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MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota announced on Thursday that she will not run for reelection next year.

"This job has been the honor of a lifetime. For the rest of my term, I'll work as hard as I can for Minnesotans and our country," Smith said in a video posted to social media.

Smith became the state's 48th lieutenant governor in 2015 and was later appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2017.

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The Education Department made department-wide cuts on Wednesday, including in its civil rights office, according to multiple sources familiar with the move, a day after President Trump said he'd like to see the department eliminated.

The terminations were primarily sent to newer probationary employees hired within the last year, sources said. Layoff letters were emailed to employees Tuesday. The letters informed employees that they could appeal their firing to the Merit Systems Protection Board if they felt they had been terminated "for partisan...

Ukraine advocates are up in arms after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said a return to the Eastern European country's pre-war borders with Russia is "unrealistic."

Hegseth, speaking to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Belgium on Wednesday, said "returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective." He also called for Europe to offer Ukraine security guarantees after the war – not the U.S.

Pro-Ukraine voices accused the secretary of giving up leverage before the start of peace negotiations with Russia.

"Putin is gonna pocket...

A prominent Democrat is arguing that "there isn’t a constitutional crisis" happening right now with the Trump administration.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., reportedly made the remark to HuffPost on Wednesday, the same day White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared that "the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch, where district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority."

Just roughly three weeks back in the...

FIRST ON FOX: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and Sen. Mike Lee are introducing bicameral legislation Thursday that would fast-track President Donald Trump's federal government reorganizations plans through Congress, Fox News Digital has learned.

Comer, R-Ky., will introduce the Reorganizing Government Act of 2025 in the House Thursday, while Lee, R-Utah, will roll it out in the Senate.

The legislation would ensure Congress takes an up or down vote on the plans submitted to Congress in order to "streamline government operations to...

WWE co-founder Linda McMahon is expected to be in the hot seat on Capitol Hill as she faces questions over her education secretary nomination.

Transit officials in Utah have released video showing a driver escape a vehicle moments before a train smashed into it.

Some data and webpages taken down by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies to comply with President Trump's executive order remained offline Thursday, after a judge ordered health officials to put some back online.

Agency officials had scrambled last month to scrub all mentions of "gender" from their websites, taking down anything that could not be easily rewritten.

That prompted a lawsuit by the nonprofit Doctors for America, which secured a federal court ruling to temporarily restore the list of webpages...

Washington — The Senate appears poised to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Thursday, following weeks of questions surrounding whether the controversial nominee would win the Senate's approval.

After all Republicans voted to advance Kennedy's nomination in a procedural vote Wednesday, the final vote is scheduled for Thursday morning.

Kennedy, 71, is a longtime environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist whose family has mythic status in Democratic politics. The nephew of President John...

Senate Democrats railed against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a late-night session Wednesday ahead of his confirmation vote to potentially become the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Kennedy's confirmation vote is expected around 10:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, but Democrat senators spent the evening before condemning former President Donald Trump's HHS pick on a number of issues.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., described Kennedy as "obviously unqualified," "obviously fringe," and as holding views "obviously detrimental to the well-being of the American people."

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not remotely qualified to become the next Secretary of Health and Human Services," Schumer said. "Robert F. Kennedy might be the least qualified people the president could have chosen for the job. It’s almost as if Mr. Kennedy’s beliefs, history and background were tailor-made to be the exact opposite of what the job demands."

The House GOP's proposal for a massive conservative policy overhaul has already gotten a rocky reception from Republican lawmakers, and with their current majority, Republicans will need to vote in near lock-step to pass anything without Democratic support.

"I think it's probably going to have to be modified in some way before it comes to the floor," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., told Fox News Digital.

Other members of the GOP hardliner group also balked at the bill. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., called it a "pathetic" attempt at...

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week as employers continue to retain workers despite resurgent inflation and elevated interest rates

An incredible life moment played out on the W train. ABC News’ Danny New reports.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said President Donald Trump’s move toward negotiations with Russia to end the war with Ukraine was "no betrayal" during a visit to NATO headquarters in Belgium on Thursday.

Hegseth replied to a reporter’s question about the U.S. potentially betraying Ukraine after Trump had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin about beginning to negotiate peace without Kyiv’s full involvement.

"There is no betrayal there," Hegseth told reporters. "There is a recognition that the whole world and the United States is...

The next hostage-prisoner exchange is set to take place Saturday, as previously agreed in the current ceasefire deal.