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EXCLUSIVE: Inside Vance’s intimate Capitol Hill huddle as Republicans confront tough midterm terrain
EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance energized Republicans during a huddle on Capitol Hill Tuesday where he urged lawmakers to «kick a–» in the 49 days before the midterm elections, according to audio obtained by Digital from a person in the room.
He wants members of Congress who are on the campaign trail to tell Americans how Trump administration’s policies benefit them daily.
«There’s people out there right now whose lives are going to get better, or their lives are going to get worse based on whether we’re in the majority or whether we’re in the minority,» Vance told the Republican lawmakers in spelling out the stakes of the 2026 midterms.
«There are going to be people who are going to be poorer. Who are going to be less able to afford their prescription drugs, who are going to be less safe in the homes in their neighborhoods if the other guys get the majority,» he continued. «And there are people who are going to be able to walk down the street in safety if you guys keep the majority. If we keep the majority together.»
Specifically, Vance told incumbents to hammer home the issue of crime, noting that the homicide rate has reached a 126-year low. Vance explained that in a country of 330 million people, that crime stat translates to «thousands of people,» including mothers and fathers, who are coming home to their families instead of being victims of deadly crimes.
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«There are tens of thousands of children who will come home tonight and work on their homework with mom or dad, rather than a stranger, because of what we’ve been able to do in supporting law enforcement,» Vance said in the closed-door meeting.
«This is not an abstraction, ladies and gentlemen,» the vice president continued. «This is not about what you see on CNN or Fox News. This is not whether someone with an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ next to their name wins. This is about whether the American people in this country that we love have a government that they deserve, that protects them, that fights for them, or whether they have a government that treats them as a means to end.»
Digital caught up with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., after the meeting.
«I think he did a great job,» the congressman said. «He’s very good. He’s very personable.»
«He’s got some kind of voodoo thing going on where he remembers everybody’s dadgum name,» Burchett told Digital. «It kind of freaks me out a little bit. But, I mean, every time I’ve run into him — I remember one time I was waiting in line to go to the bathroom and he walked out of the bathroom. ‘Hey, Tim, what’s going on?’ I invited him to a [University of Tennessee] game.»
Vance offered some campaign tips to the lawmakers while ribbing the political consulting class for sometimes being out of touch, and saying «the American people are not dumb.»
He said voters understand President Donald Trump and his administration inherited problems, including inflation, massive debt and «a country that was weaker on the national stage.»
«They know that Rome wasn’t built in a day,» he said.
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The vice president directed members to «pound the pavement» in their home districts to personally connect with as many voters as possible.
Just as importantly, Vance said, Republicans in safe districts who have no real opposition from the left should contribute money to the campaigns of fellow Republicans who are in competitive districts.
«So here’s the thing, this is not rocket science. You guys know this better than I do, you know your districts better than I do,» Vance said . «We know that most voters, particularly the voters who are open-minded, who are not hardcore partisans, they don’t really start paying attention to the election until right about now.»
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Vance also spoke fondly of when late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina joined him in Ohio while he was campaigning for the Senate in 2022.
«I’ll never forget this,» said Vance. » Lindsey Graham comes out — I didn’t know Lindsey Graham at all, and you guys know how the campaign trail is in the final stretches. You wake up in a crappy hotel, you haven’t seen your wife, your kids in a few days, and it’s a lot more fun when you have some company out there.»
«You’re telling jokes, you’re enjoying it. That energy — people pick up on it. So, get out there and campaign with your friends.»
Vance recalled how Graham told him stories that had him «aching with laughter,» half of which he said he could not repeat.
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Entre bandas, bailes y trajes típicos: San Salvador vibró en los 205 años de Independencia
El sol de septiembre, aunque tímido tras un velo de nubes, no logró enfriar el fervor que palpitaba en las calles de San Salvador. Este 15 de septiembre, El Salvador conmemora 205 años de vida independiente, transformando las avenidas de la capital en el escenario de una de las jornadas más memorables de los últimos tiempos.
La humedad se hacía sentir desde temprano, pero el calor que verdaderamente envolvía a los miles de asistentes era el del fervor patriótico que brotaba a lo largo del recorrido, conectando la majestuosa Plaza Divino Salvador del Mundo con el Parque Cuscatlán.
La jornada cívica comenzó a las 8 de la mañana en esa misma plaza, convertida desde las primeras horas en un verdadero hervidero de actividad. En el instante en que las primeras notas musicales resonaron vibrantes y llenas de energía en el aire, el inicio del desfile quedó marcado oficialmente, encendiendo la emoción de la multitud.
Encabezando la marcha, la Escuela Nacional de Música El Salvador, junto a la imponente Banda El Salvador, con sus 1,000 integrantes, daban cátedra de talento y disciplina. Detrás de ellos, una marea de estudiantes de 15 centros educativos, un total de 2,400 jóvenes, se unía a la celebración, sus rostros iluminados por la emoción y el orgullo de representar a sus instituciones.
Entre la multitud, la Ministra de Educación, Karla Trigueros, desfilaba con una sonrisa en el rostro, saludando a los estudiantes y familias que se agolpaban a los lados de la calle. Su presencia, cercana y accesible, era un reflejo del espíritu de comunidad que impregnaba la celebración.
Las cachiporras, con sus atuendos coloridos y sus coreografías coordinadas, hacían vibrar a los presentes con cada movimiento. Los jóvenes, con sus instrumentos musicales, daban rienda suelta a su pasión, interpretando melodías que evocaban la historia y la cultura de El Salvador.
Entre los centros educativos que desfilaron con gran entusiasmo se encontraban el INFRAMEN, el INTI y el INCO, cada uno con su propia identidad y estilo. Sus bandas de paz, reconocidas por su masiva delegación y disciplina, eran de las más esperadas por la población.
El Complejo Educativo General Francisco Morazán, el Instituto Nacional Manuel José Arce y el Liceo Cristiano Reverendo Juan Bueno Central también se destacaron por su presentación artística, cautivando al público con sus bailes y música.
Pero fue el Complejo Educativo Ignacio Pacheco Castro, del distrito de San Marcos, el que se robó la atención de todos. Con más de 100 estudiantes desfilando con atuendos de trajes típicos, realizaron diferentes bailes que evocaban las raíces culturales de El Salvador.
Sus movimientos, llenos de gracia y elegancia, despertaron los aplausos y la admiración de los capitalinos y de los visitantes de otros países que se encontraban presentes, como Costa Rica, Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos.
Un Homenaje a la tradición y la fuerza
Posteriormente, alrededor de las 9:30 am, el desfile militar marcó uno de los momentos centrales de la celebración. Elementos de la Fuerza Armada participaron en el recorrido con sus diferentes unidades y demostraciones, mostrando su preparación y capacidad para proteger al país.
Un show de quema de pólvora con los colores de la bandera de El Salvador, azul y blanco, iluminó el cielo nublado, mientras que helicópteros y aeronaves militares surcaban el aire, realizando maniobras que dejaban a todos sin aliento. La Fuerza Armada de El Salvador, encabezada por el ejército, también mostró a algunos caninos adiestrados que complementan las labores de seguridad.
Un detalle curioso y llamativo fue la presencia de tres perros robots que desfilaban junto al ejército, una muestra de la tecnología que se está incorporando a las labores de seguridad en el país sobre todo en el Aeropuerto Internacional de El Salvador San Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez.
Además, se mostraron vehículos militares de última generación, equipados con la más alta tecnología, para garantizar la seguridad de los salvadoreños. Al finalizar el desfile, los salvadoreños, con sus banderas en alto y sus corazones llenos de orgullo, se dispersaron por las calles de San Salvador, celebrando con alegría y entusiasmo este día tan especial.
La jornada de este 15 de septiembre concluyó con la dispersión de los asistentes, marcando el cierre de las actividades conmemorativas de la independencia en la capital.
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Un informe de Seguridad de EE.UU. reveló que encerraban a migrantes en pequeñas jaulas en “Alligator Alcatraz”
El centro de detención migratoria conocido como “Alligator Alcatraz”, en los Everglades de Florida, utilizó pequeñas jaulas metálicas al aire libre para alojar a migrantes detenidos. Así lo documentó un informe de la Oficina del Inspector General (OIG) del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos (DHS), publicado el 14 de septiembre.
Los inspectores realizaron una visita sin previo aviso en enero de 2026 y revisaron el funcionamiento de la instalación. El documento registró 79 casos en los que los migrantes fueron colocados en estos recintos entre julio de 2025 y enero de 2026. Los períodos de permanencia fueron desde algunos minutos hasta casi dos horas.
Según el informe, las autoridades del centro definían estos espacios como “áreas de calma”. El objetivo declarado era que los detenidos pudieran tranquilizarse y permanecer solos. Sin embargo, los inspectores detectaron al menos un caso en el que una persona fue encerrada como medida disciplinaria después de no cumplir una orden del personal.
Cómo eran las jaulas de “Alligator Alcatraz”
Cada recinto tenía unos 1,67 metros cuadrados, una superficie inferior a la mitad del espacio mínimo de 3,4 metros cuadrados establecido por las normas nacionales de detención del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) para espacios individuales.
Las estructuras eran metálicas, estaban al aire libre y contaban con puertas de malla y mecanismos que podían cerrarse con llave.
La OIG calificó su utilización como una práctica poco habitual y señaló que no se ajustaba a los estándares de trato humano. Los inspectores también advirtieron que mantener a personas en espacios tan restrictivos podía representar riesgos para su salud física y mental.
Hacinamiento y problemas de higiene
El informe también describió otras deficiencias dentro del centro de detención. Los inspectores encontraron falta de espacio en las áreas de alojamiento, una situación que generaba hacinamiento y obligaba a los migrantes a pasar buena parte del tiempo dentro de sus celdas.
Además, el tiempo destinado a la recreación era limitado y algunos teléfonos no funcionaban. Esto dificultaba que los detenidos pudieran comunicarse con sus familiares o con sus abogados.
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Iran’s regime came for teenage twins. Their fate offers a glimpse of Tehran’s widening death campaign
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Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were 19, still in high school and living with their mother when masked men came for them in the middle of the night.
According to their U.S.-based cousin, the twin sisters were dragged from their beds with bags placed over their heads about a month after they joined anti-regime protests in Isfahan. Their family was given no explanation and spent months searching courts, hospitals and government offices trying to determine where they had been taken.
Four months later, their mother, Marzieh Nourmohammadi, was finally allowed to see them at Dowlatabad Prison. She barely recognized her daughters.
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Iranian twins Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were arrested after joining anti-regime protests in Isfahan, Iran. Taraneh has been sentenced to death, while Romina faces decades in prison. (HANA)
Their cousin, Masoud Nourmohammadi, told The Guardian that the twins had badly swollen and bruised faces, injuries to their elbows, hands and feet, and significant hair loss that he said resulted from guards pulling them by their hair as they were moved between cells. He said their mother also learned that the sisters had been held in solitary confinement.
Now 20, Taraneh Rahimi faces execution over her alleged role in the January protests, while her twin sister could spend decades in prison, in a case unfolding amid a sharp rise in Iran’s use of the death penalty.
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that Taraneh was sentenced to death and an additional 11 years in prison, while Romina received a 36-year sentence. The sentences were issued by Branch 1 of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court and remain initial-stage verdicts.
The twins are among 16 defendants prosecuted in what has become known as the «Isfahan Shohada Square» case. HRANA said 10 defendants received death sentences and the 16 defendants collectively received 256 years in prison.
The sisters’ family says the abuse was intended to force confessions.
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Taraneh Rahimi, 20, has been sentenced to death over her alleged role in anti-regime protests in Isfahan, Iran. Her family says she was tortured in custody and forced to confess. (HANA)
Nourmohammadi told The Guardian that Taraneh was threatened that prison guards would rape Romina in front of her unless she signed a confession. The outlet reported that Taraneh later told the court that admissions attributed to her had been obtained through torture. Her mother was not permitted to attend the trial, according to the family.
Radio Farda separately reported, citing Nourmohammadi, that the sisters suffered physical and psychological abuse and were forced to confess to accusations they deny. The Hana Human Rights Organization told Fox News Digital they have verified the torture allegations.
Concerns about torture extend beyond the sisters. HRANA reported that another defendant in the same case, Ahmadreza Saeidi, told judges during the hearing that the investigating judge personally used an electric stun gun on his neck and genitals. Defense lawyers also reportedly complained that they had not been given access to substantial portions of the case file or adequate time to examine evidence before trial.
The sentences come as rights organizations document a sharp rise in executions across Iran.
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A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2023. (NTB/Javad Parsa via Reuters)
The Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran documented 901 executions during the first seven months of 2026, including 56 people executed on political or national-security charges.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, Iran program senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that the executions should be viewed as part of a broader campaign by Tehran to suppress dissent at home.
«Despite the war in the region, despite the drone war, the missile war, the war over the Strait of Hormuz, the real war is the one that’s happening on a day-to-day basis inside the Islamic Republic,» Ben Taleblu said. «The Islamic Republic is quite literally cracking skulls, cracking down on civil society, on dissidents, on protesters.»
Among those imprisoned in Iran’s broader crackdown is Seyed Ahmad Seyedabdollahi, a 32-year-old psychologist whose case Fox News Digital reported in August.
Seyed Ahmad Seyedabdollahi, a 32-year-old Iranian psychologist, who addressed President Donald Trump in an English-language video posted on Jan. 4, 2026, urging him to follow through on his pledge to support Iranian protesters. Seyedabdollahi was arrested 10 days later and was subsequently sentenced to seven months in prison. (Fox News)
Seyedabdollahi posted an English-language video on Jan. 4 appealing directly to President Donald Trump to support Iranian protesters, according to his relatives and Fox News Digital’s previous reporting. He was arrested 10 days later and ultimately sentenced to seven months in prison and barred from government and public services for five years.
His relatives told Fox News Digital that Iranian authorities later pressured him to record another video insulting Trump and Americans and alleged that he was subjected to solitary confinement and torture.
The Hana Human Rights Organization reported Aug. 9 that Seyedabdollahi had been held in Borujen Prison since July 7 and that authorities opened a second case against him on a charge of «propaganda against the system of the Islamic Republic.» Hana also confirmed that he was serving a seven-month sentence and had received a five-year disqualification from public and governmental services.
His relatives confirmed to Fox News Digital that authorities have continued pressuring him to say he was a «foreign agent» paid by the U.S. government. They also said authorities revoked his professional license, adding financial pressure on his family.
Ben Taleblu said Tehran has followed a similar pattern after previous periods of external conflict, turning its attention inward against perceived opponents.
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Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
«We saw this trend in the aftermath of the 12-day war as well,» Ben Taleblu said. «Lose a war abroad, come home and pretend like you’re the victor.»
«Simply here, the Islamic Republic is continuing the longest war it’s ever fought, which is the 47-year war against the Iranian people,» he added.
Wednesday marks four years since the Sept. 16, 2022, death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was detained three days earlier by Iran’s morality police over what authorities described as «improper hijab.» Her death sparked nationwide protests that became known internationally as the «Woman, Life, Freedom» movement. The U.N. said reports that Amini had been beaten in custody warranted an independent investigation, while Iranian authorities maintained that she died of «natural causes.»
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Protesters march in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Fars News Agency via AP)
The 2022 uprising was itself part of a longer cycle of unrest. Nationwide demonstrations beginning in December 2017 rapidly spread across Iran and represented the largest challenge to the government since the 2009 Green Movement. The 2017-18 protests were followed by another major nationwide wave in 2019 and then the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.
Ben Taleblu argued that whenever another major protest movement emerges, Western governments should be prepared to help Iranians communicate with one another and the outside world, particularly when authorities shut down internet access.
«We know every single time another major protest is happening, the way the regime cracks down is to first turn off the internet,» he said. «That means the regime fears what comes of coordination between Iranians and fears what comes of when the Iranians are able to send their message outside to the international community.»
Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi was hanged Tuesday in Isfahan’s Shahid Alikhani Square — the same location where he had joined anti-government demonstrations months earlier. (HRANA)
«The partners of the Iranian people, America, Israel, the West, these are largely all cyber superpowers,» Ben Taleblu said. «We should not let the Iranian people continue to die in the darkness.»
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