博客

U.S. carries out new strikes against Iranian military site, official says

2026-05-27 7:51 PM EDT / CBS News

The U.S. military carried out another round of strikes on Iran, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday, another challenge to a shaky ceasefire between the two countries.

The official described the strikes as defensive, targeting a military site that threatened American forces and commercial traffic. The official said the U.S.-Iran ceasefire is still considered to be holding.

Reuters was first to report on the new strikes.

This is a breaking story; it will be updated.

Talarico makes stunning claim about why he thinks Texas elections aren’t ‘free and fair’

May 27, 2026 6:20pm EDT / Fox News

A RNC spox says Talarico ‘wants illegal aliens to vote in our elections’

By Leo Briceno, Fox News

James Talarico says he’s going to have to win by more than he would have to ‘in a completely free and fair election.’ (Credit: Jamie Kern Lima via Youtube – May 26, 2026)

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico said he believes state laws have stacked the deck against him as he looks to become the first Democrat to win statewide office since 1994.

“Means you’re probably going to have to win by a little more than we would have to in a completely free and fair election,” Talarico said in a recent podcast interview.

Talarico’s posture towards Texas voting laws reflects a broader Democratic belief that Republican dominance in the Lone Star State is due to low turnout brought on by election security measures rather than the state’s conservative leanings — a theory that continues to drive long-running attempts to flip the state.

Despite having raised an impressive $40 million as of March, Talarico faces an uphill campaign against Republican candidate Ken Paxton, the current Texas attorney general, who has widespread name recognition.

TEXAS MAP FIGHT ESCALATES AS JEFFRIES VOWS ‘ALL OPTIONS’ TO STOP GOP PLAN

James Talarico, a Democrat from Texas and US Senate candidate, speaks at a campaign event in Round Rock, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.(Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“We’re going to have to overcome that. We’re going to have to out-organize, out-work, out-hustle that voter suppression if we’re going to win,” Talarico said.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas passed a flurry of election-security bills.

Most notably, the legislature passed SB1, a bill that requires voters to provide specific identification numbers to vote and to register to vote: either a Texas driver’s license, an election identification certificate or the last four digits of a Social Security number.

It also banned drive-through voting and unsolicited mailing of ballot applications.

Talarico said he opposed its passage as a state legislator.

“I will say that we already have a lot of voter suppression in Texas. It’s baked into our laws. I’ve fought fiercely against many of those laws when they were coming through the legislature,” Talarico said.

“Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the country as a result. It’s why we see such low voter turnout in our state compared to other states,” Talarico said.

RED STATE AG INVESTIGATING MORE THAN 30 POTENTIAL NONCITIZENS WHO VOTED IN 2024 ELECTION

Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico speaks during a campaign launch rally in Round Rock, Texas, on Sept. 9, 2025.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Although it’s true that Texas ranks in the bottom five states for voter turnout, the 56.6% of voters that cast a ballot in the last presidential election was greater than turnout in 2016, 2012 and 2004, according to data from the United States Election Project. Similarly, the 41.8% participation in the 2022 midterms exceeded levels from 2014, 2010, 2006 and 2002.

Talarico’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

To at least one GOP strategist, Talarico’s concern over turnout comes at the expense of his prioritization of election security.

“James Talarico wants illegal aliens to vote in our elections,” Zach Kraft, a Republican National Committee spokesperson, told Fox News Digital.

“While Talarico puts illegals first, Ken Paxton will continue to put Texans first by working with President Trump to get the SAVE America Act signed into law and ensure foreign citizens never vote in American elections,” Kraft said, referring to the national voter integrity bill championed by Republicans in Congress.

Notably, as a state legislator, Talarico also voted against a bill that increased state penalties for illegal aliens voting in Texas elections from a Class A misdemeanor to a second-degree felony.

TRUMP COMPARES DEM SENATE CANDIDATE TO FRECKLE-FACED CARTOON CHARACTER, PROMISES TO CAMPAIGN FOR PAXTON

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico urged voters to reduce meat consumption in a 2022 clip that went viral on Tuesday.(Mark Felix/Getty Images)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Despite his pessimistic outlook on Texas’s voting laws, Talarico urged viewers to draw confidence from other long-shot campaigns, such as civil rights movements and labor organizers.

“They were all up against a rigged system. So, if they can do that, we can certainly do that against this stacked deck,” Talarico said.

Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.

特朗普：霍尔木兹海峡不归任何人管辖 盟友阿曼不守规矩也会被炸

2026年5月28日 07:10 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普（右）周三在白宫举行的内阁会议上接受记者提问。坐在他身旁的是美国国务卿鲁比奥。 （路透社）

美国总统特朗普周三强调，霍尔木兹海峡不归任何人管辖，如果盟友阿曼在重新开放海峡问题上站在伊朗一边，美国将对阿曼发动攻击。

当被问及是否会接受一项允许伊朗和阿曼共同控制霍尔木兹海峡的短期协议时，特朗普说，阿曼必须“守规矩”，否则将“炸毁他们”。

特朗普星期三（5月27日）在白宫举行的内阁会议上告诉记者：“霍尔木兹海峡将对所有人开放。这是国际水域，阿曼必须像其他国家一样守规矩，否则我们就不得不炸毁他们。他们很清楚这一点，所以会安分守己。”

白宫和阿曼驻华盛顿大使馆尚未对特朗普的言论作出回应。

特朗普强调，霍尔木兹海峡不归任何人管辖，美国将维护海峡秩序，但“不会有人控制它，这也是我们（与伊朗）谈判的一部分”。

延伸阅读

学者：特朗普在伊朗受阻下一步或转向古巴
特朗普下月满80岁 称最新体检结果“完美”

此前，伊朗国家电视台报道称，伊方获得了一份非正式的协议草案，草案将在一个月内将这条战略水道的商业航运恢复到战前水平，伊朗和阿曼将共同管理海峡交通。框架还将包括美国解除对伊朗港口的封锁，并从伊朗附近撤出军事力量。

路透社报道指，特朗普的最新声明表明，美伊两国在寻求达成初步协议以结束这场战争方面仍存在巨大分歧。

Five ways Paxton’s big win in Texas could backfire on Trump

2026-05-27T23:30:33.418Z / Reuters

• Summary

• Trump’s late endorsement boosted Paxton, putting GOP leaders at odds
• Paxton faces fundraising challenges against Democrat Talarico, who holds financial edge
• Texas Senate race shifts toward Democrats, raising GOP concerns over battleground resources

WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton decisively defeated longtime Senator John Cornyn in Tuesday’s Republican runoff for U.S. Senate, handing President Donald Trump a high-profile victory and giving Democrats the matchup they had long preferred in Texas.

While the result was a personal win for Trump, who endorsed Paxton at the 11th hour, it risks endangering Republicans’ narrow Senate majority.

The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here.

Here are five takeaways:

CORNYN IS NOW A WILD CARD

The endorsement of Paxton put Trump at odds with Senate Republican Leader John Thune and Senator Tim Scott, who chairs the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm.

Unburdened by another reelection campaign, Cornyn for the remainder of his term this year could become another free agent like retiring Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who blocked Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Federal Reserve chair, or Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who lost a runoff in his state’s primary and voted with Democrats last week to advance an Iran war powers resolution.

Cornyn now joins that group of senators, though it’s unclear whether a former member of Republican leadership would buck Trump on his way out of office after tying his campaign closely to the president.

PAXTON HAS A MONEY PROBLEM

In his victory speech on Tuesday, Paxton implored supporters to donate through his campaign website, warning them that his opponent, state Representative James Talarico, will “raise more money than any Democrat in America.”

The candidates’ most recent financial reports showed Paxton with $2.3 million in the bank in early May and Talarico with $9.9 million on hand in early April.

In an internal memo last year, Senate Republicans’ campaign arm warned that a Paxton nomination could “cause Republicans to divert hundreds of millions that would otherwise be spent winning key battlegrounds.”

Now that Paxton’s won, it’s unclear where that money would come from. Senate Republicans’ primary super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund, did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did MAGA Inc, Trump’s $356 million super PAC.

“This is the wrong election to have someone who’s as weak of a nominee as Paxton up against someone who’s as strong a fundraiser as Talarico,” one Texas political consultant said, predicting that ultimately, “MAGA Inc. will have to step in.”

TEXAS IS GETTING MORE COMPETITIVE

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to supporters after winning the Republican runoff election for U.S. Senate in Texas, defeating incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn, in Plano, Texas, U.S., May 26, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Garcia

Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics shifted their ratings for the Texas Senate race from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican,” validating the sentiment that Paxton is a weaker nominee than Cornyn.

Trump won Texas by nearly 14 points in 2024, but now Republicans will have to spend millions in what promises to be a bruising campaign to save what was once a safe seat.

A Talarico campaign memo released Wednesday frames him as “the best positioned candidate in a generation to win Texas.” He described Paxton as “the most corrupt and damaged nominee in the modern Texas GOP,” a reference to his felony indictment, Texas House impeachment, allegations of corruption and reports of extramarital affairs.

Paxton and his allies have signaled they will attack Talarico on culture-war issues, including his defense of transgender children, describing God as nonbinary, prior “non‑meat campaign” in which it purchased only vegan products and comments suggesting there are more than two biological sexes.

An ad released on Wednesday also seized on Talarico likening the border to a “front porch” with “a giant welcome mat.”

OTHER SENATE BATTLEGROUNDS AT RISK

In the Senate, Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage, and Democrats would need to net four seats to win control.

Democrats are defending two states Trump won in 2024 – Georgia and Michigan – and targeting Republican-held states such as North Carolina, Maine, Ohio and Alaska.

Lauren French, a spokesperson for the Democratic group Senate Majority PAC, said Republicans will likely have a “tough conversation” over which battleground states they might need to divert resources from.

In North Carolina, former Governor Roy Cooper is running against former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley to succeed Tillis, who’s retiring. And in Ohio, former Senator Sherrod Brown is challenging incumbent Republican Senator Jon Husted. Both races are considered toss-ups and will be key to whoever wins the Senate in November.

“Will it be less in North Carolina, where their candidate is already down?” French asked. “Less in Ohio, where they put an astronomical amount of money signaling their concern over Husted?”

PAXTON DOMINATED A LOW-TURNOUT RACE

Trump might see the Paxton victory as validation that he picked a winner, but the set of general election voters will be dramatically different from the narrow Republican runoff electorate.

Paxton benefited from a low-turnout runoff, winning fewer than 900,000 votes. That was well below turnout in the March Republican and Democratic primaries. More than 2 million Democrats voted, including over a million for Talarico.

Without Trump on the ballot, some voters could stay home in the fall or leave the top of the ticket blank as Talarico courts independents and more moderate Republicans.

Reporting by Nolan D. McCaskill and Richard Cowan; Editing by Michael Learmonth and Cynthia Osterman

挪威将加入法国主导的核威慑计划

2026年5月28日 07:25 / 联合早报

法国总统马克龙（右）和挪威首相斯托尔周三在巴黎爱丽舍宫签署“先进核威慑”协议后，在工作晚宴上握手合照。 （法新社）

法国和挪威领导人周三宣布，挪威将加入由法国主导的核威慑计划，以加强欧洲大陆的安全。

挪威媒体分析指，这意味着挪威将被纳入法国的“核保护伞”框架。

挪威首相斯托尔星期三（5月27日）在巴黎与法国总统马克龙共同宣布两国签署防务协议时说：“我们正面临二战以来最严峻的安全形势。”

斯托尔指出：“过去六个月，我们分别与德国和英国签署了防务协议，我很高兴今天我们与法国签署了一项全面的防务协议。”

今年3月，马克龙公布了一项计划，根据计划，作为欧盟唯一拥有核武器的国家，法国将利用核武库来加强欧洲大陆的安全。

马克龙当时表示，根据这项所谓的“前沿”核威慑计划，加入计划的国家将能够临时部署法国的“战略空军”，这些空军可以部署到整个欧洲大陆，以“使我们的对手难以应对”。

马克龙周三说：“挪威是我们重要的地理和战略伙伴，我们此前已在确保盟国领土免受外部威胁方面开展了重要合作，挪威的加入将为这一增强型威慑带来强大的附加价值。”

在挪威之前，已有八个国家加入计划，它们分别为比利时、丹麦、德国、希腊、荷兰、波兰、瑞典以及同为核大国的英国。

斯托尔说：“协议通过具体的机制、计划、演习和装备预置，加强了我们的合作，并将使我们能够在真正需要时迅速做出协调一致的反应。”

他补充说：“协议还为在混合战争、海上安全、太空合作、网络安全、支持乌克兰以及国防工业合作等领域开展更紧密的合作提供了框架。”

Dozens of ex-judges push to look into Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund” settlement, calling it a “fraud on the Court”

May 27, 2026 / 7:57 PM EDT / CBS News

A group of 35 former federal judges asked a court Wednesday to reopen a legal dispute between President Trump and the federal government that was settled by creating a controversial $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” calling the deal potentially fraudulent.

The legal filing adds to growing criticism of the settlement deal, which the Justice Department announced last week to resolve a lawsuit from the president accusing the Internal Revenue Service of allowing his tax returns to leak. At the center of the deal is a multibillion-dollar fund that would pay people who allege they were victimized by government “weaponization,” and a promise that the IRS will not pursue claims against the president based on prior tax returns.

The judge who oversaw the lawsuit — U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams — had signaled last month she planned to look into whether a lawsuit between Mr. Trump and his own administration would be legally valid. She said she needed to assess whether the issue was truly a “case or controversy” between two adversaries, as required by the Constitution.

Before fully looking into that issue, Williams granted a request from lawyers for the president and the government to dismiss the case. The settlement deal was announced on the same day.

Now, dozens of retired judges are arguing Williams should set aside her dismissal. The group includes former appellate Judge J. Michael Luttig, a well-known conservative jurist who has been critical of Mr. Trump, and former U.S. District Judges Nancy Gertner and Shira Scheindlin.

Reopening the case, the judges wrote, would “allow the court to commence an inquiry into whether the Court was deceived, including with respect to the existence of an underlying case or controversy and any purported arms-length negotiations undertaken to resolve.”

The retired judges wrote that the settlement deal is “a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the Court.” They also noted that Williams’ order closing the case said “there is no settlement of record” — which the former jurists argued means Williams was “deceived.”

“The parties here dismissed this case before the Court could complete its inquiry into whether there was an actual case or controversy, and then cited their ‘settlement’ of this case as the legal justification for looting the federal treasury of $1.776 billion,” Wednesday’s filing reads.

The group of retired judges argued that Williams has the power to set aside a judgment in instances of “fraud.”

CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

The attempt to reopen the case follows more than a week of controversy generated by the settlement deal and the “anti-weaponization fund.” Congressional Democrats have cast it as a “slush fund” that could funnel money to Mr. Trump’s allies, and a growing number of Republicans have expressed public and private qualms about the fund, including whether it could be used to pay out convicted Jan. 6 rioters who were pardoned by Mr. Trump last year.

The Justice Department has defended the fund, arguing there are no partisan requirements for people to apply and decisions will be made by a five-person board appointed by the attorney general.

Alabama urges US Supreme Court to bring back GOP-friendly House map for midterm elections

2026-05-27 12:28 PM ET / CNN

By John Fritze

3 hr ago

PUBLISHED May 27, 2026, 12:28 PM ET

The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on Thursday, May 14, 2026.

Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Summary

• Alabama officials have asked the Supreme Court to allow use of a congressional map that a federal court found discriminated against Black voters.
• The emergency appeal seeks to implement the map for the midterm elections, potentially unseating Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures.
• Alabama argues a recent Supreme Court ruling weakening the Voting Rights Act vindicates its position despite lower court objections.

AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

Alabama officials returned to the Supreme Court on Wednesday with an emergency appeal seeking permission to use a map that would likely add a Republican seat to the House of Representatives next year, once again thrusting the justices into the nationwide mid-decade redistricting battle instigated by President Donald Trump.

Republican officials in Alabama are appealing a decision from a federal court that blocked the state from using a congressional map that would give the GOP a chance to unseat Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures, one of two Black members of the state’s seven-seat congressional delegation. That special three-judge court found that the state intentionally discriminated against Black voters with the map it now wants to use for this year’s midterm elections.

The short-fuse appeal is the latest fallout from the Supreme Court’s blockbuster decision in late April gutting the power of the Voting Rights Act to restrain discrimination in redistricting. That 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais has boosted Republican efforts to redraw state maps this year to help the president’s party retain control of the House.

“Callais vindicates Alabama’s position on the lawfulness of the 2023 plan,” the state told the Supreme Court. “Yet the district court decided in one week that Callais changed nothing.”

Alabama asked for the Supreme Court to decide on its request by Monday.

In its latest appeal, Alabama argues in part that it is too close to the election for federal courts to order changes to the map for this year’s midterm election. The state’s argument relies on what’s known as the “Purcell principle,” a judicial doctrine that warns federal courts against making last-minute changes to the status quo of voting rules before an election.

Even though Alabama already held its primary election earlier this month, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation authorizing special elections in August for the affected congressional districts if courts allow the state to use its new map.

The latest appeal follows a complicated legal history that predated Trump’s second term and that has repeatedly pitted Alabama against civil rights groups and federal courts. The state’s congressional map has already made it up to the Supreme Court twice before.

The Supreme Court in 2023 effectively required Alabama to redraw its congressional map to allow for an additional Black majority district, upholding a lower court decision that found the state likely violated the Voting Rights Act by enacting a discriminatory map. Ultimately, voters in Alabama cast their 2024 ballots under a court-drawn congressional map that led to the election of two Black and Democratic representatives.

Related article Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton waves as he takes the stage to speak during a primary runoff election night event in Plano, Texas, on Tuesday, May 26. Tony Gutierrez/AP Trump completes his month of GOP revenge, and other takeaways from the Texas runoffs 7 min read

While Alabama continued to challenge that map on appeal, the Supreme Court decided the Voting Rights Act case on April 29. That contentious ruling dealt with a congressional map in Louisiana, but the decision also made it far harder for Black voters and civil rights groups to challenge potentially discriminatory maps. Based on that major decision, Alabama urged the Supreme Court in mid-May to toss out the court-ordered map in time for this year’s midterm election. The court’s conservative majority agreed to that request on May 11 over the dissent from three liberal justices.

But a special three-judge court in Alabama unanimously shot down the state’s map again Tuesday. The court ruled that Alabama likely violated the Voting Rights Act, even with the Supreme Court’s new high standard, as well as the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

“Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination,” the court wrote.

Bondi undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer after recent diagnosis

May 27, 2026 / 12:09 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, she told CBS News in a text message exchange Wednesday.

She said she was diagnosed after leaving the Justice Department in April and underwent surgery as part of her treatment a couple of weeks ago.

Bondi was fired by President Trump on April 2 and replaced by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has been serving in an acting capacity since her ouster.

Axios was first to report the diagnosis, and that Bondi had been tapped to serve on a presidential advisory commission focused on artificial intelligence policy, the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

In a statement Wednesday morning to CBS News, Vice President JD Vance said Bondi “has been an enormously valuable asset to the president’s team, and I’m thrilled for her and for all of us that she’s going to remain involved in confronting some of the most important issues the administration faces.”

Bondi is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Friday about her handling of the rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which was a major source of controversy during her stint as attorney general. Her tenure came to an end amid dissatisfaction with how aggressively she pursued Mr. Trump’s priorities at the Justice Department.

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog said last month that it will audit the department’s compliance with the law that required the release of the Epstein files, following months of bipartisan criticism over how the agency handled the disclosure.

DOJ sues UCLA over alleged ‘Judenrein’ conditions during anti-Israel encampment

May 27, 2026 2:49pm EDT / Fox News

The 53-page complaint alleges the university violated Title VI protections during months of anti-Israel protest unrest

By Elaine Mallon, Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390738636112UCLA students praise Trump admin after lawsuit over antisemitism, say campus climate improving despite Iran conflict

Two UCLA students told Fox News Digital campus tensions have eased since past anti-Israel protests but some concerns about antisemitism and administrative pressure remain.

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!

The Justice Department sued the University of California, Los Angeles, on Monday, accusing the university of allowing Jewish students to face a “hostile educational environment” during months of anti-Israel protests and encampment unrest that left students assaulted, blocked from campus buildings and fearful of attending class.

“The occupiers largely succeeded in their goal of making the heart of campus Judenrein— or at least free of Jews who did not share their desire to annihilate Israel,” the lawsuit stated.

In the 53-page complaint, the Justice Department accused UCLA of violating Title VI protections by showing “deliberate indifference” toward discrimination against Jewish students, allegations that could jeopardize federal funding.

“UCLA was deliberately indifferent to the suffering of its Jewish and Israeli students and declined to take meaningful action to protect them,” DOJ said.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DEMANDS $1B SETTLEMENT FROM UCLA OVER CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM CLAIMS

University of California police secure Dodd Hall after clearing anti-Israel protesters from the UCLA campus on May 23, 2023, during a congressional hearing where Chancellor Gene Block testified.(Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The lawsuit is part of a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on antisemitism tied to anti-Israel protests that spread across college campuses following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel

DOJ alleged that UCLA’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion office “routinely ignored” more than 100 complaints of antisemitic harassment, which ranged from Jewish students being blocked from campus buildings to being beaten, pepper-sprayed and slapped with sticks. The Justice Department argued that the university’s “decision to ignore” these complaints violated Title VI, suggesting that the school could lose federal funding and pay restitution to the government.

The lawsuit’s central allegation focuses on UCLA’s handling of the anti-Israel protest encampment that formed on campus in late April 2024 and lasted about a week. At the time, anti-Israel encampments popped up on dozens of college campuses across the country in response to escalating tensions in the Gaza war. The conduct within the encampment prompted the Trump administration to create an antisemitism task force that visited UCLA.

The anti-Israel encampment was set up on April 25, 2024, sparking complaints that protesters formed “human phalanxes” to block Jewish students from accessing buildings and other parts of campus. The lawsuit also alleges that one Jewish student was kicked to the ground and knocked unconscious.

CALIFORNIA SHERIFF SLAMS ‘MERITLESS’ UCLA STUDENT LAWSUIT AGAINST POLICE WHO DISMANTLED ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENT

Police did not clear the encampment until May 2, 2024, during what was described as a chaotic scene in which anti-Israel protesters clashed with officers using pepper spray and fire extinguishers.

Confrontations at UCLA between anti-Israel protesters and police continued as six UCLA police officers were injured on June 10, 2024, during an attempt to create a new encampment.

UCLA PAYS BIG SETTLEMENT OVER ‘JEW EXCLUSION ZONE’ DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS FROM STUDENTS

Police push back anti-Israel protesters on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 23, 2024.(Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News)

Even after voicing concerns over the violence seen during the spring 2024 anti-Israel protests, UCLA school safety officers were instructed to prioritize “de-escalation” rather than aggressively enforcing school policies during future anti-Israel protests that sprang up in 2025 and 2026.

At one Students for Justice of Palestine demonstration held on Oct. 7, 2025, officers stood by and did not engage even though some of the participants were breaking the campus’ “no masking rule.” An officer was asked why they weren’t enforcing the rules, and he replied by saying he “not that high up on that totem pole” to make that call.

The lawsuit heavily cited the findings of UCLA’s own task force in the lawsuit to back up its claims that school leadership failed to properly protect Jewish students on campus.

Police officers react as anti-Israel students stand their ground after police breached their encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, on May 2, 2024.(Etienne Laurent/AFP)

“Indeed, UCLA’s Task Force found that ‘throughout most of 2023-2024, campus leadership repeatedly decided not to enforce federal law, state law, and University and campus rules,’ ‘resulting in failure to protect the Constitutional rights,’ of Jews on campus,” the lawsuit stated.

The lawsuit cited a poll conducted of Jewish students finding that 59.6% of students “reported spending less time on campus due to antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias” and and that 41.4% considered leaving the school because of antisemitism.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

The Trump administration’s lawsuit comes just months after the Justice Department filed a separate case against UCLA in February, accusing the university of antisemitic discrimination against Jewish and Israeli employees.

Fox News Digital reached out to UCLA for comment.

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

Republicans scrub anti-Paxton attacks from the internet after he becomes their nominee

2026-05-27T17:14:25.013Z / CNN

By Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski

PUBLISHED May 27, 2026, 1:14 PM ET

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a primary runoff election night event in Plano, Texas, on Tuesday.

Tony Gutierrez/AP

Summary

• The National Republican Senatorial Committee is deleting dozens of attacks against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after he won the GOP Senate primary.
• The NRSC had called Paxton “Crooked Ken” and accused him of corruption and giving favorable treatment to an alleged child sex trafficker.
• The committee removed press releases, digital ads and social media posts criticizing Paxton as Republicans now rally behind their nominee.

AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

In the wake of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crushing victory over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary, Republican operatives are rapidly scrubbing from the internet months of attacks portraying Paxton as corrupt, dishonest and a threat to President Donald Trump’s agenda.

A CNN KFile review found the National Republican Senatorial Committee, an official campaign arm of the GOP, deleted at least two dozen press releases, digital ads and statements attacking Paxton — including posts labeling him “Crooked Ken,” criticizing his treatment of his then-wife during their divorce and accusing him of giving favorable treatment to an alleged child sex trafficker.

In comments and posts dating from the past year, the NRSC often referred to Paxton as “crooked” and said his “corruption” would threaten Republicans’ — and most importantly, Trump’s — agenda.

Other deleted press releases pointed to a controversial deal Paxton’s office made with an alleged sex trafficker which kept the man “out of prison and off the sex offender registry.”

“More Texans are now victims of an alleged child sex trafficker because Crooked Ken Paxton gave this dirtbag the kid-gloves treatment,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia in the since-purged press release. “Democrats and Paxton are already working together to threaten President Trump’s Senate Majority, now it turns out Paxton was making the kind of plea deals for child sex traffickers that you’d expect from a Democrat too.”

NRSC declined to comment to CNN and pointed to its statement following Paxton’s win — which failed to name the nominee.

“A state President Trump won by nearly 14 points isn’t going to elect James Talarico — a radical leftist who thinks God is nonbinary and that Texas should be a welcome mat for illegals. He is the most dangerous flank of the far left. Texas isn’t swapping brisket for open borders,” said NRSC regional press secretary Samantha Cantrell.

Google’s ad transparency database also showed at least two NRSC anti-Paxton video ads that have since been removed by the uploader, including one titled “Ken Paxton Has a Dark Secret” and another accusing Paxton of “Helping the Woke Left” by giving nearly $1 million to gender-affirming programs. The ads are now labeled “removed by the uploader.”

The NRSC also removed a handful of ads against Paxton from its YouTube channel.

One ad shows an image of Paxton as a Ken-like doll encased in a plastic box. The voiceover, according to a transcript, reads, “Introducing the all new Ken. He talks a big game about conservative values, but when it’s time to deliver he drags his feet. … Ken doesn’t stand up for conservatives, he stands in their way!”

Another since-deleted ad, titled “Texas Deserves Better Than Ken Paxton,” depicts a bucolic crossroad with crickets chirping. It then cuts to a shadowy street while police sirens, broken glass and car alarms roar. “So, which Texas do you want to hear,” a narrator says. It ends with a title card that reads, “Texas deserves better than the sound of Ken Paxton” and an image of Paxton with his fingers in his ears.

The NRSC also deleted at least eight tweets from X about Paxton since 2025, including two posts that said he was “asleep” at the wheel.

“Instead of protecting Texans, Ken Paxton has been asleep at the wheel. He’s been using taxpayer dollars to give MILLIONS to leftist groups who: ❌Coach illegals on how to evade ICE ❌Push DEI hiring schemes ❌Offer transgender resources to kids,” the NRSC account tweeted in September 2025.

And again in October 2025: “Ken Paxton is so asleep at the wheel he is treating Texas’ taxpayer dollars like Monopoly money — funneling hundreds of millions to liberal organizations and candidates.”

Paxton’s campaign has not responded to this claim, though as Texas’ attorney general, he recently sued Harris County “for unlawfully allocating more than $1.3 million in public money to radical leftist organizations,” according to a press release.

CNN reached out to the Paxton campaign for comment but did not immediately hear back.