How to identify a top story

Fox News seemed to have a little bit of trouble settling on a top story Saturday morning, so let's play an agenda-setting game. Assuming that the news doesn't tell you what to think, how would you describe the issues that Fox News wants you to think about? (It's perfectly all right to take a nontheoretical detour here and there -- like, how exactly do you get to be an influencer by being silent? -- but do try to keep an eye on the ball.)

First up, captured around 8:30 a.m. Eastern US: Silent no more!

Comfortably seated in her home on a chalk-colored couch adorned with navy blue pillows, Cassie Clark, an influencer who makes North Carolina-centered content, recalled the moment a man was "berating" her in front of her teenage daughter for wearing a Charlie Kirk shirt. 

"He started just berating me that Charlie Kirk didn't like people like him. Every time I would try to respond, he would start speaking over me," Clark told Fox News Digital. 

"Rather than waiting on his group to come downstairs, he ended up walking across the street and sitting at the post office, because he didn't want to sit near us…. So I got on X, and I was frustrated, and I wrote a post about it [which] blew up," she continued.

Clark shared that while some of the responses to her post on X were "extremely negative," there were commenters who "reached out and praised" her for speaking up. 

The mother revealed that other influencers shared their fears of speaking out, telling Clark that if they were to "speak up" they would "lose sponsors" and "lose brand deals."

"To me, that's absolutely insane," she relayed. "We shouldn't be in a place in America where you can't say what you truly believe and you have to worry about getting pushback or losing money or losing a job over it when you're talking about something that half of the country agrees with you on. That's crazy."

No doubt they'll be glad to hear it over at Paramount. But by around 10, we have another top story:

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson ordered the removal of police tape near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility this week despite the federal government's call for the establishment of a perimeter around the ICE location, according to a report on oregonlive.com.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the ICE facility on Tuesday and Portland Police Bureau Chief Bob Day noted that authorities had the vicinity cordoned off for the occasion. 

But the perimeter was removed on Wednesday, according to the report.

According to the City of Portland, a message to Day from U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford stated, in part, that "all federal officers must be able to come and go from the ICE office without harassment or hindrance" and that "Portland must create a perimeter around the ICE office." He specified that this "perimeter must be at least as large as the perimeter state and local police set up today for the Secretary's visit."

The city also indicated that in a message to General Counsel for DHS James Percival, Mayor Wilson noted, in part, "You have requested that federal officers be able to ingress and egress from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility without hindrance. The Mayor and our local public safety professionals will continue to evaluate the situation on the ground, and they will continue to make public order decisions based on what they believe will be in the best interest of Portland and our community."

And yet another story has moved into the lead position by 11:30-ish:

As liberal pundits and networks across the country downplay the rise of violence carried out by Antifa, a journalist who has covered the domestic terrorist designated group extensively pushed back on that narrative in an interview with Fox News Digital. 

Social media has been littered with posts in recent weeks featuring elected officials and pundits dismissing concerns about Antifa violence as simply an "ideology" rather than an organized effort, which Ngo argues is a message driven by tacit support of the cause. 

"It is an ideology, but Neo-Nazis organize around an ideology, jihadists organize around an ideology, so what's your point really? The point you're really trying to do, when people bring that up, is to run cover for Antifa because these people on the left know that organized militant Antifa networks themselves and individuals operate as shock troops for their cause.

"They have the same enemies, they want the same outcomes in terms of the institutions destroyed, and they want the political opposition intimidated into silence and disengaging from the political process."

(Sure, it's a little sloppy to leave the subject's first name out of the story, but it's not like you don't have a headline and a video link to tell you it's Andy Ngo.)

So, with inflation plummeting, oil flowing, the world at peace, China hungry for US soybeans and American industry the envy of the world again -- what issue tops the media agenda at the Fair 'n' Balanced homepage?