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Trump expresses ‘absolute confidence’ as Steve Witkoff is sworn in as special Middle East envoy
President Donald Trump’s new special envoy to the Middle East was sworn in by Secretary of State Marco Rubio Tuesday in an Oval Office ceremony.
Speaking before the swearing-in, Trump praised Witkoff, who was instrumental in securing an extended ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the return of 33 hostages, including two Americans, who were being held by Hamas.
Trump said Witkoff has «been with me, more or less, one way or the other, every step of the way,» adding that he has «absolute confidence and support and trust» in his Middle East envoy’s ability to secure key deals in the realm of foreign diplomacy, such as ceasefire agreements between Israel and Hamas and between Ukraine and Russia.
Though Witkoff is a real estate businessman by trade, Trump said he «quickly established himself as one of the toughest, smartest and best negotiators in the business,» which is why he chose him for the important role of special envoy to the Middle East.
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Steve Witkoff is sworn in as special envoy by Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House with President Donald Trump Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
«As a businessman, he’s admired and respected by all, and now Steve is putting his talents to work for America’s special envoy to the United States and making a lot of progress. Our country is blessed to have a negotiator of such skill and experience who really selflessly steps up to the plate, puts himself forward all the time,» the president said.
Trump did note there was somewhat of a learning curve for Witkoff when it came to foreign government relations but said he has been «figuring it out» at a lightning pace.
«It takes him about an hour to figure it out,» Trump said. «After that, he’s brutal. He does a great job.»
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, greet each other prior to talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, April 25, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Trump noted Witkoff has already been active over the last several months, meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders from Iran.
«He’s working tirelessly to end the bloody and destructive conflicts,» said Trump, touting Witkoff’s success so far in negotiations with various world leaders.
After the ceremony, Trump took questions from reporters, addressing a range of topics, including the just-announced ceasefire between the U.S. and the Houthis. When asked about conflicting reports indicating the Houthis do not plan to stop attacking Israel, Trump said that the terror group’s surrogates have indicated «very strongly» that «they want nothing to do with [the United States].»
Trump was also asked questions about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and, in particular, about the release of the remaining 21 living hostages.
«This is a terrible situation. We’re trying to get the hostages out. We’ve gotten a lot of them out,» Trump told reporters, noting it is also just important to find and return the bodies of those already killed by Hamas.
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He shared that two weeks ago a couple whose son died as a hostage came to him and said, «Please, sir, my son is dead. Please get us back his body.»
«They wanted his body. He’s dead,» Trump said from the Oval Office after Witkoff’s confirmation. «They know. He said they wanted his body as much as you would want the boy if he was alive. It’s a very sad thing.»
President Donald Trump speaks before Steve Witkoff is sworn in as a special envoy during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein))
Trump also commented on Iran and its potential development of nuclear weaponry. The president said definitively that «they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon.»
«This is really crunch time. I would tell you, for Iran and for their country, this is a very important time for Iran. This is the most important time in the history of Iran, for Iran, and I hope they do what’s right,» Trump told reporters.
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«I’d love to see a peace deal, a strong peace deal. … We want it to be a successful country,» he added. «We don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that. But they can’t have a nuclear weapon. And if they choose to go a different route, it’s going to be a very sad thing. And it’s something we don’t want to have to do, but we have no choice.»
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Canada’s Carney under pressure to act after synagogues shot at in latest antisemitic incidents
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Over the weekend, two Toronto synagogues were attacked by gunfire. Several days earlier, another synagogue was hit by around twenty gunshots on the Jewish holiday of Purim.
Though the three attacks caused no injuries, many in the Jewish community are demanding concrete action from Prime Minister Mark Carney — not just words of comfort that have typically followed such antisemitic incidents.
Carney took to X saying that the «antisemitic and criminal attacks violate the right of Canadian Jewish men and women to live and pray in complete safety» and «represent a serious assault on the way of life of all Canadians.»
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Temple Emanu-El in Toronto, Canada was shot at on March 3, 2026. No injuries were reported. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
In the aftermath of the first synagogue attack, Israel’s National Security Council warned Israelis overseas to «maintain vigilance and adhere to safety precautions.» Among their suggestions were for Israelis to «conceal Jewish and Israeli identifiers while in public spaces,» to be aware of surroundings «in areas associated with Israel or Judaism,» and to «avoid visiting sites identified as Jewish or Israeli.»
On X, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that «all eyes are on Canada: it’s time to halt the unprecedented wave of Jew-hatred that has erupted since October 7th.»
Anti-Israel demonstrators gather outside Union Station during a rally in Toronto, Ontario on Jan. 4, 2024. (Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Like many Western countries, Canada has seen a marked rise in annual antisemitic incidents since the Hamas terror attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada found that there were 6,219 incidents of antisemitism in Canada in 2024. This constituted an average of 17 incidents per day, more than double the eight incidents per day calculated in 2022.
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While figures for 2025 have yet to be released, Public Safety Canada noted that from April to June 2025, «Among hate crimes targeting religion… the majority were directed at the Jewish community (69%).»
Conservative MP Roman Baber, said the behavior of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and other liberal Canadian politicians have been «adding fuel to the fire of Jew hatred in Canada.»
Baber aimed further criticism at Carney, saying, «When the Prime Minister on the campaign trail says he knows there is genocide in Gaza, he engages in Jew hatred.»
General view of Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto synagogue in Thornhill, north of Toronto, Ontario. The place of worship was one of three synagogues attacked in early March 2026.
Baber was referring to an event in April 2025 during which a heckler yelled over a bustling crowd that «there is a genocide happening in Gaza.» Carney responded, «I’m aware, that’s why we have an arms embargo.»
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Carney later said that he did not hear the heckler use the term «genocide.»
Baber noted that «when the Prime Minister recognized the Palestinian state, he rewarded the brutality of Hamas, and he did so on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.»
In his announcement, released the day prior to the Jewish holiday, Carney claimed that recognizing «the State of Palestine, led by the Palestinian Authority, empowers those who seek peaceful coexistence and the end of Hamas,» and «in no way legitimizes terrorism, nor is it any reward for it.» He also claimed recognition «in no way compromises Canada’s steadfast support for the State of Israel, its people, and their security.»
Anti-Israel protesters gather outside the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto synagogue on March 7, 2024. The place of worship was one of three synagogues shot at in the first week of March 2026. (Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Watchdog organization StopAntisemitism told Fox News Digital that «every day we are seeing painful reminders that antisemitism remains a real and dangerous threat. Acts of violence meant to intimidate or silence our community will not succeed. Loud and proud Jews will not allow hatred or fear to deter our Jewish way of life or our presence in the world. Not in Canada, in the United States, in Europe, and certainly not in Israel.»
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StopAntisemitism called for the perpetrators to «be punished to the fullest extent of the law so that justice is served and deterrence is clear.»
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Illegal immigrant’s two decades of unlawful votes expose the real ‘threat’ to democracy: Experts
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After an illegal immigrant was discovered to have been voting for more than a decade in Philadelphia, immigration experts are warning that the «system can fail» and that loss of voter confidence represents the true «serious threat» to American democracy.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said that «the most important thing is perception.»
«People have to believe that their vote counts. And so that’s, I think, a much more serious long-term threat,» said Hankinson.
«We have a perception in the United States,» he continued, «that elections were free and fair. If even the appearance of impropriety, the appearance of corruption, is bad enough to turn people off, to make people not interested in going to vote, to think, ‘Well, my vote doesn’t count anyway.’ Then that’s really what undermines democracy.»
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Mahady Sacko, a Mauritanian citizen living in the United States illegally, has fraudulently voted in every federal election dating back to 2008, federal prosecutors said. (Department of Homeland Security; Getty Images)
Earlier this week, Fox News Digital learned that Mahady Sacko, a Mauritanian citizen and illegal immigrant, allegedly voted in every federal election since 2008. He has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and charged with voter fraud in Philadelphia. This comes as congressional lawmakers fiercely debate the SAVE Act, a measure proponents say would strengthen election integrity laws.
Despite being given a removal order in 2000, Sacko, 50, registered to vote in 2005 and falsely stated on several occasions that he was a U.S. citizen, authorities allege. The voting records showed that he cast ballots in the general elections in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024. In addition, he voted in the 2016 and 2020 primary elections, prosecutors said.
Hankinson said that while he believes such cases are more isolated and are not widely prevalent in the U.S., it is a «potentially big problem, and it’s one that’s very easy to fix.»
«The average Joe who does vote doesn’t think he’s setting fire to his ballot. He thinks it’s actually going to count for something. That’s what’s at risk here,» Hankinson continued, adding, «That I think is a long-term serious threat to our democracy.»
Meanwhile, Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the election integrity research group True the Vote, told Fox News Digital that «an illegal alien allegedly voting in every presidential election since 2008 is proof the system can fail — and we have no reliable, codified way to determine how many others may be doing the same.»
«Millions could be voting illegally, but we don’t know because comprehensive voter roll audits are being fought tooth and nail, instead of being standard operating procedure,» she went on. «What’s most disturbing is how vicious the fight has become to block analyses, stop audits, and shut down even the most basic questions about eligibility and voter record maintenance.»
«That kind of resistance leaves millions of Americans with the unmistakable impression that something is very wrong in our system, and that feeling, that loss of trust, is likely the biggest impact of all.»
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Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, warned that «millions» could be voting illegally. (SETH HERALD/AFP via Getty Images and Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
She posited that «we should treat voter rolls the way serious industries treat sensitive record management.» She suggested bringing in independent third-party auditors, setting clear state and national standards, and using real-time verification of identity, residency, and citizenship as a matter of routine.
«The data exists, the technology exists, and other sectors use it every day — what’s missing is political will to apply those same basic safeguards to our elections,» she said.
On the other hand, in a statement shared with Fox News Digital, David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), said, «We have a very good sense of the depth of the problem here» and «it is extremely rare that noncitizens get registered, and it is infinitesimally rare that they vote.»
CEIR released its latest review of noncitizen registration and voting claims last month. That review concluded, «CEIR continues to find that sweeping allegations about noncitizen registrations or voting appear to arise from misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, or outright fabrications about complex voter data.»
Becker said that President Donald Trump’s «own Department of Homeland Security has checked more than 49 million voter records, and they themselves admit that 99.98% of those records represented confirmed citizens.»
He added that «in several states that are politically aligned with President Trump, the number of alleged noncitizen voters has precipitously dropped when subjected to scrutiny.»
«We see consistently that the number of potential or confirmed noncitizens registered is very small, and those who are voting are even smaller,» he said.
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Hans von Spakovsky expressed that «every vote by an alien cancels and effectively voids the vote of a citizen.» (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
However, Hans von Spakovsky, a former commissioner at the Federal Election Commission and a senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, told Fox News Digital, «The point is that we have an honor system currently with most states doing absolutely nothing to verify citizenship. And we have hundreds of close elections all the time in this country where even a small number of aliens could make the difference in an election.»
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He shared information from his 2024 testimony to Congress in which he said that findings based on official registration records of thousands of aliens showed they are registered in various jurisdictions, including Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and sanctuary cities like Philadelphia and Chicago.
Despite these reports, he said, «virtually no prosecutors have expressed any interest in investigating and potentially prosecuting these aliens.»
«The indicators that it is occurring are there, and it is important to understand that every vote by an alien cancels and effectively voids the vote of a citizen,» he said.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
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