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Armed man shot and killed after entering secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Secret Service says

By MICHELE L. PRICE
Updated 10:05 AM CST, February 22, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as another vehicle was exiting before being shot and killed early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service.

The man, who was in his early 20s and from North Carolina, had a gas can and a shotgun, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman. He had been reported missing by his family a few days ago, and investigators believe he headed south and picked up the shotgun along the way.

Guglielmi said a box for the weapon was discovered in the man’s vehicle after the incident, which took place around 1:30 a.m.

The man killed was identified by investigators as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation.

Trump has faced threats to his life before, including two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign. Although the president often spends weekends at his resort, he and first lady Melania Trump were at the White House when the breach at Mar-a-Lago occurred. ...

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Why some Democratic women will wear white to Trump's State of the Union

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Washington — When President Trump gives his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, more than a dozen Democratic congresswomen plan to again make a sartorial political statement by wearing white, according to the Democratic Women's Caucus.

Democratic congresswomen have used fashion as a form of protest against Mr. Trump since his first address to a joint session of Congress in 2017, then donning suffragist white in support of women's rights.

In the years since, they've mostly stuck with that choice, with the exception of 2018, when some wore...
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Chloe Cole Act aimed at blocking minors from undergoing life-altering transgender surgeries, GOP lawmaker says

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A Republican lawmaker is teaming up with outspoken detransitioner Chloe Cole to push federal legislation that would block
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Angel Families praise Trump for immigration crackdown: 'You are the man'

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As President Donald Trump's administration seeks to tackle the nation's illegal immigration problem, individuals whose relatives were killed by illegal immigrants thanked the president during a ceremony on Monday.

Allyson Phillips, the mother of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was slain by a Venezuelan man on February 22, 2024, offered heartfelt thanks to the president.

Phillips told Trump that he is doing "a thankless job that most people just wouldn't do," noting, "I just can't thank you enough."

Jody Jones, who said his brother...
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Trump halts Angel Families speech to check on woman in audience

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President Donald Trump briefly paused an Angel Families Remembrance Ceremony at the White House on Monday to speak with Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, asking about her health and an upcoming surgery for her eyes.

"I gave her money to get her eyes fixed. A lot of money to get her eyes fixed. That doctor ripped me off. But that’s OK," Trump joked.

Morin said her surgery was scheduled for Wednesday after being delayed. "It was postponed because they said the grief caused me to have a heart attack," she said.

Her daughter, Rachel, was...
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Trump’s ‘total elimination’ strategy paved way for fall of cartel kingpin ‘El Mencho’

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Government documents reveal the fall of drug kingpin "El Mencho" over the weekend was the culmination of an aggressive, more than yearlong strategy of "total elimination" pursued by the Trump administration against the ruthless Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which is present in almost all 50 U.S. states.

Ruben "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," the leader of the CJNG, was killed Sunday in a Mexican military operation in Tapalpa, Mexico, authorities said. Though the operation was carried out by Mexican forces, the United...
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Strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean kills 3 people, U.S. military says

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The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out a strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing three men.

The boat was "transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," the U.S. Southern Command said in a statement on X. "Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed."

Southern Command's post on social media included a video of a stationary boat being destroyed in an explosion.

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Ukraine negotiator tells BBC how it feels to sit across table from Russia

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Serhii Kyslytsia is among those trying to negotiate an end to the conflict, which is entering its fifth year.
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Zelensky tells BBC Putin has started WW3 and must be stopped

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Ukraine's president sat down with the BBC's Jeremy Bowen in Kyiv days before the four-year anniversary of the war.
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Former U.K. ambassador to U.S. Peter Mandelson arrested

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Former U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson has been arrested by London's Metropolitan Police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Mandelson was being investigated after a series of emails between him and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released late last month.

"Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office," London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement Monday. "He was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, 23 February and has been taken to a London police station...
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DHS officials watch for response by US-based cartel networks after leader killed

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Homeland security officials are watching for a response from Jalisco New Generation Cartel's U.S.-based trafficking and financial networks after Mexican security forces killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes in a raid Sunday.

The cartel, also known as CJNG, maintains distribution, logistics and money-movement infrastructure across the United States. While officials say there is no indication of an imminent threat to the U.S. as a result of the operation that killed Cervantes, law enforcement agencies are monitoring any potential increases in...
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ICE whistleblower warns new recruits are receiving "defective" training

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A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement instructor responsible for educating new ICE officers on proper use of force said the agency's efforts to rapidly scale up its ranks will place recruits on the streets without the training they need to lawfully carry out immigration enforcement.

"Without reform, ICE will graduate thousands of new officers who do not know their constitutional duty, do not know the limits of their authority, and do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order," wrote the instructor, Ryan Schwank, in an excerpt...
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Newsom tells Georgia crowd, 'I am like you... I'm a 960 SAT guy'

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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom attempted to relate to an audience at an Atlanta book tour stop by pointing to his own unimpressive standardized test scores and claiming that he "cannot read a speech."

"I'm not trying to impress you," Newsom told Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens at the event on Sunday. "I'm just trying to impress upon you: I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy."

"And, I'm not trying to offend anyone, trying to act all there if you got 940," he added. Data posted by the National Center for Education...
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NJ Democrats push ‘F---ICE Act’ to let residents sue over immigration enforcement

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Democratic lawmakers in one major blue state are facing backlash over their latest attempt to blunt federal immigration enforcement through a new bill crafted around a vulgar acronym.

The F---ICE Act, with the acronym spelled out in practice, is officially the "Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act" and would permit civil action for violations of the U.S. Constitution related to immigration enforcement. The measure was introduced after a clash between a federal agent and a democratic socialist councilman...
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Top AI firm alleges Chinese labs used 24K fake accounts to siphon US tech

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FIRST ON FOX: As Washington tightens export controls to preserve America’s artificial intelligence edge, top AI firm Anthropic says three China-based AI laboratories found another way to access advanced U.S. capabilities.

The U.S. firm alleges DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with Anthropic's Claude chatbot in a coordinated "distillation" campaign designed to extract high-value model outputs, according to a report first obtained by Fox News Digital.

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Some U.S. Embassy staff in Beirut ordered to leave amid escalating tensions

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The State Department has ordered some staff in the U.S. Embassy in Beirut to begin to leave Lebanon, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

A senior State Department official said the move is a temporary measure and applies to non-emergency U.S. government personnel and eligible family members. The embassy is still operational and core staff remain in place, the official said.

"We continuously assess the security environment, and based on our latest review, we determined it prudent to reduce our footprint to essential personnel,"...
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Trump fires judge-picked US attorney as top DOJ official warns courts to stay in their lane

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The Justice Department announced Friday that it had fired a second court-appointed U.S. attorney in as many weeks, swiftly removing another prosecutor selected by federal judges to lead a district.

The federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia had chosen veteran lawyer James Hundley to fill the vacancy left by Trump-appointee Lindsey Halligan, who stepped down from the role last month after the court said she was illegitimately serving. A top DOJ official quickly announced Hundley’s termination on social media, intensifying the ongoing...
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Reporter's Notebook: Trump's State of the Union becomes political boxing match as Democrats boycott

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Imagine a boxing match.

A boxing match may only go a few rounds. But it’s a big production. There’s a massive buildup for weeks in the press. There’s the weigh-in. Both fighters enter the ring to fanfare. Everyone scans the crowd to see "who" is there or nabbed seats close to the ring. Celebrities. Actors. Musicians. Models. Other famous athletes.

There’s a lot to see.

And that’s why the president’s State of the Union speech is similar.
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Kingpins fall, prices don’t: How cartels defy the rules of economics

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In most markets, removing a CEO rattles investors and drives prices up or down. In the global drug trade, taking down a kingpin barely moves the needle.

Over the weekend, Mexican authorities said they killed one of the world’s most prolific traffickers, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — better known as "El Mencho," the longtime leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

His death should represent a major disruption to the market. And yet, cartels appear to defy one of economics’ most basic assumptions.

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Sen Adam Schiff says he'll skip the State of the Union for the first time, slamming President Donald Trump

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President Donald Trump is slated to deliver the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, but Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California has said that he will skip the speech for the first time.

In a video posted on Saturday, Schiff accused the president of running afoul of the "law and Constitution."

"He is ignoring court orders. He has weaponized the Justice Department to go after his enemies. He is letting loose ICE troops in our streets that are getting people killed," Schiff said.

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Trump, Schumer find rare common ground on releasing UFO files

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For two of Washington’s most diametrically opposed political figures, there is a newfound common ground: whether
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Mike Johnson reveals special guests for Trump's State of the Union

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FIRST ON FOX: The family of a slain Louisiana police officer will have the chance to see President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night after being invited by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

The top congressional leader is bringing the wife and fiancée of Marc Tyler Brock to Trump's primetime address, Fox News Digital learned on Monday.

"It is my profound honor to host Shirley Brock-Dennis and Kambreigh Smith — the respective mother and fiancée of Vivian Police Officer Marc Brock — as my guests for the State of the Union...
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Australia backs removing Andrew from royal line of succession

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor remains eighth in line to the throne despite being stripped of his titles.
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Watch: Yosemite waterfall turns molten orange

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The event occurs only in February, when the setting sun hits Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park at just the right angle.
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Newsom ripped over 'racist' viral clip telling Black mayor 'I'm like you' before touting poor SAT score

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California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, widely believed to have White House ambitions, is facing blowback over a viral clip that critics say portrays him talking down to Black voters while discussing his poor test scores and reading ability.

"I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you, I'm just trying to impress upon you, I'm like you. I'm no better than you," Newsom told Mayor Andre Dickens at a book tour event on Sunday in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Rialto Center for the Arts.

"You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. And, you know, and I'm not...
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Democrats name candidates to 'Red to Blue' initiative, aiming to flip GOP majority during midterms

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) named multiple candidates that it is backing as part of its "Red to Blue" initiative as the Democratic Party aims to flip control of the House of Representatives during the 2026 midterms elections.

"Red to Blue is a highly competitive and battle-tested DCCC program that arms top-tier candidates with organizational and fundraising support to help them continue to develop strong campaigns. Candidates earn a spot in the program by surpassing aggressive goals for grassroots engagement, local...
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