The Babylon Bee satirical news site on Friday scored a major free speech win due to the backing of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

A federal court shut down Hawaii Gov. Josh Green’s (D) law preventing individuals from "recklessly distributing… materially deceptive media." Citing that such practices could impact elections by misleading voters, Green's law that he signed in 2024 restricts content that risks harming "the reputation or electoral prospects of a candidate" or simply risks "changing… voting behavior."

Videos, audio and images were mandated to post a disclaimer in a clear and legible manner, according to the law. ADF said that such disclaimers undermined the Bee's message and the "purpose of satire." Violators of the law could face jail time, fines, and lawsuits. 

The law primarily targeted AI-generated images, which the Babylon Bee uses.

"The legislature finds that although artificial intelligence (AI) technology can greatly benefit certain aspects of society, it can also have dangerous consequences if applied maliciously," the law section 1 of the bill stated. "For example, the use of deepfakes or generative AI in elections can be a powerful tool used to spread disinformation and misinformation, which can increase political tensions and result in electoral-related conflict and violence."

"This decision marks yet another victory for the First Amendment and for anyone who values the right to speak freely on political matters without government interference," Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said. 

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"We are grateful to Alliance Defending Freedom for representing us as we continue to challenge laws that treat comedy like a crime," he added.

Babylon Bee has gained huge popularity on social media sites over the years with its conservative digs at politics and pop culture, gaining over 2 million followers on Instagram and 5 million on X.

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"For centuries, humor and satire have served as an important vehicle to deliver truth with a smile, and this kind of speech receives the utmost protection under the Constitution," ADF legal counsel Mathew Hoffmann said.

"The court is right to put a stop to Hawaii’s war against political memes and satire. The First Amendment doesn’t allow Hawaii to choose what political speech is acceptable and censor speech in the name of ‘misinformation.’ That censorship is both undemocratic and unnecessary."

U.S. District Judge Shanlyn Park, nominated by President Joe Biden in 2023 to the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, wrote in the order, "Political speech, of course, is at the core of what the First Amendment is designed to protect."

"Rather than require actual harm, [S2687] imposes a risk assessment based solely on the value judgments and biases of the enforcement agency—which could conceivably lead to discretionary and targeted enforcement that discriminates based on viewpoint," she explained further.

Park ruled that the state cannot censor certain political speech that it does not like. 

"Plaintiffs The Babylon Bee, LLC, and Dawn O’Brien are parodists and humorists who create and post digital content about politics on various internet platforms and social media websites. Plaintiffs’ content contains admittedly false and hyperbolic information. Plaintiffs maintain that their content constitutes protected political speech and, with respect to The Bee, reflects a longstanding tradition of using satire and parody to speak the truth, expose bad ideas, and encourage societal change," Park wrote.

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ADF said that the Babylon Bee won a similar case in California, pushing back against Attorney General Rob Bonta’s effort to collect data from social media companies in order to investigate violators spreading false information on these sites. California officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, were looking to crack down on "hate and disinformation" on social media.

"The Department is reviewing the court’s decision and has no further comment at this time," the Department of the Attorney General’s Office told Fox News Digital.

FIRST ON FOX: The president of the nation’s largest teachers union is facing backlash after calling former President Donald Trump a "dictator" during a far-left activist conference call that promoted mass disruption and political organizing.

Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association (NEA), appeared on a Zoom event last week hosted by the Sunrise Movement titled "Roadmap to Political Revolution," a mass organizing call aimed at opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), targeting Trump and phone-banking for a progressive congressional candidate.

"I’m honored to now introduce President Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association. Look, there’s no way we’re going to be able to stop fascism without organized labor," Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director of the Sunrise Movement and a former member of Students for Justice in Palestine, said as she introduced Pringle on the call, obtained by Fox News Digital. 

During her remarks, Pringle told attendees that the NEA would leverage its 3 million members and thousands of local affiliates to "advocate," "mobilize," "litigate," and "elect people" aligned with its political goals.

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"NEA is one of this administration’s top targets," Pringle said on the call, going on to label Trump a "dictator."

"Dictators always come for educators," she said, adding that teachers help students "question and analyze" and "fight and make this world a better place."

Pringle added, "Together, we will demand that this administration stop scapegoating immigrants just so they can implement cruel and callous policies and occupy our communities."

Pringle claimed that ICE is attempting to bring "fear and trauma into our schools" by "traveling through neighborhoods, wandering past schools, and following school buses."

"They've even assaulted and detained educators and students on school grounds. Educators are seeing this damage every day."

The Sunrise Movement is a far-left organization that vows to "force the government to end the era of fossil fuel elites, invest in Black, brown and working class communities, and create millions of good union jobs," according to its website.

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The core of the group’s mission is fighting for the Green New Deal. Sunrise Movement listed "four pillars" that are critical to the Green New Deal, including to "stop the climate crisis" and to "invest in racial and economic justice." 

Sunrise Movement's far-left ties were enough to spark concern from the House Judiciary Committee Chairman in November, Fox News Digital first reported, particularly its links to Antifa, a movement the Trump administration has labeled a terrorist organization.

In a letter to Soros' Open Society Foundations, the committee wrote, "Of particular concern, OSF has donated ‘at least $2 million’ to the Sunrise Movement, a group closely connected to Antifa. According to the Capital Research Center report, the Sunrise Movement ‘endorsed and solicited financial support for the Antifa-associated anarchist terrorists of the Stop Cop City / Defend the Atlanta Forest coalition’ which, in 2023, violently attacked law enforcement officers and utility workers constructing a training facility near Atlanta, Georgia for police officers and firefighters. During the siege, Antifa terrorists threw Molotov cocktails, bricks, and rocks at law enforcement officers, attempted to blind officers by shining lasers in their eyes, and set construction equipment and a police car on fire, among numerous other violent acts. Prosecutors later charged more than individuals with domestic terrorism due to the attacks."

During the 2020 election season, the Sunrise Movement, whose website says it wants to "force the government to end the era of fossil fuel elites," received nearly a third of its funding from the Soros-backed Democracy PAC and Sixteen-Thirty Fund, totaling $750,000.

"It is truly shocking that the head of the largest teachers union in the country, who is meant to represent the best interests of her members, would join in such a radical event — one that is openly calling to change the US political system, and to call for collective action and political activism," North American Values Institute Director of Research Mika Hackner told Fox News Digital. 

"Is it any wonder that we see activist teachers in the classroom when this is what is happening at the top?"

Fox News Digital reached out to the NEA and the Sunrise Movement for comment.

Fox News Digital has extensively reported in recent months on concerns from education experts about the far-left radical activism of teachers unions, including the NEA, as they continue to mobilize protests against Trump's immigration policies.

Some, including Defending Education senior director of communications Erika Sanzi, have suggested that the NEA's federal charter should be removed.

"Their federal charter was granted because they promised to ‘elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States,'" Sanzi told Fox News Digital in November. "Seeing as their leadership — and by extension, the organization itself — has morphed into a far-left insane asylum that is actively destroying the cause of education, that charter is no longer defensible."

In January, a whistle-blower in the NEA told Fox News Digital the organization is not focused on the needs of students and teachers, but rather on promoting far left agenda items.

"It's a cult," the NEA employee said. "It's 100% a cult and if you don't have their mindset, you're the enemy."

Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo and Joshua Q. Nelson contributed to this report.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told District Attorney of Philadelphia Larry Krasner to "lighten up" on Sunday after Krasner came after him during a CNN interview. 

"He really ought to lighten up, Francis," Fetterman told Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich, in an apparent reference to the 1981 comedy "Stripes."

"A lot of the tough talk coming out of his office, that's just pandering to people," he continued.

Last week, Krasner compared ICE agents to Nazis.

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"This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis, that's what they are, in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them," Krasner said Tuesday in Philadelphia. "If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities, we will find you, we will achieve justice."

Krasner then appeared on CNN and called Fetterman "the favorite Democratic senator of Donald Trump," claiming he "has completely sold out the principles on which he ran for office."

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"What [Fetterman] has been doing for quite some time, for whatever reason, and we all know there may be a few reasons, is completely unacceptable for anyone who actually believes in democracy and who actually believes in the rule of law," Krasner said.

Fetterman expressed support for deporting criminal migrants and securing the U.S. border, acknowledging that he and Krasner do not agree on every issue.

"But I'm not going to criticize or attack him," the senator said, adding, "Regardless, that's a hard rule for anyone — don't compare anyone to Nazis."

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who has been calling out antisemitism on both sides of the political aisle, similarly condemned Krasner's remarks.

"That kind of rhetoric is unacceptable, it is abhorrent, and it is wrong — period, hard stop, end of sentence," the governor told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier.

Fox News Digital's Nora Moriarty contributed to this report.

Draymond Green received his 10th technical foul of the season and the 209th of his career, including the playoffs. But this one in particular rubbed him the wrong way.

The Golden State Warriors forward was T'd up on Friday night against the Detroit Pistons after an exchange with official J.T. Orr on his own bobblehead night.

Green was upset that Orr, who is White, put his hand in his face.

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"I will tell you, though. I find it very ironic that I got a technical foul for telling a Caucasian referee not to put his hand in my face. As a Black man in America, don't put your hand in my face," Green said.

"I said, 'Hey, don't put your hand in my face.' And I got a tech. So I thought that was the most interesting thing of the night, next to my bobblehead."

Green then criticized the official and said respect is a two-way street.

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"He said, ‘Draymond, this is your chance to stop talking to me. (I responded) ’Bro, don't put your hand in my face.' Oh, tech. Oh! OK. Everybody wants to talk about holding a line of respect. That line needs to be held both ways. So if the line won’t be held both ways, then the line won’t be held from my way either, because we’re all men and we all can make decisions and choices. So let that be the last time that that happens," he said.

Earlier this month, Green had his 24th ejection. He ranks second in career ejections among NBA players all time, just five behind Rasheed Wallace, who holds the record with 29.

Green also leads all active NBA players in technical fouls and passed Anthony Mason for seventh place on the all-time leaderboard earlier this month. He needs two more to pass Dwight Howard and 60 more after that to pass Dennis Rodman and enter the top five.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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Senate Republicans and Democrats cut through partisan rancor and sent a retooled government spending package to the House Friday evening after President Donald Trump struck a deal to sate Democrats’ demands. 

Though lawmakers were able to advance the revamped five-bill package without the controversial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill and a two-week funding extension to keep the agency afloat, a partial government shutdown is all but guaranteed after the 71-29 vote.

That’s because modifications to the package and the inclusion of a short-term continuing resolution (CR) for DHS must be approved by the House. And lawmakers in the lower chamber aren’t scheduled to return to Washington, D.C., until early next week. 

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Schumer and his caucus are determined to get a series of extra reforms attached and dropped three categories of restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday that many Republicans have balked at.

"These are not radical demands," Schumer said on the Senate floor. "They're basic standards the American people already expect from law enforcement. I hope we can get voting quickly here in the Senate today so we can move forward on the important work of reining in ICE. The clock is ticking."

Democrats argued that the tweaks were common sense and geared toward reducing further incidents during immigration operations around the country after two fatal shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. 

"This is not like some wish list," Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., said. "This is, like, really practical, commonsense stuff that would actually go a long way towards minimizing the harm that we're seeing in Minnesota."

Among the most difficult requests is the requirement of judicial warrants, rather than administrative warrants, for ICE agents to make arrests. 

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., argued that while Republicans didn’t want to have a government shutdown, they wouldn’t legislate "stupid s---" into the DHS bill. 

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"We're not, like, telling [ICE] they need judicial warrants when they already have administrative warrants," Schmitt said. "We're not doing that."

Successfully moving the bill from one chamber to the other was not an easy lift for Republicans. A cohort of Senate Republicans pushed back against the underlying, original package because of the billions in earmarked funding it included. 

And Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was enraged over the House’s decision to include a repeal of a provision that would allow senators, like himself, to sue for up to $500,000 if they had their phone records subpoenaed by former special counsel Jack Smith as part of his Arctic Frost probe. 

"You jammed me, Speaker Johnson. I won't forget this," Graham said. "I got a lot of good friends in the House. If you think I'm going to give up on this, you really don't know me."

He demanded votes on expanding the number of people and organizations who were affected by Smith’s Arctic Frost probe who can sue, along with a vote on his legislation that would criminalize the conduct of officials who operate sanctuary cities. 

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But he didn’t tee them up for an amendment vote, instead contending he’d be OK with floor action after the two-week CR lapsed. 

Moving the package through the House could be a heavier lift than expected.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., expected the earliest he could move on the package was by Monday, three days into the partial shutdown, given that lawmakers are away from Washington, D.C., until next week. 

One House GOP source suggested to Fox News Digital that passing the legislation under suspension of the rules could be a pathway to success because it would fast-track the bills past a House-wide procedural hurdle called a "rule vote" that normally falls along party lines.

But that would require raising the threshold for passage from a simple majority to two-thirds, meaning a significant number of Democrats would be needed for the bills to proceed.

That does not appear to be the route House leaders are taking, however, at least for now. Two other sources told Fox News Digital Friday morning that the House Rules Committee is expected to meet for a rare Sunday hearing to consider the bill. 

The House Rules Committee is the final gatekeeper before most legislation gets a chamber-wide vote, meaning its advancement of the package Sunday could set up further action as early as Monday.

House Republican resistance to the modified package, particularly the DHS CR, has already fomented among members of the House Freedom Caucus.

House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris told Fox News Digital "the Democrats’ desire to keep millions of illegal aliens in the United States will not suddenly disappear in a week or a month with a continuing resolution."

"Delaying full year funding for the Department of Homeland Security any further is a bad idea," Harris said. 

Idaho prison officials say they have no plans to transfer quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger despite reports that his many complaints behind bars had authorities sick of him enough to "aggressively" seek an out-of-state alternative.

"The Idaho Department of Correction is not aware of the source of this information and is not considering a move for Bryan Kohberger," spokesman Ryan Mortensen told Fox News Digital Thursday.

While convicted serial killer Keith Jespersen has for months suggested Kohberger should seek a transfer to the Oregon State Penitentiary, where he is being held himself, reports that prison officials were actually considering such a move surfaced in the Daily Mail Wednesday, citing Chris McDonough, the director of the Cold Case Foundation and a retired detective.

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Contacted by Fox News Digital, McDonough stood by the report, saying he had "solid" information from a prison insider and that the move could take place in about a month.

"I'll put $2 million on it," he told Fox News Digital. "We'll see in a couple of weeks."

Kohberger, now 31, has repeatedly complained about prison conditions — about issues ranging from a lack of vegan food options and brown bananas to constant harassment from fellow inmates.

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"One could argue that Kohberger would have been safer on Death Row," Jespersen, known as the "Happy Face Killer," told Fox News Digital in July. "That way he will be out of harm's way from the general population in Idaho's prison system."

Kohberger is currently being held in a special wing known as J Block, where he is separated from other inmates.

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"J Block is a unit that can house up to 128 individuals and includes populations in general population protective custody, long-term restrictive housing, and death row," corrections officials previously told Fox News Digital.

He is serving four consecutive life sentences plus another 10 years with no chance of parole at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna.

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He pleaded guilty last year to the murders of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.

Kohberger stabbed all four of them to death in a home invasion ambush around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2022. He killed three of them in their sleep, and only Kernodle showed signs of having fought back, according to unsealed documents from the investigation.

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Kohberger was studying for a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University, about 20 miles from the victims' home. In a pitch proposal released last year after his conviction, he told professors he wanted to focus on his research on sexual burglary.

While there, classmates and undergrad students filed numerous complaints about his behavior, with several women saying they were uncomfortable being around him. One professor even warned her colleagues that he would become a predator.

"Mark my words, I work with predators, if we give him a Ph.D. that’s the guy that in that many years when he is a professor, we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing...his students," a WSU faculty member told colleagues well before Kohberger was identified as a suspect in the Idaho student murders, according to court documents.

More than a month after the murders, Kohberger took a cross-country drive home to Pennsylvania with his dad riding shotgun in the suspect vehicle. Police arrested him on Dec. 30, 2022.

Tom Brady was just as perplexed as the rest of the NFL world when it was learned that Bill Belichick wouldn’t be going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

The Belichick snub, despite eight total Super Bowl rings in his career, was reported by ESPN on Tuesday night. He needed to get 40 of the 50 votes to earn his place in Canton, Ohio, being on the ballot for the first time.

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Brady, who won six Super Bowl titles with Belichick while the two were on the New England Patriots, went to bat for his former head coach.

"To me, I don’t understand it," he said Wednesday in an appearance on "Brock & Salk Mornings" in Seattle. "I was with him every day. If he’s not a first-ballot Hall of Famer, there’s really no coach that should ever be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, which is completely ridiculous because people deserve it. He’s incredible. There’s no coach I’d rather play for. If I’m picking one coach to go out there to win a Super Bowl, give me one season, I’m taking Bill Belichick.

"So that’s enough said. Outside of that, again, when it comes down to votes and popularity, and all that, like, welcome to the world of voting. He may as well go try out for the Oscars or whatever and get a big panel to tell you if you’re good or not. It’s the way it works, unfortunately."

Brady said he was confident that Belichick would get into the Hall of Fame eventually.

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"He’s gonna get into the Hall of Fame," he continued. "In the end, I’m not worried about that. A lot of times in life, for all of us, things don’t happen exactly how you want them on your timeline but we’ll all be there to celebrate him when it does happen. He’s gonna have a huge turnout from so many players, coaches that appreciated everything he did and the commitment he made to winning and the impact he had on all our lives and that’ll be a great celebration when it happens."

It’s unclear who left him off the ballot.

The class of 2026 won’t officially be revealed until next week in the lead up to Super Bowl LX. Belichick was among the candidates in a separate group from the modern-era players category along with Ken Anderson, Roger Craig, L.C. Greenwood and Robert Kraft.

Belichick was "puzzled" and "disappointed" with the decision and that he wondered what more he had to do as a head coach to get in immediately, ESPN reported.

"Politics kept him out. He doesn't believe this is a reflection on his accomplishments," another source told the outlet.

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