The Trump administration has ended funding for research that involves the use of aborted fetal tissue, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital. The spokesperson said effective immediately, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds ‘will no longer be used for research that involves the fetal tissue of aborted babies.’ This comes a day before the March for Life. In an announcement of the policy change, NIH said the...
Former special counsel Jack Smith’s hearing on Capitol Hill kicked off with a reminder from Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, of the controversial 2022 raid of then-former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. Jordan revealed that Barron Trump’s room was among the areas searched. Smith appeared in a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday in which he was questioned about his prosecutions of Trump. He previously testified about the investigations in a closed-door deposition. ‘And then...
The House of Representatives is moving to jam the Senate by attaching a repeal of the upper chamber’s Arctic Frost repayment measure to a funding bill that’s key to averting a partial government shutdown. A Senate GOP-led measure allowing Republicans in the upper chamber to sue the federal government for up to $500,000 if their phone records were seized by ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith is still causing heartburn in the House. House lawmakers voted unanimously...
Democrats hold a slight advantage heading into the midterm elections in a new poll from The New York Times and Siena University. The poll found that 48% of registered voters would support a Democratic candidate if the midterm elections were held today, compared to just 43% for a Republican candidate. The poll also showed skepticism toward President Donald Trump’s policies, with 47% of registered voters saying they ‘strongly disapprove’ of how he is handling his...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed that President Donald Trump has been exhibiting ‘increasingly erratic’ behavior. She made the comment in response to a question from Migrant Insider editor Pablo Manríquez, who asked, ‘How big of a factor is Donald Trump’s cognitive decline, given what we’re seeing at Davos?’ ‘I think that the president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways,’ Ocasio-Cortez replied, according to the video shared on X. ‘I think it is really damning...
The State Department is finalizing an expansion of the Mexico City Policy Friday that will bar U.S. foreign assistance from subsidizing abortion and, in a major broadening, from supporting what the administration calls gender and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, Fox News Digital learned Thursday. The Mexico City Policy is a Reagan-era U.S. rule that conditions foreign aid on recipient groups certifying they will not provide or promote abortion as a method of family...
Live Action, a pro-life organization, is demanding that the Trump administration take action on the distribution of and reporting on mifepristone, often colloquially called ‘the abortion pill.’ The group is holding a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday to discuss concerns surrounding the abortion drug, as well as a new investigative video from Live Action that the group says documents ‘the dangerous real-world distribution of this drug by Planned Parenthood and affiliated providers.’ The...
The White House fully supports efforts on Capitol Hill to impeach federal judges who have gone ‘totally rogue’ with partisan rulings, Fox News Digital learned. A White House official told Fox News Digital that the administration is closely tracking the Senate Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry involving U.S. District Judges James Boasberg, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and Deborah Boardman, of the U.S. District Court in Maryland, as Republican lawmakers openly...
Preply has raised $150 million in a Series D funding round led by WestCap, valuing the global language learning marketplace at $1.2 billion and marking its transition into unicorn territory. The round, for which Goldman Sachs International acted as sole placement agent, will be used to accelerate product development, expand Preply’s AI and data capabilities and fuel international growth as the company seeks to reshape education through personalised, tutor-led learning supported by artificial intelligence. Founded...
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is insisting that Denmark will not negotiate on its sovereignty of Greenland despite President Donald Trump announcing a ‘framework’ of a deal for the U.S. to purchase the Arctic territory has been reached. In a statement, she indicated that the nation is open to discussions with allies as long as the engagement respects Denmark’s ‘territorial integrity.’ ‘Security in the Arctic is a matter for the entire NATO alliance. Therefore, it...
