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GOP rising star reveals how Trump’s agenda will be crucial to keeping Senate seat red, lands key endorsements
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EXCLUSIVE: Hours before Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa kicks off a statewide campaign swing as she runs to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, she landed the backing of the top Senate Republican.
«We need conservative fighters in the Senate — and that’s exactly what we’ll get with Ashley Hinson,» Senate Majority Leader John Thune wrote early Friday as he endorsed Hinson.
And Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which is the campaign arm of the Senate GOP, wrote, «Having traveled Iowa with Ashley, I know she is the fighter the Hawkeye State needs to deliver President Trump’s agenda in 2026 and beyond,» as he and the NRSC backed her.
On the eve of the endorsements and Hinson’s campaign event in West Des Moines, where she was born and raised, she highlighted in an exclusive Fox News Digital interview that she’s «proud to stand» with President Donald Trump.
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Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa on Tuesday launched a 2026 campaign in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Joni Ernst. (Getty Images)
«We have a common sense approach in Iowa, and I don’t want to see Iowa look like California. I think we need to see the country look more like Iowa,» she said.
«Iowa does things right,» she added.
Iowa was once a top battleground state that former President Barack Obama carried in his 2008 and 2012 White House victories. But the state has shifted to the right in recent election cycles with Trump carrying the state by nine points in 2016, eight points in 2020, and by 13 points last November.
Republicans currently hold both of the state’s Senate seats – Ernst and longtime Sen. Chuck Grassley – and all four of Iowa’s congressional districts, as well as all statewide offices except for state auditor.
And while Democrats in Iowa are energized after flipping two GOP-held state Senate seats in special elections so far this year, Hinson sees her support for the president as a plus as she runs for the Senate.
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«When I look at what message we’re out selling, it’s what exactly they voted for in the last election. Iowans overwhelmingly sent President Trump to the White House,» Hinson noted.
Hinson, who highlighted that she won her own House re-election by 15 points last November, said «we’re executing on what I heard on the campaign trail, which was that they wanted lower taxes.»
«So what did we do? We delivered,» as she pointed to the sweeping GOP domestic policy bill that the president signed into law on July 4, which extends the 2017 tax cuts and includes no tax on tips and overtime for many workers.
President Donald Trump signs sweeping spending and tax legislation, known as the «One Big Beautiful Bill Act,» during a picnic with military families to mark Independence Day, at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2025. (Reuters/Ken Cedeno)
Hinson said she is looking «forward to the campaign and showing Iowans again why conservative, solid leadership, being a strong ally of President Trump, and making sure we’re going to continue to deliver on those promises, so he has a full four years to do that.»
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) took aim at Hinson after she declared her candidacy.
DSCC communications director Maeve Coyle argued that Hinson «has repeatedly voted to raise costs and make life harder for Iowans by voting to slash Medicaid, cheering on the chaotic tariffs that threaten Iowa’s economy, voting against measures to lower the cost of insulin, and threatening Social Security. In 2026, Iowans will reject Republicans’ efforts to rip away health care and spike costs for hardworking families.»
«I think they’re misinformed at best,» Hinson said in response.
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And she charged that «when I hear the lies and the fearmongering coming out of the left, it’s to only cover up for the fact that they have no message and no real leader other than Bernie and AOC and now Mamdani in New York,» as she referred to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.
«If that’s the direction they want to take our country, I think Iowans are going to reject that wholeheartedly,» she predicted.
Hinson also highlighted that she’s «been out doing public town halls. I just finished my 46th and 47th public town hall in the district, and talking about what 47 [Trump] is doing to make our country better, cleaning up the mess of 46 [former President Joe Biden].»
Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa, who is running in the 2026 race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, sits for a Fox News Digital interview on Sept. 4, 2025 in Washington D.C. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News )
During some of her town hall meetings in Iowa this spring and summer, Hinson grabbed national attention as she faced disruptions, including jeers, boos, and heated questions from constituents. The backlash was directed at her support for the GOP’s tax and spend bill, which Trump at the time called his One Big Beautiful Bill.
«I think that it is really important to be transparent and accessible, and I will go out and defend our agenda anytime, anywhere, and talk with Iowans,» she said.
But she lamented that «unfortunately, what we’ve seen is, like in my town halls last week, people just wanted to stand there, yell and have a camera in my face to try to get a viral clip. I don’t think that’s productive. That’s why I answered their questions in a cool, calm and collected way, because I’m trying to change that by getting out and answering those questions.»
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Hinson doesn’t have the GOP primary field to herself. Former state Sen. Jim Carlin and veteran Joshua Smith had already entered the primary ahead of Ernst’s announcement.
And five Democrats are already running for Senate in Iowa. Among them are state Rep. Josh Turek, a Paralympian wheelchair basketball player, state Sen. Zach Wahls, Knoxville Chamber of Commerce executive director Nathan Sage and Des Moines School Board Chair Jackie Norris.
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa announced on Tuesday that she wouldn’t seek re-election in the 2026 midterms. (Reuters)
Ernst, who announced on Tuesday that she wouldn’t seek a third six-year term when she’s up for re-election in 2026, first grabbed national attention in 2014 with her «make ‘em squeal» ads as she won the high-profile Senate election in Iowa in the race to succeed retiring longtime Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin.
«11 years ago, Iowans elected me as the first female combat veteran to the U.S. Senate, and they did so with a mission in mind – to make Washington squeal. And I’m proud to say we have delivered. We’ve cut waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government.»
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Hinson told Fox News that «Sen. Ernst is my friend. I look up to her, and you know, her efforts in the Senate. I think every Iowan is proud, and Iowa is so much better as a result of her leadership.»
And looking ahead, she said «I absolutely would love to campaign side by side with with Joni.»
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GOP rips FISA court for tapping ex-Biden ‘disinformation’ lawyer to advise on surveillance
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Republican lawmakers called it «insane» that the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court appointed to a key advisory panel a lawyer with past ties to the Biden administration’s controversial Disinformation Governance Board.
Judges on the FISC appointed Jennifer Daskal this month to serve as an amicus curiae, meaning Daskal is now among a small group of lawyers designated to advise the secretive court, which approves warrants for federal authorities to surveil targets for foreign intelligence purposes. The GOP lawmakers say Daskal’s history with the disinformation board raises worries about her ability to discern whether warrants are appropriate.
«The same person who helped to build a board to censor American speech now advises judges on how to protect American liberties,» House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital in a statement. «That’s ridiculous — and exactly why Congress must continue our oversight.»
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, looks on during a hearing with the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., echoed Jordan’s concerns, saying Daskal’s appointment was «insane» and calling for reforms to the FISC.
Schmitt shared a video of himself on X questioning Daskal during a hearing about what he called the Biden administration’s «censorship enterprise,» referencing Daskal’s role in aiming to dispel what the administration viewed as inaccurate information about COVID-19 masks and vaccines and information about election security.
FISC proceedings are classified and «ex parte,» meaning a judge reviews the federal government’s warrant application and the target of the warrant has no awareness of the proceedings. A judge reviewing the application can, however, turn to an amicus curiae to present counterpoints to the government’s application, meaning Daskal is among a handful of lawyers who could be tapped to argue against allowing the government to wiretap a person’s phones or otherwise surveil them.
The logo of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seen at the Los Angeles Federal Building after a news conference to provide an update on the investigation into a May 18, 2025, bombing at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, on June 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government has access to these powerful spy tools for foreign intelligence purposes, but it has sometimes, whether inadvertently or intentionally, improperly targeted U.S. citizens.
Building more guardrails into the legislation has long been a point of contention for privacy hawks. Republicans, in particular, became highly critical of the FISC after finding that the court approved the FBI’s warrant applications, which contained flimsy and inaccurate evidence, to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page beginning in 2016.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on Daskal’s appointment, that the «American people need to have confidence in the people tasked to serve as amici» before the FISC. Grassley pointed to a bill he introduced, the FISA Accountability Act, which would allow Congress to have a say in who is chosen as an amicus curiae.
Jordan and Grassley have been some of the most vocal proponents of reining in the federal government’s use of FISA after identifying instances in recent years of intelligence officials allegedly abusing their authority and infringing on U.S. citizens’ Fourth Amendment right to privacy. In the case of Page, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz released a report in 2019 that identified more than a dozen «significant errors or omissions» across the FBI’s four warrant applications used to surveil the former Trump aide. Daskal, in her new role, could offer confidential, weighty legal arguments to a FISC judge that support or oppose intelligence officials’ requests to surveil someone.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is seen in the U.S. Capitol during votes related to the government shutdown on Thursday, October 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Daskal served as a top lawyer in the Department of Homeland Security when she helped launch the Disinformation Governance Board. Conservatives heavily criticized it, describing the board as a «Ministry of Truth» that sought to censor their viewpoints in violation of the First Amendment.
Daskal chartered the board, while Nina Jankowicz was named its executive director, an appointment that fueled Republicans’ fury over it after finding Jankowicz’ past social media posts that they said revealed she was too partisan. Jankowicz, for instance, cast doubt on the New York Post’s bombshell story in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which she said fit a pattern of Russian «information laundering.» Biden administration officials vehemently objected to the claims in the New York Post’s story about Joe Biden’s handling of Ukrainian foreign policy, though the authenticity of the laptop itself has been verified through court proceedings.
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Republicans put so much pressure on DHS about the board — calling it an «abuse of taxpayer dollars» and raising alarm that it painted policy disagreements over COVID-19, election security and immigration as mis- or dis- information — that it disbanded just a few months after its launch.
In Daskal’s hearing exchange with Schmitt, Daskal said «it’s not appropriate for the government to censor any points of view.» Daskal did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
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Russia urges Iran, ‘all parties’ in Middle East to show restraint amid US military buildup
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Russia warned Iran and «all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution» Thursday amid a U.S. military buildup in the Middle East.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remark as the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and its strike group are moving from the Caribbean toward the Middle East.
«Russia continues to develop relations with Iran, and in doing so, we call on our Iranian friends and all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution, and we urge them to prioritize political and diplomatic means in resolving any problems,» Peskov said Thursday, according to Reuters.
«Right now, we are indeed seeing an unprecedented escalation of tensions in the region. But we still expect that political and diplomatic means and negotiations will continue to prevail in the search for a settlement,» he added.
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A F-18E fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford as it sails during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise on Sept. 24, 2025, in the North Sea. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
The move of the USS Gerald R. Ford would place two aircraft carriers and their accompanying warships in the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln and three guided-missile destroyers arrived in the Middle East more than two weeks ago.
Negotiations between the United States and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program advanced Tuesday toward what Tehran described as the beginning of a potential framework, but sharp public divisions between the two sides underscored how far apart they remain.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is heading toward the Middle East as tensions with Iran escalate and President Donald Trump demands full nuclear dismantlement. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the two sides reached a «general agreement on a number of guiding principles» and agreed to begin drafting text for a possible agreement, with plans to exchange drafts and schedule a third round of talks.
Yet Washington has publicly insisted that any agreement must result in the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program — including its enrichment capacity — along with limits on Tehran’s ballistic missile program and an end to its support for allied militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, is seen in the North Sea during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise in September 2025. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
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Those demands go well beyond temporary enrichment pauses or technical adjustments.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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La impactante carta que escribió el rey Carlos III tras la detención de su hermano, el príncipe Andrés
El rey Carlos III de Inglaterra declaró este jueves que “la justicia debe seguir su curso” tras la detención de su hermano, el expríncipe Andrés, salpicado por el caso Epstein y bajo sospecha de “mala conducta” durante su etapa como enviado comercial del Reino Unido.
“Lo que sigue ahora es el proceso completo, justo y adecuado mediante el cual este asunto se investiga de la manera apropiada y por las autoridades correspondientes”, afirmó Carlos III, en una inusual declaración firmada personalmente.
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Tras expresar su “más profunda preocupación” por el arresto de su hermano menor, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, el monarca reiteró su apoyo a la policía y la Justicia.
“En esto, como he dicho antes, cuentan con todo nuestro apoyo y cooperación”. “Permítanme dejarlo claro: la justicia debe seguir su curso”, añadió.
Escándalo en el Reino Unido: detuvieron al expríncipe Andrés en medio de las acusaciones por el caso Epstein. (Foto: Reuters)
Por qué detuvieron al hermano del rey de Inglaterra
La detención ocurrió mientras detectives británicos evalúan las afirmaciones hechas en los “archivos de Jeffrey Epstein” contra el exduque de York de que compartió información estatal sensible con el financista y delincuente sexual estadounidense mientras era enviado comercial del Reino Unido, cargo que ocupó entre 2001 y 2011.
Se trata de correos electrónicos publicados por el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos en los que el exduque habría compartido con Epstein informes de visitas oficiales a Hong Kong, Vietnam y Singapur.
Otro, en la víspera de Navidad de 2010, pareció enviar a Epstein un informe confidencial sobre oportunidades de inversión en la reconstrucción de la provincia de Helmand, en Afganistán, según detalló el diario The Guardian.
Imágenes publicadas por medios británicos mostraron una flota de coches sin identificación, que se cree son vehículos policiales, llegando temprano el jueves a la finca de Sandringham del rey Carlos III, en el este de Inglaterra, donde Andrés se mudó a principios de febrero. Policías allanaron la casa del expríncipe Andrés. (Foto: gentileza BBC).
El príncipe, despojado de sus títulos
El año pasado, Charles despojó a su hermano de sus títulos y le ordenó abandonar su mansión en la finca de Windsor, aunque Andrés sigue siendo octavo en la línea de sucesión al trono británico.
La policía informó “estar realizando registros” en dos propiedades, señalando que “el hombre permanece bajo custodia policial en este momento”.
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La mala conducta en el ejercicio de un cargo público conlleva una pena máxima de cadena perpetua, según el Crown Prosecution Service (Fiscalía de la Corona).
La policía regional de Windsor indicó entonces que está “examinando esta información” sobre Andrew Moutbatten-Windsor, como debe ser llamado ahora tras ser desposeído de sus cargos aristocráticos.
Primeras denuncias de abuso sexual contra Andrés en el caso Epstein
Estos documentos se añaden a las acusaciones de agresión sexual formuladas contra el expríncipe por Virginia Giuffre, que se suicidó en 2025.
En un libro póstumo, Giuffre aseguró que el Príncipe Andrés había abusado tres veces de ella, entregada por el millonario estadounidense cuando era menor de edad.
Una segunda mujer afirmó posteriormente, a través de su abogado, que Epstein la envió a Inglaterra en 2010 para mantener relaciones sexuales con el hijo de la reina Isabel II. Virginia Giuffre con el príncipe Andrés. Ella tenía 17 años y él 41. Se conocieron en las fiestas sexuales de Jeffrey Epstein. (Foto: BBC)
Otro abogado estadounidense sostuvo que una de sus clientas relató que Epstein y el expríncipe la obligaron a mantener relaciones sexuales durante una fiesta en Florida en 2006.
Al menos cuatro fuerzas policiales británicas confirmaron que analizan informes que parecen vincular al expríncipe Andrés, ahora conocido como Andrés Mountbatten-Windsor, con Epstein.
Una investigación de la BBC publicada en diciembre encontró que casi 90 vuelos vinculados a Epstein llegaron y partieron de aeropuertos del Reino Unido, algunos con mujeres británicas a bordo que afirman haber sido víctimas de abusos por parte del multimillonario.
Leé también: Por las denuncias de agresión sexual, el príncipe Andrés renunció a sus títulos en la corona británica
Días atrás, el primer ministro británico, Keir Starmer, dijo que Andrés debería hablar con las autoridades sobre sus vínculos con Epstein.
El primer ministro recordó que “nadie está por encima de la ley” y agregó que las personas con información tenían el “deber de presentarse”.
Según la BBC, el período máximo que se puede retener al expríncipe es de 96 horas, pero esto requeriría múltiples prórrogas por parte de altos oficiales de policía y un tribunal de magistrados.
En la mayoría de los casos, los sospechosos son detenidos durante 12 o 24 horas y luego son acusados o liberados en espera de una mayor investigación.
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