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GOP lawmakers seek to defund HBCU after it canceled Republican’s commencement speech
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FIRST ON FOX: South Carolina Republicans are pushing to strip funding from the state’s only public HBCU after the university rescinded Republican Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette’s commencement invitation following student protests and security concerns.
What began as a student protest over a conservative commencement speaker, resulted in «credible safety threats,» according to Evette, who spoke to Fox News Digital after her commencement address at South Carolina State University was canceled. Following an uproar from students, who decried Evette’s views on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), abortion and her support for President Donald Trump, among other issues, the University president put out a statement indicating that «out of an abundance of caution for safety» the college would be «mov[ing] in a different direction for this Spring commencement.»
«From the outset, our decision to invite Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette as our Spring 2026 Commencement speaker was rooted in her record as a business leader and entrepreneur. As the founder and former CEO of a company that grew from a startup into a billion-dollar enterprise, she represents the kind of innovation, resilience and real-world achievement that aligns with the aspirations of our graduates,» the statement read. «We are grateful to Lt. Gov. Evette for her willingness to engage with our students and for her time and consideration in accepting the invitation.»
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South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette announces her bid for governor on July 14, 2025. (Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Pressure from students, including multiple protests around South Carolina State’s campus, led up to the ultimate decision to rescind the invitation for Evette, which the Lt. Gov. said was sent to her in December. The Lt. Gov. indicated to Fox News Digital that she never publicized her address, or shared publicly what she would speak about.
Evette described the protesters as a «woke mob,» earning her backlash, but she refused to back down from the statement when talking to Fox News Digital. According to Evette, attorneys from South Carolina State called attorneys in her office, telling them the reason for canceling the event was due to «credible threats.»
«It’s what we’ve seen all across the country,» Evette, who is also running for governor in The Palmetto State, told Fox News Digital. «Somebody with a conservative point of view shows up and everybody wants to cancel them. We saw it with Charlie Kirk, and we saw with Riley Gaines, and we’ve seen it with Ben Shapiro. I never thought I’d be in that kind of list, but here we are and it’s a real shame and it has to end.«
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Alexander Conyers, South Carolina State University’s President, announced the decision to rescind Evette’s invitation to a round of applause from students — a decision he said he made personally. In video of the announcement caught by local news, Conyers said he doesn’t want people to think students at South Carolina State are «thugs» or a mob.»
«We are not a mob. We are just aware,» South Carolina State University students, who repeatedly insisted their protests were peaceful, could be heard chanting as they marched in large groups around campus, seen in video shared by local South Carolina reporter Michael White.
Then interim South Carolina State University President stands next to former President Joe Biden during the school’s commencement ceremony in 2021. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
«Hey, hey! Ho! Ho! Pamela Evette gots to go!,» the crowds chanted, including at night, around campus.
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In another alleged sit-in-style protest, students were filmed inside a campus building decrying Trump as a pedophile, bigot, racist and a supporter of the police.
«Being conservative is not the issue — that’s alright, we all have our own political views. But she’s explicitly said ‘I am a Trump conservative.’ Okay, if you believe in Trump you support pedophilia, you support bigotry, you support racism, what else, pro-police — the same police that’s killing our people — and also she supports ICE,» one of the sit-in protesters can be heard saying in a video circulating on social media. «She also would like to have — because I’m going to say a concentration camp — that’s not what they calling it but you all want to bring on of those here to or state. We don’t believe in that.»
Zaria Tucker, the South Carolina State Student Government Association President, echoed the point about students’ anger not being about politics during an address at a board of trustees meeting.
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«Commencement is not about politics, but more about representation. What we need as students. Not someone to come and tell us what they need to do as governor, or another position that they’re running for in this state,» Tucker said in the video shared online by White. «But, more to uplift us as students. So, necessarily, that’s what the main goal will always be, as the Student Government Association president.»
In response to the decision from Conyers and South Carolina State University, Republican state legislators from the House Freedom Caucus called the decision by the college «shameful» and «inexcusable» that the university had to cancel Evette’s speech «because her safety could not be guaranteed on a state-funded campus.»
The campus of South Carolina State University. (Jacob Boomsma)
The letter ended by requesting that «no funding» be included in the upcoming version of the state’s funding.
«If the Lt. Gov. of South Carolina is unwelcome due to different political ideologies and an inability to keep her safe, it is time to defund and reevaluate.,» the letter, signed by nine GOP South Carolina State legislators, concluded.
During Evette’s comments to Fox News Digital she said that she and current South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster have always ensured Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the state are funded, noting that despite a Republican super majority in the state legislature «we have been very supportive.» Evette added that President Trump «has done more for them than any president and in history.»
The South Carolina State House is seen in Columbia, South Carolina. (LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Meanwhile, the school invited former Democratic Party President Joe Biden to speak at their commencement ceremony in 2021, when Conyers was interim president of the school at the time.
«Where is the faculty and where is the leadership and why aren’t they setting the record straight why do these young people who obviously are very bright — they’re graduating college — not know these basic facts about what’s happening at the university they’re attending.»
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Missouri senator warns Dem immigration policies threaten Western civilization after scoring ICE funding win
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Democrats’ «suicidal empathy» on immigration will «destroy our country,» a Republican senator warned after his proposal targeting sanctuary city policies was included in the reconciliation package funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
In a Tuesday interview with Fox News Digital, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., argued that Democrats’ approach to immigration is also driven by political self-interest and not entirely by the desire for moral high-ground.
«There’s an electoral play here. It’s about raw power,» he said.
Schmitt’s provision, which was included in the House-passed funding package Tuesday, would provide $350 million for ICE agents to arrest criminal illegal immigrants after their release from state or local custody. It comes as law enforcement in sanctuary states and cities continue to refuse to cooperate with federal officials.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., blamed «leftists» for the rise in political violence while questioning FBI Director Kash Patel during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 16, 2025. Schmitt referenced the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and said, «Don’t give me this both sides bullshit!» while attributing most political violence in the U.S. to liberal politicians, groups and individuals. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Schmitt also warned that failing to deport illegal aliens is a threat to the West itself.
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«I think it’s a very important time for Western civilization, honestly, to stand up and say, ‘no, we actually believe in sovereignty. We believe that a country can decide who can come and who has to go,’ and that this is our moment,» he said. «And the easiest of low-hanging fruit is to say that when you’re here illegally and you’ve committed a violent act, when you’re released from prison, we’re actually going to send you back home, and that’s what this legislation does.»
In sanctuary cities and states, officials often flout federal immigration law and refuse to coordinate with ICE to ensure criminal illegal aliens are deported after they’re freed, Schmitt explained.
«And I know that sounds crazy, but that’s the practical implication,» said Schmitt, adding that there were 18,000 such cases in 2025 alone.
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«These violent rapists or other violent criminals are just being let loose into the community,» said Schmitt, who argued that being in the country illegally — even without committing a violent crime — is justification enough for deportation.
«But these sanctuary jurisdictions have decided that they would rather let these criminal illegal aliens back in the community than have them deported. That’s how inverted the morality is on all this,» he continued. «And so this sets to right that wrong. It says that these sanctuary jurisdictions… you don’t want to cooperate? Okay, well we’re going to have the resources to go do it on our own with ICE.»
Schmitt’s successful provision and the larger debate on the funding bill comes as criminal illegal aliens continue to make headlines. Just last week, four members of the barbaric Venezuelan Tren de Aragua street gang pleaded guilty to murdering two Americans by gunning them down in cold blood.
A man is arrested by ICE agents in Monassas, Virginia, on May 15, 2026. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
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Another illegal alien in California, accused of killing a two-month-old baby, grinned in court during a pretrial hearing on June 2.
Yet another illegal alien was sentenced at the end of May to 25 years in prison after raping and impregnating a 12-year-old girl in Missouri.
«I can’t explain why they wanted an open border,» Schmitt said of the opposition party. «I can’t explain why they don’t want criminals deported from this country. I can’t explain why they don’t want people denaturalized who have, you know, committed terrorist acts in this country.»
«That’s on them, but we’ve got a job to do, which is to make the American people more safe.»
An ICE agent monitors hundreds of asylum seekers being processed inside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City on June 6, 2023. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
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Schmitt noted that arresting criminal illegal aliens when they’re released from jail is also much safer than arresting them in immigration raids and operations, and expressed disbelief that such a policy has not yet been implemented.
«I can’t believe it hadn’t happened before, but I also don’t know that we’ve really been confronted with political leaders on the other side here who just don’t believe in the sovereignty of our country, and that’s kind of where we’re at. I mean, they wanted to defund ICE,» he told Fox News Digital.
«They don’t really want enforcement of our federal immigration laws, and I think the American people do.»
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Una confesión y el hallazgo de huesos en una casa reabrieron la investigación del caso de un joven que desapareció hace 33 años
Durante más de tres décadas, la desaparición de Juan Navarro fue un misterio para gran parte de su familia. El hombre tenía 27 años cuando fue visto por última vez el 15 de agosto de 1993 en Dénia, una ciudad ubicada en la provincia española de Alicante.
Ahora, casi 33 años después, una serie de confesiones realizadas dentro de su entorno familiar y el hallazgo de restos humanos en una casa reabrieron el caso y dieron lugar a una investigación que busca establecer qué ocurrió realmente.
Por el momento, hay una única certeza: la Policía Nacional encontró restos óseos humanos en una propiedad vinculada a la familia de Navarro. Sin embargo, todavía no se determinó si pertenecen al hombre desaparecido. Para eso, los investigadores ordenaron estudios genéticos y ya tomaron muestras de ADN a familiares directos.
El hallazgo se produjo la semana pasada en una casa ubicada en la calle Hospital, en pleno centro histórico de Dénia. Según informó El País, familiares de Navarro solicitaron permiso a la actual propietaria para realizar excavaciones en una parte de la vivienda que décadas atrás funcionaba como patio interior y que posteriormente fue remodelada.
Al levantar el piso descubrieron varios huesos. Luego de ello, la Policía Nacional intervino en el lugar y confirmó que los restos encontrados eran humanos. Desde entonces, los especialistas trabajan para determinar su identidad y antigüedad.
Los restos óseos humanos que se encontraron en la casa donde vivió Juan Navarro, el joven desaparecido desde 1993. (Foto: Las Provincias)
Un pacto de silencio que duró décadas y una confesión
La historia detrás de la búsqueda es tan impactante como compleja. De acuerdo con distintos medios españoles, fueron los propios familiares quienes impulsaron las excavaciones después de escuchar una serie de relatos sobre lo que habría ocurrido con Juan Navarro la noche de su desaparición.
Según publicó El País, los investigadores manejan al menos dos versiones sobre el origen de la información que permitió localizar el lugar donde estaban enterrados los restos.
La primera sostiene que el padre de Navarro habría confesado antes de morir que mató a su hijo tras una discusión relacionada con drogas. De acuerdo con ese relato, ambos tenían problemas de adicción y una pelea habría terminado de manera violenta. Posteriormente, el cuerpo habría sido ocultado dentro de la casa familiar.
La segunda versión apunta a que algunos integrantes de la familia conocían desde hacía años lo ocurrido, pero guardaron silencio hasta que el posible delito quedó prescripto por el paso del tiempo.
Las Provincias publicó que la madre de Juan, Antonia Navarro, les habría contado a algunos familiares detalles sobre lo sucedido recién este año. Según ese medio, la mujer habría reconocido que el joven murió dentro de la propiedad y que posteriormente sus restos fueron enterrados en el antiguo corral de la casa.
Antonia Navarro, la madre del joven desaparecido desde 1993. (Foto: Levante)
Sin embargo, la situación está lejos de ser clara. El mismo diario señaló que, tras realizar esas declaraciones, la mujer negó haber participado directamente en el hecho y atribuyó la responsabilidad a otras personas de su entorno familiar.
Por su parte, La Sexta difundió otra versión basada en testimonios de familiares. Según ese medio, una hermana de Navarro habría contado que presenció el episodio que terminó con la muerte del joven. De acuerdo con ese relato, todo comenzó con una fuerte discusión familiar vinculada al consumo de drogas. La versión indica que varias personas habrían intervenido en el episodio y que posteriormente el cuerpo fue descuartizado y enterrado dentro de la propiedad.
A pesar de ello, ninguna de esas afirmaciones fue confirmada por la Justicia y forman parte de testimonios que todavía no fueron corroborados mediante pruebas judiciales.
La lucha por la verdad
En los últimos días, varios hermanos de Juan Navarro hablaron ante la prensa para reclamar que se sepa la verdad sobre lo que ocurrió con el joven de 27 años. Además, en declaraciones con El Mundo, aseguraron que durante décadas creyeron que se había marchado por voluntad propia.
Uno de ellos, César Navarro, afirmó que fue la última persona de la familia que lo vio con vida. Según contó, acompañó a Juan hasta la casa de sus padres y después nunca volvió a tener noticias de él. Con el paso del tiempo, comenzaron a insistir para que se denunciara formalmente su desaparición.
Sin embargo, por motivos que aún se desconocen, la denuncia fue presentada por la madre siete años después de que se le perdiera el rastro a su hijo.
Hermanos y sobrinos de Juan Navarro reclamaron que se esclarezca el caso de la desaparición del joven de 27 años en 1993. (Foto: Levante)
Otra hermana, identificada como Isabel Navarro, sostuvo públicamente que durante décadas recibió explicaciones contradictorias sobre el destino de su hermano y reclamó que continúen las excavaciones para intentar esclarecer los hechos.
Ese pedido es compartido por otros familiares, que permanecen cerca de la casa mientras esperan avances en la investigación. Según remarcaron, el objetivo principal de la familia es localizar todos los restos para poder darle sepultura.
Por ahora, los especialistas solo recuperaron una parte de los huesos que podrían estar relacionados con el caso. Los estudios genéticos permitirán establecer si efectivamente pertenecen a Juan Navarro. Recién después de esa confirmación será posible avanzar con mayor certeza sobre lo ocurrido en 1993.
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Mientras se esperan los resultados, la investigación continúa rodeada de interrogantes. La identidad de los huesos hallados, las circunstancias de la desaparición y la veracidad de las confesiones familiares son algunas de las preguntas que todavía esperan respuesta en un caso que conmociona a España.
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Karmelo Anthony verdict draws anti-white rage and lies from radical Dem congresswoman, angry activists
Karmelo Anthony sentenced to 35 years for Austin Metcalf murder, appeal grounds discussed
Karmelo Anthony, convicted of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet, receives a 35-year prison sentence. Jeff Metcalf delivers a powerful victim impact statement. Former U.S. Attorney Cully Stimson discusses grounds for an appeal, including a ‘Batson claim’ regarding jury selection, as protests over alleged racial bias continue outside the McKinney courthouse.
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A Texas congresswoman is leading the voice of online activists enraged over the guilty verdict in Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial, and is spreading outright lies and racially inflammatory rhetoric after the 19-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison for stabbing Austin Metcalf to death.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a rare radical Democrat elected in deep red Texas, took to her podcast after Tuesday’s verdict to make false claims about the trial and its jury as she continues to stir up racial hatred.
«I’m not necessarily convinced — not that I could tell you the name of one person on this jury — that we had 12 impartial White folk out of Collin County sitting on a jury for this young black man,» she said, exhibiting her empathy for the convicted murderer.
Her claim about the jury is patently false.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, speaks at a public forum on the use of force by Department of Homeland Security agents at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3, 2026. (Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images)
Sources close to the trial confirmed to Fox News Digital that the jury was not made up only of white people, despite Crockett’s claim, which has been parroted by activists online.
Of the 12 jurors, three were racial minorities, including Asian and Indian, eight were women and four were men. They confirmed that of the 18 total jurors, including alternates, six were minorities.
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The jury in the trial, which spanned nine days in a Collin County, Texas, courtroom this month, found that Anthony intentionally stabbed Metcalf, then 18, to death on April 2, 2025.
The murder took place after Anthony entered the Memorial High School track team’s tent at a meet in Frisco, and refused 15 times to leave when asked. Witnesses testified that Metcalf lightly shoved Anthony in an attempt to remove him from the tent, after which the teen reached into his bag, pulled out a knife, and stabbed Metcalf in the chest.
The victim bled to death in front of his twin brother and teammates, many of whom testified at the trial.
Karmelo Anthony is accused of stabbing Austin Metcalf to death during a track meet in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, 2025. (Jeff Metcalf/FOX4)
Crockett surmised the jury likely convicted Anthony because residents of Collin County are upset that, «so many black folk are moving up there in the first place.»
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The congresswoman, who will not retain her seat in the House after redistricting in Texas pushed her district red, bizarrely compared black women in America to the victim’s family.
«Black women, especially black women who have black male children, live in fear and agony every single day,» she lamented. «A fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably had never spend a day living that way.»
That comment was branded as «psychotic» by White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller on X.
A New Black Panther Party member stands outside Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, Texas, where Karmelo Anthony is on trial for first-degree murder on June 8, 2026. Anthony faces charges in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)
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Crockett, an attorney, also claimed that the knife Anthony used to kill Metcalf was not a deadly weapon, and downplayed its size.
Activists outside the courthouse sounded off after the verdict was handed down.
Dominique Alexander, a local Black Lives Matter activist who has been involved with the Anthony family since Karmelo’s arrest, slammed injected racial rhetoric into the conversation.
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«What this process did is show that black lives do not matter in Collin County,» he said. «This trial showed that it put emotions over the law. After Trayvon Martin and so many countless names, it has shown us that Black life is not safe in Collin County.»
Martin was killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, in 2012. A jury in that case found that Zimmerman acted in self-defense.
Alexander also claimed without evidence that the judge in the case «interfered in this process,» and repeated the false claim that the jury was «all white.»
People outside Collin County Courthouse react as a verdict is announced in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial in McKinney, Texas, on June 9, 2026. Anthony faces a potential life sentence for the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)
Bree Newsome, an online far-leftist, insisted that race was a factor in the case.
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«Karmelo Anthony would be treated totally different by the legal system were he a white boy killing a black boy,» she said. «That’s the whole point. That’s what matters. Stop pretending there’s anything Black people can do in our behavior to prevent racism. Racism defines the entire system.»
Crockett’s office did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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