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Linda McMahon’s nomination to serve as President Donald Trump’s education secretary has advanced out of a Senate committee, bringing her closer to leading an agency the Republican president wants to abolish

Washington — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on Wednesday urged her colleagues in Congress to reassert their constitutional authority and stand up to President Trump if he withholds funding approved by lawmakers through his mass firings of federal workers or severe cuts to federal agencies.

"If the president, for instance, should should seek to withhold federal funding that has already been authorized and appropriated, that violates the Budget Act, it violates the Impoundment Act and it cannot be allowed to stand. And so, if we in Congress...

Democrats on the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee claimed their GOP counterparts would "rue the day" they confirm FBI Director nominee Kash Patel, who is slated for a final vote Thursday afternoon and is expected to be approved.

"There's no question here he is unqualified and unprepared," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said outside the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning.

"The only question is whether my Republican colleagues will do the right thing."

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The consideration of Linda McMahon to run the Department of Education (DOED) will head to a full Senate vote after the Trump nominee advanced in a heavyweight decision on Thursday.

McMahon testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee during her confirmation hearing last week, when she was grilled on recent spending cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), potentially dismantling the DOED and Title IX.

"We need a strong leader at the department who will get our education system back on track," Sen. Bill...

The firm wanted to claim protection under copyright law, to stop rivals selling copycat versions of its shoes.

Souleymane Cissé has died aged 84 after a career that spanned more than 50 years.

No injuries were reported among passengers of the train, which derailed after striking the elephants.

Yoon Suk Yeol's most fanatic followers believe the opposition wants to turn South Korea into a communist country.

As President Donald Trump approaches the first-month mark in his second term, he has moved with dizzying speed and blunt force to reorder American social and political norms and the economy while redefining the U.S. role in the world.

At the same time, he has empowered Elon Musk, an unelected, South African-born billionaire, to help engineer the firing of thousands of federal employees and potentially shutter entire agencies created by Congress.

Those efforts have largely overshadowed Trump's crackdowns on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border...

If confirmed, Patel will be the 18th Cabinet official approved by lawmakers since President Donald Trump’s inauguration one month ago.

Washington — The Senate is set to vote Thursday on Kash Patel's nomination to serve as director of the FBI, with Republicans poised to confirm a key ally of President Trump amid warnings from Democrats that he could use the bureau to target the president's perceived political enemies.

FBI directors are appointed to 10-year terms but can be removed by the president. Chris Wray, whom the president appointed in 2017, resigned at the end of the Biden administration after Mr. Trump pledged to fire him.

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Patel's...

As President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency push to slash spending, Republican allies have pointed to a White House program from 30 years ago as akin to DOGE's efforts.

Over 30 years ago, Vice President Al Gore was tasked by Democratic President Bill Clinton to cut waste, red tape and streamline the bureaucracy to "create a government that works better and costs less."

The "reinventing government" program cut nearly half a million federal jobs and dispensed with a massive number of regulations. But according to the...

One month into President Donald Trump's second term in the White House, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is giving Trump a thumbs up for "moving fast and quick."

Trump has kept up a frenetic pace during his opening weeks back in the White House, with an avalanche of executive orders and actions. His muscular moves - applauded by Republicans and criticized by Democrats - have pushed the limits of executive power as the president has quickly put his stamp on the federal government.

"It's good to see somebody that just brings common sense policy back to the...

Whether their fans are cheering "Roll Tide," "War Eagle," "Go Dawgs" or even "Texas, Fight!", lawmakers across the Deep South are working on legislation to exempt student-athletes’ name-image-likeness (NIL) income from taxation.

Proponents say the move will boost recruitment abilities for their schools – thereby bringing in the needed financial boost to academics – and also level the playing field for colleges that are not in states which have no income tax in general.

In Alabama, the state lawmaker representing Auburn told Fox News Digital he’s...

FIRST ON FOX: An influential conservative group is throwing its weight behind Elbridge Colby’s nomination to serve in a top position at the Defense Department.

The Heritage Foundation said, in a memo obtained by Fox News Digital, that Colby is "without question the most influential defense policy thinker in over twenty years."

"For far too long, the United States has employed the Department of Defense – and the men and women of the U.S. military – to engage in activities that were not central to American interests," the letter read.

"From...