General Politics

FIRST ON FOX: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said former President Joe Biden's administration was aware of "very sexually explicit, highly inappropriate and unprofessional chatter" happening on internal agency messaging boards across national intelligence entities for years, but they allowed it to go on.

"I've had whistleblowers come forward just in the last few days who work in the [National Security Agency] and who said, ‘Hey, we saw this, and we reported it through official channels under the Biden administration,’" she told Fox...

The U.S. Coast Guard was unable to "consistently" stop drug smugglers during the Biden administration, with vessels unavailable for a combined total of 2,000 days over a three-year period, according to a new report.

The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report found that the Coast Guard "was not able to consistently interdict non-commercial vessels smuggling drugs into the U.S." from fiscal years 2021 through 2023.

The audit looked at the Coast Guard’s ability to stop drug trafficking across 95,000 miles of coastal waters and more...

A Republican congressman wants to create a new $250 U.S. dollar bill featuring Donald Trump’s face, but the proposal faces an immediate roadblock.

U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, on Tuesday said that he was drafting legislation to "direct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring Donald J. Trump."

The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing — or BEP, which operates within the U.S. Department of Treasury — designs and prints paper U.S. currency. U.S. Mint handles the coins.

"Most valuable bill for most valuable...

A large majority of Americans say their incomes aren't keeping pace with inflation, as they report prices around them either rising or staying the same. There's wide concern about the ability to save or buy extras.

As has been the case for years, prices drive so much of Americans' larger views: they say this factors the most into their assessment of the overall economy — which most continue to say is bad. And then among those who say their own finances aren't good, prices are the top reason why.

This comes amid other economic indicators out lately...

Author and retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman discusses his new book, "The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine."

President Trump has rolled back constraints on American commanders to authorize airstrikes and special operation raids outside conventional battlefields, broadening the range of people who can be targeted, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the policy shift.

The quiet but seismic recalibration dismantles Biden-era mandates and signals a return to more aggressive counterterrorism policies Trump first instituted in his first term.

During his first overseas trip earlier this month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a meeting with senior...

House Republican leaders were preparing for defeat Tuesday night when they were forced to call off a vote on a resolution intended to serve as a framework for a massive bill to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Minutes later, however, a stunning about-face brought lawmakers sprinting back to the nearly empty House chamber. GOP leaders celebrated a narrow victory soon afterward, with the resolution being adopted in a 217-to-215 vote, with just one Republican voting against it.

It was a stark departure from the situation hours earlier when...

FIRST ON FOX: Deterring China is a top priority in Congress for the House's number four Republican.

Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain, GOP conference chairwoman, is putting forth legislation that would expose the assets of top CCP officials and bar them from using U.S. banking systems if China chooses to invade Taiwan.

Her bill would require the Treasury secretary to unleash details about illegal assets held by Chinese officials and "expose all the players" to show where their money is coming from to the public.

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said that Europeans complaining about not carrying more weight in negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine need to either step up their defense spending or "shut up."

Crenshaw said in Politico’s "Power Play" podcast on Thursday that Europeans haven’t "earned a seat" at the negotiating table and won’t — unless they step up and place 50,000 troops on the border of Poland to bolster NATO and deter Russia.

"Unless you’re willing to put troops on the ground and increase the leverage for the West … unless you’re willing...

FIRST ON FOX: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds in recent years while doling out hefty salaries to its top brass and bankrolling a variety of left-wing initiatives.

NASEM, which the New York Times reported in 2023 derives 70% of its budget from federal funds, received $200,616,000 in taxpayer funding from grants and contracts in 2023, according to its own Treasurer’s Report.

That budget includes several salaries for top-level positions at NASEM that exceed...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the rare earth minerals deal he's confident Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign during their Friday visit will pave the way for the U.S. to become a partner with Ukraine in developing resources like oil and gas.

As part of negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine War, the Trump administration is angling for Zelenskyy to sign an agreement that would allow the U.S. access to Ukraine’s minerals in exchange for support the U.S. has provided the country since Russia's invasion in 2022. Congress has...

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For Kaye Peterson, 67, the expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage during Covid-19 was a godsend.

Peterson, who has Type 1 diabetes and lives in an assisted living facility, no longer drives, so she depends on extended family when she needs in-person appointments with specialists who are roughly an hour away from her home in Lebanon, Kentucky. But for routine primary care, she simply uses her iPhone.

Soon that may no longer be possible. On March 31, Medicare telehealth “flexibilities” established during the Covid-19 pandemic are set to expire...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of well-established vaccines, said Wednesday that his department is tracking an outbreak of measles that has infected more than 100 people and killed a child in Texas. But he played down the consequence of the resurgence — 25 years after the disease had been thought to have been eradicated in the U.S.

"We're following the measles epidemic every day," Kennedy said during President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting since being sworn in Jan. 20. “Incidentally, there have...