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The days are already getting a bit crisper and the first day of fall, September 22nd, is coming up fast.

Millions of tourists flock to rustic New England in hopes of catching the best views of fall foliage.

In 2023, 3.6 million people visited New Hampshire alone in the fall, according to the New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs.

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FOX Weather reported that foliage in the Northeast will have a delayed start due to warm temperatures but will be vibrant due to an over-abundance of precipitation.

Heat waves occurring in late summer and early fall can delay the relaxation of chlorophyll production in trees, keeping leaves greener for longer into the season.

In areas experiencing drought, the stress on trees can alter the timing of leaf shedding and lead to more muted colors.

Dana Honor, travel magazine Visit New England publisher, told Fox News Digital via email that she hopes this year’s leaves have extra-vibrant colors.

“The expectation is the peak will be the days leading up to Halloween in the northern and western-most points of the region and in the days following Halloween for more central, southern, and eastern areas,” Honor said.

Visit New England has been advising travelers and tourists to discover the Northeast region since 1996. 

Honor said Vermont tends to be the most popular state for fall foliage, followed by New Hampshire and Maine. 

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“So far this year, we’re seeing Maine slightly outpace New Hampshire, but the season is still early,” Honor said.

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While the top destinations tend to be the Green Mountains, Vermont, the White Mountains, New Hampshire, Western Maine and the Berkshires in Massachusetts, other spots in New England are also great for viewing fall foliage.

“While hiking trails and bonfires are incredibly cozy during the cool fall nights, it’s also beautiful to escape to cities like Boston, Newport and Portland to experience the fall colors as you meander the streets or explore the coastline,” said Honor.

Leaf peepers can take in the red, orange and yellow while driving through the region. 

Honor suggests experiencing road trips driving along Route 7, Upper Connecticut River Valley Loop, and the Castine and Penobscot Bay Loop.

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The Merritt Parkway, which connects New England to New York, is one of the oldest roads in the country, according to the Merritt Parkway Conservancy.

The parkway is known for its scenic sprawling trees and unique bridges. 

“October is the time to head to New England to see some great color, with our best picks for October 12-15 in the more northern parts of New England and a bit later for southern areas,” a Farmers’ Almanac representative told Fox News Digital.

Check out this list of six states and peak leaf viewing dates. 

October 12 to 28

Inland: October 1 to 17

Coastal: October 5 to 21

Inland: October 5 to 21

Coastal: October 12 to 28

Inland: September 28 to October 9

Coastal: October 5 to 21

October 12 to 28

Northern: September 24 to October 10

Southern: October 5 to 14

Andrew Wulfeck of FOX Weather contributed reporting. 

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Former President Donald Trump joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he fielded top policy questions weighing on voters in the key battleground state, just days ahead of his first debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Trump spoke before a crowd of voters during the Hannity-moderated town hall at the New Holland Arena in the Keystone State, which has again emerged as a crucial state this election cycle that will likely help determine the outcome on Nov. 5. Trump won the state in 2016 when he earned 44,292 more votes than the Democratic nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The state then elected President Biden in his match-up against Trump in 2020 at a 1.17% margin. 

Both Harris and Trump have repeatedly visited Pennsylvania in recent weeks, with Harris most recently joining the state on Monday with Biden in the president’s first campaign event for the Harris-Walz ticket since he bowed out of the race in July. 

Ahead of the Fox News town hall, Trump was most recently in PA last Friday at a rally in Johnstown, in the western part of the state. Trump was also attending a Pennsylvania campaign rally in July when a shooter attempted to assassinate the 45th president, injuring him, two others and killing a local father and fireman, Corey Comperatore. 

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Trump and Harris will take the same stage next week on Tuesday, when the election foes will again travel to Pennsylvania, for their first, and perhaps only, debate, which will be held in Philadelphia. 

Fox News Digital compiled the top five moments of Trump’s town hall as he gears up for his debate against Harris. 

Trump vowed to “heal our world” if he’s re-elected after Hannity cited the mass shooting in Georgia that left at least four people dead and Trump’s heightened security following the assassination attempt on his life in July. 

“It’s a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons and we’re going to make it better. We’re going to heal our world. We’re going to get rid of all these wars that are starting all over the place because of incompetence,” Trump said Wednesday from the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

“We’re going to hopefully do very well. We have an election coming up … We’re going to be, I think, we’re going to be very well set up to do a great job,” Trump added. 

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At least four people were killed Wednesday at Apalachee High School, when 14-year-old suspect Colt Gray allegedly opened fire around the 10 a.m. hour. Officials said the four victims killed were two students and two teachers. An additional nine others were injured in the shooting. 

Trump warned the U.S. is heading towards “World War III territory” as wars abroad rage under the Biden-Harris administration, whom he slammed as “clowns.”

“We’re heading into World War III territory, and because of the power of weapons, nuclear weapons in particular, but other weapons also, and I know the weapons better than anybody because I’m the one that bought them,” Trump said from the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

“We won’t have World War III when I’m elected. But with these clowns that you have in there now, you’re going to end up having World War III, and it’s going to be a war …  like no other.” 

War broke out in Ukraine in 2022, when Russia invaded the nation. Another war broke out in the Middle East last October, when Hamas terrorists launched attacks on Israel. 

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Trump argued that if he were in the Oval Office over the last three and a half years, wars would not have sparked in Ukraine or Israel. 

“We have things going on in the world right now with Israel and with the Middle East. … It’s blowing up. We have Ukraine and Russia. That would never happen. That would have never happened. October 7th would have never happened if I were the president. It would have never happened. And everybody knows it. Iran was broke. They didn’t have the money for Hamas and for Hezbollah. They didn’t have the money for anybody. They wanted to get by, and we would have made a fair deal with them,” he said.

Trump slammed Harris for spiraling illegal immigration that has plagued the U.S. since 2021, citing that “she was in charge of the border” as illegal immigration surged to record levels. 

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“They want open borders,” Trump told Hannity. “She wants open borders. Now she’s all of a sudden said, oh, I think we’re closing the borders. She was the border czar, whether you like it or not, but even if you don’t want to use that term. She was in charge of the border.”

“It’s the worst border in the history of the world, not just here. There’s never been a country that allowed 21 million people to come in over a three-year period. There’s never been. And 21 million people, many of whom are from prisons, many of whom are murderers and drug dealers and child traffickers.”

Immigration is the second most important issue to voters, behind the economy, heading into the 2024 election, according to recent Fox News polling.

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“And, by the way, women traffickers, you know, women trafficking is the biggest, and they’re traffickers in women. And they’re coming in now and they’re putting them in our Social Security accounts, and they’re putting them in Medicare. And just one thing, if you take a look, take a look. Over the last week, I said this was going to happen,” Trump continued. “And it’s happening because these people are tougher than our criminals are, our criminals are nice people by comparison.”

Trump predicted that the U.S. will fall into an economic depression if Harris wins the general election on Nov. 5.

“This country will end up in a depression if she becomes president. Like 1929, this will be a 1929 depression. She has no idea what the hell she’s doing,” Trump said from the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

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“I gave you the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. If you let them. If you let the Trump tax cuts expire, which she wants to do, she wants to terminate them. If you do that, you will suffer the biggest tax increase in history. There’s never been a tax increase like it, on top of which she wants to add a lot of tax,” Trump argued of Harris’ economic agenda.

Trump cited Harris’ proposals on capital gains taxes and her plan to install price controls on companies to combat “price gouging” as evidence the U.S. would hit further financial woes similar to the Great Depression if Harris is elected to the Oval Office. 

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Amid the conversation, Trump said that Harris’ own father is a “Marxist” economist. 

“Her father’s a Marxist teacher of economics. Can you believe this? But if that happened, this country and I think forgetting about that … shes got a lot of things that are just as bad. If she gets in, I think we will have a depression, 1929-style depression. That’s what I think will happen to our country already. They’ve set us on a path,” he said. 

Harris’ father, Donald J. Harris is a retired Stanford University professor of economics, whose economics background is steeped in Marxist theory, which earned him the description from the Economist this year as a “combative Marxist economist.” 

Trump declared that he was the “toughest” on Russia when he served as president, while again arguing wars in foreign nations would not have sparked if he were in the Oval Office. 

“I was the toughest on Russia. Putin would even say, you know, if you’re not the toughest guy, you are, you’re killing us,” Trump said while discussing his opposition to the Nord Stream pipeline. 

“This was the biggest job they’ve ever had and I stopped it.”

The 45th president continued that the “whole world” was a safer place when he was in office, while touting that wars would have not broken out in Ukraine and Israel if he had won re-election in 2020. 

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“[Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban] said, you bring back Trump, everybody. Now I’m not saying it, but he said it because I’d rather say respect. But he said everybody is afraid of Trump. You bring him back, you’re not going to have any problems. It’s all going to go away,” he said. 

Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report. 

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Several Jewish college students talked about their experiences going to school where some of the most intense anti-Israel demonstrations in the country are occurring.

Shoshana Aufzien, Eliana Birman, and Aryeh Krischer appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday to express their horror and shock at the raucous anti-Israel protests that have taken over Columbia University and Barnard College in New York City throughout the last academic year and the beginning of this one. 

“I honestly don’t find it fair for these students to take away the education that I’ve dreamed of my entire life and for me to just back down and go somewhere else simply because I’m Jewish and simply because I’m a Zionist,” Birman told the channel.

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Birman and Aufzien are freshmen at Barnard College, an all-female liberal arts college that shares a campus and faculty with Columbia University. Krischer is a PhD student at Columbia. 

Both Barnard students told Fox News that they committed to attending their “dream school” despite being “disheartened” by the breakout of the protests – and the harassment of Jewish students that came with them – throughout the last year following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. 

Aufzien said, “Like Eliana, I also always wanted to go to Barnard. It’s a women’s college and I’m also in a dual degree program with the Jewish theological seminary, so I’m able to pursue a couple of my diverse interests simultaneously. But believe me when I say that I was disheartened and appalled to see the events that transpired last year.”

Krischer admitted that staying at Columbia to finish his program “was something that I definitely thought a lot about,” noting that one of his good friends recently switched schools because of the agitators. 

The PhD student said he’s been able to avoid confrontation with angry students most days because he works “near at the back of campus.”

“But when I need to buckle down and work, I can get away from it all and buckle down and work. That’s not a luxury everyone has,” he added. 

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When Birman was asked if she felt her school was working to protect her, she replied, “Absolutely not.”

She explained that only a day before she moved onto campus, an article she published in a small Jewish outlet detailing her concerns about attending the school was shared online by anti-Israel agitators at the school and seen by her classmates. As a result, she was bullied as soon as she got to school.

“We moved in the following day and they were asking me how I could even show my face on campus, telling me that it’s embarrassing for me to even be there.”

She continued, “I don’t feel safe on campus even now that I’m here. From my room, I can hear the protests quite clearly. I’m on the second floor, facing Broadway. Walking through campus, I notice fliers being handed out to visibly Jewish students – basically, fliers telling them that they’re complicit in genocide. And I just feel like there’s a target on my back simply for being Jewish.”

Aufzien accused Columbia and Barnard administrators of “all talk, no action” when it comes to protecting Jewish students on campus.

“Columbia has an antisemitism task force that released a pretty damning report of antisemitism and antisemitic incidents that happened on campus this past year and, while that was disseminated to the entire university, I have not seen tangible examples of the administration taking note of that and truly it’s gross negligence,” she said. 

Krischer added, “I mean look, when you have antisemitism lurking in the shadows and you deny it instead of addressing it, that sends a pretty clear message about everything else that you’re doing.” 

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A violent transnational gang from Venezuela allegedly first gained a “stranglehold” on an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, late last year, according to a local report.

Tren de Aragua gang members took over the Whispering Pines Apartments in 2023, engaging in violent assaults, murder threats, extortion, child prostitution and strongarm tactics, Denver law firm Perkins Coie wrote to city leaders in a nine-page report obtained by CBS News Colorado.

The firm was hired to investigate the alleged gang takeover of the apartment building, the outlet said, and interviewed witnesses and reviewed video footage from the complex prior to issuing its report.

“The evidence we have reviewed indicates that gang members are engaging in flagrant trespass violations, assaults and battery, human trafficking and sexual abuse of minors, unlawful firearms possession, extortion, and other criminal activities, often targeting vulnerable Venezuelan and other immigrant populations,” T. Markus Funk, a former U.S. Attorney, wrote in the letter.

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The firm interviewed the apartment complex’s property manager, who said “he had never seen anything remotely like the Tren De Aragua takeover of Whispering Pines in his entire career.”

The property manager, who has 15 years of experience, told the firm that two gang members were arrested as they were “coming to kill him” over an apparent late rent payment.

He also detailed how the gang was collecting “rent” from residents, and allegedly stabbed one individual for refusing to pay. In June, the gang members approached the property manager with an offer to help him if he paid the gang 50% of what was collected in rent, the report said.

“This is our business plan,” one gang member allegedly told a housekeeper who spoke to the firm. “If he [the property manager] doesn’t like it, we’ll fill him with bullets.”

Vacant units at the apartment complex were used to host “parties” where the gang provides “drugs and child prostitution,” the property manager told firm investigators, adding that “minors are a good source of money.”

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Alleged gang activity in at least two apartment complexes in Aurora has sparked intense scrutiny in recent days after a surveillance video went viral showing heavily armed men kicking down an apartment door.

The Tren de Aragua is based mainly in Venezuela and has roughly 5,000 members between the South American country and the United States.

Last week, the Aurora Police Department refuted the claim that Tren de Aragua gang members had taken over one complex, The Edge at Lowry, though said that authorities were aware of the gang’s alleged criminal activity in the area.

The department announced a special task force appointed in August to help combat the presence of Tren de Aragua.

On Wednesday, police shared the names and photos of two documented Tren de Aragua gang members and two suspected members who were arrested in July for attempted murder.

Happy to see the @AuroraPD finally start to tell the truth and make arrests!” Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky wrote on X. “Aurora citizens deserve to feel safe!”

Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.

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For the second year in a row, Harvard University’s “abysmal” free speech climate earned it the lowest ranking among 251 colleges and universities scored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

“This year, however, Harvard has company. Columbia University ranks 250, also with an overall score of 0.00,” reads the report released Thursday.

New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College rounded out the bottom-five colleges, according to the report.

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FIRE, a pro-First Amendment nonprofit, worked with College Pulse to survey tens of thousands of students about the free speech environments on their college campuses for its annual College Free Speech Rankings.

“We’re trying to provide an indication of where students can get the best experience in college in terms of being exposed to a diverse set of views,” FIRE’s chief research adviser Sean Stevens told Fox News Digital.

A Barnard spokesperson told Fox News Digital the college is “committed to protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression, and to fostering environments where students, faculty, and staff can engage in open and respectful dialogue.”

Barnard has adopted the Chicago Principles, a free speech policy previously endorsed by FIRE, and this school year a faculty committee will develop “a Barnard-specific framework,” the spokesperson continued.

Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday.

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The universities that ranked poorly all experienced incidents in which speech was censored, suppressed or shouted down, Stevens said. Since FIRE started ranking schools in 2020, the bottom-five colleges and universities have been “consistently bad performers,” he added.

“They rarely stand up for speech,” Stevens said. “When a controversy arises, the speech typically gets punished. A speaker gets disinvited. A faculty member gets sanctioned in some way, or a student or student organization does.”

The poor performers share another notable trait, according to FIRE’s analysis.

“Most of the students are very upset with how the administration has responded to protests over the past year,” Stevens said.

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Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the war that followed “sent shockwaves through American college and university campuses,” according to the FIRE report. Protesters occupied the South Lawn at Columbia for about two weeks in April before police broke up the encampment.

After the start of the encampments, researchers noticed a large increase in the percentage of Columbia students who said they self-censor in classroom discussions or in conversations with professors or other students.

At the other end of the free speech spectrum, the University of Virginia earned the top ranking. Michigan Technological University, Florida State University, Eastern Kentucky University and Georgia Institute of Technology rounded out the top five.

The full rankings can be viewed here.

Stevens noted that the schools that performed well tended to have fewer controversies overall and, when controversies did arise, administrators typically defended speech rights.

He said he hopes parents and prospective students use FIRE’s ranking tool to make better-informed choices. The tool also provides a look at the liberal-conservative ratio on campuses, and a deeper look at student attitudes toward free expression.

“Experiencing open inquiry and that process, having to grapple and have their views challenged” sets students up to be better “adult citizens in our country, once they graduate,” Stevens said.

FIRE and College Pulse surveyed students at 257 schools in total, but excluded six from the main rankings and gave them “warning” ratings.

The private colleges, which include Pepperdine University, Hillsdale College, and Brigham Young University, all “have policies that clearly and consistently state” that they prioritize “other values over a commitment to freedom of speech,” according to the FIRE report. 

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