Cuando la Iglesia Anglicana y el Vaticano están más unidos que nunca después de 500 años de separación y el rey Carlos busca remarcar este gesto como fundamental en su reinado, la Familia Real británica se sumerge en una de sus peores crisis de supervivencia.

Inglaterra se separó de la Iglesia Católica bajo Enrique VIII en 1534, cuando Enrique estableció la precursora de la Iglesia de Inglaterra (casándose con Ana Bolena) y se autoproclamó Gobernador Supremo. Ni Enrique ni ninguno de sus predecesores, desde 1066, se reunió jamás con el Papa. Esta separación se mantuvo fiel hasta el reinado de la reina Isabel II, quien se reunió con cuatro Papas, pero se negó a rezar con ellos.

Este jueves todo cambió. El rey Carlos III y la reina Camila, vestida de negro y con mantilla de Philip Treacy, rezaron junto al papa León XIV en inglés, en la espectacular Capilla Sixtina, pintada por Miguel Ángel, por primera vez en el Vaticano. Un coro acompañó este momento histórico.

Un acto mayor para el gobernador de la Iglesia Anglicana, que no quería ver este gesto monumental religioso de su reino oscurecido por los escándalos de la disfuncional familia Windsor que lidera.

Una coreografía solemne y espectacular en Roma, que no coincide con las denuncias del Caso Epstein, las memorias de una supuesta víctima del príncipe Andrés que se suicidó tras ser abusada sexualmente y la renuncia de Andrew a su título de duque de York.

En el Royal Lodge, donde el príncipe Andrés se ha refugiado y su ex esposa, Fergie, lo acompaña, hay otro drama paralelo. Fergie se encuentra al borde de la «crisis» nerviosa porque han sumergido a las princesas Eugenia y Beatriz en el escandaloso Caso Epstein. Su hermana Jane viajó desde Australia, especialmente para acompañarla. Fergie tiene cáncer de mama y metástasis de piel.

Pero es la propia relación de Sarah con el pedófilo Epstein la que ha visto cómo su vida pública se desmoronaba rápidamente. Recientemente se ha publicado un correo electrónico que ella envió al financiero caído en desgracia, tras declarar públicamente que había cortado el contacto con él, en el que llamaba a Epstein «un amigo supremo». Su vocera afirmó que envió el correo electrónico por miedo a las amenazas a su familia, a sus hijas y a que la enjuiciara.

Una amiga de Sarah Ferguson ha revelado que está al borde de una crisis nerviosa tras ver a sus hijas, «angustiadas», envueltas en el escándalo que ha estallado por su asociación con Epstein. Hay fotos que muestran a Fergie y las dos princesas junto a Epstein, como las primeras visitantes después de que salió de la cárcel por abuso sexual.

Si bien el palacio trató de acelerar las medidas contra los duques de York días antes del viaje del rey al Vaticano, las repercusiones siguen. El Parlamento va a quitarle el título de príncipe a Andrés, hermano del rey y ex heredero al trono.

Aunque tenga un contrato hasta su muerte en la ex casa de su abuela, los cortesanos, el príncipe Guillermo y los diputados conservadores quieren desalojarlo del Royal Lodge, su casa de 30 habitaciones y 37 hectáreas. Ellos quieren convertirlo en otro exiliado, como el rey Eduardo, cuando abdicó para casarse con Wallis Simpson, una norteamericana divorciada. Los exiliaron en París como duques de Windsor.

Esta vez el lugar puede ser diferente. Como el rey Juan Carlos de España, el príncipe Andrés podría terminar en un dorado palacio de Abu Dabi, alojado por el Emir de Qatar y con los gastos pagos. Nadie sabe si tiene o no dinero, si heredó o no a su madre, la reina Isabel II, de quien era su hijo favorito. El rey Carlos le cortó el millón de dólares anuales que le ofrecía desde que llegó al trono.

La policía metropolitana confirmó que estaba investigando informes de que Andrés le había ordenado a su guardaespaldas personal que desenterrara información sucia sobre su acusadora sexual.

Al mismo tiempo, el rey Carlos teme por su hermano y su salud mental. Su inquietud es que esta situación lo lleve al suicidio o a una internación, que haría igual daño a los Windsor. Pero su hijo Guillermo, futuro heredero, cree que Andrés y Fergie deben abandonar el reino y no le permitirá asistir a su coronación ni utilizar los palacios reales. Se inquieta con que aparezca más información sobre Epstein.

Se espera que el Parlamento examine su contrato de arrendamiento a largo plazo, con una renta mínima, en Royal Lodge, una vivienda que ha ocupado durante décadas sin pagar alquiler. El primer ministro Keir Starmer ha expresado su apoyo a los parlamentarios, incluidos los pedidos de que el Príncipe responda preguntas directamente en el Parlamento.

Fergie y Andrés saben que tienen la culpa. Pero aún sienten que ahora los están castigando sin piedad, cuando están deprimidos y abandonados. Nadie sabe hoy cómo será su futuro y si Andrés será juzgado o no.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that California issued a commercial driver’s license (CDL) to an illegal immigrant truck driver charged in a fatal DUI crash that killed three people.

«I can confirm that California gave this individual a license, and it is something that the Department of Transportation has already looked into,» Leavitt said. «I know Secretary Duffy, who’s doing a phenomenal job, has spoken on this many times in the crackdown that the Department of Transportation is taking on these licenses that are wrongfully being issued to people who clearly do not deserve to uphold these positions.»

Leavitt said the individual first entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 «and was released into our country by the previous administration.» 

She added that the Department of Transportation (DOT) was cracking down on the issuing of CDLs amid a «disturbing pattern» of them being given to illegal immigrants.

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Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from India, was accused of driving while intoxicated and causing a crash that left three people dead. He has since been arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after allegedly plowing his big rig into slow-moving traffic on the I-10 Freeway in San Bernardino County.

Multiple federal law enforcement sources told Fox News that Singh was first encountered by Border Patrol agents in California’s El Centro Sector in March 2022 and released into the interior of the country pending an immigration hearing. 

Police say Singh never hit the brakes before slamming into the traffic jam, citing toxicology tests that confirmed impairment.

Jashanpreet Singh, an illegal immigrant from India, was arrested in connection with a deadly crash on the I-10 Freeway in San Bernardino County, Calif., on Oct. 21, 2025.  (Bill Melugin/via X,ICE)

«This is a tragic situation,» a spokeswoman for Gov. Gavin Newsom said to Fox News Digital. «And as with every tragedy over the last ten months, Secretary Noem has ordered Secretary Duffy to look for every opportunity to manipulate the facts to score cheap political points, but the FEDERAL government needs to look within before they cast blame outside.»

«The FEDERAL government approved and renewed this individual’s FEDERAL employment authorization multiple times – which allowed him to obtain a commercial driver’s license in accordance with FEDERAL law,» she added.

The Biden administration approved Singh’s work permit. Illegal immigrants can apply for work authorization 180 days after making their asylum claim. Singh was caught and released at the border in March 2022. He has been in asylum proceedings ever since. Additionally, acquiring a work permit would not require California to issue an individual a CDL, nor would it give an individual the right to one.

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The incident comes just months after a similar fatal crash involving an illegal immigrant truck driver.

On Aug. 12, Harjinder Singh allegedly made an illegal U-turn in an unauthorized area on the Florida Turnpike, colliding with a minivan and killing three people. He was arrested in California, where he fled after the deadly crash, and was extradited to Florida.

Singh crossed into the U.S. illegally in 2018 through the southern border and was able to obtain a CDL in California. The first Trump administration rejected his request for work authorization in September 2020, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

A composite image shows firefighters responding to a fatal Florida crash linked to Harjinder Singh’s truck and body camera of Singh being cited for speeding in New Mexico on July 3, 2025. (St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office; New Mexico State Police)

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On Oct. 15, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) would withhold over $40 million from California after a probe revealed that the state failed to comply with English Language Proficiency standards.

In response to a video of the incident, Duffy said, «This is exactly why USDOT has withheld $40 MILLION from California for failure to comply with our rules to protect drivers. We cannot allow our roads to be a dangerous place!»

Fox News Digital reached out to DOT for comment.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears lambasted Virginia Democrats after they signaled a plan to suddenly call the legislature back in a last-minute special session to address potential redistricting before the election.

Virginia’s state redistricting commission is statutorily charged with crafting new congressional maps after every decennial census, but state Democrats appear poised to try to do an end-round around that process, potentially via the constitutional amendment process.

«In a desperate political stunt, Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly are calling for a special session to drag Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears off the campaign trail,» the Earle-Sears campaign said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

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As lieutenant governor, Earle-Sears is the presiding officer over the otherwise Democratic-majority state Senate.

«The same politicians who marched in ‘No Kings’ protests are now trying to crown themselves as the rulers of Virginia politics, abusing their offices to rig the calendar because they can’t win on ideas,» the campaign said.

Earle-Sears spokesperson Peyton Vogel said the activity is «what panic looks like» for a party that is out of fresh ideas and is relying on such «stunts,» and suggested Democratic challenger Abigail Spanberger – a former congresswoman – was in some way involved in the plan.

«[S]he’s leading the charge on cheap political stunts to slow down Winsome Earle-Sears’ momentum. It’s pathetic. Voters see through it. They know Winsome Earle-Sears is a Marine, a mom, and a fighter for Virginia every day — while Abigail Spanberger is a career politician using Washington-style dirty tricks to protect her power and her friends,» Vogel said.

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A Suffolk University poll released Thursday showed Earle-Sears trailing Spanberger by about eight percentage points, while her downballot-mates John Reid and Jason Miyares were either tied or just ahead of their Democratic opponents.

Democrats are hoping to expand their two-seat majority in the House of Delegates, targeting several districts in the suburbs and exurbs of Hampton Roads and Washington, D.C., where Republicans sit on a statistical knife’s edge. No state Senate seats are up until 2027. The upper chamber also has a two-seat Democratic majority.

House Speaker Don Scott Jr., D-Portsmouth, and Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Mount Vernon, did not respond to requests for comment. However, Surovell told the New York Times that plans to reconvene the legislature in Richmond next week are intended to counter President Donald Trump’s push to pressure Republican-led states on redistricting.

Those states, like Texas, see their efforts as blunting California Democrats’ likely-successful shoehorning of a mid-decade redistricting plan through Sacramento.

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«We are coming back to address actions by the Trump administration,» Surovell told the Times.

On the federal level, Democrats hold six of the 11 House seats in Virginia. Some of those held by Republicans are often considered «swing» seats that volley back and forth regularly – like that of Rep. Jennifer Kiggans in Cape Charles and Hampton Roads.

Loudoun County – once reliably Republican – has trended far to the left in the past decade, and there is no longer any Republican congressperson within about 50 miles of Washington.

Rep. Yevgeny «Eugene» Vindman, D-Va., twin brother of Alexander Vindman, holds a once-swing district in Prince William County and the D.C. exurbs that has been another long-term loss for the GOP.

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By contrast, Rep. Morgan Griffith’s, R-Va., district in the far southwestern end of Virginia is solidly Republican. The way neighboring Rep. Ben Cline’s district is drawn – hugging Interstate 81 and the Blue Ridge Mountains – also remains so.

But Cline’s district could be one targeted by Democrats’ redraw – as slicing up the slender district and the top of Republican John McGuire’s confines and affixing the pieces to the increasingly blue center of the state could create several new seats designed in Democrats’ favor.

Toying with the shapes of other districts like Vindman’s along I-95 and Republican Rep. Rob Wittman in the Northern Neck could also bear fruit for Democrats.

Democrats were the ones to primarily spearhead the original constitutional amendment in 2020 that birthed the commission they now want to circumvent, as it had been introduced by then-Sen. George Barker of Fairfax. Some Republicans were listed as co-signers for the resolution as well.

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The amendment was later approved by about two-thirds of Virginia voters, according to reports.

If they go the constitutional amendment route, passage before November’s election would count as one session, so Democrats – betting on holding or increasing their numbers in the legislature – would have to pass it once more in the 2026 session before it made the ballot after passage.

Whether Earle-Sears or Spanberger wins, the governor is constitutionally precluded from intervening in the process.

Working through the regular legislative process would, by contrast, allow a governor to intervene; with the outgoing Youngkin primed to veto their initial attempt.

Pennsylvania Republicans led by 2022 gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano enlisted the same process to circumvent then-Gov. Tom Wolf and end his onerous coronavirus lockdown orders, so the process has seen recent success.

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The Virginia amendment would not likely create a new map, but instead authorize a new process to commence redistricting outside the current system with the decennial commission.

Fox News Digital reached out to Spanberger for comment on Earle-Sears’ claim.