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James Comey faces indictment over seashell post amid First Amendment fears
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Legal questions are emerging over whether charges against former FBI Director James Comey would withstand a First Amendment challenge as he is indicted for a social media post allegedly tied to threats against President Donald Trump.
Comey faced charges Tuesday under 18 U.S.C. § 871, which criminalizes threats against the president, and 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which covers interstate communications containing threats to harm others.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News Digital just before the indictment was released that, if the case is based solely on the widely circulated image posted by Comey, it could face steep constitutional hurdles.
“If Comey is charged for the shell picture, it would face a monumental challenge under the First Amendment,” Turley said. “In my view, the image itself is clearly protected speech. Absent some other unknown facts or elements, it would be unlikely to survive a threshold constitutional challenge.”
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Both statutes require prosecutors to prove not only that a statement constituted a “true threat,” but that it was made knowingly and with intent —standards that legal analysts say could prove difficult to meet based on publicly available information.
The indictment was filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of North Carolina, where Comey allegedly posted the image of seashells forming the numbers “86 47” during a beach walk.
Others pushed back on the idea that the case raises significant First Amendment concerns, arguing that threats against a sitting president fall squarely outside protected speech.
“The third assassination attempt against President Trump on Saturday made this crystal clear: The Justice Department must prosecute those who threaten to assassinate the President,” said Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project. “No one has a First Amendment right to do this. No one is above the law, especially not a former director of the FBI who should know better. A jury of James Comey’s peers will decide his fate.”
That argument comes amid heightened concerns about threats against Trump following a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where a suspect has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
Prosecutors allege that the post would be interpreted by a “reasonable recipient familiar with the circumstances” as a serious expression of intent to harm the president, signaling they intend to rely heavily on context surrounding the message rather than explicit language alone.
The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, W. Ellis Boyle, will oversee the case. Boyle was appointed in 2025 and sworn in by his father, a longtime federal judge in the district, after being selected for the role by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Legal questions are emerging over whether expected charges against former FBI Director James Comey would withstand a First Amendment challenge. (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg)
The indictment marks the second time Comey has been charged under the second Trump administration.
In 2025, he was indicted on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding tied to his testimony in the FBI’s Russia probe. That case was later dismissed after a federal judge ruled the prosecutor had been unlawfully appointed.
Comey, who served as FBI director from 2013 to 2017, has long been a polarizing figure in U.S. politics, drawing criticism from both parties over his handling of the Clinton email investigation and the FBI’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential links between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
He was fired by Trump in 2017 amid escalating tensions tied in part to the Russia investigation.
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The expected charges stem from a social media post in which Comey shared an image of seashells arranged to form the numbers “8647,” which some critics interpreted as a coded threat against Trump. The post drew swift backlash and prompted an investigation.
James Comey posted a photo on Instagram showing him standing on a beach. (Fox News)
Former FBI Director James Comey appears in a courtroom sketch during his arraignment in Virginia Oct. 8, 2025. (Dana Verkouteren/Unknown)
Comey later said he did not intend the image to be interpreted as a call for violence.
“I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
His explanation could complicate prosecutors’ efforts to establish intent, a key element required under both statutes.
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Comey’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Broken VECT 2.0 ransomware acts as a data wiper for large files
Researchers are warning that the VECT 2.0 ransomware has a problem in the way it handles encryption nonces that leads to permanently destroying larger files rather than encrypt them.
VECT has been advertised on one of the latest BreachForums iterations, inviting registered users to become affiliates, and distributing access keys via private messages to those who showed interest.
At some point, VECT operators announced a partnership with TeamPCP, the threat group responsible for the recent supply-chain attacks impacting Trivy, LiteLLM, and Telnyx, as well as an attack against the European Commission.
In the announcement, VECT operators stated that their goal was to exploit victims of those supply-chain compromises, deploying ransomware payloads in their environments, as well as to conduct larger supply-chain attacks against other organizations.
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While this is meant to increase encryption speed for larger files, because all chunk encryptions use the same memory buffer for the nonce output, each new nonce overwrites the previous one.
Once all chunks are processed, only the last nonce generated remains in memory, and only that one is written to disk.
As a result, the only portion of the file that is recoverable is the last 25%, with the previous three parts being impossible to decrypt, as the nonces have been lost.
Those lost nonces aren’t transmitted to the attacker either, so even if VECT operators wanted to decrypt the files for victims paying the ransom, they wouldn’t be able to.
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While this is meant to increase encryption speed for larger files, because all chunk encryptions use the same memory buffer for the nonce output, each new nonce overwrites the previous one.
Once all chunks are processed, only the last nonce generated remains in memory, and only that one is written to disk.
As a result, the only portion of the file that is recoverable is the last 25%, with the previous three parts being impossible to decrypt, as the nonces have been lost.
Those lost nonces aren’t transmitted to the attacker either, so even if VECT operators wanted to decrypt the files for victims paying the ransom, they wouldn’t be able to.
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Check Point notes that, since most valuable enterprise files, including VM disks, database files, and backups, are above 128kb, VECT’s impact as a data wiper can be catastrophic in most environments.
“At a threshold of only 128 KB, smaller than a typical email attachment or office document, what the code classifies as a large file encompasses not just VM disks, databases, and backups, but routine documents, spreadsheets, and mailboxes. In practice, almost nothing a victim would care to recover falls below this boundary,” Check Point says.
The researchers found that the same nonce-handling flaw is present across all variants of the VECT 2.0 ransomware, including Windows, Linux, and ESXi, so the same data-wiping behavior applies across all cases.
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Beverley Martyn, spirited British folk singer, dies aged 79 | Folk music
British folk singer Beverley Martyn, known for her collaborations with her former husband John Martyn as well as spirited, sublime solo work, has died aged 79.
A statement from the family of the late John Martyn announced the news, saying she died peacefully at home on Monday. “Beverley was a remarkable woman of great inner strength,” the statement continued. “She was beautiful, intelligent, warm and kind.”
Born Beverley Kutner near Coventry in 1947, she moved to London in her mid-teens to attend drama school and worked her way into the city’s folk music scene, which was flourishing in the early 1960s: she learned to play guitar from British folk legend Bert Jansch, an early boyfriend.
She released a single with her band, the Levee Breakers, the stridently jangling Babe I’m Leaving You, and also recorded solo songs including the enduring Happy New Year, a fuzz-guitar romp written by Randy Newman and featuring a pre-Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones among the session musicians. Page later said: “It was a remarkable session, at the time it was recorded I knew that she was a shining talent in the world of performance and songwriting.” Another single, Museum, was written by Donovan.
After becoming romantically involved with Paul Simon during his developmental years in London – “He had a Napoleon complex. Very intelligent. Moody, but witty,” was her assessment of him in a 2014 Guardian interview – she travelled with him to perform at the Monterey pop festival in 1967 (the culture-shifting event where Jimi Hendrix famously set his guitar on fire) and briefly appeared on the Simon & Garfunkel album Bookends, a US and UK No 1.
She became a single mother to a son, Wesley, from another relationship, then met John Martyn in 1969, soon marrying him. Immersed in the folk-rock counterculture in the US, they recorded a duo album, Stormbringer!, in 1969 in Woodstock, with the Band’s Levon Helm on drums and Joe Boyd producing. It was released in 1970, and later that year they recorded and released another, The Road to Ruin (its opening track Primrose Hill would later be sampled by Fatboy Slim).
Beverley also came to know British folk star Nick Drake, who would babysit for her children; they wrote a song together, Reckless Jane, which Beverley completed in 2014.
She and John had two children of their own, but after he pursued his solo career, “my career was over”, she said in 2014. “I had my hands full. I did the odd gig with John, and the odd one on my own, but I had no future.”
Their marriage soured; John, who struggled with alcohol and drugs, became paranoid and threatening. “There was love there – it was the drink and the bad drugs, the very heavy ones, that changed his disposition, and they made life unbearable for anyone around him,” she later said. “I wouldn’t stay with a man who was killing himself.”
She escaped the marriage and moved to Brighton, fitfully making music including with Loudon Wainwright III and Wilko Johnson, but it wasn’t until her 2014 solo album, The Phoenix and the Turtle, that she made a more emphatic return. “It was a great relief to finally do something on my own terms. That was a dream I’d almost given up on,” she said of that project.
That would be her final collection of new material, though in 2018 she released a compilation of her 1960s songs, entitled Where the Good Times Are.
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Costco employee shot dead after blocking armed shopper in Strongsville
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A Costco employee in Ohio was shot and killed after refusing entry to a shopper who attempted to enter the store while carrying a weapon equipped with a drum magazine.
Police in Strongsville, Ohio, responded to reports of gunfire outside the Costco on Royalton Road around 5:45 p.m. on April 25 and found 61-year-old Randolph E. Corrigan with multiple gunshot wounds. Officers began first aid before he was transported to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Witnesses told police the suspect, 22-year-old Christian M. Bryant of Fort Worth, Texas, was seen walking toward the store entrance with “a drum magazine protruding from one of his pockets,” according to authorities.
Corrigan approached Bryant and told him he could not enter the store with the weapon, according to police.
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The suspect reportedly tried to enter carrying a weapon when the employee stopped him. (iStock)
According to a court document obtained by WJW, Bryant fired one round and then “after a split second pause, fired many more, one after another, with no pause.”
A police report said Corrigan was shot multiple times, including in the chest, abdomen and right arm. He was initially conscious and able to answer questions, but his condition quickly declined.
Several bystanders stopped to help Corrigan at the scene, with one person applying pressure to his wounds until first responders arrived, according to the report.
Randolph Corrigan, 61, was shot and killed outside a Costco in Strongsville, Ohio, on April 25, 2026. (Facebook/Randy Corrigan)
Bryant told police after his arrest that “a white man approached me with a knife for no reason” and that “I defended myself.” During a court hearing Monday, he reiterated the claim, saying, “This man approached me with a knife.”
Police said Corrigan had a pocket knife at the time of the encounter.
Bryant is charged with murder and appeared in Berea Municipal Court on Monday, where Judge Sean Kilbane set his bond at $5 million at the request of Strongsville police Detective Zaki Hazou.
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A GoFundMe created after Corrigan’s death claimed he ‘loved going to work at Costco.’ (iStock)
Hazou said Bryant is a truck driver who was passing through Ohio and has a prior criminal record, though he is not currently on probation or parole.
The case is expected to be presented to a Cuyahoga County grand jury, and additional charges may be considered, according to police.
Following Corrigan’s death, a GoFundMe page was launched to help his family cover funeral expenses. As of Tuesday evening, the fundraiser had raised more than $40,000 of its $55,000 goal.
“He was selfless and caring…the sole caregiver for my 86-year-old grandmother,” the page’s description read. “Aside from taking care of her, he LOVED going to work at Costco, always talking about his coworkers. He would joke, laugh, and pass around sweet treats to everyone around him, making every day brighter for those he met.”
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A victim advocate speaking on behalf of Corrigan’s family said they want “justice to be served” and urged anyone who witnessed the shooting to come forward.
Representatives for Costco and the Strongsville Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
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Armed group announces siege on Mali capital | Al-Qaeda
The al-Qaeda-linked JNIM has announced the beginning of a “total siege” on Mali’s capital Bamako, warning civilians they’ll be targeted if they don’t “stay out of the way”. Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque says a showdown between armed groups and the army there now appears likely.
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High school football recruit has wrong hat at commitment ceremony
College football recruiting has gotten a little out of hand these days.
With how much money these kids are making just to take visits, the whole thing has become a giant spectacle.
Even traditions from the pre-NIL days of recruiting that have made their way over to the modern game have gotten bloated and overused.
Take the “hat game,” for instance.
A kid announces he’s going to commit to a school (probably not even for the last time, mind you), and has a big ceremony at his high school gymnasium.
He usually sits at the center of the gym with four or five hats spread out across a table, and then he’ll pretend to put one on before tossing it into the stands and picking the team he actually wants to commit to.
Yawn.
Hudson Heinemann attends National Signing Day at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., on Feb. 5, 2025, committing as a Division 1 quarterback for Villanova University. (Jason Koerner/Getty Images)
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The theatrics have become so cliche that even I don’t watch commitment ceremonies anymore, and I eat, sleep and breathe college football recruiting.
One high school prospect had a fun — albeit likely unintentional — twist on the hat game Monday afternoon, however.
De’voun Kendrick is a three-star defensive tackle from the Tampa area who had a commitment ceremony of his own, with his final four schools being Florida, Texas A&M, Louisville and Georgia Tech.
He ended up picking the Gators, but his choice wasn’t the newsworthy portion of the ceremony.
Take a look at the hat he chose to represent the Louisville CARDINALS.
Whoops!
Something tells me the St. Louis Cardinals aren’t looking to sign a 17-year-old defensive tackle who’s never held a baseball bat in his life, but I could be wrong.
I know they’re sitting near the bottom of the NL Central right now, but I don’t think they’re that desperate.
St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Brendan Donovan celebrates with manager Oliver Marmol after the Cardinals defeated the Colorado Rockies at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. (Jeff Curry/Imagn Images)
I have to applaud Kendrick for giving me a laugh. These hat game ceremonies have become so tedious lately, it’s great to see a little humor being injected into them.
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Again, did he do this intentionally? Probably not.
But it’s hilarious either way.
Louisville Cardinals players eat Bush’s Baked Beans from the simmering stovetop trophy at the Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans in Boca Raton, Fla., on Dec. 23, 2025. (James McEntee/AP Content Services)
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I don’t need my defensive tackles to be Rhodes Scholarship candidates, so I am quite all right with this blunder.
Welcome to Gainesville, De’Voun!
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Mountaineer climbs Everest for Palestinian children | Gaza
Mostafa Salameh, a Palestinian-Jordanian mountaineer, is on a mission to carry handwritten letters from children in Gaza to the top of Mount Everest. His journey aims to raise global awareness of the hardships they’ve faced.
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New IRA claims Belfast police station car bomb, warns of more attacks
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A dangerous dissident republican group, the New IRA—linked to Iran and Hezbollah—claimed responsibility Tuesday for a car bomb outside a Belfast police station before warning of further attacks, according to reports.
The blast targeted a Police Service of Northern Ireland station in Dunmurry, with police increasing patrols after the group threatened to target officers at their homes.
A 66-year-old man was also arrested Tuesday under terrorism laws following the explosion, Reuters reported.
In a statement attributed to the “leadership of the IRA,” the group said the bomb was meant to kill officers leaving the station. It warned that anyone cooperating with police “will be severely dealt with.”
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Forensic investigators inspect the site of a car bomb that exploded outside Dunmurry police station in South Belfast, (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
A 2020 report by The Times, citing information from an MI5 informant, alleged connections among the New IRA, Lebanon-based Hezbollah, and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The report said individuals linked to the group signed a book of condolences following the 2020 killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, raising concerns about possible external support, including weapons and funding.
“The New IRA–Hezbollah link is a useful data point in a much larger pattern: the operationalization of the so-called axis of resistance,” former Defense Department intelligence officer Andrew Badger told Fox News Digital.
The European Union designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, with Ursula von der Leyen pledging rapid implementation following a violent crackdown. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)
“This joins Russia, Iran, China, North Korea and an expanding bench of aligned non-state actors—into a working logistical and tradecraft network across the globe,” Badger said.
“What we are watching is the maturing of a hybrid warfare model, pioneered and led by Russia and Iran, in which adversaries of the Western-led order increasingly share tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) across geographies and ideologies,” said Badger, the co-author of “The Great Heist.“
The New IRA’s latest bombing also follows a similar attempted car bomb attack on another police station outside Belfast just weeks ago. It is one of several militant groups that oppose the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and want to end British rule in Northern Ireland and establish a united Ireland.
The New IRA, linked to Iran and Hezbollah, claimed responsibility Tuesday for a car bomb outside a Belfast police station. (AP Photo / Peter Morrison)
It has carried out a series of attacks in recent years targeting police and security forces.
“The real challenge for local Irish police and security services is that these groups now compound each other’s learning,” Badger added.
“A tactic battle-tested in one theatre can be in the hands of a dissident cell in another within months—and Western counter-terror structures simply aren’t wired to track that kind of cross-pollination,” he said.
“A Lebanese Shia militia training a hard-left Irish republican faction would have looked exotic 10 years ago,” he added.
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“Today it is consistent with a wider pipeline including Russian sabotage cells using local criminal proxies in Europe and Iranian-directed assassination plots on U.K. and U.S. soil.”
“The playbook of these actors—proxies, dual-use logistics, weapons-and-finance pipelines, exploitation of grievance movements in the target country—appear to be converging,” Badger added.
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