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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., on Tuesday urged spring breakers with plans to visit Mexico to cancel their trips due to violent clashes in the country triggered by the Mexican army's killing of cartel leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," earlier this week.

Mullin made the comments during an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box," in which he said his chiropractor was still planning to visit a popular tourist destination in Mexico.

"Anybody that’s planning on going to Mexico for spring break … I mean, my chiropractor called me yesterday and said he’s still planning on going to Cancún, I said, 'Are you crazy?'" Mullin said.

"No one should be going down there right now, it is very volatile and the United States is laser-focused on watching what’s taking place," he continued.

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The senator's comments come after Mexican troops conducted operations on Sunday in Tapalpa, Jalisco, targeting El Mencho, a former police officer who became the leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, which U.S. authorities have identified as a major supplier of fentanyl to the United States.

El Mencho carried a $15 million U.S. bounty and rose to power following the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel. Over roughly the past 15 years, the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación has expanded from a regional criminal group into a global trafficking organization operating from its stronghold in Jalisco.

The Mexican Defense Department said the operation was conducted as part of bilateral coordination and cooperation with the U.S., and that U.S. authorities provided complementary intelligence that contributed to El Mencho's killing.

After El Mencho's death, cartel members burned cars and blocked roads in several Mexican states. Violent clashes were also reported in parts of western Mexico.

Mexican authorities later said that the security situation had been "stabilized."

"The security situation has now stabilized following targeted operations in Jalisco," the Mexican Embassy in the U.S. said on Tuesday.

"Federal and State authorities are proceeding to reopen transit corridors and restore public services smoothly," the embassy continued. "Airline operations are normal, and international carriers are resuming flights today. Puerto Vallarta International Airport has reopened to domestic traffic."

The embassy added: "If traveling through Jalisco, some local security measures remain in place, while authorities are restoring airport operations to full capacity. We are working with international partners to ensure safety and stability at all transit hubs and tourist destinations."

But the U.S. State Department’s travel advisory for Mexico remains in effect. The U.S. government earlier issued a shelter-in-place order for Americans in Mexico, but that order has since been lifted.

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The Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación is considered the most powerful cartel in Mexico with an estimated 19,000 members and operations across 21 of the country's 32 states.

The Trump administration designated the cartel as a foreign terrorist organization.

Mullin said on Tuesday that cartels splitting after Mexico's operation is a "great opportunity for us, and Mexico, to take them all out."

"Now, are we going to eliminate all the drug trafficking in the world? Absolutely not. But can we get a handle on it again? Absolutely," he added.

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth moved to reignite his high-profile clash with Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., on Tuesday, appealing a federal court ruling that blocked the Pentagon from punishing the Democratic lawmaker over a video urging U.S. service members to defy "illegal orders."

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed the appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on behalf of Hegseth, the Department of War, the U.S. Navy and Navy Secretary John Phelan.

The filing follows a ruling earlier this month by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who determined the Pentagon likely violated Kelly’s First Amendment rights, and those of "millions of military retirees," when it formally censured him on Jan. 5.

Leon blocked the Pentagon from demoting Kelly’s retired rank of captain or reducing his military retirement pay, prompting Hegseth to swiftly vow an appeal.

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Kelly reacted to the latest move while reposting coverage of the appeal on X.

"These guys don’t know when to quit," he wrote. "A federal judge told Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth that they violated my constitutional rights and chilled the free speech of millions of retired veterans."

"There is only one reason to appeal that ruling: to keep trampling on the free speech rights of retired veterans and silence dissent," Kelly continued. "I went to war to defend Americans’ constitutional rights and I won’t back down from this fight, no matter how far they want to take it."

KELLY FIRES BACK AT HEGSETH OVER CENSURE, SAYS HE'S NEVER BACKING DOWN

Hegseth previously fired back on X following the district court ruling, writing: "Sedition is sedition, ‘Captain.’"

In November, a group of Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds found themselves in hot water after posting a 90-second video urging service members to "refuse illegal orders."

The video, which was first posted by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., also included military veteran Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania.

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Hegseth previously said an investigation was launched into Kelly's actions because he was the only lawmaker formally retired from the military and under the Pentagon’s jurisdiction.

A grand jury in Washington, D.C., rejected a DOJ effort to indict the group, further escalating tensions between the administration and its critics.

In his ruling, Leon wrote that Kelly is "likely to succeed" on the merits of his free speech claim and found he demonstrated irreparable harm.

President Donald Trump previously accused the group of lawmakers of "sedition at the highest level."

Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of War and Department of Justice for comment. Sen. Kelly's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.

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Over 10 years ago, billionaire businessman Donald Trump announced he was running for the biggest office in the land. Three presidential races and two victories later, one thing is clear. Trump won his war with the media hands down. The press set out to destroy him. They failed. And he crushed them instead. At no time since the founding of our republic has the traditional media been less influential.

President Trump has won lawsuits against two different news networks, watched as other news organizations refused to endorse his competitor in the presidential race and celebrated as public media had its taxpayer funding ripped away. This is another classic Trump upset victory that is reminiscent of David smiting Goliath. It didn’t go well for Goliath either time.

Who could have predicted the turn of events? The establishment left-wing press have influenced everything in America for decades — politics, culture, sports and more. They helped decide both party's presidential candidates, destroyed political careers, covered up scandals (Hunter Biden, anyone?) and helped push every issue in the world to the left — from taxes, to transgenders to the media itself.

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They had survived the many threats to their power — the internet, blogging, social media, declining ad revenue, everything the world threw at them. Even the first term of Trump. The press pushed hard for and celebrated two Trump impeachments, an election defeat and enough lawfare to keep Perry Mason busy. They looked like they could take on anything.

Anything, that is, but Trump Part II. This time everything has been different. And, as Trump prepares to deliver his State of the Union speech, Tuesday, February 24, the state of his opponents in the media is in a shambles.

Just look at his overwhelming victory against NPR and PBS. Republicans warred against so-called public media for decades. Both networks were overflowing with leftist staffers, guests and agendas and it all was paid for by American taxpayers. But, every attempt to chip away at funding became a battle against Big Bird. The right was humiliated each time it tried to nibble funding away from two of the most openly leftist networks in the nation. The result made Republicans unwilling to try. Trump was willing and pushed Congress to axe the funding and won. Former CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta had urged more funding for public media, calling for it to be "too big to fail in this country." Yet, fail it did.

All of those claims that the federal money didn’t make up much of public media’s budget turned out, unsurprisingly, to be a lie. Both networks are struggling with finances. PBS canceled "PBS News Weekend" and blamed Trump: "PBS cancelled the show due to the loss of federal funding for public media," it declared. You can pretend to be sad now.

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Trump hit the press with lawyers of his own and won. Both ABC and CBS settled lawsuits against Trump, fearing worse outcomes. ABC agreed "to pay a $15 million ‘charitable contribution’ to a future presidential foundation for construction of Trump’s presidential library, covering $1 million in legal fees, and appending a statement of regret to the segment," according to The Washington Post.

The changes at CBS were even more profound. The network settled for $16 million for the future Trump library. But that wasn’t all. CBS hired Free Press founder Bari Weiss as its new editor-in-chief. Most in the media were furious, even though she’s no conservative. The New Yorker referred to it as a, "Hostile Takeover of CBS News." Weiss has battled with network staff to try to get them to be more even-handed, which has infuriated journalists who mostly complain anonymously to others in the press.

One producer resigned, complaining, "Stories may instead be evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations." Journalists who thrilled at the network’s openly leftist ideology, now whine if it shifts slightly closer to center. To top things off, CNN anchor and "60 Minutes" correspondent Anderson Cooper didn’t renew his contract either.

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Ideological expectations were changing in newspapers, as well. Last February, Post owner Jeff Bezos, of Amazon fame, announced a huge shift in the editorial pages. He declared they would promote, "personal liberties and free markets." Two things most journalists hate. The exodus of staffers that followed reads like a Who’s Who of leftist Posties — including columnists Jonathan Capehart and Philip Bump, and its hilariously titled fact-checker Glenn Kessler.

The entire journalism world had erupted in anger when the Post and 43 other of the nation’s top newspapers refused to endorse a candidate for president in 2024. That tally included both the L.A. Times and several top chains, according to journalism’s Nieman Lab. The Post reportedly lost over 200,000 subscribers. This January, the paper had massive layoffs of somewhere between a third and half its staff. One Hill op-ed described the cuts as, "Darkness descends with Washington Post mass layoffs."

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The Post was far from alone. There were 2,254 job cuts at news outlets in 2025, including cuts at CNN, CBS, NBC and more.

Even social media no longer bans Trump. And Trump went from being a minor player there to founder of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which includes Truth Social. It has a market cap of about $3 billion.

Not too shabby for the man who called the media "the enemy of the American people" after he first took office in 2017 and has warred with them ever since. Now, journalists face three more years of defeats at the hands of their arch enemy and a future filled with conservatives who learned how to take down media giants from a master.

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A suspect was taken into custody on Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a Missouri deputy, according to officials.

Richard Dean Bird, 45, was apprehended early Tuesday morning following the fatal shooting of a Christian County deputy that occurred shortly before 4 p.m. Monday, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said on social media.

The incident triggered a manhunt for the suspect, who was considered to be armed and dangerous.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol described the suspect as a bald white man with brown eyes standing about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing approximately 145 pounds.

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The suspect vehicle was earlier identified as a white 2001 Chevrolet Silverado extended cab pickup truck with Missouri license plate 9MGX36.

The truck was seen in the area of the shooting and was later reported traveling southbound on U.S. Route 160 from Route HH in Christian County. U.S. 160 runs south through southern Missouri and crosses into north-central Arkansas east of Harrison.

"Truck has been located," the Stone County Sheriff's Office, which assisted in the search, wrote Monday night on X.

Several lawmakers earlier reacted to the death of the deputy.

"A deputy in my home county was shot and killed today. Erin and I are praying for his family. May justice be swift," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said the incident was "a devastating loss in Christian County."

"As local law enforcement works to bring the suspect to justice, my prayers are with the deputy’s loved ones and those who served shoulder to shoulder with him to keep Missouri safe," Schmitt wrote on X.

Missouri State Rep. Jamie Ray Gragg said on Facebook: "My heart is broken for our deputy’s family. While they understood that this profession carries risk, senseless acts like this are beyond comprehension."

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Blue Alerts like the one initially issued in this case, are similar to Amber Alerts in that they are designed to quickly notify the public. However, a Blue Alert is issued when a suspect is believed to have seriously injured or killed a law enforcement officer and may pose an ongoing threat.

"Blue Alert cancelled. Suspect in custody," the Missouri State Highway Patrol said on X early Tuesday.

Fox News' Stepheny Price contributed to this report.

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A Florida bill could allow churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship to use armed volunteers for security without requiring them to hold a professional security license.

Senate Bill 52, which unanimously passed the chamber earlier this month, would authorize houses of worship to use armed volunteers instead of hiring licensed security guards, which supporters say would help cut costs while still keeping people safe.

"It’s now common for synagogues, churches, and mosques to have armed security," state Sen. Don Gaetz, who sponsored this measure, said to FOX 13. "Often using paid professional licensed security personnel."

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The legislation now heads to the state House.

This measure comes amid concerns about violence targeting places of worship across the country. In August, a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minnesota left two children dead and around 20 others injured. And in Mississippi last month, a suspect set fire to a synagogue, causing extensive damage and destroying sacred Torah scrolls.

Elvis Piggott, the pastor at Triumph Church of Tampa, was arrested in October 2025 after allegedly pulling out a gun during a dispute following a Tampa City Council election forum. He later said he acted in self-defense.

Piggott, reacting to reports of violence at houses of worship, said the threats are an unfortunate reality.

"Some of these things you would have never thought in a million years would happen inside of the place of worship," he told FOX 13.

"It can get very costly," Piggot said of hiring licensed security. "Just for myself at an event could be roughly $900 to $1,000 for two hours."

If House lawmakers approve the legislation, it would then go to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The changes would take effect in July if the governor signs the bill into law.

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"Unfortunately, when a lot of people are congregated closely together, that’s a high value target for bad guys," Aaron Chappell, who co-founded Vulture Training Group, a company that provides security guard certification and training, told FOX 13.

"Do you want somebody who is five or six minutes away?" he added. "Or somebody who’s on scene when something happens."

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They are "fools"!

They are "lapdogs!"

They are "disloyal"!

They should be "ashamed," an "embarrassment to their families"!

SUPREME COURT BLOCKS TRUMP TARIFFS IN MAJOR TEST OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH POWERS

They are caving to pressure from "slimeballs"!

And they are not just "radical" Democrats, but also "RINOs"!

I've almost never seen Donald Trump as angry as he was after the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs as illegal. 

When he was reading from his notes, it was barely controlled fury. When he kept going off script, he was dripping with disdain. 

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On the Republicans In Name Only business, the stunner is that the 6-3 ruling was backed by two of his appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Comey Barrett. 

They joined the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, a consensus builder whom the president has tangled with in the past. 

Gorsuch and Barrett did exactly what we say we want judges to do – consider the evidence and use their best judgment in interpreting the Constitution. 

So why is Trump, who preferred to cite Brett Kavanaugh's dissent, attacking two of the conservatives in such personal terms? Are they being disloyal to the legal process in saying he didn't have the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on countries around the world – or to him personally? 

Who are the unnamed slimeballs, by the way, and how do they wield so much clout?

During the Q&A session, Trump was asked why he didn't just work with Congress. 

"I don't have to," he said. 

But that was the central point of the high court ruling, that Trump needed congressional approval before imposing a blizzard of tariffs. 

Many conservatives who were not big fans of tariffs openly expressed relief that the Supreme Court had taken this blunt-force weapon out of Trump's hands. 

The president was on a long winning streak with this court, which, among other things, expanded his immunity for virtually all actions in office. I guess they weren't lapdogs then. But Friday's ruling made clear that even a conservative court has its limits. 

Don’t take my word for it. The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial page says Trump owes an apology "to the justices he smeared" and "the institution itself." He doubtless won’t offer one, but his rant in response to his tariff defeat at the court was arguably the worst moment of his presidency."

From the left, Maureen Dowd said in the New York Times that Trump threw a "hissy fit" after the court, which had been "acting subservient to the megalomaniac in the White House, suddenly found a spine."

There are even reports that he cursed the courts that day.

Trump said he would use a different law to impose a 10 percent global tariff, which by the weekend he raised to 15 percent. That can only last for five months. But more importantly, it's a modest levy compared to the draconian tariffs that the president had been imposing or threatening to impose on various countries, allies or not, as part of his trade war, or simply because he had a testy call with a foreign leader.

TRUMP RAISES GLOBAL TARIFF TO 15%

JD Vance accused the high court of "lawlessness." Sorry, Mr. Vice President, it’s fine to rip the ruling, but the court’s job is to interpret the law as it applies to the other two branches.

In an online blast aimed at Gorsuch and Barrett, Trump wrote: "They vote against the Republicans, and never against themselves, almost every single time, no matter how good a case we have." Barrett, however, voted with the majority in granting presidents sweeping immunity, though she did say the court’s decision went too far in that case.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick slammed "the misplaced gloating from Democrats, ill-informed media outlets, and the very people who gutted our industrial base, the court did not rule against President Trump’s tariffs. Six justices simply ruled that IEEPA authorities cannot be used to raise even $1 of revenue." (IEEPA is a 1977 emergency law.)

Well… the court did rule against the tariffs. And the media’s court correspondents are hardly "ill-informed," they’re specialists, in some cases lawyers. Plus, Lutnick’s own boss is blaming Republicans. 

At the presser, Trump fielded a kinda dumb question from a reporter: Are the justices still invited to Tuesday’s State of the Union? 

"Barely," said Trump. What is this, middle school? They might not get to sit at the cool kids’ table? The president said he didn’t care if they showed up, Neither does anyone else. 

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Trump was on target in saying this will be fought out in court for two years, though it will probably be much longer than that. Are the companies that paid the $175 billion in tariffs now entitled to refunds? Who knows?

We are looking at the likelihood of economic upheaval. It is, at the very least, a blow to Trump's agenda. He doesn't like being told he can't do something. For all his spin, Trump had warned that a loss in the Supreme Court would be devastating–and now we'll find out just what that looks like. 

Maybe he wants to go back to talking about UFOs?

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Four professional soccer matches in Mexico were postponed Sunday after violence flared near Guadalajara — one of the country’s host cities for the 2026 World Cup — in the wake of a military operation that left cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho," dead.

Liga MX officials removed two top-flight fixtures from the schedule — Querétaro’s matchup against Juárez FC in the men’s league and the women’s showdown between Chivas and América — and also called off two second-division contests amid security concerns.

The disruption followed operations earlier in the day in Tapalpa, Jalisco, roughly two hours southwest of Guadalajara. Mexican authorities said Oseguera, a former police officer who rose to lead the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), was killed during the operation.

In the aftermath, vehicles were set ablaze and highways were blocked across nearly a dozen Mexican states, according to officials.

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Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state, is slated to stage four matches during the 2026 World Cup, including two involving South Korea. Mexico, Spain, Uruguay and Colombia are also scheduled to play at the venue.

Mexico’s national team remains set to host Iceland in a friendly Wednesday at Corregidora Stadium in Querétaro. As of Sunday, the Mexican soccer federation had not announced any changes to that match.

Not all sporting events were affected. Organizers of the Mexican Open in Acapulco said the ATP tournament would begin Monday at the GNP Arena as planned.

"The tournament's operation continues as normal," organizers of the tournament said in a statement.

Oseguera had carried a $15 million U.S. bounty and rose to prominence following the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel. Over the past decade and a half, CJNG expanded from a regional criminal group into a global trafficking network operating across much of Mexico from its stronghold in Jalisco.

"I’ve just been informed that Mexican security forces have killed 'El Mencho,' one of the bloodiest and most ruthless drug kingpins," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said in a post on X. "This is a great development for Mexico, the US, Latin America, and the world. The good guys are stronger than the bad guys."

The Mexican Defense Department said the operation was conducted as part of bilateral coordination and cooperation with the U.S., and that U.S. authorities provided complementary intelligence that contributed to El Mencho's killing.

After El Mencho's death, cartel members burned cars and blocked roads in nearly a dozen Mexican states.

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The Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación is considered the most powerful cartel in Mexico with an estimated 19,000 members and operations across 21 of the country's 32 states.

The Trump administration designated the cartel as a foreign terrorist organization.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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