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The Trump administration has announced it is overhauling the State Department and shuttering more than 130 offices around the world in order to streamline operations and align the department more closely with the administration's foreign policy objectives.The move was announced on Tuesday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality and redundant offices will be shut down. Programs that are misaligned with […]

"Disgusting," said Navy SEAL veteran Rob Sweetman in describing the smell and mist of Mexican sewage spewing into U.S. waters as he stood on a hill overlooking the Tijuana River estuary in California.Sweetman, a Navy veteran who served on the SEALs for eight years, spoke to Fox News Digital to sound the alarm on a water crisis rocking the San Diego area, including where SEALs train, taking a camera with […]

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…-Pandemic, price tags and privacy concerns: Why it took 20 years to implement REAL ID-DHS chief's purse stolen with thousands of dollars-Ex-Pentagon aide urges Trump to fire Hegseth citing 'full-blown meltdown' and 'total chaos'EXCLUSIVE: The California 2026 gubernatorial race just got a major shakeup with Republican […]

With President Donald Trump's former reality TV show "The Apprentice," streaming on Amazon Prime as of last month, politically astute viewers across the political spectrum have zeroed in on an episode from when Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., now one of the president's biggest political detractors, praised his fellow New Yorker as a business prodigy.During Season 5, Episode 8, of "The Apprentice" in 2006, contestants were given a challenge — as […]

Military members stationed in and around portions of the southern border have been given the authority to temporarily detain and search illegal migrants. Service members with the Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB) are now authorized to conduct several security measures in the New Mexico National Defense Area (NMNDA), U.S. Northern Command said Monday. The NMNDA is part of the U.S. Army's Fort Huachuca military installation.The move allows the U.S. military to serve in […]

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., on Monday signaled he wouldn't tolerate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly once again sharing sensitive information about military operations in a Signal group chat. "If the reporting is true, this is unacceptable. I would never tell the White House what to do, but I wouldn’t tolerate it," Bacon told Fox News Digital, reiterating his comments first reported by Politico. Bacon, a retired military officer and Republican on the […]

U.S. presidents mourned the death of Pope Francis, who served as the leader of the Catholic Church for 12 years, on Monday following the Vatican’s announcement of the pope’s passing. "Rest in Peace Pope Francis!" President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Monday. "May God Bless him and all who loved him!"The College of Cardinals elected Pope Francis, 88, to serve as the pope following Pope Benedict […]

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's announcement that REAL IDs will be required to fly starting May 7 has forced Americans to finally get compliant – 20 years after Congress passed the law. On May 11, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the REAL ID Act into law to enhance national security in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Passed by the U.S. Congress, the act set federal […]

EXCLUSIVE: The California 2026 gubernatorial race just got a major shakeup with Republican Steve Hilton entering the race to be Gov. Gavin Newsom's successor. The former Fox News contributor and author of "Califailure" said he's hoping to "Make California Golden Again," especially for the "working people" of the state."A big decision that I've made, which I can now share with you, that I am, in fact, going to be running for […]