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US continues to share data to protect Ukrainians against Russian strikes, despite intel pause: sources

The U.S. is continuing to share some defensive intelligence with Ukraine to protect against incoming Russian strikes, despite an announced pause in intel sharing that raised alarm bells, Fox News Digital has learned. Three sources familiar with the decision confirmed that intelligence related to force protection and incoming threats would continue. Federal intelligence, the work of the CIA, FBI and human intelligence, has ceased, as has data that helps with offensive Ukrainian strikes against Russians.  Another...

Trump’s authority to fire officials questioned in court battle over NLRB seat

The Trump administration appealed a federal judge’s decision Thursday that the administration’s firing of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member was illegal – the same day that the former head of the Office of the Special Counsel announced he was dropping his suit against President Donald Trump on similar grounds.  U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered Thursday that NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox be reinstated after she had been fired by Trump earlier this year....

Congress exposes China’s potential loophole for Trump tariffs: ‘Drawing a line in the sand’

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are coming together to crack down on Chinese-backed companies’ ownership of land in the continental U.S. It comes as the Trump administration appears on the precipice of a trade war with Beijing, as China promises to retaliate against what its foreign minister called ‘arbitrary’ tariffs from Washington. ‘It is in the interest of the United States to review purchases of American farmland by foreign entities to protect our...

Hostages freed from Gaza tell Trump he was ‘sent by God’ to save them, but dozens more remain

Hostages freed from Gaza visited President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to tell him that his re-election to the White House gave them hope after hundreds of days in Hamas captivity.  In a Thursday press event, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff told reporters that seven people freed from Gaza, along with some of their loved ones, met with the president this week to share their horrific stories of abduction, severe...

Axed government watchdog says Trump was right to fire him

A government watchdog fired by President Donald Trump in January has filed a legal brief arguing that Trump is well within his executive powers to fire him and the 16 other U.S. inspectors general ousted just four days into his second term.   Eric Soskin, the former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, was appointed by Trump during his first presidential term. He was then fired just four days after Trump returned to...

UN prepping for spending cuts as DOGE roots out waste in US, internal docs show

An internal United Nations memo obtained by Fox News Digital shows that the organization is trying to brace itself for U.S. funding cuts as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) works to root out waste. The memo was sent to heads of various departments and offices with the subject line ‘Managing the 2025 regular budget liquidity crisis.’ According to the memo, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres issued a directive to manage cashflow ‘conservatively’ and to suspend...

Pro-Ukraine GOP Rep. Bacon declares ‘real Republicans know that Putin’s Russia hates the West and freedom’

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who is a staunch supporter of Ukraine and critic of Russia, declared in a post on X that ‘real Republicans know that Putin’s Russia hates the West and freedom.’ ‘We also know that Ukraine wants democracy, free markets and rule of law. We stand with right vs evil. Reagan, Churchill, Eisenhower… that is our legacy. I won’t walk away from it,’ he added. The U.S. has provided significant aid to the...

The national debt is about to hit a terrifying number no matter what we do

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! While it appears that every day Americans may be DOGE-ing more waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, unfortunately, America is on an unsustainable financial path and the numbers don’t lie. The national debt has surged past $36.5 trillion, with no signs of slowing down. Both parties are complicit, but it is the left’s relentless push for government expansion, social programs, and reckless spending that has...

GOP senator reveals strategy to push Trump’s policies through Congress: ‘I believe in the agenda’

Republican Sen. Rick Scott says he’s on a mission to help push President Donald Trump’s agenda through Congress. ‘I put a lot of effort in, and I believe in Trump’s agenda,’ the former Florida governor and two-term senator said in an exclusive national digital interview with Fox News. Scott spoke from the sidelines of a two-day policy summit held at a hotel blocks from the U.S. Capitol that was hosted by Rescuing the American Dream,...

US judge orders Trump admin to pay portion of $2B in foreign aid by Monday

A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to pay at least a portion of the nearly $2 billion in owed foreign aid for previously completed projects by 6 p.m. Monday, an expeditious ruling that comes just one day after the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s request to continue its freeze. The decision from U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali came after a more than four-hour court hearing Thursday, where he grilled both...