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FBI will investigate ‘any evidence of a criminal conspiracy’ in LA riots

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday that it will look into any organized effort to create chaos in Los Angeles, as anti-ICE riots occurred over the weekend.

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«We’re investigating anyone who crosses the line from first-amendment protected activity to violence and are prepared to prosecute anyone who assaults a federal officer or causes damage to government property,» Laura Eimiller, media coordinator for the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, told Fox News Digital in an email.

«LAPD, as you know, is also making arrests for unlawful assembly.  Obviously, any evidence of a criminal conspiracy will be investigated,» she continued.

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ICE’s federal law enforcement officers take Jorge Carvajal Castrejon, 36, into custody in Houston on Jan. 28. (ICE)

Dozens have been arrested in Los Angeles as cars have been burned and tensions between rioters and law enforcement tended to escalate later in the day over the weekend, and more unrest could occur on Monday night. 

President Donald Trump has sent in National Guard troops to reign in the riots, which the state of California is suing over, as Democratic leaders argue it’s only instigating.

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Andy Ngo of The Post Millennial reported that Antifa and others are likely playing a role in the riots, as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said that she’ll be introducing legislation to «designate ANTIFA as a terrorist organization.»

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People attend a rally against the detention of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW union president David Huerta amid federal immigration sweeps, with the Los Angeles City Hall in the background, in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S. Jun. 9, 2025.  (REUTERS/David Ryder)

On Monday during a press conference announcing a lawsuit against the Trump administration for deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Fox News Digital he acknowledged that «outside folks» will «sometimes embed themselves or use the protest as cover.»

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«If you don’t follow the law, we will find you, and we will come for you, and we will hold you accountable,» Bonta said.

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As for non-violent protests, many of the demonstrations stem from left-wing groups, including the Service Employees International Union, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

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The SEIU has organized anti-ICE rallies across the country following the arrest of the union’s California president, David Huerta, as he is facing federal charges for allegedly getting in the way of an ICE crackdown. Huerta was released Monday from federal custody.

«ICE’s brutal, military-style tactics have no place in our communities. We demand safety. We demand respect. We demand David’s release,» SEIU posted to X on Monday.

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A protester waves the Mexican flag in front of a burning Waymo vehicle during an anti-ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles, California, on Jun. 8, 2025. (Getty Images)

The group had a public plan to pour $200 million to support candidates across the country in 2024, including Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential bid.

CHRILA told the New York Post that they have «not participated, coordinated, or been part of the protests being registered in Los Angeles other than the press conference and rally.»

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The Post reported that CHIRLA won $450,000 in grants from the Biden-era DHS, but $100,936 of «remaining, unobligated federal funding» for the award given to the group was scrapped by the Trump administration in March, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin posted to X on Sunday. 

The organization received millions in grants while President Joe Biden was in office, according to the outlet. The Post further reported that the PSL has ties to the Chinese Communist Party because of its backing from tech billionaire Neville Singham.

Fox News Digital has reached out to SEIU, the PSL, and CHIRLA for comment.

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Por qué algunas personas duermen poco y no experimentan consecuencias en la salud

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Investigadores de la Universidad de California identifican variantes genéticas que permiten dormir menos sin afectar la salud

Dormir entre siete y nueve horas diarias se considera la recomendación básica para garantizar el buen funcionamiento físico y mental. Sin embargo, según reportó Knowable Magazineexiste un grupo minoritario de personas que apenas requieren cuatro o seis horas de sueño cada noche y no muestran consecuencias negativas para su salud. Estos individuos, denominados “natural short sleepers” (dormidores cortos naturales) , desafían la visión tradicional sobre la cantidad de descanso que necesita la mayoría de la población.

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La comunidad científica, liderada por el neurólogo Louis Ptáček y la genetista Ying-Hui Fu, ambos de la Universidad de California, San Francisco, ha identificado que la razón de este fenómeno radica en la genética.

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El modelo tradicional del sueño es desafiado por la existencia de personas con mutaciones genéticas que requieren menos descanso (Freepik)

Los estudios de estos investigadores permitieron detectar varios genes asociados al sueño corto y eficiente, entre los que destacan DEC2ADRB1NPSR1 y GRM1. Las personas portadoras de ciertas mutaciones en estos genes parecen tener un sueño más eficiente, procesando en menos horas lo que a otros les lleva casi el doble de tiempo.

A diferencia de quienes sufren privación crónica de sueño, los short sleepers no experimentan afectaciones cognitivas, metabólicas ni inmunológicas, de acuerdo con los resultados recogidos por Knowable Magazine. Resisten el estrés, muestran una alta capacidad de recuperación y, en algunos casos, suelen ser personas energéticas, optimistas y posiblemente con una mayor longevidad, como sugiere la literatura científica reciente.

Este fenómeno contradice el modelo propuesto por Alexander Borbély en los años 70, que plantea la alternancia entre ritmo circadiano y presión homeostática de sueño. La existencia de este grupo evidencia que aún quedan aspectos por descubrir sobre la función y regulación del sueño.

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El neurólogo Louis Ptáček destaca que, a pesar de dedicar un tercio de la vida a dormir, la naturaleza y el propósito real del sueño continúan siendo un enigma.

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Los genes DEC2, ADRB1, NPSR1 y GRM1 están asociados a un sueño corto y eficiente en los llamados ‘dormidores cortos naturales’ (Unsplash)

El sueño se comprende hoy como un fenómeno dinámico esencial para el cerebro y el cuerpo, que permite reponer energía, eliminar residuos y consolidar recuerdos. La privación crónica se asocia a deficiencias de memoria, trastornos metabólicos, enfermedades cardíacas y fragilidad inmune. La reducción de las horas de descanso, incentivada con la aparición de la bombilla eléctrica, es particularmente notable en Estados Unidos, donde aumenta la cantidad de personas que duermen menos de cinco horas diarias.

Los avances en genética han permitido localizar variantes asociadas a este patrón. La mutación DEC2 fue la primera identificada, tras estudiar a una familia cuyos miembros despertaban temprano y se sentían completamente recuperados tras solo seis horas de descanso. En modelos animales, esta mutación generó una menor necesidad de sueño y mayor producción de orexina, hormona que promueve la vigilia.

Actualmente, se han identificado siete genes relacionados con el sueño corto natural. La mutación ADRB1 incrementa la facilidad para despertar y prolongar la vigilia; otra variante en el NPSR1 posibilita dormir poco sin deterioro cognitivo relevante; también se hallaron alteraciones en GRM1 relacionadas con una gestión más eficiente del sueño.

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Las personas que duermen poco y se mantienen sanas parecen inmunes a las consecuencias negativas del insomnio clásico y además muestran una conducta ambiciosa, resiliente y tolerante al dolor. Algunas investigaciones citadas por Smithsonian Magazine consideran incluso que podrían disfrutar de una esperanza de vida mayor que el promedio.

Frente a estos hallazgos, científicos como Ptáček proponen incluir un tercer elemento al modelo tradicional del sueño: el impulso conductual. Este impulso explicaría cómo ciertos individuos superan las barreras biológicas y cumplen con sus tareas pese a dormir menos. Otra hipótesis apunta a que sus cerebros terminan los procesos de recuperación y limpieza con mayor eficiencia en menor tiempo.

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El entorno y la genética influyen en la cantidad de sueño necesaria, abriendo nuevas estrategias para mejorar la salud general (Freepik)

El trabajo de Phyllis Zee, directora del Centro de Medicina Circadiana y del Sueño en la Universidad Northwestern, se centra en la calidad del descanso. Investiga si los dormidores cortos concentran fases más reparadoras y aceleran la eliminación de residuos cerebrales. En línea con esta visión, Fu comenta: “Sea lo que sea que su cuerpo necesita hacer durante el sueño, pueden hacerlo en poco tiempo”.

El equipo de Fu halló que los genes del sueño corto natural mejoran la capacidad para eliminar sustancias tóxicas vinculadas al deterioro cerebral.

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Aunque se han detectado mutaciones que brindan resistencia a los efectos adversos de dormir poco, persiste la incógnita sobre el modo exacto en que alteran la eficiencia del sueño. Para encontrar respuestas, Fu y Ptáček examinan la actividad cerebral de los dormidores cortos, aunque la pandemia de Covid-19 ralentizó el progreso de sus estudios.

Existen también mutaciones que provocan un requerimiento superior de horas de sueño. Sin embargo, estas personas enfrentan obstáculos sociales, pues los horarios laborales y educativos suelen oponerse a sus ritmos biológicos, lo que aumenta el riesgo de privación y problemas de salud mental.

Aunque la genética es decisiva, el entorno también influye en cuántas horas necesita dormir una persona. Investigar los mecanismos de eficiencia abre la puerta a nuevas estrategias para proteger la salud general. Por ejemplo, en el laboratorio de Zee se empleó ruido rosa para estimular la memoria sin modificar la duración del sueño, logrando mejoras cognitivas en los participantes.

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Los especialistas recalcan que cada individuo debe adaptar sus hábitos de descanso a sus propias necesidades. Ptáček rechaza los estándares rígidos y compara la recomendación universal de ocho horas con suponer que toda la población debe tener una sola altura.

Dormir bien no tiene una fórmula única: la genética y la eficiencia pueden marcar la diferencia.

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WATCH: Lawmakers break down how billions in the ‘big, beautiful bill’ boost Trump’s immigration crackdown

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President Donald Trump’s «big, beautiful bill» was signed into law earlier this month, with Republican lawmakers celebrating a broad range of GOP victories in the massive tax-and-spending legislation.

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That includes billions of dollars aimed at Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration in the U.S. Nearly $30 billion is marked for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) alone, and $45 billion is going toward building up detention facility capacity.

House Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital last week hailed that funding boost, even as critics of the Trump administration accuse the White House of taking too heavy a hand on the issue. 

«Having that money to now be able to work on the wall along the southern border, to be able to hire more agents, to pay them more, to invest in the technology, to patrol and secure the border – it is hugely important,» Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital. «If you ask President Trump, that was the most important issue of the 2024 election.»

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President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda got a huge boost in the «big, beautiful bill.» (Win McNamee/Getty Images and ICE)

Rep. Michael Guest, R-Tenn., who chairs the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the detention facility funding is particularly significant.

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Guest urged ICE to use those funds to ramp up «targeted» enforcement against illegal immigrants.

It comes as many on the left and some on the right have urged the Trump administration not to go too far in rounding up suspected illegal immigrants who otherwise pose no known threat to the public.

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Rep. Michael Guest urged the funding be used for «targeted» enforcement. (Getty Images)

«I think targeted enforcement, making sure that they’re going after the worst of the worst – those individuals who have either committed crimes in the United States or we learn after they released into the interior that they had committed crimes in their country origin, [or] those people who have final orders of removal,» Guest said.

«Those are the people that I believe that ICE needs to be targeting. Those are the people where you see widespread support from the American public that they want to get off the street.»

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., pointed out that ICE had been asking for that funding for some time.

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«Tom Homan has done a tremendous job. He’s indicated for a while he needs more money to keep doing his job. And he’s being fought by everybody, particularly the sanctuary cities, to prevent that from happening,» Norman said. «The least we can do is provide the funding, and we did it.»

And Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., said he hoped the increased border and immigration crackdown would help fight the ongoing drug crisis still plaguing the U.S.

Rep. Ralph Norman said border czar Tom Homan has "done a tremendous job."

Rep. Ralph Norman said border czar Tom Homan has «done a tremendous job.» (Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

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«So in order to have a secured border, in order get rid of these criminal, illegal aliens that are raping and murdering American citizens on the regular, we have to have a very strong immigration enforcement system,» Van Orden said.

Reps. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., highlighted the funding for Trump’s border wall and for more ICE personnel, respectively.

The bill passed the House earlier this month and was signed into law by Trump on the Fourth of July.

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In addition to funding immigration operations, it also extends key parts of Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), rolls back some Biden administration-era green energy subsidies, and imposes new work requirements for federal aid.

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Ukraine sees sweeping protests over bill weakening anti-corruption agencies

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Ukrainians are taking to the streets after the passage of a controversial bill threatening the autonomy of two anti-corruption agencies. 

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The legislation gives the general prosecutor — who is appointed by the president — increased authority over the country’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO). 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now facing the largest protests since Russia’s 2022 invasion. Demonstrators gathered outside the presidential administration in Kyiv, while other protests took place in smaller cities across the country.

Ukrainians protest in the first wartime rally against a newly passed law, which curbs independence of anti-corruption institutions, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in central Lviv, Ukraine, on July 22, 2025.  (REUTERS/Roman Baluk)

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The vote came one day after two NABU officials were arrested over alleged ties to Russia, according to Reuters. The outlet said that Ukraine’s domestic security agency, which carried out the arrests, also conducted background checks. 

«I gathered all heads of Ukraine’s law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies, along with the Prosecutor General. It was a much-needed meeting — a frank and constructive conversation that truly helps,» Zelenskyy wrote on X. «We all share a common enemy: the Russian occupiers. And defending the Ukrainian state requires a strong enough law enforcement and anti-corruption system — one that ensures a real sense of justice.»

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (not pictured) hold a joint press conference during the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 (URC2025) at Roma Convention Center La Nuvola, on July 10, 2025, in Rome, Italy. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

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«In effect, if this bill becomes law, the head of SAPO will become a nominal figure, while NABU will lose its independence and turn into a subdivision of the prosecutor general’s office,» the agencies said in a joint statement on Telegram, according to the Associated Press.

European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos expressed concern over the vote, saying «the dismantling of key safeguards protecting NABU’s independence is a serious step back.»

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Zelenskyy said in another X post, following a meeting that included NABU Director Semen Kryvonos, SAPO Prosecutor Oleksandr Klymenko, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, and Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk, that «anti-corruption infrastructure» needs to be «cleared» of «Russian influence.»

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Protesters hold placards during a rally against a law that restricts independence of anti‑corruption institutions on July 22, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ivan Antypenko/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC «UA:PBC»/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

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The Ukrainian government’s latest move risks endangering its bid to join the European Union, as a crackdown on internal corruption is a requirement. Additionally, it could strain the warming relationship between Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump, who has accused the Ukrainian leader of being a «dictator without elections.»

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Both the U.S. and the E.U. have backed activists in Ukraine demanding independent institutions be established and empowered to clean up corruption, according to Axios. However, the pressure dropped significantly after Russia invaded Ukraine.


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