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The Trump administration is seeking $1 billion from UCLA to settle discrimination and antisemitism allegations in exchange for restoring more than half a billion dollars in frozen grant funding to the university. The proposed agreement sent to the school Friday requires UCLA to pay the federal government $1 billion over multiple installments, along with establishing a $172 million claims fund for alleged victims of violations of Title VII of the Civil […]

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here's what's happening…-US appeals court blocks Trump contempt proceedings ordered by Boasberg-Inside NASA's fast-track plans for lunar nuclear power and new space stations to outpace global rivals-Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer called 'highly unusual' by former federal prison officialEXCLUSIVE: The highest-ranking Minnesotan in Congress is blasting Gov. Tim […]

Republican senators offered a range of responses when pressed on how the Trump administration has been handling the Epstein files controversy, with some calling it a distraction and others arguing the American people are "entitled" to answers.Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the "first phase" of declassified files related to Jeffrey Epstein Feb. 27, noting the move was following through on President Donald Trump's commitment to "lifting the veil" on Epstein […]

In a sweeping move aimed at rolling back pandemic-era mandates, the Trump administration on Friday directed all federal agencies to erase any records related to employees' COVID-19 vaccination status, prior mandate noncompliance or exemption requests.The guidance, issued by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was a response to recent litigation and is part of a broader push to reverse what officials have described as "harmful pandemic-era policies" imposed under […]

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett fired back at a report that she has created a "toxic" work environment in her office due to her "diva" behavior by explaining that it means she’s "arrived" –  and suggesting that race is a factor in the criticism."Listen, goodness, I know that I have arrived, honey," Crockett said after laughing in response to a question on CBS News about a New York Post report on Thursday […]

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson warns that finances in the nation's third most populous city have "reached a point of no return."The mayor said this week that the city will need to take steps to deal with looming budget shortfalls and that key systems that Chicago provides, including education, housing, health care and transportation, are "woefully underfunded."Eight-hundred miles to the east, there are concerns in the nation's most populous city that […]

Many of the Texas Democrats who fled the Lone Star State to Democrat-stronghold states amid a Republican redistricting effort are complying with the political stunt out of fear of being primaried by "someone even crazier" within the party, Republican Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain told Fox News Digital in a Thursday interview. "If they were to come back, they would lose in a primary to someone even more socialistic than they […]

EXCLUSIVE – Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan says President Donald Trump's social media attacks criticizing his move from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party validates his major switch in political affiliations."Failed former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan, of Georgia, is a total loser," Trump wrote early Friday on his Truth Social platform.The president charged that Duncan was "never able to get anything done, all he ever did was complain. […]

Boston's sanctuary sheriff was arrested Friday on federal charges after allegedly leveraging his elected position to extort $50,000 from a cannabis executive who was seeking state approval to open a dispensary—a scheme FBI Director Kash Patel called a betrayal of public trust.Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, 67, who oversees more than 1,000 employees in the Boston-area, was handcuffed Friday morning in the Southern District of Florida after a federal grand […]