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Former Detroit Democratic Mayor Mike Duggan announced he is suspending his independent campaign for Michigan governor, turning the three-way contest to succeed term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer into a typical partisan race in the blue-trending state.
Duggan was a popular mayor of the Motor City who garnered sizable support in his first unsuccessful write-in campaign and forged relationships with key city stakeholders like Ford Motor Company Chairman Bill Ford Jr., an early backer of his gubernatorial bid.
As a former Democrat, conventional wisdom held that his presence hurt Democratic nominee Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, while his moderate positioning was also considered attractive to Republicans who otherwise might support GOP nominee Rep. John James.
NBC News reporter Henry Gomez said on X that Democrats had been «hitting him almost as hard as John James» and that the move was likely «welcome news» for the left in the Great Lakes State.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, right, speaks as Pete Buttigieg, left, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, center, listen. (Erin Kirkland/Getty Images)
«Dear Michigan, I’ve decided to suspend my campaign,» Duggan announced via public letter Thursday.
«We knew the independent route was filled with challenge. Even against those odds, the excitement for real change carried this campaign upward for more than a year,» he said.
Duggan dismissed claims he was trying to be a «spoiler» for either side and instead aimed to change the tenor of national politics.
«I’m still hopeful our campaign will prove to have a real long-term impact,» Duggan said.
«I will never be able to express the gratitude I feel for all your support and encouragement. I wish I could have done better for you.»
When he announced his run, Duggan pointed to his family history and his own political evolution as evidence a change is needed in government.
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He told BridgeDetroit his late father supported former President Ronald Reagan but wouldn’t recognize the Trump-led GOP — while Duggan himself admitted the Democratic Party he once knew to be an ally of the working class is sliding in that regard.
In one such instance, Democrats piled on Duggan for referring to people illicitly present in America as «illegal immigrants» instead of «undocumented.»
«If there was ever a time to give people a third choice, this would be the year,» he told the outlet.
Benson told Fox News Digital in a statement that Duggan brought civility to a body politic greatly needing it.
«I want to thank Mayor Mike Duggan for what he brought to this race and for his years of service to Detroit,» she said, noting how divided politics has become.
«I welcome Mayor Duggan’s ideas, his supporters, and everyone who believes Michigan’s future is bigger than division — and that it can be a place where anyone can afford to live, work, and thrive.»
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«We may not always agree on everything, but we share a commitment to building a stronger Michigan. And that work continues in this campaign,» Benson concluded.
Fox News Digital also reached out to James’ campaign.
In a statement on social media, the Republican said he wanted to thank Duggan for years of service to Michigan and its largest city.
«I respect anyone willing to step into the arena and serve something bigger than themselves. While we have real disagreements on policy, we both recognize Michigan is headed in the wrong direction,» he said, opening the door to working with the former Democrat if he so desired.
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«Our state has endured too much decline and political dysfunction. I’m ready to work with anyone willing to deliver real solutions, reject the politics of division, and fight for safer communities, stronger families and economic growth — our state’s future is too important for anything less.»
While Trump narrowly won Michigan in breaking the proverbial «blue wall» for the second time in three attempts in 2024, the state has reliably chosen Democrats in other statewide races, including Whitmer, Sen. Elissa Slotkin — who won former Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s open seat in 2024 — and the state’s other upper-chamber incumbent, retiring Sen. Gary Peters.
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EXCLUSIVE: A top Trump agency is cutting off funding to the Los Angeles agency responsible for coordinating billions in homelessness spending after accusing it of «obvious fraud,» «wanton mismanagement» and repeated failures to safeguard taxpayer dollars, Fox News Digital has learned.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which is a member of the White House fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance, is immediately suspending the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) federal funding while HUD’s inspector general investigates potential offenses by the agency and its leadership, according to a letter sent to LAHSA’s board chair Wendy Greuel and its CEO Gita O’Neill, which was obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital.
The letter detailed conflicts of interest, financial mismanagement, fraud, lack of oversight, and more from the homelessness agency, which has faced efforts by the city and county to take it over.
The move puts one of the country’s biggest homelessness bureaucracies under direct federal scrutiny after years of criticism that billions have gone into homelessness programs in Los Angeles while the crisis remains entrenched on the streets. LAHSA receives funding at the city, county, state and federal level, with the group getting nearly $1 billion from just the federal government since 2021, according to HUD.
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A person walks amid large trash piles at a sprawling homeless encampment near East 14th Street in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
«Suspending LAHSA’s participation in federal government programs is a necessary step in accomplishing that critical mission in Los Angeles,» HUD wrote in the letter. «LAHSA’s failures have been so severe and pervasive that Los Angeles County has withdrawn its funding for the agency, and the City of Los Angeles is considering doing so as well.»
LAHSA’s former top executive, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, resigned last year after she was found to have been a party to directing $2.1 million in federal funds under LAHSA’s control to her husband’s Santa Monica-based nonprofit employer.
HUD says a federal judge last year also concluded that LAHSA had committed «obvious fraud» after it allegedly kept requesting funding for an 88-bed shelter even though it knew the shelter was operating at roughly half-capacity.
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HUD noted in its letter that the judge considered placing LAHSA into receivership as well.
LAHSA’s inability to verify the existence of nearly 2,300 housing sites for which it was responsible is another recent issue that has plagued the homelessness provider, according to HUD, which said 70% of the contracts for those sites did not disclose any expenses over the prior year.
Homeless encampments line the boardwalk at Venice Beach in Los Angeles amid ongoing concerns about crime and quality of life issues. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority will conduct its annual point-in-time count to assess the number of unhoused people in the region. (Reuters)
Public audits of LAHSA, meanwhile, found a pattern of routinely paying service providers late and poor record keeping preventing it from monitoring contracts, including $5 million in cash advances sent to five different service providers, according to the Associated Press. In November 2024, the City Controller’s Office found that LAHSA failed to spend $513 million in public funds budgeted in fiscal year 2024, blaming a lack of staff and old technology, according to HUD.
«Under President Trump’s leadership, HUD will fund results, not corrupt failure or the homeless industrial complex,» HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement to Fox News Digital. «Year after year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were funneled to LAHSA with little accountability. Meanwhile, homelessness skyrocketed. Taxpayers will no longer bankroll an organization that puts its own self-interests ahead of the Americans it was created to serve.»
Other audits concluded that LAHSA’s poor record keeping made it unable to accurately identify or calculate how well its spending has been benefiting the homeless population in Los Angeles.
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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who is the vice chair of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, praised the leadership on this issue from HUD Secretary Scott Turner, President Donald Trump and Vance, who serves as the chairman of the fraud task force that was established earlier this year.
«Los Angeles didn’t care about helping the homeless, but the Trump Administration does,» Ferguson told Fox News Digital. «It is unconscionable that Los Angeles has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars that was supposed to be used on housing our nation’s most vulnerable. Instead of providing a roof and care for the homeless, Los Angeles has used these funds to line the pockets of left-wing NGOs. Such a disgrace ends today.»
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles officials have pointed to recent homeless-count data as evidence that the crisis has begun to improve, with LAHSA reporting that countywide homelessness fell for a second straight year in 2025 and Bass saying it marked the first time in the city’s recent history that homelessness had declined two years in a row.
But the numbers still showed more than 72,000 people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County, and critics have continued to argue that modest declines do not erase years of runaway spending, encampments and repeated audit findings that the region’s homelessness system has failed to adequately track whether taxpayer dollars are producing results.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advanced to a runoff in her bid to win reelection as Mayor of Los Angeles (Getty Images)
The federal action from HUD comes after Los Angeles city and county officials had already begun backing away from LAHSA, the Associated Press reported last year.
The city council moved to explore bypassing the agency and contracting directly with providers, while the county moved to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in annual homelessness funding away from LAHSA and into a new county department, citing the need for stronger accountability after a series of audits.
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«HUD cannot ignore LAHSA’s wanton mismanagement of public funds. HUD’s mission is to reduce the plague of homelessness in America,» the agency’s letter to LAHSA leadership on Thursday stated. «Turning over billions of dollars from American taxpayers to an organization under investigation and suspected of gross misuse of federal funding and «obvious fraud» does nothing to reduce homelessness. Indeed, diverting dollars from worthy programs to LAHSA merely makes the homeless crisis worse.»
Fox News Digital reached out to LAHSA for comment.
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EE.UU. atacó Irán por segundo día consecutivo y Teherán anunció otro cierre del estrecho de Ormuz
La crisis en Medio Oriente sumó un nuevo capítulo de máxima tensión: Estados Unidos lanzó una segunda ronda de ataques aéreos contra Irán en la madrugada del jueves, mientras el presidente Donald Trump advirtió que Teherán “pagará el precio” por el estancamiento de las negociaciones de paz. La respuesta iraní no tardó: misiles impactaron en Baréin, Kuwait y Jordania, dejando heridos y daños materiales. Además, la autoridades marítimas iraníes anunciaron un cierre total del estrecho de Ormuz hasta nuevo aviso.
“Estábamos realmente cerca de un acuerdo, pero siguen dándonos largas, siguen tomándonos por imbéciles”, lanzó Trump el miércoles ante la prensa, visiblemente molesto por la falta de avances.
El secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, fue aún más directo: “Si tenemos que negociar a base de bombas, negociaremos con bombas, y somos muy buenos en eso”, advirtió, dejando en claro el endurecimiento de la postura estadounidense. Barcos aparecen fondeados en el estrecho de Ormuz. (Foto: REUTERS).
El escenario es cada vez más incierto. Los bombardeos estadounidenses golpearon múltiples ciudades iraníes, incluyendo la capital Teherán y la estratégica Bandar Abbas, cerca del estrecho de Ormuz.
Según el Comando Central de Estados Unidos, los objetivos fueron “capacidades de vigilancia militar, sistemas de comunicación y emplazamientos de defensa aérea” de Irán. La operación involucró a la Fuerza Aérea, los Marines y la Marina, aunque no se difundieron detalles sobre el alcance de los daños.
Por su parte, la Guardia Revolucionaria iraní confirmó que los ataques destruyeron un complejo fabril, un cuartel militar y una base local en las afueras de Teherán.
Irán respondió con una nueva andanada de misiles sobre países del Golfo Pérsico. En Baréin, una nena de 11 años resultó herida y varias casas y autos sufrieron daños por la caída de escombros tras la interceptación de los proyectiles. Kuwait cerró su espacio aéreo durante horas y Jordania emitió alertas a través de la embajada de Estados Unidos en Amán y anuncipio haber interceptado 20 misiles.
“La intercepción provocó la caída de escombros, sin causar víctimas ni daños materiales”, puntualizó el ejército jordano.
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El tercer intercambio de fuego en menos de una semana puso al límite un frágil alto el fuego que apenas llevaba dos meses.
“Los ataques ilegales y criminales perpetrados por Estados Unidos en las últimas horas no sólo constituyen una violación palmaria de la Carta de Naciones Unidas (…), sino que además convierten la tregua en algo prácticamente irrelevante”, comentó la cancillería en un comunicado.
Irán advirtió que atacará cualquier barco que intente cruzar el estrecho de Ormuz, una vía clave por donde pasa cerca del 20% del comercio mundial de petróleo y gas natural licuado. Un clérigo mira su celular en el escenario ante una pantalla con retratos del fallecido fundador de la Revolución Islámica, el ayatolá Jomeini, a la izquierda; el fallecido líder supremo Alí Jamenei y el actual líder supremo Moytabá Jamenei, durante un acto progobierno en Teherán, Irán (Foto: AP /Vahid Salemi).
“Tras las repetidas violaciones del alto el fuego por parte del enemigo estadounidense, el estrecho de Ormuz permanecerá cerrado hasta nuevo aviso”, informaron los Guardianes de la Revolución, citados por la televisión estatal.
“Ningún barco debe abandonar su fondeadero en el golfo Pérsico y el mar de Omán. Cualquier aproximación al estrecho de Ormuz se considerará una colaboración con el enemigo”, advirtieron.
La Armada iraní aseguró que “dos buques que intentaban cruzar ilegalmente” esa vía ya fueron atacados. El comandante de la aviación de los Guardianes, Sardar Musavi, fue tajante: “¿Están poniendo en peligro el sagrado estrecho de Ormuz? Haremos de esta región un infierno para ustedes”.
Washington, que por su parte impone un bloqueo a los puertos iraníes, desmintió cualquier bloqueo de Ormuz.
“REALIDAD: Los buques comerciales continúan transitando por el estrecho esta noche”, escribió en la red social X el Comando Militar de Estados Unidos para Oriente Medio (Centcom).
Mientras tanto, la Organización Marítima Internacional denunció que ya se registraron 43 ataques contra barcos comerciales en la zona desde que estalló el conflicto.
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En medio de la escalada, Trump presiona por un acuerdo rápido para frenar la guerra, preocupado por el impacto de los precios de la nafta en las elecciones de noviembre.
Pero las condiciones parecen difíciles de conciliar: Estados Unidos exige que Irán entregue su uranio altamente enriquecido, mientras que Teherán reclama el levantamiento de sanciones y la liberación de activos congelados antes de firmar cualquier pacto.
Irán también exige que cualquier acuerdo incluya el fin de los combates entre su aliado Hezbollah e Israel, algo que Washington rechaza. Por su parte, el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, mantiene una postura dura: busca el colapso del gobierno teocrático iraní, la eliminación de su programa nuclear y la destrucción de Hezbollah en Líbano.
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La situación es cada vez más volátil. El cruce de ataques entre Estados Unidos e Irán ya dejó víctimas civiles y amenaza con desbordar a toda la región. Israel, por su parte, advirtió a los habitantes del norte que busquen refugio ante la posibilidad de nuevos bombardeos desde Líbano.
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