As President-elect Donald Trump continues to shape his cabinet, the selection of Mike Waltz as incoming national security adviser gives me, the father of Itay Chen, a U.S. hostage being held in Gaza by Hamas, a renewed sense of hope. Waltz should bring the decisive policy changes that we, the families of those abducted by Hamas, have been begging for. My son Itay, along with six other U.S. citizens, has been held hostage since Oct. 7, 2023. Negotiations, pressure, and...
House lawmakers were briefed Wednesday about the potential outcome if the U.S. were to find itself at war with China over Taiwan within the next two years, as the global superpower increasingly encroaches on U.S. allies. The Chinese defense industrial base is operating at a ‘wartime footing,’ and now has a shipbuilding capacity 230 times greater than the U.S.’s, making a potential invasion of Taiwan a not-unlikely outcome. U.S. military analysts have projected 2027 as...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected challenges from Israel and issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday. The ICC charged Netanyahu and Gallant with ‘crimes against humanity and war crimes,’ including using starvation as a method of warfare and targeting civilians. Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the move in a statement on Thursday. ‘Taken in bad faith, the outrageous decision at the ICC has turned...
The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America are launching a $1 million public education campaign to advocate for the ‘prompt confirmation’ of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees and will target the home states of key senators who could ‘make or break’ the confirmation process, Fox News Digital has learned. The campaign will also educate the American public on presidential authority on Cabinet appointments. ‘Taking down the deep state isn’t just a priority for President...
In his first term, President-elect Donald Trump burned through four White House chiefs of staff who tried in vain to police who had access to the president. Now, incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles, the ‘ice maiden,’ will be tasked with guarding the president from special interests who seek to abuse the White House for their own personal gain. But progressives are calling out Wiles for her own history as a former corporate lobbyist and...
Top Democrats in Vice President Harris’ campaign say their efforts to sway voters simply weren’t enough in the face of a general dissatisfaction with the direction of the country among the electorate. Officials who worked on the campaign offered a post-mortem to the Washington Post on Thursday, saying that former President Trump also took advantage of new media opportunities that Harris left mostly untouched. ‘There are certain things we’re looking at to understand if we...
MARCO ISLAND, FL – – Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the new chair of the Republican Governors Association, says a top mission for GOP governors going forward will be helping President-elect Trump. Kemp highlighted in a Fox News Digital interview that Republican governors spent the past four years ‘pushing back’ on President Biden’s administration. And speaking to the media for the first time after being elected RGA chair at the group’s annual winter meeting – held...
As President-elect Donald Trump has aggressively set to work on building his new administration, some have noticed that many of those being selected as his closest advisors are parents with families well above the national average. The current national average for a family in the U.S. is 1.94, which is below the minimum 2.1 required to replace the population. Meanwhile, some of Trump’s Cabinet members and advisers are well above the replacement level. Trump is...
: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer is expected to establish a subcommittee that will work with the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to eliminate government waste, Fox News Digital has learned. A source familiar told Fox News Digital that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., will chair the Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee, which will focus on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal...
— Iran has turned to its commercial sector to conceal its development of ballistic missiles in a move to circumvent international sanctions, turning private companies into fronts for its illicit military dealings. Sources embedded within the Iranian regime and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and who are also affiliated with the Iranian resistance group called the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, have collected months of information on how the civilian workforce is unknowingly fueling...
