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What was the outcome of the assassination attempt on Trump?
This is a Fox News alert. A would-be assassin is sentenced on Lisa Brady. Ryan Ruth was convicted last year in the second Trump assassination attempt on a Florida golf course in 2024. Just sentenced to life in prison.
He represented himself at trial and tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen in court when he was found guilty. Prosecutors say Ruth spent weeks planning the assassination attempt, aiming a rifle through shrubbery. A Secret Service agent spotted Ruth before Trump came into view. The agent fired shots. Ruth ran and was caught. His scheduled sentencing in December was delayed when he decided to use an attorney for the sentencing phase.
Fox's Chris Foster. The defense was asking for 27 years, noting Ruth is about to turn 60. In addition to the life sentence, the judge added seven years for a gun conviction. Earlier today, the man accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members in D.C., killing one the day before Thanksgiving, pleading not guilty. He's charged with multiple counts, including first-degree murder. The top Democrats in Congress say a proposal for ICE reforms will be ready soon and that dramatic change is needed. When Americans see the pictures of these goons beating people, pushing people, and even shooting and killing people... They say this is not America. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says they're ready to negotiate with Republicans.
They have nine days left before short-term Homeland Security funding runs out, though longer-term funding for ICE was already passed last year. Borders are. Tom Holman says federal agents will keep enforcing laws and that the rhetoric and violence against them has to stop. But he also says there's more cooperation now in Minnesota.
We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us now. and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they hit the streets. Unprecedented cooperation.
Holman says because of that, not as many federal agents are needed there, and 700 are being pulled out of Minnesota. America is listening to Fox News.
This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52-episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus.
A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. President Trump says he had a long call with China's President Xi this morning. Covering trade, the military, Taiwan, and his planned trip to China in April. The President says he and Xi also discussed the current situation in Iran and China's consideration to boost its purchase of American agriculture products, including soybeans. Fox's Jared Halpern at the White House. That call happening as the U.S. works to counter China's dominance on critical minerals.
While we believe America's market is large enough to create its own critical minerals trading zone, this entire effort will be stronger and far more competitive if we build it together.
Vice President J.D. Vance kicking off a D.C. summit with about 50 countries proposing to set up a preferential trade zone.
In that zone, the U.S.
What are the latest developments in ICE reform proposals?
will help create a reference price for rare earth minerals that comes to the floor. In exchange, the U.S. is offering private financing for projects and no shortages in an emergency or other global event. Countries are now coming to the realization that you don't have to just mine it, but you also have to process it. China now controls 90 percent of the processing for rare earth minerals.
Fox Business's Edward Lawrence at the White House. The Treasury chief lands on the Capitol Hill grill at a House hearing.
Lawmakers had wide ranging questions about President Trump's economic agenda for Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. But things went off the rails at times during questioning by Democrats like New York Congressman Gregory Meeks.
You traveled to Venezuela to lobby Hugo Chavez. I take that as a no.
The committee's ranking member, Maxine Waters, questioned Besson about tariffs, arguing levies on lumber and steel are driving up housing costs.
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