Politics

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Health and Human Services announced it is shuttering a nationwide program that offered free COVID-19 tests to community organizations, citing it bled taxpayer funds despite the pandemic’s end.  ‘With COVID-19 behaving more like the seasonal flu — rising and falling through the year — and tests widely available at retail stores nationwide, continued federal distribution is a significant waste of taxpayers’ dollars,’ HHS told...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.K. on Monday announced new plans to overhaul its defensive posture in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and potential challenges posed by President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw U.S. troops from the continent. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would bring his country to ‘war-fighting readiness’ by investing dozens of billions of dollars in the building of 12 submarines, weapons...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The FBI is urging members of the public to tip them off about any facilities or individuals who ‘mutilate’ children with surgeries ‘under the guise of gender-affirming care.’ The federal law enforcement agency shared the message Monday on social media. ‘Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is reviewing the list of people that were granted pardons by former President Joe Biden, amid new concerns about his use of an AutoPen to automatically sign documents, as well as concerns about his state of mind in his final months in office. Fox News was told Tuesday that Justice Department Pardon Attorney Ed Martin is reviewing a list of Biden-era pardons...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the debt limit increase included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is still a deal-breaker for him, saying it goes against conservative values, despite discussions with President Donald Trump about his concerns.  Paul told reporters on Monday that the bill will increase the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, the largest debt increase in the U.S. ‘We have never raised the debt...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The FBI is urging members of the public to tip them off about any facilities or individuals who ‘mutilate’ children with surgeries ‘under the guise of gender-affirming care.’ The federal law enforcement agency shared the message Monday on social media. ‘Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump blasted China recently on Truth Social, saying Beijing had ‘TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH US.’ Trump furiously concluded, ‘So much for being Mr. NICE GUY!’  Apparently, in return for mutual deescalation of trade tensions, Beijing had committed to again allow the free flow of rare earth minerals to the U.S. However, they did not follow through on that promise. No wonder Trump was angry;...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Millions of South Korean voters are casting their ballots on Tuesday for a new president in a snap election following the ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol. Yoon, a conservative, faces trial on rebellion charges over his short-lived martial law declaration in December. Pre-election surveys suggested Lee Jae-myung, Yoon’s liberal archrival, appeared poised to coast to victory due to public frustration over the conservatives in the...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court has reached a decision to allow nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to update their birth certificates. The action was brought about by six non-binary individuals born in Puerto Rico who filed a lawsuit claiming that ‘the Commonwealth’s current Birth Certificate Policy violates the right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, according to the court filing.’ The court’s decision...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nearly six months into his second term, President Donald Trump has a new portrait posted to the White House website. White House officials posted an eight-second video to social media on Monday, showing the new portrait being hung on the wall at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus. In his previous presidential portrait, which was unveiled just days before taking the oath of...