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A tropical cactus that was once found in the Florida Keys no longer exists in the United States, save for some conservation collections, a field biologist told Fox News Digital this week.The Key Largo tree cactus was wiped out by rising sea levels in the region, among other factors, according to Jennifer Possley, who wrote about its demise in a paper published earlier this month in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.Possley is director of regional conservation at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden in Coral Gables, Florida, near Miami. She's part of a group of scientists and researchers

Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor turned himself in to a Florida jail on Wednesday and was hit with a sex offender charge over an incident from earlier this month, court records showed.Taylor was charged with sex offender fail to comply with law – a third-degree felony – on an incident in Broward County on July 2.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMTMZ Sports first reported Taylor’s trouble with the law. The 65-year-old former New York Giants star linebacker was released from jail early Thursday."My client, Lawrence Taylor, will be pleading ‘Not Guilty’ to the recent charges," Taylor’s

The walls appear to be closing in on President Biden's re-election campaign.Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reportedly told President Biden in a phone call that polls are showing he cannot defeat former President Trump in November and that him staying in the race could destroy Democrats’ chances of taking the House in November.The phone call marked the second time Pelosi and Biden spoke since the president's disastrous debate performance against former President Trump on June 27, according to a CNN report Thursday citing four sources briefed on the call. The sources also told CNN that the former speaker did not tell

The 20-year-old loner who attempted to assassinate former President Trump on Saturday had an account on the encrypted Discord app, a sign that he preferred anonymous interactions to real-world relationships, experts told Fox News Digital.A spokesperson for the platform confirmed that Thomas Matthew Crooks had an account and that it had been deactivated by Discord after the assassination attempt that wounded Trump and killed a rally attendee."It was rarely utilized, has not been used in months, and we have found no evidence that it was used to plan this incident, promote violence or discuss his political views," the spokesperson said.

Rachel Maddow and other top MSNBC hosts have been using an LED screen to cover the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee from the liberal network's studio in New York City, according to a report.Maddow, who has been leading the network's coverage of the GOP convention this week, has repeatedly appeared on air with the backdrop of the convention behind her, leading casual viewers to assume she was on the ground in Milwaukee. But Maddow and many of her colleagues, including Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Joy Reid and other MSNBC anchors have not been inside the convention hall or even in

The director of equity at the Secret Service calls it a "mission imperative" and the "ultimate goal" to spread DEI within the agency, with the agency hosting seminars on "respectful use of pronouns." The executive director of the Secret Services' Office of Equity Loucious Hires III discussed diversity, equity and inclusion, "a topic that is difficult for some to talk about," on the official government podcast "Standing Post" in February 2023. The agency said it was striving to be the "gold standard" of DEI in a recruitment brochure that same year. During the podcast, the equity director outlined how every action at

So, the more the outside world notices how senile Biden is, the more he retreats from reality. Lucky for him, that's a very short walk. According to the New York Times, Old Joe isn't consulting with any of his advisers or staff anymore. His cell phone rings and rings, but Joe keeps trying to answer a banana. True, Biden's inner circle is tighter than a meerkat's butthole. Don't ask me how I know. He needed a suppository. Apparently, he's down to a tiny group of loyalists, including his son and wife. The fate of the world hangs in the balance,

Republican senators confronted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday over the attempted assassination of former President Trump on Saturday, telling her that they owe the people and the president "answers."Video shows Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo., confronting Cheatle in Milwaukee. Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., were also involved."Stonewalling," Barrasso can be heard yelling at Cheatle as she moves through the convention center.HOUSE GOP LEADERS DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY ON TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: ‘SO MANY QUESTIONS’ "This was an assassination attempt, you owe the people answers, you owe President Trump answers," Blackburn

Age is front-and-center on the ballot this November, with President Joe Biden 81 years old and in a cognitive nosedive, and Donald Trump a spritelier 78. But with Trump picking as his running mate JD Vance, who is exactly half his age, Millennials could finally have a representative among the senior citizens.Of course, as a Gen X-er myself, I can’t help but notice that our generation has been ignored again. Kamala Harris misses the traditional Gen X cutoff by a few months, and let’s be honest, she presents much more like a Boomer than a product of the "I want

The future remains uncertain for a young Afghan child whose family was killed in a U.S. night raid in Afghanistan five years ago. A Virginia appellate court voided the adoption of the Afghan war orphan, nicknamed "Baby Doe" in court documents, by U.S. Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife Stephanie Mast on Tuesday. The court determined Mast never should have been granted the adoption of Baby Doe, who has lived with Mast and his wife for three years now.  Baby Doe, who turns five this month, was orphaned following a U.S. raid that killed her family in Afghanistan in