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Trump admin sued by New York, New Jersey over Hudson River tunnel funding freeze: ‘See you in court’
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New York and New Jersey sued the Trump administration Tuesday for cutting off $16 billion in federal funding for a new rail tunnel project under the Hudson River connecting the two states.
The federal government is accused of «illegally withholding» funding committed to the Gateway project and the two states are seeking emergency relief to force the release of funds frozen by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
With construction already underway, the states are seeking a quick ruling because the project could be forced to shut down as early as Friday, potentially eliminating thousands of jobs and saddling the states with significant new operating costs.
The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, comes after the Trump administration froze billions of dollars during the government shutdown last fall tied to the project, as well as funding for the extension of New York City’s Second Avenue Subway.
TRUMP ADMIN SEEKING TO PULL FUNDING FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SLAPPED WITH JUDGE’S PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
Construction continues on the Gateway Tunnel project to connect New Jersey to Penn Station on Oct. 17, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
«Donald Trump’s revenge tour on New York threatens to derail one of the most vital infrastructure projects this nation has built in generations, putting thousands of union jobs and billions of dollars in economic benefits in jeopardy and threatening the commutes of 200,000 riders,» New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement.
She said New York «will fight this illegal effort by the Trump Administration to steal the funding the federal government committed to get the Gateway Tunnel built with everything we’ve got.»
«My message to Donald Trump and Sean Duffy is simple: we’ll see you in court.»
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House and the Department of Transportation for comment.
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The Trump administration is facing a lawsuit from New York and New Jersey over frozen federal funding for the Hudson River tunnel, drawing sharp criticism from Gov. Kathy Hochul. (Left: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Right: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The large-scale project would create new tunnels and rehabilitate an existing Hudson River rail crossing connecting northern New Jersey and New York City.
The overhaul is considered necessary because the existing rail tunnels are more than 115 years old and suffered severe damage from saltwater flooding during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The tunnels carry about 70,000 New Jersey commuters daily, and Amtrak has warned that failure of one tunnel could cut rail traffic into New York City by up to 75%.
The project has been under construction for more than a year, but the Trump administration put a hold on federal funding in September, citing the government shutdown — a move the two states argue is «jeopardizing the economic future of the Northeast region.»
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«Every time the Trump Administration gets involved, costs go up and working people suffer. The illegal attack on the Gateway Tunnel is yet another example,» New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said in a statement. «New Jersey will not back down from this fight. If this project stops, 1,000 workers will immediately lose their jobs and hundreds of thousands of commuters will lose the chance at finally having reliable train service that makes their lives easier.»
New York Attorney General Letitia James added in a statement posted on X that stopping the Gateway project «would cost thousands of good-paying jobs and put one of the country’s most heavily used transit corridors at risk.»
Jennifer Davenport, New Jersey’s acting attorney general, delivered a blunt message to the Trump administration.
DUFFY THREATENS TO YANK NEW YORK FEDERAL FUNDS OVER ILLEGALLY ISSUED COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSES
Workers at a construction site for the Gateway Program’s Hudson Tunnel Project in New York City on Oct. 3, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
«Our promise to our residents is clear: we will protect them from attacks on their rights and on their pocketbooks, whatever the source,» she said.
«The President’s decision to freeze funding for the Hudson Tunnel Project jeopardizes safe and reliable infrastructure and puts thousands of jobs at risk,» she added. «The Federal Government has left us no choice: we must challenge this illegal action in court, and demand emergency relief that will protect us from these unlawful harms.»
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A separate lawsuit over tunnel funding was filed Monday against the federal government by the Gateway Development Commission, which oversees the project.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan and The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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La clave biológica que convierte a los loros en los grandes imitadores del reino animal
Los loros sorprenden por su habilidad para imitar el habla humana, un fenómeno que intriga tanto a aficionados como a expertos. Un equipo internacional de científicos, liderado por la Universidad de Duke y citado por National Geographic, identificó la base cerebral que explica esta destreza y detalla cómo su estructura cerebral los diferencia de otras especies animales.
La comunicación animal abarca una gran variedad de sonidos —desde ladridos hasta cantos—, pero la reproducción espontánea de palabras y frases completas es extremadamente rara. Solo los humanos y muy pocas especies, como los loros, demuestran un dominio notable de la imitación del habla. Estas aves no solo copian sonidos, sino que pueden incorporar fragmentos completos de lenguas humanas a su repertorio.
El comportamiento espontáneo de los loros incluye la imitación de sonidos ambientales y vocalizaciones humanas. Como ejemplo, se observó periquitos Finsch en Costa Rica intercambiando “saludos” audibles. Este fenómeno captó la atención de la ciencia, que busca descifrar por qué estas aves muestran tanta afinidad por la imitación.
La investigación publicada en la revista Plos One y reseñada por National Geographic revela que la clave reside en características particulares del cerebro de los loros. A diferencia de pájaros cantores y colibríes, estas aves presentan una estructura denominada caparazón, exclusiva de su morfología cerebral.
La presencia del caparazón significa que los loros cuentan con áreas cerebrales adicionales que potencian la recogida y el procesamiento de información sonora. Esta estructura agrega complejidad, permitiendo un grado superior de reconocimiento, decodificación y reproducción de sonidos. Dichas diferencias, según el equipo de la Universidad de Duke, explican la capacidad única de estas aves para imitar tanto palabras como patrones melódicos complejos, algo que excede las habilidades de otras especies.
El caparazón es señalado como el centro que brinda a los loros una versatilidad sobresaliente en la imitación vocal, posicionándolos como los animales no humanos más hábiles para esta tarea.
Según científicos, la imitación en los loros no depende solo de áreas cerebrales especializadas. La interacción entre el sistema auditivo y el sistema motor resulta fundamental. Estas aves logran procesar los sonidos con gran precisión y los integran, mediante movimientos musculares y respiratorios muy coordinados.
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Este mecanismo biológico convierte la información auditiva en acciones vocales concretas. La sintonía entre oído y músculo permite reproducir palabras, melodías y hasta sonidos ambientales con una fidelidad difícil de igualar. Así, la combinación entre un cerebro especializado y un sistema motor adaptado distingue a los loros entre el resto del reino animal.
Pese a la sofisticación interna, los expertos aclaran que no se hallaron adaptaciones anatómicas adicionales, como articulaciones u órganos vocales extra. No hay pruebas de que los loros cuenten con estructuras físicas distintas en su aparato vocal que expliquen su capacidad.
La singularidad de los loros radica exclusivamente en su estructura cerebral compleja y en la eficaz integración de sus sentidos. Su asombroso talento para la imitación del habla sigue siendo, por ahora, una consecuencia directa de su biología interna y no de mecanismos físicos ocultos.
Además, los estudios comparativos entre especies de loros revelan que el tamaño relativo del caparazón varía de acuerdo con la destreza imitativa de cada grupo. Especies conocidas por su gran capacidad para reproducir sonidos humanos, como el loro gris africano y el loro amazónico, presentan un caparazón más desarrollado que otros loros menos hábiles en la imitación. Este hallazgo sugiere una relación directa entre la extensión de esta estructura cerebral y el repertorio vocal disponible para cada ave, aportando nuevas pistas sobre la evolución de la comunicación compleja en el reino animal.
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Dem governor under fire after illegal alien allegedly stabs woman to death at bus stop: ‘Heinous’
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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security is calling on Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to ensure local law enforcement cooperates with federal immigration officials by handing over an illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record who allegedly killed a woman earlier this week at a Virginia bus stop.
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, arrested an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone earlier this week on charges of second-degree murder after he allegedly fatally stabbed a woman, Stephanie Minter, 41, who was found dead at a local bus stop with several wounds to the upper body.
The alleged suspect, Abdul Jalloh, 32, also has a criminal history of more than 30 arrests, according to DHS, including for rape, malicious wounding, assault, identity theft, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, assault and pick-pocketing.
The request from the Trump administration comes after the newly elected Democratic governor of Virginia signed an executive order to end cooperation between federal immigration officials and state and local law enforcement, a move several Democratic Party governors have taken recently amid President Donald Trump’s move to increase deportation operations around the country.
The DHS request asking Virginia officials to cooperate with ICE also comes after an illegal immigrant allegedly murdered someone just days after being released from jail for a separate crime in December.
Abdul Jalloh, 32, and Gov. Abigail Spanberger (Department of Homeland Security/Getty Images)
«We are calling on Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Virginia’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this murderer and violent career criminal from their jail without notifying ICE,» said Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.
«This illegal alien’s murder of an innocent, beautiful American woman came less than 24 hours before Governor Spanberger’s demonization of ICE law enforcement. This heinous criminal is a perfect example of why we need cooperation from sanctuary jurisdictions and the importance of third country removals for the safety of the American people.»
Spanberger’s representatives did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Jalloh entered the United States illegally in 2012, according to DHS, and immigration officials lodged an immigration detainer against him in 2020, whereupon he was granted a final order of removal by a judge who said he could be removed to any country other than Sierra Leone.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH PRIOR DEPORTATION SHOOTS DEPUTY IN CHEST, DIES AFTER EXCHANGE: DHS
Protesters, using whistles to alert neighborhoods to ICE activity, face off with Minneapolis police officers in Minneapolis Jan. 24, 2026. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
DHS indicated that ICE cooperation to ensure Jalloh’s deportation is evident after a case Fox News covered in December when a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23, allegedly killed a man just a day after Fairfax County jail officials let him go.
The immigrant from El Salvador had been in custody on charges of malicious wounding and brandishing a gun, but police released him after the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, led by George Soros-backed prosecutor Steve Descano, dropped the charges.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Fairfax County Sheriff’s office to inquire about why the man had not been handed over to ICE.
The sheriff’s office said, «ICE was aware of Morales-Ortez’s incarceration and elected not to seek a judicial warrant to ensure he remained in custody.
Marvin Morales-Ortez, who is living in the country illegally, was released from Fairfax County custody and then allegedly committed a murder the next day. (Fairfax County Police Department/Getty Images)
«The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office follows all local, state and federal laws when determining whether a person is subject to release from the ADC,» the sheriff’s office told Fox News Digital at the time. «Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is automatically notified any time a person is booked into the ADC.»
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The same sheriff’s office did not get back to Fox News Digital’s media inquiry for this story on DHS urging officials to cooperate with federal officials.
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