This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG.
A new attack type, dubbed ConsentFix v3, has been circulating on hacker forums as an improved technique that automates attacks against Microsoft Azure.
The first version of ConsentFix was presented by Push Security last December as a variation of ClickFix for OAuth phishing attacks, which tricks victims into completing a legitimate Microsoft login flow via the Azure CLI.
Using social engineering, the attacker fooled victims into pasting a localhost URL containing an OAuth authorization code that can be used to obtain tokens and hijack the account without passwords, despite multi-factor authentication (MFA).
ConsentFix v2 was developed by researcher John Hammond as a refined version of Push’s original, replacing manual copy/paste with drag-and-drop of the localhost URL, making the phishing flow smoother and more convincing.
ConsentFix v3 preserves the core idea of abusing the OAuth2 authorization code flow and targeting first-party Microsoft apps that are pre-trusted and pre-consented.
However, it brings an improvement by incorporating automation and scalability.
According to information retrieved from hacker forums where the new technique is promoted, the attack begins by verifying the presence of Azure in the target environment by checking for valid tenant IDs.
This is followed by gathering employee details such as names, roles, and email addresses to support impersonation.
Next, the attackers create multiple accounts across services such as Outlook, Tutanota, Cloudflare, DocSend, Hunter.io, and Pipedream to support phishing, hosting, data gathering, and exfiltration operations.
Push Security researchers explain that Pipedream, a free-to-use serverless integration platform, plays a central part in automating the attack, serving three critical roles:
In the next phase, the attacker deploys a phishing page hosted on Cloudflare Pages that mimics a legitimate Microsoft/Azure interface and initiates a real OAuth flow through Microsoft’s login endpoint.
When the victim interacts with the page, they are redirected to a localhost URL containing an OAuth authorization code, which they are tricked into pasting or dragging back into the phishing page.
This enables the data exfiltration pipeline, in which the page sends the captured URL to a Pipedream webhook, and the backend automation immediately exchanges the authorization code for tokens.
The phishing emails can be highly personalized, generated from harvested data, and feature malicious links embedded inside a PDF hosted on DocSend to improve credibility and bypass spam filtering.
In the post-exploitation stage, the obtained tokens are imported into Specter Portal, allowing the attacker to interact with compromised Microsoft environments and access resources permitted by the token, such as email, files, and other services tied to the account.
Push Security noted that its testing of ConsentFix v3 relied on its personal Microsoft accounts; as a result, it is difficult to fully appreciate the impact, which depends on permissions, services, and tenant settings, among other factors.
In terms of mitigating ConsentFix risks, Push notes that the endeavor is complicated because trust in first-party apps is architectural, and that Family of Client IDs (FOCI), Microsoft applications that share permissions and refresh tokens, is useful otherwise.
However, there are still steps administrators can take, such as applying token binding to trusted devices, setting up behavioral detection rules, and applying app authentication restrictions.
While ConsentFix attacks are used in actual campaigns, it is unclear if the v3 variant has gained any traction among cybercriminals yet.
AI chained four zero-days into one exploit that bypassed both renderer and OS sandboxes. A wave of new exploits is coming.
At the Autonomous Validation Summit (May 12 & 14), see how autonomous, context-rich validation finds what’s exploitable, proves controls hold, and closes the remediation loop.
Claim Your Spot
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
Each year, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers makes a life-changing difference for thousands of New Jersey women. Wednesday, April 29’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in our case against the state is good news for all of them — and for a lot of other people across America, too.
The decision affirms our right to pursue justice in federal court against state officials who have violated our First Amendment rights by persecuting us for helping women who seek our free support as they navigate unplanned pregnancies. The state targeted us for our pro-life views, issuing an invasive subpoena and opening an unfounded investigation, based on … nothing. The state has failed to identify a single complaint against our organization.
Not for want of trying. Former Attorney General Matthew Platkin used every resource at his disposal to silence us. He assembled a “Reproductive Rights Task Force” that worked with Planned Parenthood to issue a consumer alert warning New Jersey women about pregnancy centers because they — heaven forbid — do not provide abortions.
This harassment culminated in Platkin issuing an invasive demand for vast amounts of private information, including constitutionally protected information like the names, phone numbers, addresses and places of employment of First Choice’s donors. Since those are clear violations of our constitutional rights, we filed a federal court action with the help of Alliance Defending Freedom to block his efforts. When lower federal courts dismissed our claims, we petitioned the Supreme Court to hear our case.
SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY SLAPS DOWN BLUE STATE TARGETING PRO-LIFE GROUP
Then-New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, with then-US Attorney General Merrick Garland (L) and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, speaks during a press conference in Washington, DC, on March 21, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)
Now the court has secured our right to be heard in federal court to fight for our organization’s right to freely associate with donors without fear of government retaliation for exercising our First Amendment freedoms.
That benefits not only us, but dozens of other pregnancy care centers around the country — Washington, Vermont, Illinois, California — that have been unjustly targeted by hostile government officials. In fact, it benefits all organizations, ensuring they may file federal lawsuits against hostile government officials for violating their First Amendment rights.
Groups as diverse as tech giants, oil and gas companies, gun manufacturers, media groups and immigrant advocacy organizations must be happy to hear that. They’ve all faced invasive demands from state officials.
THE SUPREME COURT DID THE RIGHT THING. I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS PART OF A HORRIFYING GENDER TRANSITION
New Jersey’s actions have threatened more than the privacy and personal freedom of our donors; they’ve also seriously inhibited our ability to do what we do. Providing the kind and amount of information the state is seeking requires a great deal of time, which, of course, is the idea — hampering us on the one hand, while simultaneously moving to intimidate anyone willing to help or support what we’re doing.
That’s a lot of government power marshaled to punish a small nonprofit for nothing more than exercising our religious beliefs and serving our community, and the justices were right to say that state officials should be held accountable in federal court.
The Supreme Court’s ruling agrees that demands for private donor information burden First Amendment rights. That gets us one huge step forward toward getting back to doing what we do best — serve women. Over the last 40 years, we have offered crucial resources to more than 36,000 women across our state. We haven’t charged for those services, or forced them on anyone, and we are still in touch with many of these women and their families.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION
Pregnancy centers serve vital roles in their communities. In 2024 alone, those centers provided 600,000 free ultrasounds, 200,000 STD tests, 6.3 million packs of diapers, and 39,000 car seats — more than $452 million worth of support to women who said they would prefer to continue their pregnancies if they could find this kind of support.
Platkin described people who make that kind of investment in the lives of others as “extremists.” Our clients would describe them as people who were there to help when no one else was. And I’d describe them as being the hands and feet of God.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
By coming after our center, New Jersey officials have used taxpayer money and the government’s enormous resources to derail us from helping women facing unplanned pregnancies. But thankfully, the Supreme Court has now determined that, when those officials target and harass their ideological opponents, they will be held accountable in federal court for violating constitutional rights.
The women of New Jersey — and countless other Americans — will be better for that decision.
Chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports after Gov. Janet Mills drops out of the Maine Senate Democratic primary, leaving controversial candidate Graham Platner as the presumptive nominee.
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
Senate Republicans are eyeing the chance to go after Graham Platner now that Maine’s Senate race is locked in.
Platner’s position as the Democratic nominee against Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was all but cemented Thursday when Maine Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the race over a lack of cash flow.
Mills’ exit is two-pronged. It could signal that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the Democratic establishment are losing their grip, given that Mills was handpicked by Democratic Party bosses to challenge Collins.
CONGRESS EXTENDS CONTROVERSIAL SPY LAW FOR 45 DAYS AFTER SENATE REJECTS HOUSE BILL
Senatorial candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater in Ogunquit, Maine, on Oct. 22, 2025. Platner is a U.S. Marine veteran and oyster farmer running for the seat held by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. (Sophie Park/Getty Images)
It also opens up a new line of attack for Republicans, who plan to lean into Platner’s past progressive views and his connection to his main backers: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
“This is the new Democrat Party,” Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital. ”I don’t know how to, I don’t even know how to digest all that nonsense. This is crazy.”
Scott, who chairs the Senate’s campaign arm, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, painted Platner as the “extreme” candidate compared to Mills’ more centrist image.
DEMOCRATS FAIL TO SHATTER REPUBLICANS’ RESOLVE ON EVE OF CRUCIAL IRAN DEADLINE
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrives at a Senate hearing in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
He previewed points of attack against Platner, including his insults of rural White voters, old Reddit posts where he blamed women for rape, and his “absolute condescension towards minorities, and Black people specifically.”
“Schumer … went after Mills, and what do you find yourself with? Exactly the opposite,” Scott said.
Still, Platner, who has never held elected office, is polling ahead of Collins, who is seeking a sixth term in the Senate.
RealClearPolitics has Platner ahead by an average of nearly eight points. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., who chaired the NRSC when Republicans flipped the Senate in 2024, told Fox News Digital that the last time Collins ran, she was behind in early polling as well.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, seen at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 3, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Every poll, going right up to Election Day, and she ended up winning by eight points,” Daines said. “Susan Collins is a tough out and she’s going to win Maine.”
Republicans also see Platner’s ascension as the continuation of a shift in the Democratic Party from the old-guard establishment to more progressive candidates, following the success of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — another victory story from Sanders’ and Ocasio-Cortez’s stable of candidates.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
They’re hoping to tie Platner to Mamdani, whom Republicans have painted as a proverbial boogeyman in contrast to more centrist Democratic candidates.
“The Democrats continue to nominate far-left candidates,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told Fox News Digital. “This is the Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, wing of the party that is in control.”
Addressing the cameras following reports of spiralling youth violence, including the killing of the 21-year-old former Israeli soldier Yemanu Binyamin Zalka last week, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was clear.
“This will be a total war,” he said, announcing a national operation to target a surge in youth violence. “We will restore security to the streets and calm to parents. Anyone who harms Israeli civilians will face the strong hand of the Israel Police and pay a heavy price.”
The response was sharp, aligned itself with the victim, and promised a solution.
That, critics say, is a sharp contrast to Ben-Gvir’s response – or lack of one – to the ongoing epidemic of violence in Israeli towns and villages populated by Palestinians, which has so far led to the deaths of almost 100 people and, according to Israel’s own finance ministry, costs the country up to $6.7bn a year.
Allegations of two-tier policing, to the detriment of what Israelis refer to as the “Arab sector”, have dogged Israel’s police for decades. But the situation has gotten worse under the current administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which has been in power since the end of 2022, and Ben-Gvir, a far-right politician who is in charge of the police.
The statistics since Ben-Gvir came into office back up the narrative that the crime wave in Palestinian communities has gotten significantly worse. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the murder rate in Israel’s Palestinian communities increased from 4.9 per 100,000 in 2020, to 11 per 100,000, on par with the murder rate in Sudan and Iraq.
In contrast, the murder rate in Israel’s Jewish society stood at approximately 0.6 per 100,000.
That increase can not totally be attributed to the current government – Netanyahu himself was prime minister in 2020, when the murder rate was lower. But critics argue that the introduction into government of figures like Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who they say are openly disdainful of Palestinians, has contributed to the sharp uptick in violence.
Analysts and experts who spoke to Al Jazeera had little doubt over the Netanyahu government’s culpability in the increased murder rate.
“They really don’t mind that Palestinians are killing each other, as they’ve been left to do for years,” lawmaker Aida Touma-Suleiman, a Palestinian member of the Hadash party and a longstanding critic of the lack of policing in Palestinian communities in Israel, said.
“It would never occur to the police that they should provide a service to Arab neighbourhoods,” she said of the lack of physical police presence within Palestinian communities. “It’s about enforcement. It’s hostile.”
While police stations are standard in Israel’s Jewish-majority areas, there are only about 10 in Palestinian-majority areas.
Among the decisions that have most angered Palestinian advocacy groups in Israel was the government’s December approval of a $68.5m cut to an economic development programme for Palestinian communities in Israel, in order to fund more policing in the communities.
Critics agreed that more funding was needed for the police, but bemoaned that the money was coming from a fund designed to address the root causes of criminality by addressing housing and economic development, areas where Palestinian communities are notoriously underfunded in comparison to Jewish ones.
Palestinian citizens of Israel make up around 21 percent of the country’s population. Disadvantaged economically, they are the descendants of Palestinians who did not flee after the 1948 establishment of Israel – an event they know as the Nakba, when an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed and forced out.
Often concentrated in separate towns and villages from Israeli Jews, Palestinians frequently describe a reality of chronic underinvestment, with the presence of the state either limited or non-existent.
Joblessness has long been woven into their daily lives, analysts say, but the unemployment rate has worsened since Israel choked off access to the occupied West Bank, where many worked, after the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in 2023.
The most recent official date, based on 2024 figures, shows that 37.6 percent of Palestinian households in Israel live below the poverty line.
Local criminal networks in Israel’s Palestinian towns and villages have grown in scale and influence in recent years, in some cases taking on the form of mafia-style organisations, untroubled, critics say, by the current government.
“There is a wide network of criminal gangs who exert control across Arab neighbourhoods,” said Daniel Bar-Tal, professor of social-political psychology at Tel Aviv University, adding that criminality and even murder were allowed to continue with the state’s own complicity.
“In part, the government just likes it. They get to say, ‘Look, this is Arab culture, this is Arab society. This is what they do.’ They also rely on the collaboration of the gangs to gather information on what’s going on in these communities,” he said, referring to numerous accounts of how friends who had reported criminal activity in their neighbourhoods were dismissed. “And lastly, it is because the police force is controlled by Ben-Gvir, a racist who actively enjoys dehumanising Arab society.”
Ben-Gvir has previously rejected accusations of racism and says he is only against those who harm Jews.
From leveraging his position in government to urge on the genocide in Gaza, to defending officers under his charge filmed raping a Palestinian prisoner, Ben-Gvir’s actions have dismayed many of Israel’s self-styled liberals, just as they have shocked observers around the world.
However, following an uptick in crime in Israel, criticism of Ben-Gvir’s performance in his role as national security minister has begun to enter the domestic mainstream.
As well as more predictable opinion pieces in Israel’s liberal press, accusing the National Security Minister of being “busy on TikTok” while Zelka was killed, or concentrating his efforts on arresting professors wearing Palestinian flags on their kippahs while murder rates break records, there have also been criticisms from those closer to the establishment.
Earlier this month, Israel’s High Court intervened in a row between Ben-Gvir and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, ordering the two to reach an accommodation after Baharav-Miara called for his ousting following what she claimed was his attempts to make political interventions in the police’s work.
“Nobody cares if Ben-Gvir’s good at his job,” political scientist Ori Goldberg said. “He’s there to punish Palestinians, even those in Israel. They’re punished through a lack of security, just as they’re punished through hostile planning, and a lack of healthcare punishes them. This is how the apartheid Israel always works.”
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
A new conservative influencer entered the creator space. But what made her stand out? She didn’t exist. She was a AI-generated by a man in India. Emily Austin, a podcast host and content creator in the sports and political space, warned transparency is important as AI becomes more prevalent.
A 22-year-old in northern India, hoping to become an orthopedic surgeon and move to America one day, was looking to make more money. He did so by generating an AI conservative female influencer with the help of Google’s Gemini Nano Banana Pro, who he named Emily Hart.
Austin spoke with Fox News Digital about this “frightening” story and on the expansion of AI in the creator space.
Austin believes there is not enough awareness of this issue.
PALANTIR’S SHYAM SANKAR: AMERICANS ARE ‘BEING LIED TO’ ABOUT AI JOB DISPLACEMENT FEARS
“There definitely needs to be at least transparency, or maybe they should, you know, market more of an awareness like, ‘Hey guys, this person that is using a real voice and a real face could actually be fake.'”
Austin said that right now, there is only so much that can be done to combat this.
“There’s only so much we can do, right? Like, we can crack down on, for example, Pakistanis and Indian men pretending to be hot girls on the internet,” Austin said. “But on the other hand, I know people are lending their identity for somebody to make account. It’s really twisted, this is a whole market.”
AI IS NOW POWERING CYBERATTACKS, MICROSOFT WARNS
Austin joked, “I am working too damn hard. I should have just AI’d myself, saved all the headache and save all the thinking and just made content and grew my following that way and just have it all easy.”
According to WIRED, “Sam,” a fake name used to protect his identity, said he discovered with the help of Google Gemini, “If you create a generic ‘hot girl,’ you’re competing with a million other models,” according to a transcript Sam provided to WIRED.
The AI-generated account featured a blonde woman who posed in outfits including a USA-themed bikini, and MAGA hat, sometimes ice fishing or shooting a rifle.
FOX NEWS AI NEWSLETTER: AMAZING BREAKTHROUGH FOR PARALYZED MAN WHO CAN’T SPEAK
Sam told Wired, “Every day I’d write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration.”
Sam said, “Every Reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views, 10 million views. The algorithm loved it.”
Sam discovered that conservative audiences, specifically older men, have more disposable funds and are a “more loyal” audience base.
He ended up making thousands from the AI account through engagement, MAGA-themed T-shirts, and from Fanvue subscriptions.
The account that was once @emily_hart.nurse on Instagram grew to 10,000 followers in a month. The account can no longer be found on social media platforms.
The “Emily Austin Podcast” host applauded Elon Musk for purchasing Twitter (now X) for exposing AI content, and said Musk is “saving humanity.”
Elon Musk speaks at the Viva Technology conference focused on innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. (Chesnot/Getty Images)
FOX NEWS AI NEWSLETTER: TECH COMPANY CUTS 1,000 JOBS IN AI-DRIVEN RESTRUCTURING
Austin said, “Elon Musk has single-handedly exposed multiple instances like this, where someone makes an AI profile, it’s undisclosed where they came from, it’s undisclosed whether or not they’re real.”
Austin added that with recent updates on X, users can see where an account originated.
She said a story like this should make people skeptical and to not take everything at “face value.”
TEEN SUES AI TOOL MAKER OVER FAKE NUDE IMAGES
“Maybe do your due diligence better. But unfortunately, social media is very, instant gratification instant reward so not many people were like, ‘Oh, I agree with what they said, but who’s this person and where is this coming from?’ And I think that awareness is very important.”
However, as AI grows, Austin says everyone is irreplaceable.
“We are all irreplaceable. You know, I don’t like a lot of content creators and that’s not a secret. My page speaks for itself. But nonetheless, you give credit where it’s due, like they are following you because you are offering an opinion that clearly is making people feel seen and heard and people resonate with that.”
AI DATING CAFES ARE NOW A REAL THING
Emily Austin attends the Algemeiner 2023 J100 Gala at Capitale Bowery in New York City on Oct. 25, 2023. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan)
Austin said people value feeling connected to other humans.
“I don’t know if people will find comfort in knowing that something’s programmed to say something, or secondly, I also think part of being a content creator is having a certain community around you and I think people relate to that like on a human level.”
Austin added that she does worry about AI replacing other jobs.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
“I am worried about AI replacing hard labor that people get paid to do,” she said.
However, she believes that doesn’t apply to content creators.
“I’m really not worried about anything AI replacing me, at least, and maybe less interesting people,” she said.
Reference #18.4a200117.1777733302.fb8e4a4
https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.4a200117.1777733302.fb8e4a4
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
A Seattle AI startup founder says he’s preparing to leave the city as taxes rise, warning that many entrepreneurs are already heading for the exits.
“We’re out looking for an alternative,” Jesse Proudman, president and CTO of Venice.ai, a privacy-focused unrestricted generative AI platform, told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday.
“So we were looking in Nevada, we’re looking in Texas and Austin, we’re looking at Nashville and Florida,” Proudman said. “And these are climates where the business community is vibrant. They’re climates where the government is encouraging entrepreneurship, where they’re welcoming people, and they’re not villainizing those who have built something.”
MAMDANI’S ESTATE TAX PLAN COULD DRIVE WEALTH OUT OF STATE, CRITICS WARN
Jesse Proudman receiving the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2018. (Jesse Proudman)
Proudman said he has been in Washington state for 28 years, and that Venice.ai is his third startup. He started his first company when he was 13.
“Seattle used to be a place where you were excited to build something, where it was celebrated, where you could imagine creating something from nothing and that you could manifest that,” Proudman said.
“And for many years, for probably 20 years, that was the culture here,” he added. “We had a vibrant startup community. We had a very supportive startup community. And the ecosystem worked. It helped build the companies. And then, for whatever reason, sort of over the last four or five years, we’ve seen this shift where entrepreneurship is now villainized. And it’s an unfortunate and sad shift in what otherwise has been a phenomenal place to run businesses.”
Jesse Proudman, founder and CTO of Venice.AI, says recent tax policy developments in the Evergreen State are making businesses flee the state. (Jesse Proudman, Getty Images)
In March, Washington state Democrats passed the “millionaires tax,” which Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson signed on March 30. It’s the state’s first-ever income tax, pushed by progressives and socialists and opposed by conservatives.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board called the new tax a “con” after its passage that will “inevitably capture the middle class.”
Proudman told Fox News Digital that he has similar concerns.
STEPHEN MOORE: FROM DOW 800 TO 50,000–REAGAN, TRUMP AND THE SUPPLY-SIDE MIRACLE
Andrea Suarez dismantles a tent at a homeless encampment with garbage piled around in Seattle, Washington, on March 13, 2022. Suarez is the executive director of We Heart Seattle, a nonprofit that organizes trash cleanups across the city amid rising homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. (John Moore/Getty Images)
“They’re beginning with millionaires because that’s an easier place to sell it. It’s obvious that they intend to apply this to everybody,” he said.
Proudman said that his concern is that Washington state Sen. Jamie Pedersen, who sponsored the millionaires tax, intends to extend the tax beyond millionaires.
“He said he intends to apply it to everybody and, quite frankly, its implication is that Washington will become the highest tax state in the country,” Proudman said of Pedersen. “It doesn’t make sense to continue to live here if you have mobility.”
STEVE MOORE: DID ELON MUSK DRAIN THE SWAMP OR DROWN IN IT?
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson recently laughed and metaphorically waved goodbye to millionaires who want to leave Washington state on April 14, 2026, during a Seattle University Conversations event. (Katie Wilson for Seattle)
During a recent event at Seattle University, Mayor Katie Wilson, a self-described democratic socialist, laughed and appeared to dismiss the possibility that millionaires would leave the state.
“I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if — the ones that leave, like, bye,” Wilson said.
Proudman sees a more stark situation.
“The reality is everybody that I know that has means to leave has either left or is in the process of leaving,” he said.
TAX FIGHT PUTS CALIFORNIA ON COLLISION COURSE AS BILLIONAIRES LEAVE FOR RED STATES
A city worker picks up trash next to graffiti on 4th Avenue in Seattle, Washington, on March 9, 2022. (John Moore/Getty Images)
“They’ve listed their homes, they’re shopping elsewhere,” Proudman continued. “And again, it’s like, you don’t want to be where you’re not part of the community, where it doesn’t feel like you’re welcome. And so the mayor, whose job it is, is to build a vibrant city, is telling the people who have built companies here, who have created jobs in this city and this state that they’re not wanted here.”
“It’s the same thing that happened in California with Elon Musk,” he added. “Again, he went to Texas. Like, you’re not wanted, you’ll move to a climate where you are.”
According to the Tax Foundation, the city of Seattle has the highest combined state and local sales tax rate, at 10.35%.
A homeless man holds a piece of aluminum foil he used to smoke fentanyl in Seattle, Washington, on March 13, 2022.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
Fox News Digital reached out to Wilson and Pedersen for comment but did not immediately receive responses.
Fox News Digital’s Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi contributed to this report.
The Stanley Cup Playoffs are one of the most unique events in all of sports in that these teams can compete against each other and leave their literal blood, sweat, puke and tears on the ice for seven games, and, when it’s all said and done, will meet at center ice to shake hands and congratulate one another on a hard-fought series.
While there are plenty of displays of sportsmanship after the final buzzer sounds, that doesn’t mean relations are all that warm and fuzzy during the games.
That was on display in Game 6 of a first-round series between the Buffalo Sabres and Boston Bruins Friday night.
ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!
Buffalo Sabres fans helped out the anthem singer when her mic stopped working during the playing of “O, Canada.” (Timothy T. Ludwig-Imagn Images)
As time was winding down in the third period and the Sabres nursing a 4-1 lead, it looked as though the Bruins were headed towards another quiet, disappointing early exit in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
As the Sabres dumped the puck in deep to try and slot home another empty net goal, that’s when all hell broke loose.
Buffalo’s Zach Benson and Boston’s Charlie McAvoy chased the puck into the zone and, while battling for position, Benson “slew-footed” McAvoy, causing the latter to lose his balance and go crashing into the boards.
What McAvoy did next can only be described as “assault.”
JOSH ALLEN ANNIHILATES A BEER TO FIRE UP THE SABRES CROWD
That kind of swing would get you 5-10 in a state penitentiary if you tried it on the streets.
What in the world is McAvoy thinking there?
Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy watches the puck during the first period against the Philadelphia Flyers at TD Garden in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 29, 2025. (Eric Canha/Imagn Images)
I mean, obviously, he isn’t. Clearly, his wires just got crossed and he was ready to take his frustration out on Benson.
I will say Benson’s slew-foot move wasn’t exactly aboveboard either and is extremely dangerous, but to haul off and try to decapitate him with a hockey stick kind of feels like bringing a nuke to a knife fight.
Just drop the gloves and pound his face in like a normal hockey player.
Public opinion seems split on the matter. Some are saying McAvoy was justified while others are chastising him for losing his cool.
Well, would you look at that. The internet can’t agree on anything, what a shock!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
Buffalo Sabres fans celebrate during the third period of Game 1 of a first-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff series against the Boston Bruins in Buffalo, New York, on April 19, 2026. (Jeffrey T. Barnes/AP Photo)
Regardless, the Bruins and McAvoy will once again be golfing in May, while the Sabres have finally won a playoff series for the first time since George W. Bush was still in office.
Playoff hockey, you gotta love it! Even if it includes attempted facial reconstruction surgery by way of hockey stick.
Kemi Badenoch has apologised after footage from Bloody Sunday was used in social media posts criticising a bill on legacy issues in Northern Ireland.
The Conservative leader said on Saturday that she did not sign off on the use of a clip from the massacre, in which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Derry, and that it was distributed by “very young people”.
The video was posted on Badenoch’s social media channels on Tuesday, claiming Labour’s proposed changes would “drag” British Troubles veterans back to court.
Colum Eastwood, the SDLP MP for the Foyle constituency that covers Derry, said he was “shocked” to see Badenoch “trumpeting the service of British soldiers in Northern Ireland using footage from Bloody Sunday”.
Bloody Sunday, on 30 January 1972, is widely seen as one of the most significant points in the Troubles and is regarded as the worst mass shooting in Northern Ireland’s history.
Members of the army’s parachute regiment shot 26 people during an anti-interment march in the Bogside area of the city, killing 13. A 14th man, John Johnston, 59, died of his injuries four months later.
Badenoch was asked about the clip during a visit to a hairdresser in south-east London.
She said: “I have apologised. I did not sign off the video. It was about a vote in parliament where Labour are putting in legislation that is hounding the very elderly veterans for things that happened decades ago, often under the instruction of political leaders who are no longer around.
“We support our veterans, but the video was done by very young people who did not recognise the footage as being from Bloody Sunday. So I apologise as well that that video went out in error.
“It was removed as soon as the party understood that that was what had been put out.”
Labour’s Northern Ireland Troubles bill aims to replace a law introduced by the last Conservative government.
The previous legislation contained a clause that would have enabled veterans to avoid prosecution for Troubles-era crimes if they provided information about unresolved cases.
It was widely opposed by victims’ groups and Northern Irish political parties and ruled unlawful after a case in the high court in Belfast in 2024.
The Labour government also wants to lift a ban on future inquests and civil actions that were halted as a result of the previous legislation.
The only soldier charged with murder in relation to the Bloody Sunday deaths, known as Soldier F, was acquitted by a judge last year after a non-jury trial in Belfast.
Bloody Sunday led to increased support for the IRA and helped boost its recruitment. The first inquiry into the shootings, headed by Lord Widgery, exonerated the soldiers.
However, after a second inquiry that reported in 2010 after decades of campaigning from victims’ families, former Conservative prime ministerDavid Cameron said the events of Bloody Sunday were “unjustified and unjustifiable”.
He added: “Some members of our armed forces acted wrongly. The government is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the armed forces and for that, on behalf of the government, indeed, on behalf of our country, I am deeply sorry.”