Andrus Whitewing

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to halt a lower court order that required six federal agencies to rehire more than 16,000 probationary workers who had been fired.

The high court granted a request for emergency relief from the Trump administration, which sought to move forward with its efforts to drastically scale back the size of the federal government as legal proceedings continue. In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court said the injunction issued by the district court in mid-March "was based solely on the allegations of the nine...

FIRST ON FOX: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be on Capitol Hill again on Wednesday to meet with a key Republican caucus, Fox News Digital has learned.

A source familiar with the planning told Fox News Digital that Bessent is among the speakers at the Republican Study Committee's weekly lunch on Wednesday. Discussions are likely to focus on tariffs and the budget reconciliation process, the source anticipated. It comes as House Republicans wrestle with a way forward on both fronts.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the Trump administration and upheld the mass firing of tens of thousands of probationary federal employees, ruling that the administration has the authority to dismiss workers across roughly a dozen government agencies.

The majority of the high court ruled that the plaintiffs, nine non-profit organizations who had sued to reinstate the employees, lacked standing to sue.

"The District Court’s injunction was based solely on the allegations of the nine non-profit-organization plaintiffs in this case. But under...

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Mexican national who had previously been deported after a conviction of deliberate homicide.

Agents from ICE Dallas Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Fugitive Operations and ERO Special Response arrested 53-year-old Carlos Ambriz near his residence in Oklahoma on March 25, with a Monday ICE release noting that he was unlawfully in the country and had previously been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the deliberate homicide of his own child.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries railed against a budget bill that would advance President Donald Trump's agenda as legislation that would take food from the mouths of babies in order to enrich billionaire "puppet masters."

"These MAGA extremists are trying to jam a reckless budget down the throat of the American people," Jeffries said during a Monday press conference. "Take away health care from the American people. Strip away veterans benefits from the American people. And hurt nutritional assistance and literally take food out of the mouths...

China is pushing back Tuesday after Vice President JD Vance told Fox News last week that the U.S. borrows "money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture."

Vance, during an interview with "Fox & Friends," made the remark while speaking about the effects of the Trump administration’s tariffs.

"I think it's useful for all of us to step back and ask us, ask ourselves, what is the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is fundamentally, it's based on two principles -- incurring a huge...

NEWFIELDS, N.H. - Former Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is passing on a 2026 run for the Senate in the key swing state of

President Zelensky says two soldiers were captured while fighting in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

Peter Navarro had described Musk's electric car company as a "car assembler" rather than manufacturer.

The sharp rhetoric comes as Donald Trump's tariffs fuel trade tensions between the US and China.

The government initially denied entry to the man, saying he was Congolese, not South Sudanese.

The Trump administration has begun revoking the legal status of migrants who entered the U.S. under a Biden administration process powered by a smartphone app formerly known as CBP One, instructing them to leave the country immediately or face arrest and deportation.

During the Biden administration, more than 900,000 migrants entered the U.S. at official entry points along the southern border after securing appointments through CBP One. They were typically given notices to appear in immigration court, to begin the asylum process, as well as a...

FIRST ON FOX: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will announce new policy changes Tuesday prohibiting law firms which have diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from working with the attorney general's office as outside counsel.

"I am deeply troubled that these discriminatory practices have been embraced and amplified by many of our nation’s law firms," Uthmeier wrote in the policy memo. "If we are truly committed to the rule of law, then we must be truly committed to equal justice under law. DEI and ESG practices flout those...

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk sparred on social media Tuesday with White House Senior Counselor Peter Navarro, after Navarro said in an interview Monday that Tesla was a car "assembler" rather than a manufacturer.

"Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks," Musk said in an X post on Tuesday.

"Navarro is truly a moron," Musk said in a separate post. "What he says here is demonstrably false."

Both Navarro and Musk are two of Trump’s closest advisors, and Navarro previously served in Trump's first...

New acting Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. James Kilby said he regrets the Navy’s reliance on expensive, high-powered missiles to counter the Houthi threat in the Red Sea and pledged to push for cheaper, more efficient solutions.

Speaking at the Sea Air Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Kilby said he was "not concerned" about the Navy’s ability to protect its people – such as the 350 sailors aboard the USS Carney missile destroyer – or its ability to safeguard commercial shipping.

He is concerned, however, about "not having better...