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Mayor Eric Adams may have dodged a legal bullet when the Trump Justice Department announced plans to pause his criminal prosecution. But the decision in Washington, D.C., does not block local NYC district attorneys from seeking their own corruption charges, if they so wished.

“I think there are theories a local prosecutor could clearly pursue based on what is in the public record,” said Daniel Horwitz, a former Manhattan prosecutor who now specializes in white collar defense and government/regulatory investigations. “I think that any prosecutor, any...

Apple has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps after an order by President Donald Trump was made official by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System

The White House has fired the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Fox News has learned.

USAID Inspector General Paul Martin was fired Tuesday, though rather than coming from USAID acting administrator and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the firing reportedly came from the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.

The dismissal comes days after the USAID inspector general published a report that was critical of the Trump administration’s pause on aid.

It also comes a day after USAID warned that the Trump...

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Tuesday that some Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) employees who worked on "mis-, dis-, and malinformation" were put on administrative leave.

In a statement to Scripps News, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote CISA needs to "refocus on its mission," starting with election security.

"The agency is undertaking an evaluation of how it has executed its election security mission with a particular focus on any work related to mis-, dis-, and malinformation," according to...

FIRST ON FOX: Three leaders at the

The oil giant faces allegations it ignored warnings that a clean-up scheme was beset by corruption.

The bank ditches a policy that stopped it acting on flotations for firms with an all male, all white board.

The former Spanish football federation tells a court he is "absolutely sure" the kiss was consensual.

The author says he felt like he was lying in "a lake of blood" after he was attacked on stage in New York state.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has sent a letter to the Justice Department Inspector General accusing Kash Patel, President Trump's pick for FBI director, of secretly orchestrating the firings of FBI officials, a day after telling the committee under oath that he was not aware of any plan to do so.

“If these allegations are true, Mr. Patel may have perjured himself before the Senate Judiciary Committee,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrote.

Durbin said he has spoken to whistleblowers who told him that Patel has been relaying...

The White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, a day after his office warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID had made it all but impossible to monitor $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian funds.

The White House gave no reason for the firing of Inspector General Paul Martin, one of the officials said. The officials were familiar with the dismissal but not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Inspectors general are...

The country of Jordan is about 300 miles from the Gaza Strip, but Tuesday in the Oval Office, Jordan's leader King Abdullah was right in the middle of the Gaza Strip's future. President Trump reiterated that the U.S. will take over the territory, the Palestinians aren't coming back and that countries in the region will foot the bill for the operation. Weijia Jiang has been following the developments.

President Donald Trump has found an ally in the Senate, at least on his plan to stop creating new pennies.

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., came out in support of Trump's latest proposal on Tuesday, calling it a "common sense move."

The Democrat represents a battleground state that both she and Trump won in 2024.

SCOOP: TRUMP BUDGET CHIEF VOUGHT TELLS GOP SENATORS $175B NEEDED 'IMMEDIATELY' FOR BORDER SECURITY

Over the weekend, Trump announced that he "instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies."

"For far too long, the...

Despite not being the president, Elon Musk stands accused of usurping three presidential powers through his Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts to cut costs and downsize the scope of the federal government.

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., appeared Sunday on MSNBC's "The Weekend," and he was asked if Republicans have joined him and other Democrats to back the "Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act," which was introduced to rein in DOGE, the cost-cutting agency that has targeted certain government programs.

"At this point, they're either out...

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-House Dems organize rapid response task force and litigation group to combat Trump agenda

-$1,300 coffee cups, 8,000% overpay for soap dispensers show waste as DOGE locks in on Pentagon

-Noem, Hegseth and Bondi plead with Congress for border money amid large-scale deportations

The Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that "four employees are being fired today...