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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) sat down with Fox News Digital to address a barrage of attacks from Democrats and the media as he heads toward his Senate confirmation.

Paul Ingrassia, a Cornell Law School graduate from Long Island, New York, was nominated by President Trump at the end of May to lead OSC, a nonpartisan, independent agency mainly responsible for investigating and protecting federal whistle-blowers, and enforcing the Hatch Act, which restricts federal employees from using...

President Donald Trump installed two massive 88-foot-tall American flags on either side of the White House this summer in a patriotic endeavor that did not cost U.S. taxpayers a cent.

"President Trump personally paid to install two big, beautiful American Flags to wave proudly over the White House for years to come. This is just one of many projects President Trump selflessly paid for to make the White House even more patriotic and beautiful," White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital on Thursday.

The flagpoles were estimated to...

GREENBELT, MD. – A federal judge will hear from a top Homeland Security official Thursday as she weighs next steps in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant erroneously deported from the U.S. and now central to a legal fight over Trump’s presidential powers.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Trump administration on Monday to produce a government witness "with personal knowledge" about the administration’s plans for Abrego Garcia, who she said will be expected to testify, under oath, about the "who, what, where, and when"...

FIRST ON FOX: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., appears to be shooting down a request by a key player in the former Biden administration to suspend his probe into whether ex-President Joe Biden’s top allies "covered up" evidence of his mental and physical decline.

Former White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor’s attorneys released a statement after his appearance before House investigators on Wednesday, calling for Comer’s probe to pause while a parallel federal investigation was ongoing.

Comer told Fox News Digital it was...

The discredited document at the center of the criminal investigations into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey was used to open the original Trump–Russia probe in 2016 and used to brief then-President-elect Donald Trump, despite top Obama-era intelligence officials knowing it was filled with unverified "internet rumor."

The "Steele dossier," as it's called, was authored by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. It was funded by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee...

The prototype of the most famous bag in fashion, made for Jane Birkin in 1985, smashes auction records.

Ukraine is in danger of being overwhelmed by deadly strikes as Russia sends in swarms of drones.

The outcome of the vote was not a surprise - but the fact it came about at all was not a positive signal for von der Leyen.

Washington — During President Trump's first term, an Ohio company was admonished by Republicans and Democrats in Congress after an audit claimed it made millions in excess profit from federal defense contracts.

Facing bipartisan frustration, TransDigm Group Inc. eventually of its own accord paid the money back. Yet after another review in 2021 outlined similar concerns, the company did not voluntarily refund millions of dollars in question. Since then, campaign finance records show the company's CEO Kevin Stein has donated to candidates from both...

A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday certified a class action lawsuit including all children who will be affected by President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship and issued a preliminary injunction blocking it.

Judge Joseph LaPlante announced his decision after an hour-long hearing and issued a written order soon after. The order includes a seven-day stay to allow for appeal.

The class is slightly narrower than that sought by the plaintiffs, who originally included parents as plaintiffs.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf...

A pause on some U.S. weapons shipments to Ukraine has eased and the arms are flowing again, but not fast enough to stop Russia's relentless and deadly aerial assault.

For the second night in a row, Russia launched hundreds of drones and more than a dozen missiles at Ukraine, including a heavy assault on the capital Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday. Two people were killed and 13 more were wounded as fires sprung up in at least five districts around the city, according to Zelenskyy, quoting emergency officials.

Residents fled to...

An appeals court has reversed the conviction of a pro-Trump influencer charged with spreading false information on social media to suppress Democratic voter turnout during the 2016 election, voiding conspiracy charges and a monthslong federal prison sentence handed down by a jury in Brooklyn, New York.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on Wednesday unanimously voided the conviction of Douglass Mackey on federal conspiracy charges and remanded the case back to the U.S. Court in the Eastern District of New York to enter a new judgment of...

A federal judge in New Hampshire blocked President Donald Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship and granted nationwide class certification status to all infants impacted by the order on Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante said that he will issue a written ruling by the end of the day further explaining his decision. The injunction also narrows down the scope of the class to infants, removing parents from the case.

In his order, LaPlante ruled that deprivation of citizenship, as held by the 14th Amendment, and changes in...

FIRST ON FOX: The House of Representatives is rolling out bipartisan legislation later on Thursday that will mark a major shift in the world of college sports, particularly the compensation of student athletes, Fox News Digital has learned.

The bill would codify the right for student athletes to get paid for the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL), while mandating that colleges and universities also provide them with "comprehensive" academic, career counseling, and medical support, according to text obtained by Fox News Digital.

NIL...

President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama chatted about golf during a viral moment of bipartisanship during former President Jimmy Carter's funeral in January, just days before Trump's return to the Oval Office, a new book detailing the unprecedented 2024 election cycle reported.

Trump and Obama were seen smiling and quietly chatting with one another in the pews of the Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9, 2025, in a moment that spread like wildfire on social media as Americans sounded off with speculation over what the pair of...