Politics

FIRST ON FOX: The State Department has spent nearly $100 million less on travel this year than last amid a wider effort to trim budgets, according to documents exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital. From January to September 2024, the Biden administration State Department spent $306 million on foreign and …

An 88-year-old Democratic congressional delegate for Washington, D.C., was scammed out of more than $4,000 Thursday when suspects showed up at her home claiming to be a “cleaning crew,” Fox News Digital has confirmed. The suspects accessed Eleanor Holmes Norton’s credit card after they were let inside her D.C. home. …

FIRST ON FOX: A former top leader and “lifetime member” of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has been on the payroll of “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., campaign since she first ran for Congress in 2018. Frank Llewellyn, the former director of the largest socialist organization in America and …

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamadani laughed off how his plan to increase taxes on New Yorkers might impact them, suggesting those complaining about his plans are making a mountain out of a mole hill. During an appearance this week on “Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant with Akaash Singh” podcast, Mamdani …

A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the State Department from enforcing an executive order that required Americans to select their gender assigned at birth on new passports.  U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick ruled Tuesday that any individual who needs to renew their passport because it expires within one year, …

President Trump is terminating the head of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, continuing his aggressive moves to reshape the federal government’s cultural institutions. Mr. Trump announced Friday on his Truth Social platform that he was ousting Director Kim Sajet, calling her a “highly partisan person, and a strong supporter …

Washington — NPR on Tuesday sued President Trump and administration officials over an executive order signed earlier this month that seeks to cut federal funding to the news organization and PBS. Filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the suit was brought by NPR and three Colorado-based public …

Washington — The U.S. attorney in charge of the federal investigation into Hunter Biden said Justice Department officials assured him that he would be authorized to bring charges in jurisdictions outside of Delaware, according to a letter to Congress obtained by CBS News.  In his correspondence to Senate Judiciary Ranking …

Washington — Washington state native Taylor Taranto, arrested near former President Barack Obama’s home Thursday with weapons and ammunition in his vehicle, will remain in jail pending a hearing next week, a magistrate judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday. Taranto was taken into custody on Thursday as a fugitive from …

Millions of Americans who have been struggling to connect to the internet may soon find it easier  to get online, thanks to an infusion of funding from the federal government approved in late 2021.  President Joe Biden announced the funding Monday at the White House and promised, “With this funding, …