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After an 18-hour surgery to repair his left artery, Matthew got to celebrate his birthday at home doing what he loves best: playing his guitar and his viola.

DOGE claims that so far its cuts have saved the public $55 billion in federal funds -- but that's not yet possible to verify based on the records that DOGE has disclosed.

The Trump administration revised federal acquisition rules this week requiring the government to stop considering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) when awarding contracts. This change aligns with the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) broader efforts to fundamentally transform federal operations.

The General Services Administration (GSA) on Tuesday announced changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) that are meant to align with the president's executive order aimed at restoring meritocracy and ending discrimination in the...

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-Former migrant shelter director reveals he was attacked after blowing whistle on sexual abuse

-Task force to expose 'federal secrets' on JFK assassination, Epstein, UFOs packed with GOP rebels

-Border arrests hit lowest mark since last time Trump was in office, White House says

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) still employs more people than it...

At least $241 million in taxpayer funds was spent on transgender surgeries and animal experiments, prompting a congressional lawmaker to question the rationale behind the expenditures.

Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., on Wednesday, said spending millions on such treatments was "insane, right?"

During a Feb. 6 House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing titled: "Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty," earlier this month, Justin Goodman of the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) watchdog group said the federal...

The acting head of the Trump administration's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is warning U.S. employers that there will be legal and financial consequences for "anti-American bias" against American workers during hiring.

The EEOC is a federal agency charged with enforcing laws against job discrimination and harassment.

Andrea Lucas, acting EEOC chair, issued a stark warning on Wednesday in which she put employers "on notice" and said she will be prioritizing protecting American workers from illegal discrimination.

ACTIVISTS IN...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has come under intense scrutiny for traveling to Africa last month amid a botched fire response, is deflecting blame on the controversial trip.

"I felt absolutely terrible not being here for my city," Bass, a Democrat, told a Fox 11 Los Angeles reporter in a recent interview.

"Would I say it was a mistake, absolutely. The idea that I was not present was very painful," she added, saying that proper "preparation didn't happen" to notify her ahead of the Ghana trip.

LA'S RICH AND FAMOUS MADE 'ODD REQUEST' OF PRIVATE...

Republican lawmakers are backing President Donald Trump’s insistence that Ukraine hold elections, even if they don’t share his belief that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a "dictator."

"I think you have to give them some space… There is a negotiation going on," said Sen. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.

Trump on Tuesday night said Ukraine "never should have started" the war, and doubled down by calling Zelenskyy a "dictator" because Ukraine hasn’t held elections since Russia invaded the country in 2022.

"Ukraine clearly did not start this...

An immigration judge appointed by former President Joe Biden is lashing out after being fired by President Donald Trump.

"It was political," Judge Kerry Doyle said, according to a report from WGBH.

Doyle, who worked in Massachusetts, was one of more than 20 immigration judges fired in recent days without explanation, with Doyle saying she received an email from the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) last week that read the agency had "determined that retaining" her was "not in the best interest of the agency."

Administrative judges like...

Some key pro-life activists are raising ethical questions about President Donald Trump's executive order to expand access to pricey in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, arguing the technology "is not pro-life" because some embryos "are destroyed" in the process.

"IVF doesn’t address the root causes of the infertility health crisis in America," Live Action founder Lila Rose wrote on X. "It’s a Big Pharma bandaid, with major ethical issues, like millions of frozen & destroyed embryos. If we want to Make America Healthy Again, we should invest in...

President Donald Trump this week falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war that has cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives, causing outrage and alarm in a country that has spent nearly three years fighting back a much larger Russian military.

Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “ a dictator without elections” and claimed his support among voters was near rock-bottom.

Zelenskyy said Wednesday that the disinformation is coming from Russia, and some of what Trump has said does echo Russia's own narrative of the conflict.

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Elon Musk’s cost-cutting and fraud-finding apparatus, the Department of Government Efficiency, came out swinging in recent days.

The result? Two stunning strikeouts.

A series of announcements by DOGE as well as claims by Musk and President Donald Trump about the agency’s efforts have crumbled under scrutiny even as they’re broadly repeated by conservative pundits, sympathetic media and the White House.

Two of the most notable claims — around Social Security fraud and $8 billion savings found in a Department of Homeland Security contract — have...

The Trump administration is falsely claiming that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security payments.

Over the past few days, President Donald Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk have said on social media and in press briefings that people who are 100, 200 and even 300 years old are improperly getting benefits — a “HUGE problem,” Musk wrote, as his Department of Government Efficiency digs into federal agencies to root out waste, fraud and abuse.

It is true that improper payments have been made, including...

Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump's administration as the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency fire both new and career workers, tell agency leaders to plan for “large-scale reductions in force" and freeze trillions of dollars in federal grant funds.

It is affecting more than just the national capital region, home to about 20% of the 2.4 million members of the civilian federal workforce, which does not include military personnel and postal workers. More...

The heads of four major labor unions are calling on President Donald Trump to boost American shipbuilding and enforce tariffs and other “strong penalties” against China for its increasing dominance