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The United States produces roughly 3% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients in the world. Meanwhile, China produces a whopping 45%. A Johns Hopkins study found that China supplies more than 60% of the essential components American manufacturers need for antibiotics.

That’s not just a trade imbalance, it is surrendering sovereignty.

The health of our military, our leaders, our children and our neighbors is beholden to an adversary who could weaponize not just the availability of and access to essential medications but the safety of those very products.

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We didn’t get here by accident. Decades of offshoring gutted the American industrial base and shipped critical manufacturing jobs overseas. As recently as 1981, the United States produced 25% of the world’s pharmaceutical ingredients. Today, China controls nearly half the global market. A nation that cannot make its own antibiotics and cannot stop adversary-sourced chemicals from crossing its border does not fully govern itself.

The Council on Foreign Relations called this what it is: a pharma choke point. The dependence is structural, deep and spreading from generics into advanced biologics.

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Beijing has already shown it will weaponize supply chains. It did so with rare earths, semiconductor inputs and defense-critical metals. Why would we believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would treat medicine any differently in a crisis when it has the capacity to poison an entire people?

The same chemical networks that feed Chinese precursors into American pharmacies also feed the fentanyl pipeline through Mexico. Research from the University of Virginia’s National Security Data and Policy Institute describes Chinese suppliers and Mexican cartels as a singular adaptive supply chain: precursors bought cheaply online, air-shipped in bulk, converted into pills, and pushed across the border.

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A few thousand dollars of chemicals can buy millions of doses. The wreckage in Midwestern towns is not a mystery. It is the real-life effect of a Chinese chemical distribution system operating behind a cartel front.

Congress has rightly begun to respond. The BIOSECURE Act, signed into law in December 2025, restricts federal procurement involving biotechnology products from designated companies tied to foreign adversaries. President Donald Trump also took executive action on tariffs targeting the synthetic opioid supply chain. Those steps matter. But they don’t build manufacturing plants.

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Legislation alone does not build a factory, bring jobs back and secure our nation. To effectively pry China’s grip off our supply chain, we must invest heavily in domestic producers. We need to build the manufacturing facilities here at home.

Take my home state of Ohio: the Buckeye State shows this model works. The state is already becoming a center of American semiconductor manufacturing by combining investment, infrastructure and a skilled workforce. It has the same heritage to become a national hub for pharmaceutical production. CNBC recently ranked Ohio No. 1 in the country for both business and infrastructure. Incentivize American companies to build advanced manufacturing in the Midwest and you do two things at once: create secure work and close a defense vulnerability.

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The choice is not complicated. Invest now in American pharmaceutical capacity or pay an unimaginable price later when Beijing turns the American medicine supply into a weapon.

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The border is not secure as long as Chinese chemical suppliers are arming cartels. The military is not ready as long as battlefield antibiotics are manufactured in a country we may one day fight. And the American people are not safe as long as their medicine cabinet depends on the goodwill of an adversary.

Build the plants. Bring the work home. Make medical independence a national priority.

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There's been a tidal wave of media coverage on the dastardly dangers of AI, some carrying warnings that "we're all gonna die!" – maybe. 

And what unleashed this flood of frightening stories about super-intelligent AI networks crushing humanity?

One social media post by a guy no one's ever heard of. 

Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, resigned and posted his concerns on X, the tweets triggering such a thunderous reaction across the media landscape that television raced to put him on the air. It was this sentence that cast him as a digital-age Paul Revere: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

And here's the irony: the journalists covering and commenting on the surge in artificial intelligence have little idea how serious that threat is. If the high-tech crowd can’t agree, how are those who cover everything from politics to war supposed to know?

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If Anthropic and OpenAI, which dominate the field, are so upset about AI networks replicating themselves and going rogue, why don’t they hit the brakes on their own?

I’m not saying that most media have joined the ranks of the doomsayers, but the sheer volume of coverage has fueled the sense of an impending crisis.

Coxon, enjoying his 15 seconds of fame, is also adept at sound bites. In one television appearance he warned that AI could use "hacking," "persuasion" or "bioweapons," calling that "pretty scary stuff… Imagine suddenly a million drones activate all over the world." 

Scary indeed.

Coxon told Fox’s Bret Baier that he sees "two things: very intelligent AI systems, and hard proof that we don’t know how to control them."

And he told MS NOW’s Ari Melber it could be "lights out" for humanity.

While politicians in both parties are calling for hearings or a pause in AI research, the White House is not alarmed.

Asked if he has concerns about AI, Trump said: "I don’t have any. I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position. We are leading China right now by a pretty good period." 

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What’s also boosted the coverage is that Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, has acknowledged the magnitude of the issue and posted his own 3,800-word essay.

Asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper if he honestly believes AI could kill all humans, Amodei said: "I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him… He wasn’t calling us out. He was calling out the dynamic of the industry as a whole… I think there’s some chance that things go wrong, but it’s not all that high."

Yet there are other nightmare scenarios.

"There are also catastrophic scenarios that fall short of extinction, such as massive cyberattacks that take down power grids or financial systems and lead to a breakdown in the human social order," says the Wall Street Journal.

But the press also has to grapple with the question of motive. Some critics say Anthropic and OpenAI are seeking government regulation to freeze the big advantage they already hold over other companies. 

David Sacks, a tech investor and chairman of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, tells the two tech giants on X: "Stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission… Stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack."

No American company will want to slow down its research unless its rivals do the same. And the odds of getting such countries as China to sign on, as if it were an arms-control agreement, are exceedingly slim.

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It’s also hard to take politics out of the debate. Barack Obama just urged Democratic candidates to make AI regulation one of their "central agendas." 

What’s more, news organizations have their own entanglements with that world. The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI. And the New York Times is suing OpenAI for unauthorized use of millions of articles.

I’m like everyone else, trying to sift through the rhetoric and the research to separate solid facts from speculation. The recent hacking of a company called Hugging Face – in which "autonomous" AI agents deployed by OpenAI, teamed up on their own, circumventing human controls, to execute the breach – shows this is more than a theoretical problem. (Nvidia just bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.)

It also seems that some form of federal regulation is needed for this exploding business, given the massive spending and enormous stakes. No other American industry is given such a free hand.

As for the supposed threat to humanity, right out of a sci-fi movie, I’m not having trouble sleeping – yet.

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President Donald Trump on Sunday touted new renovations to the White House, saying the building was a "dump" before the updates.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the White House was in "very bad condition" and that previous administrations failed to take proper care of it.

"The White House was in very bad condition, both inside and out. Frankly, it was a 'dump!' Past Presidents did not take care of it," Trump wrote. "I love renovating it during my spare time, which is not much."

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He added that the Department of the Interior and various contractors are doing a "fantastic job" with the renovations.

"The exterior 'skin' of the Building was practically falling off! It is now in better shape than when built in 1792. Such an Honor to have the privilege of saving this Great Structure!" Trump wrote.

The president said that more time without a renovation would have "destroyed our beloved White House!"

This comes amid several structural and aesthetic changes Trump has pursued at the White House that have drawn criticism from some preservationists and legal challenges, including fortifying the North Portico entrance, adding gold ornamentation to the Oval Office and Cabinet Room, paving over the historic Rose Garden and demolishing the East Wing to make room for a planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

The administration has also made major changes to other structures in Washington, including renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, proposing to repaint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and undertaking extensive renovations at the Kennedy Center.

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Additionally, Trump has backed plans for a 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery and a National Garden of American Heroes.

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A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's directive for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half was unlawful.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston found on Friday that the Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully by taking control of FEMA's authority over its own personnel and pushing the agency to slash thousands of disaster-response jobs.

Although FEMA is under DHS, a federal law adopted after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 states that the department "may not substantially or significantly reduce (FEMA's) authorities, responsibilities, or functions."

Illston said the department violated the law last year when it sought to stop FEMA from renewing the temporary contracts of thousands of on-call reservists who respond to disasters.

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"There is no evidence in the record reflecting reasoned decision-making for this about-face or for the subsequent conditions DHS placed on FEMA’s renewal authority," Illston wrote.

Illston's ruling did not include remedies or penalties, noting that those would be addressed in a separate ruling next month.

The judge said the parties have until Oct. 9 to submit briefings on "what relief remains outstanding" in this case.

The unions that sued argued that the planned cuts are unlawful because they would undermine FEMA's core disaster‑response mission, were not approved by Congress and were ordered by then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem instead of FEMA officials.

The administration has contended that FEMA has considerable flexibility to determine proper staffing levels. President Donald Trump has suggested that FEMA should ​be eliminated and that states ⁠should handle their emergency preparedness.

In June, Illston declined to immediately block the job cuts, ruling that FEMA had at least temporarily abandoned its planned layoffs.

But on Friday, the judge wrote that FEMA appeared to be moving forward with the job cuts. She said FEMA projected its staffing levels for the upcoming fiscal year at 11,383 employees, or about half of previous levels, without any basis for picking that figure.

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Fox News Digital reached out to DHS and FEMA for comment but they did not immediately respond.

"Under President Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Markwayne] Mullin’s leadership, DHS and FEMA are ready for the 2026 hurricane season," a FEMA spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill. "FEMA continues to maintain a roster of experienced leadership and support staff across headquarters and regional offices. No position is without experienced leadership."

In a separate ruling, the judge also faulted FEMA and DHS officials for using the Signal messaging app on their personal cell phones to discuss staffing cuts and deleting the messages.

Illston said the messages would have been relevant to the lawsuit and that she would now presume "that the lost Signal messages would have been unfavorable to Defendants because they would have been further evidence" of unlawful conduct.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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DALLAS — While President Donald Trump will not be on the ballot for the 2026 midterm elections, the former chair of Black Voices for Trump believes Republicans can maintain the momentum gained from his major performance improvements among Black voters during the 2024 presidential race.

T.W. Shannon, a former Oklahoma state House Speaker who served last year in the second Trump administration and is now the Republican lieutenant governor nominee in his home state, says that policies "the GOP has expressed," as well as the Democratic Party's leftward lurch, will help Republicans as they continue to court Black voters.

Trump won 16% of the Black vote in the 2024 presidential election, according to a Fox News Voter Analysis, nearly double his total four years earlier.

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"It's because Donald Trump has transformed the Republican Party back into the working party. You see Democrats competing for the Black vote now. Something that you used to not see at all. They didn't have to, they just took it for granted," Shannon said in a Fox News Digital interview Thursday on the sidelines of the first ever GOP midterm convention.

Shannon pointed to job creation and lowering crime rates during the second Trump administration and said, "These are things that actually benefit...Black voters and Black communities."

He then took aim at Democratic candidates backed by or aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

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"Look at what....the DSA is offering, you know, we're talking about raising taxes, we're talking about doing away with the Senate... disbanding the police," he said. "These are not things that are well received in the Black community."

Democrats disagree with Shannon's assessment.

"Black Americans are going to reject Trump’s billionaires-first, cost-raising agenda at the ballot box this November and elect Democrats who are fighting to lower costs and deliver for working families," a Democratic National Committee (DNC) spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

The spokesperson added that the "DNC is investing critical resources to reach, register, and mobilize Black voters across the country. While the Trump administration continues to attack civil and voting rights, we are fighting to protect the core of our democracy."

Shannon, a Lawton native who became his state's youngest and first African American House speaker in 2013, and the first member of the Chickasaw Nation to hold the office, is favored to win in November in solidly Republican Oklahoma.

He said speaking in primetime at the convention gave him a chance to stand on the "national stage."

"Any time I get a chance to tell the story about how great Oklahoma is and how great America is, I won't miss a chance to do it," he said.

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DALLAS — While President Donald Trump will not be on the ballot for the 2026 midterm elections, the former chair of Black Voices for Trump believes Republicans can maintain the momentum gained from his major performance improvements among Black voters during the 2024 presidential race.

T.W. Shannon, a former Oklahoma state House Speaker who served last year in the second Trump administration and is now the Republican lieutenant governor nominee in his home state, says that policies "the GOP has expressed" as well as the Democratic Party's leftward lurch will help Republicans as they continue to court Black voters.

Trump won 16% of the Black vote in the 2024 presidential election, according to a Fox News Voter Analysis, nearly double his total four years earlier.

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"It's because Donald Trump has transformed the Republican Party back into the working party. You see Democrats competing for the Black vote now. Something that you used to not see at all. They didn't have to, they just took it for granted," Shannon said in a Fox News Digital interview Thursday on the sidelines of the first ever GOP midterm convention.

Shannon pointed to job creation and lowering crime rates during the second Trump administration and said, "These are things that actually benefit...Black voters and Black communities."

He then took aim at Democratic candidates backed by or aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

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"Look at what....the DSA is offering, you know, we're talking about raising taxes, we're talking about doing away with the Senate... disbanding the police," he said. "These are not things that are well received in the in the Black community."

Democrats disagree with Shannon's assessment.

"Black Americans are going to reject Trump’s billionaires-first, cost-raising agenda at the ballot box this November and elect Democrats who are fighting to lower costs and deliver for working families," a Democratic National Committee (DNC) spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

The spokesperson added that the "DNC is investing critical resources to reach, register, and mobilize Black voters across the country. While the Trump administration continues to attack civil and voting rights, we are fighting to protect the core of our democracy."

Shannon, a Lawton native who became his state's youngest and first African American House speaker in 2013, and the first member of the Chickasaw Nation to hold the office, is favored to win in November in solidly Republican Oklahoma.

He said speaking in primetime at the convention gave him a chance to stand on the "national stage."

"Any time I get a chance to tell the story about how great Oklahoma is and how great America is, I won't miss a chance to do it," he said.

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A Louisiana man previously accused of repeatedly stabbing a woman and locking her inside a motel room is now being sought by law enforcement after four people were found stabbed to death and a child was critically wounded.

Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet said detectives identified 47-year-old Houma resident Kaegan Jude Solet as a person of interest in the apparent series of stabbing incidents in the Ashland Drive area of Houma.

Deputies were initially called to the 200 block of Ashland Drive, where they discovered the wounded child, according to the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office.

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The child was flown to an out-of-area hospital and remained in critical but stable condition after suffering "extremely significant" injuries, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office Lt. Blake Tabor told Fox News Digital.

"That’s not something that you want to see ever," Tabor said.

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As deputies searched the surrounding area, they made a grim discovery inside nearby homes.

At least four victims were found dead, according to the sheriff’s office. Authorities have not released their identities or disclosed what relationship, if any, they had to one another, the injured child or Solet.

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Investigators also have not said what may have sparked the violence or whether the victims were attacked inside more than one home.

Solet has not been arrested or charged in connection with the latest deaths. The sheriff’s office stressed that identifying him as a person of interest does not mean he has been accused of a crime.

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Authorities believe Solet is likely still in the area but said they are not ruling out other possibilities.

"We’re using every investigative tool that we have," Tabor said. "Our hope is that we plan to get him in custody very quickly."

Tabor said investigators do not currently have information indicating Solet intends to leave the state or "go on the run," but added that authorities are "exploring all options."

Solet had not been located as of the latest update.

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The latest investigation is not the first time Solet’s name has surfaced in connection with violent crime allegations.

Solet was arrested in December 2019 after allegedly stabbing a woman repeatedly and leaving her locked inside a Houma motel room, according to a police news release from the time. 

Houma police responded to the Red Carpet Inn shortly after midnight on Christmas Eve 2019 and found a 59-year-old woman lying on the floor of her room with numerous stab wounds.

The woman was taken by ambulance to a medical facility with injuries considered life-threatening, police said.

Witnesses told investigators they heard someone yelling for help from inside the room. When they entered, they found the woman on the floor and unable to move.

Investigators identified Solet, then 40, as the suspect and said he had been invited into the woman’s room before the two became involved in an argument.

Police alleged the confrontation turned physical and Solet repeatedly stabbed the woman in her head and upper body. He then allegedly fled and locked the motel room door behind him, leaving the critically wounded woman inside.

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Officers located Solet approximately 18 hours later and took him into custody without incident.

He was transported to the Terrebonne Parish Criminal Justice Complex and booked on one count of attempted second-degree murder, according to Houma police.

Terrebonne Parish detectives had also obtained a warrant for Solet’s arrest on a charge of second-degree murder in January 2019, according to a separate sheriff’s office news release.

The warrant was obtained during the investigation into the Jan. 9, 2019 killing of Kemple Paul Scott Lovell. Then-Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said detectives were searching for Solet, who had last been seen in the Houma area.

The final dispositions of both 2019 cases were not immediately available.

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Asked why Solet was no longer in custody, Tabor said authorities were also searching for answers.

"I can’t tell you. Certainly, that’s the hot question, right? Why is he out?" Tabor said. "We’re probably just as stunned as everyone else is."

Tabor emphasized that the sheriff’s office has a strong working relationship with the Terrebonne Parish District Attorney’s Office but said questions remain about how Solet’s previous cases were handled.

"How this slipped through, I certainly don’t know, but it’s a question that probably needs to be answered," Tabor said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the district attorney’s office seeking the circumstances surrounding Solet’s release and whether he remained under any court-ordered supervision, but did not immediately receive a response.

Detectives are continuing to gather evidence and develop information surrounding the latest deadly incidents as the search for Solet continues.

The sheriff’s office urged anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives at 985-876-2500.

The investigation remains active and in its preliminary stages. Authorities said additional details will be released as they become available.

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