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Another seat is filled. I'm Paul Stevens, Fox News. Another cabinet position filled in the Trump White House. Former Governor Kristi Noem sworn in yesterday, Saturday, to be the new Secretary of Homeland Security. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.
And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Kristi Noem, the fourth cabinet member to be confirmed. She follows Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Radcliffe, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The next nominee up for Senate confirmation vote is Scott Besant. He's the president's choice for Treasury Secretary. That vote is scheduled for October.
On Monday, President Trump, meantime, holding a rally in Texas on Saturday, promoting his plans to eliminate taxes on tips. Nevada, of course, part of the seven swing states sweep that propelled President Trump back to the White House. And he came here to Las Vegas to thank his supporters, many employed in the service industry and some of the largest hotels in the world. And he wanted them to know he doesn't want to see any taxes on tips.
It's been a busy first week for President Trump. In addition to scrapping DEI initiatives, Trump's Justice Department now asking the Supreme Court to freeze a handful of cases, including challenging Biden's student loan bailout. Some other cases the DOJ once put on ice have to do with the environment and EPA regulations. Fox's Lucas Tomlinson in Las Vegas, the president signing over 200 executive actions in his first week in office.
At least 38 people hurt, including six hospitalized after a United Airlines flight from Nigeria to Washington experienced what United officials are calling, quote, unexpected aircraft movement. Flight data showing the plane suddenly dropped 1,000 feet in midair. America's listening to Fox News. Okay, business leaders, are you playing defense or are you on the offense? Are you just, excuse me, hey, I'm trying to talk business here.
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The nation's new Secretary of State says the Taliban may be holding more Americans than previously known. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X, just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported. He also said if this is true, we will have to immediately place a very big bounty on their top leaders.
Two Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McEntee, were released this past week in a prisoner exchange deal with the Taliban. The BBC says they were freed in exchange for an Afghan held in a California prison. That was Khan Mohammed, who'd been serving a life sentence on terrorism and drug trafficking charges.
Jolnado Fox News. The defense team for Brian Koberger, accused of murdering four University of Idaho students back in 2022, is now trying to have most of the evidence in that case thrown out. Defense attorneys are arguing that their client's constitutional rights were violated when investigators used a process called investigative genetic genealogy. Koberger's lead defense attorney, Ann Taylor, argued that the case was not a case of murder.
argued that police never got warrants to analyze that DNA or the DNA of potential relatives that had submitted the genealogy databases. But prosecutors pushed back, saying the investigation was done properly and arguing that defendants like Koberger don't have any right to privacy for DNA left at a crime scene. And that's Fox's C.B. Godden. Brian Koberger could face the death penalty if he's convicted on all charges.
Dozens of educators in New York City being accused of having inappropriate, often sexual relationships and communications with students. 32 cases of educators and other school staffers engaging in improper talks with kids substantiated, they say, by the city's special commissioner of investigation. That, they say, would bring the total number of cases between 2018 and 2024 to at least 121. I'm Paul Stevens. This is Fox News.
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