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Conservative firebrand launches ‘TruckSafe Tipline’ to report illegal drivers amid spike in highway deaths

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Amid heightened concern over highway deaths involving illegal immigrant drivers, conservative firebrand Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is launching a «TruckSafe Tipline» to enable truckers to share concerns about illegals on U.S. roads.
«Indiana is the Crossroads of America and Hoosiers are getting killed because drivers who shouldn’t be here in the first place are behind the wheel,» Banks said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
Through the online portal, which is already live, concerned citizens are able to share information about carriers they believe are employing or contracting with drivers who are not legally in the United States, not authorized to drive a truck, or who cannot meet required English-language safety standards.
A spokesperson for Banks’ office told Fox News Digital that reports submitted to the TruckSafe Tipline will be reviewed by the senator’s staff and shared with the U.S. Department of Transportation and its Office of Inspector General.
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Left: Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind. Right: A crashsite involving Bekzhan Beishekeev, a 30-year-old national of Kyrgyzstan, that left four dead. (CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images; Fox News/DHS)
«If you’re driving a truck on our roads, you need to be legal, you need to be able to read traffic signs, and you need to follow the law,» said Banks. «The TruckSafe Tipline gives people on the ground a way to speak up when they see carriers cutting corners and putting lives at risk.»
In an X post, Banks addressed truckers directly, writing, «If you’re a trucker or work in the industry and see something unsafe or know of shady carriers hiring illegals, I want to hear from you.»
This comes shortly after a driver of a semi-truck at the center of a multi-vehicle crash that left four dead in Indiana was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Indiana State Police said the fatal crash happened Tuesday around 4 p.m. in the area of State Road 67 and County Road 550 East in Jay County, where the truck collided with a van.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News that the driver, Bekzhan Beishekeev, is a Kyrgyzstani national who entered the U.S. via the Biden-era CBP One cell phone app on Dec. 19, 2024, at the Nogales, Ariz., port of entry, and he was released into the U.S. via parole by the Biden administration.
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Bekzhan Beishekeev, left, has been taken into ICE custody following a fatal crash on Feb. 3, 2026, in Jay County, Ind., near the state’s border with Ohio. (Jay County Sheriff’s Department)
Beishekeev, 30, was reportedly driving on SR 67 in Indiana when he didn’t stop for another slowed semi-truck, swerving instead into oncoming traffic and crashing head-on into a van, killing four people, several of whom were reportedly Amish.
Banks’ office remarked that «this was not the first fatal accident caused by an illegal truck driver on Indiana’s roads.» The office pointed to the death of Indiana National Guardsman Terry Frye last November in a crash that involved a Georgian national who entered the country illegally in 2022.
Just a month before that, Borko Stankovic, an illegal alien from Serbia and Montenegro, caused a multi-car accident that killed a 54-year-old. Despite being in the United States illegally since 2011, the Stankovic owned two trucking companies that received over $36,000 in COVID-19 relief funding.
In October, Fox News Digital reported on Illinois-based trucking executive Mike Kucharski, co-owner and vice president of JKC Trucking, blowing the whistle on illegal alien commercial drivers not only endangering American roads but also «killing the trucking business.»
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Sean Duffy, US secretary of transportation, during a news conference at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (Ryan Collerd/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Kucharski explained further that, though a heavily regulated industry, illegal alien truck drivers can exploit a «loophole» in the system by obtaining non-domiciled commercial drivers’ licenses from sanctuary states. They are then able to outcompete legitimate trucking businesses by charging lower prices, leading to the demise of many American small businesses in the industry.
«American truck drivers are patriots and vital to our country. No one is more outraged about what’s happening than them,» Banks wrote in another X post, adding, «Shady trucking companies that hire illegals, put lives at risk, and undercut American drivers’ wages are the problem. We must hold them accountable!»
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U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also chimed in on X, writing, «[Sen. Banks] is absolutely right! Too many lives have been lost and this must stop.»
«We will crack down on these shady trucking companies and get to the bottom of the crash that killed four members of the Amish community in Indiana,» he said, noting, «Stay tuned for more to come on this.»
Fox News Digital’s Adam Sabes, Greg Norman-Diamond and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
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‘It’s absurd’: DHS shutdown bears down on US as lawmakers jet off to Europe

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The government entered a partial shutdown at midnight Friday after Congress failed to reach a funding deal — and some lawmakers’ decision to attend an international gathering in Europe this weekend is drawing criticism from colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
«It’s absurd, I hope the American people are paying attention,» Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital.
The deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by the end of the week came with a built-in complication: members of both chambers were scheduled to attend the annual Munich Security Conference, with many set to depart by day’s end Thursday.
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While the DHS shutdown continues, several lawmakers are overseas in Germany. (Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty)
Without a deal in place, Congress left Washington, D.C., on Thursday after the Senate failed to pass both a full-year funding bill for DHS and a temporary, two-week funding extension.
At midnight Friday — with several lawmakers already in Germany — DHS shut down.
Both Republican leaders warned members to be prepared to return if a deal was reached. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., gave senators 24 hours’ notice to return, while House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., allowed a 48-hour window.
Despite the conference being scheduled months in advance, some lawmakers said leaving Washington — or even the country — during an active funding standoff sent the wrong message.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., blamed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arguing that Democrats blocked Republican-led efforts to prevent a partial DHS shutdown.
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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., in the Senate Subway during a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 14, 2025. (Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«Schumer’s what’s deciding this,» Scott told Fox News Digital. «I mean, he’s deciding that he’s more interested in people going to Munich than he is in funding DHS.»
Several lawmakers from both chambers are attending the conference, participating in side discussions and panels during the annual forum, where heads of state and top decision-makers gather to debate international security policy.
Members of the House expressed frustration that senators would leave amid stalled negotiations between Senate Democrats and the White House.
«The Senate started out a week ago saying, ‘I don’t think anybody should leave town,’» Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., told Fox News Digital. «Now they’re doing the Munich thing. At least [the House] sent a bill over…not a great pride moment for the federal government, is it?»
Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., led a bipartisan delegation of 11 senators to the conference.
When asked whether the shutdown would affect his travel plans, Whitehouse said, «I hope not.»
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who was scheduled to participate in a panel with Graham titled «The State of Russia,» according to the conference agenda, said lawmakers should have resolved outstanding issues before leaving town.
«I’m not delighted with Republican resistance and unresponsiveness, but it’s on them at this point,» Blumenthal said.
House rules prohibit official congressional delegations, also known as CODELs, during a shutdown. Still, several House members made the trip to Bavaria. At least a handful of House Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attended the conference.
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Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., interviews witnesses during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump, Dec. 17. 2019. (Jason Andrew/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla., said during a hearing on the impact of a DHS shutdown that it would be «unconscionable if Congress leaves and does not solve the problem.»
«I’m sure Munich is a great place. I’ve been there many times. The beer is outstanding,» Cole said. «But we don’t need to go to a defense conference someplace in Europe when we’re not taking care of the defense of the United States of America.»
Lawmakers are expected to continue negotiations throughout the weekend while many are abroad. Senate Democrats have signaled they may present a counteroffer to the White House but have not finalized a proposal.
If an agreement is reached, it would still take time to draft the legislative text and bring the measure to the Senate floor. Even so, some lawmakers argued that stepping away from negotiations — whether returning home or traveling overseas — was the wrong move.
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«I’ve been pretty outspoken to say we need to stay as long as we have to be here to be able to get things resolved so we don’t ever have a shutdown,» Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital.
«That’s the easiest way to resolve it is to say ‘no one walks away from the table,’» he added. «We stay at the table.»
Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., told Fox News Digital the situation reflects poorly on GOP leadership’s handling of funding priorities, though he acknowledged the significance of the international conference.
«There’s a certain irony that we would not be here to fund essential services of our government, but we have enough time and energy to go to the Munich Security Conference, which admittedly is a very important international gathering,» Morelle said. «But I think it says a lot about the lack of leadership…we can’t do the fundamentals of this job.»
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Una película sobre la leyenda trágica de Bill Evans entra en competencia en el Festival de Berlín

Una película sobre el legendario pianista de jazz Bill Evans que se centra en uno de los periodos más traumáticos de su, a menudo, tortuosa vida tuvo su estreno en el Festival de Cine de Berlín, en donde participa en la competencia oficial por el Oso de Oro. Rodada en blanco y negro, toma su título de uno de los primeros álbumes de Evans: Everybody digs Bill Evans. Dirigida por el británico Grant Gee, todo un especialista de vídeos musicales para Radiohead, Blur y Nick Cave entre otros; está protagonizada por el actor noruego Anders Danielsen Lie, conocido principalmente por The Worst Person in the World’ (dirigida por Joachim Trier), quién interpreta a Bill Evans, quien murió en 1980 a la edad de 51 años.
La película se enfoca en el periodo posterior a la muerte del bajista Scott LaFaro en un accidente automovilístico en 1961, pocos días después de que el trío de Evans terminara de grabar su residencia en el Village Vanguard —ahora considerados discos clásicos. El pianista y compositor, sumido en el dolor, dejó de tocar durante varios meses, lamentando la pérdida de su amigo y recayendo en el consumo de heroína. Una visita a sus padres en Florida —interpretados por los veteranos de Hollywood Bill Pullman y Laurie Metcalf— es el catalizador para que él vuelva a encarrilar su vida. Pero, como observó Danielsen Lie, esto fue solo una de una serie de crisis en la vida del músico, quien luchó durante años con su adicción a las drogas.

“Una de las cosas que se ha dicho sobre Bill Evans es que fue el suicidio más largo de la historia”, dijo el actor. “Y eso es en parte cierto, porque hay una inmensa cantidad de comportamiento autodestructivo en esta biografía”, añadió. “Pero al mismo tiempo, él también estaba muy vivo… Realmente disfrutaba de su arte y de lo que hacía, lo cual es algo contradictorio. Eso es opuesto al desastre total y el caos que su vida fue en muchas etapas a lo largo del camino.”
Danielsen reconoció en una rueda de prensa en la Berlinale que muchas veces pensó que Evans tomaba malas decisiones, algo que queda claramente reflejado en sus comportamientos autodestructivos. “Pero a la vez disfrutaba de la vida y decía que nunca había tenido un momento infeliz al piano”. Y agregó que “como actor, no quiero tener que defender las elecciones de mis personajes, no soy alguien que juzgue a mis personajes”.

Aunque el filme, más que en la faceta de pianista de Evans, se centra en su vida personal, en sus demonios interiores y en sus fallidas relaciones. Según contaron, fue una película que tardó casi una década en hacerse realidad, por lo difícil que fue conseguir financiación para el proyecto, aunque finalmente el dinero llegó del Reino Unido e Irlanda, así como de fondos privados en los Estados Unidos. Una vez en el montaje, el director tenía muy claro desde el principio el uso alterno del blanco y negro y del color para marcar las distintas etapas. Todo empezó, explicó Grant Gee, con una vieja foto de Bill Evans que le hizo preguntarle quién era ese hombre que se escondía detrás del genio.
Everybody digs Bill Evans está basada en la novela Intermission del escritor galés Owen Martell, adaptada al cine por el guionista irlandés Mark O’Halloran. Fue él quien decidió incluir de nuevo a la pareja de Evans, Ellaine Schultz —quien compartía su adicción— en la historia. Aunque ella no aparece en la novela, el escritor dijo que para él era una de las claves emocionales del “viaje que Bill emprende con ella y los demás a su alrededor”. Valene Kane, quien interpreta a Schultz, estuvo de acuerdo. “Creo que siempre necesitas la historia de amor. Es una de las fuerzas de vida más importantes que tenemos.”
Fuente: AFP
[Fotos: REUTERS/Nadja Wohlleben; prensa Festival de Berlín]
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