The FBI is investigating Fulton County’s handling of the 2020 election, according to newly filed search warrant affidavits outlining alleged ballot irregularities and record-keeping failures.

The FBI special agent who wrote the affidavits, which were filed Tuesday in federal court by the Department of Justice, described a wide-ranging probe into missing ballot images, inconsistent recount totals and chain-of-custody problems, raising allegations long leveled by President Donald Trump and his base.

The agent, Hugh Evans of the FBI Atlanta Field Office, said in the affidavits that physical ballots were needed to determine whether the irregularities were administrative errors or intentional.

FBI AGENTS SEARCH ELECTION HUB IN FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA

Evans noted that the FBI was investigating possible criminal activity in Fulton, Georgia’s most populous county, and that it did not matter whether the activity affected the final outcome of Georgia’s race, which Trump lost in 2020 by a razor-thin margin.

“If these deficiencies were the result of intentional action, it would be a violation of federal law regardless of whether the failure to retain records or the deprivation of a fair tabulation of a vote was outcome determinative for any particular election or race,” Evans said.

Evans said the FBI investigation originated from a referral the bureau received from Kurt Olsen, who is described as a Trump-appointed director of election security and integrity. Olsen also helped Trump raise election challenges after 2020.

The affidavits come after the FBI executed court-authorized search warrants at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in January and explain the probable cause used to justify the warrants.

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The Children’s Commissioner has called for an end to social media advertising for appearance-changing products targeting children.

Dame Rachel de Souza said children were routinely exposed online to products that claimed to change their bodies and appearance, including weight loss injections, skin lightening products and steroids.

Some 78% of children said the ads had a negative impact on their self-esteem, with 41% of 13- to 17-year-olds seeing promotions for prescription-only weight loss drugs, despite a ban on advertising, a new report has found.

Dame Rachel’s report, A healthy influence? Children’s exposure to appearance-changing products online, also found that 54% of children had seen exercise and diet plans and 52% had seen ads for food and drink products for weight loss.

Many children had also seen ads for skin lightening products online, including 46% of black children and 35% of Asian children, compared to 24% of white children. Many of these products are illegal in the UK because they contain toxic ingredients.

Dame Rachel is calling for an end to all advertising to children on social media by amending the Online Safety Act and changing Ofcom’s Children’s Code of Practice to explicitly protect children from body stigma content.

She has also proposed strengthening the regulation of online sales of age-restricted products.

“Childhood is a short and precious time, but it is undeniable that children today are facing pressures like never before, with too many children growing up in an online world that takes advantage of their insecurities and tells them they are not good enough as they are,” she said.

“Extreme and potentially dangerous appearance-changing products are being normalised to children through advertising, influencer culture and online posts, despite many of these products being unsafe, illegal or strictly age-restricted.”

More than half of girls at 56% had seen ads for cosmetic procedures such as fillers and Botox despite the treatments being illegal for under-18s, and 66% of children had seen teeth whitening products.

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Some 8% of children had bought or tried non-prescription pills that claimed to aid weight loss, and 21% of children had bought or tried food or drink marketed for weight loss.

The study found black children were more likely to try these products, exercise and diet plans, than white children.

Some children reported harmful reactions after buying or trying appearance-changing products online, such as infections from eyelash products containing unknown chemicals.

Dame Rachel’s call comes as the government considers an Australia-style social media ban for teenagers.

“The government should consider every mechanism available to protect children from harmful content and services, including restricting children’s access to some social media platforms, but a social media ban for under-16s can only be one part of the solution,” she said.

“It is not an immediate guarantee that children will be safer online.”

The report follows survey findings by the commissioner in 2024 that found just 40% of girls and 60% of boys were happy with how they look.

During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Tuesday, former U.S. tech mogul Neville Roy Singham was regularly named in the discussion and debate as to how foreign adversaries help fund U.S. agitator groups through what one witness described as “foreign dark money.”

Singham, a U.S. citizen who sold his IT consulting company for $785 million before moving to Shanghai, was accused by multiple members of Congress as the man behind the “Singham [Chinese Communist Party] network,” a phrase coined by committee chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., during his opening remarks at the hearing.

“It’s no wonder that the People’s Forum echoes Communist Party propaganda,” Smith said. “One of their largest donors is a wealthy former US tech executive living in Shanghai who is cozy, extremely cozy with the Chinese Communist Party.”

“Neville Roy Singham and his wife, a co-founder of CodePink, donated over $20 million to the People’s Forum through shell companies and donor advised funds to hide the original source of the money,” Smith explained.

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“This committee has worked tirelessly to unravel, to unravel, the Singam CCP network,” Smith added.

Last April, Smith sent a letter with GOP committee members to then-IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel requesting information about “specific tax-exempt organizations that promote CCP propaganda and related initiatives,” including the People’s Forum.

The People’s Forum has been one of the loudest voices encouraging and facilitating agitators to take to the streets for anti-ICE demonstrations, and Fox News Digital also learned that Smith also sent letters to BreakThrough BT Media Inc., and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research ahead of Tuesday’s hearing requesting information surrounding alleged ties to Singham.

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The groups also have reported ties to the pro-Nicolás Maduro demonstrations, which took place following the Trump administration’s arrest of the Venezuelan dictator last month. 

Singham, who shares office space in Shanghai with Maku Group, a Chinese media company associated with pro-CCP propaganda, which Singham himself has helped fund, was the center of an often-referenced New York Times expose published in 2023. 

The report was mentioned several times during the hearing, with witnesses and members of congress pointing to the detailed description of how Singham uses his dark money network in an attempt to erase traces of Chinese communist influence.

Singham couldn’t be subpoenaed to testify in Tuesday’s committee hearing because his Shanghai residency shields him from being legally obligated to appear before Congress.

His inability to be subpoenaed is just one example of the many loopholes that Singham utilizes to peddle money allegedly to promote the CCP. 

“We see a sophisticated, multi-layered flow of capital funds that originate in Singham and Shanghai, Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., said during the hearing. “[Funds] move through his private LLCs, and then are transferred to a donor-advised fund.”

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“From there, the money is granted to Singham’s own nonprofits that act as a pass through, such as the Justice and Education Fund and the People Support Foundation, which subsequently distribute the funds to other groups in the Singham Network, like the media outlet Breakthrough News or the People’s Forum, which organizes protests that have turned violent,” LaHood added.

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The New York Times reported that some of the organizations in Singham’s network had office addresses in suspicious locations like general UPS mailboxes, and that tracing the Shanghai resident’s cash flow from China to U.S. protests is challenging given his extensive efforts to minimize or cover up financial footprints.

“Singham attended Chinese Communist Party propaganda trainings, shared offices with Chinese state media in Shanghai, and exploited U.S. tax law to move tens of millions of dollars through donor-advised funds, primarily via Goldman Sachs,” Adam Sohn Network Contagion Research Institute Co-Founder and committee witness explained during the hearing. 

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“Together, these entities form a coordinated $100 million system,” Sohn added.

Fox News Digital reached out to The People’s Forum, BreakThrough BT Media Inc., Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and Singham, but did not receive responses.

Fox News’ Asra Q. Nomani contributed to this report.

                
                                                         
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A 13-year-old boy has been arrested following a double stabbing at a school in northwest London.

Two boys, aged 12 and 13, are in a serious condition in hospital after Tuesday’s attack in Brent.

Police launched a search for the suspect, and officers later detained a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder.

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The investigation is being led by counter terror police, although a terrorist incident has not been declared.

Here’s everything we know so far.

What happened at the school?

Police were called to Kingsbury High School around 12.40pm after a report that a 13-year-old had been stabbed.

Officers then became aware that a second boy, aged 12, had also been stabbed.

The Metropolitan Police said officers began a search for the suspect – identified as a teenage boy – after he left the scene.

Shortly after 6pm, Detective Chief Superintendent Luke Williams confirmed in an update that a 13-year-old boy had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

A weapon was also recovered.

Who are the victims?

The two stabbing victims were taken to hospital in a “serious” condition, with one taken to a major trauma centre as a priority.

The identity of the boys, who are aged 12 and 13, remains unknown.

The London Ambulance Service (LSA) was called to the school at 12.41pm.

“We sent resources to the scene including ambulance crews, incident response officers, an advanced paramedic, a paramedic from our tactical response unit and a clinical team manager,” the LSA said.

“We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance.

“We treated two patients in total. We took one patient to hospital and the other as a priority to a major trauma centre.”

Who is the suspect?

Police have arrested a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder.

The boy – whose identity is not known – remains in custody for questioning by police.

What have police said?

DCS Williams said police are “keeping an open mind as to any motivation behind the attack”.

He said the investigation was being led by counter terrorism police, though a terror incident has not been declared.

He said counter terror officers are “working closely with our local officers in response to this incident”.

“The investigation has not currently been declared a terrorist incident, and the investigation team will now be working at pace to gather any evidence and to establish the full circumstances of what’s happened as quickly as possible.”

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What has the school said?

Kingsbury High School head teacher Alex Thomas told parents that Tuesday’s events marked a “deeply traumatic event for the whole school community”.

In a letter to parents, Mr Thomas said pupils at the lower school had been kept on the playground at the request of the police while they began their investigations.

He added that the lower school will be shut on Wednesday, but the upper school will remain open for students in years 10 to 13.

The school released a statement at about 4pm saying that the “serious incident” was under control and it was not possible to enter or leave the school site.

Legendary NFL head coach Bill Cowher explained why losing in the conference championship was much tougher to deal with than losing the Super Bowl.

Cowher led the Steelers to two Super Bowl appearances from 1992 to 2006. The team came up just short in 1995 against the Dallas Cowboys. However, his teams lost in the AFC Championship four times.

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He said in an interview on “The Dan Patrick Show” on Monday that the what-if scenarios are always lingering while watching the Super Bowl.

“Losing the (conference) championship game was much harder,” he said. “And I lost that four times. I’ve lost a Super Bowl once, won it once. But losing those championship games was harder because, you know, you sit there for two weeks and you’re looking at the team that you had a chance to beat and you could have beaten them. Look at the Rams, they coulda gotten there. Did Denver, if they woulda had their quarterback, is it a different outcome?

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“After this game? After next weekend, everyone is watching NCAA basketball. There’s no more football. There’s finality to what you do.”

Cowher added that when he won the Super Bowl in 2005, he got right back to work. He watched his daughter play basketball and did chores that were put off until the season was over.

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Then, he had to get ready for the NFL Combine with free agency and the draft behind that.

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