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President Donald Trump announced at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that he will sign an executive order instructing the Justice Department to create a new task force to "eradicate anti-Christian bias."

Trump praised new Attorney General Pam Bondi as a "great person," saying she would lead the new task force.

"About time, right? Anti-Christian bias. Yeah, I never heard of that one before, right? But there is," Trump said. "The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian...

Congressional allies of President Donald Trump have rallied around his and Elon Musk's efforts to roll back the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Now, they're urging the administration to set its sights on another core agency.

"I think the conversation about the Department of Education getting drastically cut is the right conversation," Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital. "I trust the Tennessee General Assembly to craft curriculums for Tennessee students more than I do the California or the D.C. legislative bodies. And...

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from obtaining access to certain Treasury Department payment records.

Treasury officials "will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service," Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a temporary restraining order.

That program handles an estimated 90% of federal payments.

The order comes after the Justice Department on Wednesday agreed in a proposed court order to limit access...

The Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced investigations into four medical schools over alleged antisemitic incidents during their 2024 commencement ceremonies.

While HHS did not identify the schools subjected to these investigations, the Wall Street Journal reported that Harvard, Columbia, Brown and Johns Hopkins medical schools were the targets. The investigations will come after a school year riddled with what critics have described as antisemitic incidents after Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 attack on...

The Department of Defense (DOD) confirmed the arrival of the first 10 "high threat" illegal migrant criminals to the U.S.'s most secure prison – the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp – in Cuba, all of whom are members of the

The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago for allegedly interfering with federal immigration enforcement – the latest escalation in the battle between the Trump administration and Democrat-led cities and states over the administration's mass deportation operation.

The lawsuit filed in Illinois, against Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and others, claimed that several state and local laws are "designed to and in fact interfere with and discriminate against the...

Democrats succeeded Thursday in delaying a committee vote to advance the confirmation of FBI director nominee Kash Patel until next week at least.

The vote, which was slated to happen at 10:15 on Thursday, was pushed to next week after Senate Democrats demanded a second hearing from the Trump-aligned former Defense Department official, citing concerns about his previous remarks and candor.

In a statement Tuesday night, Grassley said attempts by top Judiciary Democrat Dick Durbin, Ill., and others to force Patel to testify again were "baseless" as...

EXCLUSIVE: A group of House Republicans is pushing for Congress to reroute foreign aid funding frozen by President Donald Trump into enhanced deportation efforts of illegal immigrants in the U.S.

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is unveiling his Restoring American Sovereignty Act on Thursday, backed by fellow House Freedom Caucus members Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.

"Americans were put last at nearly every turn during the Biden administration. This was evidenced by the criminal crossing crisis at our southern border and the wasteful...

The Trump administration plans to seize a second plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ’s government that is currently in the Dominican Republic.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio intends to announce the seizure on Thursday during a visit to Santo Domingo, the last stop of his five-nation tour of Latin America, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter and a State Department document obtained by The Associated Press.

Carrying out the seizure required that Rubio sign off on a foreign aid freeze waiver request to pay...

Federal employees in the D.C. area and across the country have until the end of Thursday to decide whether to take what the Trump administration calls its “deferred resignation” offer, which is part of a sweeping effort to eliminate government jobs.

Labor unions, Democrats and others warn that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk may not hold up their end of the “fork in the road” plan to push out workers.

About 2 million federal employees received an email on Jan. 28, 10 days ago, saying they could agree to leave their jobs and receive about eight...

Newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi has established a "Weaponization Working Group" to review the "politicized" actions of those who investigated President Trump.

Panama City — Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday denied the U.S. State Department's claim that his country had reached a deal to allow U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal for free.

Mulino said he had told U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could neither set the fees to transit the canal nor exempt anyone from them and that he was surprised by the U.S. State Department's statement suggesting otherwise late Wednesday.

"I completely reject that statement yesterday," Mulino said during his weekly press...

The Senate Judiciary Committee made a surprise announcement Thursday that its vote to advance Kash Patel's FBI nomination has been held over.

Lawmakers propose new legislation to ban DeepSeek from federal devices

Washington — The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on the confirmation of Russ Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, after Democrats held the floor overnight to oppose his confirmation.

Vought, 48, served as OMB director toward the end of President Trump's first term after serving as deputy OMB director and acting director. He was involved in writing the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 and worked as policy director for the 2024 Republican National Committee's platform committee.

Overnight, more than a dozen Senate Democrats...