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WATCH: Dem. Rep. snatches phone in testy airport exchange over Biden's mental clarity: 'Who owns you?'
FIRST ON FOX: Longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur was captured on video Friday losing her patience with a man who asked her whether President Biden should step down following his widely panned CNN debate performance.
“Excuse me congresswoman, should Joe Biden step down?” A man in the Detroit airport asks Kaptur in video obtained by Fox News Digital.
The 78-year-old congresswoman ignores the question as she is going up the escalator through the airport, which prompts the man to repeat the question.
After Kaptur doesn’t respond for a second time, she is asked, “Why has the White House been lying about Joe Bidens’ cognitive abilities?”
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Rep. Marcy Kaptur attempted to evade questions about President Biden’s mental health on Friday (Fox News Digital)
Kaptur, who appears to be adjusting her luggage, then stares into the camera before grabbing the phone in the man’s hands as the video cuts out.
“Congresswoman why did you take my phone like that?” Kaptur is asked in a follow-up video as she walks through the airport.
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Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur speaks at press conference (AP Photo/Ken Blaze, File)
“What is your name? Kaptur responds looking directly into the camera. “Where do you live?”
“Why are you asking me all these personal questions, congresswoman?” The man responds.
“Because you’re asking me questions,” Kaptur says.
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President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
As the two slowly spin in a circle, Kaptur asks, “Where do you live? Where do you live? What town?”
“I don’t have to tell you that information,” the man says, which causes Kaptur to say, “Then I’m not answering you.”
As Kaptur again starts walking away, the man again asks, “I just want to know, congresswoman, should Joe Biden step down?”
“No,” Kaptur responds before continuing to walk away.
The two continued to go back and forth with Kaptur asking the man why he is “reading questions off that sheet” and “who owns you?”
“Nobody owns me,” the man responds. “I’m just curious on some questions.”
“They own you,” she says as she walks out of the airport doors.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Kaptur campaign spokesperson Alexandra Wilcox said, “It’s one thing to ask a question but an unknown man refusing to identify himself, forcing a camera in the Congresswoman’s personal space is another thing entirely.”
“The man has still not identified himself or the organization for which he works.”
Wilcox continued, “All these politics aside, Congresswoman Kaptur remains fully focused on delivering further transformational federal investment to Northwest Ohio.”
Democrats, particularly those in competitive elections this November, have been facing questions about Biden’s debate performance and specifically where he should step aside in the 2024 race.
Many Democrats have acknowledged that Biden did not have a good night, including former President Barack Obama who said on Friday, “bad debate nights happen.”
Kaptur, who has served in Congress for 21 terms, is facing a tough re-election race in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District that Cook Political Report ranks as a “Democrat Toss Up.”
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Airbnb is betting on Detroit as a destination — and the numbers back it up. On today’s Daily Detroit, I’m at the Grand Hotel talking with Vince Frillici, Airbnb’s policy lead for the Great Lakes, about how short-term rentals are reshaping travel in the city and across Michigan.
We dig into the data: about 700 Detroiters hosting on any given day and just under 150,000 guests who stayed in Detroit Airbnbs last year, with nearly half of them staying 11–30 nights.
That points to Detroit quietly becoming a long-stay city for remote workers and people here on temporary assignments.
Vince also lays out how Airbnb is leaning into that demand, from curated Detroit “Experiences” and food tours to bringing independent hotels like Trumbull & Porter and the Siren onto the platform, plus new partnerships for Eastern Market groceries in your fridge and airport curbside pickup.
Then we zoom out to Lansing and talk about Michigan’s pre‑internet tourism tax laws, why Airbnb is backing bills to modernize them, and what a fairer system could mean for local communities that host all this new visitor activity.
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The City of Milwaukee announced June 10 that police and the District Attorney’s Office achieved an 84% conviction rate actively litigated first-offense reckless driving charges in 2025, up from 15% in 2023.
Milwaukee City Attorney Evan Goyke said the city’s coordinated reckless driving enforcement policies announced in October 2024 have drastically improved prosecution outcomes for first-offense reckless driving cases in Milwaukee Municipal Court.
In addition, the rate at which reckless driving charges were reduced or amended dropped from 65% in 2023 to zero in 2025.
Goyke said he made a commitment when he took office in April 2024 to make the City Attorney’s Office a more effective prosecutor of reckless driving.
“These numbers are the proof,” Goyke said in the news release. “We stopped plea bargaining reckless driving charges. We are taking cases to trial. We are achieving convictions, and now repeat reckless drivers in Milwaukee know that a second offense can mean criminal prosecution. That is a real consequence, and it is working.”
The city pointed to a decline in traffic fatalities, which fell from 74 in 2023 to 55 in 2025.
Before the new policy was put in place, 65% of actively litigated reckless driving cases in Milwaukee Municipal Court ended in a reduced or amended charge in 2023. Only 15% resulted in a conviction on the original reckless driving charge.
Repeat offenders faced limited consequences because penalty enhancements required prior convictions rather than citations. In 2023, the Wisconsin Legislature amended state statutes to create criminal penalties for second and subsequent reckless driving violations. These penalties include fines of up to $1,000 and up to one year in county jail.
In October 2024, the City Attorney’s Office formalized a coordinated enforcement agreement with the Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office. Under the agreement, MPD issues citations for all provable reckless driving behavior, the City Attorney’s Office does not reduce or dismiss charges in provable cases, and the District Attorney’s Office takes on second and subsequent offenses as criminal matters under the amended statute.
The City Attorney’s Office also invested in training and worked with MPD officers on the evidentiary standards required to make reckless driving cases provable in court. According to Goyke, the approach ensures every reckless driving case receives enhanced review before prosecution.
Goyke said the progress would not be possible without the partnership of prosecutors, police officers and staff working in Milwaukee Municipal Court every day to hold those cited for reckless driving violations accountable.
“Reckless driving is a complex problem. Road design matters. Education matters. Community investment matters. But enforcement and prosecution are the piece of this puzzle that belongs to us, and we are committed to doing that piece at the highest level.”
Adrienne Davis is a south suburban reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Got any tips or stories to share? Contact Adrienne at amdavis@gannett.com. Follow her on X at @AdriReportss.
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis man indicted in $4 million pandemic fraud case turns himself in, officials say
A Minneapolis man accused of stealing $4 million from the Federal Child Nutrition Program during the Covid-19 pandemic surrendered to the FBI on Thursday, federal officials announced.
Said Abdullahi Ereg was indicted on June 24, 2024, on charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.
Ereg is accused of obtaining, misappropriating and laundering millions of dollars meant to feed children in need, officials said in a statement.
“Today’s arrest is historic,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a different statement.
It was not immediately clear whether Ereg has a lawyer.
Ereg was added to the Justice Department’s “Most Wanted Fraudster” list last week and is the first person to be arrested, Patel said.
Federal officials established the list to “bring to justice the alleged worst of the worst who took advantage of American taxpayers and stole public funds, and let them know that the days of Washington, D.C. turning a blind eye to fraud are over,” Patel said in the statement.
Officials said Ereg ran a grocery store and deli in Minneapolis that was sponsored by the nonprofit organization Feeding Our Future. The organization, founded in Minnesota in 2016, has recently been at the center of a federal investigation into what federal officials have called “the single largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country.”
Aimee Block, former leader of Feeding Our Future, was convicted last month in a $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.
The group was part of a large fraud network that included partner organizations, fake distribution sites, kickbacks and false lists of children supposedly being fed, prosecutors said in Block’s indictment.
Ereg is alleged to have participated in the scheme during a one-year period starting in 2020. He is accused of submitting false reimbursement claims and receiving more than $4.2 million in federal funds.
A federal arrest warrant was issued after Ereg was charged, but he was living overseas, and his whereabouts were not known.
He surrendered to FBI agents at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
“This case sends a clear message: being outside the United States does not place you beyond the reach of HSI and our law enforcement partners,” said Michael McCarthy, the Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge in Minneapolis. “Our commitment is unwavering: those who exploit programs intended to support children and families will be identified, investigated, and brought to justice here in Minnesota.”
Ereg’s wife, who worked with him, pleaded guilty last year to one count of money laundering. She is scheduled to be sentenced next week.
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