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Firefighters union boss wins hotly-contested Dem primary in a key Pennsylvania swing district

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One of the nation’s most narrowly divided swing congressional districts chose its Democratic nominee Tuesday evening, as Bob Brooks was projected to win in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District.

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The contested primary brought Democratic Party divisions front and center, featuring firefighters union boss Bob Brooks — endorsed by both Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — former federal prosecutor Ryan Crosswell, Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure and EMILY’s List-endorsed candidate Carol Obando-Derstine, who is seen as the preferred pick of the district’s last Democratic representative, former Rep. Susan Wild of Allentown.

Brooks received several high-profile endorsements from Shapiro, Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and top state Democrats, including House Majority Leader Matt Bradford of Skippack and Sen. Vincent Hughes of Northwest Philadelphia.

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The skyline of Allentown, Pennsylvania, the state’s third-largest city, is visible from the Tilghman Street Bridge. (Charles Creitz)

Brooks also earned the endorsement of the mayor of the area’s largest city — Allentown, the third-largest city in the commonwealth.

Meanwhile, McClure — the only current local officeholder in the race — did not immediately gain traction against Brooks.

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Brooks appeared to weather intraparty controversy after old social media posts expressing more moderate or conservative views resurfaced — including one using an off-color sexual term to describe former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for criticizing law enforcement during the BLM era.

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Bill Heydt's old-style campaign sign displayed on a wall on Eighth Street in Allentown

Recent construction on Eighth Street in Allentown revealed an old-style campaign sign for Bill Heydt, the city’s last Republican mayor who served from 1994 to 2002. (Charlie Creitz)

Crosswell was born in nearby Schuylkill County but for many years worked in Washington for the Justice Department. He was one of several prosecutors who resigned in protest of the Trump administration dropping a federal probe into former New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Adams has since become less critical of the right and has often dinged his successor, Zohran Mamdani, on social media.

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Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., attends the House Education and Workforce Committee hearing titled «Beyond The Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on American Campuses» in the Rayburn Building on May 7, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The district’s tri-city hub of Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton — known locally as «A.B.E.» or «The Valley» — has a blue-collar history that has at times entered the national consciousness through Billy Joel’s famous anthem about Bethlehem Steel and other firms «closing all the factories down,» while the now-blighted SteelStacks often serve as both a backdrop for what once was and a rallying call for politicians pushing what comes next.

That «next» has included a wave of new warehouses and firms dedicated to interstate commerce, along with growth tied to the tech sector.

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Farmland in the northern part of the district is gradually being developed into homes and warehouses — to the chagrin of many longtime residents — as an influx of people from higher-tax New Jersey and New York, along with the area’s changing socioeconomic makeup, brings more liberal and progressive voters into a once «Reagan Democrat»-style region rooted in agriculture and union labor.

The former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces seen from PA-412 near Lehigh University campus

The former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces are seen from Pennsylvania Route 412 near Lehigh University’s campus. (Charles Creitz/Fox News Digital)

The district’s current boundaries still reflect that contrast, as the farther north one travels, the more rural, agrarian or forested — and conservative — the area becomes. Wild drew criticism twice for appearing to insult the Trump-supporting swath of Carbon County, the only one of the district’s three counties entirely within the 7th Congressional District to vote for Mackenzie in 2024.

The Republican in the race, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie of Lower Macungie, was a state representative in western Lehigh County for many years before upsetting Wild by one percentage point in 2024.

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Mackenzie has since drawn praise from President Donald Trump and criticism from the left, whose protesters often gather outside his office and spill onto busy Cedar Crest Boulevard in southwest Allentown.

As the House GOP’s narrow majority hangs in the balance, it remains to be seen which side is energized enough to turn out for its candidate in a race the nation will be watching closely.

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El precio del barril de petróleo vuelve a subir, mientras la guerra en Medio Oriente se extiende y jaquea a la economía mundial

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Mientras el precio del petróleo siguió subiendo en los mercados internacionales, la guerra en Medio Oriente se extiende a nuevos frentes y amenaza con repercusiones para la economía global con la ofensiva de los rebeldes de Yemen, aliados de Irán, contra buques sauditas en el mar Rojo.

En ese escenario, el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, amenazó con un “gran castigo militar” a Irán y a los rebeldes hutíes de Yemen si lanzan nuevos ataques.

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El barril de crudo brent para entrega en septiembre subió 6 dólares en menos de 24 horas al pasar de los 94 dólares en los que cerró el miércoles a hasta los 100,69 dólares que tocó este jueves mediante un alza de más del 7,03%.

Por su parte, el West Texas Intermediate (WTI), de referencia en Estados Unidos, también subió el 4,92%, hasta los 90,95 dólares, mientras que el gas natural TTF caía un 1,3%, y el megavatio/hora tocó los 61,75 euros.

El fuerte repunte del precio del crudo se produjo después de que milicianos hutíes respaldados por Teherán reivindicaran ataques contra dos petroleros sauditas en el mar Rojo. Esta ofensiva abrió un nuevo punto de conflicto en otra importante vía comercial del crudo en el mundo cuando se entra en el decimotercer día de ofensiva de Estados Unidos contra Irán pese al acuerdo alcanzado en junio.

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El caos se apodera del estrecho de Ormuz

Las hostilidades se reanudaron a principios de este mes tras un alto el fuego que duró apenas semanas, en una espiral que volvió a sumir a la región en un caos por el control del vital estrecho de Ormuz.

El conflicto se extendió al mar Rojo esta semana después de que los rebeldes de Yemen declararan un bloqueo de los puertos de Arabia Saudita y después afirmaran que atacaron a dos petroleros sauditas.

Niños juegan en la playa en el estrecho de Ormuz, mientras detrás se observa una columna de humo (Foto: AP)

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El secretario general de la ONU, Antonio Guterres, afirmó en una reunión del Consejo de Seguridad que la situación en Medio Oriente “está fuera de control”. “Una crisis alimenta a otra. Una escalada desencadena la siguiente”, declaró.

Mientras tanto, Jordania y Kuwait informaron haber interceptado proyectiles, mientras que el ejército de Irán y su Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica anunciaron golpes a objetivos militares estadounidenses en ambos países.

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“Las represalias de las fuerzas armadas continuarán mientras sigan los ataques de Estados Unidos contra la infraestructura y las zonas costeras del país”, dijo el portavoz de las fuerzas armadas iraníes, Mohamad Akraminia, según la televisión estatal.

Ataques en el mar Rojo

Estas hostilidades se produjeron tras la duodécima noche consecutiva de ataques de Estados Unidos contra instalaciones militares de la república islámica.

El miércoles, Trump advirtió que su país bombardeará la infraestructura civil iraní cada vez que Teherán dispare contra buques en Ormuz, dada su importancia en el comercio global de hidrocarburos.

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El canciller iraní, Abás Araqchi, respondió que Teherán responderá de la misma manera: “Nuestra doctrina de defensa es clara: ojo por ojo”.

Los medios estatales iraníes informaron este jueves que un ataque estadounidense mató a dos personas en Shalamcheh, en la frontera de la república islámica con Irak. También reportaron que dos misiles estadounidenses impactaron en Bushehr, sede de la única planta nuclear civil del país y blanco frecuente de Washington.

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Los hutíes yemenitas afirmaron que atacaron el miércoles con misiles y drones dos petroleros sauditas en el mar Rojo, el Encelia y el Layla, y concretaron así su amenaza de bloquear a Arabia Saudita en esas aguas que sirven de vía alterna a Ormuz.

Riad confirmó que el Encelia fue alcanzado, sin hacer comentarios sobre el otro petrolero. Aún no está claro hasta qué punto los hutíes podrían implementar un bloqueo, pero la amenaza podría agravar el impacto del cierre que Irán mantiene en Ormuz.

Allí la Guardia Revolucionaria afirmó este jueves que impidió el paso a tres petroleros, mientras Washington y Teherán compiten por el control de esta ruta por la que transitaba alrededor de una quinta parte del petróleo mundial antes de la guerra.

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(Con información de EFE y AFP)

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California mayor’s hot mic catches candid exchange after audience sends meeting off rails

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A live microphone exposed a behind-the-scenes conversation between Sacramento’s mayor and vice mayor as they discussed whether disruptive protesters could be barred from future city council meetings after a heated immigration-related debate descended into chaos.

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«We should go over this disruptions thing, because if we want to ban somebody in the future, like to take them out, we have to point out specifically…» Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes is heard saying.

«I know, but the city attorney said we can’t do that,» Mayor Kevin McCarty replied.

«We did it last time,» Talamantes responded.

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Mayor Kevin McCarty and Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes were caught on a live microphone discussing future meeting disruptions after the council chambers were cleared. (City of Sacramento)

«We can’t,» McCarty said, shaking his head. «I spent my first six months going over this. I wanted to give people, like, probation, like, you can’t come…»

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Talamantes then appeared to realize the microphone was still live and quickly reached over to switch it off before continuing the conversation, according to the publicly available city council livestream reviewed by Fox News Digital.

The awkward exchange unfolded Tuesday after Sacramento City Council recessed and ordered the public removed from the chambers following repeated disruptions during a fiery debate over the city’s continued participation in a regional intelligence-sharing center.

The confrontation escalated after Talamantes defended accepting federal funding for the Central California Intelligence Center, or CCIC, arguing Sacramento’s sanctuary city policies and immigrant protections made the city better suited to oversee the grant than other jurisdictions.

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«The city of Sacramento is a sanctuary city,» Talamantes said during the meeting. «If we don’t pass these dollars, other counties will apply for these dollars, they will get those dollars and we will have no safeguards to protect our immigrant communities here in Sacramento.»

Dozens of speakers had earlier urged the council to reject the agreement, arguing the intelligence center could facilitate information sharing with federal immigration authorities and undermine Sacramento’s sanctuary city policies.

Police officials repeatedly disputed those claims during the meeting, telling council members Sacramento does not share personal identifying information for civil immigration enforcement and complies with California’s sanctuary law, known as SB 54. 

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Community members urged Sacramento City Council to reject continued participation in the Central California Intelligence Center during an emotional public comment session

Community members urged Sacramento City Council to reject continued participation in the Central California Intelligence Center during an emotional public comment session. (City of Sacramento)

As public comment grew increasingly heated, one speaker repeatedly demanded McCarty pay attention.

«Kevin, I need your f—ing eyes. Kevin, listen to me. Stop being an a–hole, dude. Listen to your f—ing constituents,» the speaker shouted.

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Following Talamantes’ remarks, another round of shouting erupted inside the council chambers.

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«You’re a pick-me b—-,» one attendee shouted at Talamantes, while others yelled, «Shame on you.»

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McCarty responded with what he described as a «final notice.»

«This is the final notice,» the mayor said. «We’re going to continue with the deliberation, and if there’s any more outbursts, we’re gonna have to ask the audience to leave.»

Seconds later, the disruptions intensified.

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Council members debated continued participation in the Central California Intelligence Center during a meeting that later erupted into repeated disruptions. (City of Sacramento)

«You can’t do this behind closed f—ing doors!» one attendee shouted.

«We are the community,» another yelled.

«You represent us. You are our f—ing audience,» another voice exclaimed as council members attempted to continue the meeting.

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Council officials then paused the meeting and cleared the chambers after repeated disruptions prevented deliberations from continuing.

Following the meeting, McCarty said the private conversation focused on existing meeting procedures, not new restrictions.

«Every Tuesday, Vice Mayor Talamantes and I are responsible for overseeing and ensuring transparent, accessible, and open Council meetings,» McCarty said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

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«Unfortunately, when meetings are repeatedly disrupted, we must discuss existing policies and rules to ensure Council meetings remain effective, orderly, and respectful for both the residents in attendance and the Councilmembers. We are committed to ensuring that all members of the public can access and engage safely without distraction or intimidation.»

Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty addresses the City Council during a meeting before a hot-mic conversation was captured on the livestream.

Mayor Kevin McCarty warned attendees about repeated disruptions before the council chambers were cleared and a hot-mic conversation followed. (City of Sacramento)

The Sacramento City Attorney’s Office declined to address McCarty’s reference to legal advice during the hot-mic exchange.

«The City Attorney’s Office has no comment and will not be providing comment on this matter,» the office said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

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The city’s published meeting rules state that members of the public receive two minutes per agenda item and may speak on no more than four items during a meeting, limits intended to help the council conduct city business.

The hot-mic exchange quickly drew criticism from some activists, who argued Talamantes appeared interested in silencing vocal opponents.

Joshua Masias, a volunteer organizer with the Sac Immigration Committee, told The Sacramento Bee the conversation showed an authoritative approach toward members of the public.

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«It’s very authoritative how she wants to use her power,» Masias told the outlet. «It stuck out to me that she was the only one to try to silence the crowd.»

Resident Leanna Hunt, one of the council’s most outspoken critics, also defended the protesters’ frustration.

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«I’m fed up,» Hunt told the Bee. «It’s not even a tactic — I’m just tired of being treated like we are an audience and that the king is deigning to see us peasants today and when the peasants are unruly, the king gets upset.»

Fox News Digital reached out to Vice Mayor Talamantes’ office, Sacramento Police Department and the Sac Immigration Committee for additional comment.

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La capital de Guatemala entra en alerta por las protestas de transportistas y posibles bloqueos este viernes 24 de julio

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La capital de Guatemala está en alerta por movilizaciones de transportistas, mototaxistas y taxistas urbanos previstas para el viernes 24 de julio. (Cortesía)

La capital de Guatemala se encuentra en alerta ante la expectativa de complicaciones de tránsito masivas para este viernes 24 de julio. Luego de que diversas asociaciones de transportistas, mototaxistas y taxistas urbanos anunciaran movilizaciones pacíficas y posibles bloqueos en los principales accesos a la metrópoli, impulsados por el descontento ante los constantes incrementos en los precios de los combustibles.

Las organizaciones convocantes han anunciado movilizaciones pacíficas y posibles bloqueos en puntos neurálgicos de la capital y sus alrededores.

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Según datos de la Policía Municipal de Tránsito (PMT), se prevén concentraciones en arterias clave, entre ellas:

  • La calzada Roosevelt, específicamente en el sector de Molino de las Flores
  • La calzada Raúl Aguilar Batres
  • La avenida Bolívar
  • La calzada San Juan
  • La avenida Petapa

Estas vías que unen la metrópoli con Mixco y municipios del sur del departamento. También se ha hablado de bloqueos en la Calle Martí, pero aún no existe confirmación oficial.

Las asociaciones reclaman al Organismo Ejecutivo un nuevo subsidio a los combustibles o la eliminación de tributos, mientras Bernardo Arévalo anunció acciones tras reunirse con su Gabinete.
La Asociación de Pilotos de Taxis ya presentaron a Gobernación departamental una carta que confirma una caravana que iniciará en el Molino de las Flores, zona 2 de Mixco. (Cortesía)

Aunque, en las redes sociales se ha compartido imágenes de bloqueos en puntos clave de todo el país, hasta ahora no se ha confirmado la veracidad de los mismos, ni los grupos que convocan.

La expectativa de una parálisis vial ha llevado a las autoridades a reforzar los protocolos de seguridad y a recomendar a la población tomar previsiones.

El Gobernador Departamental de Guatemala, Mauricio Benard, aseguró que las fuerzas de seguridad han sido notificadas de las convocatorias y que se mantiene un monitoreo constante para coordinar la respuesta institucional.

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Todo indica que sí habrá manifestaciones y nos estamos preparando con todos los protocolos que están establecidos. Lo que espero, sinceramente, es que no haya bloqueos. Esa situación sí genera una dificultad para toda la población, no para el Gobierno, no para el Presidente, no para un ministro, sino para toda la población“, manifestó Bernard.

El Gobernador reconoció que manifestarse es un derecho constitución, pero recordó que la libertad de locomoción, también lo es, por lo que ”los bloqueos es algo que está prohibido y se hará lo posible para que no se de».

El gobernador de Guatemala, Mauricio Benard, anuncia protocolos de seguridad ante eventuales cierres viales en la capital de Guatemala. as fuerzas de seguridad fueron notificadas de las convocatorias y mantienen monitoreo constante para coordinar una respuesta institucional, mientras la autoridad departamental pidió evitar interrupciones y recordó que la libertad de locomoción es un derecho. (Redes Sociales)

El descontento de los transportistas gira en torno a los constantes aumentos en el precio del diésel y la gasolina, factores que reducen los márgenes de ganancia y presionan a los operadores a analizar un posible ajuste en las tarifas del transporte urbano.

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Transportistas han recalcado que el costo de los insumos y repuestos también se ha disparado, aumentando la presión sobre el gremio y el bolsillo de los usuarios.

Por ahora, las autoridades de tránsito han recomendado a los ciudadanos que salgan con mayor anticipación hacia sus destinos, que consideren opciones como el teletrabajo cuando sea posible y que permanezcan atentos a los canales de información oficial.

Los conductores de taxi rechazaron que el precio del galón de gasolina en Guatemala supere los Q40 por su impacto en la rentabilidad del sector y anunciaron una caravana pacífica en la Ciudad de Guatemala para protestar por el alza de combustibles este viernes 24 de julio. (Redes Sociales)

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Las asociaciones de transportistas han advertido sobre la posibilidad de extender las medidas si no obtienen una respuesta efectiva por parte del Organismo Ejecutivo. Exigen medidas concretas como un nuevo subsidio a los combustibles o la eliminación de tributos a los carburantes. En tanto, el presidente Bernardo Arévalo convocó a una conferencia de prensa para dar a conocer las acciones que se tomarán desde el Ejecutivo, luego de reuniones sostenidas con el Gabinete de Gobierno.



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