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EXCLUSIVE: As protests erupted in Iran and a dramatic U.S. operation unfolded in Venezuela, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) moved quickly to push information into some of the world’s most tightly controlled media environments, the agency’s head, Kari Lake, told Fox News Digital in an interview.In the early morning hours of Jan. 3, reports began to trickle out about a law enforcement operation carried out by the U.S. military […]

A federal judge Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stopping subsidies on childcare programs in five states, including Minnesota, amid allegations of fraud.U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, a Biden appointee, didn’t rule on the legality of the funding freeze, but said the states had met the legal threshold to maintain the "status quo" on funding for at least two weeks while arguments continue.On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health […]

We will know in short order if a political fight is brewing.Such is the case in the past few days regarding congressional spending and war powers.Article I, Section 9 declares, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law."The most important power granted to Congress is over the federal purse strings. In other words, what Congress deems the federal government should spend. There were […]

The Trump administration announced Thursday it is suspending all U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding to Minnesota, effective immediately, with a large-scale fraud investigation underway."Enough is enough! The Trump administration has uncovered MASSIVE fraud in Minnesota and Minneapolis —billions siphoned off by fraudsters. And those in charge have ZERO plan to fix it," Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins wrote in a social media post.The USDA will suspend federal financial awards to […]

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…-Hawley breaks with Trump on Venezuela as policy rift continues-Bessent blames Walz as Treasury probes whether Minnesota fraud funds reached al-Shabab-Grassley presses FBI over Trump Arctic Frost probe name, calls change ‘anything but random’Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leveling a stunning accusation at Vice President […]

President Trump sported a unique accessory at the White House on Friday, a custom lapel pin depicting what he called a "happy Trump."The president wore the small pin, which appeared to be a cartoon-style depiction of Trump in a navy suit and red tie just beneath his customary American flag lapel pin, while meeting with oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House.Fox News' Senior White […]

Sex "discrimination" or gender "fairness" in scholastic activities? The Supreme Court will decide the divisive social question when it holds oral arguments Tuesday in a pair of cases reviewing separate state bans on transgender and non-binary athletes participating in female-only public school sports teams.The justices are hearing appeals from Idaho and West Virginia, after lower courts struck down state laws, affecting those students from the elementary to college level.The Trump […]

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leveling a stunning accusation at Vice President JD Vance amid the national furor over this week's fatal shooting in Minnesota involving an ICE agent."I understand that Vice President Vance believes that shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not," the four-term federal lawmaker from New York and progressive […]

Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Ore., accused federal authorities of "state-sponsored terrorism" after U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened fire in Portland on Thursday."This isn’t law enforcement, it’s state-sponsored terrorism," Bynum declared in the statement."Stop f---ing with us. This is the second shooting this week by agents following the orders of a wannabe dictator who is trying to take over cities and rule by instilling terror in the hearts of American people. When […]