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Rand Paul to oversee confirmation hearing of Trump’s DHS pick who once blasted him as a ‘snake’

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a confirmation hearing ready to go, and he will have to reckon with an intraparty feud in the process. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., will soon undergo the rigorous confirmation process in the Senate after being tapped by Trump to replace embattled DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. He will first go through the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee before heading to a...

Jackson-Kavanaugh tensions surface in candid exchange over Supreme Court ‘shadow docket’

Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh had a dispute over the high court’s approach to its emergency docket in a rare, candid discussion during an event Monday night. Jackson, a Biden appointee, signaled that the high court’s willingness to side with President Donald Trump most of the time when it comes to the emergency docket, sometimes known as the ‘shadow docket,’ was a ‘problem.’ The liberal justice is one of three, and...

Gas prices surge, pinching Americans and handing the GOP a new midterm headache

President Donald Trump, who rode promises of affordability back to the White House, is now confronting Iran-driven volatility that’s undermining that message as fuel costs rise nationwide — and putting fresh pressure on Republicans heading into the midterms. With the Iran conflict rattling oil markets and raising fears of supply disruptions, gas prices are climbing again, squeezing Americans already worn down by inflation. This week, oil prices surged past $100 a barrel for the first...

Iran war, 11 days in: US controls skies, oil surges and the region braces for what’s next

One week into the war with Iran, U.S. officials say American and Israeli forces are moving toward ‘complete control’ of Iranian airspace — clearing the way for deeper strikes, a broader target list and a conflict that appears to be expanding rather than winding down. In briefings this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine described what they called near-uncontested airspace over key corridors, a shift that allows sustained...

Trump says he’s ‘not happy’ with Iran’s choice of new supreme leader

President Donald Trump said he is ‘not happy’ with Iran’s choice of a new supreme leader but that early results from Operation Epic Fury have been ‘way beyond expectation.’ Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been installed as the next supreme leader. ‘I don’t believe he can live in peace,’ Trump said in an interview with Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst. The president touted what he described as...

Vietnam urges work from home amid fuel supply, price crunch in Mideast

Vietnam’s trade ministry is urging businesses to encourage employees to work from home to curb fuel consumption as the country grapples with supply disruptions and sharp price increases triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war involving Iran. In a statement on Tuesday, the government said Vietnam has been among the nations hardest hit by the turmoil due to its heavy reliance on energy imports from the Middle East. Citing a report from the Ministry of Industry and...

House GOP fears primary losers could jeopardize razor-thin majority

Some House Republicans are getting worried over the prospect of colleagues quiet-quitting after losing their primary races as election season heats up, threatening to whittle down the GOP’s already perilously slim majority. House Republicans will likely only be able to lose two votes on any party-line measure after a special election in a deep-red Georgia district this week.  Some told Fox News Digital they’re worried, however, that their colleagues could begin missing key votes before...

UK job vacancies fall at slower pace as service sector picks up

The decline in UK hiring may be beginning to stabilise after new data showed a slowdown in falling job vacancies and a rebound in activity across the country’s crucial services sector. An index tracking permanent hiring, produced by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and KPMG, rose to 49.2 in February, up from 46.9 in January. Although the reading remains just below the 50-point threshold that separates expansion from contraction, it marks the strongest result since...

More companies paying ransoms as AI-powered cyberattacks intensify

A growing number of businesses are paying cybercriminals after ransomware attacks, as hackers deploy artificial intelligence to make their tactics more targeted, sophisticated and damaging. New research from cybersecurity consultancy S-RM and advisory firm FGS Global shows that 24.3 per cent of companies targeted by ransomware attacks paid the demanded ransom in 2025, marking a sharp increase from 14.4 per cent in 2024. The figures represent the first significant rise in ransom payments after two...

China exports surge despite Trump tariffs as global demand strengthens

China’s exports surged in the first two months of 2026 despite escalating trade tensions with the United States, highlighting the resilience of the world’s second-largest economy even as tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump continue to reshape global trade flows. Official trade data released by Chinese authorities shows that exports rose by more than 20 per cent in January and February compared with the same period last year, far exceeding economists’ expectations. Analysts had...