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Scoop: Combat veteran launches congressional run in bid to flip longtime Democrat-held seat red
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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and Iraq War veteran Jennifer-Ruth Green says she’s «ready to finish the mission» as she launches a second Republican congressional bid in northwest Indiana for a seat long held by Democrats.
«The stakes couldn’t be higher,» Green said in a campaign launch video shared first with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, as she jumped into the U.S. House race in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District, which is represented by three-term Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan.
Green, who came within five points of defeating Mrvan in the 2022 midterm elections, says her rematch in Indiana could be crucial in deciding if the GOP keeps control of its fragile House majority next year.
«When we fire Frank Mrvan and take back northwest Indiana for the first time since 1928, Republicans will keep the House and stop radical Democrats from impeaching President Trump,» Green emphasized in her video.
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Jennifer-Ruth Green, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran, who served as Indiana’s first secretary of public safety, on Tuesday launched her second Republican bid for the U.S. House in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District. (Jennifer-Ruth Green campaign)
And in an interview with Fox News Digital, she added, «I firmly believe that the control of the House might just come down to Indiana’s 1st Congressional District, and I want to be on the team to make sure we can have a credible agenda to support President Trump.»
Green launched her campaign the day after Republican Gov. Mike Braun called state lawmakers back for a special legislative session to redraw the GOP-dominated state’s congressional districts.
It’s part of a broad Republican effort orchestrated by President Donald Trump and his political team to pad the GOP House majority to keep control of the chamber in the 2026 midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats. Democrats need a pickup of just three seats to win back control of the House.
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Trump is aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House, when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterm elections. Democrats, fighting back, aim to blunt the GOP effort by pushing redistricting in blue-leaning states.
Republicans currently control seven of Indiana’s nine congressional districts, and any new map passed by the state’s GOP super majority in the legislature would likely shift the 1st Congressional District from blue-leaning to a red-leaning seat.
«We believe Indiana’s First District… will become much more Republican,» a memo from the Green campaign states.
And Green, in her Fox News Digital interview, argued, «I am in support of redistricting. I really believe that it’s time for us to fight fire with fire, and we’ve seen how Democrats around the country have taken this opportunity … in their states to gerrymander.
Jennifer-Ruth Green, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, deployed to Baghdad during the Iraq War. (Jennifer-Ruth Green campaign)
Green, following in the footsteps of her father and grandfather, joined the Air Force. A 2005 Air Force Academy graduate, she began her military career in aviation before transitioning to serve as a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and deploying to Baghdad during the Iraq War.
She’s currently a lieutenant colonel in the Indiana Air National Guard and «as Indiana’s first secretary of public safety, I supported our first responders and helped the Trump administration remove dangerous illegal immigrants from our streets.»
She also founded a faith-based nonprofit to «help at-risk youth through aerospace training.»
Green, who outraised Mrvan in her 2022 campaign, is the only major Republican candidate to jump into the 2026 race. Pointing to her fundraising prowess, her campaign memo touts that Green «is the only candidate Republicans can put forward in this race to raise the money needed to win a hard-fought battle for this seat.»
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, right, greets Democratic Rep. Frank John Mrvan of Indiana at a House Appropriations Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 2025. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
«When we fire Frank Mrvan and take back northwest Indiana for the first time since 1928, Republicans will keep the House,» Green said in her campaign video.
And she pledged, if elected to Congress, to «stand shoulder to shoulder with our president to rebuild American manufacturing for middle class jobs, fight for bigger paychecks and lower prices, support our farmers and rural communities, secure the border and deport violent, illegal immigrants, back the blue, and defend the right to life and the Second Amendment.»
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Green, in her Fox News Digital interview, praised Trump, saying, «I believe that he’s doing a great job. He is taking care of our country, leading it in the right direction.»
Asked if she would like the president’s help on the campaign trail, she said, «I look forward to bringing him out to northwest Indiana if he would come.»
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Tragedia en Filipinas: asciende a 93 el número de muertos y a 26 el de desaparecidos por el paso del tifón Kalmaegi
Al menos 93 muertos y 26 personas que aún siguen siendo buscadas en Filipinas fueron víctimas del tifón Kalmaegi. La mayoría de los afectados por el fenómeno natural sufrieron las inundaciones que arrastraron vehículos y obligaron a los residentes a refugiarse en los techos de sus casas.
Según informaron autoridades locales, entre las víctimas también se cuentan seis personas fallecidas en un accidente de helicóptero de la Fuerza Aérea filipina, ocurrido el martes en Agusan del Sur mientras se dirigía a entregar ayuda humanitaria en las zonas afectadas por Kalmaegi.
El tifón, con vientos sostenidos de hasta 130 km/h y ráfagas de 180 km/h, se desplazó el miércoles hacia el Mar de China Meridional tras causar estragos principalmente en la provincia de Cebú, donde el fenómeno provocó el desbordamiento de ríos y sumergió casas por completo. Numerosos habitantes tuvieron que ser rescatados de los tejados, algunos tras horas de espera y llamados desesperados.
El gobierno de Cebú, que aún se recuperaba de un sismo de magnitud 6,9 ocurrido el 30 de septiembre y que dejó al menos 73 muertos y miles de desplazados, declaró el estado de calamidad para agilizar la liberación de fondos de emergencia. Muchos de los ya desplazados por el terremoto debieron ser evacuados nuevamente a refugios más sólidos ante la llegada del tifón.
Rhon Ramos, portavoz de Cebú, informó este miércoles a AFP que se recuperaron 35 cuerpos en las zonas inundadas de Liloan, llevando el saldo provincial a 76 muertos. La oficina de Defensa Civil nacional confirmó 17 decesos en otras regiones, con lo que el total de fallecidos alcanzó la trágica cifra de 93 muertos.
Se confirmaron muertes en la provincia de Leyte del Sur —donde un anciano se ahogó— y en Bohol, donde un residente murió tras la caída de un árbol. “Las ciudades grandes fueron las más golpeadas (por inundaciones), las zonas más urbanizadas”, dijo el subdirector de la Defensa Civil, Rafaelito Alejandro, a una radio local. “Nuestro desafío ahora es despejar los escombros que bloquean nuestras carreteras”.
La gobernadora provincial de Cebú, Pamela Baricuatro, calificó la situación como “sin precedentes”. “Esperábamos vientos peligrosos, pero el agua es lo que realmente está poniendo a la gente en peligro”, afirmó ante periodistas locales.
“La inundación aquí fue muy severa ayer”, relató Reynaldo Vergara, de 53 años, quien señaló que el agua arrasó con todo lo que había en su pequeña tienda. “Alrededor de las cuatro o cinco de la mañana, el agua era tan fuerte que no podías salir Nada así ha pasado antes”, agregó.
Antes de que Kalmaegi tocara tierra, más de 387.000 personas fueron evacuadas de zonas vulnerables del este y centro del país. El tifón obligó también a suspender la salida de transbordadores y pesqueros, dejando más de 3.500 pasajeros y camioneros varados en cerca de 100 puertos, y al menos 186 vuelos nacionales fueron cancelados.
Más de 200.000 personas fueron evacuadas en la región de Bisayas, así como en zonas del sur de Luzón y norte de Mindanao, debido a las inundaciones, cortes de energía y viviendas anegadas provocadas por la tormenta.
Kalmaegi, la vigésima tormenta que impacta Filipinas este año, se intensificó ligeramente al cruzar el Mar de China Meridional en dirección a Vietnam, donde ya se preparan ante la llegada prevista del tifón este viernes.
En septiembre, el supertifón Ragasa azotó el norte de Luzón y obligó al cierre de escuelas y oficinas gubernamentales por los fuertes vientos y lluvias torrenciales.
(Con información de AFP)
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Minneapolis mayor’s race advances to ranked choice voting after no candidate reaches 50%
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The Minneapolis mayor’s race will advance to ranked choice voting after none of the candidates received at least 50% of the vote in Tuesday’s election, The Associated Press has reported.
Minneapolis allows voters to rank up to three candidates in its municipal races. The field for mayor included more than a dozen candidates. As of 10:41 p.m. EST Tuesday, Jacob Frey and Omar Fateh had received the most first-choice results.
Fateh made waves on the national political stage this year, drawing comparisons to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign in New York City after The Minnesota Star Tribune dubbed him the «Mamdani of Minneapolis.»
The 35-year-old son of Somali immigrants who became the first Somali-American elected to the Minnesota state Senate in 2020 challenged incumbent Frey head-on this year, criticizing the comparatively moderate Democrat for failing to «meet the needs of our changing society.»
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Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh takes a phone call at the University of Minnesota Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Fateh was endorsed by Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party this summer, the first endorsement of a Minneapolis mayoral candidate in 16 years, before DFL Chairman Richard Carlbom rescinded the coveted endorsement a month later.
«I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us,» Fateh said on X in July.
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«After a thoughtful and transparent review of the challenges, the Constitution, Bylaws & Rules Committee found substantial failures in the Minneapolis Convention’s voting process on July 19th, including an acknowledgment that a mayoral candidate was errantly eliminated from contention. As a result, the Constitution, Bylaws & Rules Committee has vacated the mayoral endorsement,» Carlbom said the following month.
But with the backing of the Twin Cities’ chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and «Squad» member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who represents Minneapolis in the U.S. House of Representatives, Fateh’s progressive campaign maintained momentum.
There were 15 mayoral candidates on the ballot in Minneapolis Tuesday after the city did not hold a mayoral primary. And while candidates can still identify politically, city races in Minneapolis are officially nonpartisan.
In an attempt to consolidate support against the incumbent frontrunner Frey, Fateh urged his supporters to rank pastor DeWayne Davis and attorney Jazz Hampton as their second and third choices.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks during a press conference at City Hall after a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School Aug. 28, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
In Minneapolis, if a candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, that candidate wins outright.
But if no one gets a majority, counting moves to additional rounds. After each round, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and those ballots are redistributed to the next-ranked candidate on each voter’s ballot. The process continues until one candidate has a majority and can be declared the winner.
According to The Associated Press, every mayoral race in Minneapolis since 2013 has gone to at least a second round of ranked-choice voting.
Frey ousted an incumbent in 2017 after six rounds of tabulation. Then, in 2021, Frey won re-election after two rounds.
A campaign sign for Omar Fateh is displayed near Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis’ Cedar–Riverside neighborhood. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
The last mayor’s race took the national stage after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, triggering national and international protests rejecting police brutality amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., who was former Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate last year and is up for re-election next year, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., endorsed Frey’s campaign this year.
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And Minneapolis was once again in the national spotlight this year.
The city is still reeling from a massacre at a back-to-school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in August, where two children were killed and 17 others were injured when a shooter opened fire before committing suicide.
Associated Press contributed to this report
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