WASHINGTON — Former US Olympic canoeist David Hearn pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after allegedly yanking at the “American-flag blue” sealant the Trump administration installed on its bottom. Defense attorney Mary Dohrmann entered the plea on Hearn’s behalf during a brief hearing before DC Superior Court Judge Carmen McLean, calling her client an “upstanding” citizen with deep ties to the nation’s capital. “It is not a crime to touch the Reflecting Pool, to touch water in the United States of America,” fellow defense lawyer Norm Eisen declared to reporters outside the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is proposing to slash Biden-era truck emissions regulations in a move officials say would save the trucking industry about $12 billion and ease supply chain costs that make everyday goods more expensive for Americans.”Collectively, these savings will be passed on to American families through lower costs for food, household goods, and other products trucks deliver, while still maintaining strong environmental protections and ensuring clean air,” read the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) press release first viewed by Fox News Digital.The EPA has proposed changes to heavy-duty truck…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly carried a flaming propane tank through a Tampa restaurant and wielded a pair of knives when deputies tried to take him into custody.The incident unfolded around 8:45 a.m. Tuesday after Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report of an assault or battery in progress at a restaurant in Tampa, according to the sheriff’s office.When deputies arrived, they found the restaurant filled with smoke and flames while a propane tank outside the building was also on fire, authorities said. Deputies said they spotted…

Sometimes it costs more to keep than to toss. Back in February, New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) filed a $1.7 million lawsuit against Extra Space, a self-storage company with 60 locations across the City. And this week, the company settled. City officials said $1 million will be rolled out to customers through a restitution fund, while the remaining $700,000 will cover civil penalties. The Post reached out to Extra Space for comment, but has not yet heard back. DCWP reviewed more than 100 complaints and reportedly found that Extra Space — one of the largest…

Gotham star midfielder Rose Lavelle technically has been a free agent since July 1. In an interview this week, Gotham president of soccer operations Yael Averbuch West indicated the club is in active talks to retain Lavelle on a fresh contract. “We’re working every day on it,” Averbuch West told The Post. Asked whether Gotham wanted to re-sign Lavelle and about the status of negotiations, Averbuch West began by saying, “I think every team wants to sign Rose Lavelle, so absolutely,” which is both a shorthand for the value of the 31-year-old playmaker and where the anxiety can come in…

Two of the Milky Way’s gigantic spiral arms appear to be much farther away than we realized, scientists have discovered after listening to the echoes of distant cosmic explosions. The findings could potentially force us to reconsider our galaxy’s mass and maybe even its shape, researchers say.The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy made up of a dense central region containing a supermassive black hole (dubbed Sagittarius A*), orbited by four major arms — the Sagitarrius arm, the Scutum-Centaurus arm, the Perseus arm and the Outer arm — that curve and stretch outward like a giant pinwheel. Most of…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has filed a patent for a “creepy” AI-powered wearable device that would be capable of tracking the user’s emotional state – right down to their sighs and laughter and what time of day they take medication. The patent filing, which was published on July 2, describes an “apparatus” for “emotional state analysis and real-time fitness coaching.” Meta wrote in part that the device would use insights such as whether the user is happy or sad to generate a workout routine. “The AI assistant may listen to a user(s) at predefined times to hear various types of communication,…

Iran has given the world its first glimpse inside the bombed-out compound where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israel airstrike at the start of the war. The Iranian regime has released a new 50-second video showing the destruction left by the blast as part of a six-day funeral for the 86-year-old, who ruled the Islamic Republic with an iron fist since 1989. The gutted interior of the compound is barely recognizable as a structure, the Feb. 28 missile strikes stripping it down to support beams and rebar. Deep piles of rubble cover the entire floor, draped with buckled…

ICE officer Gregory Simmons details saving child from drowning ICE Law Enforcement Officer Gregory Simmons describes the dramatic pool rescue of a 6-year-old child from drowning in Pasco County, Florida. Simmons reacted instinctively, performing CPR to revive the unconscious child. His quick actions highlight the heroic efforts of law enforcement officers on and off duty. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Quick-thinking Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Wisconsin who were preparing to conduct an arrest operation dropped everything to rush to the scene of a nearby rollover crash, saving a woman trapped inside her car, Fox…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Minnesota’s Department of Health (MDH) voluntarily suspended a grant program that was specifically based on race after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated a Civil Rights Act compliance review, the DOJ said in a Tuesday announcement.The Capacity Strengthening Initiative, according to the DOJ, was a grant program which “limited eligible grantees to organizations that worked with ‘people of color,’ provided ‘strategic consideration’ and ‘gave priority’ to proposals from organizations ‘led by populations of color.'” It also, the DOJ alleged, prioritized allocating a higher proportion of grants to “Black or African American” and…