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EXCLUSIVE: First Lady Melania Trump wrote a "peace letter" to Russian President Vladimir Putin telling him "it is time" to protect children and future generations around the globe, Fox News Digital has learned. Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the "peace letter" the first lady penned to Putin, which President Trump hand-delivered to the Russian leader before their summit in Alaska, Fox News Digital has learned. Immediately upon receiving the letter, Putin read it as the American and Russian delegations looked on. "Dear President Putin," the first lady’s letter begins. "Every child shares the same quiet dreams in their heart, whether...

President Trump has proven once again why he’s the most effective advocate for American workers in modern American politics. He fully understands the threat China poses, and his administration is doing exactly what needs to be done to ensure American competitiveness.While strengthening our manufacturing, he’s also tackling trade diplomacy with China. Because President Trump knows we need both: to grow our ability to compete with China by manufacturing right here in the U.S. and also to pursue trade diplomacy that actually helps American businesses and consumers.The early signals of this effort are positive.For example, Ford’s $5-billion investment in car manufacturing,...

The United States Pirate Party has endorsed independent candidate Timothy Grady in his 2026 bid for governor of Ohio, following a unanimous vote at its most recent national committee meeting. In a statement published Tuesday, August 12, the Pirate National Committee said members voted to back Grady’s campaign during their regular monthly meeting held over the past weekend. Grady attended the session in person to outline his platform and take questions from party members. The party also pitched the recorded meeting as a chance for Ohio voters to hear directly from an independent candidate in the race. While noting that...

Don’t be disappointed if you’re anxious to attend the Biden Presidential Library’s opening. It almost certainly will never exist. D.C. swampsters are trying to bury the record, hoping the public forgets how bad things were. Its subject will soon be either in the ground or too incapacitated to solicit funding. Biden staffers retaining criminal defense counsel have no interest in a library containing evidence for prosecutors to mine. No reporters from press outlets complicit in enabling chaos are hounding Biden. DOGE revelations testify to his administration's wholesale graft. FBI servers were purged of controversial data, unburdening what had been.There theoretically...

Taxes will be going up, but whose?Rachel Reeves, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, stands at the precipice of a fiscal catastrophe, with a £50 billion shortfall in public finances threatening to upend her economic strategy.The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), a think tank co-founded by John Maynard Keynes, has issued a damning indictment of the Government’s economic strategy: a toxic brew of sluggish economic growth, a faltering jobs market, and spiraling welfare costs has plunged the government’s coffers deeper into the red. At a time when debt interest payments exceed £111 billion ($147 billion), the situation is...

The writing has been on the wall for a long time: South Korea’s birth rate has dropped throughout much of the past decade, spelling trouble for the military as regional threats and global conflicts simmer. Now, a new report has found that the number of South Korean troops declined by 20% in the past six years, in large part because of the dwindling pool of young men – reflecting the shrinking workforce and swelling elderly population in one of the world’s most rapidly aging countries. The Defense Ministry report attributed the drop to “complex factors” including population decline and fewer...

The Brief: -A federal judge ruled Florida’s restrictions on transgender teachers’ pronouns violate civil-rights law. -The case is on hold while a Georgia appeal on similar issues is pending. -The outcome could shape workplace protections for transgender employees across the Southeast. A federal judge in Florida has ruled that the state’s law requiring teachers to use pronouns that match a student’s sex at birth amounts to discrimination, conflicting with federal protections against employment discrimination based on sex. SNIP What we don't know: While Walker declared the law discriminatory, he stopped short of issuing an injunction or awarding damages. The future...

Turkish newspaper Aydinlik published on Monday the bank accounts of companies based in the UAE involved in the corruption scheme of Volodymyr Zelensky’s and his cronies, in which about USD $50 million are transferred to the Middle Eastern country every month. Since last year, Ukraine has been rocked by allegations of corruption, which can “strike the Kiev government in the very heart,” the newspaper reported, adding that the main problem for Zelensky is that his inner circle is also involved in the corruption case.Zelensky’s closest circle transfers about $50 million a month to the accounts of two companies linked to...

The Brief: -Eight people have been arrested after a violent brawl at Lake Winterset on Aug. 2 was caught on cellphone video and posted to social media, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. -Deputies said the fight left two people temporarily unconscious, occurred on posted private property, and took place in front of children and other witnesses. -The suspects face charges including rioting, affray, trespassing, disorderly conduct, and in one case, contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Eight people have been arrested in connection with a violent brawl earlier this month at Lake Winterset that left two participants temporarily...

Stephen Gardner reacts to Alex Jones interviewing Patrick Byrnes. The CIA, George Soros, US AID were all influencing elections with US Tax payer money. Then they turned on the USA. New DOGE data shows the money trail and tells the story of American being infiltrated. Trump is being briefed on this very soon. Alex Jones is making it public so it will get out to the public in case something happens.

Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A mechanic working on a 2015 Ford Edge brought into his Minnesota shop made a startling discovery under the hood: a wallet that had been lost by a Michigan Ford plant worker 11 years earlier. Richard Guilford, who is now retired, said he remembers the day he lost his wallet while working on vehicles that had been shipped to the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne after coming off the assembly line in Chicago with electrical issues "I never wore sweatpants to work, but I did that day," he told KARE-TV. "And I had my wallet in...

Idaho killer, UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect may both have visual snow syndrome, a rare disorderTwo individuals at the center of recent high-profile murder cases may have the same rare and concerning health condition. Bryan Kohberger, who pleaded guilty to the murder of four University of Idaho students, and Luigi Mangione, accused of stalking and ambushing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, apparently have the same neurological condition known as visual snow syndrome. The rare disorder impairs vision, as if the person is looking through snow or static on an old television. Both Kohberger and Mangione have posted publicly about their condition, according...

A 76-year-old retiree from New Jersey met a tragic end while trying to meet up with a flirty Kendall Jenner lookalike called 'Big sis Billie' - without realizing she was an AI chatbot. Thongbue Wongbandue packed a bag and made a desperate bid to go to the New York apartment of a woman he had been chatting with online back in March. As he rushed into the city the retiree fell and hurt his head and neck in the parking lot of a Rutgers University campus in New Jersey at around 9.15pm.

Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has ordered binding arbitration in the Air Canada flight attendant strike. “As minister of labour I have exercised my authorities under section 107 of the Canadian Labour Code to direct the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the parties to resume and continue their operations and duties,” she said in a press conference Saturday afternoon. Under the order, the existing collective agreement between Air Canada and flight attendants represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will be extended until a new agreement is instituted by the arbitrator, Hajdu said. “In this instance, and...

In February 2016, Donald Trump scandalized Republican Party elites at a CNN town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, when he dared to call George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq “a big fat mistake” and “the worst decision any one has made, any president has made, in the history of this country.” Trump’s assertion infuriated GOP insiders not because it was clearly mistaken or even easily disputable, but because it was all too true. A glance at the titles of major books on America in the Middle East written by authors across the political spectrum—Fiasco, Grand Delusion, Losing the Long Game,...

A federal judge in Maine on Friday barred the Trump administration from enforcing sanctions on two U.S. citizens and human rights advocates who work with the International Criminal Court (ICC).On April 11, Matthew Smith and Akila Radhakrishnan, a human rights nonprofit leader and lawyer, respectively, filed a 39-page lawsuit against President Donald Trump and several other members of his administration over an executive order that imposes sanctions on the ICC, prohibits certain interactions with designated ICC officials, and threatens both civil and criminal penalties for any such violations.The lawsuit was premised on the idea that the sanctions "violate their First...

BREAKING - Tatiana Martinez, an illegal residing in LA who built a career on social media by doxxing ICE agents and directing her followers to harass them and disrupt their arrests, has now been arrested herself.

Sir Keir Starmer will speak to western allies on Sunday ahead of Volodymyr Zelensky’s White House meeting with Donald Trump. The Prime Minister, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz will host the meeting of the coalition of the willing on Sunday afternoon. The coalition, made up of 30-plus nations, is prepared to deter Russian aggression by putting troops on the ground in Ukraine once the war is over. The meeting, which is expected to take place at approximately 2pm UK time, comes on the heels of US President Mr Trump’s summit in Alaska with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

VIDEOCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom has gone Full Shmuck on social media. We know that this was fueled by helpless rage as he is forced to watch President Donald Trump display effective leadership but are drugs also playing a role in his rabid rantings? His ambition is also now forcing him to go Full Shmuck in his desperate attempt to stand out from the other potential 2028 presidential candidates. In this video we can see perhaps the symptoms of drug withdrawal towards the tail end of a looooong interview with the editorial board of the Sacramental Bee in August 2021 as...

Tristan Rogers, best known for starring as Robert Scorpio in the long-running soap opera "General Hospital," has died. He was 79. "General Hospital" Executive Producer Frank Valentini announced Rogers' death in a personal statement shared on the ABC TV series' official Instagram page Friday. Last month, Rogers' representative confirmed to Fox News Digital that the actor had been diagnosed with cancer."The entire General Hospital family is heartbroken to hear of Tristan Rogers’ passing," Valentini wrote alongside a photo of Rogers."General Hospital" star Tristan Rogers has died at the age of 79 after a battle with cancer. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General...