regionally, MBS has tied domestic change to strategy abroad. He supports expanding the Abraham Accords but argues that lasting normalization with Israel requires a credible pathway to a Palestinian state the necessary political price after Gaza to build an alignment that integrates Israel into the region.SAUDI DEFENSE MINISTER SECRETLY MEETS WITH TRUMP TO DISCUSS IRAN DE-ESCALATION, ISRAEL: SOURCESThis pace of change has not come without coercion. Dissent is tightly controlled, and political space remains limited. Critics point to arrests of activists, businessmen and even royals. But history shows that in rigid systems, rapid reform often clashes with entrenched interests and great reformers such as Turkeys Atatrk, Singapores Lee Kuan Yew and Chinas Deng Xiaoping rarely transformed nations without firm measures to suppress opposition.For his part, MBS admits he has made mistakes some costly, others controversial but he has proven to be an unusually quick learner: adjusting course when necessary, avoiding the temptation to double down on failures and maintaining momentum while refining strategy. That ability to recalibrate is rare in leadership.What Changed Under MBSA Reform Agenda with Time on His SideWhat sets MBS apart from many historical reformers is time. At 40, he could remain in power for decades long enough not only to launch reforms but to embed them so deeply in Saudi institutions and society that reversal becomes impossible. Few leaders in any era have done this much in 10 years while also recasting their countrys global role and having the runway to see it through.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWhat to Watch NextExpect a Washington agenda centered on defense integration, technology cooperation, energy and investment that creates U.S. jobs alongside diplomacy to expand Arab-Israeli normalization with a serious political horizon for Palestinians.If MBS can pair internal modernization with a sustainable regional settlement, the payoff will extend far beyond the Gulf to pump prices, regional stability and U.S. influence for a generation.

As Democratic leaders in Massachusetts triple down on resistance against federal intervention to clamp down on crime, a migrant shelter whistleblower is sounding the alarm about an increase in crime in neighborhoods across the state and especially in Boston.Jon Fetherston, who ran one of the state-funded migrant shelters in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and blew the whistle about rampant crime and sex abuse taking place in the hotel shelter system. He now says that since Democratic Gov. Maura Healey closed down the shelter system, there has been an uptick in domestic violence, sex trafficking, shoplifting and even auto accidents."The Healey hotels were well known for having sex trafficking, domestic violence. We've reported cases of rape, unfortunately, in there," Fetherston said. "Now, you've opened it up to all of the cities and towns in Massachusetts."$30K IN MIGRANT HOUSING AID HAS DEM GOV ON HOT SEAT FOR 'REVOLVING DOOR' POLICYThis comes as Healey has pushed back against the Trump administrations federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., and preemptively criticized any intervention in Boston as "political theater.""More political power grabs from Donald Trump," Healey wrote in a statement posted to X, adding, "We dont need or want his interference here."In response, Fetherston said, "How the governor just wants the public to believe that all of these things will not happen is extremely naive and extremely dangerous.""Governor Healey wants you to think she just snaps her fingers and closes all of the hotels and then disperses people into the communities that the thousand incidents that were reported back in 2024, and the state has refused to release the data for 2025, she just thinks that those serious instances aren't going to happen in the communities that now she's forced people into."Referencing the high-profile case of illegal immigrant Harjinder Singh allegedly causing an auto accident in Florida that killed three, Fetherston said, "you've seen the national stories of unlicensed or illegals with driver's licenses and CDLs. I haven't seen that, but I've seen a tremendous uptick in car accidents."BIKE-RIDING YOUTHS TERRORIZE DEM-RUN CITY AS MOBS SWARM ROADS, WHILE MAYOR STAYS SILENT ON CHAOSFetherston said that Boston has been particularly impacted by the rise in crime."Your eyes tell you all you need to know. Crime is on an uptick in Boston. Things are not good in Boston," he said. "Boston was once a great city. It is no longer a great city. It is a city that with open drug use, the crime rates have spiked."Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, also a Democrat, has rejected the Trump administrations efforts to crack down on illegal immigrant crime or to send the National Guard to the city.Wu has said, "In Boston, we comply and follow all of the laws, city, state and federal. And we will not back down from communities that have made us the safest major city in the country."Wu has also commented, "This is a beautiful, diverse, incredible city, and I have said it now very directly, this administration needs to stop attacking cities to hide their own failures."In response, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons has vowed to "flood" Boston with federal agents.MARYLAND GOVERNOR SAYS HE WOULD ABSOLUTELY WELCOME FEDERAL SUPPORT IN CRIME CRACKDOWNTo Fetherston, an increased ICE presence would be welcome, while Wus resistance is indefensible."How any elected official could not put public safety as the biggest priority of any job that they do, it's disgusting to me and it's very concerning," he said, adding, "Mayor Wu wants to tell you that Boston is one of the safest cities. No, your eyes tell you that Boston has in great decline."Regarding threats by the Trump administration and Homeland Security to intervene in Boston and Massachusetts, Fetherston said he believes that "anybody who lives in a crime-ridden area, which there are a lot in Massachusetts, will appreciate the effect of it.""I've talked to business owners, I've talk to local law enforcement, anybody who wants to have a sensible conversation about fixing crime in their community, they support what the president's doing and wants to do," he explained. "Yeah, some people probably don't like the optics because maybe they don't understand it. And the media is doing, in my opinion, doing a bad job of describing it. Tanks are not rolling down people's streets. The National Guard's not walking with guns into your backyard and stuff like that. We're just there to protect and serve, and that's what your local police does.""If you don't want that as an elected official, I don't want you as my elected official," he said.PRITZKER SAYS 'ACTION WILL BE MET WITH A RESPONSE' AFTER TRUMP THREATENS TO SEND NATIONAL GUARD TO CHICAGOFox News Digital reached out to the offices of Healey and Wu but did not immediately receive a response.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPWhite House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson commented on Healey and Wu's resistance by saying, "If these Democrats focused on fixing crime in their own cities instead of doing publicity stunts to criticize the President, their communities would be much safer.""Cracking down on crime should not be a partisan issue, but Democrats suffering from TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] are trying to make it one," she went on, adding, "They should listen to fellow Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowserwho recently celebratedthe Trump Administrations success in driving down violent crime in Washington DC."Bowser's office declined to comment further, referring Fox News Digital to the mayor's prior statements.

Spotted these days on everything from quiet cul-de-sacs to bustling main streets, golf carts are no longer just for the fairway. They're now street legal in many communities as families ditch their minivans and SUVs to run quick errands or ramble around town."A slow-rolling cavalry is conquering Americas public roads," The Wall Street Journal recently noted.While four-wheeled carts are changing the way small towns move, not everyone is on board with the craze. In the "r/nashville" Reddit forum, one user recently asked, "When did we decide golf carts were fine for the roads?"COASTAL CITY GREENLIGHTS NEW VISITOR TAX AMID WIDESPREAD OVERTOURISM TREND"This sounds like a rich side of town problem," commented another user.Yet another person wrote, "I began hearing about them referred to as NEVs neighborhood electric vehicles in 2008 as a greener way to reduce traffic for short distances.""When wealthy people started to consider them fashionable," said a different user.One Redditor wrote, "They are a plague in my neighborhood."But another person said, "Golf carts are far safer than pickup trucks (especially lifted), SUVs and even sedans. Basically, golf carts are safer than cars for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians."For more Lifestyle articles, visit foxnews.com/lifestyleA user on a different Reddit forum, "r/homeowners," asked, "What's the deal with golf carts and UTVs (utility task vehicle)?"The person shared that his or her neighborhood has changed over the years and said that it's "now starting to get what I would call more suburban people."The post continued, "I'm not judging. I just don't understand it. We don't have a golf course anywhere nearby. I feel like this is something that is maybe more common in the further-out suburbs."It went on, "I'll often see them driving through the neighborhood or even on the larger streets nearby where the speed limit is 40mph. Sometimes it's teens/tweens driving them. Is this a common trend?"A different Redditor said, "Fairly common here as well, especially in nicer subdivisions with community pools [and a] nearby park."Another user asked, "Maybe its becoming like a status symbol?"CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERA different person defended the use of the carts."I have mine street legal and run errands on the weekends or cruise around on it when I'm bored," the person wrote. "It's a fun and exhilarating machine that gets good gas mileage, but can also shred going up mountains or in the snow."The City of Greenville in South Carolina recently reminded residents about a new state law regulating golf carts.The public service announcement on its X account read, "If you own a golf cart in #GreenvilleSC, a new state law is in effect. Registration, driver requirements and usage rules have been updated."Under the updated law, golf carts are only permitted on roads with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less and must remain within four miles of the owners residence.GREAT WHITE SHARK SIGHTINGS RISE ALONG NORTHEAST BEACHES AS SUMMER WINDS DOWNGreenville isnt alone in aiming to manage the rise of golf cart traffic.In Peach Tree, Georgia a city of just over 38,000 residents more than 11,000 golf carts are registered, according to the towns website.Golf carts and go-karts caused 50 traffic crashes, resulting in three deaths in Michigan in 2023, according to the state's Traffic Crash Reporting System.Various counties in Michigan enacted ordinances and implemented public laws to ensure the safety of people riding in carts.The state does not allow operation 30 minutes before sunset or 30 minutes after sunrise. Also, drivers are unable to weave between traffic, according to a Michigan law.Carts are also not allowed to be driven on sidewalks.

A Christian worship leader will hold a concert in Seattle this weekend, even as LGBTQ activists urge city leaders to revoke his permit.Sean Feucht, a Christian singer and conservative activist, is scheduled to bring his "Revive in 25" tour to Gas Works Park on Saturday. Feucht rose to national prominence during the COVID lockdowns, when he launched his "Let Us Worship" movement protesting restrictions on religious gatherings. He has also faced criticism over the years for his support of former President Donald Trump and his comments about the LGBTQ community.Earlier this month, eight Canadian cities revoked permits for Feuchts tour. Now, Seattle activists are pressing city officials to do the same.Charlette LeFevre, director of Capitol Hill Pride, called the event "malicious harassment and incitement" against the LGBTQ community, telling KING 5 News, "This is not what Seattle is about."Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell countered that canceling the rally would violate Feuchts First Amendment rights.BLUE-CITY PASTOR SEES SIGNS OF REVIVAL AFTER TENS OF THOUSANDS ATTEND CHRISTIAN CRUSADE"The law is crystal clear. You cannot shut down a venue on anticipated speech," Harrell told KING 5. "Any group under the First Amendment has a right to use one of our public assets, such as a park, to have assembly. Thats embedded in the First Amendment, and we have to respect the First Amendment."Progressive Seattle outlet The Stranger reported that Lavender Rights Project, a Black transgender feminist group, and 15 community partners, plan to hold a counter event this weekend to combat what they called a "propaganda machine."The concert comes just months after violence erupted at another Seattle religious gathering in May.The Seattle Police Department reported 23 people were arrested at Cal Anderson Park during MayDayUSAs "Dont Mess With Our Kids" rally and a pro-LGBTQ counter-protest. According to SPD, police "witnessed multiple people inside one group throw items at the opposing group." Police were assaulted while arresting those individuals, leading to one officer requiring medical treatment.SEATTLE MAYOR BLAMES CHRISTIAN RALLY FOR INSPIRING VIOLENT 'ANARCHISTS' WHO 'INFILTRATED' COUNTER-PROTESTHarrell later blamed the Christian rally and infiltrating "anarchists" for the violence.This is not the first time Feucht has faced resistance in Seattle. In 2020, city officials closed Gas Works Park ahead of his planned worship rally due to COVID concerns.Feucht criticized the move as hypocritical, accusing city leaders of targeting Christians while tolerating riots."It wasobviously a targeting and discrimination towardsbelieversin the city," Feucht told Fox News at the time."Theresjust a bias," he added. "Its the height ofhypocrisy right now that theyreletting these cities succumb to rioting and burningand pillaging and yet theyre targetingChristians."Feucht did not immediately respond to Fox News Digitals request for comment on the upcoming rally.FBI TO PROBE CLAIMS OF TARGETED VIOLENCE AGAINST RELIGIOUS GROUPS AFTER EVANGELICALS' PROTEST IN SEATTLEA spokesperson for Harrell's office referred Fox News Digital to the mayor's public statement affirming Feucht's free speech rights under the law."Under the First Amendment, the City cannot decline a permit based on the anticipated message of the event or views of the organizers," the mayor's office said. "At the same time, the City strongly celebrates and supports the LGBTQ+ community. Mayor Harrell and Councilmember Hollingsworths request to the organizers to move from Cal Anderson Park and Capitol Hill to another location was based in maintaining public safety. We will continue working with LGBTQ+ residents and organizations to uplift our community and create a welcoming, inclusive city for all."After the Canadian concert cancellations, Feucht said in a statement shared with CTV News Toronto, "To publicly profess deeply held Christian beliefs is to be labeled an extremist and to have free worship events classified as 'public safety risks.'"

It has been four years since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, ending a 20-year foreign entanglement and leaving the fates of hundreds of thousands of people in the hands of the Taliban.For House Republican lawmakers who served in the Armed Forces, in the Middle East in particular, the frustration and angst is still raw."I thought the withdrawal was the worst thing I've ever seen from any president in my lifetime. It was the most bungled operation I've seen," Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital.Bacon, a retired brigadier general with nearly 30 years experience in the Air Force, said the withdrawal left him and fellow veterans he spoke with feeling depressed.FAR-LEFT FIREBRAND SAYS SHE 'NEVER HAD A CONCERN' ABOUT BIDEN'S MENTAL STATE AS HOUSE PROBE HEATS UP"Why did our friends have to die there? Because all that [President Joe Biden] did, he pulled us out and it collapsed. We had 3,500 troops there when Biden came in. None of them were in combat. They were in support roles," he said. "We could have sustained it at a low cost for a long time And moms and dads wonder, why do we lose our son? I happen to know this to be true. I've talked to moms and dads. Why did I lose my son for something that Joe Biden just pulled the plug on and let it collapse?"The Nebraska Republican said he himself knew five people who died serving in Afghanistan.Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., a former Army Special Forces officer who served two tours in Afghanistan, said he cried when the chaos of the withdrawal dawned on him.LONGTIME BIDEN AIDE SAYS HE STOOD TO EARN UP TO $8M HAD PRESIDENT WON RE-ELECTION"I wept," Harrigan told Fox News Digital. "I knew it was not about losing Afghanistan, right? It wasn't about the 20 years worth of work that we put into that country. It wasn't about the promises that we made that we didn't keep. It wasn't about even the 13 Americans that got killed. The reason I wept is because I believed that that display of strategic weakness on the world stage condemned the next generation of Americans to conflict."This past Tuesday also marked four years since the deadly suicide attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, which took the lives of dozens of Afghans and 13 U.S. service members."I would say it was a very, very, you know, cutting morale situation for everyone," said Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Mich., who served in the military for over 20 years."I can't speak for everyone, but personally, I felt like it was complete and total failure of our leadershipWe could watch this happen in slow motion. I mean, such terrible decisions that set up the vulnerability that ultimately resulted in that loss of life. And to know that we had troops there who were infants at the time of the attack of 9/11. They couldn't even, they weren't even old enough to remember when 9/11 happened."Bacon pointed out that the ISIS-K terrorist who committed the attack was released from prison at Bagram Air Base following the Talibans lightening-fast takeover of Afghanistan."I cannot think of a more botched operation than that," he said.Harrigan said, "We put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into that conflict, and to see it just effectively given away with no plan and absolutely no thought behind the withdrawal process, ultimately culminating in the deaths of 13 young Americans; none of that needed to happen. And I think that's the most frustrating part of it."All three veterans said the chaotic withdrawal operation left damaging consequences in its wake."I think both the previous president and the current president could do better at helping the Afghan interpreters get out of Afghanistan and get into America," Bacon said."We have an obligation, in my view, to support these guys. I mean, they literally put their lives on the line to save Americans, and they've been hunted down in Afghanistan. They've been persecuted. And in some cases you hear stories of the current administration trying to return some of these folks. Its just not right."Harrigan said the federal government handled Afghanistan "terribly" after the U.S. exit."I mean, President Joe Biden was sending $40 million a week to the Taliban, for God knows what reason. And now we have no relationship with them at all, which I also think is a problem," he said. "I think that Afghanistan has, historically, and will always be a safe haven for terrorismif we are not constantly keeping a pulse on what's going on there."Barrett pointed out that Afghanistan has since fallen under extremist control with Taliban rule and opened a "vacuum" for China and other adversaries to gain influence."I think we have to have a far more discerning, very realistic and clear-eyed mindset of the challenges that we're going to face, and what is the second and third order effects of the decisions we make?" he posed. "You go into a country to liberate them. Well, what's gonna happen the next day and the day after that, the day following?"

As Cracker Barrels doomed $700 million rebrand plunged into its death spiral, I decided to visit seven of the iconic stores in a part of the country where it thrives, and I can report that the natives are getting restless.I also now have a working hypothesis of why the current C-suite denizens of the Barrel might have thought this novel concept, which blew up in their faces, was a good idea, but more on that later.CRACKER BARREL'S LOGO MEA CULPA IS A START BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE THE ENDThe good news about the drive, basically from Winchester, W.Va., to Lexington, Va., or as I call it, Cracker Barrel Alley, is that I did not need my GPS. I just stayed on Rte. 81 and looked for the sky-high signs and billboards every 20 miles or so afore the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.Michael, who I spoke to outside the Winchester store, was in his 50s, and he kind of summed it up by saying, " I just want a place to eat thats comfortable, cozy, ya know? Why would they change that? Its crazy."He was talking about the infamous plans, partially reversed now, to not just change the iconic sign, with mascot old man Uncle Herschel, but to brighten up the interiors and remove the old-timey southern charm.Down the road in Woodstock, Va., I spoke with Malik. A plumber in his 30s, he told me, "It looks like they want to take away everything American about it. It makes no sense."At that same location, Tammy, a nurse in her 40s had a similar sentiment. "I just dont get it, Ive been coming to Cracker Barrel since I was a kid, and I dont know anybody who wants these changes," she said.And its not just Americans, apparently. Corbett, in Harrisonburg, Va., who works in construction, told me that, "even the Mexican guys I work with love the Americana at Cracker Barrel. I mean, theres a reason they came here."Of the dozens of people I spoke with over two days, there were a few who told me they didnt care too much one way or the other about the changes. But nobody said they liked the idea, and of those who didnt like it, boy how they didnt like it.Even one employee I caught up with, who spoke anonymously, told me, "Were glad they are switching back. It didnt hurt business too bad, but we were worried about it and customers didnt like it."John, a man in his 60s in an American flag sweatshirt, even gave me a breakdown of Uncle Herschel. He wasnt alone; several of the older southern men I spoke with knew the deep Herschel lore like a 15-year-old boy knows Minecraft.The other question, besides just, "why?" which I heard so much, was who was this rebrand for? Who do the executives think this appeals to?This is where my own theory comes in. In late 2020, Cracker Barrel introduced alcohol to its menu. What was clear from my grand tour, is that they do not sell a lot of alcohol, they sell a lot of trinkets and candy in the gift shop.Breakfast, lunch and dinner, the restaurants are full of families, tons of kids, but not many people ordering a bloody mary or mimosa, and one thing many have noticed about the new interiors, is that they look a lot like a place for ladies to brunch and knock back a few.Anybody who has worked in the restaurant business knows that dessert and drinks pay the bills, and while I saw a lot of desserts, I suspect the execs at Cracker Barrel want to sell more of the latter.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONHad the leadership at Cracker Barrel just taken the drive down 81 that I did over the past few days, instead of holding focus groups in Brooklyn and studying data analysis, this debacle never would have happened. It is just so obviously unpopular.Maybe, just maybe, our colleges, or whoever is training this ocean of Millennial middle marketing managers who are running our culture through the deflavorizing machine, should teach them the golden question: What do the customers want?This rebrand really aint it.The C-suite dummies really fouled this one up, but maybe this can be a lesson going forward to listen before you leap, to protect the charm of your brand, and to respect tradition. That is really all that the people want.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM DAVID MARCUS

Former Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders shared his confidence in his former collegiate team despite suffering their first loss of the season against Georgia Tech.The Buffaloes lost to the Yellow Jackets, 27-20, as Haynes King put together the game-winning drive in the fourth quarter. King scored on a 45-yard run with 1:07 left in the fourth quarter. Colorado failed to put together the equalizing touchdown in the last moments.WATCH ON THE FOX ONE APP START YOUR 7-DAY FREE TRIAL TODAYIt was the teams first game without Sanders and Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter. Both players entered the NFL Draft after last season.Sanders was still confident the team will figure it out, especially since his father, Deion, is the head coach."Theyll figure things out. They have a great head coach," he wrote on X.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMDeion Sanders hasnt been without his quarterbacking son for any of his collegiate coaching career. They were together at Jackson State and at Colorado once he took the Buffaloes job."Coach Prime" named Kaidon Salter the starting quarterback to start the year. He had 159 passing yards and a touchdown pass to Dekalon Taylor in the loss.Sanders said the team will be fine despite the loss."We couldve won the game. Its not like we had our butts kicked," he said. "They ran the heck out of the ball. If we take advantage of the opportunities, I have a whole different mood up here right now."The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

The District of Columbia is our nations capital, where foreign leaders go to meet our presidents at the White House. On the way, these leaders do not see a shining city on a hill as they peer through the windows of their motorcades. Instead, they see a crime-infested dump riddled with drug addicts, disturbed homeless people milling zombie-like around their tents and gangs of thugs in stolen cars who yearn to target innocent residents.The D.C. legal system is an utter disaster. Richard Nixon won approximately 20% of the D.C. vote in 1972 in his landslide over George McGovern, the most "success" any Republican presidential candidate has had since D.C. has been part of the Electoral College. In his three presidential elections, Donald Trump topped out at a whopping 6.6% of the vote in 2024, and the lowest performance by a Democrat was Hillary Clintons 90.9% in 2016. D.C. is chock-full of Democrats, many of whom fill bureaucratic jobs in the federal government. These voters comprise the grand and petit jury pools for D.C. cases.DC STATEHOOD DEBATE INTENSIFIES AS TRUMP FLEXES AUTHORITY OVER LOCAL POLICEIt is no wonder that Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith did everything he could to rush to a D.C. trial of President Trump prior to the 2024 election. Regardless of the merits of his case, Smith knew that he had a conviction in the bag based on the composition of the jury pool. He took extraordinary measures to secure a pre-election trial, even attempting to bypass the appellate court to obtain faster Supreme Court review during President Trumps pretrial immunity appeal. Smiths belief was well-founded; for instance, a D.C. jury recently had acquitted Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie lawyer, for plainly false statements made to Special Counsel John Durham during the probe of the Russiagate investigation. A rabidly partisan D.C. civil jury hammered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani with a $148 million defamation judgment for statements he had made about election workers concerning their work in the 2020 presidential election.The utter farce of D.C. became crystallized recently because of the actions of Sean Charles Dunn. This degenerate, then a career Justice Department employee, threw a Subway sandwich at federal law enforcement officers. (Yes, you read that correctly: the same DOJ trial attorney who represents federal law enforcement in court is assaulting them on the DC streets.) He ran like a coward after he had thrown the food, but the police caught him quickly. D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, Trumps all-star pick, sought an indictment under 18 U.S.C. 111 for felony assault of a federal law enforcement officer. A D.C. grand jury, however, disgracefully declined to issue one. This development infused D.C. leftists with glee to the point that they are now calling Pirros office and claiming that they are going out to buy more sandwiches.D.C. is unique in that local crime prosecutions are under the control of the D.C. Superior Court. This is not an Article III court, even though the president appoints the judges by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The president must choose from a commission where only one member is a presidential appointee. The rest are appointees of, among others, the D.C. mayor (currently Democrat Muriel Bowser), the chief judge of the U.S. District Court (another Democrat) and the D.C. Bar (full of Democrats). This group is filled with leftist zealots who recently moved forward with the despicable disbarment of Trump 45 and 47 attorney Jeffrey Clark based on a legal memorandum he drafted and never even had sent. Even if vacancies arise on the D.C. Superior Court and the D.C. Court of Appeals (D.C.s supreme court), President Trump can only pick from a slate of bad and biased candidates.Leftists in D.C. mostly inhabit safe spaces in N.W. D.C.,like Georgetown, Logan Circle, Dupont Circle and Embassy Row. As such, they are not as exposed to the rampant crime as the poor, innocent D.C. residents face daily. These limousine liberals thus have decided to protest President Trumps takeover of the D.C. Metropolitan Police. The police chief, Pamela Smith, used to head the departments equity office. DEI-infested law enforcement is bad law enforcement. D.C. needs to adopt the "broken windows" approach of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and prosecute every provable crime. For the past four years, federal prosecutors under the Biden Justice Department wasted their time on January 6 cases. Thanks to President Trumps clemency, these prosecutors now have much more free time on their hands. A large chunk of the D.C. federal prosecutors should get reassigned from their fancy U.S. District Court assignments and go slum it in the D.C. Superior Court, where they can prosecute street thugs terrorizing our nations capital. Force defendants to go through the process, even if leftist grand juries will not indict, leftist juries will acquit, or leftist judges will hand down pitifully lenient sentences. Make the process the punishment for these D.C. criminals and their enablers on the bench and in the jury boxes.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWe pay nearly $1 billion in taxes as part of appropriating money for D.C. Mayor Bowser has acknowledged the staggering progress that President Trumps two-week-old takeover has had in the form of drastic crime reductions. But this progress can only go so far if the D.C. citizenry will not join in. The Trump administration should move every government job it legally can out of D.C. This relocation would eliminate a lot of bureaucratic jobs from the cityand leftist from the D.C. jury pools. While D.C. would still be the seat of government, it would not be quite the magnet that it currently is for federal government employees. The Vicinage Clause of the Constitution requires that defendants be tried in the district where the offense occurred, so D.C. defendants must face D.C. juries unless they ask for and receive a change of venue. The government cannot obtain one. But perhaps fewer government employees as grand and petit jurors will result in tougher jury pools composed of ordinary citizens who have had it with D.C.s rampant crime.Because of our Constitution, fixing D.C. will be tough. Democrats want to make it a state and install two Democrat senators forever, and we must use all legal tools to defeat this effort. President Trump is doing all he can to improve D.C., highlighted by his appointment of tough-as-hell Judge Jeanine Pirro as the top D.C. federal prosecutor. But thanks to unconstitutional laws like the D.C. Home Rule Act, the administration can only do so much. This law needs to be repealed, a feat which would require overcoming a Democrat filibuster. In the meantime, President Trump must employ every legal strategy to continue improving D.C. His takeover of Union Station will lead to more businesses returning to what had become a cesspool of homeless camps and thugs. If Congress does not permit the takeover to continue after 30 days, the president should declare a national emergency to keep it going; let the legal chips fall where they may if the local government challenges his authority. Our nations capital belongs to all Americansnot local D.C. violent thugs and their enablers on the bench and jury pools. President Trump is admirably leading the fight to preserve and protect it.

Usually, love is reserved for the court during tennis matches but the rules were thrown to the wayside for a bit during a U.S. Open match on Friday night.A fan proposed in the stands inside Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York during Aryna Sabalenkas win over Leylah Fernandez in the third round. She said he was ecstatic for the couple.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"I think its the first time that someone proposed during my match," Sabalenka said. "It was a very sweet moment, but I was just trying not to start smiling, because its very cute and I believe theyre super happy right now."Fans inside the stadium began to c heer as they saw the man drop to one knee with the ring in his hands. He egged on the crowd to encourage them to get louder.The woman said, "Yes."COCO GAUFF FIRES BACK AT CRITICS QUESTIONING HER GLAM TENNIS LOOKS AT US OPEN: 'I'M A HUMAN'"I was just trying to keep focusing on my game, and it was great moment," Sabalenka said. "And as I said on court, I wish them a happy marriage."Sabalenka defeated Fernandez in straight sets, 6-3, 7-6 (2). She will play against Cristina Buca in the round of 16.The Belarusian tennis star is ranked No. 1 in the world and came into the tournament as a No. 1 seed. She is also the defending U.S. Open champion.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.