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Sanders-endorsed Senate candidate knocked for alleged flip-flop to ‘have it both ways’ on key issue
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A Democratic Senate candidate endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is being slammed for allegedly flip-flopping on one of his primary campaign issues.
Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive candidate who previously ran an unsuccessful bid for Michigan governor, has made Medicare for All a hallmark of his Senate campaign.
However, as the Michigan Senate primary race heats up, El-Sayed’s Democratic opponent, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, is accusing him of backing down from a full Medicare for all stance and of «rewriting definitions to have it both ways.»
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Left: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Right: Michigan Democratic candidate and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow. (Photos by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Roxie Richner, an El-Sayed campaign spokesperson, responded by telling Fox News Digital that «Dr. El-Sayed is and has always been for Medicare for All—guaranteed public health insurance for every American. Cradle to grave. No premiums, deductibles, or co-pays.»
«Dr. El-Sayed would be the first Democratic doctor elected to the U.S. Senate since 1969, and he looks forward to passing Medicare for All into law,» added Richner.
El-Sayed’s campaign website page on «A Healthier America» cites a book he co-authored in 2021 in which he wrote that limiting private alternatives to Medicare for All would be important to ensuring providers accepted the insurance. The book advocates for Medicare for All as a type of «monopsony» in healthcare, in which there is only a single buyer of medical services, the government.
«By insuring all Americans, M4A becomes a monopsony in healthcare. This is different from a monopoly, where there’s only one seller of a good; in a monopsony there’s only one buyer of a good. That gives the single buyer considerable negotiating leverage, which Medicare could use to rein in the cost of drugs, hospital stays, and physician services,» the book reads.
In a November post on X, El-Sayed explained that this monopsony «would instantaneously create a disciplining feature against rising prices,» because it «takes out the profit motive on the payer end of the transaction.»
The book further states that «because alternatives to M4A [Medicare for All] would be limited, participation of providers would be virtually guaranteed.»
«Instead of spending time and money dealing with the arcane requirements of hundreds of different health plans […] providers could use one streamlined system that would free up resources to focus on clinical care,» the books reads.
The latest version of the federal Medicare for All Act, introduced in the Senate by Sanders, includes language that would effectively ban most comprehensive private insurance plans and relegate private insurers to providing limited supplemental care.
The legislation would make it unlawful for «a private health insurer to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this Act; or (2) an employer to provide benefits for an employee, former employee, or the dependents of an employee or former employee that duplicate the benefits provided under this Act.»
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a coronavirus public health roundtable with Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (Erin Kirkland/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
El-Sayed testified before the Senate in support of the Medicare for All Act in 2022, calling it «the clearest pathway to universal, durable health care insurance, bar none» and saying that «cradle to grave coverage would do away with the premiums, co pays, deductibles that leave even privately insured Americans rationing their health care today.»
The year before, in an interview with NerdWallet, El-Sayed said that under a Medicare for All plan, the government would be «buying you out» of your private insurance plan but that «a few insurance companies that offered a sort of concierge-level service for folks who wanted to pay for that.»
In a 2024 episode of the «America Dissected» podcast, El-Sayed emphasized that «we don’t really need private health insurance in this country.»
He said that «private health insurance is a system by which you have a middleman in our healthcare system making a tremendous amount of money that is leading to a number of the biggest problems in American healthcare whether that’s the fact that our costs continue to spiral upward, whether that’s the fact that nearly ten million people in our country don’t get health insurance at all, or it’s the fact that we are consistently in this country, unable to guarantee, even people who are insurance access to the health care they need.»
In October, El-Sayed knocked McMorrow for advocating for allowing a public option under universal healthcare, writing on X, «a public option can’t deliver healthcare to every Michigander. Medicare for All can.» Politico, in December, reported El-Sayed slamming McMorrow’s call for universal health care with a public option as «incoherent.»
«Now a public option is exactly that; it’s just an option. There is no reason why it would actually address any of the foundational problems in our system. It wouldn’t bring down the rising costs. It wouldn’t guarantee people health care, and we don’t really know how much it would cost,» he said.
Yet, while speaking on the Brian Tyler Cohen Podcast in January, El-Sayed suggested that under Medicare for All, «if you like your insurance from your employer or from your union, that can still be there for you.»
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced the Medicare for All Act. (Getty Images)
Days later, speaking on radio channel WDET, he again said, «Medicare for All is government health insurance guaranteed for everyone, regardless of what circumstances you’re in. If you like your insurance through your employer or through your union, I hope that’ll be there for you. But if you lose your job, if your factory shuts down, you shouldn’t be destitute without the health care that you need and deserve.» He also said, «If you have a public option, what happens is, the private health insurance system will try to dump all of the most expensive patients onto that public option, vastly increasing the cost of that public option and making it unsustainable.»
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El-Sayed’s campaign website states that he «believes in expanding Medicare to cover every single American from cradle to grave while sustaining the option for workers to keep supplemental private insurance their unions or employers may provide.» Amid criticism from McMorrow, El-Sayed doubled down on his Medicare for All messaging in a January fundraising message, in which he wrote that «private insurance could supplement or duplicate Medicare.»
Meanwhile, McMorrow has accused him of not being honest on Medicare for All.
«On an issue as important as healthcare, you have to be honest about what you’re fighting for,» McMorrow wrote in a public reply to El-Sayed, adding, «The Medicare for All legislation that you’ve championed completely eliminates private health insurance as it exists today.»
Sanders’ office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Israel hits back after coordinated Iran-Hezbollah missile, drone strikes, urges Beirut to rein in terrorists
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JERUSALEM: Iran proxy Hezbollah fired some 200 missiles and drones into the Jewish state overnight and into Thursday in what Israeli media described as an «integrated Hezbollah and Iran joint attack.»
The attacks prompted fierce retaliatory strikes from the Israeli Defense Forces into Hezbollah strongholds in the Beirut suburbs.
The Israel Defense Forces said, «The IDF is operating with determination against the Hezbollah terrorist organization following its deliberate decision to attack Israel on behalf of the Iranian regime. The IDF will not tolerate any harm to Israeli civilians and will forcibly respond against any threat posed to the State of Israel.»
Calling its new operation «Eaten Straw,» the terror group claimed to have targeted Israeli military sites in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, among other targets.
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Hezbollah members salute and raise the group’s yellow flags during the funeral of their fallen comrades Ismail Baz and Mohamad Hussein Shohury, who were killed in an Israeli strike on their vehicles, in Shehabiya in south Lebanon on April 17, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)
Matthew Levitt, a leading scholar on Hezbollah from the Washington Institute, told Fox News about Eaten Straw. «The term comes from a Koran verse about destroying one’s enemies to the point that they are destroyed like grains of straw husks. In fact, it is going to lead to a massive Israel response.»
Just days prior to Wednesday’s attacks, Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun charged Hezbollah with pushing Lebanon into becoming «a second Gaza.»
An Israeli security expert from the Israel Alma Research and Education Center, Sarit Zehavi, told Fox News Digital, that «I think that Hezbollah is trying to scare Israel from launching further operations and I truly hope that we will not be afraid, and our government will do what it has to do.»
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A fireball rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area in Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight March 10 to 11, 2026. (Fadel itani / AFP via Getty Images)
The Lebanese armed forces also failed to meet President Trump’s deadline to disarm Hezbollah terrorist organization in 2025.
The Lebanese government announced on Tuesday that it is interested in direct talks with Israel to end the current conflict with Hezbollah, yet one Israeli official claimed Beirut was not «affecting Hezbollah’s behavior in any way,» the Times of Israel cited a report from news site Y-Net reported.
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon, speaking Wednesday, told members of the United Nations Security Council in New York that, «Lebanon now faces two options: either the Lebanese government takes real actions and restrains Hezbollah, or Israel uses its force to dismantle this terrorist organization. There is no other option.»
Edy Cohen, a Lebanese-born Israeli scholar of Hezbollah, dismissed the Lebanese government overtures to Israel as political theater. He referenced the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah that concluded with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, requiring the Lebanese state and army to disarm Hezbollah, as a failed effort.
A woman uses a mobile phone as she lies on a mattress in a railway station used as an underground bomb shelter in Tel Aviv on March 10, 2026. (Olympia De Maismont/AFP via Getty Images)
Cohen told Fox News Digital: «I don’t believe the Lebanese government. It is a game between them and Hezbollah. The Lebanese offered, for the first time since 1982, it would agree to dialogue with Israel. The first condition is a ceasefire. Hezbollah told the Lebanese government give the Israelis this offer. Hezbollah wants to stop this war. And that is how the government of Lebanon jokes about us.»
Speaking during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council meeting on Wednesday, Lebanese Ambassador Ahmad Arafa told the council, «The Lebanese people do not want war, and the Lebanese government is moving forward in implementing its decisions and will not backtrack,» The National reported.
According to the National report, Arafa said, «In our modern history, no Lebanese government has demonstrated this level of courage and determination to reclaim the state authority, to restrict weapons to legitimate state institutions and to extend the state’s control exclusively through its own forces over all Lebanese territory.»
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An Israeli official told the Times of Israel that «The Lebanese government needs to get a grip on their country or Hezbollah parts of Beirut will soon look like Gaza.»
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ICE busts human smuggling ring that kidnapped family, sexually assaulted pregnant woman
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents busted a South Texas human smuggling ring, resulting in the arrests and sentencing of gangbangers who kidnapped a family and sexually assaulted a pregnant mother.
Rodolfo Daniel De Hoyos, 22, a human smuggler who goes by the nickname «Rufles,» was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison on Monday for conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy. The sentencing was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas on Tuesday.
De Hoyos is the fifth of nine human smugglers arrested in Kinney County, Texas, as a result of an investigation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with the cooperation of the Texas Department of Public Safety and several other law enforcement agencies. The investigation is part of the Trump administration’s Operation Take Back America.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, De Hoyos was involved in the kidnapping and attempted extortion of a family of illegal immigrants, consisting of a man, a pregnant woman and a seven-year-old child. The office said the smugglers sexually assaulted the pregnant woman and held the family for ransom. They obtained at least $1,000 from a relative and further threatened to kill the seven-year-old child and sell the unborn baby if additional payments were not made.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, along with other federal law enforcement agencies. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
De Hoyos was first arrested in 2021 by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper who observed him transporting three passengers wearing dirty clothing, hiking boots and camouflage backpacks. At the time, De Hoyos admitted the three passengers were illegal aliens and that he was being paid $1,500 to transport them to Del Rio. He was arrested again in August 2023 in relation to the kidnapping of the family.
Besides De Hoyos, four others have been sentenced. Texas man Juan Antonio Flores, 36, was sentenced to more than 17 years for his role in coordinating the smuggling trips. Two other co-conspirators, Tomas Estrada-Torres, 47, and Nelson Abilio Castro-Zelaya, received sentences of more than 12 years and 15 years, respectively.
Meanwhile, a 23-year-old Guatemalan national, Edwin Alfredo Barrientos-Mateo, nicknamed «Waches,» was sentenced to 30 years in prison in connection with the smuggling ring.
According to Simmons’ office, four other co-conspirators — Ambar Obregon, Pedro Ruiz Gonzalez, Armando Garcia-Martinez and Anthony Ballones Jr. — have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
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ICE Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement and Removal Operations officers during an immigration enforcement operation in the Houston area. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Besides ICE HSI and the Texas Department of Public Safety, U.S. Border Patrol, the Eagle Pass Police Department, the Austin Police Department, the Houston Police Department, and the Comal County Sheriff’s Office also assisted with the investigation.
In a word of caution to would-be illegal aliens, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas Justin Simmons said that «alien smuggling organizations care nothing about the hopes and dreams of those they smuggle.»
«When they look at an illegal alien, all they see is a dollar sign,» he went on, adding, «Do not trust them with your life because the only life they really care about is their own.»
This week, Simmons’ office also announced that 36-year-old Mexican national Pedro Luis Martinez-Jaquez was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for his leadership role in a conspiracy to transport hundreds of illegal aliens, resulting in at least one death.
Simmons called Martinez-Jaquez «one of the most prolific facilitators of alien smuggling in the last decade.» He said that over the course of an 18-month operation, Martinez-Jaquez made hundreds of thousands of dollars transporting illegal aliens into the U.S.
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President Donald Trump visits the U.S.-Mexico border during his first term in Otay Mesa, Calif., on Sept. 18, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Both stings were the result of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative launched by the Trump administration last year to «achieve total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations.»
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Una pasajera protagoniza pelea con adultos mayores durante un vuelo y obliga a desviar un avión con decenas de personas a bordo
El lunes 9 de marzo de 2026, un vuelo comercial de Frontier Airlines fue desviado a Miami después de que una pasajera identificada como Ebony Shyteria Harper protagonizara un altercado físico con adultos mayores a bordo, según documentos judiciales y reportes oficiales. La situación activó protocolos de seguridad y requirió la intervención de agentes federales al aterrizar la aeronave, afectando a decenas de pasajeros y la tripulación.
Según información confirmada por la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade y fuentes federales, la intervención se produjo cuando el vuelo 2089 de Frontier Airlines, que cubría la ruta entre el Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín en Puerto Rico y el Aeropuerto Internacional Hartsfield-Jackson en Atlanta, fue desviado tras el inicio de una pelea en pleno vuelo. La Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) y la Oficina Federal de Investigaciones (FBI) participaron en la operación, según informaron medios como Fox News (canal nacional) y CBS News Miami (canal local de noticias de Miami).
El incidente ocurre en un contexto de aumento de episodios de indisciplina y violencia en vuelos comerciales en Estados Unidos, un fenómeno que genera preocupación entre autoridades, aerolíneas y organismos de seguridad. Las estadísticas de la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) indican un incremento en los reportes de altercados, derivando en normativas más estrictas y sanciones para quienes alteran la seguridad aérea.
De acuerdo con la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, la pasajera Ebony Shyteria Harper de treinta y un años, residente en Alabama, se dirigía al baño en la parte trasera de la aeronave cuando, según el informe policial citado por Local10 (canal local de noticias de Miami), se apoyó sobre el pasajero Jimmie Lee Baker, que viajaba en la última fila. Al pedirle este que retirara el brazo, la mujer extendió las manos y tocó el rostro del pasajero. La intervención de su esposa, Lakisha Baker, provocó que la acusada repitiera el gesto con ella.
CBS News Miami (canal local de noticias de Miami) agrega en su reporte que la reacción de Lakisha Baker fue golpear a Harper, lo que desencadenó una confrontación física. Una tercera pasajera, Annette Baker, intentó intervenir, recibiendo varios golpes en el rostro, según el documento judicial. La pelea ocurrió cuando el avión cruzaba el Caribe, a unos 9.100 metros (30.000 pies) de altitud.
La tripulación de Frontier Airlines notificó la situación al personal de tierra y solicitó la intervención de las autoridades, tal como informó la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA). La decisión operativa fue desviar el vuelo hacia el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami, donde aguardaban agentes de la TSA, la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade y el FBI. Una vez en tierra, los oficiales abordaron la aeronave y detuvieron a Harper, quien fue trasladada bajo custodia policial, informó Fox News (canal nacional).
La aerolínea difundió un comunicado oficial indicando que “colabora plenamente con las autoridades en la investigación del incidente” y que mantiene “protocolos estrictos para la seguridad de pasajeros y tripulación”. La Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) confirmó la apertura de una investigación administrativa y la coordinación con autoridades locales y federales.
Según los registros judiciales del condado de Miami-Dade, Harper enfrenta un cargo de agresión seria contra una persona de sesenta y cinco años o más y un cargo adicional de agresión menor. La ley de Florida establece sanciones más estrictas para casos en que la víctima es una persona mayor; por ejemplo, en este tipo de agresiones la pena puede duplicarse respecto a las aplicables cuando la víctima es un adulto menor de sesenta y cinco años. El acta de arresto citada por Local10 señala que “la pasajera fue retirada del avión sin oponer resistencia y trasladada de inmediato al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight”.
Las víctimas, identificadas como Jimmie Lee Baker, Lakisha Baker y Annette Baker, fueron entrevistadas por las autoridades y manifestaron su intención de presentar cargos. Ninguno de ellos requirió atención médica inmediata, de acuerdo con el informe policial.
Las cifras oficiales de la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) registran en 2025 dos mil reportes de altercados físicos o verbales a bordo de vuelos domésticos. Los incidentes han ido en aumento en comparación con años anteriores, motivando la aplicación de una política de “tolerancia cero” por parte de la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA). Esta política implica multas, sanciones administrativas y la intervención judicial en los casos catalogados como graves.
El caso de Frontier Airlines forma parte de una serie de eventos recientes que han forzado desvíos de vuelos o aterrizajes no programados, buscando garantizar la seguridad de pasajeros y tripulación. Las autoridades federales han señalado que la aplicación estricta de la ley es la respuesta ante conductas violentas a bordo.
Tras la detención, Harper permanece en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight en espera de su comparecencia ante el juez. Según los protocolos judiciales del condado de Miami-Dade, la acusada enfrentará una audiencia de presentación de cargos para definir su situación procesal y la posible fijación de fianza.
La Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) y la TSA mantienen abierta la investigación administrativa sobre el caso. La colaboración entre agencias federales y estatales busca determinar responsabilidades y prevenir episodios similares en el futuro. Frontier Airlines ha reiterado su compromiso con la seguridad y la aplicación de sus políticas internas.
Para los pasajeros afectados, el impacto incluye la interrupción del itinerario y la obligación de reprogramar conexiones y actividades. Las aerolíneas pueden asumir costos económicos adicionales por desvíos de vuelos, investigaciones legales y la necesidad de gestionar atención y compensaciones para los clientes involucrados, lo que puede generar afectaciones a su saldo operativo y reputación.
La coordinación entre tripulación y fuerzas de seguridad, subrayan las autoridades, “es fundamental para responder a incidentes de riesgo en pleno vuelo”.
La Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade confirmó que los pasajeros involucrados en el altercado no presentaron lesiones visibles y que no se requirió asistencia médica urgente. El acta de arresto difundida por CBS News Miami indica que “los afectados manifestaron su deseo de proseguir con la denuncia formal contra la pasajera”.
Desde el punto de vista de la seguridad aérea, la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) sostiene la recomendación de reportar cualquier conducta sospechosa o disruptiva a la tripulación. Según la agencia, “la seguridad de los pasajeros es la prioridad absoluta y cualquier violación será investigada y sancionada con firmeza”.
El incremento de incidentes como el registrado en el vuelo 2089 de Frontier Airlines ha propiciado la actualización de protocolos de seguridad y la implementación de campañas informativas para los pasajeros. Las aerolíneas estadounidenses han reforzado la capacitación de las tripulaciones y la comunicación con las autoridades responsables.
La Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) y las agencias policiales insisten en la importancia de denunciar de inmediato cualquier comportamiento anómalo a bordo. Según datos oficiales, la aplicación de sanciones estrictas busca disuadir nuevos episodios y garantizar la segura operación de los vuelos.
El seguimiento judicial del caso de Ebony Shyteria Harper será una referencia para futuras actuaciones de las autoridades. Los próximos pasos incluyen la comparecencia ante los tribunales y la conclusión de la investigación de la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA).
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