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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Monday a security clearance review that resulted in the revocations of security clearances for dozens of current and former officials.

Gabbard said in a social media post that the security clearance purge targeted top aides to former President Joe Biden, former intelligence personnel who called a 2020 effort to expose information from Hunter Biden's laptop "disinformation," and some who were involved in legal cases against President Trump.

"I have revoked security clearances and barred...

A federal judge in Manhattan ruled that anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil is not to be deported "unless and until the Court orders otherwise," on Monday.

Khalil, who led anti-Israel protests and encampments on Columbia University's campus, was taken into custody on the Upper West Side in New York City on Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that he was a former Columbia graduate student who "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization."

The judge ordered a hearing for Wednesday. This after Khalil's...

Social media company considered letting Beijing control content for access to its lucrative market, BBC told.

A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration from deporting a prominent Palestinian activist who was arrested over the weekend for helping lead protests last spring at Columbia University.

District Judge Jesse Furman scheduled a hearing for Wednesday that all parties are required to attend — and in the meantime, Mahmoud Khalil cannot be deported from the country.

Khalil, who graduated from the university in December, was arrested Saturday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed...

Other Biden officials, lawyers also had their security clearances officially revoked.

A Republican lawmaker is taking a victory lap after the mayor of Chicago reportedly agreed to donate the contents of a "secret gift room" to charity, days after he was grilled about it at a House hearing.

"Just days after I forced corrupt @ChicagosMayor to answer for his secret gift room, he’s making the gifts public. They are now being donated to charity," Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, said on X.

"Chicago is a Sanctuary City that harbors criminal illegal aliens who are terrorizing the American people. Mayor Brandon Johnson has been a major proponent...

FIRST ON FOX: A bipartisan pair of senators are teaming up to pass "commonsense legislation" that ensures the families of former law enforcement officers who are killed in retirement are protected by benefits.

Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., introduced the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, shared first with Fox News Digital, on Monday to amend the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program and make families of former law enforcement officers eligible to receive benefits if the former officer is killed or permanently...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the failed 2024 vice presidential candidate, conducted a postmortem on his 2024 campaign with former Vice President Kamala Harris, determining the Democrats played it too safe during the cycle.

"We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe," Walz told Politico in an interview published Saturday.

He added: "I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls, where (voters) may say, ‘You’re full of s---, I don’t believe in you.' I think there could have been more of that."

Walz joined Harris...

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump is making calls on Monday to potential holdouts on a plan to avoid a government shutdown at the end of this week, a White House official confirmed to Fox News digital.

Three sources have said Trumpworld is making calls to Capitol Hill ahead of the late Tuesday afternoon vote.

Two senior House Republicans said they expected Trump to speak directly with critics of the bill sometime before the vote on Tuesday.

DEMOCRATS PRIVATELY REBUKE PARTY MEMBERS WHO JEERED TRUMP DURING SPEECH TO CONGRESS: REPORT

The House...

Teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten said during a recent podcast appearance that she is fearful President Donald Trump's plans to terminate the Department of Education will mean more funding for school choice vouchers, which she decried as a "tax credit" for wealthy families already sending their kids to private school.

Weingarten's comments came during a podcast interview with Molly Jong-Fast, who spoke with her about the implications of Trump's spending reforms, particularly his plan to terminate the Department of Education. Weingarten stated...

A former Iraqi refugee pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group, according to the Justice Department.

Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi, 28, pleaded guilty to creating and developing logos for ISIS’ media wing, known as the Kalachnikov team, and sending hacking videos and instructions to ISIS members between 2015 and 2020, the Justice Department announced Friday.

He also pleaded guilty to providing stolen credit card information and creating fraudulent identity documents for the designated terrorist...

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital he still believes the bipartisan border bill was necessary to secure the border, despite President Donald Trump achieving record-low border encounters through executive action.

In February, U.S. Border Patrol recorded the lowest monthly total of migrant apprehensions on the U.S. southern border in at least 25 years. There were 8,326 southern border encounters in February 2025, down from 189,913 in February 2024.

"Same law, same opportunities. Obviously, very different applications of the law,"...

On the eve of his 50th day back in office, President Donald Trump is touting that America is "back."

Trump, seven weeks into his second tour of duty in the White House, highlighted in an interview this weekend on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he and his administration were moving "at a very rapid pace."

"50 WINS IN 50 DAYS: President Trump Delivers for Americans," the White House touted in an email release on Monday, as it touted Trump's accomplishments — some of them controversial — since his Jan. 20 inauguration.

But the most recent...

Members of Congress visited Guantanamo Bay last week amid renewed attention on the military base, which is now being used to hold illegal immigrants, including some that may pose an additional security risk.

President Donald Trump is aiming to have up to 30,000 people who are in the United States illegally held at the facility before they face deportation with the goal of using the facility mainly for "the worst criminal aliens threatening the American people," the president previously said.

"Yesterday, I led a Congressional Delegation to...

Russia has previously rejected a temporary ceasefire, calling it an attempt to buy time.