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The U.S. Institute of Peace has been formally rebranded as the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, marking the latest step in the president’s months-long effort to dismantle the congressionally created agency. The name change comes after a turbulent year for the organization, which the Trump administration has sought to shut down while shifting its authority to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The institute has been fighting the move in federal court, but layoffs...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is accusing Democrats on his panel of selectively releasing information related to Jeffrey Epstein. It came hours after committee Democrats released photos and videos capturing what they called ‘never-before-seen’ views of Epstein’s private compound in the U.S. Virgin Islands. But Comer told Fox News Digital that many of those images published by Democrats were already released by Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, now the head of O’Keefe Media...

President Donald Trump is on board with releasing the video footage of the second strike targeting an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2.  The Trump administration is currently facing heightened scrutiny for its strikes against alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean, amid confirmation from the White House that the U.S. military conducted a second strike against one of the vessels after the first strike left survivors.  Trump shared footage of the first strike, and said...

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino pushed back against a blistering report from an alliance of active-duty and retired FBI personnel that portrayed the bureau as directionless under its new leadership, defending sweeping reforms they say have delivered major gains in accountability and public safety. ‘When the director and I moved forward with these reforms, we expected some noise from the small circle of disgruntled former agents still loyal to the old...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ‘created risks to operational security’ by sharing sensitive details about Houthi strikes over Signal, a new Pentagon inspector general report determined, according to sources familiar with the report.  His actions ‘could have resulted in failed US mission objectives and potential harm to US pilots,’ one source familiar with the report said.  Fox News has reached out to the Pentagon for comment.  A classified version of the report has been handed...

Democrats from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced Wednesday that they have ‘received never-before-seen photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island that are a harrowing look behind Epstein’s closed doors.’ ‘See for yourself. We won’t stop fighting until we end this cover-up and deliver justice for the survivors,’ Oversight Dems wrote on X. ‘This production is in response to an Oversight Committee request to the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice...

The Defense Department inspector general report analyzing the use of messaging app Signal to share classified information, particularly in planning for Houthi strikes in March, will be released on Thursday.  A classified version of the report has been handed over to the Senate Armed Services Committee and an unclassified, redacted version will be made public, a source familiar with the process told Fox News Digital after Axios first reported it.  Trump administration officials used Signal...

The Trump administration is rolling out a new visa-restriction policy in response to a wave of brutal anti-Christian attacks in Nigeria, targeting those accused of orchestrating religious violence against Christians in the West African nation and around the world. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that a new policy in the Immigration and Nationality Act will allow the State Department to deny visas to those ‘who have directed, authorized, significantly supported, participated in, or...