Tensions are mounting over trans athletes in girls' sports in Illinois, as the state continues to allow males to compete against and beat out females in sports across the state.A youth track meet became the focus of national controversy after a biological male competed in the seventh-grade competition against girls at the Naper Prairie Conference Meet last Wednesday. The incident prompted a series of heated debates, which went viral on social media, at the Naperville 203 Community School District Board meeting on Monday.Now, Illinoisans are speaking out, calling for President Donald Trump to crack down on the state and Gov. J.B. Pritzker to protect girls' sports.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMRep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., has addressed a second letter to the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice asking for federal intervention into the issue. Miller previously sent a letter earlier in May and is now doubling-down on her pleas for the Trump administration to step in.Miller's latest letter asks U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to specifically look into the Naperville incident and consider pulling federal funding from the state, as seen in a copy obtained by Fox News Digital."The Illinois Governor has made our beautiful state unfair and unsafe for women and girls by allowing men to compete in their sports and to use their showers and locker rooms. It is my strong opinion that any school district that allows these actions to continue should have its federal funds reviewed immediately for revocation," Miller wrote. "Ultimately, it is my understanding that violations of Title IX may have taken place at this track and field meet, and I write to bring this grave incident to your attention."Illinois GOP state Rep. Blaine Wilhour is also calling for a federal investigation and potential consequences in the wake of the Naperville incident."President Trump should freeze every penny of federal dollars until these schools come to their senses and do right by these kids," Wilhour told Fox News Digital. "Either you believe in fairness, biological reality and common sense, or you dont. This is not fair competition and Naperville 203 is engaged in what I consider abusive and illegal practices in violation of title 9. Wake up people, these are Jr. High kids being exploited and used as political pawns, and its disgusting."TEEN GIRLS OPEN UP ON TRANS ATHLETE SCANDAL THAT TURNED THEIR HIGH SCHOOL INTO A CULTURE WAR BATTLEGROUNDWilhour was previously a leader in putting pressure on the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) to comply with Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order that was signed on Feb. 5. However, the state's Democrat leaders ensured the IHSA defied Trump on the issue.In a public letter to Wilhour and other state GOP lawmakers, the IHSA said Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the Illinois Department of Human Rights have declared that state law requires that transgender athletes be allowed to participate based on gender identity.So girls around the state and their families have had to continue sharing teams and locker rooms with biological males, as they have since 2006.Even Chicago Bears legend Brian Urlacher has spoken out on the issue while his home state is ravaged by controversy."It's just different because we are men, there are certain things we do better than women, and it's just, number one, it's not fair, and if I had a daughter who had to be forced to play against a man, I would not be okay with it and I would raise hell about it," Urlacher said during an interview on the "Global View" podcast on May 9. "I just don't get it, it's a common sense thing, I just don't see how you can push this and make someone thing they're a different sex."Currently, there is one federal Title IX probe in Illinois regarding transgenders impeding on female spaces, but it is only against one school.Deerfield Public Schools District 109 is facing a probe by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights after middle school girls were allegedly forced by school administrators to change in front of a trans student in the girls' locker room.Illinois mother Nicole Georgas brought light to the situation in March after filing a complaint to the Justice Department and then delivering a school board meeting speech that went viral on social media.Now, Georgas is looking for more action to be taken as the issue continues to plague girls' sports in Illinois and hopes the recent Naperville incident will be a turning point. She is pleading for the president's administration to bring more pressure to Illinois on the issue."The tides are going to turn after this. We as the parents have had enough," Georgas told Fox News Digital. "We are at the forefront, we are in the crosshairs and we need help. We need help right now. In our state nothing has changed from March, and it's getting worse!"They're using these kids to just almost test President Trump because they know they're not doing anything. They've forgotten about Illinois. They've forgotten about us."Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X, and subscribe tothe Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

Conor Daly will roll off pit road at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Indianapolis 500 with the obvious goal in mind win the race and cement himself in racing lore for the rest of time.A victory will do more than just make him a part of Indy 500 history forever; he will become a folk hero for his native Indiana, which is itching to see a lengthy drought end.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMIt has been 85 years since an Indiana-born race car driver won the illustrious race. Daly will be driving the No. 76 ampm-sponsored Chevrolet with Wilbur Shaw on his mind, almost literally. Shaw won three Indy 500 races, but no one from Indiana has won it since 1940.He will be wearing a helmet that honors the legendary driver on Sunday."Its crazy, 85 years since the last Indy 500 winner from Indiana. That just seems wrong. It just seems sad. So weve got to change that," Daly, who was born in Noblesville, told Fox News Digital. "It was just a cool idea that I came up with my helmet painter."I try to come up with something unique every year for the Indy 500 helmet because its just a special event, and we put a couple old picture of his car from back in the day 1940 was the last winner, which is crazy. Put the 1940 ticket on top of the helmet as well with a couple of little small details."Daly qualified 11th for the race and is set to start in between Scott McLaughlin and Alexander Rossi, who have both won the race in the past.He touted how fast the car has been for him. His average speed during qualifying was around 231 mph.INDYCAR DRIVER CONOR DALY GOES RACING WITH AMPM FOR THE INDY 500"I feel really good," he said. "This is one of the best cars Ive had in my IndyCar career here, and I know thats a bold statement to say, but its truly been a pleasure to drive all week. Ive equaled my best starting position with 11th. Were right alongside the pole-sitter from last year, Scott McLaughlin. Were in the fight. This car is just flat out fast and thats really, really special."He called driving at such a high rate of speed "truly crazy.""I dont know why you wouldnt watch what were doing here because it truly is crazy," he explained. "Were at that level where cars are flying through the air, crashing at a high level, because we are putting these things on the absolute ragged edge of control and thats what it takes to win the biggest race out there."Its the biggest race that there is across motorsports. Some people like to argue that but physically, if you ask any racing drivers who have been around the sport for a long time, the Indy 500, thats the big one. Its crazy and what were doing out there is wild."Daly said winning the Indy 500 would be a realization of all the hard work he has put in throughout his entire career."Its why I wake up every morning," the Juncos Hollinger Racing driver told Fox News Digital.Most importantly, he already has the milk picked out that he will chug should he be able to."Ive gone whole milk the last few years, but I havent won yet," he said. "So, I decided to switch it up. Were gonna go 2% because why not? Lets pick something different and maybe thatll get us the win."TheIndy500 will be broadcast May 25 on FOX with coverage starting at 10 a.m. ET. It will also be available tostream live on FOXSports.comand the FOX Sports app.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

Former FBI Director James Comey explained what led to his controversial "86 47" Instagram post directed at President Donald Trump during an appearance on "The Late Show" Tuesday night.Comey claimed that he and his wife, Patrice, saw the "clever political message" while walking on the beach when his wife suggested that he take a picture of the shells and post it online.The ex-FBI director posted an Instagram photo of seashells arranged to show the numbers "86 47," a message White House officials swiftly condemned as an attempt to put out a "hit" against the 47th president.Comey told host Stephen Colbert that his wife initially questioned why someone would "put their address in the sand," before coming up with a second theory behind the message.TRUMP INSISTS HE 'WON'T GET INVOLVED' AS PATEL, BONDI INVESTIGATE COMEYComey later deleted the post after online backlash from government officials, lawmakers and Trumps son. Trump has faced two assassination attempts in the past year, one of which resulted in him being wounded and a bystander being killed."We stood at it, looked at it, trying to figure out what it was, and she [Patrice Comey] had long been a server in restaurants and she said, You know what I think it is? I think its a reference to restaurants when you would 86 something in a restaurant," Comey claimed.Comey, on the other hand, had a different idea of what the number "86" could signify initially."I said, No, I remember when I was a kid, you would say 86 to get out of a place. This place stinks lets 86 it," he explained.Having worked as a bartender, Colbert added that "86" could stand for serving a drunk patron "low-proof alcohol."FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY MEETS WITH SECRET SERVICE AFTER CONTROVERSIAL '86 47' POST"So I said, I think its a clever political message," Comey continued. "She said, You should take a picture of it. I said, Sure. And then she said, You should Instagram that. And boom."Colbert noted that Trump didn't find the shell display to be "clever" and that the president said even "a child" knows what the shell message represented, a call for him to be assassinated. Comey was questioned by the Secret Service about the incident."All they did was act like pros, and they are pros, just said, What did you intend? What did you understand? Why did you do this? And I gave them the same explanation, which is the truth, and I would expect it to go away," Comey said.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREColbert congratulated Comey on making waves with his "viral campaign."

CNN's Jake Tapper told MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday that former President Joe Biden made a targeted effort to sell the MSNBC host on his re-election campaign during a conversation on "Morning Joe."Tapper described Biden to Scarborough as "a frequent viewer of the show," and then referenced a 2023 Washington Post column by David Ignatius, where the columnist wrote that the former president should not run for re-election. "And then [Ignatius] came on this show and you guys had a robust conversation about this," Tapper said, noting the MSNBC host agreed at the time that there were concerns about the former president running for re-election but also that there were no alternatives.Tapper and Alex Thompson, an Axios reporter, joined "Morning Joe" to discuss their new book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," which details the former president's decision to run again and the cover-up of his decline while in office."Joe Biden saw that. Joe Biden said to staffers that he wanted to convince you that you were wrong, and he focused on you like you were a constituency, like you were farmers in Iowa, like you were the Kiwanis Clubs in New Hampshire. And he made sure that you thought differently," Tapper told Scarborough.MSNBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH SAYS HE DID NOT SEE BIDEN MENTAL DECLINE IN WHITE HOUSE MEETINGSScarborough said he must have spoken to Biden on his "good days" as MSNBC's Willie Geist said that it was very possible Scarborough got to see the former president when he was well-rested and prepared."It was a campaign though, for Joe, it was a campaign. The Biden people wanted to make sure that Joe [Scarborough] saw Biden at his best," Tapper added.Tapper asked the MSNBC host what time of day he saw Biden, and Scarborough said it was a lunch meeting."There you go," Tapper responded. "Middle of the day."BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEWScarborough was confronted with a viral clip of himself deeming the former president the "best Biden ever" on Tuesday, and ultimately stood by his comments during a conversation with Mark Halperin on his show, "Next Up with Mark Halperin.""I've said it for years now, he's cogent. But I undersold it when I said he was cogent, he's far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been, intellectually, analytically, because he's been around for 50 years," Scarborough said during a March 2024 "Morning Joe" broadcast. "Start your tape right now because Im about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you cant handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever."CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREScarborough argued to Halperin, "He stumbled and bumbled around, Mark. I mean, yeah, he certainly did. Donald Trump did, other politicians did,and its actually the same case as a lot of times when Ive gone in and talked to Donald Trump.""Put into proper context, I'm just not going to freak out and melt down on one or two clips here and there," the "Morning Joe" host added. "And again he bumbled around, and he stumbled around, but he has for quite some time. That didn't seem to me to get in the way of Joe Biden being able to analyze the most important issues."

President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday with a video allegedly showing grave treatment of white farmers.Trump has claimed that White Afrikaner South African farmers are being slaughtered and forced off their land. The Afrikaners are descendants of mostly Dutch settlers who first arrived in South Africa in 1652.A portion of the footage aired at the White House showed white crosses lined up alongside both sides of a road."Now this is very bad. These are burial sites right here. Burial sites -- over a thousand -- of White farmers. And those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of those white things you see is a cross. And there is approximately a thousand of them," Trump said. "They're all White farmers. The family of White farmers. And those cars aren't, driving, they are stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed. And it's a terrible sight. I've never seen anything like it. On both sides of the road, you have crosses. Those people are all killed.""Have they told you where that is, Mr. President? I'd like to know where that is. Because this I've never seen," Ramaphosa then asked Trump."I mean, its in South Africa, thats where," Trump responded."We need to find out," Ramaphosa said. Earlier, Trump said "we had a lot of people, I must tell you, Mr. President, we have had a tremendous number of people, especially since they've seen this, generally they're White farmers and they're fleeing South Africa. And it's, you know, it's a very sad thing to see, but, I hope we can have an explanation of that, because I know you don't want that."Some 50 Afrikaners were flown to the U.S. as refugees last week. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said theres "more to come".South Africa, and its president, denies claims of genocide and harassment."I'm not going to be repeating what I've been saying. I would say if there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture. He would not be with me. So it will take him, President Trump listening to their stories, to their perspectives, that is the answer to your question," Ramaphosa said.At one point in the meeting, Trump was asked by a reporter "What would you like President Ramaphosa to do about the situation that we just seen on the screen?""I don't know. I don't know," Trump said."Look, these are articles over the last few days," Trump continued, holding up a stack of paper."Death of people. Death. Death. Horrible death," Trump said as he started flipping through the sheets."White South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws So when you say, what would I like to do? I don't know what to do," Trump said.

The Left tries to play their 'Get Out Of Jail Free' cards as more revelations come out about the Biden presidency.Plus, can California be redeemed after years of reckless policies? Steve Hilton joins Will Cain to discuss his run for CA Governor.

An adorable baby pudu at the Oakland Zoo has been given the name Quilla, after a moon goddess in Incan culture. See the little critter.

Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen says it is fair to ask who was really running the country over the past four years on 'America Reports.'

Robert Hopkins Jr., MD, medical director of NFID in Maryland, spoke to Fox News Digital about what Americans are doing wrong when it comes to handwashing.

President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa hold a meeting at the White House.