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Christa Pike’s lawyer is calling for her death-row sentence to be commuted, saying that her “tortuous” failed execution is punishment enough even for her “awful crime.” Steve Ferrell joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to provide the latest updates on his client and discuss the outcomes he's hoping to achieve.

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Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Tuesday for his role in the 1996 drive-by shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur. He was found guilty of first-degree murder in August for orchestrating the retaliation shooting after an earlier altercation involving his nephew, Orlando Anderson.


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The home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was raided early Monday morning by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital. The raid stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.

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The late actress was found dead inside a home in Greenville, South Carolina. She was 36. The cause of death has been ruled as toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam, Methocarbamol, and Quetiapine.


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Actor Selma Blair pleaded not guilty to two assault charges Tuesday stemming from a disturbance aboard a Delta flight bound for New York.

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Yemen's Houthi militants struck the executive headquarters of Saudi Aramco in the eastern city Dhahran during an overnight missile and drone barrage. LiveNOW from FOX's Stephanie Coueignoux discusses the latest developments in the Middle East with Michael Makovsky, CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.

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The Lindsay Clancy murder trial has entered the verdict watch phase. Jurors have not reached a verdict in the Clancy trial. If Clancy is convicted she could face life in prison. If she is found not guilty, she may be released or remain in a mental health facility.

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We are now hearing reports that emergency crews rushed to Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon after an incident on the Goliath roller coaster left one person dead and several others injured. Officers assigned to Six Flags Over Georgia responded to an emergency call at approximately 3:58 p.m. on Monday. According to our partners at FOX 5 Atlanta, Cobb County police said that several people reported injuries and one person died during the incident involving a roller coaster.


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President Trump announced on Truth Social that Katie Zacharia will begin her term as the new White House Press Secretary on Tuesday. She is expected to hold her first press briefing at 9:30 am eastern time Tuesday.

"I am pleased to announce that Katie Zacharia will be beginning her term as Press Secretary tomorrow, Columbus Day, and will be doing an introductory News Conference on Tuesday at 9:30 A.M. from the Press Briefing Room in the White House. Katie has been with me, in spirit, from the very beginning, and will do a fantastic job!" said Trump.

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Sean "Diddy" Combs was transported out of federal prison to a hospital over the weekend to receive treatment for a head injury.

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Selma Blair arrested on flight, according to TMZ. Blair is accused of trying to open a plane door mid-air.

On Tuesday, federal authorities announced the arrest of a Saudi national and former OpenAI engineer who is accused of installing a concealed audio-recording device in an executive conference room at the artificial intelligence company, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was raided by DHS in fraud probe. HSI Agents are outside Rep. Omar's home at this time.




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The U.S. military says all American troops have now left Iraq, officially ending a 12-year mission focused on fighting ISIS. The final U.S. forces departed the last air base in northern Iraq under an agreement between Washington and Baghdad. The withdrawal comes as the U.S.-Iran war continues, with fighting and tensions at times spilling over into Iraq.

A cockpit incident onboard an Israeli plane lead to a hijacking scare causing the plane to be diverted. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's office says "The incident is under control, and all measures are currently being deployed in order to return the Israeli passengers safely to Israel."

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Today, the biggest news comes from the Russian Federation.

The first signs of serious agricultural disruption are already visible in Crimea, where farmers are warning that the current harvest period could fail because fuel shortages are preventing them from using farm machinery. Tractors, combines, and farm trucks all depend on a steady supply of diesel, so when fuel runs out, farmers can no longer continue harvesting even when crops are ready to be collected. This is already happening as parts of the Crimean peninsula face severe fuel shortages, with gas stations running dry, major retailers restricting sales, and some agricultural operations stopping because they cannot refuel their machinery. Russian authorities have acknowledged that strikes on infrastructure are creating fuel shortages, while Ukrainian attacks have repeatedly targeted fuel storage and distribution facilities across Crimea. That disruption is especially damaging during harvest, because even a short interruption can cause permanent losses once ripe crops remain in the fields long enough to be damaged by weather, moisture, or over-ripening.

The same fuel crisis is also hitting the much larger agricultural regions of Rostov, Krasnodar, and Stavropol, which together produce around twenty percent of Russia’s grain. Disruption there could therefore affect grain supplies and food prices across the country rather than remaining a local problem in Crimea. Farmers in Rostov describe workers spending half a day waiting for fuel, while diesel prices have risen sharply and supplies have become harder to secure for the tractors and combines working the fields. Similar shortages have also been reported in Voronezh, Lipetsk, Tambov, Sverdlovsk, Bashkortostan, and Yakutia, extending the fuel shortage across several major farming areas at once. By the beginning of July, Russia had harvested only around one point three to one point five million hectares, compared with more than four million hectares at the same point last year, although weather also contributed to the slower start. In Rostov alone, agricultural representatives estimate that missed harvesting windows could cause crop losses of up to fifteen percent.

Failed harvests across several regions would not leave Russia without food overnight, but they would make everyday life more expensive by reducing available supply and pushing up the price of basic necessities. Russia is already dealing with persistent inflation, with consumer prices going up four point six seven percent since the start of the year by the end of August, while official data suggests continued price increases for basic food products. If farmers bring in less grain, sunflower seeds, and other crops, food producers have less raw material to work with, while transport and processing also becomes more expensive when fuel is scarce. Food producers and retailers then have to cover those higher costs, which pushes up the price of basic products such as bread, meat, and dairy.

This also connects directly to Ukraine’s wider strategy of making Crimea harder and more expensive to hold while also increasing the cost of continuing the war for Russia. Ukrainian strikes on fuel infrastructure are already creating shortages that affect transport, agriculture, and daily life across the peninsula, forcing Moscow to spend more resources keeping Crimea supplied while also supporting its armed forces on the peninsula. As food and fuel become more expensive, ordinary Russians are forced to spend more of their income on basic needs, making the war harder to separate from daily life. At the same time, Moscow has to decide how to use limited fuel supplies, whether to prioritize the military or redirect more fuel toward farmers, transport, and civilian demand. Sending more fuel to the army leaves less available for the economy, while shifting supplies back to civilians makes it harder to support Russian forces and keep Crimea functioning. That choice helps Ukraine pressure both sides at once, making Crimea harder to hold while giving more Russians reasons to resent the war and the state that keeps it going.

Overall, the fuel crisis exposes how dependent Russia’s war effort is on the same infrastructure that keeps the civilian economy functioning. Every major disruption forces Moscow to choose whether the scarce fuel capacity should support the war or keep the economy and Crimea running. That gives Ukrainian strikes a wider impact, because damage to one part of Russia’s fuel system can quickly spread into other parts of the economy at the same time. The deeper this pressure goes, the harder it becomes for Moscow to keep the war going without weakening either its military operations or stability at home.

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Today, there are important updates from the Sumy direction.

Here, Russia desperately needed an innovative tactic to have a chance of breaking through the Ukrainian defenses. However, as the Russian assault units made the same mistake six times in a row, the consequences of their venture quickly became devastating.

Russia is becoming increasingly desperate because its conventional assaults in the area are failing, leaving its forces unable to break into the forest belt or suppress Ukrainian drone operators. The terrain has turned this sector into a deadly trap, as Ukrainians control the forest while Russian assault groups must cross open fields completely exposed to drone and artillery fire. Ukrainian forces maintain full fire control over the approaches, striking the enemy long before they reach the tree line. These repeated frontal assaults caused severe manpower losses and stalled advances entirely, forcing Russian commanders to abandon predictable attacks and search for a concealed infiltration route instead.

The plan was to replicate the success of the Russian infiltration into Sudzha during the Ukrainian incursion, when Russian soldiers used a pipeline as cover to bypass Ukrainian positions. Now, the Russian forces attempted to use the Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhgorod gas pipeline to surprise the Ukrainians again. Russian assault groups advanced seventeen kilometers through the pipeline system, entering via a collector shaft on Russian territory. Along the route, they established two rest points positioned approximately five kilometers apart, allowing troops to remain inside the pipeline for up to seven days. However, movement inside the pipeline is uncomfortable as it is only one hundred and forty centimeters in height, forcing Russians to crouch. Several openings were also prepared on the Ukrainian side. These serve as decoys to divert attention, while others were designated exit points for the assault teams.

The first assault began at dawn south of Yablunivka, where Russian infantry launched a coordinated attack, with some troops emerging from a gas pipeline while others advanced through nearby tree lines. Ukrainian drone operators quickly detected the movement and directed FPV drone strikes against the assault groups before they could disperse or take cover in forested areas. As a result of the Ukrainian crossfire with drones, the Russian forces were eliminated.

Despite the failure of the initial assault, Russian forces committed an even larger contingent to the operation. By monitoring all known and suspected exit points around the clock, Ukrainian soldiers could immediately direct FPV drones and artillery onto the new assault wave as soon as fifteen Russian soldiers emerged from the pipeline. The attack was quickly contained, while drone operators later eliminated the remaining infantry with grenade drops as they had nowhere to hide. During this engagement, forty-four Russian troops were killed in just thirty minutes, stopping the assault entirely.

In another attempt north of Nova Sich, six Russian soldiers advanced through the gas pipeline. Despite reducing the size of the infiltration unit to avoid detection, Ukrainian drones with thermal cameras spotted them even before they fully approached the defensive line. As additional Russian assault troops attempted to spread out after exiting the pipeline, Ukrainian artillery targeted them directly in the field, while the remaining soldiers were later neutralized by strikes from Vampire heavy drones.

Geolocated footage from a separate assault showed Russian troops emerging from the same pipeline southwest of the village of Yablunivka. This time, Russian forces also launched a diversionary attack using motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles from Russian-held territory. The diversion failed to distract Ukrainian defenders because drone surveillance was already expecting pipeline exits and refused to redirect resources, killing at least thirty-five Russian soldiers, wounding seventeen others, and destroying three motorcycles and four ATV.

During their next assault, twenty-nine Russian troops irrationally attempted the same tactic again. This time, the Ukrainian soldiers dispatched their quadcopter drones to eliminate the entire group before it could even reach the frontline. In total, Russian forces attempted variations of the same pipeline infiltration tactic five times over the course of a single month, with each assault launched less than a week after the previous one. By that stage, the element of surprise had completely disappeared as Ukrainians no longer needed to patrol large areas because they only had to monitor known pipeline exits.

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Today, a Ukrainian video was released from an intense fog battle near Vyshneve in the Dnipropetrovsk Region that unfolded under conditions that initially favored the attacking Russian force. Thick morning fog along the Yanchur River reduced visibility to only a few meters for both Ukrainian soldiers and drone operations. Hoping to exploit the weather, Russian troops launched a surprise assault against Ukrainian positions. Although the defenders could see almost nothing, they soon heard the sound of approaching engines. Ukrainian drone operators immediately began searching the surrounding area despite the poor visibility and eventually located two Russian Ural trucks and a buggy carrying roughly forty soldiers toward the southern edge of the village. The dense fog allowed the Russian infantry to dismount only about one-hundred-and-fifty meters from a Ukrainian observation post defended by just three soldiers. The Ukrainians immediately occupied firing positions inside the outermost house while Russian troops advanced toward them through the mist, triggering a close-range firefight.

Looking through the windows, the Ukrainians confirmed at least ten Russian soldiers nearby but suspected many more were concealed by the fog. Their battalion commander immediately improvised and redirected a ground drone toward the defenders to function as a mobile reconnaissance platform. Because visibility near ground level was slightly better than from the air, the robot transmitted a live video feed back to the commander, who began directing the defenders in real time. Guided by these images, the Ukrainian soldiers engaged approaching Russians with remarkable precision. The first two attackers advancing toward the house were shot almost immediately. Moments later, another pair attempted to approach from the right flank, but the live video feed warned the defenders exactly where they would appear. Two more Russians fell, followed shortly afterward by another pair, bringing the confirmed total eliminated by small-arms fire alone to six.

Moments later, a Ukrainian Vampire drone arrived carrying explosive munitions, but the fog remained too dense for its operator to see the battlefield directly, forcing the pilot to rely entirely on the live feed transmitted by the unmanned ground vehicle. Guided from the command post, the hexacopter released its munition directly into the center of another cluster of Russian troops, and when the smoke from the explosion settled, seven Russian soldiers were dead. As half an hour had passed, the weather began to improve, and the visibility increased, so Ukrainian FPV drones joined the fight. Russian infantry attempting to avoid accurate rifle fire from the defenders inside the house found themselves forced into the open streets, where drone operators engaged them one after another. The three defenders continued firing through windows while receiving continuous guidance, systematically clearing nearby garages, sheds, and concealed positions. The coordination between infantry, aerial drones, and the improvised reconnaissance ground vehicle transformed what had begun as a desperate defense into a devastating counterattack.

After roughly forty-five minutes of continuous fighting, around twenty Russian bodies lay immediately around the house where the three Ukrainian soldiers had held their ground. Approximately one hundred meters farther along the road, another twenty dead were counted. In total, around forty Russian soldiers were eliminated during the failed assault, despite the attackers enjoying an overwhelming numerical advantage of approximately thirteen to one. Remarkably, all three Ukrainian defenders survived the engagement, maintaining discipline throughout the battle and following every instruction transmitted by their commander over the radio.

The failed Russian assault also reflects the broader operational situation in this sector, as it was launched after Ukrainian forces had previously pushed the Russians back nearly ten kilometers. Such losses created considerable pressure on Russian headquarters to recover at least part of the lost territory quickly. Russian commanders rushed the available troops forward in an attempt to restore momentum and demonstrate progress to higher command by exploiting the dense fog, which proved a tactical gamble that backfired.

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Today, Moscow experienced the largest Ukrainian drone attack of the war, with more than six-hundred-and-fifty drones targeting the Russian capital and the surrounding region overnight. According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, most of them were reportedly heading toward Moscow and were intercepted, while around one-hundred-and-eighty of them were brought down over the Moscow region. Even accepting those Russian claims, Ukrainian drones still penetrated the wider defensive network, making this the most extensive assault yet against Russia's political and economic center, affecting multiple targets simultaneously. A Wildberries warehouse caught fire after being struck, while witness footage showed visible damage despite company statements minimizing the incident. Power infrastructure was also hit, with damage to equipment cutting electricity to more than ten thousand consumers and nearly fifty important government facilities. Russian authorities acknowledged this was the first outage of such scale in the Moscow region, while local reports also described a fire near the Kapotnya refinery, damage to various buildings, vehicles, and a transformer substation, and all four Moscow airports imposed flight restrictions as the raid continued through the night and into the early morning.

This attack represents the latest stage of an escalating Ukrainian campaign against Moscow that has intensified throughout the past week. Only hours earlier, on the sixteenth of August, the Moscow region also faced an enormous drone raid, with Russian officials reporting approximately six-hundred incoming drones and more than two-hundred intercepted over the region. During that operation, Ukrainian drones successfully struck the Severnoye Domodedovo warehouse hub, setting one of Russia's largest production and logistics centers ablaze.

At the same time, Ukrainian drones ignited the massive Wildberries logistics complex in Koledino near Moscow. Covering roughly a quarter of a million square meters, the facility served as Wildberries' largest logistics hub after the destruction of its Elektrostal warehouse in July. Satellite imagery and footage from the scene indicated the complex was completely destroyed despite extensive firefighting efforts involving helicopters. Independent estimates suggested that goods worth nearly one billion US dollars were lost, as the warehouse had been central to maintaining one-to-two-day deliveries across Moscow and the surrounding region.

The Moscow campaign has extended well beyond commercial warehouses, as earlier attacks targeted the Central Research Institute of Machine Building, a major Russian aerospace and rocket engineering research center, causing significant damage to the building. Another strike near the Wildberries logistics center in Novoselki near Moscow damaged a nearby power substation and administrative building.

These operations reveal a consistent pattern, as Ukraine continues to systematically target logistics hubs, research facilities, warehouses, and supporting infrastructure around Moscow, gradually increasing pressure on both Russia's economy and its ability to sustain military production and distribution. Instead of concentrating on a single type of target, the campaign forces Russian authorities to defend dozens of important facilities simultaneously, stretching already limited air-defense resources across an ever-growing number of critical sites. At the same time, Russia's air-defense network faces mounting strain from depleted interceptor missile inventories, growing pressure on radar coverage, and an increasing shortage of experienced operators.

Perhaps the most significant trend is the sheer scale of Ukraine's expanding drone operations. Only several months ago, raids involving around three-hundred long-range drones against multiple targets represented an exceptional effort. That later increased to approximately six-hundred drones directed across several regions during the same night. Now Moscow alone is reportedly facing more than six-hundred-and-fifty Ukrainian drones night after night. This rapid growth reflects Ukraine's expanding production capacity and continuous development of new long-range unmanned systems capable of reaching deeper inside Russia in greater numbers.

Overall, as larger Ukrainian drone swarms arrive more frequently, the burden on the Russian defenders continues rising, increasing the risks of interception failures, infrastructure damage, and even friendly-fire incidents. If Ukraine maintains its current production trajectory while further refining its long-range drone capabilities, the scale and intensity of future attacks on Moscow and other strategic regions will continue growing, putting Russian officials under more pressure.