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California launches redistricting fight to ‘nullify’ Texas GOP plan, with Dems poised to gain 5 seats

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As the controversy surrounding Texas’s redistricting efforts still rages, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that the Golden State will move forward with a plan for a special election in early November to place its own redistricting plan on a ballot measure before voters.
Newsom said the move was a counterpunch to Texas and was being done in a transparent fashion, but would also likely see Democrats pick up five seats if the measure is adopted. The plan would allow Democrats to temporarily bypass the state’s independent redistricting commission and adopt a new congressional map ahead of the 2026 elections.
«We are talking about emergency measures to respond to what’s happening in Texas and we will nullify what happens in Texas,» Newsom said at a Friday press conference flanked by several California lawmakers and some Texas Democrats who fled their state.
Accompanied by California and Texas lawmakers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, discusses the push to schedule a special election to redraw California’s Congressional voting districts, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on Friday Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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«We’ll pick up five seats with the consent of the people. And that’s the difference between the approach we’re taking and the approach they’re taking,» Newsom continued. «We’re doing it on a temporary basis. We’re doing it in a fully transparent way and we’re doing it by asking the people of the state of California for their consent and support.»
California would be the first Democratic-led state to actively begin the process of passing new congressional district lines ahead of the 2026 midterms in response to Texas’s redistricting push.
Newsom said Democrats have until Aug. 22 to get the measure on the ballot and he railed against President Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in justifying the move.
«Greg Abbott, who doesn’t have the courage, doesn’t have the backbone, doesn’t have a conscience of the consequences of his actions… is dialing now for new seats,» Newsom said Friday, referring to the Texas governor’s push for a mid-decade redistricting map and a call with President Trump.
«[Trump’s] agenda is failing. His presidency has failed. He knows the headwinds in a midterm. He’s dialing for seats now.»

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for the arrest of fleeing Democrats. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
‘ALL-OUT WAR’: FLEEING TEXAS DEMS SIDE WITH NEWSOM AS REDISTRICTING STANDOFF CONTINUES: ‘FIRE WITH FIRE’
Texas Republicans, encouraged by the Trump administration, are pursuing a congressional map aimed at adding up to five GOP-leaning districts, prompting fierce backlash and counteraction. Texas Democrats have fled the Lone Star State to Democrat-stronghold states to break quorum and halt the vote.
The Texas House requires a quorum of two-thirds of members present to conduct official business and state lawmakers have reported they plan to be absent from the state until the end of August, when the special session ends.
Texas Democrats argue that their state’s redistricting plan is unconstitutional and nakedly partisan.
Pelosi defended the Texas walkout, calling it «self-defense for our democracy.»
She said Democrats will not let Trump «pave over» free and fair elections in the country.

Texas Democrats stood next to Illinois lawmakers on Aug. 4, 2025, to oppose redistricting measures proposed by Texas Republicans. (Fox News)
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Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows signed arrest warrants for the absent Democrats on Monday, following the state House approving of such warrants and Gov. Greg Abbott calling on the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest the «delinquent Texas House Democrats.» The arrest warrants are largely viewed as symbolic as they only apply to those within state lines.
California State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Democrat, said maps would be available to view next week.
«Once these maps are released, voters will have the opportunity to digest these maps, review them for weeks and months leading to this election,» he said.
Fox News’ Emma Colton and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Haití declaró el estado de emergencia en tres departamentos del país ante el recrudecimiento de la violencia pandillera

El gobierno de transición de Haití decretó este sábado el estado de emergencia en los departamentos de Oeste, Artibonito y Centro, en respuesta a un repunte significativo de la violencia criminal durante el segundo trimestre de 2025. Según datos oficiales y la Oficina de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, al menos 1.500 personas han muerto y 600 han resultado heridas en el periodo señalado, mientras que más de 620 han sido secuestradas y al menos 239.000 ciudadanos han abandonado sus hogares a causa de la inseguridad.
La decisión, anunciada oficialmente por el Ejecutivo de transición, señala que tiene como objetivo “continuar la lucha contra la inseguridad y responder a la crisis agrícola y alimentaria”, y busca otorgar mayores medios y tiempo a las autoridades para restituir la seguridad y la paz en el territorio nacional.
La violencia de las pandillas se ha desplazado progresivamente desde la capital, Puerto Príncipe, hacia la región centro y en especial al departamento de Artibonito, el mayor del país y conocido como el “granero” nacional. El gobierno subraya las “consecuencias negativas de la violencia para la vida de los ciudadanos y para los sectores de actividad del país”. La región, fundamental para la producción de arroz, ha experimentado ataques que han forzado a los agricultores a abandonar sus campos y a desplazarse, situación que ha agravado la crisis agrícola y alimentaria nacional, según la ONU.
A finales de abril, decenas de personas se vieron obligadas a cruzar a pie y a nado el río más grande de Haití, en un esfuerzo por huir de la actividad de los grupos armados. Las autoridades describen una escalada de la violencia, con asesinatos sistemáticos, secuestros y desplazamientos masivos.
El viernes, la administración interina designó a André Jonas Vladimir Paraison como nuevo director general interino de la Policía Nacional de Haití (PNH), en reemplazo de Normil Rameau. Paraison fue jefe de seguridad del Palacio Nacional durante seis años y estuvo presente como agente policial durante el asesinato del presidente Jovenel Moïse en julio de 2021. La misión de Paraison es establecer un clima de seguridad que posibilite la celebración de elecciones previstas para febrero de 2026.
Paraison recalcó, en presencia del primer ministro Alix Didier Fils-Aime y el nuevo presidente del Consejo Presidencial de Transición (CPT), Laurent Saint-Cyr, la necesidad de “un gran plan de desarrollo para la PNH” y de “coherencia entre el plan nacional de desarrollo y el plan de seguridad de la Policía para ofrecer mejores resultados a la población”.

En la actualidad, las bandas armadas controlan hasta el 90% de la región metropolitana de Puerto Príncipe y han instalado controles en las carreteras hacia el interior del país.
Saint-Cyr instó al nuevo jefe policial a tomar “todas las medidas necesarias para restablecer la seguridad”, intensificar las operaciones en todos los frentes y liberar gradualmente los territorios ocupados por las bandas.
A pesar de la presencia de un contingente internacional liderado por Kenia y respaldado por la ONU, las operaciones para restablecer el orden han logrado algunos avances en la capital, pero no han conseguido contener la multiplicación de actividades de las pandillas en otras zonas. El Consejo Presidencial de Transición, establecido el año pasado, tiene como meta pacificar el país y organizar las primeras elecciones en una década.
La nueva estrategia del gobierno de transición tiene como prioridad restaurar la seguridad y responder lo antes posible a la emergencia alimentaria y humanitaria, con la expectativa de crear condiciones estables que permitan el proceso electoral y el retorno paulatino de los desplazados internos a sus comunidades de origen.
(Con información de AP, EFE y EP)
Crime,South America / Central America,KENSCOFF
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Local entrepreneur sounds alarm on local leaders over viral street attack: ‘Democrat monopoly’

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CINCINNATI, OHIO – Southwest Ohio residents are expressing outrage at local leadership after a viral street fight in their backyard that captured the nation’s attention. One resident, a local political activist, told Fox News Digital a «Democrat monopoly» is partially to blame.
The Saturday night violence in downtown Cincinnati on July 26, which left a woman knocked unconscious on the street at the hands of a male assailant, was the result of a city that wasn’t «prepared» due to political ideology, Price Hill native Adam Koehler told Fox News Digital. He added that the response to the fight was «not leadership.»
«Leadership comes out and says, ‘Hey, we’ve got a problem. Here’s my solution to fix it,’» Koehler said. «But instead, they want to be cowardly and hide the fact that crime is actually happening.»
Cincinnati’s mayor and other local officials have faced heated criticism in recent days over the perception they are not taking crime seriously. One elected Democrat, Councilwoman Victoria Parks, posted on social media saying that the victims of the fight «begged for that beatdown.»
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Fox News Digital spoke to Cincinnati resident Adam Koehler about crime in the city. (Fox News Digital)
«This is a Democrat monopoly they’ve got here,» Koehler, an entrepreneur and former candidate for Hamilton County commissioner, told Fox News Digital. «So, I mean they can just pretty much do whatever they want. And a lot of that kind of rhetoric is excused, right? It’s, you know, past injustices and you know now I feel like I can say whatever I want and it’s excused. And luckily there are some city council members that denounced the words that Victoria Parks said, which is great, but you’ve got other people that just want to stoke the flames.»
Holly, the woman brutally knocked out and bruised in the attack, told Fox News this week she is yet to receive a phone call from the mayor or top officials «just apologizing for what happened and for letting these thugs and criminals run the streets when they should have been in jail to begin with.»
Koehler told Fox News Digital that Democrats running the city «have an agenda» and «want to look a certain way» and «ignore the problem.»
«It’s a lot of these ideologies that come out of the universities, right?» Koehler said. «Every generation thinks they figured something out about crime and they’re soft-hearted people, they wanted to do things, but, you know, policies like what Giuliani did in New York, those kind of things work.»
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(L-R) Jermaine Matthews, Dominique Kittle, DeKyra Vernon, Montianez Merriweather and Patrick Rosemond are facing various charges for their alleged roles in the viral beatdown in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 26, 2025. (Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office; Fulton County Sheriff’s Office; Jay Black)
Koehler, who was speaking to Fox News Digital outside a GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy town hall event on Cincinnati’s west side, said figures like Ramaswamy, Sen. Bernie Moreno, and Ohio native VP JD Vance are reasons to be optimistic about addressing the crime spike downtown.
«Those guys got power,» Koehler said. «I mean you start throwing the DOJ down here and start investigating some of the things that are happening, why wasn’t there more police there?»
Koehler added, «I mean there’s a lot of grifting that goes on whenever you have a one-party monopoly in any city. Obviously, you’re gonna have corruption. And it’s just, it’s festered here, and it’s culminated in what you see.»
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Sen. Bernie Moreno speaks at a press conference alongside Holly, a victim in the viral July 26 brawl in Cincinnati, at the Fraternal Order of Police headquarters in Ohio on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Moreno said this week he is introducing «Holly’s Act,» a move aimed at ending what he calls the justice system’s revolving door for repeat offenders.
«Let’s be honest, because a lot of times you guys are qualifying this as a brawl,» Moreno told reporters. «This was attempted murder of an innocent woman. And that person had a rap sheet a mile long. Nobody who has that rap sheet should be walking the streets of any Ohio city free.»
Fox News Digital’s Julia Bonavita and Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.
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Julio María Sanguinetti: “Milei y Trump son las respuestas extremas de sociedades atrapadas por el desasosiego”

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