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The Minneapolis man who sprayed Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., with vinegar during a January town hall is changing his plea to guilty on federal charges.

Anthony James Kazmierczak's alleged assault on Omar occurred weeks after Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent, which heightened tensions between federal officials and Democratic state leaders. Democratic leadership called for federal agents to leave Minnesota.

In March, Kazmierczak pleaded not guilty to one federal count of assaulting a United States officer, but an April court filing from his attorney, John Fossum, said Kazmierczak will change his plea to guilty after they have "reached a settlement" with federal prosecutors. Kazmierczak's change-of-plea hearing is scheduled for May 7.

The details of the settlement are unknown. Fox News Digital reached out to Kazmierczak's lawyer for comment.

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Video of the Jan. 27 town hall showed Kazmierczak rushing the stage as Omar spoke. She was calling for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to step down and for ICE agents to leave Minnesota.

He pulled out a syringe filled with apple cider vinegar and water and attempted to douse the congresswoman with the liquid before an officer stepped in.

"She’s not resigning," Kazmierczak said in the video, referring to Noem.

Kazmierczak also pointed his finger at Omar, screaming, "You’re splitting Minnesotans apart."

Omar was not injured and continued her town hall after Kazmierczak was arrested.

"I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong," Omar wrote in a post on X at the time.

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Since the incident, Kazmierczak has been held in custody. A magistrate judge ruled that the "exceedingly serious and dangerous circumstances" of the assault allegations make it impossible to ensure that public safety is not at risk if Kazmierczak is released on bail.

During the investigation, an FBI agent interviewed an associate of Kazmierczak, who claimed Kazmierczak once said "somebody should kill" Omar.

"Assaultive behavior and acts of intimidation directed at officers and employees of the United States will not be tolerated," said United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. "Persons who engage in this criminal conduct can expect a swift response from law enforcement and federal prosecutors.

Fox News Digital reached out to the United States Attorney's Office District of Minnesota for comment.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was confronted in a new interview over campaigning with Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine who has come under fire over having a tattoo viewed as a Nazi symbol among other controversies, and saying that he's her "kind of man."

CNBC host Sara Eisen pressed Warren during "Squawk on the Street" Wednesday about her support for Platner, saying, "This is a guy that had a chest tattoo with a Nazi symbol. OK, he apologized for it. It’s a guy that reportedly wrote that people concerned about rape should take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f---ed up that they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to. He praised military tactics used by Hamas, reportedly in comments online, and read it when they were murdering Israeli soldiers. So I’m just curious why you think he’s your kind of man?"

Warren responded, "So, as you rightly point out, he has apologized. He’s out meeting with the people of Maine every single day so they can evaluate not who Graham Platner was, but who Graham Platner is today."

The liberal senator went on to explain the context of her comment and said at first she didn't know anything about Platner.

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"I’m reading an interview with him, and he’s asked, 'When did you first know that the game was rigged?' And he harks back to the 2008 crash, when 10 million families lost their homes, when 8 million people lost their jobs, when millions of people lost their savings, and when big banks cheated folks, when non-bank financial institutions tricked them, robbed them of their homes, and Graham Platner's answer on when he knew the game was rigged was when not one banker went to jail. And I said, ‘That’s my kind of man,’" Warren said.

Eisen pushed back further and asked whether the Democrats wanted to be the "party of inclusivity."

"I want to be the party that stands up for hard-working people," Warren said. "I want to be the party that is transformative of an economy that right now is hip-deep in corruption and an economy that’s working for a handful of billionaires and multi-multi-multimillionaires and not working for much of anyone else, I want us to be the party that actually delivers on lowering costs and that expands opportunities. And that’s what Graham Platner wants to do. And I’m there to stand with him and to help in that fight."

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Warren joined Platner in Portland, Maine, on Saturday, where she said he was her "kind of man."

Maine’s Democratic primary is June 9, with Platner working to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November's general election. Platner is running against Maine Gov. Janet Mills for the party's nomination in an effort to unseat Collins, a moderate swing vote in the Senate.

Platner's past controversies have been political fodder for the Mills campaign, including directing voters to his decade-old Reddit posts in which he appeared to place blame on sexual assault victims and defended Hamas military moves, among other messages from the 2013 and 2014 era. Platner also came under fire for having a chest tattoo recognized as a Nazi symbol, which he has since apologized for and covered.  

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Fox News' Ashley J. DiMella contributed to this report.

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Well, NASCAR has committed the cardinal sin: They've pissed off Dale Earnhardt Jr. You simply can't do that. There are a lot of folks you can anger in the world of racing, and get away with.

Dale Jr. ain't one of them. You need him on your good side. Even a decade after his retirement, he's the leading voice in the sport. That's not hyperbolic, either. He's got the biggest racing podcast on the planet. He's extremely active on social media. Fans still, overwhelmingly, turn to Junior for all things racing.

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That, by the way, is a major indictment on the current Cup drivers, but that's a story for another time.

Anyway, all the fuss right now in the racing world is centered around a rumor involving NASCAR fans' worst nightmare ... electric cars. That's right. E-cars!

Just the thought of it makes folks feel queasy. Fans can take a lot, but even getting a whiff of an electric car in NASCAR sends them running for the hills.

John Probst, NASCAR’s executive vice president and chief racing development officer, floated that possibility this week, telling Sports Business Journal that NASCAR could one day implement a crossover utility vehicle EV into the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series.

Nope. Don't love that. At all. Sure, it's all shop-talk right now, but that's how these things start. Before you know it, the fellas are out there racing in cars we can't hear and don't recognize, and pit crews are replaced with charging stations.

We can't have that, and NASCAR's O'Reilly Series really can't have it. In a year where viewership is down pretty much across the board, the O'Reilly Series on the CW has been surging. Fans love it, and a lot of it has to do with A) the racing, and B) the car.

Switching to an electric car, which has long been in development in the NASCAR R&D shop, would be a disaster.

And if you don't believe me, fine. But at least listen to Dale Jr.

"I think making a switch to anything unlike we have would be a massive, massive mistake," he said on this week's "Dale Jr. Download." "Any kind of change like that, as dramatic as that would be, would destroy the series. I would not be interested in that. I don't think JR Motorsports would be interested in that."

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Yikes. Tell us how you really feel, Dale!

That last part is the part that will get NASCAR's attention, by the way. Like I said at the jump, if Dale Jr. isn't on board with something, it's a pretty good harbinger of things to come. If you want to know how fans will react to something, check out how they respond to something Junior says.

NASCAR can't afford to lose JR Motorsports in the O'Reilly Series. They can't afford to piss off Dale Jr. They really can't afford to lose the viewership the series is suddenly bringing in.

Going electric may be the way of the world, but that doesn't mean it's one size fits all.

Hopefully, NASCAR listens to its most important voice.

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Israel Flores Ortiz, 18, an illegal alien, was sentenced to 360 days on Tuesday after being convicted for groping several female classmates in Fairfax High School hallways earlier this year.

With time served and the calculations for a misdemeanor, he has 135 days left in prison.

Judge Melinda Vanlowe delivered the sentence, calling it a "very difficult case," adding the actions were "targeted" and representing a "pattern" of "deplorable" behavior. 

Fairfax County public defender Jamie Hospes asked Judge Vanlowe for a sentence of 9 days, calling the offenses just "butt-grabbing," adding, "sometimes we arrest people for that, sometimes we elect them to be president of the United States."

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Flores Ortiz wore a green prison jumpsuit and listened to the proceedings through an interpreter.

He read a statement in Spanish, saying he apologized to the girls he had grabbed and their families. 

"I hurt them," he said, also apologizing to his own mother and father.

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Flores Ortiz was charged as an adult, but he was tried in juvenile court because most of the victims were minors. He was convicted in nine cases, acquitted in three and had one charge dismissed. He had originally been accused of assaulting 13 female classmates, according to the Fairfax Police Department.

The case had heightened concerns among parents about student safety after years of former President Joe Biden's open borders policy.

Flores Ortiz, originally from El Salvador, is in the country illegally, having reportedly arrived in 2024.

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The defense asked the court to impose just nine days of incarceration, arguing Flores Ortiz’s age should weigh heavily in sentencing. Counsel said his "brain is physically not as developed" as that of a 25-year-old and argued his actions were not driven by sexual gratification.

Instead, the defense characterized the assaults as immature behavior, telling the court Flores Ortiz acted "for fun" and that "it was like a joke or prank." 

"Only a teenager would think like that," counsel said.

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After the hearing, an attorney representing one of the teenage victims rejected the political framing. 

"This should not be politicized," the attorney said.

The defense said the defendant "is sorry" for his actions and "he agrees it was deplorable; he agrees it was a pattern."

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Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano, who has been under fire for this case, as well as other high-profile crimes committed by illegal immigrants in Northern Virginia, spoke to the media after the sentencing. He called Fairfax County, "The safest large jurisdiction in the country."

Prosecutor Jenna Sands read from a letter written by one of the victims who said for her this was not about immigration, but about "a guy who made me feel unsafe."

"I want to back to being a normal kid," the victim added.

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The judge allowed Flores Ortiz and his attorney to remain seated during sentencing, then sharply rebuked him as she laid out the impact of the assaults and his conduct after being confronted by one of the victims.

Referring to the evidence, the judge said that on March 4, "one of the students actually confronted you," and made it "very clear it hurt her." 

Despite that, the judge said, Flores Ortiz went on to assault another victim two days later.

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The judge said that for the victims, the offenses had "adjusted how they move through life," underscoring the lasting effect the assaults had on the students involved.

After serving his sentence, Flores Ortiz will be placed on two years of probation. The judge also ordered him to undergo a psychosexual evaluation and complete any treatment recommended as a result.

Addressing Flores Ortiz directly, the judge struck a more measured tone at the close of the hearing, telling him, "I absolutely believe in redemption" and, "this does not define you."

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She added, "You can go on to do great things."

Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano told reporters after the hearing that he was "happy with the outcome," and said prosecutors "stand ready" if Flores Ortiz chooses to appeal.

The case stems from a series of incidents in crowded school hallways that prosecutors said involved Flores Ortiz groping female students. The allegations sparked scrutiny in Fairfax County over school supervision and hallway safety.

Both Jake Gibson and Peter Pinedo reported from the courtroom.

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