FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is raising concerns about the potential effects of the U.S. importing Argentinian beef after President Donald Trump floated the idea earlier this week. Rep. Julie Fedorchak, R-N.D., is leading seven other House GOP lawmakers in a letter to the president on Tuesday …
Read More »Cruz 'cannot support' Trump's Kuwait ambassador pick over Muslim Brotherhood remarks
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced after a contentious nomination hearing Thursday that he would not support the Trump administration’s pick for ambassador to Kuwait. Among other areas of concern, Cruz expressed alarm over Amer Ghalib’s refusal to outright condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, a group Cruz believes works against the geopolitical …
Read More »Johnson shuts down House to pressure Schumer as government standstill nears one month
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has canceled votes in the House of Representatives for a fourth straight week as the government shutdown shows no signs of ending. Johnson’s move is a part of his continued pressure strategy on Senate Democrats and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who have sunk the GOP’s …
Read More »Here's everything you missed from Zohran Mamdani's first Fox News interview
New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani made his Fox News debut on Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview with “The Story” host Martha MacCallum. On the eve of the first general election mayoral debate, MacCallum pressed Mamdani, during the nearly 30-minute interview, on the self-identified democratic socialist’s affordability agenda, …
Read More »Spanish priest acquitted after facing 3 years behind bars for criticizing radical Islam
A Spanish priest who was facing three years in prison for remarks he made in 2016 that were critical of radical Islam was acquitted. “I thank God and the Christian people who supported me with their prayers and their presence in court,” Father Custodio Ballester toldFox News Digital in a …
Read More »Trump’s troubling week: Demanding government money, demolishing the East Wing
Everyone on the planet knows that Donald Trump has executed a political, ideological and cultural takeover of the government. Force elite universities to change their policies or lose hundreds of millions of dollars in grants? Check. Sue media organizations and collect $16 million or more from the likes of CBS …
Read More »Justice Jackson's remarks on minority voters spark heavy backlash: 'They're disabled'
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sparked debate Wednesday after she invoked the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) during oral arguments to illustrate how the government can remedy discrimination — an exchange that quickly took off on social media, where some critics accused her of comparing Black voters to disabled …
Read More »Johnson calls FBI’s ‘alarming’ arrest of alleged Hamas terrorist proof of Biden immigration failures
A suspected terrorist allegedly linked to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel has been arrested in Louisiana. House Speaker Mike Johnson called the revelation “alarming,” blaming the former Biden administration’s border policies for allowing the suspect into the country. “I had no idea. It’s alarming to all of …
Read More »GOP lawmaker seeks 'permanent' federal presence in Memphis after Trump crime order
EXCLUSIVE: A Memphis-area House Republican is eyeing a permanent federal law enforcement presence in the southwest Tennessee city after President Donald Trump’s order cracking down on crime. Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., whose district includes suburbs in the Memphis metropolitan area and rural areas outside of it, spent the day with …
Read More »Reporter's Notebook: White House pounces after top Dem says government shutdown gives party 'leverage'
Senate Republicans are forcing Democrats to take a stand today — vote to pay expected federal workers (so-called essential) during the shutdown or risk looking anti-worker. The bill, from Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Todd Young, R-Ind., would pay troops, on-duty TSA agents, air traffic controllers and law enforcement. House …
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