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Republican Thomas Massie who stood up to Trump defeated in Kentucky primary | US Midterm Elections 2026 News

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Republican Thomas Massie who stood up to Trump defeated in Kentucky primary | US Midterm Elections 2026 News

With an estimated 72 percent of the vote counted, Ed Gallrein led with 54.4 percent to Massie’s 45.6 percent.

US President Donald Trump has tightened his grip on the Republican Party as Kentucky voters ousted one of the few conservative lawmakers willing to openly challenge his authority.

Congressman Thomas Massie‘s defeat, which was predicted by US news networks, including NBC and CNN, about two hours after polls closed on Tuesday, marks another victory in Trump’s campaign to punish dissent within Republican ranks.

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With an estimated 72 percent of the vote counted, former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein led with 54.4 percent of the vote to Massie’s 45.6 percent.

The Associated Press news agency called the race for Gallrein, whose campaign was backed by Trump’s endorsement as well as millions of dollars from pro-Trump and pro-Israel political lobby groups.

The contest, widely described as the most expensive House of Representatives primary in US history, saw more than $32m spent on advertising and offered the latest evidence of Trump’s hold over Republicans. It followed the primary defeat on Saturday of another Trump critic, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, as well as losses for dissenting Republican state lawmakers in Indiana earlier this month.

“Massie got Trumped. Donald Trump is the sun and the moon and the stars in the Republican Party in Kentucky,” Kentucky-based Republican strategist TJ Litafik said.

A test of Trump’s influence

The Kentucky vote was closely watched as a test of whether Trump’s hold on Republican voters remained firm despite concerns over his war on Iran, growing inflation and declining personal approval ratings, and whether there was still space in the party for lawmakers willing to break with him.

Massie had angered Trump by opposing US military action in Iran and Venezuela, criticising aid to Israel, resisting parts of the president’s agenda, and backing efforts to release files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The president spent months attacking Massie, a libertarian-leaning seven-term congressman, calling him a “moron”, a “nut job” and a “major sleazebag”.

“Dealing with him is just horrible. I don’t think he’s a Republican… He’s not a libertarian,” Trump told reporters after polls opened on Tuesday.

“Sometimes they say he’s really a Dumb-ocrat. He votes against us all the time,” Trump said, using a nickname he frequently deploys against Democrats.

‘I’m not running against President Trump’

In the northern Kentucky city of Covington, Rob Barkley, a former Trump supporter who backed Massie, said the president’s attacks had pushed him further towards the congressman.

“He’s on the Republican side, so he has a conservative mindset,” Barkley told US media after casting his ballot.

“But he’s not as far-right leaning as Trump’s politics,” he said.

Massie, who voted with Trump roughly 90 percent of the time during the president’s second term, framed the contest as a broader test of independence within the Republican Party.

“I’m not running against President Trump. Most of the people voting for me support President Trump like I do,” Massie said.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also made a rare appearance in Massie’s district on Monday to campaign for Gallrein.

Federal law restricts government employees from engaging in partisan political activity while on duty, but Hegseth’s office said he attended in a personal capacity and that no taxpayer money was used.

Trump later revealed that Hegseth’s campaign appearance came just hours before the US had expected to launch a new military assault on Iran, although the operation was later postponed.

Several US states, including Georgia and Pennsylvania, held primaries on Tuesday in advance of November’s midterm elections, but the Kentucky race emerged as one of the night’s most closely-watched contests.

Massie, first elected in 2012, had long been one of Trump’s most persistent Republican critics.



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Georgia Senate runoff could become Kemp vs Trump proxy battle in June

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The quest to find the one candidate that can beat Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., isn’t quite over yet, with a runoff between a political outsider and an experienced lawmaker teed up for next month. 

Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., and former college football coach Derek Dooley are headed to a runoff election on June 16 in a state of particular political consequence for either party hoping to keep or gain power in the Senate.

The contest comes after a bruising primary between Collins, Dooley, and Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and a battle that President Donald Trump has so far avoided. 

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Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democrat policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 9, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

His endorsement, as in other races, could make or break either Collins’ or Dooley’s chances moving forward.

Dooley has embraced the outsider moniker, arguing that he would side with Trump in ways that benefit Georgians. 

“As your Senator, I’ll never forget that you’re the boss and D.C. politicians need accountability,” Dooley said on X. “Term limits. Ban insider trading. End government shutdowns. I’ll fight to end politics as usual in Washington.”

Collins has heavily leaned into his MAGA bonafides in trying to court the president to back him in the race.

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“Georgia needs the right Republican to take on Jon Ossoff,” Collins said on X. “Someone who’s delivered, has the conservative record to prove it, and had President Trump’s back when it mattered most.”

But for Ossoff’s campaign, it doesn’t matter which opponent they face in November. 

“Regardless of which Trump puppet makes it out of this messy and brutal GOP primary, they will be bruised and terminally inseparable from the toxic president,” Ossoff campaign spokesperson Ellie Doughtery told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Meanwhile, the juggernaut Ossoff campaign will continue building insurmountable momentum to win decisively in November.”

While Trump has stayed out of the race, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who Republicans heavily lobbied to run for the Senate until he ultimately declined, has weighed in.

Kemp threw his support behind Dooley, a family friend that he believes can bring a shake-up to the GOP establishment, given his lack of political experience.

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Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia is running for the 2026 Republican Senate nomination, in the crucial race against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff.

WASHINGTON – MAY 23: Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., leaves the House Republicans’ caucus meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.  (Bill Clark)

“I want to win our Senate seat back,” Kemp said before Election Day. “We haven’t done so well in U.S. Senate races here in the state of Georgia in the last several cycles, and we have one more opportunity to try to get one of our Senate seats back. And we got to have the right person to do that.”

The runoff could turn into another political battle between Kemp and Trump, who have sparred since the 2020 election. And Dooley and Collins would act as surrogates in the back and forth should the president decide to get involved. 

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Meanwhile, Democrats are confident that Ossoff will hold on to his seat despite being the only Senate Democratic incumbent running for re-election in a state Trump won in 2024. But the infighting among Republicans and Ossoff’s battle-tested track record have encouraged Democrats that they can win in November.

Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who, like Ossoff, beat an incumbent and again won against a Trump-backed opponent in 2023, had some advice for Republicans hours before polls closed. 

“I want to offer a word of encouragement,” Warnock told Fox News Digital of the GOP’s infighting. “They should keep that up.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.



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Calls for release of Sierra Leonean singer jailed in ‘crackdown on free speech’ | Global development

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Lawyers, politicians and activists have called for the release of one of Sierra Leone’s best-known celebrities, who they said was unjustly imprisoned as part of a government crackdown on free speech and political dissent.

Zainab Sheriff, a singer and reality-TV show contestant who became a political opposition figure, was sentenced in April to four years and two months’ imprisonment for incitement and using threatening language.

Sheriff’s charges stem from a speech she made in January, a video recording of which was played at the trial. According to prosecutors, Sheriff made statements during a rally saying that anyone who rigged an election had stolen the people’s vote, committed treason and they and their families should be killed.

Zainab Sheriff was known for singing and reality TV before she went into politics

During the last election in Sierra Leone in 2023, organisations including the Carter Center, a US election monitoring group, expressed concern about the transparency of the tabulation process.

“A lot of us feel this isn’t about Sheriff’s words,” said Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the capital, Freetown, and a member of the All People’s Congress opposition party. “This is about Sheriff being used as a very, very visible, high-profile example of what you must not do in this society now. You must not speak your mind or you can be charged and end up in jail.

“This is about ensuring that people are scared,” she said. “I am disappointed [in the sentence]. And that’s an understatement. The bottom line is, we’ve heard far worse.”

Arrested on 20 February, Sheriff pleaded not guilty. She was repeatedly denied bail and was sentenced on 14 April. She is being held in a maximum-security prison in Freetown.

Willietta Hughes, legal manager for AdvocAid, a civil society organisation working with girls and women in Sierra Leone, supported Sheriff’s case. She said the court proceedings were at times reminiscent of a show trial and called the sentence “ridiculous”. No evidence was presented that Sheriff’s comments had provoked any public reaction, she said.

Zainab Sheriff arriving at court. The model and musician was repeatedly denied bail and is being held in a maximum-security prison in Freetown. Photograph: Courtesy of Sierraloaded

“We have seen people who have said far worse than what she said and they were either not prosecuted or were given a very low term,” Hughes said. “I see [Sheriff’s case] as sending a message to people that you can’t get up one day and say x, y and z, which is a person’s legal right.”

She added: “It’s a laughing issue, but we’ve seen the trend where the law is being utilised as a weapon against people who speak up.”

Sheriff’s sentence comes a year after Hawa Hunt, a social media influencer, was arrested on live television for posts she made about Sierra Leone’s president, Julius Maada Bio, and the first lady, Fatima Bio, in May 2023. She was detained for two months.

In March 2023, five UN experts wrote to President Bio about the detention and treatment of more than 40 people, predominately women, by the authorities on 4 July 2022 for protesting about increased living costs and the government’s handling of the economy.

Sierra Leone’s president, Julius Maada Bio, pictured with his wife, Fatima, speaks to journalists after voting in 2023’s national elections Photograph: Cooper Inveen/Reuters

Hughes said the case had chilling implications. “As women, we are placed in a certain category where you can only say certain things,” she said. “The moment you say words which appear to be a bit strong, you are considered to be violating some sort of rule or law, and acting against your own gender.”

In a recent interview, Nemata Majeks Walker, a prominent women’s rights activists and founder of the 50/50 Group, spoke out about the climate for women in Sierra Leone, saying repeatedly that she was “scared”.

“It is sad that women’s voices are being oppressed, but women will continue to speak up,” she said. “They will be guarded but they will continue to speak. It will be difficult to speak the truth because you are scared, but we will continue to express that we have a right to take part in politics, we have a right to hold positions of power.”

Aki-Sawyerr added: “It is scary the way the laws are being used. That’s why we have to keep speaking up. We can’t just ignore what I would say is the transformation of our democracy into an authoritarian state.”



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Man plays musical DWI chairs with his friend after showing up drunk to pick them up from DWI arrest

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A man with a prior DWI conviction already under his belt allegedly showed up drunk to the county jail to pick up a friend who had been released after their own DWI arrest.

He did not pass go and did not collect his friend before returning home safely. Antone Glionna, 25, instead played a classic game of musical DWI chairs with the person he was there to drive home.

WRGB Albany reports that he was arrested after deputies suspected that he was intoxicated. Adding to his list of troubles on Saturday, May 16 was the fact that his driver’s license had been revoked due to that prior DWI.

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Glionna of Hagaman, New York, raised suspicion of those at the Montgomery County Jail shortly after his arrival. According to Sheriff Jeffery T. Smith, of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, he drove into a restricted area instead of using the public parking lot.

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A New York man ends up getting arrested for DWI after allegedly driving to the jail under the influencer to pick his friend up from a DWI arrest. (Getty)

A deputy sheriff then talked to him, suspected that he was under the influence and conducted field sobriety tests, which, judging by the fact that he was then arrested for DWI, he must have failed.

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When police checked Glionna’s DMV records, they learned that his New York State driver’s license had been revoked because of a DWI-related conviction and a chemical test refusal.

He went home with several new charges, including unlicensed operation in the first degree and driving with a BAC of 0.08% or higher, among others. He was processed and given an appearance ticket for Glen Town Court.

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Police say a 25-year-old showed up intoxicated to pick up a friend who had been released following a DWI arrest. (Getty)

Authorities said he was then released to a third party. There was no word on whether this third party drove Glionna’s friend home too.

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It’s safe to say when it’s time to call for a ride following a DWI arrest, don’t call a guy who may or may not be your drinking buddy but definitely has his own DWI.

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As WHO sounds alarm over Ebola in DRC, what can be learned from previous outbreaks? | Ebola

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To be around the centre of an Ebola outbreak is to become used to the smell of chlorine. At hospitals and government buildings, surfaces are sprayed with it and hands washed in a 0.05% solution that can kill the virus in 60 seconds.

Infrared handheld thermometers take temperatures at airports and border crossings. Any indication of a fever prevents passage. Contact-tracing teams crisscross the countryside.

From 2018 to 2020, Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s northern Kivu province, was the setting for the largest Ebola outbreak the country had seen. The complexities of the crisis were not confined to the ravages of the virus itself – they were intensified by social, political and economic pressures of an area in the midst of a conflict.

As global health officials wrestle with a serious new Ebola outbreak in the DRC, which has shocked the World Health Organization with its speed and scale, the question is what lessons have been learned from previous outbreaks?

Ebola, unlike Covid, is not a particularly efficient virus. As it is not airborne it requires physical contact with bodily fluids, including blood and vomit, to spread. That makes it particularly risky for healthcare workers, who need full-body personal protective equipment (PPE) and stringent disinfection processes.

Social practices including physical contact with the dead and dying in poor rural communities accelerated the spread in eastern Kivu and Ituri province.

A poster displaying Ebola emergency contact numbers in a tent at the Busunga border crossing between Uganda and the DRC. Photograph: Badru Katumba/AFP/Getty Images

A second critical factor that hampered the response six years ago was the history of political tension between the country’s government in Kinshasa and the Nande ethnic group in eastern Kivu amid an insurgency. The outbreak was exploited by cynical actors during elections, who either suggested Ebola did not exist or had been brought in by outsiders.

That, in turn, led to armed attacks, some lethal, on health workers and Ebola clinics, including one in Butembo while the Guardian was visiting.

While a new vaccination programme was available during that outbreak, there is no vaccine for the current strain of the Ituri outbreak, which is caused by the Bundibugyo variant of Ebola. It is the least well known of the three forms of the disease and has caused only two outbreaks before – in 2007 and 2012 – which killed about 30% of those infected.

Another reason for concern in the current outbreak is the suggestion that the cases may have been missed early on, potentially enabling unrecognised transmission.

One key difference from previous major outbreaks in west and central Africa is the speed with which this time the WHO has declared it a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

In 2018, the WHO was roundly criticised for delaying for four months before declaring a PHEIC, defined as “an extraordinary event that may constitute a public health risk to other countries through international spread of disease and may require an international coordinated response”.

In the current outbreak, a PHEIC was declared within 48 hours, and the WHO’s head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said his concern was so great he had decided to act without an emergency committee meeting.

Despite that, Daniela Manno, a clinical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has warned the current Ituri outbreak shares some of the complicating elements of the 2018 to 2020 outbreak.

“First, the number of suspected cases reported before confirmation suggests transmission may have been ongoing for several weeks before the outbreak was formally recognised,” she said.

“Second, the outbreak is occurring in a region affected by insecurity, population displacement and high population mobility, all of which can complicate surveillance, contact tracing and delivery of healthcare.

“A previous Ebola outbreak affecting North Kivu and Ituri provinces between 2018 and 2020 lasted for nearly two years, with insecurity and community mistrust repeatedly disrupting contact tracing, vaccination and response activities.

A border health officer at a crossing between Uganda and the DRC checks a traveller’s temperature. Experts say the spread into Uganda probably caused the WHO to act quickly. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

“In addition, the outbreak is now thought to be caused by Bundibugyo virus, a rare Ebola-causing virus for which there are currently no licensed vaccines or therapeutics specifically approved. There are also no vaccines in late-stage clinical development that could be readily deployed during the outbreak.

“However, it is important to emphasise that the DRC has extensive experience responding to Ebola outbreaks, and outbreak response capacity is significantly stronger today than it was a decade ago.”

Anne Cori, an associate professor in infectious disease modelling at Imperial College London, said the spread of the disease across an international border had probably influenced the quick declaration of an international public health emergency.

“A PHEIC is an official declaration made by the WHO under the international health regulations, recognising the international nature of a public health threat. It aims to help mobilise attention and resources, and coordinate response efforts at international level.

“The last PHEIC for an Ebola outbreak was declared in July 2019 during the 2018 to 2020 Ebola epidemic in the North Kivu province of the DRC. At the time, the PHEIC was declared a year into the outbreak after it reached the urban area of Goma, threatening to spread internationally to nearby Rwanda.

“The current epidemic already comprises confirmed cases across both the DRC and Uganda, which likely influenced the declaration of a PHEIC as its focus is really the international nature of the threat.”

Peter Beaumont reported from Butembo for the Guardian in 2019, visiting Ebola treatment centres and vaccination efforts.



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Goodbye General Saheb: Vice President expressed grief over the demise of former CM Khanduri, reached his residence to pay tribute – Vice President Radhakrishnan Expressed Grief Over Demise Of Former Cm Khanduri Arrived To Pay Tribute Dehradun

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Goodbye General Saheb: Vice President expressed grief over the demise of former CM Khanduri, reached his residence to pay tribute – Vice President Radhakrishnan Expressed Grief Over Demise Of Former Cm Khanduri Arrived To Pay Tribute Dehradun

Vice President CP Radhakrishnan expressed deep condolences on the demise of former CM Major General BC Khanduri (Senior). He said that his contribution will remain as a milestone in the development of the country. In his demise the country has lost a distinguished soldier, an able administrator and a politician of exceptional integrity.



The Vice President reached Khanduri’s Basant Vihar home this morning to pay tribute. The Vice President, who came to Dehradun on January 17, reached his residence and met Khanduri to inquire about his well being. During this, he recalled his relationship as a former colleague in the Lok Sabha.

BC Khanduri died due to heart attack Former Chief Minister Major General Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri (Senior) died of a mild heart attack. He was hospitalized for 49 days. He breathed his last at 11.10 am on Tuesday at the age of 91. According to the information received from the hospital management, Major General BC Khanduri (Senior) was admitted to a private hospital on April 1.

The doctors’ examination revealed bleeding in his intestines. He was undergoing treatment under the supervision of doctors. He suffered a mild cardiac arrest at around 11.10 am on Tuesday morning and died. Khanduri was unwell for a long time. He had to come to the hospital again and again. After recovery, he was sent home but after being admitted in April, there was no improvement in his condition. He was under the observation of specialist doctors for 49 days. There is mourning in the entire state due to his death.

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Three days of state mourning has been declared in the state on the death of former Chief Minister of the state, Major General BC Khanduri. In view of this, government, non-government and private schools and offices of the state will remain closed today. Director of Secondary Education Dr. Mukul Kumar Sati has issued an order in this regard.

Shapiro, Sanders-backed union boss Bob Brooks wins Pennsylvania 7th primary

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One of the nation’s most narrowly divided swing congressional districts chose its Democratic nominee Tuesday evening, as Bob Brooks was projected to win in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District.

The contested primary brought Democratic Party divisions front and center, featuring firefighters union boss Bob Brooks — endorsed by both Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — former federal prosecutor Ryan Crosswell, Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure and EMILY’s List-endorsed candidate Carol Obando-Derstine, who is seen as the preferred pick of the district’s last Democratic representative, former Rep. Susan Wild of Allentown.

Brooks received several high-profile endorsements from Shapiro, Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and top state Democrats, including House Majority Leader Matt Bradford of Skippack and Sen. Vincent Hughes of Northwest Philadelphia.

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The skyline of Allentown, Pennsylvania, the state’s third-largest city, is visible from the Tilghman Street Bridge. (Charles Creitz)

Brooks also earned the endorsement of the mayor of the area’s largest city — Allentown, the third-largest city in the commonwealth.

Meanwhile, McClure — the only current local officeholder in the race — did not immediately gain traction against Brooks.

Brooks appeared to weather intraparty controversy after old social media posts expressing more moderate or conservative views resurfaced — including one using an off-color sexual term to describe former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for criticizing law enforcement during the BLM era.

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Recent construction on Eighth Street in Allentown revealed an old-style campaign sign for Bill Heydt, the city’s last Republican mayor who served from 1994 to 2002. (Charlie Creitz)

Crosswell was born in nearby Schuylkill County but for many years worked in Washington for the Justice Department. He was one of several prosecutors who resigned in protest of the Trump administration dropping a federal probe into former New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Adams has since become less critical of the right and has often dinged his successor, Zohran Mamdani, on social media.

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Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., attends the House Education and Workforce Committee hearing titled “Beyond The Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on American Campuses” in the Rayburn Building on May 7, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The district’s tri-city hub of Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton — known locally as “A.B.E.” or “The Valley” — has a blue-collar history that has at times entered the national consciousness through Billy Joel’s famous anthem about Bethlehem Steel and other firms “closing all the factories down,” while the now-blighted SteelStacks often serve as both a backdrop for what once was and a rallying call for politicians pushing what comes next.

That “next” has included a wave of new warehouses and firms dedicated to interstate commerce, along with growth tied to the tech sector.

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Farmland in the northern part of the district is gradually being developed into homes and warehouses — to the chagrin of many longtime residents — as an influx of people from higher-tax New Jersey and New York, along with the area’s changing socioeconomic makeup, brings more liberal and progressive voters into a once “Reagan Democrat”-style region rooted in agriculture and union labor.

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The former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces are seen from Pennsylvania Route 412 near Lehigh University’s campus. (Charles Creitz/Fox News Digital)

The district’s current boundaries still reflect that contrast, as the farther north one travels, the more rural, agrarian or forested — and conservative — the area becomes. Wild drew criticism twice for appearing to insult the Trump-supporting swath of Carbon County, the only one of the district’s three counties entirely within the 7th Congressional District to vote for Mackenzie in 2024.

The Republican in the race, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie of Lower Macungie, was a state representative in western Lehigh County for many years before upsetting Wild by one percentage point in 2024.

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Mackenzie has since drawn praise from President Donald Trump and criticism from the left, whose protesters often gather outside his office and spill onto busy Cedar Crest Boulevard in southwest Allentown.

As the House GOP’s narrow majority hangs in the balance, it remains to be seen which side is energized enough to turn out for its candidate in a race the nation will be watching closely.

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Clint Eastwood cannon from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly traced to Spanish museum | Spain

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Six decades after Clint Eastwood nonchalantly used a cigar to light its fuse and fell a fleeing Eli Wallach, the Manchester-made cannon that appeared in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly has been rediscovered in a museum in south-east Spain.

The artillery piece was tracked down by the Sad Hill Cultural Association, a group of volunteers dedicated to restoring the graveyard near Burgos, northern Spain, built for the climax of Sergio Leone’s seminal spaghetti western.

After coming across images of the cannon in a book on the film, the association set about trying to trace some of the weapons used in preparation for the 60th anniversary of the movie’s release later this year.

The 75mm cannon, made in Manchester by Whitworth in 1873, was one of the antique arms lent to Leone’s production team by the Spanish military. After filming it was returned to the army museum in Madrid. There it languished on outdoor display until 2010, when the museum and its collection were moved to Toledo.

A few months ago, Diego Montero, treasurer of the Sad Hill Cultural Association, visited the Toledo museum to look for the cannon. Further research led to the south-eastern Spanish city of Cartagena, where Montero discovered a group of retired soldiers had restored a 19th-century British cannon from the local military history museum.

The cannon before restoration, in the military history museum in Cartagena, south-east Spain. Photograph: Cartagena military history museum

“A few days ago we wanted to check the photos from the book against a more detailed photo, so we wrote to the director of the Cartagena museum, and he sent us a closeup photo of the top of the cannon and of the piece’s number,” said Montero. The serial numbers matched.

“The museum had no idea that they had the cannon that was used in the film. We told them that we were going to put out a press release because we knew that a lot of people would be interested – and they’d get loads of visits.”

The city council is certainly keen to use the cannon’s fame to draw more visitors. It posted on social media on Monday: “Did you know that one of cinema’s most famous cannons is in Cartagena and that you can visit it for free?”, with the post accompanied, inevitably, by Ennio Morricone’s genre-defining theme.

The museum’s director, Lt Col Ernesto Terry, said the cannon’s fame was already causing a stir.

Eli Wallach in a scene from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Photograph: United Artists/Allstar

“We had no idea this was the cannon from the film,” he said. “It’s been crazy and I’ve been talking about it non-stop to the media and to people who have been ringing to ask me about it. It’s been madness and we’ve had a lot more visitors.”

While the Sad Hill Cultural Association would love to borrow the cannon and temporarily reinstall it in the Burgos landscape, where it last stood 60 years ago, its protected heritage status means that will not be in time for the anniversary.

“The bureaucratic procedures are very lengthy, and we don’t have time,” said Montero. “But we’ll definitely try to do something in the future. Maybe we can get hold of the piece and at least bring it to Burgos, because there’s a military museum there.”



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Lake Baikal hovercraft built for 10 people reportedly carried 18 before crash

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A Carnival cruise ship crew spotted distress flares while sailing to Cozumel, Mexico, and rescued a stranded sailor and his cat at sea. Both were brought safely aboard and received care. FOX 26 spoke with two passengers who were on board the ship.

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A tourist outing on the frozen edges of Siberia’s Lake Baikal ended in tragedy Tuesday after a hovercraft carrying travelers overturned in frigid waters — leaving five people dead and sparking a large-scale rescue effort, according to Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations and as cited by local media Interfax and Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Emergency officials said the vessel — a Sever-750 airboat designed to travel across both ice and water — capsized just offshore with 18 people aboard. 

Rescue crews managed to pull 13 survivors from the lake, including a child, while five others were pronounced dead at the scene.

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“According to updated information, there were 18 people on board the hovercraft. Thirteen people, including a child, were rescued. Unfortunately, five people died,” EMERCOM said in a statement to Interfax.

The group had been traveling as part of a guided tour near Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake and one of Siberia’s most popular tourist destinations, according to Russian media outlets.

Tourist walking on blue cracked ice with snow on Baikal lake near Khoboy cape

A tourist outing on Siberia’s Lake Baikal, shown above, ended in tragedy Tuesday after a hovercraft carrying travelers overturned in frigid waters, leaving five people dead, according to Russian authorities. (iStock)

Most of the passengers are believed to be visitors from Moscow, the outlets said.

Authorities have not yet determined what caused the incident, but early reports suggest the hovercraft may have become unstable after moving onto thin ice near the shoreline.

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Investigators are also looking into whether overcrowding played a role, local outlets reported. 

Russian media indicated that the hovercraft was built to carry no more than 10 passengers but was transporting 18 people along with heavy equipment at the time of the incident.

A rocky island in a partly frozen lake with snow along the shore and a sunset sky.

Authorities have not yet determined what caused the accident on the lake, but early reports indicate the hovercraft may have become unstable. (iStock)

Komsomolskaya Pravda reported the captain steered the hovercraft onto ice and jumped into the water shortly before it overturned.

One survivor suffered a leg injury and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, local media outlets said.

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The hovercraft tragedy underscores the rapidly changing weather conditions, dangerous waves and strong winds associated with Lake Baikal, reports indicated.

A local tour operator told Russian outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda that the model involved in the crash was poorly suited for the lake’s rough conditions.

A frozen Lake Baikal covered in snow and ice under a clear sky

A local tour operator told a Russian outlet that the model involved in the crash was not suited for the lake’s rough conditions. (iStock)

“These boats are known to be unstable on open water,” the operator reportedly said, saying the vessel is more commonly used on rivers and calmer surfaces.

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Lake Baikal, often described as an inland sea because of its enormous size, is notorious for sudden storms and icy conditions even during tourist season, according to National Geographic.

Investigators from Russia’s transport prosecutor’s office and the country’s Investigative Committee have opened an inquiry into the crash as officials work to determine whether safety violations contributed to the deadly accident, several reports said.

Top-down view of Lake Baikal's frozen surface with intersecting ice cracks and snow spots.

Investigators have opened an inquiry into the crash as officials work to determine whether safety violations contributed to the deadly accident. (iStock)

The Investigative Committee and the Buryat Transport Prosecutor’s Office (BTPO) are investigating the hovercraft accident, according to Russian media outlets.

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Lake Baikal, located in southeastern Siberia, is considered one of the world’s most extraordinary natural landmarks. Recognized as the oldest, deepest and largest freshwater lake by volume, it holds nearly 20% of the planet’s unfrozen fresh water.

Fox News Digital reached out to EMERCOM and the BTPO for comment.

Jessica Mekles is an editor on the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital. 



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