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Schwarzenegger taunts Newsom with message targeting Dem redistricting push
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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pumping up for a new fight.
The longtime Hollywood action star, the last Republican governor in Democrat-dominated California, says he’s mobilizing to oppose the push by current Gov. Gavin Newsom to temporarily scrap the state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission.
«I’m getting ready for the gerrymandering battle,» Schwarzenegger wrote in a social media post Friday, which included a photo of the former professional bodybuilding champion lifting weights.
Schwarzenegger, who rose to worldwide fame as the star of the film «The Terminator» four decades ago, wore a T-shirt in the photo that said «terminate gerrymandering.»
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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and current Gov. Gavin Newsom are on opposite sides in the push for mid-decade congressional redistricting. (Getty/AP)
The social media post by Schwarzenegger comes as Democratic leaders in the Democrat-dominated California legislature are moving forward with new proposed congressional district maps that would create up to five more blue-leaning U.S. House seats in the nation’s most populous state.
Newsom on Thursday teamed up in Los Angeles with congressional Democrats and legislative leaders in the heavily blue state to unveil their redistricting playbook.
REDISTRICTING BATTLE: NEWSOM VOWS TO FIGHT ‘FIRE WITH FIRE’
Newsom and the Democrats are aiming to counter the ongoing effort by President Donald Trump and Republicans to create up to five GOP-friendly congressional districts in red state Texas at the expense of Democrat-controlled seats.
«Today is liberation day in the state of California,» Newsom said. «Donald Trump, you have poked the bear, and we will punch back.»
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California speaks during a congressional redistricting event Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Newsroom)
Newsom vowed to «meet fire with fire» with his push for a rare — but not unheard of — mid-decade redistricting.
The Republican push in Texas, which comes at Trump’s urging, is part of a broader effort by the GOP across the country to pad its razor-thin House majority to keep control of the chamber in the 2026 midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
NEWSOM DEMANDS TRUMP GIVE UP TEXAS REDISTRICTING PUSH
Trump and his political team are aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House, when Democrats stormed back to grab the House majority in the 2018 midterms.
While the Republican push in Texas to upend the current congressional maps doesn’t face constitutional constraints, Newsom’s path in California is much more complicated.
The governor is pushing to hold a special election this year to get voter approval to undo the constitutional amendments that created the nonpartisan redistricting commission.
A two-thirds majority vote in the Democrat-dominated California legislature as early as next week would be needed to hold the referendum. Democratic Party leaders are confident they’ll have the votes to push the constitutional amendment and the new proposed congressional maps through the legislature.
«Here we are in open and plain sight before one vote is cast in the 2026 midterm election, and here [Trump] is once again trying to rig the system,» Newsom charged.
Newsom said his plan is «not complicated. We’re doing this in reaction to a president of the United States that called a sitting governor in the state of Texas and said, ‘Find me five seats.’ We’re doing it in reaction to that act.»
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California speaks during a congressional redistricting event Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said «Newsom’s made it clear: he’ll shred California’s Constitution and trample over democracy — running a cynical, self-serving playbook where Californians are an afterthought, and power is the only priority.»
But Newsom defended his actions, saying «we’re working through a very transparent, temporary and public process. We’re putting the maps on the ballot and putting the power to the people.»
Thursday’s appearance by Newsom, considered a likely contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, also served as a fundraising kickoff to raise massive amounts of campaign cash needed to sell the redistricting push statewide in California.
SCHWARZENEGGER’S NEW STARRING ROLE: PUSHING BACK AGAINST NEWSOM’S REDISTRICTING DRIVE
The nonpartisan redistricting commission, created over 15 years ago, remains popular among most Californians, according to public opinion polling.
That’s why Newsom and California Democratic lawmakers are promising not to scrap the commission entirely, but rather replace it temporarily by the legislature for the next three election cycles.
«We will affirm our commitment to the state independent redistricting after the 2030 census, but we are asking the voters for their consent to do midterm redistricting,» Newsom said.
Their efforts are opposed by a number of people supportive of the nonpartisan commission.
Among the most visible members is likely to be Schwarzenegger.
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, at an awards ceremony in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 17, 2024, opposes moves in his home state of California and in Texas to implement mid-decade congressional redistricting. (Tristar Media/WireImage)
«He calls gerrymandering evil, and he means that. He thinks it’s truly evil for politicians to take power from people,» Schwarzenegger spokesperson Daniel Ketchell told Politico earlier this month.
«He’s opposed to what Texas is doing, and he’s opposed to the idea that California would race to the bottom to do the same thing.»
Schwarzenegger, during his tenure as governor, had a starring role in the passage of constitutional amendments in California in 2008 and 2010 that took the power to draw state legislative and congressional districts away from politicians and placed it in the hands of an independent commission.
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«Most people don’t really think about an independent commission much, one way or another. And that’s both an opportunity and a challenge for Newsom,» Jack Pitney, an American politics professor at California’s Claremont McKenna College, told Fox News.
«It’s going to take a lot of effort and money to energize Democrats and motivate them to show up at the polls,» Pitney said, adding Newsom’s effort «is all about motivating people who don’t like Trump.»
Fox News’ Lee Ross contributed to this report
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Amenaza mafiosa en plena misa: le entregaron una bala a un sacerdote que lucha contra el crimen organizado
El domingo, la tensión en Caivano, un municipio de la provincia de Nápoles golpeado por la criminalidad, subió a un nuevo nivel. En plena misa, el sacerdote Maurizio Patriciello—conocido por su enfrentamiento abierto contra la mafia—recibió una bala de calibre 9×21 envuelta en un pañuelo mientras oficiaba la comunión en la parroquia de San Pablo Apóstol.
La escena fue tan impactante como simbólica: un hombre mayor y conocido en el ambiente delictivo local, se acercó al altar y le entregó el paquete al cura, que lo recibió “atónito”, según dijo la periodista antimafia Marilena Natale, quien presenció la escena, al diario La Repubblica.
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“Fui a misa porque estoy preocupada por el sacerdote últimamente”, contó Natale. “Reconocí al suegro del jefe Ciccarelli en el penúltimo banco y comencé a filmar porque lo vi agitado y con anteojos de sol, que nunca se quitaba”, explicó sobre el hombre que entregó el paquete, Vittorio De Luca, de 75 años.
“Al ver la reacción del cura, le pedí que me diera el paquete. Cuando descubrí la bala, hice que lo detuvieran mis guardias de seguridad y los de Don Maurizio”, comentó la mujer, que luego entregó la bala a las autoridades.
El mafioso que entregó la bala fue identificado como Vittorio De Luca. (Foto: gentileza La Repubblica).
Un mensaje mafioso en medio de la iglesia
La amenaza no llegó de la nada. La noche anterior, Patriciello había denunciado en redes sociales que se escucharon dos disparos cerca de su parroquia. En ese mismo mensaje, el sacerdote destacó los avances recientes en la lucha contra el crimen organizado: “En Caivano y alrededores, la mafia organizada—bien arraigada desde hace años—ha recibido, en estos últimos meses, un golpe durísimo. El comercio de la malditísima droga ha disminuido a la vista. Los jefes de los clanes, casi todos en prisión. El gobierno actual se está comprometiendo como nunca antes. A pesar de un trabajo nunca visto antes, los delincuentes intentan llenar los vacíos dejados por los detenidos”, escribió en Facebook.
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Antes de la misa, el cura también se dirigió a los jóvenes de la zona con un pedido desesperado: “Chicos, en nombre de Dios, ¡deténganse! Disfruten de su juventud. El camino que han tomado es un callejón sin salida. Siempre termina o en la cárcel o en el cementerio”.
Caivano, una ciudad marcada por la violencia y el abandono
El ataque al sacerdote se dio en un contexto de máxima tensión. En 2023, Caivano fue noticia nacional por un caso de violación que conmocionó a Italia: dos primas de 13 años fueron agredidas por un grupo de seis adolescentes. Ese episodio derivó en la aprobación del llamado ‘Decreto Caivano’, un paquete de medidas impulsado por el Gobierno de Giorgia Meloni para combatir la delincuencia juvenil.
El respaldo del Gobierno y la condena de Meloni
La primera ministra Giorgia Meloni no tardó en reaccionar. El domingo, calificó el hecho como “inaceptable” y expresó su solidaridad con el sacerdote, a quien había visitado en la localidad el año anterior. “Un gesto vil y criminal, cometido en el lugar y momento más sagrado, que no intimidará a quienes, como don Patriciello, representan coraje y dedicación a favor de la comunidad y la legalidad. Al lado de don Patriciello y de todos aquellos que no se doblegan ante la criminalidad. El Estado está con ustedes, y nunca daremos un paso atrás”, escribió la mandataria en su cuenta de X.
Por su parte, el ministro del Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, se comunicó telefónicamente con el sacerdote, le transmitió su apoyo y confirmó que se reforzarán las medidas de protección para él.
El Prefecto de Nápoles, Michele di Bari, declaró este lunes que “se están reforzando algunas medidas en relación con Don Patriciello, la iglesia y otros lugares simbólicos, porque en este contexto creemos que proteger a Don Patriciello es esencial para continuar la lucha contra la delincuencia en esa zona”.
Un símbolo de resistencia en la lucha contra la mafia
El episodio dejó en claro que la batalla contra la mafia en el sur de Italia está lejos de terminar. Maurizio Patriciello se convirtió en un símbolo de resistencia y coraje en una región donde la violencia y la impunidad parecen no dar tregua. La amenaza mafiosa, esta vez, llegó hasta el altar, pero el mensaje del sacerdote y el respaldo de la comunidad muestran que la pelea sigue más viva que nunca.
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Dem gubernatorial nominee hit with accusations of nepotism over children’s acceptance into Naval Academy
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New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill, who is currently embroiled in a controversy involving a cheating scandal while she studied at the U.S. Naval Academy, is facing questions and accusations of nepotism over her children being admitted to that same academy earlier this year.
«I am so proud of all the young men and women from NJ-11 who are reporting to the military academies or academy preparatory programs this summer,» Sherrill said in a June press release highlighting 24 students from her district being appointed to various military academies including two of her children, Lincoln and Margaret Hedberg.
The press release did not note that the two students with her husband’s last name were her children and the photo in the release showing Sherrill posing with the students does not include her children.
«From my time at the Naval Academy, I remember how challenging the academy’s programs are — both academically and physically,» the press release added. «Learning to work as a team and overcoming those challenges prepared me to lead servicemembers as a military officer. I am grateful for these young men and women who are willing to serve our nation in uniform and I wish them the best of luck as they start their careers as future military leaders.»
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Representative Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat from New Jersey, during a news conference about a Signal messaging chat used by Trump administration officials, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. ( Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Members of Congress nominate students to the service academies while the actual academies make the appointments after the representatives submit a list of nominees by the end of January and the academies appoint qualified candidates.
Some on social media have suggested nepotism was at play with their acceptance into the academy given that only 22 students from her district were admitted to the military academies, including just nine to the naval academy, according to the press release.
College rankings show that admissions to the Naval Academy are very competitive with a 9% acceptance rate.
«Mikie Sherrill’s two kids are at the Naval Academy, one of the hardest schools to get into, because of her nepotism,» Rasmussen pollster Mark Mitchell posted on X. «Meanwhile, some hardworking, impoverished, and unconnected teenagers lose out on a life dream they earned.»
Journalist Jennifer Jean Miller posted on X, «Far left politicians like Mikie Sherrill like to virtue signal about privilege…yet have no problem exerting their own privilege. How did Mikie Sherrill’s two kids get into the Naval Academy? Did two other deserving students miss out because of her nepotism?»
While many on social media have claimed that Sherrill nominated one of her children, an aide for Democratic Sen. Cory Booker confirmed to Fox News Digital that Booker nominated one of Sherrill’s children for this year’s freshman class.
«Each year, Senator Booker, as a member of Congress, has the honor of nominating qualified young people to serve in the United States military service academies,» Booker’s office told Fox News Digital.
«Prospective candidates go through an extensive application and screening process with service members and academy volunteers to recommend the best candidates to the academy based on merit. The candidates put forth for each academy represent the best and brightest that New Jersey has to offer.»
Sherrill’s other child was nominated by now-former Democratic Sen. George Helmy, a Helmy spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Sherrill told Fox News Digital in a statement that, in «order to remove even the appearance of a conflict of interest, my children did not compete in my office’s service academy nomination process.»
«Instead, they applied to the offices of the U.S. Senators from New Jersey, who also run academy nomination processes each year, and I am proud that they each earned nominations on their own,» Sherrill added.
«Every year, our office runs a competitive and nonpolitical process to select the best nominees to submit to the academies. I am honored to nominate the service academy appointees from our district who step up to serve our country.»
MIKIE SHERRILL REMAINS SILENT ON ISSUE OF TRANS ATHLETES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS AS TRUMP CALLS HER OUT FOR IT
Incoming plebes (freshmen) march into Bancroft Hall after taking part in their Oath of Office Ceremony during Induction Day at the U.S. Naval Academy. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
When asked by Fox News Digital why Sherrill’s press release did not include her children in the picture or mention their relationship to her, Sherrill’s office said that her child appointed by Booker attended that ceremony and that the press release listed all the students from NJ-11 who were appointed to academies, not just those she nominated, which is «routine for the office.»
Sherrill’s campaign called the nepotism questions a «depraved attack» in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«The Trump administration, in concert with the Ciattarelli campaign, released Mikie Sherrill’s unredacted service records — including her Social Security number and parents’ address — and now is desperately doubling down by attacking Mikie’s husband and kids,» the statement said. «It’s despicable, wrong, and underscores just how unfit Jack Ciattarelli is to be governor.»
Federal law (10 U.S.C. § 8454) states that members of Congress may nominate up to 15 candidates for each available vacancy at the U.S. Naval Academy. «Each member of Congress can have 5 constituents attending the Naval Academy at any time,» according to their admissions website.
The combustible ballot box battle in New Jersey, which is one of only two elections for governor across the country this year, was rocked last week after a report revealed that the United States Naval Academy blocked Sherrill from taking part in her 1994 graduation amid a cheating scandal.
Ciattarelli and his campaign are calling on Sherrill, who went on to pilot helicopters during her military career after graduating from the Naval Academy, to release her military records to explain why she was blocked from attending her graduation ceremony.
«What we learned today is that she was part of it in some way, shape or form. Come clean, release the records. Tell us what’s in your disciplinary records. I think the people of New Jersey deserve that,» Ciattarelli said Thursday night in an interview on Fox News’ «Hannity.»
But a second report revealed that the National Personnel Records Center, which is a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, errantly released Sherrill’s improperly redacted military personnel files, which included private information including her social security number, to a Ciattarelli ally.
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New Jersey GOP gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli (Getty Images)
The news spurred calls by top Democrats across the country for an investigation.
«To have a guy I’m running against, it will stop at nothing, it will stop at nothing, who will illegally obtain records. It’s just beyond the pale,» Sherrill, who served as a federal prosecutor before winning election to Congress, charged Thursday night on the campaign trail in Plainfield, New Jersey.
The two candidates face off next week in the second and final debate in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.
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El hallazgo de un núcleo interno sólido en Marte transformó el panorama científico acerca de la evolución del planeta rojo. Investigadores internacionales, basándose en datos sísmicos recogidos por la misión InSight de la NASA, determinaron que el núcleo marciano contiene una esfera sólida en su interior, descartando la creencia anterior de que era completamente líquido.
Este descubrimiento revela que el núcleo interno sólido representa cerca de una quinta parte del radio de Marte, cifra similar a la del núcleo terrestre, aunque los científicos advierten que la coincidencia podría ser fortuita, según reportó Smithsonian Magazine.
El análisis exhaustivo de los registros sísmicos de InSight, obtenidos entre 2018 y 2022, permitió a los equipos dirigidos por Daoyuan Sun (Universidad de Ciencia y Tecnología de China) y Constantinos Charalambous (Imperial College London) detectar la existencia de este núcleo sólido. Durante su período de operación, el módulo registró 1.319 eventos sísmicos en la superficie marciana.
Los científicos estudiaron el comportamiento de las ondas sísmicas generadas por “marsquakes” y por impactos de meteoritos, y observaron que, al atravesar ciertas zonas del manto, algunas ondas desaceleraban, lo que permitió identificar heterogeneidades a pequeña escala atribuidas a restos de grandes impactos sufridos por el planeta en su juventud.
Charalambous explicó a Smithsonian Magazine que el manto de Marte conserva vestigios antiguos: “Lo que estamos viendo es un manto salpicado de fragmentos antiguos. Su supervivencia hasta hoy nos indica que el manto de Marte ha evolucionado de forma muy lenta durante miles de millones de años. En la Tierra, características como estas probablemente habrían sido borradas en su mayor parte”, afirmó el investigador. La ausencia de placas tectónicas permitió que la estructura interna de Marte permanezca casi inalterada desde su formación, lo que convierte al planeta en una cápsula del tiempo geológica.
El estudio publicado en Nature y encabezado por Sun detalló la composición y proporción del núcleo sólido. “Nuestros resultados sugieren que Marte tiene un núcleo interno sólido que constituye aproximadamente una quinta parte del radio del planeta, una proporción similar a la del núcleo interno de la Tierra. Sin embargo, esta similitud puede ser solo una coincidencia”, afirmó Sun, según Smithsonian Magazine. Los investigadores sostienen que este núcleo estaría compuesto principalmente por hierro y níquel, junto con elementos más ligeros como oxígeno.
La presencia de un núcleo sólido en Marte tiene consecuencias notables para la historia del planeta, en especial respecto a su campo magnético. En la Tierra, este se genera por la convección en la parte líquida del núcleo, lo que protege la atmósfera de la radiación solar.
En Marte, la existencia de magnetización residual en la corteza indica que también contó con un campo magnético en el pasado, probablemente generado de forma similar a la terrestre. Sin embargo, como detallaron Kevin Olsen y Mhairi Reid en Smithsonian Magazine, se estima que el núcleo marciano perdió movilidad tras enfriarse, lo que provocó la desaparición de dicho campo.
La pérdida del escudo magnético marciano habría provocado la fuga de la atmósfera, en otro tiempo más densa y capaz de permitir la presencia de agua líquida en la superficie. Al quedar Marte sin protección magnética, la atmósfera se fue disipando, hasta convertirlo en el planeta frío y seco que se observa hoy.
Por ello, el descubrimiento del núcleo interno sólido no solo aporta información sobre la estructura presente del planeta, sino que también permite reconstruir su evolución y las condiciones que favorecieron, en algún momento, la presencia de vida.
El legado de InSight fue decisivo: gracias al sismómetro de la misión, los científicos accedieron al interior de Marte con un nivel de detalle inédito.
Dirigida por el Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) de la NASA, la labor de InSight proporcionó datos que transforman la comprensión sobre la formación de los planetas rocosos.
A medida que se exploran los registros sísmicos, los datos de InSight continúan impulsando descubrimientos que desafían las teorías existentes y abren interrogantes sobre la evolución de los mundos rocosos en el sistema solar.
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