news2shortsFulton county district attorney says lower court improperly removed her from election interference case The Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, has asked Georgia’s highest court to review a lower appeals court’s ruling that removed her from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others. The Georgia court of appeals last month ruled … Read more
Florida’s surgeon general Joseph Ladapo has given free rein to his own unorthodox views on vaccines and public health Donald Trump’s promise to upend public health policy across the US by installing Robert F Kennedy Jr as health secretary is resonating in Florida, where experts say the nation can learn from its own experience of … Read more
US defense secretary says ‘Ukraine’s fight matters to all’ when revealing aid bundle days before Trump’s return The Biden administration has given its final injection of military support to Ukraine, unveiling a $500m weapons package just days before Donald Trump’s return to the White House threatens to upend western backing for Kyiv. The aid bundle … Read more
Poet Amanda Gorman joins Kristen Welker for a Meet the Moment conversation and reacts to the deadly wildfires spreading across Los Angeles, where she was born and raised.
Wildfires have been burning around Los Angeles for two days, killing at least five people and destroying almost 2,000 homes and other buildings. The blaze has forced the evacuation of more than 130,000 people and spread to the hills above Hollywood Boulevard. As firefighters battled five separate blazes, the White House announced that Joe Biden … Read more
FIRST ON FOX: New Republican Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana laced into Democrats over what he said are attempts to delay confirmation hearings for Trump nominees, in particular that of the Department of Defense pick Pete Hegseth. Banks urged Senate Committee on Armed Services Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., to move forward with Hegseth’s scheduled confirmation … Read more
PJ Lechleitner says president ‘absolutely’ could have acted earlier and expects ‘a lot more support’ from Trump The outgoing director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, PJ Lechleitner, claims President Joe Biden “absolutely” should have acted sooner to tighten security at the US and Mexico border to reduce the flow of migrants into the US, according … Read more
Fires have consumed area the size of San Francisco. Plus, Trump shares video calling Netanyahu a ‘deep, dark son of a bitch’ Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The wildfires tearing through Los Angeles have killed at least five people and burned almost 2,000 homes and buildings, with … Read more
FIRST ON FOX: A top “DOGE” senator said a government watchdog alerted her to an “alarming” rate of defaults on COVID-era “PPP” loans, and now she wants to hold fraudsters accountable. In a letter to Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR) Brian Miller wrote that the loan programs funding reported losses … Read more
As the incoming president pledges a crackdown, activist groups anticipating migrant raids are preparing to resist Almost immediately after Donald Trump took office in 2017, he directed his administration to begin rounding up and deporting immigrants living in the country without authorization. He implemented a travel ban that caused chaos at airports, leaving families, students … Read more
