Trump orders Smithsonian to replace abstract sculpture with 30-foot George Washington statue

President Trump is giving the Smithsonian days to remove a 1967 modernist sculpture from its flagship history museum and begin honoring George Washington with a towering new statue, a demand that tests the limits of executive power over the nation's most prominent cultural institution. In a series of social media posts late Friday, Trump called […]

FOIA records show Kash Patel directed FBI staff to find and respond to his social media critics

Newly released government records reveal FBI Director Kash Patel instructed his public affairs team to hunt down social media accounts criticizing him and fire back with bureau statistics, raising questions about how the nation's top law enforcement official spends his time. The text exchange, dated February 5, surfaced in the latest batch of records the […]

Gorka claims global jihadi movement losing ground after 1,081 kills and 110 hostage rescues under Trump

President Trump's top counterterrorism adviser says the U.S. has killed more than a thousand jihadists and freed 110 American hostages in eighteen months, numbers he argues no prior administration can match. Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council, laid out the case during a […]

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted drops campaign staffer after Nazi SS profile photo surfaces

Ohio Republican Sen. Jon Husted's campaign cut ties with its 25-year-old political director after reports revealed he had used a photograph of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile picture, raising fresh questions about vetting failures in competitive Senate races. The Washington Post first reported that Stephen B. Woytek, who joined Husted's Senate campaign as […]

Trump draws laughs explaining Melania's absence from Ireland trip as aide Natalie Harp stays close

President Trump got a big reaction from a Dublin audience when he explained why the First Lady skipped his weekend trip to Ireland, but the media's fixation on who did join him says more about the press than the presidency. Trump landed in Dublin at 8:23 a.m. local time after flying overnight from the United […]

Democrats lay groundwork to impeach Pete Hegseth if they flip the House

House Democrats are openly plotting to investigate, subpoena, and potentially impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth the moment they gain control of the chamber, a move that would make him only the third Cabinet secretary in American history to face such proceedings. At least three Democratic members have gone on the record with their intentions, […]

Nashville airport board votes unanimously to honor Dolly Parton with renamed terminal

Nashville's airport authority voted 6-0 to begin renaming Nashville International Airport after the late Dolly Parton, a rare move that drew bipartisan backing from Tennessee's Republican governor and Democratic mayor alike. The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority's Board of Commissioners approved the measure on Friday, launching what officials called the first step in a lengthy process […]

New York City Council moves to strip press passes from Mangione supporters posing as journalists

New York City lawmakers introduced a bill to make it easier to revoke press credentials from Luigi Mangione's fan base after a trio of supporters flashed city-issued passes outside his courthouse hearings, and one compared the man Mangione killed to Osama bin Laden. City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced the legislation Thursday on FOX 5 […]

Coast Guard pulls 15-year-old alive from capsized boat after days in freezing Bering Sea

A teenager survived three days clinging to a capsized fishing boat in Alaska's frigid Bering Sea, but two fellow crew members, including his older brother, did not make it back alive. Fifteen-year-old Derek Parker Aghnaagna was spotted by a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircraft around 10:30 a.m. local time Monday, sitting atop an overturned 18-foot […]

Mike Rogers brands Michigan Senate rival Abdul El-Sayed 'anti-American' over resurfaced 9/11 rhetoric

Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers used the eve of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks to publicly condemn his Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed's past comments equating post-9/11 U.S. military action with the terrorist atrocity itself, calling the rhetoric "anti-American." Rogers delivered the broadside from the stage of the GOP midterm convention in […]