Police responded to a «swatting call» at the residence of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in Virginia on Wednesday evening, police confirmed, marking the latest security scare involving a conservative public figure. 

«Yesterday evening at approximately 9:02 p.m., officers responded to a swatting call at the residence of U.S. Supreme Court Justice in Fairfax County,» a Fairfax County Police Department public information officer told Fox News Digital on Thursday when asked about reports concerning the incident at Coney Barrett’s home.

Fairfax police responded to Barrett’s home after they received a call through the department’s non-emergency line, then met with the justice’s security detail, who confirmed the report was «fictitious,» the officer told Fox News Digital. 

The incident comes amid years of heightened threats against Supreme Court justices, including protests outside conservative justices’ homes after the leaked Dobbs draft opinion in 2022 showing the court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the arrest near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home of a California man who was later charged with attempted murder.

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«Officers immediately coordinated with Supreme Court Police personnel assigned to the residence and quickly determined that the report was fictitious. No additional police resources were utilized,» the police department said. 

Swatting calls target an individual by calling in a false police report for crimes — such as a murder, a hostage situation, bomb threats or active shooters that would require a greater law enforcement response — to the home of the target.

A partial audio recording of the police audio surfaced on X on Thursday that reported a «call came in for sounds of gunshots.» Law enforcement can be heard saying there was a «suspicious noise» at a 24-hour security coverage for a «high-priority resident» of the county. 

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Barrett was on the bench Thursday morning alongside her colleagues, and read aloud summaries of two opinions she authored. Barrett made no mention of the Wednesday incident in her bench remarks.

«Swatting is an attempt to get an innocent person killed—in this case, a sitting Supreme Court Justice,» posted Republican Utah Sen, Mike Lee on X as reports of the incident surfaced Thursday. «The proper response will be putting the offender in prison for many, many years.»

Police officers watch abortion-rights advocates demonstrate outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Md., on May 18, 2022. (Bonnie Cash/Getty Images)

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The leaked Dobbs draft opinion became a lightning rod for protests, with abortion-rights activists demonstrating outside the homes of Barrett, Kavanaugh and other members of the court’s conservative majority.

In June 2022, Californian Nicholas John Roske was charged with attempted murder for making violent threats against Kavanaugh while carrying a gun, knife and pepper spray near the justice’s home. He was later sentenced to eight years behind bars. 

Attacks on conservative leaders have been on the rise, most recently targeting the commander in chief, including just in April at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

Protesters gathered near the home of Justice Barrett. (Fox News)

There were two public assassination attempts on Trump’s life in 2024, beginning in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a bullet grazed his ear after a gunman climbed onto a roof during a rally on July 13, 2024.

Earlier this month, a California Army veteran known for his display of «Make America Great Again» memorabilia and American flags outside his residence, dubbed the «Trump House,» was attacked and beaten to death. 

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Supreme Court for comment.

Fox News’ Bill Mears contributed to this report. 

Desde hace un año más de 100 mil personas que habitan en la región de Azuero, en donde se ubican las provincias de Herrera y Los Santos, enfrentan una crisis hídrica por la contaminación del río La Villa, su principal fuente de abastecimiento de agua potable.

Una encuesta a 381 moradores de la región evidenció que el 85% atribuye esta situación a la existencia de granjas porcinas y vertederos.

El impacto en la comunidad incluye la actual escasez del líquido y la desconfianza sobre su calidad, amén de lo que llaman falta de accionar de las autoridades gubernamentales.

Al respecto, el presidente José Raúl Mulino dijo que la escasez del líquido es un “problema estructural que no se va a resolver de hoy para mañana, va a tomar tiempo”.

El mandatario descartó las constantes manifestaciones de las comunidades por la falta del servicio, al señalar que “producto de manifestaciones y malquereres no es que el agua va a llegar. Pueden hacer 100 manifestaciones más, y se los digo con toda honestidad, no va a ver agua”.

La presión sobre el río, de acuerdo al estudio “Crisis hídrica en Azuero: contaminación del río La Villa y necesidad de educación ambiental”, no respondió a un único foco, ya que esta se combinó con la expansión de las actividades agrícolas y ganaderas intensivas, el uso de agroquímicos, el crecimiento urbano cerca de las fuentes fluviales y la descarga de aguas residuales domésticas sin tratamiento.

El deterioro se agravó porque el río La Villa abastece el consumo humano, sirve para el riego agrícola, la ganadería, pesca y actividades de recreación de las comunidades cercanas a su cuenca.

La investigación, realizada por investigadores de los centros regionales de Azuero de la Universidad de Panamá y de la Universidad Especializada de las Américas, advirte que en las últimas décadas el ecosistema mostró señales crecientes de degradación por la acción humana.

El estudio indicó que un 74% de los encuestados identificó consecuencias directas como la escasez de agua potable y la pérdida de confianza en su calidad.

La investigación ubicó la crisis también en el plano de la salud, la economía y la vida comunitaria.

El Ministerio de Salud por su parte vinculó la afectación con cambios físico-químicos del agua, pérdida de biodiversidad acuática y proliferación de algas nocivas.

La revelación ministerial también mencionó lixiviados de vertederos a cielo abierto, porquerizas y posibles descargas industriales como factores asociados.

Los consultados señalaron como principales responsables a las explotaciones porcinas, los vertederos y las descargas residuales.

Para los autores del estudio esa percepción comunitaria refuerza la idea de que se trata de un problema sostenido en el tiempo y no de un episodio aislado.

La encuesta mostró que casi la mitad de los participantes, un 48%, consideró improbable una recuperación total del río La Villa.

El trabajo investigativo atribuyó ese escepticismo a una brecha de conocimiento sobre las fuentes de contaminación y sus efectos a largo plazo.

Según el trabajo, esa lectura social influye en la viabilidad de programas de saneamiento, educación ambiental y gestión integrada del recurso hídrico.

El texto del informe advirtió que, sin respaldo comunitario, las políticas de conservación pueden perder eficacia.

Al precisar los contaminantes más mencionados, el estudio registró que 41% citó coliformes y excremento animal, 35% apuntó a metales pesados y otros contaminantes, y 24% mencionó plaguicidas y residuos de fermentación.

Simultáneamente, se observa que el crecimiento demográfico y urbano en las cercanías al río condujo a un aumento en la descarga de aguas residuales domésticas sin tratamiento adecuado y la acumulación de residuos sólidos.

Israeli officials blasted the United Nations after accusing the body of adding Israeli entities to a sexual violence blacklist that also includes the terrorist group Hamas.

«We are done with this UN Secretary-General. Guterres has put Israel on the same blacklist along with Hamas, ISIS and the most depraved terrorist organizations in the world. This is a moral disgrace that proves that Guterres has lost all credibility,» Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.

A spokesperson for Danon said Israel was officially freezing relations with the secretary-general’s office as long as Antonio Guterres holds the position.

Danon claimed Guterres decided to include Israeli entities on a blacklist regarding sexual violence in conflict zones, prompting the ambassador to freeze relations with the U.N. Secretary-General’s Office.

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«We are a strong democracy. We invited the representatives of the U.N. to come to Israel to check those ridiculous allegations. They chose not to come. They chose to continue with the campaign against Israel. We saw the lies in The New York Times, and now we see another lie coming from the U.N.,» Danon said in a video shared with Fox News Digital.

«We are done with this Secretary-General,» he concluded.

The United Nations has not confirmed the inclusion of Israel on a sexual blacklist. The U.N. did not respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital also reached out to The New York Times for comment.

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The Jerusalem Post first reported Wednesday night that the Israeli Prison Service will be included on the U.N.’s list of countries that commit sexual violence in conflict zones.

In early May, The New York Times published an opinion piece from writer Nicholas Kristof accusing Israeli prison guards of conducting institutionalized sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners. Kristof cited a 2025 U.N. report that called alleged Israeli sexual abuse of Palestinians «standard operating procedures towards Palestinians.»

New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece titled «The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.» (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Israeli officials strongly rejected the piece’s premises and accused Kristof and the Times of blood libel, threatening to sue the outlet in American courts.

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«In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused. Israel -— whose citizens were the victims of the most horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, and whose hostages were later subjected to further sexual abuse -— is portrayed as the guilty party,» the Israel Foreign Ministry wrote in a post on X in response to the Times piece.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry further commented Thursday on the reported U.N. blacklisting.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks about the Israel and Hamas ceasefire deal at the United Nations in New York City on Jan. 15, 2025. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

«Over the past year, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN and the Israeli delegation held a series of meetings with U.N. representatives and provided documents, data, as well as a detailed response to all the allegations that were raised. Despite this, the U.N. Secretary-General chose to advance a political decision and include Israel alongside Hamas and terrorist organizations,» the foreign ministry wrote in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.

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«The shameful and absurd U.N. decision to include Israeli entities in the annex to the CRSV report is further proof of the UN’s true nature: a politicized and corrupt organization that has abandoned its founding principles and systematically targets Israel as its primary mission. This decision is yet another example of the UN’s long-standing, institutionalized hostility toward Israel. Today’s decision must be understood in its true context: an attempt to create a fake symmetry between Israel and the real sexual atrocities committed by Hamas. This is its sole motivation. The person behind this farce is Antonio Guterres,» the statement continued.

«This is the same Guterres who sought to ‘contextualize’ the October 7 massacre, who covered up the involvement of UN employees in those atrocities, and who has dragged the UN to its lowest point. Guterres is now exploiting his final months as Secretary-General to fabricate baseless accusations against Israel, completely devoid of any factual merit. Israel has comprehensively, thoroughly, and unequivocally refuted these allegations. Given that António Guterres has chosen to violate every standard of honesty, integrity, and professionalism, Israel has decided to sever all ties with the Secretary-General’s Office and will wait until a new UN Secretary-General is appointed,» the statement concluded.