Politics

Foreign Affairs ‘Ecuador’s Bukele’ Is His Own Man Amid narco-crime and economic turmoil, how did Daniel Noboa, an American-born, 37-year-old outsider, raise the hopes of a nation? Credit: mbzfotos/Shutterstock Facing a packed room at the capital Quito’s Hilton Colón, where Ecuador’s electoral body (CNE) has set up a bustling command center, twenty special forces—balaclava-clad and armed to the teeth—flank a...

A Democratic National Committee social media post appeared to snub the party’s most recent occupant of the Oval Office, former President Joe Biden."Happy Easter!" reads a post on the DNC’s official X account, which included photos of former Presidents Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton.But the post did not include a photo of Biden, the party’s...

FIRST ON FOX: United States Senator Tim Sheehy, R-Montana, called out Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum in a scathing letter addressing the large amount of raw sewage and waste the neighboring country has dumped in the Tijuana River.The letter outlines Sheehy’s concern not only for the health and safety of local residents, but also points out that the toxic leak could potentially...

Good Friday means different things to different people. For me, it’s the day I met my only pet. This was no puppy, iguana, or goldfish. In fact, as a little boy, I had a rooster and, thus, remain partial to these majestic creatures. My family and I named him Chickadee, after hilarious curmudgeon W.C. Fields’ film My Little Chickadee. I...

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating how Harvard University uses taxpayer money as the school faces scrutiny on civil rights issues like antisemitism.Committee Chairman James Comer and House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik sent a letter to the university president, Dr. Alan M. Garber, Thursday afternoon, after the Trump administration halted $2.2 billion in funding to...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that China has been reaching out "a lot" ever since he nearly tripled U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, and he suggested to reporters that the two nations could reach a deal in as soon as three to four weeks. During a gaggle with reporters after signing executive orders related to deregulating the seafood industry, Trump was...

Tariffs, also called imposts, as well as custom duties, are taxes on products being imported from foreign countries.This was the U.S. government’s main source of income for the nation’s first century and a half.It is mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, which authorizes the Federal government to collect “duties” and “imposts” to help “pay the debts and...

President Donald Trump said the late President Jimmy Carter could die peacefully knowing he wasn’t the worst U.S. president because that title belongs to former President Joe Biden. Trump issued the remarks to reporters during a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who visited the White House on behalf of European nations to assist in brokering a trade deal...

A surprise visit by the president of El Salvador to the White House on Monday was like a breath of fresh air from south of our border. Nayib Bukele, recently reelected by a landslide as Latin America’s most popular leader, was more Trump than Trump in defying media demands to return to the U.S. a Salvadoran whom Trump recently deported.Federal...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem canceled $2.7 million in DHS grants to Harvard University on Wednesday.In a statement, Noem announced the cancelation of two grants for the university, and declared the elite Massachusetts Ivy League institution "unfit to be entrusted with taxpayer dollars." The university has been ordered to submit records by April 30, or risk losing its...

FIRST ON FOX: Roughly 2,300 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employees have opted to take deferred resignation offers since January, Fox News Digital learned. "To continue serving the American people at the highest standard, we are taking inventory of all programs and personnel while maintaining a strong workforce that is dedicated to supporting our most vulnerable and promoting pathways...

It’s too bad there are no cameras allowed in federal courtrooms, because I really would like to see Mark Zuckerberg testify.He was the leadoff witness in the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta, and that in itself was news.The clash is the most sweeping attempt to dismember the world’s biggest social network, and goes to the heart of how...

A top advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday and placed on administrative leave, according to a Defense Department official. Reuters first reported Caldwell had been placed on leave for an "unauthorized disclosure" of information amid an investigation into Pentagon leaks. An official confirmed to Fox News Digital that Reuters' reporting is accurate but...