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Fox News Has Used This 'Convenient Distraction' To Depart From Epstein Coverage: Report
Fox News has appeared to feature more talk of Sydney Sweeney's controversial American Eagle ad in recent days than it has discussed the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, per a new report by Media Matters for America. The conservative network mentioned Sweeney — whose 'great jeans' ad has generated backlash amid accusations that it glorified whiteness and nods to eugenics — on 62 occasions with a total of 85 minutes of coverage from Monday to midday Thursday, according to the nonprofit media watchdog. Epstein received 14 mentions and was 'often brought up in passing or short headline reports,' adding up to a total of under three minutes of coverage, per the report. The analysis also found that CNN, Newsmax and MSNBC mentioned Epstein overwhelmingly more than Sweeney in the same timespan, with the latter outlet not referring to the 'Euphoria' actor whatsoever. The fixation on Sweeney marked a departure from covering the fallout of the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files in the same week that the president didn't rule out pardoning the late sex offender's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. The president has also recently implied that Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre — one of his most prominent accusers — from his Mar-a-Lago spa, comments that her family has since described as 'shocking.' MMFA's latest findings arrive a week after its report that Fox News turned its attention toward a 'familiar boogeyman' in Barack Obama instead of covering Epstein, mentioning the ex-president three times more than the disgraced financier from July 18 to midday July 23. Related... Trump Fumes Over 'Loser' Fox News Host Moments After Her NYC Shooting Take James Carville Gives Fox News Viewers Uncomfortable Reminder About Jeffrey Epstein Fox News Apparently 'Largely Obeyed' This Trump Order On Epstein, New Report Finds
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Texas Dad Sentenced to 50 Years in Jail After Adopted Son, 7, Found Dead Inside Washing Machine
Troy Koehler's adoptive mother, Tiffany Thomas, has been charged in relation to his death, and her sentencing has been set for Sept. 10NEED TO KNOW Troy Koehler was found dead inside a washing machine at his Texas family home on July 28, 2022 His adoptive father, Jemaine Thomas, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his murder Troy's adoptive mother Tiffany Thomas' sentencing has been set for Sept. 10Three years after 7-year-old Troy Koehler was found dead inside a washing machine at his family home, his adoptive father has been sentenced for his murder. According to a press release from the Harris County District Attorney's Office and court records reviewed by PEOPLE on Wednesday, July 30, Jemaine Thomas, 45, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for murdering Troy after pleading guilty. Troy's former first-grade teacher, Sheryl Reed, read a victim impact statement in court. 'Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. That was always Troy. He loved reading. If he finished early, he'd head straight to our class library. Then he'd go right back to share those stories with lifting others up with the joy he carried," she said. Court records reviewed by PEOPLE show that Troy's adoptive mother, Tiffany Thomas, 38, has been charged with injury to a child under 15 b/injury. Her bond has been set at $300,000. She pleaded guilty and her sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 10. An additional charge of injury to a child by omission was previously made against Tiffany but dismissed, court records show. As previously reported by PEOPLE, Jemaine and Tiffany are believed to have adopted Troy in 2019. Troy was discovered dead on July 28, 2022, when his parents filed a missing persons report. When officers arrived at the home, they "did a brief interview for the missing person report" with Troy's parents, Lt. Robert Minchew of the Harris County Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit said in a previous press conference. "Things that they observed led them to search the house thoroughly at that point. They found a deceased 7-year-old child in the washing machine in the garage," he said. Troy was found clothed in the top-loading washing machine at 7:20 a.m. According to court documents reviewed by KPRC 2 Houston, Troy was threatened with being put inside an oven, after he allegedly ate some of Tiffany's oatmeal cream pies. Prosecutors said text messages revealed Jemaine was also upset after allegedly discovering that Troy had eaten his doughnut sticks. 'I need to get the [locks]. I'm going to end up kill[ing] him," he allegedly wrote in the text message, per KPRC 2 Houston. In November 2022, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez announced on X that forensic scientists conducted an autopsy on Troy, which revealed that he "suffered new and previous injuries" as a result of the incident. His death was ruled a homicide. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. According to KPRC 2 Houston, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services later confirmed that Child Protective Services had a prior history with the family. Read the original article on People
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Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science, medical research funding, citing antisemitism
The Trump administration has frozen hundreds of science, medical and other federal grants to UCLA worth nearly $200 million, citing the university's alleged 'discrimination' in admissions and failure to 'promote a research environment free of antisemitism.' The decision to pull funding comes after Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department said this week that UCLA would pay a 'heavy price' for acting with 'deliberate indifference' to the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students who complained of antisemitic incidents since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, Israel's ensuing war in Gaza and campus protests the events spurred last year. The cancellation of grants is the first large-scale targeted funding claw-back against UCLA under the Trump administration. Until now, the White House has largely focused its attempts to remake higher education on elite East Coast schools such as Columbia, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania. Each has reached deals with the government in recent weeks over issues including admissions, Jewish student life, student discipline, antisemitism training and gender identity in sports. In a letter to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk dated Wednesday, the National Science Foundation wrote that it was terminating grants because 'the University of California – Los Angeles continues to engage in race discrimination including in its admissions process, and in other areas of student life.' An estimated 300 NSF grants totaling $180 million have been canceled. About half of the funds were already distributed. Before the letter was released Thursday, researchers were expecting the other half to follow. In a letter to the university community Thursday, Frenk wrote that the canceled grants are from NSF, NIH and other federal agencies, but he did not give a dollar amount or list the other agencies. A partial list of terminated grants reviewed by The Times added up to roughly $200 million. The list was provided by a source who was not authorized to share the information. Frenk called the government's decision 'deeply disappointing' and 'a loss for Americans across the nation whose work, health, and future depend on the groundbreaking work we do.' 'In its notice to us, the federal government claims antisemitism and bias as the reasons,' Frenk wrote. 'This far-reaching penalty of defunding life-saving research does nothing to address any alleged discrimination.' Spokespeople for the NSF and NIH did not immediately reply to requests for comment Thursday. The federal government's decision to cut UCLA off from significant federal funds follows a similar playbook to its dealings with Ivy League institutions. The Trump administration this spring canceled billions of dollars in federal grants to Harvard, which has sued in federal court to reverse the terminations and stop a Trump move to rescind its ability to host international students. Harvard is separately in negotiations with the White House to end the legal fight. Columbia University this month agreed to pay more than $200 million to the federal government to resolve investigations over alleged antisemitism amid its response to 2024 pro-Palestinian protests. On Wednesday, Brown University also came to a $50 million agreement with the White House. The Brown payment will go toward Rhode Island workforce development programs. The Department of Justice said this week that it had found UCLA guilty of violating the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students. The department also indicated that it wanted to the university to enter into negotiations to avoid a federal lawsuit. The department gave UCLA a Tuesday deadline to communicate its desire to negotiate. If not, the DOJ said, it was ready to sue by Sept. 2. The University of California, in a statement, was unclear on whether it would settle or go to court. 'UCLA has addressed and will continue to address the issues raised in [the] Department of Justice notice,' Stett Holbrook, Associate Director, Strategic and Critical Communications, wrote in a statement Wednesday. He cited a $6.45 million settlement the university reached with Jewish students who had sued over claims that the 2024 encampment had discriminated against them. 'We have cooperated fully with the Department of Justice's investigation and are reviewing its findings closely,' Holbrook wrote. In his Thursday letter, Frenk shot back against the cuts. 'Let me be clear: Federal research grants are not handouts. Our researchers compete fiercely for these grants, proposing work that the government itself deems vital to the country's health, safety and economic future,' he wrote. 'Grants lead to medical breakthroughs, economic advancement, improved national security and global competitiveness — these are national priorities,' Frenk wrote, adding that 'we are actively evaluating our best course of action. We will be in constant communication as decisions move forward.'
