Politics

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which issued an assessment on U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, as well as other senior military officials. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the DIA, a senior defense official told Fox News Digital on Friday. The firing came months after DIA details of the preliminary assessment of Operation Midnight Hammer were […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is renewing the call for DNA testing for migrants to prevent trafficking at the southern border in a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security on Friday morning.Blackburn noted the recent passage of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" contains funding for the practice in the billions intended for border security and immigration enforcement."As an essential component of that commitment, this landmark legislation provides […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fired back after Democratic state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith decried the state's move to nix rainbow colors from a crosswalk in Orlando near the site of the 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub that left 49 dead and others wounded.In a video that he posted on Thursday, the state lawmaker said "the Florida Department of Transportation, in the middle of the night, ripped the rainbow […]

President Donald Trump seemed to hint at the possibility of taking his D.C. crime crackdown to Chicago."After we do this will go to another location, and we'll make it safe, also. We're going to make our country very safe," he said when speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. "We're going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago's a mess."CHRIS CHRISTIE PRAISES TRUMP'S 'LONG OVERDUE' DC CRIME […]

FIRST ON FOX: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — a largely taxpayer-funded body that has taken in hundreds of millions in federal dollars — is facing pushback for fast-tracking a climate review that critics say is an attempt to undermine the Trump administration's energy agenda.Earlier this month, Politico reported that NASEM is using "internal funding" to pay for a review that will be released in September in […]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized on Thursday what she said were the "recent tendencies" of the Supreme Court to side with the Trump administration, providing her remarks in a bitter dissent in a case related to National Institutes of Health grants.Jackson, a Biden appointee, rebuked her colleagues for "lawmaking" on the shadow docket, where an unusual volume of fast, preliminary decisionmaking has taken place related to the hundreds of lawsuits […]

The Trump administration scored a major victory at the Supreme Court Thursday as the justices, in a 5-4 order, cleared his administration to slash more than $783 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants tied to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, LGBTQ issues and other hot-button areas.The unsigned majority order said NIH "may proceed with terminating existing grants" while leaving in place a partial block on issuing new […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said "effective immediately" he would pause the issuance of worker visas for commercial drivers after an illegal immigrant truck driver allegedly caused a crash that killed three people in Florida. In a post on X, Rubio cited public safety for the move. "The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American […]

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons vowed to "flood" Boston with agents after Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu doubled down on her pledge to uphold the city's sanctuary policies and resist the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.Speaking on the local radio program "The Howie Carr Show," Lyons responded to Wu by saying, "Now you’re going to see more ICE agents come to Boston to make sure that we take these public […]