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Meta agrees to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump.

President Trump has signed settlement papers that are expected to require Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to pay roughly $25 million to resolve a 2021 lawsuit Trump brought against the social media giant, according to sources familiar with the agreement.

The lawsuit stemmed from Meta's suspension of his accounts after the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Both President Trump and his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, have claimed that the administration has stopped a plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza as part of the new administration's reevaluation of federal funding.

"We identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas," he said Wednesday. "They've used them as a method of making bombs."

The U.S. Department of State said in 2021 that Hamas and other militant groups have a history of launching incendiary balloons toward Israel. Previous photos taken by The...

Bob Menendez, 71, was found guilty on all 16 counts in his federal trial, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to be convicted of acting as a foreign agent.

NEW YORK - Senior Justice Department officials have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a source familiar with the discussions confirmed to CBS News.

Adams was indicted on five counts of corruption in September, including bribery, conspiracy and campaign finance violations. He has pleaded not guilty on those counts. If he is found guilty, the charges could result in up to 45 years in prison.

The Justice Department did not comment. CBS...

President Trump on Wednesday announced he's signing an executive order instructing the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prep Guantanamo Bay for use as a migrant detention facility for "the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

The president made the announcement from the White House before he signed the Laken Riley Act, a new law that expands the mandatory detention of migrants to include noncitizens who are charged with burglary, larceny, theft or shoplifting. The law is named after a 22-year-old nursing...

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is going all in for President Donald Trump's controversial FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, despite being considered a wildcard vote ahead of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's nomination.

In a significant show of support, Tillis will introduce Patel in the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing Thursday morning. His speech will be short and sweet, Tillis explained.

"I will be sharing about 700 words on his background, his upbringing, his work as a prosecutor, his work in the...

The latest confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees were packed with fiery exchanges with lawmakers, interruptions from protesters, and tearjerking testimonies that came as the Senate works to fill out the president's administration.

Several candidates under consideration to head key positions in the Trump administration were grilled by lawmakers during their Senate confirmation hearings on Wednesday.

The hearings were off to a fiery start with the Senate Finance Committee's questioning of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's...

The former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was escorted out of her office Monday after she "refused to comply" with her termination, according to Reuters.

Phyllis Fong, who has worked for the USDA for 22 years, was fired on Friday, but she reportedly told her colleagues that she planned to continue working. At the time, the government employee said she believed that the newly inaugurated Trump administration was acting improperly by firing officials so suddenly.

In an email obtained by Reuters, Fong said the Council...

The Senate voted Wednesday by a 78–20 margin to advance President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department — former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum — for a final confirmation vote.

Burgum appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in mid-January, where he told lawmakers that national security issues and the economy were his two top priorities for leading the agency.

"When energy production is restricted in America, it doesn't reduce demand," Burgum said in his opening statement Jan. 16. "It just shifts production...

President Donald Trump is kicking off his second tour of duty in the White House in a stronger polling position than during the start of his first administration eight years ago, a new national poll indicates.

Forty-six percent of voters say they approve of the job the Republican president is doing so far, with 43% disapproving, according to a Quinnipiac University survey released on Wednesday.

The poll was conducted Jan. 23-27, during Trump's first week back in the White House following his Jan. 20th inauguration.

The president's approval rating...

Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Immigration Services employees will no longer be able to process applications that contain an "X’ marker for gender.

A letter to DHS field operations and USCIS employees obtained by Fox News Digital advises officials to "not make a final decision on any application that would produce a document with an "X" marker, citing President Donald Trump’s January 20 executive order that "prohibits using the ‘X’ marker on our documentation and in our systems."

"This is consistent with President Trump’s...

California Republican Rep. Bill Essayli is seeking answers from liberal Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration about whether bills introduced in the legislature's special session to "Trump-proof" the state would thwart the president's mass deportation program.

During a hearing on Tuesday to discuss two bills that Newsom has proposed, which allocates a $50 million initiative to bolster the state's legal defenses against anticipated federal policies from President Donald Trump's administration, Essayli questioned officials from Newsom's office about...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he would instruct the Pentagon to prepare Guantanamo Bay to detain 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens."

"Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay," Trump said. "Most people don't even know about it."

It was later learned that Trump signed a presidential memorandum, not an executive order, on the matter.

He said there are 30,000 beds at Guantanamo to house the detainees who...

Senators grilled Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump's pick for health secretary, on vaccine comments and his stance on abortion.