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Inside Trump’s expletive-laden call with Netanyahu: ‘All the Jews are sick of you’

6:32 PM EDT, Wed June 24, 2026 / CNN Politics

Inside Trump’s expletive-laden call with Netanyahu: ‘All the Jews are sick of you’

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US homebuilders advance after Congress passes affordable housing bill

2026-06-24 18:47:45 UTC / Reuters

By Anshuman Tripathy and Purvi Agarwal

June 24, 2026 6:47 PM UTC Updated 41 mins ago

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• Companies

• The PHLX Housing Index rose 5.4% and briefly hit its highest level since February 25
• D.R. Horton and Lennar each gained more than 6%
• Evercore ISI said the bill ​may matter more to homebuilders over the longer term

June 24 (Reuters) – Stocks of U.S. homebuilders rallied on Wednesday, a day after the House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at speeding the construction and availability of affordable housing.

The measure was passed by the Senate on Monday.

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The PHLX ​Housing Index (.HGX), opens new tab gained 5.4% to briefly hit its highest level since February ​25, just before the onset of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

The U.S. homebuilding ⁠sector has endured a prolonged sales slump, weighed down by years of underproduction, due ​to labor shortages and restrictive land zoning, that have driven prices higher, while macroeconomic pressures ​have continued to hinder buyers.

Analysts at Evercore ISI said the bill would not provide a major near-term boost to homebuilders, but could prove meaningful to them in the long term.

However, President Donald Trump on ​Wednesday canceled his plan to sign the bill.

“Trump isn’t saying he will veto. If ​he simply does nothing for 10 days, the housing bill will automatically become law even without his ‌signature,” ⁠said Evercore ISI’s policy analyst, Matthew Aks. The move drove up shares of D.R. Horton (DHI.N), opens new tab and Lennar (LEN.N), opens new tab — among the biggest U.S. homebuilders — more than 6% each. They are on track to mark their biggest one-day gain since early January. Meanwhile, PulteGroup (PHM.N), opens new tab was up just over 8%, ​headed for its ​sharpest intraday rise since ⁠July last year. Smaller rivals NVR (NVR.N), opens new tab and Toll Brothers (TOL.N), opens new tab advanced 5.6% and 6.7%, respectively.

TD Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg said the bill benefits build-to-rent single-family ​constructions as it “carves this out of the institutional ownership cap.”

Seiberg added ​that the ⁠bill sets the stage for more comprehensive legislation next year that could include subsidies to build low-cost homes, funds to renovate existing units and down payment assistance.

“We expect Trump to ⁠sign the ​21st Century ROAD to Housing Act into law ​in the relative near-term, given the perceived importance of housing affordability ahead of the mid-term elections,” UBS analyst ​John Lovallo said.

Reporting by Anshuman Tripathy and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Diti Pujara

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Rising socialist stars on track to Congress: Who are Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander and Claire Valdez?

2026-06-24T15:21:17-04:00 / Fox News

DSA members Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, and former member Brad Lander, all won their primary elections

By Peter D’Abrosca Fox News

Published June 24, 2026 3:21pm EDT

Far-left candidates win New York primaries, sparking Democrat Party ‘shockwaves’

Fox News’ Harris Faulkner reports on the ‘socialist sweep’ in New York, as far-left candidates secured key victories in Democratic Party primaries. These wins send ‘shockwaves’ through the Democrat establishment, highlighted by controversial figures backing policies like abolishing ICE and Medicare-for-all. Cassie Smedile and Meghan Hays provide their analysis during ‘The Faulkner Focus.’

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The Democratic Party has an identity crisis.

Three far-left radicals backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their primary elections Tuesday night in a clean sweep by socialist and socialist-adjacent candidates. The mayor’s preferred candidates destroyed those backed by the Democrat establishment and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), leaving party leadership shellshocked.

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members Darializa Avila Chevalier and State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, along with progressive Democrat and former DSA member Brad Lander, all have a clear path to Congress after winning in heavily blue districts.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives to take part in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City on June 14, 2026.(Adam Gray/Associated Press)

Here’s what we know about them:

‘PARTY OF ZOHRAN’: MAMDANI EMERGES AS DEMOCRATIC KINGMAKER AFTER SOCIALIST ALLIES SWEEP NYC PRIMARIES

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Avila Chevalier, 32, is originally from Florida. She attended Columbia University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the City University of New York (CUNY).

She spent much of her time in college organizing against the political right, and is a hardline anti-Israel actor. At the Ivy League school, she helped found a group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which later caused a firestorm when it posted “Death to America” in Farsi on X.

In 2024, the group faced widespread condemnation when it stated that it was “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” Columbia has distanced itself from the group.

Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier speaks during a Get Out the Vote rally at King’s Theater in New York City on June 18, 2026. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned alongside her and other candidates ahead of the Democratic primary and early voting.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

MAMDANI STANDS BY FELLOW SOCIALIST CANDIDATE DESPITE RESURFACED FAR-LEFT, ANTI-AMERICAN POSTS

Avila Chevalier identifies as “Afro Latina” and converted to Islam in recent years. Her parents emigrated from the Dominican Republic before she was born, and her nationality became a central focus of her primary battle in the largely Dominican 13th Congressional District, especially as she appeared to distance herself from her roots.

Tuesday night, she ousted five-term Democrat Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), a progressive in his own right, after running against him from his left.

Avila Chevalier deleted a rash of inflammatory far-left posts from her X account where she attacked other Democrats including former President Joe Biden, whom she called a “rapist” and a “war criminal,” Vice President Kamala Harris, whom she cursed out, and progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., whom she chastised for his “liberal Zionism.”

Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 13th Congressional District, speaks with a voter in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on June 14, 2026, in New York, N.Y.(Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST CANDIDATE STORMS OUT OF LIVE INTERVIEW WHEN CONFRONTED WITH OLD SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

Perhaps most egregiously, she has trashed the United States on multiple occasions — one time calling her home country “a f—ing disgrace.”

“I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” she said in yet another deleted post.

The soon-to-be congresswoman is also a rabid anti-borders activist, and has argued for completely abolishing police and prisons.

FAR-LEFT SURGE: MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATES OUST DEM ESTABLISHMENT INCUMBENTS

In a 2021 repost on X, then Twitter, she said that abolishing borders, prisons and police is “possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward,” and later amplified and echoed posts that claimed “all deportation is wrong” and to “literally abolish the border.”

In a debate against Espaillat last week, Avila Chevalier argued that illegal aliens shouldn’t be deported from the under any circumstances, even if they have committed violent crimes or served jail time. She bizarrely argued that deporting violent alien criminals constitutes “double jeopardy,” since Americans who commit the same crimes cannot be deported.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 13th Congressional District, speaks with voter Maria Rodriguez in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on June 14, 2026.(Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

She also waged a war on white women and even once blasted black and Arab men for “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.”

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAMDANI ALLY MOUNTS BID FOR US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez

Valdez currently represents New York’s State Assembly for the 37th District, a position she was elected to in 2024. She took office in 2025, and almost immediately launched her congressional bid to replace outgoing Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., who is retiring from Congress.

Valdez is from Lubbock, Texas, and moved to New York to pursue a career as an artist in 2015. She is part Native American and a citizen of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Nation.

She, like Avila Chevalier, was endorsed by Justice Democrats, a far-left group that rose to prominence for helping launch the political career of socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The group describes Valdez as a “proud Democratic Socialist.”

Congressional candidate Claire Valdez acknowledges supporters during her primary-night watch party at 99 Scott Studio in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, on June 23, 2026. Valdez won the 7th District race against Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso to succeed retiring Rep. Nydia Velazquez. She was one of three progressive candidates endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

SOCIALISTS CHEER ‘SHOCKWAVE’ PRIMARY NIGHT AS DSA-BACKED CANDIDATES WIN, ADVANCE ACROSS THE MAP

The endorsement brags that Valdez “worked low-wage customer service jobs through high school, college and after.” One of those jobs was as a worker at Columbia University, where she joined UAW Local 2110, which represents full and part-time secretarial and clerical employees. She was elected to the bargaining committee of the union.

Justice Democrats says that in her capacity as an assemblywoman, she “has fought to tax the rich, protect tenants, and empower working people.”

Valdez, too, has called Israel’s military action in Gaza a “genocide.”

“Two and a half years ago, Israeli leaders clearly stated their intent to carry out a genocide in Gaza,” she said in an X post on June 3. “And that’s exactly what they did. I was in the streets with so many New Yorkers protesting our complicity and to free Palestine.”

State Rep. Claire Valdez, a Democrat from New York and U.S. House candidate, arrives for a canvass launch ahead of the primary election in Brooklyn, New York, on June 22, 2026.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg)

She has called for the U.S. to withhold funding to Israel.

Valdez has also outwardly called for the abolishment of ICE, which she described as a “fascist agency” and accused them of “terrorizing” the community and “kidnapping” people.

“This fascist administration is kidnapping our neighbors from their immigration court check-ins,” she said in a 2025 post to X. “What is Albany waiting for? State leaders cannot ignore this emergency any longer. We cannot allow ONE MORE neighbor to be targeted.”

“We must pass NY4ALL and get ICE OUT OF NEW YORK.”

Former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander

Lander served as the chief financial officer for New York City from 2022 to 2025 as comptroller.

Before that, he represented Brooklyn’s 39th District on the New York City Council for 12 years, and founded the Progressive Caucus while on the council.

NY DEM WOULDN’T BACK MAMDANI FOR MAYOR — NOW MAMDANI IS BACKING HIS CHALLENGER

Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander speaks at an election eve rally in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on June 22, 2026.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Lander was a card-carrying DSA member until 2023, when he was turned off by the group’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israeli concertgoers that killed 1,200 people.

He defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., in a landslide on Tuesday night in New York’s 10th Congressional District.

Lander says his first priority in Congress will be to “vanquish Trump’s fascism” and abolish ICE, and accused billionaires of “rigging our economy.”

MAMDANI-BACKED ‘LIBERAL ZIONIST’ OUSTS DEM WHO LED TRUMP IMPEACHMENT IN BID TO TAKE NYC HOUSE SEAT

He has described himself as an “ally” to the black community, and in a 2022 candidate survey for the comptroller job shockingly accused himself of possible white supremacy.

Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander speaks at an election eve rally in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on June 22, 2026.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

“As a white man, that work starts by listening as honestly as I can to black people about the anger and pain they are feeling, and the system of white supremacy and systemic racism it reflects,” he said.

“That is not easy —because it implicates me, because the anger is so deep, and because what it would take to change it is so big. But it must be the starting point. From deep listening, action-oriented solutions and genuine commitments should follow.”

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In 2020, Lander called for police to suspend arresting criminals and demanded most inmates at Rikers be released. He also advocated for cutting NYPD’s budget by $1 billion in a letter to constituents, according to the New York Post.

“My commitment to working to defund the NYPD,” the letter reportedly said.

None of the primary winners responded to Fox News Digital’s comment requests.

Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.

US military requires flu vaccine for some after outbreak in Texas training center

June 24, 2026 6:29 PM UTC / Reuters

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a briefing on the Iran war, with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (not pictured), at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 5, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

June 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. military has resumed requiring flu vaccines for some service members in an exception to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s guidance declaring the shots voluntary two months ago.

The decision follows a flu outbreak among recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas and sharp criticism of the policy from public health experts. More than 220 recruits have been diagnosed with influenza and four hospitalized in the outbreak this month, according to media reports.

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Hegseth said in April that the annual flu vaccine would become optional for all U.S. military personnel under the Pentagon’s new vaccine policy. It had previously been mandated and considered critical to troop preparedness.

The Under Secretary for War Personnel and Readiness approved exception requests for the Army, Navy, Air Force, National Security Agency and Defense Health Agency, according to a statement from chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell on Wednesday.

“The decisions were based upon thorough risk assessments and are designed to maximize operational readiness, lethality, and force generation, while safeguarding at-risk populations,” Parnell said.

Each department is responsible for implementation, the spokesperson added.

The World Health Organization recommends the flu shot for those age 6 months and older.

Trump administration Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, has enacted policies that have decreased the use of inoculations in the U.S., including dropping its 2025 flu vaccine campaign. Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement has sought to weaken school enrollment mandates around the country.

Flu vaccines from Sanofi, CSL Seqirus, GSK and AstraZeneca are approved in the United States.

Reporting by Idrees Ali, Mariam Sunny and Mrinalika Roy; Editing by Caroline Humer and Bill Berkrot

Winners and losers emerge after socialist earthquake rocks NYC primaries

2026-06-24 14:57 EDT / Fox News

All three Mamdani-endorsed candidates defeated establishment opponents and are expected to win in November

By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News

Published June 24, 2026 2:57pm EDT | Updated June 24, 2026 2:59pm EDT

NYC SHOCK! Socialists WIN BIG in congressional elections

Stuart Varney discusses the socialist sweep in New York City’s congressional primaries.

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NEW YORK CITY – New York City’s primary night produced clear political winners and losers as Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s slate of socialist candidates swept establishment-backed Democrats.

WINNER: MAMDANI

Mamdani, sworn into office in January of this year, flexed his political might in the city after three congressional candidates that he endorsed in the primary, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, were all victorious on Tuesday night, and are expected to cruise to victory against their Republican opponents in November.

All three candidates ran on platforms broadly aligned with Mamdani’s socialist economic agenda, anti-Israel posture and opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while facing candidates backed by the establishment wing of the party.

FAR-LEFT SURGE: MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATES OUST DEM ESTABLISHMENT INCUMBENTS

Mamdani, AOC and socialism gain ground, while Schumer and Jeffries take a hit after NYC’s primaries.(Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images; Fox News Digital; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

“I think it was an incredible night,” Mamdani said about the results before pointing to his own primary victory that shook the political landscape last June. “It is an incredible night and I think New Yorkers have shown that last June was not the end, it was the beginning.”

LOSER: INCUMBENT DEMOCRATS

Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y.,the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who has served in the House of Representatives since 2017, was defeated by Mamdani-backed socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier on Tuesday night in the Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District.

Avila Chevalier, who has called America a “f—— disgrace,” supported the abolition of prisons and borders and said Israel “doesn’t exist,” was victorious despite a variety of controversies, most recently after claiming that criminal illegal immigrants should not be deported regardless of their crime.

Another established Democrat in Congress, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.,was handily defeated by Mamdani-backed Lander after having served in Congress since 2022.

Goldman, one of the most recognizable anti-Trump Democrats in Congress, and who was once viewed as a rising star in the party, lost his race to Lander. It was a race that became increasingly focused on Israel as Lander attacked Goldman for voting for U.S. military aid to Israel and slammed him for refusing to call the war in Gaza a genocide.

MAMDANI-BACKED ‘LIBERAL ZIONIST’ OUSTS DEM WHO LED TRUMP IMPEACHMENT IN BID TO TAKE NYC HOUSE SEAT

Brad Lander, candidate for New York’s 10th Congressional District, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attend a watch party after winning the primary elections in Brooklyn, New York, on June 23, 2026.(Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

Meanwhile, Goldman defended his support for Israel’s existence as a Jewish state and argued that voters in the district were more focused on domestic issues.

“As history has taught us: Antisemitic tropes and stereotypes, some of which I heard personally on this campaign, will ultimately be the undoing of our democracy if we all don’t lean in and speak out, even if it’s not politically expedient,” Goldman said in his concession speech, a day after a Brooklyn coffee shop banned him over his pro-Israel views.

WINNER: NEW YORK CITY DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA

At least a dozen candidates endorsed by NYC-DSA across the state of New York were victorious on Tuesday night, signaling the embrace of Mamdani’s socialist policies and the reach of his influence in the party.

Avila Chevalier and Valdez were both endorsed by DSA, a group that promotes defunding the police, abolishing ICE, abolishing prisons, government-controlled housing and healthcare, and accusing Israel of genocide.

In October, Fox News Digital reported that DSA was primed to play a significant role in the Mamdani administration and last summer DSA members discussed in a panel how they were closely collaborating with Mamdani and positioning the organization to “seize state power.”

LOSER: DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP

Perhaps the most common response on social media to Tuesday night’s results was that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are in trouble going forward if they want to keep power.

“The Democrat party has officially become the party of Zohran, AOC, & Bernie,” Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, who represents New York’s 17th Congressional District, posted on X on Tuesday night.

“No, I think the future of the Democratic Party is going to fall, as far as we’re concerned, relative to the House Democratic Caucus and members who are doing great work all across the country,” Jeffries said in November as Mamdani was set to become the next mayor of New York City.

Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe posted on X, “Hardest hit in tonight’s NY primaries: Chuck Schumer. I’d be shocked if he seeks re-election in 2028.”

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as Democrats criticize a DHS funding proposal.(Mariam Zuhaib/AP Photo)

Fox News Digital reached out to Jeffries’s and Schumer’s offices for comment.

“You’re next,” socialist supporters at Valdez’s election night party were seen shouting at the television to Jeffries on Tuesday night.

Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, argued that the outcomes reflected broader ideological and demographic shifts within New York City, warning that the city had become a “post-American city” and predicting similar changes nationwide.

“The radicalism of these soon-to-be Congressmen is going to be a headache for Democrat leadership in the House and a gift to the GOP,” Carl wrote.

“The future of the Democrat party is radical and post-American in it’s (sic) orientation.Since all of these candidates are in the world’s media capital, they are going to get tons of attention,” Carl continued. “That isn’t going to play well for the Dems in 2026 and 2028.”

Fox News Digital’s Elaine Mallon and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.

Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.

Lawyers for Indian billionaire Adani urge US judge to dismiss criminal case

2026-06-24 18:24:31 UTC / Reuters

By Luc Cohen

June 24, 2026 6:24 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani attends the 51st Gems and Jewellery Awards in Jaipur, India, November 30, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

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• Justice Department said in May it would no longer pursue the prosecution
• Judge’s approval required to formally drop the charges
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NEW YORK, June 24 (Reuters) – Lawyers for Gautam Adani on Wednesday urged a U.S. judge to formally dismiss criminal charges against the Indian billionaire, after the Justice Department said ​last month it would no longer pursue the prosecution.

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• Adani was charged ​in 2024 with agreeing to bribe Indian government ⁠officials so a subsidiary of his Adani Group could win ​approval to develop a solar plant, and then misleading U.S. ​investors by providing reassuring information about his company’s anti-corruption practices.
• In a letter to Brooklyn-based U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, Adani’s lawyer, Robert Giuffra, wrote that ​the case should be dismissed because it was beyond ​the reach of U.S. law and because the prosecutors would not be ‌able ⁠to prove the alleged bribery in India.
• Adani Group has consistently denied wrongdoing.
• Garaufis must sign off on the dismissal of the case.
• Giuffra wrote that the Justice Department’s decision to drop the indictment ​came after “months ​of detailed and ⁠extensive communications and meetings with counsel” for Adani and his co-defendants.
• Giuffra also urged Garaufis to ​formally dismiss civil charges brought by the U.S. ​Securities ⁠and Exchange Commission after the regulator reached a settlement in which Adani would pay $6 million and his nephew, Sagar Adani, would ⁠pay $12 ​million.
• Adani Enterprises Limited (ADEL.NS) has separately agreed ​to pay the U.S. Treasury Department $275 million to settle alleged violations of Iran ​sanctions.

Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Matthew Lewis

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Trump puts asylum lawyers ‘on notice’ with new front in war on fraud

June 24, 2026 12:26pm EDT / Fox News

Attorney Vinod Doddamani allegedly filed declarations that were identical in language for primarily Indian nationals

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has opened up a new front in the Trump administration’s war on fraud through a first-of-its-kind policy fining attorneys for filing fraudulent asylum claims on behalf of immigrants.

James Percival, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, posted on X that the move puts fraudsters “on notice.”

“Last month, we put the open borders industrial complex on notice — fraudulent asylum claims would result in fines against attorneys,” wrote Percival.

He said that on Tuesday, DHS fined an attorney over $255,000 for filing multiple fraudulent claims on behalf of Indian immigrants to the U.S.

ICE DROPS ‘UNCONTROLLED’ FRAUD BOMBSHELL INVOLVING THOUSANDS OF FOREIGN STUDENTS, ‘PHANTOM EMPLOYEES’

A U.S. Border Patrol agent leads a line of women to a van as they wait to apply for asylum between two border walls in San Diego on May 11, 2023.(Gregory Bull/Associated Press)

ICE doubled down, posting on X that “the days of attorneys abusing and defrauding our immigration system are OVER.”

In a statement shared with Fox News Digital, DHS said Homeland Security Investigations filed five notices of intent to fine attorney Vinod Doddamani for allegedly filing 64 fraudulent documents on behalf of primarily Indian nationals.

FILE – Special agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) responded to the interdiction and initiated a criminal investigation.(Charly Triballeau/AFP)

DHS said that Doddamani operates a nationwide practice of filing asylum applications on behalf of mostly Indian immigrants in immigration courts. In support of these asylum claims, DHS said Doddamani filed declarations that were identical or nearly identical in language and substance. The agency said the declarations contained the same or nearly the same factual narrative and supporting details regarding the alleged persecution.

In a call with Fox News Digital, Doddomani denied any wrongdoing and claimed that the DHS has the wrong suspect. Instead, Doddomani blamed “a rogue employee” and his “office manager” for the filings in question. He said that, “in a certain sense, I really feel discriminated by this country for at least the last 25 years.”

WOMAN EXPOSED RUNNING VISA FRAUD SCHEME SPANNING YEARS, POSING AS IMMIGRATION OFFICER

Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival.(DHS official portrait)

The agency said the fines are in line with a directive Percival issued last month authorizing ICE attorneys to take enforcement actions against immigration attorneys who file false asylum claims in court.

At the time, Percival explained that “protection claims like asylum are intended to cover unique and narrow circumstances, but it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.”

“Now, thanks to this directive, ICE attorneys have greater authority to enforce the law and stop the abuse of our asylum system by illegal aliens and attorneys,” said Percival.

In the statement shared by DHS, Percival said that “fraudulent asylum claims threaten the safety of Americans by overwhelming our burdened immigration system and delaying the removal of dangerous criminal aliens.”

CBP TOUTS HISTORIC MILESTONE, PUSHES FOR EVEN LARGER WORKFORCE: ‘WE AREN’T STOPPING HERE’

A montage of massive lines of migrants, many of whom claimed asylum, at the U.S. southern border.(Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

“For too long,” he continued, “immigration attorneys have not been held to the same ethical standard as other attorneys.”

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Percival said that “under President Trump, this will no longer be tolerated.”

“ICE is seeking a fine of more than $250,000 from attorney Vinod Doddamani. By holding him accountable, we are sending a message to other immigration attorneys who engage in fraud across the country: your days of abusing and defrauding our immigration system are over.”

Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

Biden judge torches Trump ICE crackdown as ‘devoid of rational explanation,’ nukes courthouse arrest policy

June 24, 2026 2:09pm EDT / Fox News

DHS general counsel called the ruling ‘naked judicial activism’ in service of an ‘open borders agenda’

By Elaine Mallon, Fox News

A potential deal with Iran is announced by President Trump, possibly canceling military strikes after recent hostilities. Two former Utah court clerks face felony charges for aiding illegal immigrants in evading ICE. The Justice Department also highlights 425,000 missing unaccompanied minors, with some exploited by criminals, leading to child smuggling arrests.

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A federal judge who has repeatedly blocked the Trump administration’s immigration policies dealt another blow Tuesday, striking down rules that expanded courthouse arrests and prolonged detention in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holding facilities.

In a 71-page decision, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden, struck down the policies after finding that ICE and the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) did not provide the reasoned explanation required under the Administrative Procedure Act.

The ruling continues a pattern of Pitts intervening against Trump administration immigration policies. Earlier this year, he blocked an ICE initiative that would have allowed the agency to rearrest migrants it had previously released. In another case, he ordered sweeping changes at a San Francisco ICE detention facility, citing overcrowding and conditions he found likely violated constitutional standards.

BIDEN JUDGE OVERRULED ON KEY TRUMP IMMIGRATION POLICY

ICE agents review lists of names and hearing times inside the Federal Plaza courthouse before making arrests in New York on June 27, 2025.(Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

While Pitts’ order applies nationwide, it differs from the broad nationwide injunctions that the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional in its 2025 decision in Trump v. CASA. Rather than issuing an injunction prohibiting the government from enforcing the policies, Pitts vacated them under the Administrative Procedure Act. When a court vacates a policy, it removes the policy itself rather than just limiting how it can be enforced.

Pitts’ ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed by a group of asylum seekers challenging ICE’s 2025 policies that removed restrictions on civil immigration arrests at courthouses, including immigration courts, and a separate ICE policy allowing detainees to remain in short-term holding facilities for up to 72 hours instead of the agency’s longstanding 12-hour limit.

The judge found ICE failed to adequately explain why it abandoned prior guidance that limited courthouse arrests because of concerns they could discourage immigrants from appearing for hearings and interfere with the administration of justice.

“As the Court has previously detailed, the policies entirely fail to address the chilling effect of courthouse arrests on noncitizens’ attendance at court proceedings, which is both a critical factor underlying ICE’s 2021 guidance and an ‘important aspect of the problem’ in its own right,” Pitts wrote.

FEDERAL JUDGE LIMITS ICE ARRESTS WITHOUT WARRANT, PROBABLE CAUSE

Dozens of immigrants are detained by ICE agents inside the Federal Plaza courthouse in New York City following their legal proceedings on June 26.(Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu)

Pitts was particularly critical of the government’s handling of arrests at immigration courthouses. According to the ruling, the administration spent months defending the policy as applicable to immigration courts before later disclosing that ICE internally viewed the policy as not applying there at all.

“Nothing on the face of ICE’s 2025 courthouse-arrest policies or in the administrative record suggests that ICE recognized it was removing all prior limitations on civil enforcement activities at immigration courthouses without any substitute guidance,” Pitts wrote.

He ultimately concluded that the agency offered virtually no explanation for the change.

“ICE’s 2025 courthouse-arrest policies are devoid of rational explanation for (or even acknowledgement of) the agency’s choices,” the judge wrote.

Pitts also vacated a related EOIR policy rescinding restrictions on immigration enforcement activity at immigration courthouses. The judge found the agency relied on flawed assumptions and failed to grapple with evidence that courthouse arrests could discourage immigrants from attending proceedings.

The judge separately struck down ICE’s nationwide waiver of its 12-hour detention limit. The waiver was adopted after ICE reported that increased enforcement activity had strained detention capacity and complicated transfers to longer-term facilities.

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Pitts found the agency failed to consider alternatives, reconcile the policy with its own detention standards or adequately address whether keeping detainees in holding facilities for extended periods could create unconstitutional conditions.

“Nothing in the memorandum announcing the 12-hour-detention waiver or in the administrative record suggests that ICE engaged in reasoned consideration of its obligation to avoid creating punitive conditions of confinement,” he wrote.

President Donald Trump speaks during a Medal of Honor Ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2026. The ceremony honors Capers, an 88-year-old Vietnam veteran, along with Colonel John W. Ripley, U.S. Marine Corps (posthumous), and Major Nicholas Dockery, U.S. Army (retired).(Al Drago/Getty Images)

Throughout the opinion, Pitts emphasized that the administration remained free to pursue tougher immigration enforcement policies if it followed the procedural requirements imposed by federal law.

“An agency may not … depart from a prior policy sub silentio,” Pitts wrote, citing Supreme Court precedent.

The ruling follows a similar decision last month by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel in New York, who largely barred ICE from conducting civil immigration arrests at or near three Manhattan immigration courthouses while a separate challenge proceeds.

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The Department of Homeland Security sharply criticized Pitts’ ruling.

“When a judge sentences a defendant, the defendant is taken into custody. If an alien is ordered removed by an immigration judge, the same should happen. A district judge ordering otherwise is naked judicial activism in service of an anti-American, open borders agenda,” DHS General Counsel James Percival said in a statement.

Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.

Trump to seek more than $1.4 billion in Ebola funding from Congress

2026-06-24T19:03:43.098Z / Reuters

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The White House is planning to seek more than $1.4 billion in new funds from Congress to address the widening Ebola virus outbreak ​as soon as Wednesday, according to a Trump administration official.

The request, which is set ‌to be included in a larger supplemental funding request, would include $800 million for humanitarian crisis responses.

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That $800 million will fund a quarantine center in Kenya for Americans exposed to the virus as well as supplies, treatment, contact tracing, a regional logistics ​network and infection control practices.

U.S. officials are also seeking $500 million in global health security funds they say ​are needed to prevent the virus from spreading to the United States. That ⁠funding would include disease surveillance, laboratory capacity, and cross-border coordination, and potential partnerships with multilateral organizations and ​the private sector, the official said.

Another $90 million would go to diplomatic efforts, including evacuations and transportation of ​U.S. citizens with the virus to treatment facilities, according to the official. The funding request was not previously reported.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak is linked to the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus. It has infected more than 1,000 people and killed ​267 – generating the largest number of confirmed cases within the first month of any episode of the ​disease, the World Health Organization said this week.

The request for funding comes as a doctor who recently returned to France ‌from ⁠a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo tested positive for Ebola, marking the country’s first confirmed case linked to the current outbreak.

U.S. officials have asked European officials to implement tougher travel measures and contribute more to the Ebola response, according to one such official. In recent days, they have also ​expressed frustration with the ​lack of response from ⁠their European counterparts, the person said.

Washington has also come under criticism for its own cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and African public health ​efforts, prior to the outbreak.

The U.S. has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars ​to the ⁠Ebola response so far, and is building a controversial quarantine center in Kenya for American citizens, saying the priority is keeping Ebola from reaching the U.S.

In May, the U.S. banned non-citizens who had traveled to the ⁠Democratic Republic ​of Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in recent weeks from ​entering the United States. The ban was later extended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to green card holders ​who have been in those countries in the previous 21 days.

Johnson warns communism is ‘on our own shores’ after far-left candidates win New York primaries

June 24, 2026 1:05pm EDT / Fox News

Speaker Johnson cast the rise of Democrats’ socialist flank as a ‘dangerous’ threat to US

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Speaker Mike Johnson warns against the rising influence of socialist and Marxist candidates in the U.S., criticizing their policies as a threat to American foundational principles.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., issued a stark warning after a trio of far-left candidates prevailed in New York’s primaries, saying communism is now “on our own shores.”

“It is a very serious time,” Johnson said at a news conference Wednesday. “Every American needs to wake up and understand the threat.”

“The Marxists have nominated some of the most radical candidates to ever run for office, and they’re running for Congress,” he continued. “The insurgent left is on the rise.”

Johnson delivered the remarks after progressive hopefuls Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier, backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), unseated two Democratic incumbents. A third socialist candidate, State Assembly member Claire Valdez, D-N.Y., won an open House seat with Mamdani and the DSA’s endorsement.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson answers questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2026.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

FAR-LEFT SURGE: MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATES OUST DEM ESTABLISHMENT INCUMBENTS

All three far-left candidates are poised to win election in November given Democrats’ overwhelming advantages in the deep-blue districts. The slate of candidates is fiercely critical of Israel, supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and wants to enact a wealth tax, among other progressive policy stances.

Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old activist who participated in the pro-Palestinian protests that rocked Columbia University following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, has come under particular scrutiny for since-deleted social media posts, reviewed by CNN, in which she claimed, “Israel doesn’t exist,” expressed support for open borders and stated, “All deportation is wrong.”

The Mamdani ally, who has voiced support for the prison abolition movement, declined to say whether a man who randomly murdered another individual should go to jail during an interview with the Substack publication, The New York Editorial Board.

She has also faced scrutiny for describing former President Joe Biden as “a rapist” and writing, “F— Kamala Harris,” in 2021 after the ex-vice president told Guatemalan nationals not to illegally cross into the country.

In a major upset, Avila Chevalier ended the political career of Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the chairman of the influential Congressional Hispanic Caucus who has highlighted his background as the first former illegal immigrant elected to Congress.

Johnson also lamented the defeat of Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., a Jewish lawmaker who faced antisemitic attacks over his support for Israel in the final days of the race. Lander, Goldman’s Mamdani-backed challenger, is also Jewish and has vowed to support the Palestinian cause in Congress.

Congressional candidates Claire Valdez, left, Brad Lander, second from left, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, right, raise their hands with Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Get Out the Vote rally in New York City on June 18, 2026.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

FROM WASSERMAN SCHULTZ TO GOLDMAN, DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENTS ARE FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL

“This is not your father’s Democrat Party,” Johnson said, pointing to both incumbents’ losses.

The top Republican has repeatedly warned about the far-left’s growing electoral power since Mamdani’s upset mayoral victory last year. He cast the ascendant socialist flank as a stark contrast to Republicans ahead of November’s midterm elections.

“We’ve been saying for months it’s a contrast election,” the speaker said. “We’ve been saying it’s a contrast between commonsense and crazy. That’s exactly what’s going on. They give us new illustrations every day.”

Johnson also called attention to Democratic House candidate Mai Vang, a socialist who is running to unseat longtime Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif. Vang has faced backlash after videos surfaced showing her declining to face the American flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as a member of the Sacramento city council.

“There are mini Mamdanis popping up all around the country. It is a dangerous thing. This is not a joke. We’re in a fight right now to save the Republic,” Johnson said.

Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang listens to a speaker during a rally against ICE arrests and deportations in front of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in downtown Sacramento.(Getty Images)

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Johnson’s warning comes as the far-left streamer Hasan Piker said earlier in June that a sweeping victory for the Mamdani-backed candidates would help advance the socialist movement’s broader policy goals.

“For the longest time, I thought we were so far away from socialism, and we might still be far away from socialism, but we do have an opportunity right here, right now, more than ever before,” Piker said at a rally in Brooklyn for DSA-endorsed candidates.