Politics

FIRST ON FOX: Law enforcement officers have made more than 1,700 arrests in Memphis, Tennessee, in the one month since the Trump administration began surging resources to the notoriously crime-ridden city, according to statistics shared with Fox News Digital on Wednesday.People were arrested for homicides, drugs, gun charges and sex offenses, and they included 126 "known gang members," according to the data. Additionally, seven dozen missing children were located and […]

Senate Democrats railed against Republicans’ and the Trump administration’s argument that the well had run dry on federal food stamp benefits, given that President Donald Trump funded the program during the last shutdown.Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned in a memo that because of the ongoing shutdown and lack of appropriations, funding for food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), would run out […]

FIRST ON FOX: The State Department is deploying teams that are expected to arrive in the Caribbean as early as Thursday to support disaster response after Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica Tuesday.The State Department announced it would deploy a regional disaster assistance response team (DART) and had activated U.S.-based urban search and rescue (USAR) teams to support response efforts in the region following Hurricane Melissa.A senior State Department official told Fox […]

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., earned praise from Republicans for calling out his own party as food stamp assistance is on the line amid an ongoing partial government shutdown."As a committed Democrat, I’m dismayed my party is playing chicken with the food security of 42M Americans. I reject a political gamble that exposes a vulnerable constituency to widespread deprivation and chaos," Fetterman declared in a Tuesday post on X.A statement posted […]

Authorities have yet to recover the jewels stolen from the Louvre Museum despite the arrest of two suspects in the case, French investigators announced Wednesday.Four thieves broke into the Louvre on October 19 and made off with an estimated $102 million worth of crown jewels, with the heist lasting less than 10 minutes. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau delivered an update on the investigation to the press on Wednesday."I want to […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom invoked biblical teachings while criticizing Republican leadership and the Trump administration for the federal government shutdown’s impact on food assistance, arguing that Scripture commands care for the hungry and that Washington is failing that moral test.Speaking Tuesday in Sacramento alongside state Attorney General Rob Bonta and Health and Human Services Secretary Kim Johnson, Newsom cited teachings from Matthew, Isaiah, Luke and Proverbs as evidence that feeding […]

The Pentagon has pulled key protections for its civilian workers and instructed managers to move with "speed and conviction" to fire underperforming workers, according to a memo issued last month.The guidelines were issued on Sept. 30, just one day before the government shutdown, in a memo titled "Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance" to eliminate workers with "unacceptable" performance reviews."Supervisors and human resources (HR) professionals are directed to act with […]

A controversial comparison between law enforcement and the Israeli military (IDF) is landing New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in hot water after the unearthed clip from a 2023 socialist conference went viral on social media."We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF," Mamdani, who was a keynote speaker, said while speaking on a […]

A group of social justice rabbis, including a transgender rabbi who reportedly mingled with Iran's president and was kicked out of the Biden White House for hijacking the event to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, headlined an ad to get Jews for Zohran to go out and vote in the waning days before the New York City mayoral election.Rabbi Abby Stein, who is transgender, was one of the four […]