The Supreme Court cleared the way for the State Department to require people to state their biological sex on new or renewed passports, a victory for the Trump administration as it aims to tighten policies involving transgender people. The high court found in a 6-3 order temporarily greenlighting the policy that a lower court in […]
Any optimism either side of the aisle had that the government shutdown could end this week appeared to fade on Capitol Hill, as Senate Democrats appear ready to hold out longer for a deal on expiring Obamacare subsidies. Senate Democrats left another long closed-door caucus lunch on Thursday, signaling a unified front as the shutdown […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is dangling another carrot for Democrats. They still aren’t ready to bite. In his latest pressure tactic, the South Dakota Republican is teeing up yet another vote to reopen the government Friday, the 38th day of the record-setting shutdown. But this time, he is pledging to swap out the House-passed […]
U.S.-based companies announced more than 153,000 job cuts in October, the research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday. “This is the highest total for October in over 20 years, and the highest total for a single month in the fourth quarter since 2008,’ the firm said in a news release. From January through the […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi’s decision to retire was such a closely-held secret that she filmed two versions of the video she released on Thursday — one to tee up a reelection campaign and the other that she ultimately posted. Some of her closest political allies were not informed until late the night before, some […]
Two Senate Democrats and two House Republicans are planning to huddle Friday over a possible bipartisan plan to extend soon-to-expire Obamacare subsidies, according to four people with direct knowledge of the matter. Centrist Senate Democrats are working feverishly to hammer out an ACA framework in more detail to give Democrats an off-ramp to vote to […]
Top Democrats emerged from a classified Capitol Hill briefing Wednesday expressing confidence in the intelligence behind recent U.S. strikes on suspected narco-trafficking vessels near Venezuela. But they also faulted the Biden administration for what they called a failure to confront Nicolás Maduro after Venezuela’s disputed 2024 election. The Office of Legal Counsel presented lawmakers with […]
The Congressional Budget Office identified a cyber “security incident,” a spokesperson for the office said Thursday, posing vulnerabilities for a key arm of Congress. The CBO — a nonpartisan agency tasked with providing economic and budgetary information to Congress — said Thursday that officials had taken “immediate action to contain” the breach as officials investigate […]
Kazakhstan is expected to join the Abraham Accords, officials confirmed to Fox News on Thursday. The Abraham Accords, first signed in 2020, currently include three countries that have formalized normalization agreements with Israel: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco. Sudan signed a U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords declaration in January 2021 but efforts to formalize diplomatic […]
Justice Department officials in Miami and Washington, D.C., are actively preparing to issue several grand jury subpoenas relating to an investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, Fox News has learned. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones is supervising the probe, Fox News is told. Fox News reached out to the […]