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GLENDALE, Ariz. – Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to Fox News Digital on Friday, outside the Desert Diamond arena in Glendale, Arizona where she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, later took the stage.

Fox News Digital asked attendees to define Harris’ border policy and whether they also supported it. The discussion often led to a wide variety of follow-ups.

“I like all of them actually,” one woman said of Harris’ policies.

“Because she stands for, I think, the average person in America. I don’t think she is extreme in any aspect.”

This split shows Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris and migrants at the southern border. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, Andrew Harnik/Getty Images and Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Asked about the border, the woman said Harris will get America through the border crisis because she will fully be in charge:

“She was the vice president, remember, not the president,” she said. 

“So the policies that she will implement, I think, will make a difference at the border. And we still have Mark Kelly,” she said, referring to the retired astronaut-turned-Democratic senator who joined his wife, Gabby Giffords, onstage later in the evening.

The woman added she believes Harris will “bridge the gap” between Democratic and Republican disagreements on border policy.

She cited the bill authored by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and James Lankford, R-Okla., as an example of something Harris supported but was unable to see through.

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“There was a bill that went forward that, was not signed because Trump did not want that signed,” she said. “There’s nothing perfect about it, but it’s just that we’ll be willing to work on, finding ways to get people through in a way that does not disturb us in America, but also helps those who need to.”

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A group of over 100 migrants attempting to enter the US illegally rush a border wall Thursday, March 21, 2024. In the process, the migrants knock down Texas National Guardsmen before they are halted by the border wall. (James Breeden for New York Post / Mega)

A trio of women attending the rally from nearby Phoenix took time to give their take on Harris’ border policy as well.

“I think that her policy aligns with Biden’s policy on that particular topic, and I think his approach is a very healthy one,” one of the women said.

“I think there are a lot of laws already in place to manage border policy… and people who are here on asylum,” the second woman added. 

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“That’s what the administration is currently doing – they’re following the law,” she said, adding that it is key to ascertain whether asylum seekers have legitimate asylum claims.

A woman walking up to the east entrance of the Desert Diamond said she’s “not really sure about the border” when asked about Harris’ stance.

“I support it,” she said. “I’m not to the extreme where Trump is [which is] out of control – I’m to the extreme where we definitely we need some border control.”

When asked if Harris will bring about such control, the woman replied, “Presently, I hope so — I hope and pray, yes.”

Lance, a veteran from Goodyear, Ariz., who wore a “Veterans For Harris; I’m not a Loser” shirt, said Republicans do focus a lot on the border, but that Biden and Harris also worked on the crisis as well.

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He indicated he was more disappointed with Trump’s behavior in office than he was on other fronts, remarking that the GOP nominee pledged to get an infrastructure plan through but never did.

“I definitely believe in a woman’s right to choose, and equality for all people, including LGBTQ people,” he added “This veteran is married to another man, and I want that right to not only continue in the future, but to be there for the younger generation.”

“Whether it’s health care, taxing the billionaires and corporations instead of just giving them tax cuts – and claiming to be foreign for the average citizen, like Trump does, [Harris and Walz] are really for the average person. And I think that their economic policies are going to be far better than the policies coming out of the [Trump] White House.”

“[Trump’s] health care policy was going to be like ‘no one ever saw before’ and he was right because no one ever saw it.”

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Lance said he identifies as a “left-liberal” and urged all Democrats who are not “100% satisfied” with Harris that the party must unite across ideological lines to instead “preserve democracy.”

“I’m going to be 71 years old in a month, and in my entire life, I feel this is the most dangerous and treacherous time in the United States of America.”

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Man shot dead in South Bay liquor store parking lot

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Homicide investigators were called to a parking lot in Hawthorne Monday night after a man was gunned down and left to die.

The shooting was reported shortly before 9:30 p.m. near Crenshaw Boulevard and El Segundo Boulevard, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department stated in a news release.

An unidentified man was found with at least one gunshot wound and pronounced dead at the scene.

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Video showed police tape blocking the Crenshaw Village parking lot as authorities investigated the fatality.

Evidence markers were placed in the parking lot near what appeared to be multiple bullet casings.

The front door of South Liquor Bank was also partially shattered from what appeared to be a bullet hole.

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Investigators have not released any information regarding a suspect or a motive for the shooting.

Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers anonymously by dialing 800-222-8477.

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Killer mom Andrea Yates speaks with ex-husband about murdered children on regular basis: report

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Rusty Yates, whose ex-wife Andrea Yates drowned their five children one by one in 2001, has reportedly forgiven the notorious killer mom and even speaks with her on a monthly basis.

Yates, 59, regularly calls Kerrville State Hospital in Texas – a facility for criminals who are deemed incompetent to stand trial or found “not guilty by reason of insanity” – to speak to his 60-year-old ex-wife, who was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, the New York Post reported.

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According to the newspaper, the former couple talks about their slain children – Noah, 7, John, 5, Paul, 3, Luke, 2, and Mary, 6 months. Were it not for their mother’s actions, all five would be adults now.

Rusty Yates could not be reached for comment.

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This undated family photo shows four of the five children of Andrea Yates, 36, who confessed on June 20, 2001, to murdering her children by drowning them in their home in Clear Lake, a suburb of south Houston, Texas. The children shown are, from left, John, Luke, Paul and Noah.  (Yates Family/Getty Images)

Rusty Yates divorced Andrea Yates in March 2005, three years after she was sentenced to life in prison on two murder convictions for drowning her children in a bathtub in the Houston neighborhood of Clear Lake.

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An appeals court later overturned those convictions based on mistaken testimony by a psychiatrist – she was found not guilty by reason of insanity at her 2006 retrial.

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Rusty Yates had another child, but that marriage also ended in divorce. He is still employed as a NASA engineer – the job he held when his then-wife chased their children down and drowned them systematically. 

“Andrea was a wonderful mother,” he told NewsNation in an interview last year. “When someone acts so out of character like that, it’s a flag that something else is going on. As far as forgiveness goes, it’s kind of a start.”

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Rusty Yates photographed on Jan. 5, 2002 in Houston, Texas, before his divorce from Andrea Yates. (Pam Francis/Getty Images)

“If I were driving our Suburban down the street and had a heart attack and swerved into oncoming traffic and everyone in the car died but me, would they prosecute me for capital murder and rub my face in crime scene photos? Of my children?” he rhetorically asked in the interview. “I don’t think so. But to me, it’s 100% exactly the same.”

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Andrea Yates attempted suicide at least four times before taking her children’s lives. After the birth of her fourth child in June 1999, she tried to overdose on pills, then held a knife up to her neck and begged her then-husband to let her die shortly after her hospital release. 

After attempting suicide two more times that summer, she was diagnosed with post-partum psychosis.

Her first psychiatrist, Dr. Eileen Starbranch, testified in court that she urged Andrea and Rusty to stop having children – regardless, they conceived their fifth and final child seven weeks after that discharge, Fox News previously reported.

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This undated family photo shows Mary, the youngest of the five children of Andrea Yates. (Phillippe Diederich/Getty Images)

Rusty Yates was also advised not to leave the children alone with his wife. 

Andrea Yates’ family also previously told Fox News that Rusty didn’t do enough to help his spouse or their children. Her mother, Karin Kennedy, said her son-in-law told her after the birth of their fourth child that he had never changed a diaper.

“When they came to my house, that was the first time I told Rusty, ‘Luke needs changing,’” Kennedy said. “He says, ‘Well that’d be a first. I have never changed a diaper before.’”

After the children’s murders on June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates would tell her prison psychologist that she had considered killing her children in a delusional bid to save them from eternal damnation.

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Andrea Yates sits with her attorney, George Parnham, after the not guilty by reason of insanity verdict was read in her retrial on July 26, 2006, in Houston. (Brett Coomer-Pool/Getty Images)

“My children weren’t righteous,” she told her prison psychiatrist, according to court documents obtained by The Post. “They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them, they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.”

Last month, Yates declined a hearing that would have determined whether she was competent to be released from the mental hospital, the New York Post reported. She is eligible to undergo a review for release each year, but has repeatedly declined.



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Hit-and-run driver leaves trail of devastation on Southern California street

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Residents in an Encino neighborhood are hoping for justice after the driver of a pickup truck crashed into a half dozen parked cars over the weekend and then fled the scene, leaving behind heavily damaged vehicles and big repair bills for the car owners.  

The Aug. 10 incident unfolded at around 5 a.m. on Killion Street between Zelzah and Newcastle avenues.  

In surveillance footage of the incident, the driver can be seen barreling down Killion Street when he collides with the first parked car, the impact lifting the passenger side wheels of the truck off the ground as it violently grinds down the row of cars.  

As the truck continues, the driver’s side wheels also bounce off the ground, the vehicle eventually coming to a stop after impact with yet another parked car.  

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“We’re not sure if it’s an F150 or an F250, but one of the two came down this street,” one of the vehicle’s owners, who did not want to be identified, told KTLA’s Mary Beth McDade. “At a certain point, the driver seemed to lose control from the footage we’ve seen, and he started bouncing off the row of cars.”  

It was only three weeks ago that he and his wife purchased their red SUV, which sustained considerable damage in the hit-and-run crash.  

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“He hit about five cars before he crashed on this red SUV over here and that’s when he just stopped bouncing,” he said. “He pushed that [car] kind of into the sidewalk and into the gray sedan in front of it.”  

In the footage, the driver, who is wearing long shorts and has what appears to be a ponytail, exits the vehicle and walks around the front of the truck to get a look at the damage before jumping back behind the wheel and leaving the area.  

“All five cars are heavily damaged,” the SUV owner added. “I don’t know if they’ve officially ruled them totaled yet, but they’re not drivable.”  

The couple lives down the street from where the crash occurred and were unaware that their SUV had been hit until several hours after the hit-and-run, when the wife had plans to go somewhere.  

“It was very upsetting,” she said. “It was devastating to come out here and see my car like that. It’s one of my worst nightmares, honestly, to lose my vehicle.”  

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The couple filed a police report and placed flyers around the neighborhood in hopes that someone can identify the driver who caused the costly mayhem.  

“If anybody recognizes this person from the footage, contact somebody,” the man said. “If you see one of the flyers, contact the number or email address on that or the police.”  

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