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FBI snares an American heir indicted for allegedly bankrolling anti-cop, pro-Hamas communist revolution
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The Justice Department and FBI have a new communist financier in their crosshairs for alleged financial crimes: James «Fergie» Cox Chambers Jr., the estranged bad-boy heir to the Cox cable empire.
On Friday, Spanish police detained Chambers on the luxury island of Ibiza, in response to an international arrest warrant, according to sources. Chambers is allegedly wanted for money laundering and providing support to Hamas, following years of financing anti-Israel and anti-West organizations and protests. The transnational network he helped fund and support is kicking in to cast him as a victim of the Trump administration’s «fascism,» while critics are cheering the arrest as long overdue.
A spokesman for Spain’s Balearic Islands police branch, which includes Ibiza in its jurisdiction, told Fox News Digital that a U.S. citizen was arrested on charges tied to an international arrest warrant Friday under an international arrest warrant seeking his extradition to the United States. The spokesman did not confirm the identity of the citizen, but sources told Fox News Digital that the individual is Chambers.
Fergie Chambers poses for pictures in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
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The police spokesman added that the individual is being held at the central jail in Ibiza pending a judicial decision that will be conducted by videoconference. Supporters now plan a «Free Fergie Chambers» protest on Tuesday at 7 p.m. outside the prison in Ibiza, demonstrating against «DEL FASCISMO DE TRUMP,» or the «TRUMP’S FASCISM IN PERSECUTING DEFENDERS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.»
A spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment. Chambers and his representatives couldn’t be reached for comment.
A convert to Islam, Chambers represents the fusion of socialist and communist activists with Islamist interests that seek the destruction of the West, free enterprise and the state of Israel and the rise of political Islam, communism and a new Palestinian state.
General view of Centro Penitenciario de Ibiza, in Ibiza, Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Photo for Fox News Digital)
Chambers’ ideological comrades leaked news of the detention to trusted colleagues on far-left media platforms – some of which Chambers funds – and his communist, socialist and Islamist comrades are flooding social media to frame the narrative around the arrest as the Trump administration unfairly targeting Chambers.
The arrest is a significant move by the Trump administration as it targets far-left financiers allegedly engaged in supporting political violence. In this case, as in other investigations, federal authorities are following the money and investigating potential tax and financial crimes.
FBI Co-Deputy Director Chris Raia recently told Fox News Digital that investigators at the FBI’s Joint Mission Center have identified subjects tied to financing violent protest activity and have been building prosecutable cases.
General view of Centro Penitenciario de Ibiza, in Ibiza, Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Photo for Fox News Digital)
Like Neville Roy Singham, the American tech tycoon accused of financing communist and far-left nonprofit organizations from his base in Shanghai, China, Chambers has made a name for himself as a financial backer of anti-Israel and anti-American causes around the world. As reported exclusively at Fox News Digital, the Justice Department has launched a grand jury investigation into Singham for alleged money laundering and other financial improprieties. It is currently prosecuting the Southern Poverty Law Center for alleged money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud.
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Fergie Chambers walks near a mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Fergie Chambers walks near a mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Fergie Chambers performs the Muslim prayer in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Fergie Chambers smokes a cigarette while posing for photos in Tunis, Tunisia. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Chambers was born in 1985 in Brooklyn as James Cox Chambers Jr. to his father, James Cox Chambers, and mother, actress Lauren Hamilton. He is the great-grandson of James M. Cox, a former Ohio governor, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee and founder of the media company that became Cox Enterprises. Forbes estimates the Cox family empire is worth about $27 billion.
Chambers is now the estranged heir of Cox Enterprises, walking away from the family company in 2023 with a payout estimated at about $250 million after a falling out with his family over the company’s support for Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center, known by critics as «Cop City.» In April, a grand jury indicted three alleged Antifa-linked protesters accused of throwing firebombs at the general contractor of the Atlanta police training center.
Protestors rush a police line during a demonstration against the so-called «Cop City» training facility in Atlanta, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (Mike Stewart/AP Photo)
Chambers openly redirected his fortune into communist collectives, bail and legal underwriting and groups engaged in hard-edged protest and property disruption.
Raised mostly in Brooklyn after his parents divorced, Chambers attended Saint Ann’s School and later enrolled at Bard College but didn’t graduate. He briefly worked for a Cox Enterprises subsidiary before operating gyms in Georgia and later became increasingly involved in left-wing activism following the anti-police protests in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 and the demonstrations in Standing Rock, S.D., in 2016 against an oil pipeline.
Around 2019, Chambers established the «Berkshire Communists» collective in Alford, Mass., in a wealthy corner of western Massachusetts, where he built a commune, operated the Berkshire People’s Gym and launched a publication called «Combat Liberalism.»
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Police detain Palestine Action activists at the entrance of APCO Worldwide offices in London, where the building is covered in red paint, on Sept. 3, 2024. (Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu)
Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks, Chambers became one of the most prominent financial backers of «Palestine Action,» later renamed «Unity of Fields,» while also funding legal defense efforts for activists involved in anti-Israel demonstrations and direct-action campaigns in the United Kingdom and the U.S.
He praised the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks as a «moment of hope and inspiration,» told Mother Jones that «the most important thing for the prosperity of humanity is the destruction of the US» and said, «I chant death to America every day.»
Local and national reporting place him behind the «Stop Cop City» opposition, bail after occupations and protests against Elbit Systems, a company that provides services to Israel, in Merrimack, N.H., and the U.K., and ongoing legal support for networks in the U.S. and U.K. led by the controversial «Palestine Action.»
Communist tattoos are visible on Fergie Chambers’ hands and fingers while he sits in a cafe in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
After Alford, Mass., shut his Berkshire People’s Gym for zoning violations and law-enforcement scrutiny intensified, Chambers relocated to Tunis, in the North African nation of Tunisia.
In early February 2024, Chambers was photographed in his newly adopted city of Tunis in the North African nation of Tunisia, framing his narrative as a pious Muslim convert, with a red-and-white Palestinian kefiyyeh scarf draped over his shoulders, a black Muslim prayer cap on his head and a small beard on his face, a tradition that follows the sunnah, or practice, of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
The photo shoot included images of Chambers in Muslim prayer, at one point with his hands on his chest and at another point in «ruku» position, bent forward with his hands on his knees, staring at a point of concentration in front of him. In other shots, he walked by a local mosque, sat behind the wheel of a car with orange and green Muslim prayer beads, called «tazbi,» hanging on the rearview mirror. A pair of decorative boxing gloves with «RUSSIA» across the wrists, positioned on a red-and-white kefiyyeh spread along the dashboard.
Fergie Chambers walks his dogs in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Unconventional for traditional Muslims, who don’t often have dogs as pets because of a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that bars dogs as pets in the home, Chambers also was photographed smoking a cigarette and walking on the beach with two small dogs who look like bulldogs. He also wore tattoos, including a sickle-and-barbells on his left hand.
By May 2026, his social media posts placed him in Ireland. This month, the self-declared communist vacationed among the wealthy in Ibiza, is now sitting in prison.
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House passes daylight saving time reform as Trump signals support for ending clock change
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A bipartisan effort to make daylight saving time permanent is one step closer to becoming law after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the measure on Tuesday.
Lawmakers voted 308-117 to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to voluntarily observe daylight saving time year-round as a growing mass of lawmakers push to extend daylight into the evening hours.
«For decades, we have accepted this ritual of springing forward and falling back, even though it disrupts routines, throws off our sleep and creates unnecessary frustration for families across the country,» Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said Tuesday, detailing how the clock changes have disrupted her infant son’s sleep schedule.
«Let’s stop asking Americans to reset their clocks every March and November,» she continued. «Let’s provide some certainty and consistency and a little more sunshine at the end of the day.»
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The legislation divided lawmakers in both parties, with members largely from coastal areas, such as Louisiana, Florida and New Jersey, supporting permanent daylight saving time and others from the Midwest and agriculture-heavy states opposing it.
Democrats were nearly evenly split, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., opposing it. Just 22 Republicans voted in opposition, including Reps. Bryan Steil, R-Wis.; Rick Crawford, R-Ark.; Ryan Zinke, R-Mont.; and Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo.
The measure now heads to the Senate, where its prospects remain uncertain amid skepticism from members of both parties. President Donald Trump, who has long called for ending the twice-a-year clock changes, is expected to sign the bill if it reaches his desk.
The White House urged lawmakers to support the Sunshine Protection Act in an internal memo sent to Hill offices Tuesday, calling it a «popular, common-sense reform.»
Nearly every state follows the practice of setting clocks forward one hour in March to preserve more evening daylight before «falling back» one hour in November.
But nearly 20 states have already approved legislation to make daylight saving time permanent if Congress authorizes the practice. Hawaii and most of Arizona, however, do not observe daylight saving time.
Proponents argued the legislation, authored by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., was necessary to end disruptions caused by switching clocks, including to children’s routines and road safety, while arguing longer daylight would boost tourism and outdoor recreation.
«More evening sunshine means more time with family and more time to enjoy our local restaurants, shops, and everything Florida has to offer,» Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., wrote on social media. «It’s common sense. Let’s get it done.»
Some lawmakers, however, argue that year-round daylight saving time would delay winter sunrises until after 9 a.m. in some parts of the country, raising safety concerns about darker morning commutes and economic challenges for farmers who would likely have to start work later.
Texas rice farmer LG Raun stands in El Campo, Texas, Jan. 6, 2026. (Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Detractors have also stated that permanent standard time — meaning more light in the mornings — better aligns with circadian rhythms.
«If we’re going to make a permanent change that affects every American, we should follow the science and prioritize Americans’ health, particularly that of the children,» Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., who favors permanent standard time, said during debate Monday.
Scanlon also pointed to the nation’s brief experiment with year-round daylight saving time in 1974, which Congress reversed after widespread public backlash.
Tuesday’s vote comes as the semiannual clock change remains widely unpopular with Americans, according to recent polling.
An AP-NORC survey released in December found that just 12% of Americans favor the current daylight saving time system, with nearly half opposed. Another 40% of respondents had no opinion.
The survey also found that more Americans support having daylight saving time year-round compared to standard time by a 14-point margin.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., argued that permanent daylight saving time would create significant health and safety risks for children, who would likely go to school during darker morning hours. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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The Senate previously passed year-round daylight saving time legislation in 2022, but the measure failed to clear the House.
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Tiene 67 millones de años, conserva el 63% de sus huesos y acaba de romper un récord mundial
Un esqueleto de Tyrannosaurus rex de 67 millones de años hizo historia al convertirse en el fósil de dinosaurio más valioso jamás vendido en una subasta. La casa Sotheby’s confirmó este martes que el ejemplar, conocido como “Gus”, fue adquirido por 50,1 millones de dólares, una cifra que superó ampliamente la estimación inicial de entre 20 y 30 millones.
Con ese monto, el fósil desplazó al estegosaurio “Apex”, que hasta ahora ostentaba el récord tras haber sido vendido en 2024 por casi 45 millones de dólares. También dejó atrás a “Stan”, otro famoso T-Rex que había alcanzado cerca de 32 millones de dólares en 2020.
La puja se desarrolló durante unos diez minutos y enfrentó a siete interesados, tanto de manera presencial como virtual. Finalmente, un comprador cuya identidad permanece en reserva se quedó con la pieza tras una intensa competencia.
En uno de los momentos más llamativos de la subasta, la martillera Phyllis Kao alentó a los oferentes con una frase que despertó sonrisas entre los presentes: “Prueben con un mordisco más grande. Después de todo, es un T-Rex”. Gus fue excavado a lo largo de tres temporadas, de 2021 a 2023, y luego fue sometido a tres años más de trabajo de laboratorio para limpiar y montar los huesos. (Foto: Reuters)
El ejemplar vendido es considerado uno de los más importantes descubiertos en los últimos años. “Gus” mide aproximadamente 3,8 metros de altura y 11,5 metros de largo cuando se encuentra montado en posición erguida, con la cola extendida y una de su patas ligeramente elevada.
Según Sotheby’s, el fósil conserva alrededor del 63% de su estructura ósea original, un porcentaje muy elevado para un dinosaurio de estas características. Entre las piezas preservadas se destacan una mandíbula abierta repleta de grandes dientes, ambos pies con abundantes huesos originales y una fúrcula —conocida popularmente como “hueso de la suerte”—, un elemento anatómico poco frecuente en este tipo de hallazgos.
Tras concretarse la venta, Cassandra Hatton, vicepresidenta de Sotheby’s, destacó: “Gus no solo es un hallazgo excepcional, sino un ejemplar que fue excavado, documentado, preparado y preservado con un nivel extraordinario de excelencia. El mercado responde cuando estos grandes fósiles son tratados de la manera correcta”, afirmó.
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Sin embargo, la operación volvió a poner sobre la mesa una discusión que divide a paleontólogos y coleccionistas privados.
La Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, una organización integrada por investigadores, docentes y estudiantes especializados en fósiles manifestó antes de la subasta que ejemplares de semejante importancia deberían permanecer en instituciones públicas, donde puedan ser estudiados y exhibidos para futuras generaciones.
Kristina Curry Rogers, vicepresidenta de la entidad, sostuvo que el verdadero valor científico de un fósil no termina cuando es extraído del suelo.
“El descubrimiento de un fósil importante es apenas el comienzo de su historia científica. Muchos de los avances más relevantes en paleontología ocurrieron años o incluso décadas después del hallazgo, gracias al desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías que permitieron responder preguntas que antes eran imposibles”, explicó. Con un 63% completo según el recuento óseo, Gus es uno de los fósiles de T. rex más completos jamás encontrados. (Foto: Reuters)
Existen antecedentes de grandes fósiles adquiridos por privados que luego terminaron en museos. El estegosaurio “Apex”, por ejemplo, se encuentra cedido en préstamo de largo plazo al Museo Americano de Historia Natural de Nueva York.
Algo similar ocurrió con “Sue”, el célebre T-Rex vendido por Sotheby’s en 1997, que hoy constituye una de las principales atracciones del Field Museum de Chicago.
Ahora, “Gus” suma un nuevo récord a esa historia: además de ser uno de los T-Rex más completos encontrados hasta el momento, pasó a ser el fósil de dinosaurio más caro adquirido en una subasta, con una venta que volvió a demostrar el enorme interés que despiertan estas piezas únicas en el mercado del coleccionismo y en el mundo de la ciencia.
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During four terms in Congress, South Dakota’s Dusty Johnson has emerged as a leading voice on American agricultural policy, U.S.-China relations and fiscal responsibility.
Often known as the «problem solver,» he recently sat down with Fox News Digital at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas to discuss his congressional career, his South Dakota gubernatorial bid and his future plans as his time in the U.S. House draws to a close.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., arrives for the House Republican Conference caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol June 4, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Long respected for his detailed analysis of China policy, Johnson believes the United States is routinely underestimating the geopolitical and economic threat posed by Beijing.
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«I think the biggest mistake is that we’re basically sleepwalking through this competition. I mean, every day the leaders of China get up, and they try to figure out how to beat America, how to destabilize our country, how to get an advantage.
«And we’re, frankly, in this country spending more time fighting one another than we are trying to think about how to compete with the Chinese Communist Party.»
Johnson is the former leader of the Republican Main Street Caucus, a group of center-right Republicans focused on commonsense governance and pragmatism. He has approached his career aspiring to break the famed Washington gridlock.
However, recently Johnson lamented that «it’s a tough time to be normal,» observing that the loudest and angriest voices seem to be increasingly dominating the national conversation.
«Well … looking a little further than the New York primaries last week, where just an insane bunch of really out there democratic socialists beat some pretty liberal but still kind of mainstream American political thought Democrats, I just think you see that happening in both parties.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, U.S. Democratic House candidate for New York, speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally at Kings Theater in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 18, 2026, ahead of the state’s primary election June 23. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«Primary turnout is rarely great. Those who do turn out are generally the most interested in purity rather than in progress. And, so, when you’re trying to swim upstream, when you are trying to deliver a message of nuance and thoughtfulness, that sometimes doesn’t go over as well as just saying, ‘Let’s go fight.’»
Even as the GOP has controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress on several occasions over the past generation, it has been perennially unable to tackle the problem of balancing budgets and reducing the national debt.
Johnson argues that only a bipartisan approach has hope of offering a solution.
«Well, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die,» he said. «I’ve certainly rolled out a number of plans that would have some pretty substantial reforms to our entitlement programs. I’m not looking to take away grandma’s Social Security or Medicare. But we simply are not going to restore solvency to those programs with a status quo approach.
«And, unfortunately, candidate Harris, candidate Biden, candidate Trump … they damn near swore on a stack of Bibles that they were not going to touch Social Security or Medicare. That approach guarantees failure.
«The other thing we have to acknowledge is one party’s not going to get this done. And I know that’s hard for Republicans to hear because so many Republican office holders have sold the American people a bill of goods that this can be done with one party alone. It cannot.
«The last time we made much-needed reform to Social Security in 1983, it took Democratic Speaker Tip O’Neill and Republican President Ronald Reagan to get it done. If we do not start thinking about avoiding fiscal calamity as a bipartisan problem, we will fail.»
Johnson entered the 2026 South Dakota GOP gubernatorial primary as the frontrunner but ended up placing third in a tight race behind real estate executive Toby Doeden and incumbent Gov. Larry Rhoden.
South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden speaks with the press during Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s Returning Education to the States tour April 8, 2026, at McCrossan Boys Ranch in Sioux Falls, S.D. (Samantha Laurey/Argus Leader/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
He acknowledges that a congressional pedigree, once seen as a boost in a bid for a higher office, now appears to be something of an albatross.
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«Well, I think an absolute onslaught of negative ads the last three or four weeks against me, they really worked. Told people I was a career politician, that I was a RINO, that I was a liberal, and we saw in the polling that that was resonating. Those ads worked so well because they tapped into kind of the spirit of the times.
«I have 13 of my colleagues in Congress who have lost their races for governor or senator. Normally, running as a House member, that gives you a bit of an advantage if you’re running for a different office. That’s no longer the case. People are fed up with Washington, D.C. And that clearly is a drag on my many colleagues like me who’ve lost their races.»
Despite the outcome of the crowded primary, Johnson looks to his future plans with optimism, not bitterness, and pledges that his work is not yet finished, citing previous success in the business and non-profit sectors.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., in the Cannon tunnel during the last votes of the week Feb. 15, 2024. (Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
«Well, I don’t know yet. Of course, I’ve got to spend most of my time focused on my day job, which is being South Dakota’s only voice in the U.S. House of Representatives. I’ll do that until January, but listen, I know you can lead a life of consequence.
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«You can make a better society in business. I’ve done that before. In the nonprofit sector, in lesser elected office or government office. So, I don’t really know yet, but I do know that I’m surely not ready to retire. I’m 50, but I feel like a real young 50, and I’m still filled with plenty of piss and vinegar. Let’s go get it done.»
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