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Bernie Sanders, AOC-backed Democrat wins key House race; GOP fails to expand fragile majority
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Republicans fell far short in their bid to flip a vacant U.S. House seat in a blue-leaning district in northern New Jersey.
Democrat Analilia Mejia, who was backed by progressive champions Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of neighboring New York, convincingly defeated GOP candidate Joe Hathaway in Thursday’s special election in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District, The Associated Press reported. The race was called minutes after the polls closed at 8pm ET.
With her victory, Mejia will fill the final eight months of the term of Gov. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic representative who stepped down from Congress in November after winning New Jersey’s gubernatorial election.
The special election came as the GOP clings to a fragile House majority. Republicans would have relished the opportunity to pick up the seat, but they faced a steep uphill climb to flip the suburban district Sherrill won by 15 points in her 2024 re-election and carried by roughly the same margin in last year’s gubernatorial election.
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New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed Executive Order 12 restricting certain immigration enforcement activities on state property shortly after taking office in January. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin, in congratulating Mejia on her victory, said her «grassroots campaign spoke to hardworking New Jersey families. I know she’ll fight to lower costs, protect health care, and tackle the affordability crisis head-on.»
Mejia, a progressive organizer who served as national political director on the 2020 Sanders presidential campaign, pulled off an upset in the February Democratic primary, narrowly edging out a more moderate rival, former Rep. Tom Malinowski, in a field of 11 candidates. While Mejia was the clear choice of the party’s left flank, the rest of the field appeared to divide the moderate and center-left vote.
Her primary victory was another boost for the left against the establishment after democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sent shock waves across the nation with his Democratic primary victory in June 2025.
Hathaway, a former Randolph Township mayor and current council member who was unopposed for the GOP congressional nomination, aimed to paint Mejia as too far to the left for the district. He told Fox News Digital the choice for voters was «between a common sense, practical independent leader who’s gotten things done at the local level in New Jersey and knows the issues, contrasted with someone who’s running on pure ideology, far left-wing ideology, Squad-backed ideology.»
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Analilia Mejia secured the Democratic Party nomination in a special election to find out who will take over newly elected New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s vacant House seat. (Heather Khalifa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mejia recently appeared at a town hall with Malinowski and, on Sunday, teamed up with Sherrill on the campaign trail as she aimed to unite Democrats, who enjoy a sizable registration advantage in the district. Sherrill, a moderate Democrat, flipped the district in her 2018 election to Congress.
Hathaway claimed Mejia was trying «to hide a little bit» from «some of her rhetoric, because she knows that those policies are completely out of touch, but it’s not fooling voters. It’s certainly not fooling us.»
Jewish voters make up a key part of the district’s electorate, and Hathaway, in the only debate in the special election, claimed Mejia was antisemitic, noting she has said Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
«She blamed Israel for the attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7,» Hathaway said. «I think Jewish individuals across this district, Republican or Democrat, are very afraid of this kind of rhetoric.»
Hathaway said, «I’ve spoken to more members of the Jewish community who have told me they’ve never voted for a Republican in their life, who are going to vote for me in this race. I mean, that shows you where the Jewish community is on the importance of this race and how they are not aligned with Mejia … and her platform.»
Mejia pledged to «protect the rights of Jewish constituents» and said her criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza should not be conflated with antisemitism.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Mejia said, «Joe Hathaway’s inability to distinguish between criticism of a government or government official and bigotry is troubling and disgusting in equal measure.»
Mejia last week wrote that she was «honored» after being endorsed by the liberal pro-Israel political group J Street PAC. But her acceptance of the endorsement triggered pushback on the left, with the North Jersey Democratic Socialists of America calling her move a «heel turn.»
As he worked to win over independents and Democrats, Hathaway pointed out where he agrees and disagrees with President Donald Trump, who lost the district by eight points in the 2024 presidential election.
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Campaign signs for Republican candidate Joe Hathaway and Democrat Analilia Mejia in the NJ-11 special congressional election, in Randolph, N.J., April 13, 2026 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
«I’m always going to do what’s right for this district first. And I’ve been clear: If the president’s going to do things that are good for the district, increasing the SALT cap deduction, putting money back in people’s pockets, especially New Jersey, affordability is so tough here. If we’re doing things like border security, reducing fentanyl deaths like we’ve seen in our community, those are good things. I support those policies,» Hathaway said.
«But, on the other hand, if the president’s going to do things that aren’t in the best interest of our district, it’s my job to push back, and that’s exactly what I’ve done.»
Hathaway pointed to Trump’s move last year to terminate billions of federal dollars for the Gateway Project, which is funding a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York, and the president’s plans to cut roughly 1,000 jobs and nearly $1 billion in funding for an Army base located in New Jersey.
«I’m going to call balls and strikes in this race. I’m not going to be a rubber stamp for anybody,» Hathaway said.
«I think we have the right math, the right bipartisan coalition to come together to win this thing on April 16.»
Republican congressional candidate Joe Hathaway speaks with voters at the Randolph Diner April 13, 2026, in Randolph, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
But Hathaway came up short, given the rough political climate facing Republicans and the traditional headwinds for the party in power.
Mejia repeatedly linked Hathaway to Trump and Republicans in Congress.
«MAGA Republicans are driving up everyday costs with extreme policies my opponent supports. Healthcare and critical programs are being gutted just to fund tax breaks for the ultra-rich. We can’t afford another vote for Trump in Congress,» she wrote in a recent social media post.
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Dan Cassino, a Fairleigh Dickinson University political science professor and pollster, called Hathaway’s hopes of capturing crossover Democrats «a pipe dream.»
«Democrats as a whole do not seem interested in finding common ground with Trump,» Cassino said on Monday, predicting most voters in the special election would be strong partisans.
«Democratic turnout is through the roof, and Republican turnout is depressed at this point.»
Hathaway, looking ahead to a likely rematch with Mejia in November, said in a statement Thursday night, «I still believe the broader electorate in NJ-11 is looking for balanced, pragmatic leadership, not the kind of far-left policies embraced by Ms. Mejia. That conversation is not over.»
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Detuvieron a un candidato opositor en el inicio de la campaña para las elecciones parlamentarias en Rusia
El presidente ruso, Vladímir Putin, inició este lunes la campaña para las elecciones legislativas de septiembre con la detención del opositor Borís Nadezhdin, exaspirante al Kremlin en 2024.
Nadezhdin, de 63 años, fue trasladado a una comisaría horas antes de que Putin participara en su primer acto electoral, en un intento de revertir la caída en los sondeos del partido oficialista Rusia Unida. Poco después, el dirigente opositor fue liberado.
Antiguo colaborador del asesinado viceprimer ministro Borís Nemtsov, fue uno de los pocos políticos rusos que acudió hace dos años al entierro del fallecido líder opositor Alexéi Navalni.
Nadezhdin, la última esperanza
“Vino la policía. Me llevan a la comisaría de Dolgoprudni”, un distrito de la región de Moscú, escribió en su cuenta de Telegram el político.
Horas después, Nadezhdin publicó un mensaje en el que informó haber sido acusado de extremismo por publicar en 2023 un enlace con una imagen de Navalni.
El opositor Boris Nadezhdin fue detenido y liberado poco después en Rusia (Foto: REUTERS/Ramil Sitdikov)
“No he cometido el acto del que se me acusa. Nunca publiqué y no pienso publicar en ningún lugar una imagen con simbología extremista”, escribió el político, que había sido declarado el viernes agente extranjero por el Ministerio de Justicia.
Nadezhdin, cuyo nombre es muy similar a la palabra “esperanza”, aseguró entonces que proseguiría la campaña de recogida de firmas de cara a las parlamentarias del 20 de septiembre, aduciendo que la legislación no se lo impedía.
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En cambio, según la prensa local, desde la enmienda introducida en mayo de 2024 el estatus de agente extranjero impide a la persona afectada concurrir a unos comicios.
Por si había alguna duda, fuentes policiales informaron hoy a la agencia de noticias TASS que Nadezhdin podría ser arrestado durante 15 días por extremismo, lo que lo inhabilitaría definitivamente como candidato a un escaño en la Duma o cámara de diputados.
Tras horas de detención en una comisaría de la región de Moscú, Nadezhdin fue puesto en libertad y tendrá que presentarse ante el juez que estudia su caso el próximo viernes, 17 de julio.
Enemigo del pueblo
Nadezhdin acusó al Kremlin de intentar “excluir a los rivales más peligrosos” para garantizar “el resultado deseado”.
El político, que llegó a tener una intención de voto del 15 % en vísperas de las elecciones presidenciales, también comparó la categoría de agente extranjero con la de “enemigo del pueblo” de tiempos soviéticos.
Nadezhdin también intentó presentar su candidatura en los comicios presidenciales de marzo de 2024 abogando, entre otras cosas, por unas negociaciones de paz entre rusos y ucranianos. No obstante, la Comisión Electoral Central (CEC) rechazó su solicitud por defectos de forma durante el proceso de recogida de firmas.
“Todo por la victoria” en Ucrania
“Todo por la victoria” era el nombre del foro de la plataforma patriótica Frente Popular en el que participó Putin este lunes.
“Nuestra fuerza reside en que siempre superamos todas las dificultades y todos los temores. Y eso nos hace más fuertes. Y es precisamente por eso que, por supuesto, siempre vamos hacia adelante y seguiremos haciéndolo”, proclamó desde la tribuna.
Las declaraciones de Putin, realizadas frente a militares y miembros de sus familias, se producen después de que la CEC aprobara el domingo las listas electorales de once partidos.
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Debido al hartazgo con la guerra, la contracción económica, el alza de los precios, el bloqueo de internet y, más recientemente, la grave crisis de suministro de combustible debido a los ataques ucranianos contra las refinerías en todo el país, la popularidad de Rusia Unida se encuentra bajo mínimos históricos, según los sondeos.
Según medios independientes, la formación gubernamental supera a duras penas el 20 % en intención de voto, mientras las compañías demoscópicas oficialistas le otorgan un porcentaje por encima del 30.
Yábloko, el único partido opositor legal en Rusia, tiene difícil superar el 5 % de votos, el mínimo para acceder al arco parlamentario, ya que su postura pacifista ha hecho que muchos de sus candidatos hayan sido encarcelados o excluidos de la carrera electoral por criticar la campaña militar en Ucrania.
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A controversial United Nations agency is being investigated by U.S. officials for alleged ties to terrorism. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the U.N. organization for Palestinian refugees, has more than 1,500 employees being probed for links to terrorism.
U.S. officials have increasingly called on U.N. member states to defund UNRWA after decades of concerns about its school materials promoting terror, the presence of Hamas tunnels beneath UNRWA schools and charges that staff members participated in the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7 against Israel.
US URGES DONORS TO ABANDON UNRWA FUNDING AS UN DEFENDS AGENCY’S MISSION
This picture taken during a media tour organized by the Israeli army on February 8, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers inside an evacuated compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
While the U.N. conducted its own UNRWA investigation in 2024 through the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) following claims that 19 UNRWA employees were part of the Oct. 7. attacks, OIOS found insufficient evidence to support the participation of 10 employees. For the remaining nine, UNRWA terminated their contracts.
As the USAID Office of the Inspector General, a law enforcement agency separate from USAID, continues to investigate 1,500 UNRWA employees, it recently announced that it had referred a total of 108 current or former UNRWA staff to the State Department for suspension or exclusion from working with organizations that receive U.S. funds. Those members were found to be involved in the Hamas invasion of southern Israel, or were members of terrorist groups.
A U.S. diplomatic official briefed by USAID OIG investigators confirmed to Fox News Digital that at least 1,500 current or former UNRWA employees are under investigation for ties to foreign terrorist organizations in Gaza.
Aid trucks of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) deliver aid near Gaza City on June 19. (Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A senior U.S. official who spoke with Fox News Digital said that the USAID OIG investigation «smartly picked up where the U.N. failed» by looking beyond Oct. 7 participation. The official said the USAID OIG investigation is «critical, as U.S. taxpayers should never fund the salaries of aid workers that are members of a foreign terrorist organization.»
The senior official told Fox News Digital, «USAID OIG’s investigation is helping prevent terrorists from criss-crossing across aid organizations that have received or are seeking U.S. or Board of Peace funding.»
Hamas was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in 1997 by the State Department, and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group (SDGT) in 2001.
HAMAS SAYS IT WILL DISSOLVE GAZA GOVERNMENT, BUT ISRAEL WARNS GROUP STILL SEEKS HEZBOLLAH-STYLE CONTROL
Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip on Dec. 1, 2025. (Omar Al-Qatta / AFP via Getty Images)
In the press release describing its effort, the USAID OIG said that individuals referred for debarment included «UNRWA school principals, teachers, security personnel, attendants, psychosocial counselors and medical professionals.»
They included two deputy school principals, one of whom served as a Hamas deputy company commander and another of whom was a squad leader. USAID OIG additionally referred a teacher with «expertise as a sniper for Hamas,» and one who tracked explosive device assignments. Another referred individual was a school principal assigned to a Hamas military manufacturing unit. Under his school, there were «three anti-tank positions and a tunnel shaft.»
In the case of Oct. 7 involvement, the USAID OIG specifically mentioned a teacher ordered «to bring two anti-tank missiles to a prescribed location during the Oct. 7 terror attacks,» and a deputy school principal charged with communications.
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President Donald Trump attends the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2026. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
The USAID OIG stated that it expects to make further referrals to the State Department in addition to «potential criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.»
As a result of its investigations, the State Department has banned Hafez Mousa Mohammed Mousa from any future work with U.S. government entities. An UNRWA school principal, Mousa was working with the Hamas East Jabaliya Battalion and «coordinated communications with other suspected Hamas members during the Oct. 7 attacks,» the USAID OIG report explains.
Photos released by the Israeli Defense Force show three individuals that the Israeli military claims are Hamas terrorists inside an UNRWA compound in Rafah. (IDF)
In response to Fox News Digital’s questions about whether it will blacklist other identified UNRWA employees, a State Department spokesperson said that «it is no surprise that another 100 UNWRA employees were determined to be involved in the barbaric Oct. 7 attack. President Trump and Secretary Rubio have affirmed time and time again that no State Department funding will be provided to UNWRA, which has been totally infiltrated by Hamas and terrorist sympathizers.»
On July 1, the Board of Peace posted on X that UNRWA «has no place in the new Gaza.»
An official briefed on developments with the Board of Peace told Fox News Digital that the USAID OIG’s investigations are «quite concerning to us.»
An American flag and USAID flag fly outside the USAID building in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 1, 2025. (REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon)
The official explained that «we can’t really have an institution operating inside of Gaza where they’re purportedly delivering aid and services to two million people but also allegedly participating in and supporting terrorism. That is anathema to creating a safe and prosperous Gaza for Gazans.» Moving forward without UNRWA will require being «responsible and deliberate in terms of how we transition those services over to ensure there are no gaps in critical aid delivery, whether it’s health services, vaccinations, food, or other goods.»
Last month, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) posted about the infiltration of UNRWA on X, saying, «It is time for the United States to take action to address this growing problem and the systemic radicalization in UNRWA facilities.» Risch said he would work with the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. «to root out the terrorist links at the U.N.»
The U.S. Representative for United Nations Management and Reform, Ambassador Jeff Bartos, told a U.N. meeting in June on UNRWA funding, that it was time «to break this cycle.»
«This year, you have the choice to stop underwriting an organization that has become a subsidiary of Hamas, whose employees took part in one of the most barbaric terrorist attacks in human history on Oct. 7, 2023,» Bartos said. «This year, you have the choice to give the Palestinian people living in Gaza the opportunity to find durable solutions and prosper, instead of subjecting them to endless cycles of dependency and forever refugeehood.»
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Hamas’ theft of aid is continuing to cause harm in Gaza. While not calling out Hamas by name, on Sunday, the U.N. Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov released a statement strongly condemning the «obstruction of humanitarian operations in Gaza by the de facto authorities.» He noted that the previous day, «armed personnel affiliated with the de facto authorities forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalia,» and additionally «entered a [World Food Programme] warehouse and reportedly assaulted two truck drivers who were delivering humanitarian supplies.»
Alakbarov said the incidents «are not isolated» and «reflect an increasingly dangerous pattern of intimidation, violence and obstruction, including smuggling attempts, targeting and abusing humanitarian operations.»
Fox News Digital reached out to UNRWA for comment.
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En Honduras ¿Vale la pena reclamar? Psicóloga advierte cómo una discusión de tránsito puede terminar en tragedia
Bajarse del automóvil para reclamarle a otro conductor puede convertir una discusión de tránsito en una situación de alto riesgo e incluso terminar en una muerte violenta.
Durante un episodio de estrés elevado, las personas suelen disminuir su capacidad de razonamiento Esa es la advertencia de la psicóloga Eiline Vásquez, quien explicó a Infobae que, durante episodios de estrés al volante las personas no son capaces de razonar y reaccionan con mayor impulsividad y desconocen cómo responderá quien está al otro lado del conflicto.
Aunque no existe un indicador específico que contabilice las muertes provocadas por peleas de tránsito y estos hechos suelen registrarse dentro de la categoría general de accidentes o choques, diversos casos reportados por medios de comunicación evidencian que una discusión vial puede escalar hasta el uso de armas y un desenlace fatal.
Para Vásquez, el momento de mayor riesgo ocurre cuando un conductor decide abandonar la seguridad de su vehículo para confrontar a otra persona.
“Uno cree que el otro va a reaccionar igual que uno, pero no sabe quién tiene enfrente, cómo va a responder o si porta un arma”, casos que no solo suceden en Honduras, sino en otros paises de la región explicó a Infobae.
La especialista dijo que el enojo al conducir no surge únicamente por la congestión vehicular. El cerebro interpreta la pérdida de control sobre el tiempo y la rutina como una amenaza.
Un accidente, un bloqueo, un conductor imprudente o un embotellamiento alteran los planes del día y generan una respuesta fisiológica caracterizada por el aumento del cortisol y la adrenalina. Esa reacción incrementa el estrés, reduce la capacidad de análisis y favorece las respuestas impulsivas.
“Cuando sentimos que estamos perdiendo el control, el cerebro interpreta esa situación como una amenaza y reaccionamos con mayor irritabilidad”, señaló.
La especialista insistió en que intentar “educar” a otros conductores puede convertirse en una decisión peligrosa.
“¿Quiero tener la razón o quiero llegar vivo a mi casa?”, planteó como una pregunta que cada conductor debería hacerse antes de reaccionar impulsivamente.
Su recomendación es practicar el autocontrol, reconocer cuándo el enojo proviene de tensiones personales y recordar que ninguna discusión de tránsito vale más que regresar con seguridad al hogar.
La psicóloga aseguró que, en muchos casos, el tránsito solo expone problemas que la persona ya venía acumulando.
Preocupaciones económicas, conflictos familiares, exceso de responsabilidades o situaciones laborales hacen que cualquier estímulo, incluso un simple pitazo, termine desbordando emocionalmente al conductor.
“El tráfico es la gota que derrama el vaso de todo lo que la persona ya venía cargando”, explicó.
¿Por qué insultamos cuando manejamos?
Otro fenómeno frecuente es que muchas personas expresan insultos o gritan mientras conducen, incluso cuando fuera del vehículo suelen mantener la calma.
Según Vásquez, esto ocurre porque el automóvil genera una sensación de anonimato y protección. Al conducir solos, las personas sienten que nadie las observa ni las juzga, lo que facilita descargar la frustración sin consecuencias inmediatas.
Sin embargo, esa barrera desaparece en el momento en que alguien decide bajarse del vehículo para enfrentar a otro conductor.
Aunque las autoridades hondureñas no contabilizan por separado las muertes derivadas de discusiones entre conductores, la especialista advierte que cualquier confrontación en carretera incrementa el riesgo de violencia.
Así mismo Infobae consulto con la Dirección Nacional de Vialidad y Transporte datos sobre estos acontecimientos, sin embargo, no cuenta con una categoría específica sobre muertes derivadas de discusiones entre conductores. Los casos suelen quedar registrados como accidentes de tránsito u homicidios, dependiendo de cómo evolucionen los hechos, lo que dificulta dimensionar cuántos incidentes de “ira al volante” terminan en lesiones o muertes.
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