Politics

Hezbollah’s growing foothold in Latin America has found its epicenter in Venezuela, where U.S. lawmakers and former counterterror officials say the Maduro regime has turned the country into a safe haven for one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist groups, giving it access to drug trafficking routes, forged documents and a gateway to the Western Hemisphere.At a Senate Caucus on International Counternarcotics Control hearing this week, both Republican and Democratic […]

Former PBS host and ex-Boeing engineer Bill Nye "The Science Guy" will join former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to headline a rally with Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger on Tuesday in the hometown of their party’s forefather.Spanberger will rally with Buttigieg and Nye in Charlottesville – the city that birthed President Thomas Jefferson – while across town at the college founded by America’s third president, GOP lieutenant gubernatorial candidate […]

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats are "holding the entire federal government hostage" during the shutdown, vowing, "We will not be extorted on this crazy plot of theirs."Trump, speaking during a lunch at the White House Rose Garden, said, "Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats need to vote for the clean, bipartisan CR and reopen our government. It's got to be […]

A Department of Justice lawyer argued to an appeals court on Tuesday that a lower court’s decision to block activist Mahmoud Khalil’s detention and removal was "fundamentally flawed" and should be reversed.DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign’s arguments came as he faced pointed questions during a hearing from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in a turbulent months-long court case centered on noncitizens' constitutional rights.Ensign said the New Jersey […]

FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican plans to launch a hearing to put political violence from the left under the microscope.Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., plans to announce an upcoming hearing, dubbed "Politically Violent Attacks: A Threat to Our Constitutional Order," to examine the origins of political violence and extremism that he argued stemmed largely from the Democratic side of the political spectrum.Schmitt, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the […]

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told reporters on the 21st day of the government shutdown Tuesday that Democrats "ran on killing the filibuster, and now we love it."The Pennsylvania Democrat made the remark on Capitol Hill after being asked for his reaction to Republican senators' proposal to nuke the filibuster to force the government to reopen."We ran on that. We ran on killing the filibuster, and now we love it," Fetterman […]

EXCLUSIVE: With over 500,000 illegal aliens deported since President Donald Trump took office in January, the administration is on track to significantly exceed the record number of illegals deported out of the United States.Since Trump’s return to the Oval Office on Jan. 20, the administration has deported over 515,000 illegal aliens, according to a high-ranking official at the Department of Homeland Security.DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is expected to imminently weigh in on the New York City mayoral race after dodging the question for weeks.The top House Democrat, who represents part of Brooklyn, has faced scrutiny in the press for repeatedly side-stepping reporters when asked whether he will endorse fellow Democrat Zohran Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist, for mayor.Asked during his Monday press conference whether he will make his thoughts […]

Two teenagers, Lawrence Cotton Powell, 19, and Anthony Taylor, 18, who are linked to the beating of former DOGE staffer Edward Coristine in Washington, D.C., are now facing federal charges for a series of assaults and attempted carjacking.The teens are charged with two counts of first-degree robbery and assault with intent to commit robbery, each of which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison, and attempted carjacking, which […]