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Zelenskyy former aide says lack of no-fly zone signals US, NATO are ‘afraid’ of Putin
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Iuliia Mendel, the previous spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, mentioned america’ and NATO’s agency stance in opposition to a no-fly zone over Ukraine alerts that the West is “afraid” of assaults from Russian President Vladimir Putin and creates a “decay of worldwide confidence in American management and superpowers.”
Mendel, in an interview with Fox Information Digital, burdened Ukraine’s appreciation for American army and monetary help and help, however urged the West to rethink initiating a no-fly zone as Putin continues his multi-front conflict within the nation for a fifteenth day.
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“Ukrainians are being killed from the sky, and naturally, Ukrainian authorities are supporting no-fly zones … That is one thing that would cease the killing of Ukrainians instantly,” Mendel instructed Fox Information. “This is essential from the standpoint of Putin, when he mentioned to NATO, ‘Should you don’t enable us killing Ukrainians from the sky, then we are going to assault you.’”
Mendel mentioned the U.S. and NATO repeatedly rejecting requires a no-fly zone over Ukraine tells Putin, “Sure, I’m really afraid of you attacking me, please kill them above, and we are going to see, if you happen to do your finest, then most likely you received’t come for us.’”
An area retiree, Nataliya Mykolaivna, 64, gestures as she talks to an AFP journalist subsequent to a minibus that had been delivering provides and items to frontline troopers, volunteers and hard-pressed residents. The minibus was destroyed by Russian shelling at a brief distance from the frontline in Horenka, northern Kyiv, March 10, 2022.
(Sergei Supinsky/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
“That is ridiculous,” Mendel mentioned. “This actually reveals that there’s this decay of worldwide confidence in American management and superpowers. NATO international locations are afraid to annoy Putin.
“He’s the monkey with the grenade. Do you assume you may management him throwing or dropping the grenade?” she requested. “Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States perceive that Putin’s disrespect for the Western world order is so deep that he is not going to be stopped by the EU or NATO membership when, or if, he will get Ukraine.”
However Mendel mentioned that “international locations farther away appear to really feel extra snug, realizing that the evil is much away and the Ukrainians can defeat it — at the price of their very own lives.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine solely eight months after TIME journal billed President Biden as able to tackle the Russian chief.
(Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Picture by way of AP)
She instructed Fox Information that “time flows in another way in conflict,” noting that Zelenskyy receives information “each minute of recent lifeless, wounded and new bombings.”
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“Our ladies give delivery in bomb shelters, Ukraine has turn into a rustic of refugees, and NATO remains to be wavering in its army help,” she mentioned.
Mendel, although, burdened that “america is just not responsible in what’s going on,” including that Ukraine appreciates “the assistance of Individuals and every little thing they’ve executed.”
Mendel mentioned the U.S. has “shared some intelligence” with Ukraine and continues to “stand for us and help us on this scenario.”
“We might ask for america and NATO to face for us concerning the sky, to save lots of our lives, that is a very powerful for us,” she mentioned. “If NATO is one thing price coming into, then NATO wants to assist us now — now, when we’ve so many casualties that most likely could possibly be questioning concerning the necessity of coming into NATO.”
Biden and NATO have dominated out a no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying implementing it will put the U.S. and NATO in direct confrontation with Russia and would broaden the battle.
Kids have sheltered underground in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion
(Oleksandra Ustinova MP)
Ukraine is just not a member of NATO, so it isn’t topic to the Article V provision of the NATO alliance that claims when one member nation is attacked, all member international locations will take motion to help.
Mendel burdened that “Putin is the one particular person to be accused on this invasion.”
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“America has supplied lots of help, as has the entire civilized world, and positively, Ukraine wouldn’t have the ability to stand in opposition to Russia alone,” she mentioned. “An enormous a part of our capacities to defeat Putin is definitely the help we get from the U.S. and our partnering international locations.”
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, and in a joint information convention with Poland President Andrzej Duda highlighted the U.S. Home of Representatives’ vote to ship $13 billion in support to Ukraine and European allies. She additionally introduced that the U.S. would supply $53 million extra to the U.N. World Meals Program.
Harris was ridiculed, although, for her response to a query about how america might help within the plight of Ukrainian refugees. Greater than 1 million refugees have fled from Ukraine to Poland since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.
Harris didn’t seem desperate to reply the inquiry, turning towards Duda and saying, “A pal in want is a pal certainly,” earlier than laughing for a number of seconds. Duda ultimately capitulated and answered his query first, saying he had requested Harris to assist pace the method of Ukrainian refugees acquiring U.S. visas with a view to stick with household within the States.
Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry an injured pregnant lady from a maternity hospital broken by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.
(AP Picture/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Harris later mentioned she understood the “unprecedented” scenario introduced to the Polish authorities however didn’t say what number of refugees the U.S. could be keen to take.
Mendel, reacting, instructed Fox Information that “Harris’ communication, that is likely to be handled as not acceptable.”
“However she stands for Ukraine together with her actions, not phrases,” Mendel mentioned. “She is a president of the Senate, and the U.S. goes to approve billions of {dollars} to help Ukraine, partially for the Military, partially for the humanitarian support.”
“So, regardless of of communication peculiarities, the U.S. reveals its robust help in each motion,” Mendel mentioned.
In the course of the information convention, Harris and Duda insisted that america and Poland are “unified” after the U.S. rejected the nation’s proposal to ship MiG-29 planes to the Ukrainian army.
Members of Ukraine’s Territorial Protection Forces, volunteer army models of the Armed Forces, prepare in a metropolis park in Kyiv, Ukraine.
(AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
Simply hours after the Pentagon made clear that the U.S. doesn’t help Poland’s proposal for the U.S. and NATO to ship MiG-29s to the Ukrainian army, Harris and Duda maintained that the connection between america and Poland has “turn into even stronger” amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
However Mendel urged the West to ship army jets, saying Ukraine does “not have this time as a result of time means lives,” and burdened that “each hesitance” from the U.S. and NATO is “paid by the blood of Ukrainians.”
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As for Zelenskyy, Mendel mentioned Ukrainians “perceive that he’s standing for our independence, for democratic values, and that is one thing that’s shared all through Ukraine.”
“He really has been fairly a courageous particular person in character, way back, earlier than there was the curiosity in him on this matter,” she mentioned. “This conflict simply revealed a part of the character that was not recognized to nearly all of individuals.”
Mendel mentioned the president plans to remain in Kyiv, and “stick with the individuals.”
Zelenskyy this week vowed to not go away Kyiv, going as far as to disclose that he was in his workplace as Russian forces continued their assault on Ukraine’s capital metropolis.
On this March 8, 2022, picture from video supplied by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace and posted on Instagram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine.
(Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace by way of AP)
“Positively, to this point, he’s making his location recognized to point out Putin that he’s on his land, persons are behind him, and he’s staying for his individuals,” Mendel mentioned.
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“He hasn’t left Kiev, he hasn’t fled,” Mendel mentioned. “In Afghanistan, the management of Afghanistan left the nation when it turned sizzling there, and there was the Taliban invasion.”
She added that Zelenskyy’s location “is a really symbolic place to point out that Ukraine remains to be impartial, and we’re preventing, and he’s standing for us as our president.”
“We’re happy with this,” she mentioned, noting that she doesn’t know if Zelenskyy will share his location sooner or later. “We don’t know what will occur.”
Mendel mentioned Ukrainians are “very a lot united” and “stand for our nation, for us.”
“Ukraine is the territory of freedom,” she added. “Ukraine is the nation the place we’ve our desires and plans and we see the way forward for this nation.
“It’s our residence, and we need to construct it.”
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Appeals court rules Texas has right to build razor wire border wall to deter illegal immigration: 'Huge win'
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Texas has the right to build a razor wire border wall to deter illegal immigration into the Lone Star State.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the ruling on X, saying President Biden was “wrong to cut our razor wire.”
“We continue adding more razor wire border barrier,” the Republican leader wrote.
Wednesday’s 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals clears the way for Texas to pursue a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of trespassing without having to remove the fencing.
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It also reversed a federal judge’s November 2023 refusal to grant a preliminary injunction to Texas as the state resisted federal efforts to remove fencing along the Rio Grande in the vicinity of Eagle Pass, Texas.
U.S. Border Patrol agents cut an opening through razor wire after immigrant families crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, Sept. 27, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee during the president-elect’s first term, wrote for Wednesday’s majority that Texas was trying only to safeguard its own property, not “regulate” U.S. Border Patrol, and was likely to succeed in its trespass claims.
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Duncan said the federal government waived its sovereign immunity and rejected its concerns that a ruling by Texas would impede the enforcement of immigration law and undermine the government’s relationship with Mexico.
A Venezuelan immigrant asks Texas National Guard troops to let his family pass through razor wire after they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, Sept. 27, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
He said the public interest “supports clear protections for property rights from government intrusion and control” and ensuring that federal immigration law enforcement does not “unnecessarily intrude into the rights of countless property owners.”
Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton called the ruling a “huge win for Texas.”
“The Biden Administration has been enjoined from damaging, destroying, or otherwise interfering with Texas’s border fencing,” Paxton wrote in a post on X. “We sued immediately when the federal government was observed destroying fences to let illegal aliens enter, and we’ve fought every step of the way for Texas sovereignty and security.”
Migrants attempt to cross the southern border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in February. (David Peinado/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The White House has been locked in legal battles with Texas and other states that have tried to deter illegal immigration.
In May, the full 5th Circuit heard arguments in a separate case between Texas and the White House over whether the state can keep a 1,000-foot floating barrier on the Rio Grande.
The appeals court is also reviewing a judge’s order blocking a Texas law that would allow state officials to arrest, prosecute and order the removal of people in the country illegally.
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Rep. Katie Porter obtains temporary restraining order against ex-boyfriend on harassment allegations
U.S. Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) secured a temporary restraining order Tuesday against a former boyfriend, saying in dozens of pages of court filings that he had bombarded her, as well as her family and colleagues, with hundreds of messages that she described as “persistent abuse and harassment.”
Porter, 50, alleged in a filing with Orange County Superior Court that her ex-boyfriend Julian Willis, 55, was contacting her and her family with such frequency that she had a “significant fear” for her “personal safety and emotional well-being.”
Judge Stephen T. Hicklin signed a restraining order Tuesday barring Willis from communicating with Porter and her children until a mid-December court hearing. He also barred Willis from communicating about Porter with her current and former colleagues.
In the court filing, Porter said that Willis had been hospitalized twice since late 2022 on involuntary psychiatric holds and had a history of abusing prescription painkillers and other drugs.
She said in a statement to The Times that Willis’ mental health and struggles with addiction seemed to have gotten worse since she asked him in August to move out of her Irvine home. She said she sought the court order after his threats to her family and colleagues “escalated in both their frequency and intensity.”
“I sincerely hope he gets the help he needs,” Porter said.
Willis declined to comment. He will have an opportunity to file a legal response to the temporary restraining order and challenge Porter’s allegations.
Porter is leaving the House of Representatives in January after losing in California’s U.S. Senate primary in March. She has been discussed as a front-runner in the 2026 governor’s race in California after Gov. Gavin Newsom is termed out, but has not said whether she will launch a campaign.
The 53-page court filing, first reported by Politico, included 22 pages of emails, text messages and other communications among Porter, family members and colleagues who had received messages from Willis, as well as messages that Willis sent to Porter’s attorney and to her political mentor Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
The filing also included messages between herself and Willis’ siblings as they discussed trying to help him during his psychiatric holds and while he was staying in a sober-living facility.
Porter said that since she ordered Willis to move out, he had sent her more than 1,000 text messages and emails, including texting her 82 times in one 24-hour period in September, and 55 times on Nov. 12 before she blocked his number.
Porter said in the filing that her ex-boyfriend had “already contacted at least three reporters to disseminate false and damaging information” about her and her children, which she said “poses a serious risk to [her] career and personal reputation.”
The filing includes an email that Porter said Willis sent to her attorney late Monday, in which Willis said he had visited Porter’s son at college in Iowa and told him that he would “bring the hammer down on Katie and smash her and her life into a million pieces.”
Another screenshot shows Willis telling Porter’s attorney that he would file a complaint about Porter, who has children ages 12 and 16, with child protective services.
One of Porter’s congressional staff members received a text message from Willis saying he would “punish the f—” out of him if he did not agree to “cooperate” with a New York Times reporter and Willis’ attorneys, according to a screenshot included in the court document.
Willis previously made the news in 2021, when he was arrested after a fight that broke out at a Porter town hall at a park in Irvine.
Times staff writer Christopher Goffard contributed to this report.
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Homan taking death threats against him ‘more seriously’ after Trump officials targeted with violent threats
Incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan reacted to news of death threats against Trump nominees on Wednesday and said he now takes the death threats he has previously received seriously.
“I have not taken this serious up to this point,” Homan told Fox News anchor Gillian Turner on “The Story” on Wednesday, referring to previous death threats made against him and his family.
“Now that I know what’s happened in the last 24 hours. I will take it a little more serious. But look, I’ve been dealing with this. When I was the ICE director in the first administration, I had numerous death threats. I had a security detail with me all the time. Even after I retired, death threats continued and even after I retired as the ICE Director. I had U.S. Marshals protection for a long time to protect me and my family.”
Homan explained that what “doesn’t help” the situation is the “negative press” around Trump.
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President Elect Donald Trump, left, and new appointed Tom Homan, right (Getty)
“I’m not in the cabinet, but, you know, I’ve read numerous hit pieces. I mean, you know, I’m a racist and, you know, I’m the father of family separation, all this other stuff. So the hate media doesn’t help at all because there are some nuts out there. They’ll take advantage. So that doesn’t help.”
Homan’s comments come shortly after Fox News Digital first reported that nearly a dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees and other appointees tapped for the incoming administration were targeted Tuesday night with “violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them,” prompting a “swift” law enforcement response.
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The “attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting,’” according to Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman and incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them,” she told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. “In response, law enforcement acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action.”
Sources told Fox News Digital that John Ratcliffe, the nominee to be CIA director, Pete Hegseth, the nominee for secretary of defense, and Rep. Elise Stefanik, the nominee for UN ambassador, were among those targeted. Brooke Rollins, who Trump has tapped to be secretary of agriculture, and Lee Zeldin, Trump’s nominee to be EPA administrator, separately revealed they were also targeted.
Threats were also made against Trump’s Labor Secretary nominee, GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and former Trump attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz’s family.
Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)
Homan told Fox News that he is “not going to be intimidated by these people” and “I’m not going to let them silence me.”
“What I’ve learned today I’ll start taking a little more serious.”
Homan added that he believes “we need to have a strong response once we find out is behind all this.”
“It’s illegal to threaten someone’s life. And we need to follow through with that.”
The threats on Tuesday night came mere months after Trump survived two assassination attempts.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report
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