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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 27 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A former Democratic mayor of a Northern California city has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexual conduct with a 14-year-old child, officials said Thursday. Robert Jacob, the 45-year-old former mayor of Sebastopol in Sonoma County, had pleaded no contest to six felony offenses involving sexual misconduct with a minor in January and was found guilty, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said. "The victim should be commended for coming forward to report what Mr. Jacob did," District Attorney Carla Rodriguez said in a news release. "His bravery in reporting Mr. Jacob’s crimes has made the community a safer place." Jacob met the victim online in early 2020 when the victim was 14 years old, prosecutors said. Jacob talked with the victim over the next year and the conversations … [Read more...] about Former California Democratic mayor guilty of lewd conduct with child sentenced to 7 years in prison

close Video Biden's approval rating nears all-time low Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy has the latest on President Biden's approval ratings and cabinet members defending the administration's budget on 'Special Report.' A plurality of Democrats say they want President Biden to step aside and not seek a second term in the White House next year, according to a new national survey Forty-four percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters questioned in a Monmouth University Poll released on Monday said the president should step aside and allow someone else to run as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer in 2024. A quarter of respondents said Biden should seek re-election next year, with 30% saying they had no preference. The poll’s release comes as the president gears up to run for re-election. Biden has repeatedly said he intends to seek a second term in the White House, but he has yet to make any formal announcements. … [Read more...] about Only a quarter of Democrats want President Biden to run for re-election in 2024: poll

close Video Dozens of homes have been reduced to rubble after Mississippi tornado: Katie Byrne Fox News multimedia reporter Katie Byrne reports from Amory, Miss., on the devastating tornado that hit the state on 'The Big Sunday Show.' FIRST ON FOX: The Democratic candidate for Mississippi governor crashed Republican Gov. Tate Reeves’ tour of tornado damage to campaign after storms ravaged the state and killed at least 25 people. Reeves, alongside other invited officials that included federal lawmakers and Biden administration officials, traveled to Rolling Fork, Mississippi , to survey the damage caused by the deadly tornado last week. Democrat gubernatorial candidate Brandon Presley and his campaign staff also traveled to Rolling Fork – outside of his official constituency as Northern District commissioner – where his campaign staff took pictures of him and posted them to his campaign Twitter account. RECOVERY EFFORTS … [Read more...] about Mississippi governor’s tornado damage tour crashed by Democrat opponent: ‘He should be better than this’

Suburban Republicans on last week continued their opposition to housing legislation, but were out-voted by majority Democrats in a key legislative committee. The GOP members of the legislative Planning and Development Committee first rejected Gov. Ned Lamont's proposed incentives to support affordable housing units Friday, then voted against the panel's legislation aimed at rewarding towns and cities that support transit-oriented development. But with a 13-8 Democratic majority on the panel, the bills head next to the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively. Opposition to the bills, during a three-hour-long meeting that ended the committee's bill-writing for the session, was led by Sen. Ryan Fazio of Greenwich and Rep. Joe Zullo of East Haven, the top Republicans on the panel, along with Sen. Tony Hwang of Fairfield. "We all agree that improving the stock of affordable housing in the state is an important goal," Fazio said of Lamont's proposal, aimed at increasing … [Read more...] about Affordable housing in CT has been a problem. This solution is being discussed.

US Border Patrol save abandoned Guatemalan child SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info A shocking video captures the moment a one-year-old child was abandoned at the US-Mexico border. Surveillance footage shows a lone smuggler surfacing from the Colorado River with the child in hand. After lifting the child out of the water, the smuggler props the boy up just inches away from the water’s edge before jumping back into the river to make a dash for it. Related articles Putin 'trying to provoke' WW3 by flying jets over US military bases Two migrants fly 90 miles on a motorised hang glider to cross border The tot appears completely disorientated, stumbling about perilously close to the water's edge. … [Read more...] about Disgusting moment people smuggler dumps one-year-old baby next to river

Prince Harry has made a surprise appearance at the High Court in London as legal proceedings began in a phone-tapping and privacy case involving Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL). It is believed to be the first time the Duke of Sussex has been back in the UK since the funeral last September of his grandmother, the Queen. The 38-year-old prince is among a group of seven high-profile claimants including singer Sir Elton John and his husband filmmaker David Furnish, actresses Liz Hurley and Sadie Frost, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and Liberal Democrat politician Sir Simon Hughes. They are all making accusations against the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper. They allege they have been victims of "abhorrent criminal activity" and "gross breaches of privacy" by Associated Newspapers - and announced in October they were bringing claims for misuse of private information against ANL, also the publisher of The Mail On Sunday and MailOnline. The alleged unlawful acts, said to … [Read more...] about Prince Harry makes surprise appearance at High Court for phone-tapping and privacy case

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 27 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A new abortion provider is opening this year in Democratic-controlled Maryland — just across from deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban. The Women’s Health Center of Maryland in Cumberland, roughly 5 miles from West Virginia, will open its doors in June — a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections — to provide abortions to patients across central Appalachia, a region clinic operators say is an "abortion desert." "Hours in any direction, there are no other abortion providers here — it’s smack dab in the middle of an absolute abortion desert, and that's by design," said Katie Quiñonez, executive director of the Charleston-based Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, the state's lone abortion clinic until it was forced … [Read more...] about New abortion clinic opening in Maryland, just across from deeply-conservative West Virginia

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 27 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. With the future of abortion rights and redistricting hanging in the balance, all eyes are on the April election for Wisconsin Supreme Court . But for people who find themselves in front of a judge, two questions on the ballot could have more substantial consequences than who controls the state's highest panel. A proposed constitutional amendment will let voters choose whether it should be harder to get out of jail on bail. Early voters have reported confusion over what the proposal would do and how the questions are worded. The first question asks voters if they think judges should be able to set conditions to protect the public from serious harm when releasing people before trial. The second asks whether judges should be allowed to consider past convictions for violent crimes when setting bail for someone … [Read more...] about Cash bail laws are on Wisconsin’s April ballot – Here are the details

close Video US should sell energy to its allies, not force them buy it from its adversaries: Gov. Burgum North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum joins 'The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton' to discuss the Democratic Party's war on fossil fuels and its impact on middle class America. The White House issued a statement of administration policy Monday, stating that President Biden would veto Republicans' sweeping energy package in its current form. According to the memo, the Biden administration "strongly opposes" the bill — titled the Lower Energy Costs Act — because it would work to counteract the administration's own agenda promoting green energy sources over fossil fuel alternatives. The memo claimed that the GOP legislation proposes to replace pro-consumer policies with a "thinly veiled license to pollute," echoing criticism from top House Democrats. "It would raise costs for American families by repealing household energy rebates and rolling back … [Read more...] about Biden vows to tank GOP effort to boost energy production

close Video Kat Timpf: Biden's FAA nominee had 'no idea' what he was talking about 'The Big Sunday Show' panelists discuss Biden's FAA nominee Phil Washington withdrawing his name from consideration after he struggled to answer basic questions during a Senate Commerce Committee. President Biden's failure to win Senate confirmation of two nominees this month reveals Biden as an "out of touch" president who is nominating people to lead the government who are so radical, that they cannot be unanimously supported by senators who usually vote with Democrats, Republican lawmakers told Fox News Digital on Monday. "Members of Biden’s own party torpedoing his picks to fill traditionally non-partisan positions underscores how out of touch this administration is with the priorities of the American people," said Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. "Missourians do not want climate alarmists, free speech censors, or defund the police apologists overseeing their everyday … [Read more...] about Senate rejection of Biden’s controversial nominees reveals ‘out of touch’ president, GOP says