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Trump warns he may bypass Congress with national emergency to keep DC police control beyond 30 days
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President Donald Trump said he may declare a national emergency to maintain control of Washington, D.C.’s police force if Congress doesn’t work with him to extend the current federalization plan.
Trump made the statement during a press conference at the Kennedy Center in Washington, arguing he can maintain control over the Metropolitan Police Department indefinitely if he declares a national emergency. Under the current structure, the federal government took control over the MPD for a 30-day period on Monday.
«Your federalization of the police has a 30-day limit unless Congress acts to extend it. Are you talking to Congress about extending it, or do you believe 30 days is sufficient?» a reporter asked.
«Well, if it’s a national emergency, we can do it without Congress. But we expect to be before Congress very quickly. And again, we think the Democrats will not do anything to stop crime, but we think the Republicans will do it almost unanimously. So we’re going to need a crime bill. That we’re going to be putting in, and it’s going to pertain initially to DC. We’re going to use it as a very positive example.»
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President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Kennedy Center on Aug. 13, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Trump went on to confirm that his administration would be seeking «long-term extensions» to the 30-day limit.
«You can’t have 30 days,» he said. «We’re going to do this very quickly, but we’re going to want extensions. I don’t want to call a national emergency, but if I have to I will.»
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Trump announced his D.C. crime and homelessness crackdown last week, calling in the National Guard and federal law enforcement in addition to federalizing the MPD.
Law enforcement has arrested more than 100 people since Aug. 7, which includes 43 who were arrested Tuesday, a White House official told Fox Digital Wednesday morning. The arrests are part of Trump’s March executive order, which established the Making DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force, ahead of Trump’s Monday announcement federalizing the D.C. police department.
A homeless encampment remaining in Washington, D.C., pictured Monday, August 11, 2025. (Fox News Digital )
«President Trump’s bold leadership is quickly making our nation’s capital safer,» White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox Digital. «In less than one week, over 100 violent criminals have already been arrested and taken off of the streets in Washington, D.C. President Trump is delivering on his campaign promise to clean up this city and restore American Greatness to our cherished capital.»
The White House says those living in homeless encampments in the nation’s capital will have two choices in the coming days: accept treatment at a homeless shelter, or go to jail. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered the message during a Tuesday press conference.
FBI and Border Patrol officers arrest a man along the U Street corridor during a federal law enforcement deployment to the nation’s capital on August 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)
«Seventy homeless encampments have been removed by the U.S. Park Police,» Leavitt said, adding that the Metropolitan Police Department would be joining the Park Police in the effort. «There are only two homeless encampments remaining in D.C. federal parks under the National Park Service’s jurisdiction, and the removal of those two remaining camps is scheduled for this week.»
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Leavitt added that those who refuse homeless shelters and care could be faced with jail time.
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report
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Iran is poised to strike critical desalination infrastructure across the Middle East within days, escalating tensions with the U.S. and Israel and triggering global economic fallout, a U.N. official warned Sunday.
Kaveh Madani, an Iranian scientist and U.N. official, said desalination plants across the region could be hit «within the next few days,» raising the prospect of a broader regional water crisis and affecting global markets.
The strike threats made by the regime on Sunday came in response to President Donald Trump’s warning that the U.S. would hit Iranian power infrastructure unless the Strait of Hormuz was opened within 48 hours.
A spokesperson for the Central Headquarters of Hazrat Khatam al-Anbiya (PBUH) said, «Following previous warnings, if Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked by the enemy, all energy, information technology, and desalination infrastructure belonging to the US and the regime in the region will be targeted.»
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U.N. official Kaveh Madani warns desalination plants across the Middle East could be struck within days, risking a regional water crisis and global economic fallout. (ruelleruelle/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
«The desalination plants might be targeted again within the next few days,» Madani told Fox News Digital.
«The driest region of the world might see a real water war, but the knock-on effects on the world’s economy, including the U.S., will be both immediate and lasting,» Madani said, pointing to what he described as a «new phase in the conflict» involving such critical civilian infrastructure.
«Now, add the possibility of damage to the already fragile water infrastructure, including treatment plants, pumping stations, and distribution networks,» he said. «The consequences would be catastrophic and lasting.»
Kaveh’s warning comes as the conflict — now in its fourth week — has expanded beyond military targets. Desalination facilities, including a plant on Iran’s Qeshm Island and another in Bahrain, have allegedly already been struck.
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Iran threatens to target desalination and energy infrastructure within days, a U.N. official warns, citing lasting consequences for global markets and water supplies. (Gabriela Maj/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Desalination, the process of creating drinkable water from seawater, is critical to supplying water across Israel and many of Iran’s Gulf neighbors, particularly in such arid regions where natural freshwater is scarce.
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, echoed the regime’s threats in a post on X on Sunday, warning that «critical infrastructure, energy, and oil across the region will be irreversibly destroyed, and oil prices will rise for a long time» if Iran’s power plants are struck.
«With a blackout, water treatment and distribution systems will also collapse in some parts of the country,» Madani clarified.
«Iran will retaliate by attacking desalination, energy, and other energy-related infrastructure in all countries in the region that are parties to the war, including Israel,» he added. «The price of oil and gas will increase further, and the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, while a humanitarian disaster is created as millions of people lose access to water and electricity in the region.»
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An aerial view of the island of Qeshm, separated from the Iranian mainland by the Clarence Strait, December 10, 2023. (Stringer/File Photo/Reuters)
«The U.S. has allegedly already attacked a desalination plant in Qeshm Island, and the Iranians have allegedly responded by striking a plant in Bahrain,» he said.
«Iran is the least reliant on desalination plants, so it is explicitly including them as legitimate targets for retaliation because this is the biggest vulnerability of the other parties to the war across the Middle East,» he added.
Despite that relative advantage, Iran itself has faced years of severe drought, mismanagement of water resources, and declining groundwater levels, leaving parts of the country increasingly water-stressed.
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«If Iranians run out of water and/or electricity, they won’t rise up,» Holly Dagres, Libitzky Family Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said.
«The unfortunate truth is that the Islamic Republic would rather allow the country to burn than appear weak while it is facing an existential threat,» she said.
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California sheriff seizes 650,000 ballots in defiance of state officials over election count dispute
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A California sheriff and top Republican candidate for governor seized over 650,000 votes from the state’s November elections this weekend.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco launched an investigation into the state’s November 2025 special election on Proposition 50 after a third-party organization, the Riverside Election Integrity Team, claimed it found roughly 45,000 excess votes. California elections officials have dismissed the team’s findings, but Bianco says his office will conduct another count.
«This investigation is simple: Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded,» Bianco told reporters at a Friday press conference.
Proposition 50 was a key proposal seeking to reform California’s congressional districts. It was designed to favor Democrats in response to a similar effort by Republicans in Texas.
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican candidate for California governor, joins Kate Monroe, an advocate for veterans, on a tour of Skid Row in Los Angeles. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Shirley Weber has argued Bianco has no authority to carry out a recount.
«The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office has taken actions based on allegations that lack credible evidence and risk undermining public confidence in our elections,» Weber told City News Service. «The sheriff’s assertion that his deputies know how to count is admirable. The fact remains that he and his deputies are not elections officials, and they do not have expertise in election administration.»
Riverside elections official Art Tinoco rejected the Riverside Election Integrity Team’s findings earlier this month, saying the group had misinterpreted how votes are counted on Election Day.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a «Yes On Prop 50» volunteer event in Los Angeles. Voters approved the measure, which authorized temporary changes to congressional district maps. (Getty Images)
Tinoco told county supervisors earlier this year that the initial intake logs by polling workers are meant to be estimates rather than exact tallies of how many votes were cast. Even so, he said the final tally was within 0.16%, or 103 votes, of the original estimate.
The Elections Integrity Team maintains their math is correct, however, and it was this disagreement that led Bianco to open an investigation of his own.
Bianco accused California Attorney General Bob Bonta, a Democrat, of intervening in the investigation. Bonta, however, says his office only sought to learn the basis of the probe.
«We have attempted to work cooperatively with the Sheriff’s Office in order to better understand the basis for their investigation, including by reviewing the warrants themselves and by requesting the Sheriff’s complete investigative file,» Bonta’s office told Fox News Digital on Sunday. «We made these requests pursuant to the Attorney General’s supervisory authority over county sheriffs.»
«During this time, the Sheriff has delayed, stonewalled, and otherwise refused to work with us in good faith. To date, the Sheriff has failed to provide most of the requested documentation. But, what we have been able to learn raises serious questions about the merits of this investigation. We are especially concerned with legal deficiencies in the affidavits underlying the warrants, including the omission of material facts,» his office added.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has criticized Bianco’s election investigation. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Bianco has also clashed on social media with Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who is running for California governor as well.
Bianco said Friday that his office had received multiple letters from Bonta ordering him to cease the investigation, according to the Desert Sun.
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«The outrage that an investigation was happening was extremely concerning to me, especially coming from someone who claims to be a law enforcement officer that is, I’ve said this a minimum of a thousand times, he’s an embarrassment to law enforcement,» Bianco said.
Bonta and Weber did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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Una serie de denuncias por presunto acoso sexual contra periodistas mujeres sacude a los medios de Colombia
Una serie de denuncias de presunto acoso sexual en medios de comunicación colombianos sacuden por estos días al gremio periodístico y provocaron una ola de pronunciamientos, cartas públicas y movimientos de apoyo a las víctimas que apuntan a un problema estructural en las redacciones del país.
El caso más reciente involucra a Caracol Televisión, que confirmó -en un comunicado publicado el pasado viernes en la mañana- la activación de sus protocolos internos tras recibir denuncias contra dos periodistas y presentadores por presunto acoso sexual.
La empresa indicó, en la misma nota, que está llevando a cabo investigaciones «con garantías de confidencialidad, debido proceso y acompañamiento a las posibles víctimas».
En paralelo, salieron a la luz testimonios de periodistas que denuncian conductas inapropiadas en los medios, incluido el relato de una comunicadora que aseguró haber sido besada sin su consentimiento por un presentador, un hecho ocurrido en instalaciones vinculadas al canal.
Según estos testimonios, que también mencionan otros episodios similares, el miedo a represalias y a perder oportunidades laborales ha sido un factor clave para no denunciar oportunamente, lo que reavivó el debate sobre la eficacia de los mecanismos internos en los medios.
El director de Noticias Caracol, Juan Roberto Vargas, calificó este domingo como «doloroso» el caso y afirmó que la compañía actuará con rigor.
«Estamos del lado de las víctimas (…) se tomaron las medidas de rigor con protocolos laborales y legales muy estrictos», señaló, y añadió que se adoptarán «las decisiones que haya que tomar con severidad».
En medio de la controversia, más de 40 mujeres periodistas firmaron una carta pública en la que denuncian un patrón de silenciamiento frente a las violencias basadas en género en el sector y piden garantías para quienes deciden hablar.
El documento señaló que, tras denunciar, algunas mujeres han enfrentado presiones, amenazas y procesos judiciales, lo que consideran una forma de revictimización.
«Es urgente garantizar condiciones seguras y justicia con enfoque de género para las víctimas que denuncian acoso en el ejercicio periodístico», señalaron las firmantes, entre ellas María Jimena Duzán, Jineth Bedoya Lima y Catalina Ruiz-Navarro.
En ese contexto, la carta alude al caso del gerente del sistema de medios públicos RTVC, Hollman Morris, y advirtió sobre los riesgos que enfrentan quienes denuncian. En redes sociales, Duzán afirmó que Morris había acudido a «acciones sistemáticas para silenciar a las mujeres que lo denuncian».
Asimismo, las firmantes cuestionan lo que describen como respaldo institucional a los señalados y advierten sobre la persistencia de la impunidad en casos de violencia contra las mujeres en el ámbito laboral, al tiempo que piden a la justicia actuar con enfoque de género.
Por su parte, el Colegio Nacional de Periodistas de Colombia expresó su «profunda preocupación» por los hechos y aseguró que evidencian una problemática estructural que ha sido silenciada durante años.
El gremio pidió «cero tolerancia» frente al acoso y la violencia de género en el ejercicio periodístico, así como investigaciones transparentes, garantías de protección para las víctimas y entornos laborales seguros.
«El silencio no puede seguir siendo la norma. Denunciar no es traicionar el oficio, es dignificarlo«, señaló la organización.
Al mismo tiempo, periodistas impulsan en redes sociales iniciativas como #MeTooColombia y #YoTeCreoColega, con las que buscan visibilizar casos de acoso y crear redes de apoyo.
Como parte de esta iniciativa, se habilitó un correo electrónico para recibir testimonios de forma confidencial, con el objetivo de recopilar denuncias y promover acciones concretas dentro del sector.
Las impulsoras del movimiento advierten que durante años «depredadores sexuales» se ampararon en el poder de sus cargos y en el silencio institucional, y subrayan que el momento actual representa una oportunidad para transformar esa realidad.
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