Politics

WASHINGTON — Nearly two decades after hearing "You're fired!" on NBC's "The Apprentice," Erin Scavino says President Donald Trump chose her to lead one of the federal government's least-known offices as it helps tell America's story to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary.Scavino, director of the State Department's Art in Embassies program, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview inside the Art Museum of the Americas that she never imagined […]

Avi Loeb, the Harvard astronomer who was chosen last month by the White House to lead a UFO advisory council, believes he was brought on because federal officials are "baffled" by the many unidentified objects the U.S. military has captured over the past several decades.Loeb, known for arguing that alien spacecraft may have already reached Earth, said his newly-formed team of more than a dozen scientists is combing through four […]

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., claims to have been detained by Israeli settlers armed with U.S.-made firearms while visiting the West Bank.Khanna and his team were surrounded by a group of West Bank settlers near the Palestinian village of Khirbet Zanuta on Wednesday, his office told The New York Times. The settlers were armed with American-made M4 machine guns, Khanna's office said.When soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces arrived, Khanna claimed […]

A Trump-appointed federal judge on Friday reluctantly dismissed the Jan. 6 prosecution of four Proud Boys members, saying the law left him no authority to block the Justice Department's request.U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly granted the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the case with prejudice against Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola after a federal appeals court had already vacated their convictions.In a seven-page opinion, Kelly said […]

FIRST ON FOX: One Senate Republican warned that the "radical leftist" surge in the Democratic Party today will be the roadmap for Democrats in 2028, when candidates will jockey for the White House."You get this hammer-and-sickle wave we saw in New York — that is not going to be an isolated incident," Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital. "That is a flashing red light. It is a red […]

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin argues that climate projections represent a range of possible outcomes — not certainties — and warned against labeling those who disagree with them as "science deniers.""When someone looks at 2050 or 2100, and they say, ‘This is exactly what the sea level is going to be. This is what the temperature is going to be,’ it doesn't acknowledge correctly that there really is a range from […]

President Donald Trump on Friday said he will not sign a bipartisan housing bill passed by Congress in protest over the failure of lawmakers to bring the SAVE Act over the finish line.Meanwhile, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which is intended to lower the costs of housing and spur more home construction, is slated to become law Saturday unless Trump vetoes the legislation."I will not sign the Housing […]

FIRST ON FOX: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers made a $10 million drug bust on Monday during an inspection of a commercial tractor trailer transporting cabbage at the Pharr Port of Entry, a bridge near the southernmost part of Texas.A canine inspection and nonintrusive imaging scan led officers to a hidden load inside the trailer, CBP said. A physical search uncovered 477 packages containing 1,173 pounds of cocaine with […]

Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and former U.S. senator from Utah who will turn 80 years old next year, opined that he thinks individuals 80 and older should not be at the nation's helm.He made the comments during an interview on "Deseret Voices" after host McKay Coppins jokingly asked Romney whether he would run for president in 2028.Romney indicated he "would love" to run again, adding, "and this time […]