The frightening moment an avalanche thundered down a mountainside and slammed into a train traveling through the Swiss Alps was captured by a tourist.

The dramatic incident unfolded on Feb. 17 near the popular ski resort town of Zermatt in southern Switzerland’s Valais canton.

Kirsten Osborne, an Australian woman living in the U.K., was on the train with other passengers when the avalanche suddenly struck, according to Storyful.

She filmed the shocking moment a massive wall of snow barreled down the mountain toward the train.

9 CALIFORNIA SKIERS STILL MISSING AFTER AVALANCHE; 6 RESCUED

In the video, a child can be heard saying «uh-oh!» several times as the growing wave of powdery snow rapidly approaches. 

Within seconds, the train is engulfed in a thick white cloud as the avalanche crashes into it and covers the window in snow, causing the train to shake.

Osborne described how passengers were left stranded for around two hours following the impact. 

«We were stuck for two hours before the rescue and provided bus transport to safety,» she said.

UELI KESTENHOLZ, WHO WON SNOWBOARDING’S FIRST OLYMPIC MEDAL IN 1998, DIES IN SWISS AVALANCHE

Kirsten Osborne, an Australian woman living in the U.K., was onboard the train when the avalanche struck.  (Kirsten Osborne/Storyful)

Despite the terrifying scenes, no injuries were reported.

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, the rail company that operates the route, has since confirmed that all passengers were safely evacuated in coordination with emergency services.

«At around 11 a.m. on Tuesday morning, another avalanche occurred between Täsch and Randa,» the company said in a statement.

«A regional MGBahn train was struck by a resulting powder-snow avalanche. No one was injured. Passengers were evacuated in cooperation with the emergency services.

«As a precaution, and in consultation with external local natural hazard specialists, MGBahn has decided to suspend operations on the St. Niklaus–Täsch route until further notice,» the company said.

CALIFORNIA AVALANCHE THAT KILLED 8 IS DEADLIEST IN STATE HISTORY

The incident happened amid dangerous conditions in the Swiss Alps. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP, File)

MGBahn also confirmed it was in «close contact with specialists and experts to assess the situation along the entire route network between Disentis (GR) and Zermatt (VS).»

The incident happened amid dangerous winter conditions in the Swiss Alps, where heavy snowfall has impacted the tourist season.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

The avalanche strike on the train came just a day after another rail incident near the town of Goppenstein, where a train derailed, injuring five people.

Local reports indicated that an avalanche may have been a possible cause of that derailment, although investigations are ongoing.

Large areas of the western Alps have been affected this season by avalanche risks, according to The Times.

La economía de Estados Unidos creció a un ritmo mucho más lento en los últimos meses de 2025, anunció el Departamento de Comercio este viernes, que señaló que el histórico cierre del gobierno pesó sobre el crecimiento, mientras que el presidente Donald Trump salió a culpar a los demócratas por esa caída.

El anuncio complica al presidente Trump y al partido republicano de cara a las elecciones legislativas de noviembre de este año, ya que la economía es uno de los temas que más preocupa a los estadounidenses. Poco después, el presidente recibió otra mala noticia: la Corte falló en contra de su política de aranceles.

El producto interior bruto, que mide todos los bienes y servicios producidos en la economía, registró una tasa anualizada del 1,4% entre octubre y diciembre, según se informó oficialmente.

Las alarmas se encendieron porque supone una desaceleración notable respecto al 4,4% del tercer trimestre y, además, fue inferior a la tasa del 1,9% proyectada por los economistas en una encuesta de la empresa de datos FactSet y un 2,2% estimada por The Wall Street Journal.

Medida respecto al último cuarto de 2024, la economía creció un 2,2% en 2025. Es un crecimiento más lento que el 2,4% en 2024 y el más débil desde 2022. Los economistas encuestados por el Journal el mes pasado indicaban un crecimiento esperado del 2,3% para 2025.

El Departamento de Comercio dijo que el crecimiento más lento del cuarto trimestre «reflejó descensos en el gasto público y las exportaciones, así como una desaceleración del gasto de los consumidores«.

Aun así, la economía estadounidense terminó el año con crecimiento a pesar de los aranceles que ha aplicado el presidente Trump a la mayoría de sus socios comerciales, el crecimiento inusualmente débil del empleo y el aumento de la deuda de los hogares.

El Departamento de Comercio afirmó que el efecto completo del cierre del gobierno, que se extendió desde el 1 de octubre hasta el 12 de noviembre porque los legisladores no lograban aprobar el presupuesto, «no puede cuantificarse».

Pero una medida —la reducción de los servicios prestados por los trabajadores del gobierno federal— recortó aproximadamente 1 punto porcentual del crecimiento del PIB ajustado por inflación en el último trimestre.

Atento a la repercusión de la noticia, y una media hora antes de que se publicara el informe del PIB, el presidente Trump culpó este viernes en sus redes sociales a los demócratas por el cierre y de perjudicar la economía. También volvió a atacar al presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, por no bajar más las tasas de interés.

«El cierre demócrata le costó a Estados Unidos al menos dos puntos del PIB», escribió el mandatario republicano en su plataforma Truth Social, y dijo que Powell era “el peor”.

Sin embargo, incluso excluyendo el efecto del cierre federal, el crecimiento se desaceleró en el cuarto trimestre. El gasto de consumidores y empresas aumentó a una tasa anual del 2,4%, sólida pero aún la más débil desde el primer trimestre de 2025. Y en el año, esta medida subió un 2,5%, frente al 2,9% de 2024.

El informe del viernes pone fin a un año en el que el PIB se recuperó de una ligera contracción en el primer trimestre a niveles de crecimiento más fuertes en el segundo y tercer trimestre.

Las empresas que anticiparon los aranceles de la administración Trump provocaron un aumento de las importaciones a principios de 2025, lo que afectó al PIB porque las importaciones extranjeras restan del cálculo del crecimiento económico. Pero el gasto sólido de los consumidores y la fuerte inversión en inteligencia artificial ayudaron a que la economía siguiera creciendo en trimestres posteriores.

Se espera que la economía estadounidense crezca un 2,2% en 2026, según la encuesta más reciente del Wall Street Journal a economistas, gracias a las continuas inversiones en IA, así como a las rebajas de impuestos e incentivos derivados del megaproyecto de ley fiscal y gasto del verano pasado.

La marcha de la economía sigue siendo uno de los puntos más complicados para Trump en un año electoral. Un promedio de encuestas de RealClearPolling señala que casi un 59% de los estadounidenses desaprueba su gestión económica y un 61% lo culpa por la inflación.

Algunas de las elecciones más recientes, incluidas la de la ciudad de Nueva York y los estados de Virginia y New Jersey, resultaron en fuertes golpes para el oficialismo republicano que resultó vencido por distintos candidatos que esgrimieron la bandera de la lucha contra los precios altos y la “afordabilidad”.

Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Democratic claims that their marquee voter ID legislation would wreak havoc on elections in the country.

Congressional Democrats have panned the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act as a tool of voter suppression — saying it’s a bill that allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to monitor Americans’ voter information and create barriers for married women to vote, among several other claims.

Along with requiring photo ID to vote, the bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, mandate states to actively verify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, expand information sharing with federal agencies, including DHS, to verify citizenship, and create new criminal penalties for registering noncitizens to vote.

GOP WARNS DEMOCRATS USING DHS SHUTDOWN TO STALL SENATE VOTER ID PUSH

Trump has time and again pushed voter ID, calling the election reforms in the bill a «CAN’T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND.» 

Some of the bill’s strongest proponents fact-checked those claims in interviews with Fox News Digital.

«If you look at what it actually says, rather than what Democrats aggressively and, I believe, disingenuously are arguing right now — they’re overlooking the requirements of the SAVE America Act — those requirements are actually really generous,» Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told Fox News Digital. «They’re really flexible.»

Here’s a closer look at some of the most common claims Democrats have made about the SAVE America Act — and how Republican supporters of the bill are responding.

Claim: ‘Federalizing voter suppression’

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., routinely has bashed the SAVE America Act as «Jim Crow 2.0» — the segregationist laws of the Deep South largely done away with by the Civil Rights Act.

«It has nothing to do with protecting our elections and everything to do with federalizing voter suppression,» Schumer said earlier in February on the Senate floor.

But Republicans argued that Democrats were being «hypocritical» in their voter suppression charge, particularly when it comes to voter ID.

TOM EMMER BLASTS DEMOCRATS’ DOUBLE STANDARD ON SAVE ACT: ‘THEY REQUIRE PHOTO IDS’ AT THEIR OWN DNC

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speaks to reporters after a news conference on Capitol Hill on Oct. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., whose home state is one of 36 that either requests or requires a form of photo identification before voting, argued that voter ID laws across the country had no effect on turnout.

«This idea that they’re saying that it’s going to suppress any vote — it’s never done that anywhere,» Scott told Fox News Digital. «They said that when Georgia passed it, and they had record turnout. So it’s not true at all. I mean, how many people do you know who don’t have an ID?»

Claim: DHS will have access to legal voters’ data

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., argued during a press conference that this iteration of the SAVE Act — with its new name — is «worse» than the version that passed the House in April because it gave DHS access to Americans’ voter data.

He appeared to be referring to a provision that would allow DHS to begin potential deportation proceedings against a noncitizen found on a state’s voter rolls.

«This version, as I understand it, would actually give DHS the power to get voting records from states across the country,» Jeffries said earlier in February. «Why would these extremists think that’s a good idea? That we as Democrats are going to accept at this moment in time? We’d want DHS and ICE, who have been brutally, viciously and violently targeting everyday Americans, to have more data about the American people? It’s outrageous.»

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who led both the SAVE Act and SAVE America Act in the House, argued Democrats were «really reaching» for criticism.

«This actually allows and empowers states to be able to — as many of them want to do — check their voter rolls against the citizenship database that they’re currently prohibited from doing under a judicial interpretation of federal law,» Roy said.

«So, long-winded way of saying, no — the SAVE system exists, we have citizenship data, and we’re simply going to allow the checking of voter rolls against citizenship data.»

THUNE GUARANTEES VOTER ID BILL TO HIT THE SENATE DESPITE SCHUMER, DEM OPPOSITION: ‘WE WILL HAVE A VOTE’

Senator Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah and chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, during a confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.  (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Claim: Suppresses married women’s right to vote

Another oft-repeated argument by Democrats is that the legislation would make it harder for American women to vote — specifically married women whose last names are now different from those on their birth certificates.

That’s because the bill would require proof of citizenship, like a birth certificate or a Real ID, to register to vote.

«Republicans aren’t truly afraid of noncitizens voting, which we all know is already illegal, already grounds for deportation,» House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., said earlier this month. «They’re afraid of women voting.»

Rep. Emilia Sykes, D-Ohio, said during the same press conference, «If your current name does not exactly fit and match the name on your birth certificate or citizenship papers, you could be blocked from registering to vote, even if you are a lifelong naturalized or American-born citizen.»

But Roy again said this was untrue.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

«This is absolute nonsense, and we specifically allow for a provision to make sure that no one can possibly be left behind,» he said.

«If a woman tried to register to vote with different names on her birth certificate and driver’s license,» Roy said. «We literally put in the statute that all you have to do is sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury that, ‘I am that person. This is my birth certificate … and this is my driver’s license that is reflecting my married name.’»