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A team of congressional women played members of the press in a softball game Wednesday night in an annual event that seeks to set aside partisan divides for a greater cause. Caitlin Huey-Burns has a report on the game.

Dylan Contreras is a high school senior originally from Venezuela who was in the U.S. under a federal program that allows migrants to stay for humanitarian reasons. He was detained in May after attending a routine immigration hearing. Tom Hanson spoke with his mother.

Attorney General Pam Bondi traveled to Alcatraz Island Thursday in the San Francisco Bay to visit the former federal penitentiary as President Trump pushes to have the tourist attraction reopened as a prison. Elizabeth Cook reports.

Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and the TSA announced the end of the rule requiring passengers to take off their shoes during airport security screenings. Could changes also be coming for liquids? Kris Van Cleave reports.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday that President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. Dr. Jon LaPook breaks down what that means.

Despite some claiming they spent money out of their own pockets, several Democrats spent thousands in campaign funds to visit illegal alien and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, according to reporting by the New York Post.

Democrats rallied around Abrego Garcia after they claimed he was wrongly deported by the Trump administration to his home country of El Salvador in March.

Several Democrats, including representatives Maxwell Frost, D-Fla.; Robert Garcia, D-Calif., Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., Maxine Dexter, D-Ore.; and...

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- Hamas losing iron grip on Gaza as US-backed group gets aid to Palestinians in need

- Two Republicans vote against Trump's $9 billion clawback of foreign aid, NPR funding

- AOC talks meeting with Zohran Mamdani, ICE activity in NYC

EXCLUSIVE: An environmental advocacy group accused of trying to manipulate judges organized a years-long, nationwide online forum with jurists to...

Senators are not thrilled with a top White House official's comments that the government funding process should become more partisan, and fear that doing so could erode Congress’ power of the purse.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told reporters during a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast Thursday morning that he believed "the appropriations process has to be less bipartisan."

His sentiment came on the heels of Senate Republicans advancing President Donald Trump’s $9 billion clawback package, which would cancel congressionally...

Washington — House Republican leaders expected to vote Thursday on a package to claw back $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding, but possible amendment votes to force the release of files related to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein stalled movement on President Trump's request.

The House is facing a Friday end-of-day deadline to pass the bill, which is known as a rescissions request, after which the money must be spent as originally intended.

Before a floor vote, the package has to get through the House Rules Committee, where...

PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Thursday's strike on the Holy Family Church in Gaza City was a "mistake".

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday the cancellation of $18.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants for the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3).

The grants were designated by the Biden administration to provide taxpayer funds to various organizations that DHS says are "ideologically driven programs" promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and LGBTQ agendas.

"These cancellations reflect DHS’s commitment to fiscal responsibility and national security," DHS...

A Mexican illegal alien living in Los Angeles was charged with orchestrating her own fake ICE "kidnapping" to generate sympathy and solicit donations, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, 41, a resident of South Los Angeles, was charged with conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers, the DOJ said.

Calderon had been living in the U.S. based on a federal law enforcement parole that expired in 2023. She is in federal custody after she allegedly faked her kidnapping.

This comes after local outlet...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was recently granted access to Medicaid enrollee data, aiding officers tasked with fulfilling the Trump administration's objective of tracking down and deporting illegal immigrants.

Medicaid, which uses taxpayer dollars to provide health insurance to low-income adults and children, has more than 71 million enrollees as of March 2025.

The information shared with ICE will include home addresses and ethnicities, according to a report from The Associated Press.

The agreement, brokered between the Centers for...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took a tour of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay Thursday morning as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

Bondi toured Alcatraz, currently part of the National Park Service, along with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, arriving on a Coast Guard vessel. They were joined by a contingent of administration officials and Secret Service staffers who walked in the chilly bay air among the crumbling buildings, many dating back to the late 19th century.

The...

President Trump "would not recommend" that Attorney General Pam Bondi appoint a special prosecutor to handle the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

Leavitt's remarks came after the president on Wednesday said the controversy over his administration's handling of information from investigations into the late convicted sex offender Epstein is a "hoax" and "bulls***," and lambasted Republicans calling for more transparency as "weaklings." Many of the president's supporters, including House...