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Before the International Space Station was launched into orbit in 1998, the U.S. signed a document with several other countries to agree to the peaceful use of the orbital laboratory. The agreement included Russia, Japan, Canada and 11 European countries. China was left out of the plan. Nearly a decade later, China expressed interest in joining those on board the space...

A New York democratic bill aimed at charging oil and gas companies for pollution could result in regressive costs for working families in the state, energy and economic experts tell Fox News Digital.New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed the Climate Change Superfund Act, a bill that seeks to charge polluters up to $75 billion for pollution dating from 2000...

Politics Stop the Press(es)! The decline of journalism from a trade into a profession has been a catastrophe. Credit: image via Shutterstock The Washington Post has “descended into a dark abyss,” the New York Post reports, as if some abysses are, as the real estate ads say, suffused with natural light. The Washington Post plunged into this infernal netherworld because...

Every two years, the period between the November election and when the new Congress begins is often the busiest swath of time for covering Congress. Reporters are trying to figure out who won their elections and who lost. The existing Congress is back, attempting to prevent a government shutdown and often plowing through a landscape of other major legislation. There...

Jimmy Carter's lasting legacy in public health Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel highlights the former president's global efforts to educate on public health and the awareness he brought to melanoma and hospice care. When it comes to Gallup's "Most Admired Man list," Jimmy Carter is number three in the top 10 finishes, behind only Rev. Billy Graham...

Trump urges SCOTUS to delay TikTok ruling Silicon Valley tech pioneer Allison Huynh joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to weigh in on President-elect Trump’s decision to ask the Supreme Court to hold off on deciding the future of social media platform TikTok.  The Republican attorneys general of Virginia and Montana recently filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to...

The presidential election generated numerous high-profile political gaffes this year, including President Biden’s widely-panned debate performance and him calling Trump supporters "garbage" in the closing days of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. Here are six of the biggest political gaffes of 2024: Biden's debate debacle: Hoarse voice, rambling answers spark panic from Democrats A disastrous performance by President Biden during his debate with...

The Biden administration on Friday said it would stop selling off materials slated to be used to build a border wall ahead of the incoming Trump administration, which has promised to bring back tougher efforts to combat illegal immigration. The Biden administration confirmed to a court that it will agree to a court order preventing it from disposing of any...

Congressional Democrats’ use of X, formerly Twitter, has significantly dropped off in the years since Elon Musk took over the social media platform, a new report suggests.Significantly more Republican lawmakers used X in 2024 than their Democratic colleagues, public affairs firm Quorum calculated. Of the top 20 most active accounts for members of Congress, just one – Rep. Maxwell Frost,...

President-elect Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that the U.S. could take control of Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal—an unexpected Christmas Day message that has sparked concerns among world leaders in recent days as they scramble to prepare for Trump's second White House term.In a Wednesday post on the platform Truth Social, Trump wished a "Merry Christmas to all," including...

A trio of House Democrats in the progressive "Squad" is demanding an end to the U.S.-led investigation into a key ally's anti-Israel arms embargo.Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Summer Lee, D-Pa., wrote to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), an independent agency that oversees maritime trade affecting the U.S., regarding Spain's "decision to deny port entry to ships...

President-elect Trump picked Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera to serve as ambassador to Panama.Calling the Miami-Dade County Commissioner a "fierce fighter," Trump said that he would advance the "MAGA agenda" to the Central American country."Kevin is a fierce fighter for America First principles. As a Miami-Dade County Commissioner, and Vice Chairman of the International Trade Consortium, he has been...

As millions of Americans gather together with loved ones to celebrate the Christmas holiday and ring in the new year, hundreds of thousands of American men and women in uniform will mark the holidays away from family in decidedly less festive corners of the world. As of June, 165,830 U.S. service members were on deployment across the Middle East, Indo-Pacific region and...

The White House announced on Christmas Eve President Joe Biden signed a bill officially designating the bald eagle as the national bird.The bill, signed Monday after being passed unanimously by Congress, amends Title 36 of the United States Code, officially appointing the predator one of the country's national symbols.Congress passed the bill unanimously. President Joe Biden signed a bill Monday...

Several prominent California Democrats are calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation to approve a grant application for $536 million in federal funds to move forward with the state’s long-awaited high-speed rail network.The monies would come from funds already allocated in general to "federal-state partnership for intercity passenger rail grants" through the 2021 "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law" and made available via...