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After Indiana purge, Trump sets sights on Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy
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BATON ROUGE, La. — After taking out five Indiana state senators who opposed his push for congressional redistricting, President Donald Trump’s next target is Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
Cassidy, who voted five and a half years ago to convict Trump in his impeachment trial, is fighting for his political life in a competitive race against two major challengers, including one backed by the president, in Saturday’s GOP Senate primary in the solidly red southern state.
The president on Saturday morning took aim at Cassidy, arguing the senator is «a disloyal disaster» and «a sleazebag, a terrible guy, who is BAD FOR LOUISIANA.»
Trump and his allies, including Republican Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, are backing GOP Rep. Julia Letlow in the Senate primary. Also in the race is former Rep. John Fleming, who is the state treasurer. If no candidate cracks 50% of the primary vote, the top two finishers will face off for the nomination in a June 27 runoff election.
The primary is the latest test of Trump’s endorsements in GOP nomination races and of the president’s immense grip over the Republican Party.
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Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana fist bumps a supporter during a campaign stop at a gun retailer and firing range in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday, May 15, 2026, on the eve of the state’s Senate primary. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News )
After cruising to re-election six years ago, Cassidy was one of only seven Senate Republicans who voted in early 2021 to convict Trump after he was impeached by the House for his role in the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters who aimed to upend congressional certification of former President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Trump was acquitted by the Senate.
But since the start of Trump’s second term, Cassidy has been supportive of the president’s agenda and his nominees, including voting to approve Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
But Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again movement are out for revenge.
That’s because Cassidy, a doctor, has been a skeptic of Kennedy’s push to reform the nation’s health policies, including Kennedy’s efforts to cut back on vaccine recommendations.
And Kennedy allies blamed Cassidy, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, for helping sink the surgeon general nomination of Casey Means, a close Kennedy ally and top MAHA advocate, after Cassidy did not bring it to a committee vote.
Meanwhile, Trump has blasted the senator as a «very disloyal person.»
And on the eve of the primary, the president took to social media to praise Letlow as a «Highly Respected America First Congresswoman.»
Making Cassidy’s climb to renomination even tougher, Louisiana will now run separate party primaries in the Senate race, which replaces a system where all candidates appeared in one single jungle primary. That guarantees a more conservative and pro-Trump electorate for the GOP nomination.
Cassidy is highlighting his record over two terms in the Senate in delivering for Louisiana, which is one of the nation’s poorest states. And he’s showcased his support for Louisiana’s large oil and gas industry, which accounts for roughly 15% of the state’s workforce.
«When people ask things such as, can you work with President Trump, I point out that he has signed into law four bills that I wrote or negotiated,» the senator said in a primary eve interview with Fox News Digital. «We continue to work together, by the way.»
And Cassidy touted that he’s «a conservative senator who delivers.»
In trying to avert becoming the first elected Republican senator in nearly a decade and a half to be ousted in a primary, Cassidy and an allied super PAC have dished out more than $20 million on ads, according to AdImpact, a national ad tracking firm. That total is more than Letlow and Fleming, combined, have spent.
Some of those ads have knocked Letlow over her past support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs during her tenure at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Cassidy argued that Republican voters are «concerned about her shifting position on DEI. She was all in for DEI.»
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President Donald Trump stands with Rep. Julia Letlow during the Congressional Ball at the White House Grand Foyer in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 11, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Defending her record, Letlow explained in a Fox News Digital interview on Friday that «back in 2020 whenever DEI was introduced to us, we had no idea what it was back then, and I quickly witnessed it. I was in higher education at the time. I quickly witnessed the left completely hijack it, turn it into this Marxist leftist indoctrination of our children. And so, when I got to Congress for the last five years, I’ve been fighting against it.
And she charged that the criticism of her from Cassidy and Fleming over DEI is «all baseless attacks, desperate attacks.»
Letlow won her congressional seat in 2021, after her husband, Luke Letlow, died six days after being sworn into the U.S. House after his 2020 election victory for the seat she now holds.
She was backed by Trump even before she entered the race.
«Not only did he encourage me to get into this race, but also to have his complete and total endorsement has been, wow, the honor of a lifetime,» Letlow said.
Letlow has taken aim at Cassidy for his bipartisan efforts in the Senate, including his vote for the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law that was a signature domestic achievement for then-President Joe Biden.
Asked about her criticism, Cassidy said the «people want someone who can deliver for Louisiana. The Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act has brought $13.5 billion to Louisiana for roads and bridges and high-speed internet, and along the way creating a lot of good paying jobs. My opponent opposed that bill.»
Fleming, who served as a White House deputy chief of staff during Trump’s first term, has argued that he’s the most conservative candidate in the GOP Senate primary.
‘They see me clearly MAGA,» Fleming told Fox News Digital, as he referred to Louisiana Republicans. «I served in his entire first administration at various capacities. I was one of the first congressmen that endorsed him in 2016.»
Fleming claimed that Letlow is «not the prototype for a Trump endorsement. She’s much more like a Democrat.»
And Fleming, apparently, has become a threat to Letlow, as a super PAC supporting the congresswoman started to run ads attacking him.
But Trump’s endorsement in the nomination race weighs heavily in a state he carried by 22 points in his 2024 election victory.
«It’s the most powerful endorsement in the world,» Letlow said, adding that Louisiana Republicans «are huge fans of the president.»
And the Louisiana primary comes a week and a half after Indiana’s primary, where Trump-backed challengers ousted five state senators who had defied the president over his redistricting push.
The political world was closely watching Indiana’s primary because it was the first of a series of major tests this month of Trump’s endorsement power in GOP nomination showdowns, and the president cleared his first hurdle with ease.
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Voters in Louisiana will also cast ballots in primary contests for State Supreme Court, Public Service Commission and state school board, along with five proposed state constitutional amendments.
But the primaries for the U.S. House seats were postponed by Landry after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state’s current congressional district map.
Republican state senators in Louisiana on Thursday advanced a plan to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional seats ahead of the midterms. Louisiana’s state House will likely vote on the map next week. The U.S. House primaries are being postponed until November.
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US says North Korea missile launch poses no immediate threat, ‘consulting closely’ with allies
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U.S. Indo-Pacific Command vowed Thursday that the U.S. «remains committed to the defense of the U.S. homeland and our allies in the region» after North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile.
The launch of the short-range ballistic missile unfolded ahead of large-scale, annual exercises to be conducted by the U.S. and South Korean militaries later this month. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said a projectile from North Korea’s eastern Wonsan area was detected around 5 p.m. local time.
«We are aware of the missile launch and are consulting closely with our allies and partners. Based on current assessments, this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies,» U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement.
«The United States remains committed to the defense of the U.S. homeland and our allies in the region,» it added.
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North Korea test-fired a short-range ballistic missile on Aug. 5, 2026. The Hwasong-11LA ground-to-ground tactical short-range ballistic missile is seen being test-fired at an undisclosed location on April 19, 2026, according to the Korean Central News Agency. (KCNA/Reuters)
South Korea’s military bolstered its surveillance posture and is closely coordinating with the U.S. and Japan in the wake of the event, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said the missile landed in the waters off North Korea’s east coast and that there were no reports that the weapon reached Japanese territory.
Koizumi added that North Korea’s repeated missile launches pose a threat to Japan and the region and that Tokyo lodged a protest to Pyongyang through their embassies in Beijing. South Korea’s presidential national security council called the North Korean launch «a provocation» that violates U.N. Security Council resolutions and urged the North to stop it.
It was North Korea’s first ballistic missile launch since late June, when it tested a tactical ballistic missile with a «special mission» warhead and other weapons. After watching the testing activities, leader Kim Jong Un said at the time that the military needed to bolster its «deadly and destructive offensive posture.»
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes strategic cruise and anti-warship missiles test-fired from the destroyer Choe Hyon on Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Korean Central News Agency/Reuters)
South Korean and U.S. officials haven’t yet released details about this year’s Ulchi Freedom Shield joint exercise, but the drills are typically held in the latter half of August.
«This annual exercise aims to build understanding between Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Korea, the United Nations Command, and ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), ROK government agency, ensuring their ability to fortify the combined defense posture and enhance Alliance response capabilities against a spectrum of security threats,» United States Forces Korea said about the exercises on its website.
«It will feature live, virtual, constructive and field-based training, engaging personnel from the various military services,» it added.
U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division participate in a river crossing exercise as part of the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise on Aug. 27, 2025, in Yeoju-gun, South Korea. The 11-day exercise is a regular joint military exercise between U.S. and South Korean troops to prepare for potential emergencies on the Korean Peninsula. (Getty Images)
U.S. and South Korean officials say the training is defensive in nature, but North Korea says the maneuvers are a practice invasion and often responds with missile tests, according to The Associated Press.
Fox News’ Liz Friden and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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De los terremotos a los huracanes: así funcionan los sensores que revolucionan la predicción de tormentas
Investigadores de seguimiento interno de huracanes en la Universidad de Stanford demostraron que instrumentos usados para estudiar el movimiento de la Tierra también pueden revelar cómo funciona un huracán por dentro. El estudio, publicado en Science, apunta a una vía para mejorar la previsión de cómo evolucionan y se intensifican estas tormentas.
Los sismómetros y los micrófonos de infrasonido pueden ayudar a entender y prever mejor los huracanes porque registran dos señales clave cerca de la superficie: la turbulencia de la capa límite y las fluctuaciones de presión atmosférica. Al comparar esos datos con mediciones convencionales, los investigadores comprobaron que ambos sensores permiten seguir rasgos internos de la tormenta, incluido el paso del ojo y de la pared del ojo.
La investigación se apoyó en el paso del huracán Isaac por la costa de Luisiana en 2012, cuando la tormenta atravesó estaciones que ya estaban instaladas para cartografiar el interior de la Tierra. Qing Ji, autora principal del estudio, afirmó que hallaron “una forma nueva y eficaz de recopilar información valiosa sobre huracanes a partir de sensores sísmicos y acústicos”.
El experto realizó la investigación como estudiante de doctorado en el laboratorio de Eric Dunham, profesor de geofísica en la Escuela de Sostenibilidad Doerr de Stanford y autor principal, quien sostuvo que el estudio mostró que la geofísica y la ciencia atmosférica pueden aportar información mutua.
En este caso, los sismómetros detectan los movimientos del suelo y permiten precisar cuándo un huracán toca tierra. Los micrófonos de infrasonido, por su parte, registran ondas sonoras de baja frecuencia inaudibles para el oído humano y siguen los cambios de presión atmosférica a lo largo del tiempo.
Ese doble registro resulta útil en la capa límite, la zona más próxima al suelo donde se mezclan viento, calor y humedad. Medir la turbulencia en esa franja es clave para prever si una tormenta se fortalece o se debilita.
Los investigadores añadieron a los datos sísmicos los registros de infrasonido y obtuvieron una medición continua de las fluctuaciones de presión turbulentas. El conjunto combinado identificó con claridad el ojo tranquilo del huracán Isaac al pasar sobre ciertas estaciones, antes y después de la pared del ojo.
Después compararon ese material con datos convencionales de la capa límite y encontraron una gran concordancia. Ji dijo que el trabajo demuestra “la validez de este enfoque y la oportunidad que ofrece para utilizar este tipo de datos de una manera diferente”.
El origen del hallazgo fue accidental, porque Isaac pasó cerca de estaciones instaladas para otro proyecto geofísico en una región con pocos sensores sísmicos. Ji reconoció que tuvieron “algo de suerte” por la cercanía de los equipos a la trayectoria del huracán.
En un estudio previo sobre esas estaciones, Ji y Dunham descartaron la idea de que la instrumentación quedara saturada por ondas sísmicas superpuestas de toda la tormenta. Dunham explicó que observaron que la señal del sismómetro estaba dominada por la turbulencia local a una escala de pocos kilómetros.
La colaboración se amplió con Ipshita Dey, doctorada en Ciencias del Sistema Terrestre en 2024, que estudiaba la capa límite en el laboratorio de Morgan O’Neill. Dey señaló que esa cooperación permitió comprobar si las señales sísmicas procedían de rasgos de pequeña escala dentro del huracán y que ese trabajo conjunto llevó el estudio “al siguiente nivel”.
Los métodos habituales para obtener datos de la capa límite incluyen aeronaves que lanzan sensores en paracaídas, además de boyas, torres de medición de viento y radares. Las boyas y las torres solo ofrecen lecturas cercanas a la superficie, el radar aporta instantáneas y los vuelos pueden poner en peligro a los pilotos.
Isaac tocó tierra como tormenta de categoría 1 y en unos 100 segundos movió el suelo una fracción de milímetro, en una señal comparable a la de un pequeño terremoto imperceptible. El equipo prevé ampliar el análisis a otros huracanes y plantea añadir sensores para crear estaciones multifuncionales con utilidad sísmica y atmosférica.
Si ese enfoque se consolida, podría ampliar la base de datos para estudiar huracanes y otras tormentas intensas. Esa información también podría influir en decisiones sobre infraestructuras, evacuaciones, mensajes públicos y preparación ante tormentas para proteger a las comunidades.
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Burrito debate rips open GOP civil war on affordability: ‘We will lose, and deserve it’
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A debate over whether a burrito should cost $20 has ignited a Republican civil war over affordability and the party’s appeal to younger voters ahead of the midterm elections.
The clash began Wednesday when Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet shared a college student’s complaint that basic purchases have become prohibitively expensive.
«One of our TPUSA college students gave me his take on affordability: ‘A burrito shouldn’t cost $20,’» he posted to X on Wednesday. «Yeah, a lot of this is a hangover from Covid and Biden-era inflation, but the lived experience is the same: It just feels like basic things cost too much.»
Fiscal conservatives took the position that food is generally affordable if one cooks for themselves and that purchasing a $20 burrito should be considered an occasional luxury. Those aligned with the populist wing of the GOP, meanwhile, argued that traditional conservatives are out of touch with the youth and that the Republican Party faces electoral peril unless it can meaningfully address affordability concerns.
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Andrew Kolvet, producer of ‘The Charlie Kirk Show,’ speaks during the public memorial service for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Sep.t 21. (Patrick t. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
«Just hearing about this dumb $20 burrito debate so just thought I’d make the losers on social media angry before going to bed,» Rep. Dan Crenshaw wrote on Wednesday night. «Stop whining, get a job, eat Ramen like the rest of us did in college, on a budget with 4 roommates. The market doesn’t care what you think something ‘should’ cost.»
RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway, however, said that such an approach to affordability concerns could prove toxic to the GOP.
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A Chipotle logo is displayed outside their restaurant on Feb. 24, 2025, in San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
«Andrew [Kolvet] is absolutely right about this, and pundits deflecting because you can cook at home cheaper are not helping,» he said. «Eating a burrito once in a while should not be an aspirational lifestyle, for crying out loud.»
«The comments saying stick to the dining hall or buy microwaveable burritos are missing the ENTIRE point,» Defense of Freedom Institute spokeswoman Angela Morabito said. «If the Right’s ‘solution’ to the affordability crisis is telling people to eat worse food, we will lose, and we will deserve it.»
Chipotle burritos generally run between about $9 and $12 depending on location, with cheaper restaurants, such as Taco Bell, offering more affordable options. Some fiscal conservatives also pointed out that young people can save money by preparing meals at home.
«A burrito only costs $20 when you buy it on Door Dash because you’re too lazy to walk over to Chipotle or Taco Bell (where you can get one for $3.99),» Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen wrote in response to a populist arguing that the GOP could surrender ground to socialists by not addressing affordability. «When I graduated I lived on ramen noodles, had two roommates, and worked two jobs. I didn’t whine about affordability, I worked hard so I could one day afford a better life.»
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Vice President JD Vance attends a Cabinet meeting at Camp David in Maryland on July 31, 2026. (Aaron Schwartz/AFP via Getty Images)
Vice President JD Vance then added to the debate, responding to Thiessen.
«I’m surprised to hear Mark say this. If you’ve ever met him in person, it’s quite obvious the man has never missed a burrito,» the vice president wrote.
Bradley Devlin, politics editor at the Daily Signal, claimed that some involved in the burrito discourse were ignorant of financial sacrifices he says are quite common among young people.
«The Burrito Discourse has exposed that so people with thoughts on the youths have not spoken to one in years,» he wrote. «They do not expect to live off delivered food from bespoke restaurants and live on their own. I don’t know a single 20 something who lives on their own right now. Having a college degree and two jobs is around the highest it’s ever been. ‘The college premium’ has dried up.»
Others responded to the debate in jest.
«I don’t care for burritos,» Daily Wire host Michael Knowles posted.
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