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Cruz warns conservatives ‘will regret’ FCC censorship push against ABC, other media outlets
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in his podcast «Verdict with Ted Cruz» on Friday cautioned those advocating for Federal Communication Commission (FCC) action against adversaries, noting if a censorship precedent is set, «every conservative in America … will regret it.»
ABC suspended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel «indefinitely» after he said the alleged assassin of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was a fellow MAGA supporter.
Kimmel failed to set the record straight after the indictment against suspect Tyler Robinson was made public on Tuesday, prompting a response from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr, who told Fox News’ Sean Hannity the agency plans to reinvigorate enforcement of the public interest obligation.
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Sen. Ted Cruz said it would be a mistake for the FCC to ramp up action against television stations. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The FCC grants broadcast licenses on the condition that stations serve the «public interest, convenience, and necessity.»
Though the First Amendment protects free speech, the agency can revoke or deny license renewal if there is misrepresentation, fraud or lack of character or candor.
In Cruz’s podcast on Friday, he questioned Carr’s decision to crack down on stations accused of misrepresentation or false statements, claiming «what he said there is dangerous as hell.»
«What he is saying is Jimmy Kimmel was lying. That’s true, he was lying, and lying to the American people is not in the public interest,» Cruz said. «He threatens explicitly—we’re going to cancel ABC News’ license. We’re going to take him off the air, so ABC cannot broadcast anymore. … He threatens it.»
Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off-air after making comments about late Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. (Randy Holmes/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Image)
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Cruz compared Carr’s wording to something «right out of Goodfellas.»
«Jimmy Kimmel has mocked me so many times,» he said. «The corporate media—they are dishonest. They are liars. I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that he was fired. But let me tell you, if the government gets in the business of saying ‘we don’t like what you, the media, have said, we’re going to ban you from the airwaves’ … that will end up bad for conservatives.»
He added it may be «attractive» to conservatives to feel that they have the governmental power to ban the media, but going down that road, would hurt them when a Democrat takes back the White House.
«The next Democrat FCC—they will silence us,» Cruz said. «They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly, and that is dangerous. … They’ve defined anything counter to the leftist narrative as misinformation.»
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, noted he has faced media scrutiny of his own, but said issues can be resolved in civil court. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)
Cruz argued that if a station commits slander related to Kirk or his family, there is already a remedy.
He suggested suing stations for defamation and «let[ting] the process play out.»
«I think it is unbelievably dangerous for [the] government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off-air if we don’t like what you’re saying,» Cruz said. «It might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.
«So again, I like Brendan Carr, but we should not be in this business. We should denounce it. It’s fine to say what Jimmy Kimmel said was deplorable. It was disgraceful, and he should be off-air, but we shouldn’t be threatening government power to force him off-air. That’s a real mistake.»
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During a news conference in the White House Oval Office on Friday, President Donald Trump said he did not agree with Cruz’s assertion, describing Carr as «courageous.»
«I think Brendan Carr is an incredible American patriot with courage,» Trump said. «I remember in the old days, networks would want to get re-licensed, it was always a big deal. They had to show honesty and integrity. … I think Brendan Carr doesn’t like to see the airwaves be used illegally and incorrectly—and purposely, horribly. [He] doesn’t like to see a person that won the election in a landslide get 97% bad publicity before the election. I mean, it’s amazing that I won the election … The people have given the networks no credibility.»
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During the Biden administration, a nonprofit called the Media and Democracy Project filed a 2023 petition with the FCC asking that the license renewal of a Fox-owned local station in Philadelphia be denied, citing Fox’s election-related coverage.
The FCC, under then-Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, rejected the petition on Jan. 16, four days before Trump assumed office for his second term, noting it would be «fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment» for the government to deny renewals based on protected speech and content, according to court documents.
Cruz’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
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After deliberating and assessing the global oil market situation in the face of Middle Eastern conflicts stemming from the United States’ attack on Iran, a cohort of 32 different developed nations agreed to make an «unprecedented» move to help address «oil market challenges.»
The International Energy Agency (IEA) held an emergency meeting at its Paris headquarters Tuesday, with energy representatives from the cohort of G7 countries, to «assess market conditions,» which IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol says «have been significantly affected by the conflict in the Middle East.»
Following that meeting on Thursday, the 32 member countries of the IEA unanimously agreed to collectively release the largest quantity of emergency oil reserves they ever have as a coalition, amounting to 400 million barrels.
«The oil market challenges we are facing are unprecedented in scale, therefore, I am very glad that IEA Member countries have responded with an emergency collective action of unprecedented size,» Birol said following the announcement about the release of the emergency oil reserves. «Oil markets are global, so the response to major disruptions needs to be global too.»
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International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol in Paris on March 10, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump touted the IEA agreement during remarks in Kentucky Wednesday afternoon, saying the move «will substantially reduce oil prices.»
Before the outbreak of war with Iran, oil was trading in the range of $60 to $70 a barrel, but prices soared after the conflict began, with crude oil futures reaching upward of $115 a barrel on Monday – the highest level since 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. However, some experts suggest that the market is correcting itself already from an initial scare that the conflict in the Middle East would have a major impact on oil prices.
«The market realized that maybe things aren’t that bad – the U.S. is having incredible military victories, President Trump is saying, ‘Hey, you know what, the war is probably not going to be going on that long.’ And even some signals that the world doesn’t have to just sit and stand and take it,» said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group and a FOX Business contributor.
The members of the IEA hold emergency stockpiles of over 1.2 billion barrels, and a further 600 million barrels of oil industry stocks. This coordinated release of an unprecedented amount of oil will be the sixth in its roughly half-century history. Previous collective action was taken in 1991, 2005, 2011 and twice in 2022.
TRUMP’S MIDDLE EAST ENVOY REVEALS WHAT LED TO BREAKDOWN IN IRAN TALKS BEFORE OPERATION EPIC FURY
The previous record for the largest collective action was the latest release of emergency oil stocks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In combination, the two actions, which took place in March and April 2022, respectively, amounted to a release of 182.7 million barrels, according to the IEA.
House Republicans are pushing the U.S. to keep a close eye on Russian oil giant Lukoil’s international divestments as the conflict in Iran drives up U.S. gas prices. Russia and Iran are close allies. (Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images; Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
President Trump said repeatedly this week during remarks to the press that the war in Iran would be over shortly, but stopped short of providing an exact timeline.
In his comments to the press Wednesday, President Trump quipped that «We don’t want to leave early, do we?»
«We gotta finish the job, right? Over the past 11 days, our military has virtually destroyed Iran,» Trump said. «It’s a tough country.»
Iran’s ongoing retaliatory attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime choke point for oil transportation, has led to questions about what they will do to prices at the pump. Trump Cabinet official, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, scoffed this week at claims that the Trump administration was caught off guard by how much Trump’s military actions have impacted the oil market and responded to questions about the impact of attacks on the Strait of Hormuz.
A screenshot of a marine traffic terminal showing vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on March 4, 2026. (Kpler/Marine Traffic)
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«As you know better than anybody else, it’s a global market, so we could be producing more, or other countries could be producing more, but it all goes into one vat where we get the prices from,» said Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade. «So if the Strait of Hormuz presents a challenge, how could you circumvent that challenge?»
In response, Burgum slammed Iran for «holding the entire world hostage economically by threatening to close the strait.»
«President Trump has made it very clear the consequences if they try to do that,» he continued. «There’s a lot of options between ourselves and our allies in the region, including our Arab friends in the region, to make sure that those straits remain open and energy keeps flowing through the global economy.»
Fox Business’ Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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El diminuto cráneo de 9,5 milímetros que desafía las teorías sobre la vida en Sudamérica prehistórica
Un fósil diminuto, de apenas 9,5 milímetros de largo, fue hallado en el yacimiento de “Cortado”, en el interior de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, y está revolucionando el conocimiento sobre la fauna del Triásico Medio en Sudamérica. El cráneo pertenece a una nueva especie denominada Sauropia macrorhinus y representa el tetrápodo más pequeño jamás encontrado en el continente. El hallazgo fue realizado por paleontólogos de la Universidad Federal de Santa María (UFSM), quienes estiman que el animal vivió hace 240 millones de años, en una época anterior al auge de los dinosaurios. El estudio fue publicado recientemente en la revista científica Scientific Reports, del grupo editorial de Nature.
La investigación, liderada por Rodrigo Temp Müller y Lúcio Roberto da Silva, detalló que el ejemplar encontrado corresponde a un cráneo de tamaño tan reducido que puede sostenerse en la punta de un dedo. Este descubrimiento no solo aporta información inédita sobre la diversidad de vertebrados en el Triásico sudamericano, sino que, además, permitió comprender mejor los ecosistemas que existían antes del dominio de los grandes dinosaurios. De acuerdo con los especialistas, la especie Sauropia macrorhinus medía aproximadamente cinco centímetros de longitud total, similar al tamaño de un lagarto pequeño.
Según la UFSM, el fósil fue hallado adherido a una roca, lo que facilitó su conservación durante millones de años. Gracias al uso de lupas de aumento y microtomografías computarizadas, los investigadores lograron limpiar y analizar el cráneo con precisión. Los modelos tridimensionales obtenidos permitieron identificar características únicas, como las fosas nasales proporcionalmente grandes, lo que motivó el nombre de la especie: macrorhinus significa “nariz grande” en griego. Además, la combinación de “sauros” (lagarto) y “piá” (niño, en dialecto regional) en el nombre genérico alude tanto a su aspecto reptiliano como a su diminuto tamaño y probable juventud.
El informe señaló que el hallazgo resulta excepcional por el tamaño del fósil y porque los procolofonoides son extremadamente raros en el registro fósil sudamericano. Para ponerlo en contexto, los cráneos de especies relacionadas suelen ser al menos dos veces y media más grandes, y en algunos casos hasta nueve veces y media más largos. Esta diferencia planteó la posibilidad de que el fósil corresponda a un individuo juvenil, que aún no había alcanzado la madurez ósea.
En la época en que vivió este animal, los continentes estaban unidos en el supercontinente Pangea. El Triásico Medio se caracterizaba por la presencia de antepasados de los caimanes y cocodrilos, así como por ecosistemas complejos y biodiversos. El diminuto cráneo de Sauropia macrorhinus sugiere que este animal ocupaba un nicho específico en la cadena alimentaria, probablemente como depredador de pequeños invertebrados.
Según los investigadores brasileños, el análisis de los dientes, de forma claviforme y sin constricción en la base, reforzó la hipótesis de que la dieta del Sauropia se basaba en insectos y otros pequeños invertebrados. Además, el reducido tamaño del cráneo y la morfología general indicaron que el animal era ágil y se desplazaba cerca del suelo, donde podía ocultarse fácilmente de los depredadores más grandes.
El hallazgo también demostró que, en el Triásico, existía una fauna muy diversa que incluía desde grandes herbívoros e imponentes depredadores hasta pequeños tetrápodos como el Sauropia macrorhinus. La presencia de estas especies sugiere que las redes tróficas eran más complejas de lo que se pensaba hasta ahora, y que los pequeños animales desempeñaban un papel clave en el equilibrio ecológico del momento.
De acuerdo con la Universidad Federal de Santa María, la aparición de un fósil de estas dimensiones permitió llenar vacíos en la reconstrucción de los ecosistemas del Triásico. Hallazgos como el mencionado son poco frecuentes, ya que los pequeños vertebrados suelen dejar menos rastros fósiles debido a la fragilidad de sus huesos. La identificación y análisis de este fósil aporta datos inéditos sobre la evolución de los tetrápodos en América del Sur y ayuda a entender la transición hacia los linajes que dominarían en el Jurásico y Cretácico.
El trabajo minucioso de extracción y limpieza del cráneo, realizado por el paleontólogo Lúcio Roberto da Silva, requirió el uso de agujas especiales y lupas de gran aumento. Posteriormente, Leonardo Kerber empleó microtomografías computarizadas para visualizar el interior del fósil sin dañarlo. Estos avances tecnológicos resultan esenciales para analizar con detalle estructuras tan pequeñas e identificar rasgos anatómicos que serían invisibles a simple vista.
El descubrimiento también resaltó el valor de los yacimientos fósiles del sur de Brasil, que en las últimas décadas han producido ejemplares de gran relevancia para la paleontología mundial. La región de Rio Grande do Sul se consolida así como un verdadero laboratorio natural para estudiar la historia evolutiva de la fauna sudamericana y su relación con otros continentes durante el Triásico.
Los paleontólogos coincidieron en que reconstruir los ecosistemas del pasado es como armar un rompecabezas con piezas dispersas y, muchas veces, incompletas. Cada nuevo fósil amplía el panorama y permite entender cómo interactuaban las distintas especies. Según la UFSM, la presencia del Sauropia macrorhinus en el registro fósil indicó que existían nichos ecológicos ocupados por animales de tamaño muy reducido, lo que sugiere una mayor diversidad de formas de vida de la que se creía.
El pequeño cráneo hallado no solo proporcionó información sobre su propio portador, sino que también ayudó a inferir la existencia de depredadores menores. Por ejemplo, el Parvosuchus aurelioi, otro reptil fósil encontrado en la misma región, pudo haber incluido a Sauropia macrorhinus en su dieta. Esta interacción hipotética demostró la complejidad de las redes alimentarias y la integración de distintos tamaños y especies en el ecosistema del Triásico Medio.
La rareza del hallazgo hace que este fósil sea especialmente valioso para los científicos que estudian la evolución de los reptiles y su adaptación a distintos ambientes. Además, la información recabada permitió comparar la fauna sudamericana con la de otras partes del mundo, enriqueciendo el conocimiento global sobre la historia de la vida en la Tierra.
A medida que se descubren nuevos fósiles en Sudamérica, los investigadores esperan obtener más datos sobre el desarrollo, comportamiento y evolución de los pequeños tetrápodos. El estudio reciente abrió la puerta a investigaciones más profundas sobre la fauna menor del Triásico y su papel en los ecosistemas antiguos.
La utilización de herramientas tecnológicas avanzadas, como las microtomografías y los modelos 3D, seguirá siendo clave para desentrañar los secretos de estos animales diminutos y poco conocidos. Mientras tanto, el fósil sigue bajo estudio en la UFSM, donde los especialistas trabajan para reconstruir su historia y la del entorno en el que vivió.
En definitiva, el hallazgo del cráneo más pequeño conocido en Sudamérica representó un avance notable para la paleontología regional y mundial. El Sauropia macrorhinus se sumó así a la lista de especies que, a pesar de su tamaño, han dejado una huella imborrable en la historia evolutiva del planeta.
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The Senate moved closer Wednesday to advancing a sweeping housing package aimed at boosting affordability, but a Trump-backed provision banning institutional investors from buying single-family homes is emerging as a flash point.
Lawmakers cleared another procedural hurdle for the bill Wednesday, setting up a likely final vote before they leave Washington Thursday.
The Housing for the 21st Century Act passed the House last month by a 390-9 bipartisan vote. The legislation includes a wide-ranging slate of measures designed to increase the supply of affordable housing.
HOUSE PASSES BIPARTISAN HOUSING BILL AS TRUMP ZEROES IN ON AFFORDABILITY CRISIS
President Donald Trump speaks about the military strikes against Iran at a news conference Monday, March 9, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., its top Democrat, teamed up to advance and modify the bill in the Senate.
«When President [Donald] Trump and Elizabeth Warren and Senate Republicans can all come to the same place on a housing bill, it shows that if you put partisan politics aside and focus on the issues impacting the American people, you can get results,» Scott told CNBC’s «Squawk Box.»
In its original form, the legislation was primarily intended to help first-time homebuyers and lower-income Americans enter the housing market or gain access to more affordable housing options.
BIPARTISAN PLAN AIMS TO MAKE THE AMERICAN DREAM AFFORDABLE AGAIN FOR MILLIONS OF FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrives for a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building Feb. 27, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
But the initial bill lacked a key policy Trump wanted — a ban on institutional investors, such as hedge funds or large corporations, buying single-family homes. Trump earlier this year signed an executive order banning the practice and urged Congress to codify it during his State of the Union address.
«I’m asking Congress to make that ban permanent because homes for people — really, that’s what we want,» Trump said. «We want homes for people, not for corporations.»
Scott and Warren added that provision to the bill. If passed, the package would also incorporate several policies from the ROAD to Housing Act, a separate Senate housing proposal that previously stalled.
The provision would prohibit large-scale investors from purchasing single-family homes and would require companies that exceed a certain ownership threshold to divest within seven years.
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Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, warned there was a «problem» with the Senate’s bipartisan housing package. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
But the institutional investor ban is drawing concerns from some Senate Democrats and industry stakeholders who argue it could eliminate build-to-rent housing units.
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said on the Senate floor that «there is a problem» with the bill. He argued the ban on corporations and hedge funds buying single-family homes was written in a way that would force «anybody who owns and rents out more than 350 units, single family or duplexes» to sell after a seven-year period.
«There’s literally no reason for this,» Schatz said. «And the problem is that it was written in such a way that it was trying to capture the hedge fund problem, but they wrote it wrong.
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«And, so, the definition of institutional investor says, essentially, anyone who owns and operates more than 350 units to rent. That’s bananas.»
Several members of the housing and rental industry wrote in a letter to Scott and Warren that the seven-year clause would «effectively shut down build-to-rent development, leading to less supply and fewer options for renters.»
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