Chicago Bears first-year head coach Ben Johnson already came under fire in the first game of the season against the Minnesota Vikings as he watched a fourth-quarter lead slip away.NFL legend Peyton Manning, one half of the hosts on ESPNs "ManningCast" during the Monday night games, criticized how Johnson handled a key moment following a Caleb Williams touchdown pass to Rome Odunze.START STREAMING WITH A 7-DAY FREE TRIAL AT FOXONE.COM OR DOWNLOAD THE FOX ONE APP ON YOUR FAVORITE DEVICEChicagos touchdown came with 2:02 left. The Bears had one timeout left and it may have been a good idea for the ensuing kickoff to go out of bounds to have the clock stop at the two-minute warning. Instead, the kickoff went to Vikings returner Ty Chandler and Minnesota head coach Kevin OConnell signaled for Chandler to take the ball out. The two-minute stoppage was burned and the Bears had very little time to do any kind of offense on their next possession.Manning was heard on the alternative broadcast saying the Bears should have just kicked it out of bounds.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"Kevin OConnell said they spent a ton of time on situational football," he said after the Bears scored, via Pro Football Talk. "This should be good situational football for both sides right here. The kick return team for Minnesota has got to run it out, and if they onside kick, Minnesotas got to find a way to make it take two seconds."As the Bears decided to kick the ball away instead of going for an onside kick, Manning was sure they would kick it out of bounds. But they didnt."Kick it out of bounds. Take the penalty, its on the 40," he said. "Now youve got the timeout and the two-minute warning. Out of bounds. Not out of the end zone, out of bounds."Johnson admitted during the postgame press conference that kicking the ball into the end zone wasnt the intent.The Bears defense allowed 21 points in the fourth quarter. Chicago lost the game, 27-24.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

FIRST ON FOX: Republican members of North Carolinas congressional delegation are calling for the removal of a state judge who released a man now accused of stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death on a Charlotte train.All 10 House GOP members from the Tar Heel State signed a letter urging formal proceedings to remove Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes. They cited her decision earlier this year to release Decarlos Brown "based solely on his written promise to appear for a future court date."Brown is now charged in the Aug. 22 stabbing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who fled Ukraine in 2022 after Russias invasion.Republicans argued Stokes ignored Browns lengthy record when she freed him without bail.GOFUNDME PULLS FUNDRAISERS FOR FELON ACCUSED OF KILLING COMMUTER IN RANDOM CHARLOTTE TRAIN ATTACKThey argued that the release "was made despite Browns extensive criminal history, which included at least 14 prior arrests for serious offenses such as possession of a firearm by a felon, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and physical assault of his sister."Brown, who was reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia, had been charged with a misdemeanor in January after calling 911 and demanding responding officers investigate "man-made" materials inside his body controlling him, according to KATV.He called 911 again after being angered by police's refusal, and was subsequently arrested and charged with a misdemeanor, according to the outlet.But the homeless man's case is now the latest example being held up by Republicans of big cities having too lax a justice system in dealing with crime, including on mass transit.It comes amid broader partisan divisions over the merits of President Donald Trump deploying the national guard to major cities in order to deal with violent crime."Ms. Zarutskas murder was not only a profound personal tragedy but also a direct result of a failure of judicial responsibility. By releasing a repeat violent offender on nothing more than his written promise to appear, Magistrate Stokes displayed a willful failure to perform the duties of her office and engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice," the lawmakers, led by Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C., wrote.DEM GOVERNOR BREAKS SILENCE ON MURDER OF UKRAINIAN REFUGEE AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA BACKLASH"Her decision has undermined public confidence in the judicial system and exposed the community to wholly preventable harm."Zarutska had fled Ukraine in August 2022 after Russia launched its invasion of the sovereign country. The attack appears to have been unprovoked, as Zarutska had been sitting in front of Brown on a train while on her way home from work, according to local reports.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"[W]e urge you to commence formal removal proceedings against Magistrate Teresa Stokes. We further request that the Court conduct a thorough review of her prior bond determinations to assess the full extent of misconduct," the letter said."North Carolinians deserve to know that those entrusted with judicial authority exercise it with diligence, responsibility, and regard for the safety of the community."Fox News Digital reached out to the North Carolina Judicial Branch for comment but did not hear back by press time.

FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican charged that former President Joe Biden and top administration officials "demolished" the constitutional guardrails for pardons by using an autopen.Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, which was first obtained by Fox News Digital, that there are a list of "core constitutional requirements" that must be met for pardons and granting clemency, and that the administrations usage of an autopen likely ran afoul of those guardrails.In the waning months of his presidency, the Biden administration commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 inmates and pardoned 39 others in December. A little over a month later, the administration issued roughly 2,500 more commutations the most ever by a president in a single day.COMER VOWS 'ACCOUNTABILITY,' TRUMP RIPS 'SCANDAL' AFTER BOMBSHELL REPORT ON BIDEN AUTOPEN PARDONSCruz, who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and chair of the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, offered to provide Bondi assistance in ongoing investigations into the administrations alleged abuse of the autopen.He said that the clemencies were issued "based on broad criteria rather than case-by-case evaluations, and at least some were signed using an autopen of then-President Bidens signature.""These core Constitutional requirements, considerations, and expectations were demolished in the final months of the Biden administration for partisan and personal motives by President Biden, his family, and his top officials," Cruz said.Cruz noted that the presidential pardon authority granted under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution requires a chain of custody of sorts: there has to be an unbroken line from the president to a pardon being granted, he said.TOP BIDEN OFFICIALS QUESTIONED AND CRITICIZED HOW HIS TEAM ISSUED PARDONS, USED AUTOPEN: REPORT"Everyone involved in the process government officials purporting to issue a pardon, the person to whom it is being granted, judicial and law enforcement officials, and most of all the American people should have absolute confidence a pardon was granted at the presidents explicit direction," Cruz said.But recent reports, and ongoing congressional investigations, have raised doubts over whether Biden explicitly directed the avalanche of pardons toward the end of his presidency. Cruzs letter comes on the heels of a report from Axios that unearthed emails that showed Biden officials raised concerns with how the presidents team decided to make certain pardons and the frequent usage of the autopen.'PRESIDENTIAL INCAPACITY': SENATE REPUBLICAN SEEKS PAPER TRAIL OF BIDEN'S AUTOPEN USECruz said that the emails showed that the Biden White House "implemented a process that separated the President from officials responsible for signing pardons on his behalf.""They could not know if they were doing so at the Presidents direction, either on a case-by-case basis or as a matter of criteria," he said.He argued that the doubts raised by recent reports, and the ongoing investigations by the Justice Department, risked a "constitutional crisis in which the other branches and the American people cannot have faith that the Presidents Article 2 pardon power was legitimately deployed.""If the integrity of the clemency process was broken by Biden officials, such that the relevant actions were not taken at the Presidents direction, the status of the pardons and commutations would at a minimum be cast into doubt, and the officials involved in approving and using the autopens should be held accountable," Cruz said.

Over Labor Day weekend in 2025, Chicago endured yet another wave of gun violence that left at least nine people dead and 52 wounded. The victims spanned a wide range of ages, from 18-year-old Morgan Alaniz, shot in the Little Village neighborhood, to a 63-year-old man pulled lifeless from DuSable Harbor. The majority of these shootings occurred in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods, yet public response to this carnage has been markedly subdued.Activists and organizers, including Black Lives Matter, who mobilized nationwide protests in 2020 following George Floyd's death demanding justice and systemic change in the name of Black lives have remained silent. They have not expressed a shred of empathy or solidarity for the victims of violence.Instead, these same activists the self-proclaimed conscience of America have rallied in the streets of Chicago to protest President Donald Trumps proposal to deploy the National Guard to halt the violence.TRUMP CLASHES WITH REPORTERS AFTER CHICAGO WAR MEME: THATS NOT WAR, THATS COMMON SENSEChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson rallied these protesters against the idea, framing it as an infringement on local sovereignty and invoking historical grievances. He shouted: "Are you prepared to defend this land that was built by slaves, a land that was built by Indigenous people?"As filmmaker Eli Steele observed in his post on X: "After the Labor Day carnage in Chicago, @ChicagoMayor chooses racial politics as his power. This is the problem: the power of race rewards only its exploiter and fails to solve real-world problems. We have lived with this systemic failure since the 1960s. How many deaths have resulted?"Steele's critique points to a deeper issue: the prioritization of racial narratives over pragmatic solutions. This selective outrage is not new. In the summer of 2020, Floyd's death by a White police officer sparked widespread activism, with millions marching under the banner that proclaimed "Black Lives Matter." Yet when violence claims Black lives at the hands of other Blacks, the silence is deafening.Data from the Chicago Police Department consistently show that over 80% of homicide victims and offenders in the city are Black. The difference in reaction, as Steele implies, stems from the racial dynamics at play: one scenario fits a narrative of systemic oppression by White authority, while the other does not.OUR LEADERS ABANDONED CHICAGO. TRUMP IS RIGHT: IT'S TIME TO CALL IN THE GUARDOne of the reasons I launched my Walk Across America was to fight this troubling alliance of Black elites and White liberals who have done nothing but leverage racial identities for political power. We have been doing this since the civil rights era of the 1960s.How much longer will we defer to the power of race over ideology?How many more dead bodies will we see?The only answer for us is to live in reality, to see things as they truly are.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONI do not like the idea of federal intervention in Chicago because I am a true small-government conservative. But when a mother of a dead child asks me, "When is all this killing going to stop?" I am tired of telling her it will happen one day.I am immensely proud of the work that my Project H.O.O.D. violence impact team has done on the streets in my South Side neighborhood, but I have long known that one death is too many.If it takes the intervention of an outside military force to come in and, most importantly, arrest the criminals, then so be it. The far worse option is listening to Mayor Johnson, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the protesters on the street whose continued inaction in favor of racial gamesmanship will only lead to more deaths.We cant afford the greed of Black political elites or the delusions of White-guilt liberals any longer. Chicago residents, from Little Village to Bronzeville, deserve solutions grounded in facts and reality, not rhetoric.Lock up the criminals and only then will the city be able to move beyond weekends of tragedy toward a safer future for all.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM PASTOR COREY BROOKS

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Over 1,000 Hollywood stars, directors and other film workers, including Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo, have signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions, according to the advocacy group Film Workers for Palestine."Inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid who refused to screen their films in apartheid South Africa, we pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people," the pledge said.Peter Sarsgaard, Lily Gladstone, Olivia Colman, Susan Sarandon and Tilda Swinton are among the actors who have signed the pledge, according to Film Workers for Palestine.Producers James Wilson, Robyn Slovo and Tracey Seaward also signed.JAVIER BARDEM TELLS THE VIEW HE BELIEVES ISRAEL IS COMMITTING 'GENOCIDE' IN GAZA"We answer the call of Palestinian filmmakers, who have urged the international film industry to refuse silence, racism, and dehumanization, as well as to 'do everything humanly possible' to end complicity in their oppression," the pledge added.The Israeli Film and TV ProducersAssociation responded in a statement to Deadline, saying, "The signatories of this petition are targeting the wrong people.""For decades, we Israeli artists, storytellers, and creators have been the primary voices allowing audiences to hear and witness the complexity of the conflict, including Palestinian narratives and criticism of Israeli state policies," the group said.The association said it works with Palestinian creators to promote peace and that the call for a boycott is "profoundly misguided."MARK RUFFALO SLAMS JOE ROGAN AS 'A LITTLE LATE' AFTER PODCAST HOST CALLS TRUMP ICE RAIDS 'INSANE'Ruffalo, who backed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and is a progressive activist, also joined a "No Kings" protest in June where he spoke out against billionaires.At the protest, Ruffalo criticized President Donald Trumps immigration policies, saying the immigrants his administration targeted were "good people," while wealthy Americans and "White people" were the ones committing crimes."We get to see who is really making our lives unbearable and making us so desperate. Its not the immigrants, its the billionaires," he said in an interview with activist group New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC).CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREFox News' Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded that the United States respond to a "brutally savage" Russian strike that he said left more than 20 people dead."Directly on people. Ordinary civilians. At the very moment when pensions were being disbursed," Zelenskyy said of the attack in a post on X.The strike hit the rural town of Yarova in the Donetsk region. While Russia has denied targeting civilians, tens of thousands have been killed since Moscows February 2022 invasion, Reuters reported.RUSSIA LAUNCHES BARRAGE OF DRONE STRIKES ON UKRAINE, RESULTING IN FOUR CIVILIAN DEATHS"The Russians continue destroying lives while avoiding new strong sanctions and new strong blows," Zelenskyy added. "The world must not remain silent. The world must not remain idle... Strong actions are needed to make Russia stop bringing death."Donetsk Gov. Vadym Filashkin said the strike was not a "military operation," but rather that it was "pure terrorism," according to the Kyiv Independent, which cited his Telegram channel.Zelenskyy specifically called out the U.S., Europe and the G20 in his post on X following the strike, which included a graphic video of the carnage.Notably, Zelenskyy did not name NATO. His demand for action from Europe and the G20 comes as NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte travels to the United Kingdom, where he will attend a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, according to NATO.RUSSIA LAUNCHES LARGEST ATTACK ON UKRAINE THIS MONTH FOLLOWING TRUMP'S MEETINGS WITH PUTIN, ZELENSKYYThe White House has yet to respond to the strike or Zelenskyys demand. However, the Trump administration has made ending the brutal Russia-Ukraine war a priority, with President Donald Trump meeting with both Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.Last month, Trump and Putin met face-to-face in the first meeting between the Russian leader and a U.S. president since 2021. After the high-stakes meeting, Trump and Putin seemed confident that they had made progress toward peace despite not reaching the ceasefire deal that many had hoped for.ZELENSKYY ACCUSES TRUMP OF GIVING PUTIN 'WHAT HE WANTED' AT ALASKA SUMMITZelenskyy seemed less convinced, and he recently accused Trump of giving Putin "what he wanted" at the Alaska summit."It's a pity that Ukraine was not there, because I think President Trump gave Putin what he wanted," Zelenskyy told ABCs Martha Raddatz on Sept. 7.Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and NATO but did not receive immediate responses.

EXCLUSIVE: A top aide and confidante to former Obama official Lois Lerner who targeted conservatives and conservative groups was fired by the Internal Revenue Service, Fox News Digital has learned.Sources told Fox News Digital that Holly Paz, who served as the IRS Commissioner of Large Business and International Division, was terminated Monday.KEY AIDE IN IRS' TEA PARTY TARGETING CONTROVERSY PUT ON LEAVE AFTER ALLEGATIONS OF NEW ANTI-GOP EFFORTPaz was placed on administrative leave last month and was subsequently fired following an internal review, sources say.Paz had served as Lerners deputy during the Obama administration.In 2013, it was revealed that the IRS, under Lerner, had wrongfully scrutinized tax-exempt applications related to the phrases "Tea Party," "9/12" and "Constitution." The Treasurys inspector general later confirmed "inappropriate criteria" were used to target conservative groups and criticized ineffective oversight of systemic bias.The IRS reportedly spent more than two years targeting conservative tax-exempt groups.Paz reviewed and helped oversee the handling of tax-exempt applications, and has been described as a key link between the Cincinnati, Ohio IRS office where the screenings of applications took place and the IRS headquarters.FLASHBACK: HOLLY PAZ AND LOIS LERNER WANT IRS TESTIMONY SEALED FOREVER, FEARING DEATH THREATSHer dismissal followed scrutiny from lawmakers over a subordinate work unit aimed at auditing pass-through businesses that Biden-era Commissioner Danny Werfel had created and assigned her to lead.Werfel called the new work unit a big step in "ensur[ing] the IRS holds the nations wealthiest filers accountable," andPaz called itan "important change" in the IRS structure.The Trump administration, after years of litigation, in 2017, settled lawsuits with Tea Party and other conservative groups who say they were unfairly targeted by the IRS under the Obama administration.TRUMP SCORES MAJOR WIN AS SENATE INSTALLS IRS CRITIC TO LEAD THE AGENCYLerner and Paz, at the time, asked the federal courts to keep their testimonies in the Tea Party targeting case private forever, over fear of death threats.The targeting scandal drew heavy attention in 2013 after the IRS admitted it applied extra scrutiny to conservative groups applying for nonprofit status. Lerner became the public face of the scandal, though many other IRS officials, like Paz, were also involved.In a 2017 settlement, the IRS offered an apology, saying the agency "admits that its treatment of Plaintiffs during the tax-exempt determination process, including screening their applications based on their names or policy positions, subjecting those applications to heightened scrutiny and inordinate delays, and demanding some Plaintiffs information that TIGTA determined was unnecessary to the agencys determination of their tax-exempt status, was wrong."FLASHBACK: MCCONNELL, BRAUN TO ROLL OUT BILL TO PREVENT DEMOCRATS FROM 'WEAPONIZING' IRS TO TARGET CONSERVATIVES"For such treatment, the IRS expresses its sincere apology," the IRS said at the time.While the Treasury Department did not comment on the move to fire Paz, it represents the latest step in Secretary Scott Bessents efforts to "de-weaponize" the IRS in his role as acting commissioner.Fox News Digital has learned that Bessent has been working closely with Hunter Biden whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, and has met several times with IRS leadership.Sources told Fox News Digital that Bessent and IRS officials are working to improve customer service and outcomes for American taxpayers. They are also working to streamline technical improvements, and cut back on bloated hiring from the Biden administration.Fox News Digital's Charles Creitz contributed to this report.

Over the span of his career, Leonardo DiCaprio has never been one to lose momentum. Now, when it comes to picking and choosing projects, the Oscar-winning actor, 50, seems to have shifted his perspective."Im slowing down a bit," DiCaprio told People of what his next "chapter" looks like during the Hollywood premiere of his new movie, "One Battle After Another.""When these opportunities come up, I mean, I cant say no," he said of working with writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson on the upcoming comedy.LEONARDO DICAPRIO ADMITS DEEP REGRET OVER PASSING ON MAJOR HOLLYWOOD MOVIE"I think anytime wouldve been the right time, to be honest," he continued. "Ever since I met Paul early on and I saw Boogie Nights, Ive been an obsessive fan of his work, watched all his movies. His films ruminate in my mind and they're conversation pieces with my friends, they last.""Awards can come and go," he added. "Accolades, box office can come and go, but those pieces of art, that you still talk about and still think about and still question. Those are the films that we strive for as an actor. And Paul is the dude of our generation that does them."LIKE WHAT YOURE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTEREarlier this year, in a candid sit-down with Anderson for Esquire, he was asked, "If you didnt know how old you are, how old are you right now?"Without missing a beat, DiCaprio replied, "32."When Anderson asked DiCaprio if turning 50 sparked a moment of reflection, he said the milestone left him with "a desire to just be more honest and not waste your time.""I can only imagine how the next few decades are going to progress. I look at my mother, for example, and she just says exactly what she thinks and wastes no time. She spends no time trying to fake it.""Being more upfront and risking having things fall apart or risk the disagreements or risk going your separate ways from any type of relationship in lifethe personal, professionalits that you just dont want to waste your time anymore," DiCaprio emphasized."You have to just be much more upfront. Its almost a responsibility, because much more of your life is behind you than it is ahead of you."Fox News Digital's Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this report.

FIRST ON FOX: A little-known consulting firm is quietly steering the policies and messaging of dozens of progressive prosecutors nationwide, according to a searing report exclusively obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital.The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF), a pro-police nonprofit based out of Virginia, is publishing a report Tuesday alleging that a liberal group focused on criminal justice reform called the Wren Collective has helped guide and shape the offices of at least 40 progressive prosecutors across 22 states on their "policies, public communications, and legal decisions," according to the report exclusively obtained by Fox Digital titled, "Outsourcing Justice."The report outlines the influence both direct and indirect that the Wren Collective has allegedly had in both the campaigns and subsequent policy priorities for certain district attorneys, including at least 40, whom the report alleges held cozy relationships with the group, such as joining weekly meetings to talk communication strategy, heeding advice on specific policy issues or even signing a non-disclosure agreement over a DAs professional relationship with the group.The Wren Collective is a for-profit organization founded in 2020 by Jessica Brand, a Texas-based attorney who serves as the groups executive director. Its aim is to "replace ineffective and often disingenuous solutions to crime and safety with solutions that support victims," according to the website, and is bolstered by a team of policy and legal experts who "design, promote, and defend policies and practices grounded in evidence and compassion."EPA URGED TO AXE FUNDS FOR RADICAL CLIMATE PROJECT ACCUSED OF TRAINING JUDGES, STATE AGS RALLYBut the report in question alleges a certain level of influence exerted by the group that goes beyond its stated priorities.Among other things, the report accuses the group of engaging in an "influence-peddling operation," in part by increasing the access and engagement that certain donors or "well-connected" activists had with the district attorneys offices in question, arguing that it "demonstrates that these elected prosecutors actions are shaped not by their own ideas or by those of voters and local stakeholders," but are instead pursued "at the behest" of a certain few.The LELDF report found that since 2015, there have been roughly 100 progressive district attorneys elected to office across the country, with Wren Collective staffers allegedly "embedded" in at least 40 of the offices, based on documents researchers compiled via Freedom of Information Act requests and other public documents showing a cozy relationship between the group and liberal prosecutors.The report identified "hatchlings" of the Wren Collective which LELDF defined as left-wing DAs tied to the consultancy group such as former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, former Los Angeles DA George Gascon, and Travis County, Texas, DA Jose Garza.TOP ENERGY GROUP CALLS FOR PROBE INTO SECRETIVE 'NATIONAL LAWFARE CAMPAIGN' TO INFLUENCE JUDGES ON CLIMATE"Based on public information requests (totaling over 50,000 pages of emails and text messages), campaign finance filings, and tax documents, this study demonstrates [how] a handful of left-wing social justice organizations, with significant ties to campaign donors, hold immense influence over these prosecutors through The Wren Collectives consulting service," the report alleges.The report pointed to one email exchange in particular that "explains it all," and shows the alleged cozy ties between the group and the services it can provide to prosecutors.An email sent in June 2020 by a Wren Collective attorney to Multnomah County (Portland) DA-elect Mike Schmidt and his policy advisor included two justice-related model policies on how to abolish bail and reduce jail populations that the group "wrote for Virginia commonwealth attorneys," as well as a lengthy list of examples of how the group could help the incoming DA.SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WARNS KAREN READ SUPPORTERS' BEHAVIOR IS 'ANTITHESIS OF JUSTICE'"In addition to assistance with staffing issues, office organization, and communications support during policy roll-out and in times of crisis, we have written and could help with policies in the following areas:1. Bail2. Diversion/Declination3. Intake4. Probation5. Plea guidelines6. Fines and Fees7. Prosecutions related to policing8. Brady (related to officer misconduct) and "do not call" or exclusion lists9. Conviction integrity or sentencing review units10. Juvenile transfer11. Felony and Misdemeanor case backlog"The email continued, according to the report, highlighting that the Wren Collective assists DAs in such matters "without any billing or publicity" while adding "these policies will be yours, not ours."All in, the report includes documents from 23 open records requests, out of a total of 65 requests made, alongside publicly available documents and previous FOIA documents to "cross-reference names and communications to build out a list of 40 progressive prosecutors who themselves or their staff communicated regularly, and substantively directly with The Wren Collective or Jessica Brand on policy, communications, and legal strategy."Brand defended the Wren Collectives work in an emailed comment to Fox News on Monday when asked about the report, while critiquing LELDF for publishing the report.LEFT-WING ADVOCACY GROUPS IN THE HOT SEAT AS ANTI-ICE RIOTS TRIGGER INVESTIGATION: 'NOT PROTECTED SPEECH'"Wren has spent five years proudly working with prosecutors and law enforcement on policies that reduce crime and improve community safety. I have not seen the report, but Wrens work is no secret and they could have just gone to our website, which makes clear what we do. Our team is also regularly quoted in major media outlets about our work. It is strange that, when there are major mental health challenges in law enforcement and a recruitment crisis, this organization wants to focus on Wren and what LEDLF surely knows is common practice among conservative and progressive organizations alike who work with these offices rather than how to help officers," she said.On crisis communications, the Wren Collective allegedly helped shape former Loudon County, Virginia, Commonwealth Attorney Buta Biberajs handling of the high-profile sexual assault case on a female student in an Ashburn high school by a biological male student. The case became national news in 2021 when the girls father, Scott Smith, railed against the schools failure to protect his daughter during a school board meeting and was subsequently seen in viral footage dragged out of the meeting by law enforcement officials.A Circuit Court judge booted Biberaj from an appeal case stemming from Smiths arrest due to "concerns" over "impartiality" in September 2022, with the Wren Collective swooping in to assist Biberaj with communication strategy shortly after, documents included in the report allege."I hope youre doing okay," a Wren Collective staffer wrote in an email on Sept. 19, 2022, and addressed directly to Biberaj, the LELDF report found. "We saw the news around the Scott Smith case and were wondering if you would like some communication support? Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help you at this time."Biberaj agreed, according to the report, and set up a time to talk with the group. The prosecutor, whose campaign was backed by a PAC funded by liberal donor George Soros, lost her 2023 re-election effort to Republican Bob Anderson.LOS ANGELES DA DELIVERS SCATHING WARNING TO VIOLENT PROTESTERS CAUSING HAVOC: 'WE'RE COMING FOR YOU'In another jurisdiction, the LELDF report found that Travis County, Texas, District Attorney Jose Garzas office entered a non-disclosure agreement with the Wren Collectives Jessica Brand in 2022, according to a copy of the document reviewed by Fox Digital and included in the report.Garza is another Soros-backed DA who has repeatedly come under fire from conservatives and police officers for alleged soft on crime policies, including an alleged "war on cops" that hit a fever pitch last year when an Austin officer was sentenced to two years in prison after fatally shooting a man wielding a knife in 2019."This document is executed between the Wren Collective and the Travis County District Attorneys Office. The Wren Collective, an organization fiscally sponsored by the Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), contracts with the Travis County District Attorneys Office to provide policy and communications support for the office for a one year period," reads the document, which was signed by Brand and one of Garzas deputies."Any information or materials involved in the professional engagement between these parties is confidential, and may not be disclosed by Wren to any third party without the offices permission. Wren agrees to keep all materials provided by the office secure. Wren also acknowledges that, as a consultant of the office, it is governed by the same ethical and professional responsibility rules as is the office," the NDA continued.Later that year, Brand reportedly led Garzas preparation for a CNN interview, according to email records reported in the report.'FAILED EXPERIMENT': EXPERTS REVEAL WHY SOROS-BACKED POLICIES TOOK BEATING IN DEEP BLUE STATEThe Wren Collective has also taken a role in the campaigns of certain progressive prosecutors and their allied political action committees, which are often tasked with fundraising and reaching out to donors to solicit, either directly or indirectly, large campaign contributions on behalf of certain campaigns.The report alleges that the group also serves as a campaign consultant for the prosecutors and their allied PACs, including helping provide candidates with "public and media communications," such as press releases, op-eds, and interviews.Fox News Digital reached out to Garzas office, as well as contacted Biberaj, Schmidt and Boudin in their post-DA roles.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe report concluded that many of the newly minted DAs enter their roles green and are in need of guidance when Wren staffers lend their expertise but the advice is more than just broad suggestions. "Those neophytes who have never been prosecutors or run an organization before winning their races turn to outside groups for guidance, including many of the same groups that funded their campaigns," the report found.Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.