In just three years under President Joe Biden, our hunting-and-fishing heritage is under attack in ways we could have never thought or imagined. 

Through the weaponization of federal agencies like the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and even the Department of Education, the Biden administration is pandering to the anti-hunting, anti-fishing extreme flank of supporters and launching an all-out assault on our outdoors way of life. 

With the help of Biden and the federal government, activists are pulling out all stops to not only chip away at our hunting-and-fishing heritage, but to abolish it altogether.  

Maintaining their promises and commitments to extreme anti-hunting, anti-gun radicals, the Biden administration last year started a process to ban lead ammunition on federal public land. Through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, regulations were proposed that ban lead ammunition in national wildlife refuges across the country.  

By all accounts, the action by the USFWS is the first step toward complete prohibition of lead ammunition and tackle on any public lands where you would hunt and fish. 

Earlier this year, the Biden administration blocked key federal funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) for schools with hunting and archery programs. This federal funding cut would negatively impact millions of American students who participate in those hunting and archery programs.  

According to the National Archery in the Schools Program, 1.3 million students from 9,000 schools across 49 states are enrolled in archery courses. The number of students participating in hunter education programs in our schools is even higher.

Beholden to radical activists, Biden’s Department of Education is depriving millions of kids of longstanding educational and enrichment programs that help foster relationships with role models, build self-esteem, and develop lifelong skills that last well beyond their school years.  

In fact, according to a Forbes report, many experts are warning that defunding hunting and archery programs will contribute to the current mental health crisis. 

While some try to downplay the federal government’s anti-outdoors agenda, the threat to our hunting and fishing way of life is very real. 

It is abundantly clear that the activists who want to put an end to our outdoor heritage are determined, but they should be warned: so are we. 

We won’t take this lying down. We are resolved. And we are willing to fight. 

The International Order of T. Roosevelt is a proactive hunting-and-conservation foundation focused on protecting the rights of hunters and sustaining the North American model of wildlife conservation.  

Through our advocacy arm, T. Roosevelt Action, we are in statehouses around the country promoting the right to hunt and encouraging states to push back against this anti-hunting, anti-fishing radicalism by securing a constitutional amendment enshrining their sacred right to hunt and fish.  

Successfully establishing a right to hunt in every state will play a direct role in ensuring we can grow our sport, allow new hunters to join our ranks and protect the land that T. Roosevelt set aside for such use and charged us to use responsibly. 

Did you know that less than half of the states in the U.S. have an explicit state constitutional right to hunt and fish? That’s right, just 23 states enjoy constitutional clarity affirming our outdoor heritage and confirming our God-given right to hunt and fish. 

T. Roosevelt Action is fighting for hunting and fishing freedom and is bound and determined to grow that number in the next couple of years. As part of that fight, we are engaging a blitz to strategically reach outdoors enthusiasts in four states, educating the public on their right to hunt and fish.  

We are working in Iowa, Ohio, Florida and South Dakota – all priority states with strong hunting-and-fishing traditions that currently lack a constitutional right to hunt and fish. 

It was President Theodore Roosevelt who pioneered the North American model of conservation – the idea that conservation efforts are crucial to our hunting way of life, and that hunters and anglers are crucial to successful conservation. The fight against these anti-hunting and anti-fishing threats is just getting started.  

We will not allow these activists to dismantle and ultimately destroy Roosevelt’s great legacy. Join us in this fight. Stand in the arena with us and do the hard work necessary to protect your right to hunt and fish. Together, we can protect our outdoor heritage for future generations. 

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced one of President Biden’s nominees this week — Latino activist and Democrat donor Nathalie Rayes — to serve as ambassador to Croatia.

Rayes is vice chair of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, an advocacy arm of the progressive organization advocating for policies in support of legalized abortion. She is also the CEO of Latino Victory Fund, a super PAC founded by big Democratic donor and actress Eva Longoria.

The organization’s PAC in the 2020 election cycle spent $9,118,302 in favor of Biden’s presidential campaign, accounting for 89% of its independent expenditures, according to Open Secrets.

In a closed business meeting Wednesday to vote on several international ambassador nominees, all 10 Republicans on the committee voted against Rayes, a senior aide told Fox News Digital. 

Ranking member James Risch, R-Idaho, voiced concerns specifically about Rayes’ involvement in Planned Parenthood before casting his vote, the aide said.

Appointed by Biden, Rayes serves on the board of the United States Institute of Peace, a federal agency responsible for fostering global conflict resolution and prevention. She also chairs the Hispanas Organized for Political Equality Binational Advisory Group, a progressive California-based organization that aims to elect Latinos in government positions.

‘I am deeply honored to be nominated as Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia. I thank @POTUS for the opportunity to serve my country,’ Rayes posted on X, formerly Twitter, in May. ‘If confirmed, I will work to further strengthen our important relationship with the people and the government of Croatia.’

Rayes began her political career as a field deputy and subsequently served as a senior adviser to Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Feuer, a Democrat, from 1995-2001. 

Rayes’ path in government continued as deputy chief of staff for Democratic Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn from 2001-2005, and she oversaw the Office of Intergovernmental Relations, International Trade, Protocol, and initiated the city’s inaugural Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Other nominees who advanced Wednesday were James C. O’Brien as assistant secretary of state (European and Eurasian Affairs), Dennis B. Henkins as ambassador to Haiti and Tobin John Bradley to the ambassadorship of Guatemala.

They must now undergo confirmation by the Senate.

The White House, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the Latino Victory Fund did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment. 

Claims that a Republican state senator running for governor in Missouri participated in a book burning at a recent GOP event have been proven false, but he said he would do it to ‘woke pornographic books’ if they end up in the state’s schools.

In a now viral video, Sen. Bill Eigel can be seen shooting flames at cardboard boxes with state Sen. Nick Schroer, another Missouri Republican, during the St. Charles County Freedom Fest event outside St. Louis on Sept. 15. 

The video drew criticism after a user on X, formerly Twitter, claimed the two senators were ‘at a literal book burning’ – a post that has since been fact-checked by Snopes stating that is not the case.

Eigel responded to the post himself by saying the blazing cardboard boxes represented what he plans to do to ‘leftist policies’ and ‘RINO corruption’ in Jefferson City, the state’s capital.

‘In the video, I am taking a flame thrower(sic) to cardboard boxes representing what I am going to do to the leftist policies and RINO corruption of the Jeff City swamp,’ Eigel wrote on X. ‘But let’s be clear, you bring those woke pornographic books to Missouri schools to try to brainwash our kids, and I’ll burn those too – on the front lawn of the governor’s mansion.’

Freedom Fest organizer Debbie McFarland said the false claims about books being burned at the event ‘fit a narrative that they wanted to put out there’ that ‘just didn’t happen to be the truth,’ according to The Associated Press.

After the claims were proven false – and a note was added to the video stating such – some social media users denouncing the actions of Eigel and Schroer changed their language to say the incident was symbolic of a book burning.

‘The community note is helpful here,’ wrote Jonathan Riley, the X user who initially stated the video showed ‘a literal book burning.’ ‘I admit I mistook this metaphorical book burning for a literal book burning. But the candidate for Governor in this video promised to burn books on the lawn of the Governor’s mansion if elected, so don’t act like I’m the one being inflammatory.’

On Tuesday, one day after Eigel said he would burn ‘woke pornographic books’ if they make it into schools, he wrote on X:

‘I take back nothing, apologize for nothing, and will fight to protect kids every. single. time. Truth never mattered to the Left—these are the folks that think men can get pregnant. Let’s Go Missouri!’

Eigel continued the conversation on Wednesday by claiming on X that parents in St. Charles were outraged over a book found in a public library by the name of ‘Bang Like a Porn Star.’ 

In a post accompanied by a picture of a bonfire, Eigel wrote that the book should be ‘burned, bulldozed, or launched into outer space before being allowed into the hands of kids.’

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the book in question was found in the adult section of the library and ‘features interviews with several gay adult film stars and includes photographs detailing various sex acts.’ It was one of two books community members described as too sexually explicit to be in public libraries at the St. Charles County-City Library Board meeting on Tuesday. 

The other book was ‘It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender and Sexual Health,’ which was on display at one of the library’s 12 branches, according to the outlet.

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President Biden complimented the merits of the ‘Congressional Black Caucus’ during a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Thursday, his third public speaking gaffe in just two days.

Biden, 80, made the mishap during a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 46th Annual Gala in Washington, D.C., as he celebrated gala award recipient Sister Norma Pimental, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. 

He said: ‘I know Sister Norma lives the lessons nuns taught me growing up. Lessons based on the Gospel of Matthew: feed the hungry, care for the sick, welcome strangers. They echo what my dad taught me, and I mean this sincerely, my dad used to say, ‘Everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.’ The Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values.’ 

The incident took place the day after he forgot to shake the hand of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as ‘Lula,’ before leaving a joint press conference and, later that night, repeated the same story at a fundraiser just minutes apart.

The president did not stop to correct himself after making the blunder, as he is sometimes able to during a speaking slip-up.

He continued: ‘Just think of the work we’ve done together on civil rights, labor rights, health care, education. Folks, we’ve fundamentally changed the direction of our economy to grow it from the middle out and the bottom-up.’ 

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for a statement on the comment, but a response was not immediately received.

Biden also patted himself on the back for the number of Hispanic members in his Cabinet and credited himself for ‘record low’ Latino unemployment. 

The gaffes over the past two days come a week after he suggested African American and Hispanic employees lack ‘high school diplomas.’

‘We’ve seen record lows in unemployment particularly — and I’ve focused on this my whole career — particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, the workers without high school diplomas,’ he said at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland.

Following a speech on workers’ rights at the United Nations in New York City on Wednesday, Biden shook the hand of International Labor Organization Director-General Gilbert Houngbo, who was on stage with him, and then walked away without acknowledging the Brazilian President.

Lula walked toward the president as if to shake his hand, then saw Biden take off in another direction. 

The foreign leader appeared irritated by the exchange – or lack thereof.

At a fundraiser later in the evening, Biden told the ‘same story’ just minutes apart ‘nearly word for word,’ several people from the event reported.

‘After briefly touting his economic record, POTUS reflected on his decision to seek the presidency,’ said Politico’s Jonathan Lemire, who was traveling with the president on Wednesday. ‘He told the story about the events of Charlottesville in 2017 as the reason for his campaign. A few minutes later, he told the story again, nearly word for word.’

Several users on X, formerly known as Twitter, quickly commented on the president’s age and the apparent decline in his health.

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PHOENIX – Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate and conservative firebrand Kari Lake has been hitting the pavement more and more in recent weeks as a top surrogate for former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and as a booster of Republican candidates across the country ahead of her own likely run for U.S. Senate.

According to two sources close to the former news anchor, Lake will likely launch her campaign in the second week of October to win back for Republicans the Senate seat currently held by independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

Those sources also said Lake will continue to travel the country and speak to voters in an effort to help Republican candidates, including Trump, win the back the White House and secure majorities in both houses of Congress next year.

Just in the past three months, Lake has traveled to 14 states to headline events and address Republican organizations at the state and county levels, and has even thrown her support behind candidates in other Senate races. 

On Monday, she traveled to Utah for an event to endorse Trent Staggs, the mayor of Riverton, Utah, in his bid to replace retiring Sen. Mitt Romney, and, last month, endorsed businessman Bernie Moreno’s efforts to unseat vulnerable Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio.

Lake has also boosted Trump on the campaign trail, including at events in Wisconsin, Texas and Iowa — the state she was raised. According to sources close to Lake, she will also travel to California next week as a surrogate for Trump at the second Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox Business. Trump will not be participating, and will instead speak at an event in Michigan.

Early polls have suggested Lake would be the front-runner in a hypothetical Republican primary. The only major Republican candidate in the race so far is Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, who launched his campaign in April. Republican businessman Blake Masters, who lost to Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly in last year’s race, has also been mentioned as a potential candidate. 

Democrat Congressman Ruben Gallego, whose district encompasses a large portion of the deep-blue Phoenix area, is currently considered the front-runner for his party’s nomination in the race. Meanwhile, Sinema has still not officially said whether she will attempt an independent run for re-election after leaving the Democrat Party last year.

Sources close to Lake have also pointed to polling showing Trump edging President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup as evidence she would perform well against Gallego in the general election.

Lake first gained nationwide name recognition last year with her gubernatorial run against now-Democrat Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs. She narrowly lost to Hobbs by just over 17,000 votes out of the nearly 2.6 million cast, but has maintained there was an amount of voter fraud significant enough to help put the Democrat over the finish line.

It’s unclear how her view on any alleged fraud could sway middle of the road voters in the swing state should she ultimately jump into the Senate race.

Alex Murdaugh said Thursday in a court document that he only learned of alleged jury tampering in his double-murder trial after he was sentenced to two life terms in prison for shooting his wife and son.

‘I did not have any knowledge or information that the Colleton County Clerk of Court, Rebecca Hill, or anyone else, had communications with the jury during the trial . . . about the evidence, jury deliberation, and the other matters . . . until after the jury rendered its verdict and I was sentenced,’ he wrote. 

His lawyers filed the affidavit Thursday after prosecutors called their petition for a new trial ‘procedurally defective’ for not including the sworn statement and for failing to note when they had first learned of the allegations.

Defense attorneys Jim Griffin and Dick Harpootlian countered that prosecutors are acting in ‘bad faith’ and trying to stall addressing the troubling reports of misconduct.

The defense team has accused Hill of telling jurors not to believe Murdaugh’s testimony and pressuring them to reach a swift guilty verdict, so she could secure a book deal.

The attorneys filed an appeal after the verdict and before they interviewed the three jurors who made the stunning claims.

Earlier this month, the defense team asked the South Carolina Court of Appeals to pause the appeal and hand the case back to the trial judge to decide whether to overturn the verdict based on the newly discovered evidence. 

The defense has alleged that Hill, who wrote a memoir about the trial, ‘betrayed her oath of office for money and fame.’ Her attorney, Justin Bamberg, declined to comment. 

But South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson responded in a four-page brief that the motion for a new trial is missing critical information – although he didn’t say that the allegations are false. 

The defense’s latest filing in the petition for a new trial comes on the same day that Murdaugh admitted to 22 counts of financial misdeeds in federal court, marking the first time he’s pleaded guilty to a crime.

‘I want to take responsibility. I want my son to see me take responsibility. It’s my hope that by taking responsibility that the people I’ve hurt can begin to heal,’ he told the court.

He has denied that he murdered his wife, Maggie, and his son Paul in June 2021.

Fox Nation aired the series ‘The Fall of the House of Murdaugh’ earlier this month, which features interviews with Hill and Murdaugh’s only surviving son, Buster. 

Through nearly three days of speeches by world leaders at this year’s United Nations General Assembly, many issues have been addressed, but aside from climate change, one pressing matter seems to have been universally condemned: Russia’s war in Ukraine. 

As more than 80 world leaders have spoken to the assembly through Thursday afternoon at U.N. headquarters in New York City, many have remarked negatively on Moscow’s stalled military operations in neighboring Ukraine. They have either called out Russia by name, referred to unspecified world conflicts, or spoken about the inability of the U.N. to confront Moscow or its leaders. 

In his Wednesday speech, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said Russia had brought back ‘an old-style colonial war’ to Europe. 

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová accused Russian forces of committing war crimes. ‘For more than 570 days, Russia’s forces have been killing innocent Ukrainian civilians, kidnapping children, and destroying towns and cities,’ she said. 

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said Moscow’s ‘aggression is a direct violation of the United Nations Charter, to which we are all committed by aiding Ukraine.’

‘It exacerbated all these crises of various kinds and destroyed not only thousands of human lives but also the optimism that we are able to build back better,’ said Bulgarian President Rumen Radevn.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics was even more blunt. ‘Russia must bear full legal and financial responsibility for its aggression,’ he said. ‘We must ensure complete accountability for all crimes committed in Ukraine. It means the responsibility of Russia as a state for violations of international law.’

On Tuesday, President Biden asked: ‘If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?’

Leaders from Poland, Portugal, Hungry, Uruguay, the Czech Republic and many others also weighed in on the war. Many said the conflict has strained regional stability and impacted diplomatic relations between nations. 

Russia has been almost universally condemned for its February 2022 invasion. Since the fighting began, thousands are estimated to have been killed on both sides. 

On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in New York to address the U.N. Security Council, where he advocated for international assistance in helping his country fend off Russian forces. He also spoke at the General Assembly. 

He accused Russia of weaponizing food, energy to abducted children in its war against his country. 

‘When hatred is weaponized against one nation, it never stops there,’ he said. ‘The goal of the present war against Ukraine is to turn our land, our people, our lives, our resources into weapons against you — against the international rules-based order.’

On Wednesday, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama called out Russia over attempts to prevent Zelenskyy from speaking at the U.N. Security Council. He noted that the notice of speaking orders was given in advance and any objections should have been raised beforehand.

‘I want to assure our Russian colleagues and everyone here that this is not a special operation by the Albanian presidency,’ Rama said, referring to Moscow’s wording of its invasion in Ukraine. 

In response, Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the U.N., said Albania had placed its ‘political and ideological beliefs above the obligations’ of the council. 

‘I must say that coming from all these lectures of violating the rules in this building is quite an impressive show,’ Rama replied. ‘But as far as you repeat it many times that the violation here is about President Zelenskyy speaking before the council members, there is a solution for this. If you agree, you stop the war and President Zelenskyy will not take the floor.’

Russia is slated to take the podium at the General Assembly on Saturday. 

‘Ukraine exercises its right to self-defense,’ Zelenskyy said. ‘Helping Ukraine with weapons in this exercise, by imposing sanctions and exerting comprehensive pressure on the aggressor, as well as voting for relevant resolutions, would mean helping to defend the U.N. Charter.’

The U.S. has issued billions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine, which has put up a tougher resistance than many expected. Russia’s forces have been described as demoralized as reports of faulty equipment and a lack of necessities have plagued its ability to conquer its neighbor. 

Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz contributed to this report. 

Republicans are stalled right now and can’t even adopt a simple provision to bring to the floor what is historically one of the most popular bills in Congress: The annual defense spending bill. 

The House’s fights over funding the government could mark the worst run for any majority in modern House history. Republicans hold a slim majority and only a few holdout votes can derail the process completely.

House Republicans tried last week to bring the defense spending plan for debate. But the GOP set that aside because they lacked the votes.

Then they tried to approve the ‘rule’ for the defense bill Tuesday. That went up in flames.

They tried again Thursday, but that vote imploded — and a few hours later, members were quietly told that the House was done for the week.

‘Rules’ typically don’t fail in the House. Moreover, if the majority leadership suspect a rule will fail, they usually don’t bring the issue to the floor.

The GOP brought ‘rules’ for the defense bill to the floor twice this week — even though they were destined to fail.

Defeat of the rule prevents the House from even debating the defense bill. 

The House Republican majority has splintered over government funding and how to avoid a government shutdown, which would occur if no action is taken on spending by September 30. 

The majority ditched a plan hatched over the weekend to fund the government on an interim basis, cut spending and beef up the border. That plan was dead on arrival by Tuesday. 

Republicans huddled for over two hours Wednesday night on a bill to temporarily fund the government, pass additional appropriations bills, cut spending and create a commission to study the debt. That plan — purportedly set for debate on Saturday — is on life support at best. 

The failed vote also seemed unexpected, since GOP lawmakers emerged from a closed-door conference meeting on Wednesday evening expressing confidence that they could pass a 30-day stopgap spending deal to avoid a shutdown while passing a series of individual spending bills — only one of which has passed so far. 

The setbacks this week mark a bad omen that a government shutdown could be a fait accompli — simply because Republicans can’t do anything about it. The House majority is seemingly stymied right now at approving any bills. 

The House went into recess, and Fox News learned that some members were told they could go home for the week. The chamber can remain in session for days without calling any votes if it reconvenes at certain intervals. 

The House Rules Committee remains on call for the weekend, and discussions on fiscal year 2024 appropriations will continue, GOP Whip Tom Emmer’s office advised members.

Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed reporting.