Hurricane Isaias strengthened into a powerful Category 3 storm Friday morning as it moved rapidly toward the US Gulf Coast.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said data collected by an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft showed that Isaias had become a major hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph.

Hurricane warnings are in effect across parts of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, where Isaias threatens damaging winds, flooding and widespread power outages. Louisiana is under tropical storm and storm surge warnings.

Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for dozens of coastal counties in Florida and Alabama as residents prepare for the approaching storm.

The NHC forecast a US landfall late Friday, with Isaias expected to come ashore somewhere between the Mississippi coast and Florida’s Panhandle.

The hurricane is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge, destructive winds, heavy rainfall and the possibility of tornadoes to the Southeast later Friday and into Saturday.

“Preparations should be rushed to completion as the weather will go downhill quickly today,” the NHC said Friday.

Isaias rapidly intensified in the Gulf on Wednesday night, becoming the latest first hurricane of a season since satellite tracking began in 1960.

Hurricane Hunter aircraft reported that the center of Isaias was about 240 miles south-southwest of Pensacola, Florida, as the storm continued its steady advance toward the northern Gulf Coast.

Forecast models placed Isaias approximately 30 miles south of Pensacola Beach at 7 p.m. ET Friday.

The storm was expected to weaken before making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane.

Meteorologist Matt Devitt wrote on X: “Hurricane preps need to be completed this morning. If told to evacuate, please do so.”

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Public flight-tracking data also showed US Navy aircraft leaving the Gulf Coast on Friday.

Storm surge—the seawater driven inland by a hurricane’s powerful winds—was identified as one of the storm’s greatest dangers.

In vulnerable coastal areas between the Alabama-Florida border and Grayton Beach, Florida, water levels could rise 6 to 9 feet above normally dry ground if the strongest surge arrives at high tide.

Large and dangerous waves could intensify the flooding. Coastal sections of Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as Mobile Bay, could see 3 to 5 feet of water above ground level.

Flood depths can vary sharply over short distances, so residents should check local forecasts rather than rely on a regional estimate.

Southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend, and southwestern Georgia are forecast to receive 4 to 8 inches of rain through the weekend. 

Some locations in the Panhandle and Big Bend could receive up to 15 inches, raising the risk of flooded streets, homes and rivers.

The danger will extend inland, with heavy rain spreading across much of the Southeast. 

Tornadoes are also possible from late Friday afternoon into the night in coastal Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and far southwestern Georgia, with the threat spreading into more of Georgia and the Carolinas on Saturday.

Along the Gulf Coast, dangerous surf and rip currents could make entering the water life-threatening, even far from where the hurricane makes landfall.

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday that New York officials have not honored a single detainer request from his department involving illegal immigrants held in state or local custody, including individuals with what he described as extensive criminal records.

According to Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security has sent 14,766 detainer requests to New York law enforcement agencies. The migrants involved have faced a combined 47,750 felony charges, he said.

“Silence. Absolute silence is what we’ve got from New York off of those retainers,” Mullin told reporters at DHS headquarters.

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“So you have to ask yourself, why would they release these individuals back onto the streets? They’re illegals,” he said. “They have no right to be back into the United States. They’ve committed a crime. We know that they’re the worst, the worst.”

Mullin’s remarks came just hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-involved shooting in the Bronx. Authorities said the incident involved 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, a suspected gang member, while a 5-year-old boy believed to be his son was seated in the back of Belgal’s SUV.

When young demonstrators poured into Paris’ Bastille Square on Thursday, the relatively obscure outlet BreakThrough News issued a “BREAKING” alert declaring: “French students flood Bastille Square in Paris.”

That headline, however, captured only part of the picture.

A News Media investigation found that an international network of far-left communist and socialist groups is using France’s student unrest to promote a much broader political agenda. The strategy resembles tactics used in the United States over the past decade to magnify protests, intensify political divisions and portray public disorder as widespread chaos.

Earlier in the week, BreakThrough News featured another prominent headline: “French students shut down schools in historic strike against austerity.” The report said the students were organizing “with support from unions and progressive forces.”

Those “progressive forces,” however, extend well beyond the high school students involved in the “Lycéenne Mobilisation,” or high school student movement, who are protesting education policies and deteriorating school conditions.

Only 1 of 3 is a Student or Youth Group

According to the investigation, well-funded activists in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Greece and India are using the school protests as a vehicle for a wider ideological battle. BreakThrough News, described by News Media as a pro-communist outlet based in New York City, is funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born technology executive based in Shanghai who has supported communist and far-left organizations in the United States. Those groups have repeatedly used public grievances to fuel street demonstrations, the report said.

The reporting outlines an extensive organizational structure behind the demonstrations. While coverage has largely portrayed the movement as a student-led response to worsening school conditions, unions, communist activists, far-left parties and international media groups have helped organize rallies, call strikes, recruit supporters and distribute footage and updates globally, including through “BREAKING” alerts.

After reviewing dozens of news reports, social media posts and public statements, News Media identified 50 organizations connected to the French student protests or to the broader network supporting and promoting them. The findings point to an activist coalition that reaches far beyond the students who initially took to the streets.

Fifteen of the 50 organizations are student or youth groups. The list includes multiple communist youth organizations as well as a Muslim student association.

The other 35 organizations include 12 labor unions, eight communist or socialist groups, five organizations focused on issues ranging from taxation and parental rights to environmental activism, economic justice, international media and diaspora advocacy, five civil- or human-rights groups and four political parties. Among the parties are La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed, and the French Communist Party. The network also includes a Palestinian advocacy group, completing what the report characterizes as a leftist-Muslim “red-green” alliance.

‘Red-Green Ecosystem’ of Socialists and Islamists

The coalition links French schools and labor federations with communist groups in Greece and Britain and with international socialist media outlets including BreakThrough News. Its involvement has transformed a dispute over education into a larger campaign addressing capitalism, austerity, policing, military spending and Israel.

“What we’re seeing here is the same Red-Green ecosystem that disrupts infrastructure choke points in our country, such as the Brooklyn Bridge, college campuses and congressional hearings,” Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told News Media. “And in the case of BreakThrough News, the same sugar daddy — Neville Roy Singham.”

The protests also offer a window into the ambitions of France’s revolutionary left. Despite the country’s powerful unions, established Communist Party, sizable parliamentary left and long history of demonstrations, the organizations involved are pressing for changes that reach beyond the traditional boundaries of France’s left-wing political establishment.

During the unrest, the far-left environmental group Les Soulèvements de la Terre, or “Earth Uprisings,” posted a message celebrating the young demonstrators: “Glory to the rebellious high school students.”

The group paired that support with a broader call for political upheaval: “Pour un soulèvement antifasciste,” translated as “For an antifascist uprising.”

The international campaign surrounding France’s protests demonstrates how a local dispute can be reframed for audiences abroad as part of a much larger confrontation with Western governments and institutions.

“The communist Red and the Islamist Greens have nothing in common but a common enemy, the Judeo-Christian, capitalist, free West, led by the U.S.,” Gonzalez said. “Their goal is to dismantle us.”

Gonzalez argued that the situation could be especially volatile in France because of the country’s longstanding communist parties and its history of governments being challenged by mass street protests. He pointed to the collapse of the Fourth Republic in 1958 following demonstrations over Algeria and to the threat to the government during the student-led unrest of 1968.

“And of course, there was the blood-drenched violence of the 1789 French Revolution,” Gonzalez added.

‘Right to Revolt’

Since late September, politicians from the far-left political party, La France insoumise, were seen working with students organizing blockades in Seine-Saint-Denis, a low-income suburb northeast of Paris. French-Moroccan journalist Nora Bussigny wrote that “many elected officials” from La France Insoumise “have indeed worked to co-opt the student protests, at the risk of seeing them spiral out of control: by fanning the flames, discrediting institutions like the police, and legitimizing the principle of political violence.”

Soon after, a wide network of far-left groups put out the call for tens of thousands of secondary school students and supporters to march through Paris on Oct. 6, while demonstrations spread across France.

Student organizations in the network of 50 include the Union Syndicale Lycéenne, or High School Students’ Union; Union Étudiante, or Student Union; Fédération des Associations Générales Étudiantes, or Federation of General Student Associations; and Union Nationale des Étudiants de France, or National Union of Students of France, helped mobilize students for the Oct. 6 demonstrations.

Other student organizations, including Solidaires Étudiantes, or Solidaires Students, have joined the broader campaign.

The organizational machinery supporting the mobilization extends beyond the teenagers who first took to the streets. National labor federations and professional education unions have called on adult workers to join the mobilization, bringing the institutional reach of organized labor into the student movement.

The Confédération nationale du travail, or National Confederation of Labour, declared: “The demands of high school students are also ours. They are right to revolt.”

The adult-led labor organizations in the network of 50 include: the Confédération générale du travail, or General Confederation of Labour; Force Ouvrière, or Workers’ Force; and Union nationale des syndicats autonomes, or National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions.

Several education-sector unions called for a strike and demonstration in support of the high school movement.

The organizations include the CFDT Public Education, Training and Research; CGT Éduc’action; the National Federation of Education, Culture and Vocational Training–Workers’ Force; SUD Éducation; and Syndicat National des Enseignements de Second Degré, the National Union of Secondary Education, affiliated with the Unitary Trade Union Federation.

The support extends beyond teachers and students into a wider collection of organizations, including parents’ associations, civil-rights groups, antiracist organizations and political movements.

Among them are the Fédération des Conseils de Parents d’Élèves, or Federation of Parents’ Councils; Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, or Human Rights League; Mouvement Contre le Racisme et Pour L’amitié entre Les Peuples, or Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples; and SOS Racisme, or SOS Racism.

Communist Flags and Calls for ‘Class War’

In Paris on Tuesday, the big day of the protests, the ideological character of the mobilization was visible on the streets.

In Paris, activists waved red flags of the far-left Fédération Syndicale Étudiante, or Student Trade Union Federation. Some demonstrators wore Palestinian keffiyeh scarves covering parts of their faces as they marched behind a bright red banner bearing the words “Contre Les Guerres Impérialistes,” French for “Against Imperialist Wars.”

The slogan is a recurring political message among anti-war, feminist and revolutionary-left organizations.

The message on the red banner continued, “Guerre De Clasee !” or “Class War!” over a bright yellow image of the hammer and sickle.

The banner identified the Young Communists, associated with the Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France, or Young Communists Movement of France, which works closely with the French Communist Party.

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Activists carried flags bearing the communist hammer and sickle.

On Instagram, the organization announced the launch of “Democratic and Antifascist Vigilance Committees.”

“High school students neglected, pro-Palestinian activists persecuted, unionists fired. State repression against our democratic rights has intensified in recent years,” the group declared.

‘Parti Communiste Français’

At the protest, Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party, took photos with protesters and later posted a message on X: “Standing alongside high school students in Paris, together with Communist elected officials and activists.”

Red flags with white stars and the message “Parti Communiste Français” flapped around him.

Online the French Communist Party has continued advancing other political campaigns, including a demand to stop supplying arms to Israel, under the slogan “Stop arming the Palestinian genocide!”

On Wednesday, after the peak protests, the Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste – L’Anticapitaliste, “The New Anticapitalist Party,” rallied supporters, declaring there are “always more reasons to mobilize.”

Other revolutionary-left groups, including Le Poing Levé, or The Raised Fist, and Révolution Permanente, or Permanent Revolution, have promoted solidarity between high school students and university activists.

Palestine Flags

In Saint-Denis, where the protests began, the Parti des Indigènes de la République, or Party of the Indigenous of the Republic, shared a photograph of young men standing outside Lycée Paul Éluard, a high school that has become a symbol of the unrest.

As red smoke billowed above them, the students stood in front of large gray letters spelling out the school’s name, holding a Palestinian flag. The school was later featured in the New York Times under the headline, “The School Near Paris That Shows Why French Students Are Protesting.”

In the network of 50 groups, Étudiants Musulmans de France, or Muslim Students of France, rallied followers to protest for the right of youth to “study with dignity.” And members of Urgence Palestine, or “Palestine Emergency,” marched proudly in the student protests with the Palestinian flag.

Elsewhere, French lawmaker Louis Boyard of the far-left party, La France Insoumise waved a Palestinian flag while standing at Paris-Est-Créteil University with students as they blocked their campus. In marches, their activists wave trademark purple flags that flutter with the group’s acronym “FI” and a white φ symbol for the Greek word “phi.”

Singham Network Broadcasts France’s Unrest

On Wednesday, BreakThrough News published an article portraying the demonstrations as a “historic strike against austerity.”

It also published a dramatic Instagram video of Bally Bagayoko, the far-left mayor of Saint-Denis and a politician with La France insoumise, sliding in front of students during a confrontation with police.

BreakThrough News described the scene as Bagayoko protecting “a line of French students from police as they attack the protesters.”

The anti-policing video received about 346,000 likes in one day.

Among the accounts that liked the video were Twitch influencer Hasan Piker, a self-described Marxist; BreakThrough News editor Zoe Alexandra; the Houston chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Pittsburgh chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and other groups in the Singham network.

Earlier this year, Piker traveled to Cuba as part of a far-left “caravan” supporting the island nation’s communist government. There, he took a photo with Jodie Evans, Singham’s wife and co-founder of CodePink, which has received $1.33 million from Singham.

From Latin America, teleSUR, an international television network in the Singham network, frequently circulates material from left-wing media outlets, including BreakThrough News, and it shared footage of French students clashing with police.

The video featured a dramatic soundtrack and the headline: “TENSIONS ESCALATE….”

From France to Greece, India and the US

As French students stormed the streets, the Communist Youth of Greece publicly expressed solidarity with their movement. “Victory for the struggle of the school students in France!” the group said in a statement.

BreakThrough News quoted the Greek communist organization in its France coverage, describing the developments as “foreshadowing more student struggles to follow.”

Another international connection runs through Indian Alliance Paris, a small France-based organization of students, researchers and professionals who describe themselves as committed to a “democratic and egalitarian” India.

In mid-January 2023, Indian Alliance Paris co-sponsored a teach-in in Manhattan, opposing the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The venue: the People’s Forum Inc., a midtown Manhattan hub for communist organizing that Singham launched in 2017 with $22.44 million in funding. Over the past near decade, leaders of the People’s Forum have coordinated hundreds of protests across America’s streets.

The People’s Forum co-sponsored the event with Democratic Socialists of America and other organizations in the Singham-funded activist ecosystem, including CodePink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In mid-May 2024, the People’s Forum hosted a screening of a 1967 French film “La Chinoise,” and described the film as a story about a small group of French students studying Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, “trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.”

Mao unleashed mass political persecution, violence, imprisonment and social upheaval in China.

Attendees were invited to purchase an $8 “solidarity ticket.”

On Tuesday, Indian Alliance Paris promoted the French student agitation while drawing parallels with student demonstrations in India. It posted a message on X, sending a heart emoji “to Gen Z: In France. In India. Bravo for today.”

The result is a self-reinforcing cycle: far-left activist networks amplify protests around the world, then package the unrest as evidence of a growing global uprising.

On Thursday, after the French students had headed home after their siege on Bastille, BreakThrough News posted a collage on Instagram of short video clips from the U.S., Spain, India, France, Brazil, Belgium, Chile and Germany with youth waving communist flags, clashing with police and flooding the streets.

It posted a headline in bold capital letters over the videos: “YOUTH RISE UP AROUND THE WORLD.”

Dianna Russini is reportedly taking steps to revive her NFL journalism career after becoming the subject of a high-profile controversy earlier this year.

The veteran reporter left her role at The Athletic, the sports publication owned by The New York Times Company, in April. Her departure came soon after photos emerged showing her at an adults-only resort in Arizona with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel.

Russini and Vrabel, who are both married and have children, rejected claims that they had an affair. Even so, the images prompted intense speculation about their relationship. Additional photographs later surfaced, including pictures that reportedly showed the pair kissing at a New York City bar in March 2020.

Now, Russini has recruited the help of seasoned crisis publicist Melissa Nathan as she targets a comeback following the controversy, according to Page Six. 

Although Russini and Vrabel are understood to have moved past the controversy, the story continues to attract attention in the media. That ongoing scrutiny has reportedly led the NFL insider to seek professional crisis-management assistance, according to a source cited by the outlet.

The Daily Mail contacted Nathan for comment, but no immediate response was received.

Melissa Nathan is a well-known Hollywood publicist who has represented or advised figures including Logan Paul, Johnny Depp and Justin Baldoni.

She has also drawn considerable attention herself during the past year amid the public dispute surrounding the film adaptation of It Ends With Us.

Nathan is currently involved in legal proceedings with fellow publicist Stephanie Jones. Jones has accused her of coordinating online smear efforts connected to Baldoni and Blake Lively’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, allegations Nathan has denied.

For several months, Russini has been linked to speculation that she is planning a return to the public eye and a possible comeback in sports media.

Page Six reported that Russini is weighing opportunities to return to covering the NFL and is preparing to give her account of the events surrounding the controversy.

The outlet reported last month that the 43-year-old journalist, who earned approximately $800,000 annually at The Athletic, has declined multiple interview requests. Instead, she is said to be planning to address the matter “on her own terms.”

On April 14, Russini posted the resignation letter she sent to The Athletic executive editor Steven Ginsberg on social media.

“I have covered the NFL with professionalism and dedication throughout my career, and I stand behind every story I have ever published,” she wrote.

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“When the Page Six item first appeared, The Athletic supported me unequivocally, expressed confidence in my work and pride in my journalism. For that I am grateful.”

“In the days that followed, unfortunately, commentators in various media have engaged in self-feeding speculation that is simply unmoored from the facts. Moreover, this media frenzy is hurtling forward without regard for the review process The Athletic is trying to complete.”

“It continues to escalate, fueled by repeated leaks, and I have no interest in submitting to a public inquiry that has already caused far more damage than I am willing to accept.”

‘Rather than allowing this to continue, I have decided to step aside now — before my current contract expires on June 30. I do so not because I accept the narrative that has been constructed around this episode, but because I refuse to lend it further oxygen or to let it define me or my career.’ 

Although both Vrabel and Russini initially denied cheating on their respective spouses, the Patriots coach has since apologized for his ‘actions,’ while stopping short of specifically admitting to an affair.

He issued an apology just before the NFL Draft, missing the final day of the event to attend counseling.

Vrabel, who led the Patriots to the Super Bowl in February, was last month forced to address rumors of a rift between him and his quarterback.

‘He heard from who?’ Vrabel asked on The Greg Hill Show. ‘Unnamed sources? Let me just tell you why I’m here. I’m here because Drake was the quarterback.

‘Believe it or not, I had choices as to where I wanted to coach. I wanted to coach here because Drake was the quarterback. So, I don’t have really much other to add to that about a comment from an unnamed source. But I’ll just tell you what I’ve told numerous people if they want to ask me why I’m here.’

Maye has also rubbished the claims, hailing Vrabel and insisting nothing has changed regarding their relationship.

‘Coach Vrabel’s been one of the best football coaches I’ve had in my life,’ Maye said, via a transcript from the team. ‘I think Coach Vrabel’s been one of the biggest things as to why this has been so enjoyable for me is playing for Coach.

‘I think we all feel that way in the locker room. He pushes us hard. I’ve loved playing for him, and it’s not going to change. It hasn’t changed, and it won’t change. The way he pushes me, and he coaches the quarterbacks in a way that I really respect, and I’m looking forward to getting going, proving to Coach that I can lead this football team and play good football.’

WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sharply criticize Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York’s “sanctuary” policies when he campaigns with Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman in Syracuse on Friday. The rally follows two violent incidents that have intensified debate over immigration enforcement.

Last week, two undocumented immigrants with criminal records allegedly stabbed an off-duty New York Police Department detective in the Bronx during an attempted robbery.

The suspects, 25-year-old D’Angelo Caraballo and 24-year-old Sneider Mejia Bautista, both Dominican nationals, were arrested early Wednesday after authorities said they tried to hide in a basement in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Caraballo had previously been jailed on charges including reckless driving, unlawfully fleeing from an officer and criminal possession of a loaded firearm, among other offenses.

He was released by local authorities after his December 2024 arrest.

Bautista, meanwhile, was arrested in October of last year on allegations including grand larceny, criminal possession of a weapon and property theft. He was later released after the NYPD declined to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer.

Then, Thursday afternoon, ICE officers shot and wounded Oscar Belgal, a 28-year-old man suspected of belonging to a migrant gang. A 5-year-old boy believed to be his son was sitting in the back of Belgal’s SUV during the encounter in the Bronx’s Marble Hill neighborhood.

The Department of Homeland Security said Belgal is suspected of having ties to the notorious Trinitarios gang. The agency also said he has “a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession.”

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“This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk,” the department said.

In August, Hochul signed the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which placed limits on certain forms of statewide cooperation with ICE in civil immigration matters.

“New Yorkers are outraged tonight. Immigrant communities are terrified. And we are demanding answers,” Hochul said in a statement after the Marble Hill shooting.

“Tonight, I spoke with President Trump and DHS Secretary Mullin about the shooting in Marble Hill,” the governor wrote on X. “I expressed outrage on behalf of New Yorkers and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York. I also asked that any body camera footage of the shooting be released to the public so we can establish the facts and get to the truth.”

Blakeman, Hochul’s Republican challenger and an underdog in most polls, said earlier this week that he would sign an executive order requiring local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE if elected on Nov. 3.

“The insanity is over, we’re putting New Yorkers first,” the Nassau County executive said. He added that “one of the toughest days” of his tenure “was the day that I had to tell our police and our sheriffs that they could no longer cooperate with ICE because of Kathy Hochul.”

Syracuse and the surrounding area of Onondaga County form a Democratic-leaning pocket in otherwise heavily Republican central New York. Beyond supporting Blakeman, Trump is expected to use Friday’s rally to boost Kailee Buller, a former USDA official and Republican House candidate challenging first-term Democratic Rep. John Mannion.

Before the rally, the Trump administration has drawn attention to several undocumented immigrants arrested in Syracuse in connection with disturbing criminal allegations.

The cases highlighted include Hsa Mu Na, who is accused of sexually exploiting a minor; Norberto Machado-Rodriguez, who faced allegations of sexual assault; Haikham Phimasone, who was accused of assault; and Said Ibrahim, who was accused of cruelty toward a child.

Patricia Krenwinkel, the former Charles Manson follower convicted in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings, has once again been recommended for parole after more than 55 years in prison.

The 78-year-old was recommended for release Tuesday, marking the third such recommendation in four years. The decision could lead to another review by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has twice rejected her parole over concerns about the threat she might pose to the public.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmate database confirmed the latest recommendation. It comes fewer than 12 months after Newsom overturned Krenwinkel’s previous parole decision.

In an October 2025 ruling, Newsom said Krenwinkel “lacks the requisite insight she needs to be safely released,” while also recognizing the rehabilitation work she has pursued during her decades behind bars.

“When considered as a whole, the evidence shows that she currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison at this time,” Newsom wrote in his decision.

Krenwinkel was previously recommended for parole in May 2022 and again in May 2025. Newsom reversed both recommendations, leaving her incarcerated.

Tuesday’s recommendation does not mean Krenwinkel will be freed. The parole board must complete its review before the governor determines whether to approve the release or reject it for a third time.

Until then, Krenwinkel remains at the California Institution for Women in Corona. She is serving a life sentence and has been in the state prison system since April 28, 1971.

Krenwinkel was 21 when she joined members of Manson’s so-called “Family” in a two-night killing spree in August 1969. Seven people were murdered, among them actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant.

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Newsom’s case summary states that Krenwinkel and other Manson followers repeatedly stabbed Tate’s friend Abigail Folger and took part in attacks on other victims. The next evening, the group killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, scrawling bloody messages inside their home.

Krenwinkel initially received a death sentence, but it was commuted to life in prison after California’s death penalty system was struck down in 1972.

Newsom has cited Krenwinkel’s accomplishments in prison, including earning college degrees and supporting other incarcerated women. However, he has also pointed to what he described as limited self-awareness and a continued tendency to shift responsibility for her crimes onto others.

Keith Wattley, Krenwinkel’s attorney, challenged those conclusions after Newsom overturned her October 2025 parole recommendation.

“Patricia Krenwinkel is the longest-incarcerated woman in the United States,” Wattley said at the time. “For more than five decades, she has committed to deep healing and rehabilitation, earning degrees, counseling others and becoming a mentor to younger women inside.”

Wattley maintained that Krenwinkel no longer represents an unreasonable danger to public safety.

“Patricia’s record meets that standard. She deserves to be paroled,” he said.

News Media reached out to Wattley, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Newsom’s office for comment.