Politics

FIRST ON FOX: A House committee will be holding a formal hearing next Wednesday that will include discussion about whether members of Congress should be allowed to trade individual stocks.House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., will lead the hearing, titled "Taking Stock of the STOCK Act," which will include two witnesses from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and the Manhattan Institute. The hearing's purpose is to determine policy angles that […]

The longest government shutdown in history finally ended on Wednesday night after nearly every member of the House of Representatives raced to Washington to cast their vote.The threat of air travel delays — fueled in no small part by the fiscal standoff — as well as bad weather in parts of the country forced some lawmakers to find more unconventional routes to ensure they arrived on time.First-term Rep. Addison McDowell, […]

President Donald Trump signed legislation to fund the government again — putting an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.Trump signaled Monday the government would open soon, as consequences of a lapse in funding continued to snowball, including missed paychecks for federal workers and airline delays stemming from air traffic controller staffing shortages.The bill keeps funding the government at the same levels during fiscal year 2025 through Jan. […]

Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Harris County — home to Houston — for using county funds for programs that help migrants facing deportation obtain access to legal support.Harris County established the Immigrant Legal Services Fund program in 2020, sending money to five organizations that help migrants facing deportation obtain lawyers.Last month, the county appropriated an additional $1.3 million to support the program.Paxton said in a statement that […]

An annual United Nations climate summit being held in the Amazonian city of Belém in Brazil is slated to include talks and appearances by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. However, California Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Fox News host Steve Hilton, a longtime critic of Newsom, is putting the summit on notice if they allow him to speak. This week, Hilton sent a letter to the heads of the COP30 summit, requesting that […]

Jeffrey Epstein cast himself as a political insider after President Donald Trump’s first election, newly released House Oversight emails show, offering foreign leaders "insight" into the new president and boasting that he’d already briefed a top Russian diplomat on how to handle him.The trove of emails, made public this week by the House Oversight Committee, spans 2016 to 2018 and reveals Epstein trying to reestablish himself on the world stage […]

FIRST ON FOX: A new report from a government watchdog group begs the question of why — with nearly 800,000 federal bureaucrats drawing six-figure salaries and the average payroll of the federal workforce far outpacing its size — is Washington still unable to fund the basics of government?Open The Books, a project of American Transparency, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, nonpartisan charitable organization, closely tracks government spending and released an expansive report […]

A California state senator, seen as a potential successor to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, faced a heated confrontation over transgender policy and women's safety concerns during a recent town hall-style event.Democrat Scott Wiener was taking questions at the event when Tish Hyman, a Grammy-nominated musician, introduced herself and expressed concern over policies that allow transgender women to use women's spaces such as locker rooms.Hyman said that "as a lesbian […]

China has agreed to tighten chemicals used to produce fentanyl following a visit by FBI Director Kash Patel, he announced Wednesday. "That was the sole purpose of my trip to China to eliminate these precursors. And if successful, we would suffocate the drug trafficking organizations ability to manufacture fentanyl in places like Mexico," Patel told reporters during a White House press briefing. This story is breaking. Please check back for updates.  Read […]