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The cause of the wildfires that swept through part of Long Island, New York, over the weekend is believed to have been a resident making s'mores, police said.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will close several more offices within its agency as part of President Donald Trump's ongoing efforts to downsize the government, the acting administrator Janet Petro informed employees in a memo Monday.

Petro said the "phased reduction in force" is "occurring in advance" of this week's deadline for federal agencies to inform the government of their layoff plans.

"While this will mean making difficult adjustments, we're viewing this as an opportunity to reshape our workforce, ensuring we are...

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Monday that will put states and local jurisdictions in the driver's seat of preparing and responding to disasters, Fox News Digital learned.

"This Order restores state, local, and individual empowerment in disaster preparedness and response, and injects common sense into infrastructure prioritization and strategic investments through risk-informed decisions that make our infrastructure, communities, and economy more resilient to global and dynamic threats and hazards," details...

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel is working "aggressively" to comply ahead of schedule with congressional document requests in an effort to follow through on his commitment for the bureau to provide transparency to the American people, Fox News Digital has learned.

On Friday, the FBI sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee notifying the panel that it was handing over a tranche of documents pursuant to a subpoena from Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

Fox News Digital has learned that the records shared by the FBI included more than 400 pages...

As he runs for New York City mayor, Andrew Cuomo is announcing a slew of public policy proposals.

The former three-term New York governor, who resigned amid multiple scandals in 2021, on Monday unveiled the second plank of his public safety agenda for the nation's most populous city.

"Enough is enough, and we need to pass sensible laws," Cuomo emphasized in a statement.

It's been a week and a half since Cuomo, in a political comeback, announced his candidacy in the race to oust embattled Mayor Eric Adams.

The former governor's entry into an...

With hundreds left dead over the weekend under Syria’s new regime, Greek Foreign Minister Giorigios Gerapetritis warned Europe and the U.S. to "keep a close eye" on the ruling Islamist group that is working to gain acceptance by the West.

Syria contains a sizable population of Orthodox Christians, and Gerapetritis insisted the international community demand religious minorities be included in governance, or else leave sanctions in place.

"All ethnic and religious minorities should be included in the governance, rule of law," he told Fox News...

Sunday's decision sparked violent protests by Calin Georgescu's supporters in the capital Bucharest.

An unexpected nationwide strike by airport workers over pay has caused disruption at major transport hubs.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development, and said he would move the 18% of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department.

Rubio made the announcement in a post on X. It marked one of his relatively few public comments on what has been a historic shift away from U.S. foreign aid and development, executed by Trump political appointees at State and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency...

Washington — Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington.

Lawmakers have until the end of the day on Friday, March 14, to fund the government. But it remains to be seen whether House Republicans will be able to muster the near-unanimous GOP support they'll need to pass the short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution.

Here's what to know about the funding fight:

A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to approve funding or...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is speaking out Monday regarding the Menendez brothers' pursh for resentencing.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., met with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees on Friday who were fired as a result of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) federal workforce reductions.

CFPB has provided over $21 billion in consumer relief, according to the agency's latest data from Dec. 3. 2024. Kaine accused Musk of targeting the CFPB with DOGE cuts for his own gain.

"The fact that the Trump administration would target these guys at the front end of a chainsaw massacre… Why are you going after these consumer protection...

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Carlos Gimenez returned to his homeland of Cuba over the weekend for the first time in 64 years, saying he is now "more determined than ever" to see the island liberated from dictatorship.

Gimenez, R-Fla., the only Cuban-born member of Congress, joined a congressional delegation (CODEL) to the U.S.-managed Guantánamo Bay military base there, and noted the rest of the nation is still run by the iron-fisted communist government that took over when President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959.

The Gimenez family –...

A progressive member of "the Squad" is reportedly planning to hold anti-Trump rallies in red districts in an effort to mobilize voters against the president.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., will organize events in red districts across Pennsylvania and New York to go "on the offense" against President Donald Trump's second term, The Associated Press reported.

The New York rallies come after Trump received 43% of the state's vote in the 2024 election, a 6-percentage-point increase after capturing 37% of the Empire State vote in 2020.

"You...

In a seemingly peculiar bipartisan alliance, conservative House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Congressional Progressive Caucus member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., teamed up to push a measure that would cap credit card interest rates at 10%.

"The annual percentage rate applicable to an extension of credit obtained by use of a credit card may not exceed 10 percentage points, inclusive of all finance charges," the proposal stipulates.

Responding to a post on X that labeled Luna and her left-leaning compatriot...