news2shortsRepublican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio confronted Denver Mayor Mike Johnston for upholding “sanctuary” city policies that allowed an illegal immigrant and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member to walk free and allegedly assault federal officers. During a House Oversight Committee hearing on sanctuary cities Wednesday, Jordan slammed Johnston for ignoring an ICE detainer request … Read more
President Donald Trump repeatedly returned to the subject of illegal immigration during his Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, touting his success at the southern border and taking aim at the policies of the Biden administration. Here were the top five moments of the night: DEMOCRATS UNIMPRESSED BY TRUMP’S GESTURE TO FAMILY … Read more
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended U.S. efforts to negotiate with Hamas to release American hostages during a briefing on Wednesday. There are currently five hostages with U.S. citizenship in Gaza, though most are feared dead. During the news conference, Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt how the plans to … Read more
Trump adviser and tech mogul Elon Musk suggested Wednesday that the U.S. government should privatize “as much as possible” and named Amtrak and the U.S.
President Trump’s decision to pause intelligence assistance to Ukraine will hamper the country’s war effort but will not cripple Kyiv’s fight against Russia.
Lawyers for Brad Sigmon said he chose a death by firing squad because he thought lethal injection would be tortuous South Carolina’s supreme court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of convicted murderer Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for his execution by firing squad on Friday. Sigmon’s lawyers wanted to delay his death … Read more
Mayors testify as Republicans seek to portray New York, Chicago, Boston and Denver as havens for criminal activity A congressional hearing designed to criticize sanctuary city policies unexpectedly shifted on Wednesday, as a planned attack by Republican lawmakers instead dissolved into a platform that amplified Democratic mayors’ arguments about immigration and urban safety. Before a … Read more
President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, spent much of his confirmation hearing Wednesday defending the president’s decision to put a 15% cap on indirect research costs dispersed by the NIH. Bhattacharya, a physician, Stanford professor of medicine and senior fellow at the … Read more
House Republicans are hoping to affirm that they are on the same page as Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday night. Musk is huddling with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and other members of the House GOP Conference around 7 p.m. ET on Capitol Hill, according to … Read more
The Trump administration’s Treasury Department is in the midst of weighing a “wide range” of possibilities to streamline the Internal Revenue Service amid reports up to half of the IRS staff could be terminated, Fox News Digital learned Wednesday. “In line with the Trump administration’s focus on efficiency and deficit reduction, the Treasury Department is … Read more
