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‘Damning silence’: Swing-seat Democrat stays quiet after AOC voices support
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A Democratic House hopeful vying for one of the nation’s most competitive districts is staying silent after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., voiced support for her campaign.
Ocasio-Cortez, a leftist firebrand with growing influence in the Democratic Party, congratulated former Biden administration official Cait Conley on her primary victory in a social media post Wednesday.
«I look forward to working together as a delegation as we fight for working families across New York,» Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
The post also celebrated a Democrat vying to succeed retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., alongside three socialist candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Brad Lander, former New York City comptroller and U.S. House candidate, stands with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at a «Get Out The Vote» rally at Kings Theater in Brooklyn on June 18, 2026. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Conley has yet to comment on Ocasio-Cortez’s support or address the trio of far-left candidates — longtime New York official Brad Lander, state Assembly member Claire Valdez, D-N.Y., and activist Darializa Avila-Chevalier — who have called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are outspoken critics of Israel and have vowed to advance the Palestinian cause in Congress.
Conley’s general election opponent, Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., insists she should have to answer for it.
«Which is it, Cait: do you reject AOC and the candidates who want to abolish ICE, defund the police, and tear down our borders, or do you embrace them?» Lawler’s campaign manager Ciro Riccardi said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«The Hudson Valley deserves an answer, and so far all we’ve heard is your damning silence,» he continued.
Lander and Avila-Chevalier previously called for defunding the police, while the latter has continued to advocate for abolishing prisons and stopping all deportations. Avila-Chevalier also reposted a tweet denying Israel’s right to exist and helped form a pro-Palestinian group at Columbia University that called for «the total eradication of Western civilization.»
The three Mamdani-backed candidates are expected to double the ranks of the left-wing group known as the «Squad,» an informal bloc closely aligned with Ocasio-Cortez, who also supports abolishing ICE.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Conley campaign for comment.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a leader of the Democratic Party’s leftist flank, voiced support for Democratic House candidate Cait Conley after she won a contested primary Tuesday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
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The scrutiny comes after Conley avoided criticizing the socialist candidates during an interview with MS NOW on Thursday.
Asked about socialist candidates who support prison abolition and have suggested the United States deserved 9/11, Conley talked about her own background rather than directly addressing the question.
«I joined the Army and went to West Point because of 9/11 because I watched the suffering and pain that we as a nation, we as a state, we as the Hudson Valley, experienced that day,» Conley said. «And so when you talk about the American government’s responsibility to the people, it is to keep it safe.»
«While, you know, folks were elected down in New York City, in New York-17, Democratic voters chose a West Point grad and 16-year Army combat veteran to be their representative in this fight this fall,» Conley added, referring to herself.
Aber Kawas, a socialist and pro-Palestinian activist who won a Democratic primary for a New York State Senate seat Tuesday, appeared to justify 9/11 in a resurfaced 2017 video.
Conley has previously faced scrutiny over her role on former President Joe Biden’s national security team. Lawler has argued that she downplayed her alleged involvement in the former president’s botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, which coincided with her time on the National Security Council.
The battleground race is expected to be one of the most hotly-contested races in the country, with national Republicans expected to aggressively defend Lawler’s bid for a third House term.
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., leaves the U.S. Capitol after the last vote of the week on Jan. 9, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the contest as a «toss-up» after shifting the race in favor of Democrats earlier this year.
In 2024, former Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly won the purple district, where Democrats hold a sizable voter registration advantage.
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Rubio’s call to combat global funders of far-left terrorism could put Singham in crosshairs
Marco Rubio: Far-left political terrorism is an international threat getting worse
Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns against the resurgence of far-left political terrorism, highlighting its global historical presence and rising current threat. He cites examples of violent attacks, from firebombings in Greece to assassinations by Marxist groups across the world. Rubio urges international partners to unite, share intelligence, and dismantle these interconnected networks of ‘poisonous resentment.’
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Secretary Marco Rubio’s call for global cooperation to combat far-left political terrorism could implicate Neville Roy Singham, a Marxist nonprofit financier who is currently facing a federal grand jury probe in New York.
Singham, a 72-year-old American who sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai, is known to fund pro-Chinese Communist Party groups that operate in the U.S. He has funneled $278 million into the broad network of nonprofits since 2017, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. These groups regularly organize and participate in anti-ICE, anti-Israel and pro-Iran demonstrations.
At a State Department summit held in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Rubio urged more than 60 countries to treat far-left global terrorism as a counterterrorism priority.
Jodie Evans and Neville Roy Singham are pictured together. (Getty Images)
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«For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot – a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left, Rubio said. «Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy.»
Rubio noted that networks are coordinating across multiple countries, providing training instructions and using encrypted communication to facilitate unrest. He said that international cooperation is critical to disrupting the financing of dangerous organizations, and that some are working with hostile foreign states.
Rubio did not mention Singham by name and State Department officials did not respond to a request for comment.
Singham’s web of nonprofits are known to promote communist and Marxist ideals on social media platforms and on the ground at demonstrations across the country. Code Pink, which was co-founded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, regularly protests in the U.S. Capitol, confronting lawmakers and openly admits that «China is Not Our Enemy.»
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Rubio mentioned the dangerous influence Marxist beliefs can have when tied to acts of terrorism. He said the left often seems to excuse violence carried out by its own extremists.
«A bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil,» Rubio said. «But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary – well, that’s just merely a tragic excess of idealism. Perhaps its means were misplaced or overzealous, but its ends were virtuous and just. That’s the implication of how they treat it.»
Congress has also taken note of Singham’s activities. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., launched an investigation into the Singham nonprofit network last year, and members in the upper chamber are also sounding the alarm on Singham’s ties to China.
«Chinese-funded, anti-American billionaires like Neville Roy Singham are instigating far-left chaos across our country,» Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital. «This needs to stop, and Secretary Rubio is rightly taking action to confront this transnational scourge head-on.»
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Last month, Fox News Digital reported that the Department of Justice has launched a grand jury investigation into alleged financial crimes. Singham hasn’t responded to repeated requests for comment from Fox News Digital.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the grand jury in Manhattan has issued subpoenas as part of a probe launched by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York, one of the country’s most powerful districts for federal prosecutions. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche authorized the investigation as the Trump administration seeks to crack down on fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes in the multibillion-dollar nonprofit industry.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met privately with Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon in New York earlier this year, where, according to sources familiar with the discussion, he warned that the firm could come under scrutiny over its alleged role in the movement of funds tied to Singham.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing at Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
During the meeting, Bessent encouraged Solomon to fully cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation, telling him that Goldman Sachs’ handling of the Singham-linked funds could become part of the federal probe should they choose not to cooperate.
A source with knowledge of the conversation told Fox News Digital that the exchange was cordial, and that Solomon indicated Goldman Sachs would aid investigators.
«All distributions from Mr. Singham’s donor-advised fund were made to legal nonprofits, as determined by the IRS,» a Treasury spokesperson said. «There have been no distributions from the account since August 2023, and it was closed in early 2024.»
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Sismo de 7.4 sacude a Guatemala: Autoridades declaran alerta anaranjada por daños y descartan tsunami
Un potente sismo de magnitud 7.4 con epicentro en las costas de Chiapas, México, provocó fuertes sacudidas en Guatemala y El Salvador. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)
La mañana de este viernes, 17 de julio, la Costa del Pacífico y la región sur-occidente del territorio guatemalteco se vieron sacudidas por un potente movimiento telúrico.
De acuerdo con el reporte oficial de la Red Sismológica Nacional del Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología (INSIVUMEH), el evento sísmico se registró inicialmente a las 08:48 horas.
Aunque en un principio los sistemas automatizados arrojaron una magnitud preliminar de 5.8 con un supuesto epicentro dentro de la soberanía nacional, los expertos de la Sección de Sismología procedieron a realizar la revisión manual de los datos.
Tras analizar el volumen completo de la información a disposición, el instituto actualizó los parámetros oficiales, confirmando que el sismo tuvo una magnitud definitiva de 7.4 y que su epicentro se localizó realmente en las costas del Pacífico, en territorio de México, muy cercano a la frontera con Guatemala.
A raíz de la considerable magnitud de este terremoto y de su ubicación marítima, el Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis del Pacífico emitió una notificación preliminar para la región centroamericana.
No obstante, las autoridades científicas del INSIVUMEH, en su boletín de seguimiento técnico, aclararon que la clasificación de la amenaza para las costas de Guatemala es estrictamente Baja.
Los expertos detallaron que, si bien se descarta por completo un fenómeno de tsunami devastador o destructivo para el país, la población costera debe comprender el comportamiento de la naturaleza.
Un tsunami consiste en una serie de olas sucesivas y, aunque en esta ocasión no se presentará una catástrofe, los modelos hidrológicos prevén fluctuaciones en el nivel de la marea que no superarán los 100 centímetros (1 metro) de altura, viniendo acompañadas de un incremento en la fuerza de las corrientes y del oleaje convencional.
Las estimaciones de arribo de la primera perturbación marina comenzaron a registrarse a partir de las 09:35 horas en el departamento de San Marcos, extendiéndose de manera paulatina hacia Suchitepéquez, Escuintla, Santa Rosa, Retalhuleu y el puerto de Champerico.
Como parte de las acciones inmediatas de respuesta ante el potente sismo de las 08:48 horas, las autoridades han declarado formalmente la alerta anaranjada institucional.
Esta medida busca agilizar la movilización de recursos y la coordinación interinstitucional, dado que ya se reportan daños materiales en distintas partes del país. De manera preliminar, el sistema de emergencia contabiliza hasta el momento un total de 20 emergencias registradas. La distribución geográfica de estos incidentes se concentra principalmente en el occidente y centro de la República:
- Siete emergencias en el departamento de Quetzaltenango
- Cinco en Sololá
- Tres en San Marcos
- teres en Guatemala
- Una en Totonicapán
- Una en Retalhuleu.
Ante este escenario, la recomendación principal hacia las comunidades costeras y el sector pesquero artesanal es mantener la prudencia y alejarse temporalmente de la línea de playa hasta nuevo aviso, con el fin de evitar percances por los cambios súbitos en la fuerza del mar. Mientras tanto, en el territorio mexicano, las réplicas del sismo principal no han cesado; los servicios geológicos del vecino país del norte ya contabilizan más de 30 réplicas en las zonas colindantes al epicentro original, manteniendo en alerta a los cuerpos de socorro de ambos lados de la frontera.
En seguimiento directo al sismo registrado esta mañana y con el firme objetivo de salvaguardar la vida de los estudiantes guatemaltecos, el Ministerio de Educación (Mineduc), liderado por sus autoridades centrales, ha tomado medidas drásticas de carácter preventivo.
A través de una disposición oficial de última hora, la cartera educativa anunció la suspensión total de las clases presenciales para este viernes 17 de julio de 2026.
Esta orden de restricción temporal aplica estrictamente para los departamentos de San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Suchitepéquez y Retalhuleu, las regiones del país que percibieron el movimiento telúrico con mayor intensidad y donde se concentra el mayor riesgo de réplicas.
La autoridad ministerial enfatizó que la medida de suspensión posee un carácter integral, por lo que abarca de forma obligatoria a todos los centros educativos que operan en las jurisdicciones mencionadas. Esto incluye a los establecimientos del sector público, del sector privado, los institutos por cooperativa, las escuelas municipales y todos los programas del sistema de educación extraescolar.
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