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Fox Pulled the Plug on Trump. Now the Admin Can Pull the Guests. Try Real America’s Voice (RAV), Newsmax, or OAN ...On Friday, President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, saying they report “fake news” and “shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES.”... ...Two days later, a Fox News executive shut off the president’s cameras. Not CNN. Not a committee in New York. Bryan Boughton, Fox News Washington bureau chief, chairs the White House television pool. On Sunday, he told subscribers that “effective today, the TV pool will not be covering...

Donald Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly will not be televised by the major US broadcasters on Monday as they band together to boycott his ban on CNN and MS NOW. Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC, collectively known as the TV pool, are protesting the White House and have decided to not dispatch cameramen or reporters to cover the president on Monday. This means that Trump's trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday will go unaired on the major networks. Still, the conservative outlet Real America's Voice (RAV) will be on...

"The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting," the pool members, including Fox, said in a statement. Fox News has joined its rival networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and even CNN — in suspending pool coverage of President Donald Trump after the White House on Monday turned away CNN. "The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting," the pool members, including Fox,...

The maximalists wanted regime change, the minimalists wanted nothing, and the doubters see only waffling. Carafano’s answer: the victor gets to define victory — and everywhere you look, the region is moving Trump’s way. Iran War Turns into Trump Middle East Triumph: We are about to see the biggest reshaping of the Middle East since Moses led the Jews out of Egypt. Like the pharaoh, who missed every warning sign up to the parting of the Red Sea, the critics and questioners of Trump’s tug-of-war with what’s left of the Iran regime seem obtuse to the prophetic truth that the...

The temporary organization behind the Department of Government Efficiency reached its scheduled termination date Saturday, July 4, 2026. President Donald Trump's executive order last year creating the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization set a July 4, 2026, termination date for that temporary organization. "A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence," Trump said when he announced the initiative. DOGE claims it saved $215 billion, including by slashing duplicative software licenses, canceling diversity, equity and inclusion grants and terminating leases for underused office space....

Even if you’re sick of hearing about Jeffrey Epstein — President Donald Trump and his team have been far more fixated on the relentless controversy than they have ever acknowledged. That (and plenty of other juicy revelations) is based on three years of reporting for a forthcoming book. "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" is by New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan and slated to be published in two weeks. Whether you’re a Trump supporter or detractor, the book is packed with facts that make clear that most or all of the major participants...

President Donald Trump is eyeing oil-rich Venezuela as a potential 51st state as officials continue to court oil companies for investments in the South American country following the U.S. intervention that removed President Nicolás Maduro from power. Trump said in a phone call with Fox News that he is motivated by the estimated $40 trillion value of oil in Venezuela, adding that he is popular with the country’s citizens. “Venezuela loves Trump,” Trump said. […] “As the President has said, relations between Venezuela and the United States have been extraordinary. Oil is starting to flow, and large amounts of money,...

A California Democrat is facing backlash after hosting a Hamas-associated group at his office on Capitol Hill last week. Rep. Derek Tran welcomed a group of leaders from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as part of the "National Muslim Advocacy Day," an annual lobbying event organized by Muslim advocacy groups. CAIR, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, was recently designated as a terrorist organization by the state of Texas and Florida following accusations that the group supported funding for Hamas. The group has since filed defamatory lawsuits against Governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis. Among those in attendance...

Democrats scored a major victory on Tuesday as a congressional redistricting referendum that could give Democrats a significant boost in the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives majority in this year's midterm elections was passed by Virginia voters, the Associated Press reported at 8:49 p.m. ET. The ballot measure gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state's current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election. It could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia's congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge. That would give the Democrats four additional left-leaning U.S. House...

n the wake of an ICE shooting that killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, academics have joined the chorus of left-wing radicals seeking to abolish the federal law enforcement agency. "Abolishing ICE is the moderate position," said Victor Ray, an associate professor of sociology, criminology and African American studies at the University of Iowa. In another social media post, Ray referred to the shooting, which killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, as a "murder." Nobody has been charged with murder in the case.

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born on American territory citizens. Trump’s effort to overturn the traditional reading of the constitutional text and history should not succeed. Ratified in 1868, the 14th Amendment provided a constitutional definition of citizenship for the first time. It declares that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." In antebellum America, states...

"Here’s a hard truth Republicans don’t want to hear: Nancy Pelosi was a more effective House speaker than any Republican this century," she wrote. "I agree with her on essentially nothing. But she understood something we don’t: No majority is permanent." The congresswoman wrote that unlike Republicans, when Democrats hold the majority, "they ram through the most progressive policies they can," and "deliver for the coalition that elected them while they are in power." Continuing her criticism of Congress' dysfunction, Mace maintained that "the current House is restrictive and ineffective," producing "control with barely any results." She argued that "Republican...

Trump's MRI scan that was conducted in October, reading the results of the examination during Monday's press briefing that showed he was in good health. Trump's health has fallen under increasing scrutiny from the media in recent months, including when it was revealed that Trump underwent a second routine physical for the year in October, which included an MRI scan. Leavitt reported the medical imaging procedure found Trump as healthy. "As part of President Trump's comprehensive executive physical advanced imaging was performed because men in his age group benefit from a thorough evaluation of cardiovascular and abdominal health," Leavitt read...

Fox News anchor Bret Baier interviewed David Grusch, the Air Force intelligence officer turned whistleblower who previously testified before Congress about secret U.S. crash-retrieval programs involving non-human craft. In the interview, Grusch reaffirms and strengthens his core claims: 1. The U.S. has recovered non-human craft and biological remains. He states directly that the government has retrieved vehicles of non-human origin, and that non-human biological entities were recovered with some of them. 2. He personally saw classified reports and photographic evidence. Baier presses him: “With your own eyes you saw it?” Grusch answers: “Yes.” He says he had partial access to...

For decades, military pilots, radar operators and ordinary citizens have reported strange objects darting through the skies, often dismissed by officials or buried under classification. Despite congressional hearings and government task forces, little clarity has emerged about what Americans are actually seeing. Now, the director of a new explosive documentary is pulling back the curtain on that mystery. Director and producer Dan Farah sat down with Fox News’ Bret Baier Friday to discuss his new documentary, "The Age of Disclosure." "For a very long time, the public, Congress and even the president have been kept out of the loop on...

Zohran Mamdani's victory reveals middle-class frustration with broken promises, not an embrace of far-left ideology Zohran Mamdani just became mayor of New York City, a self-described socialist leading America’s most capitalist city. To some, that sounds like proof that the far left is taking over. But that’s not what happened. Mamdani didn’t win because New York suddenly fell in love with socialism. He won because he captured something every politician should be listening to right now — a deep frustration that the system doesn’t feel fair anymore. And here’s the twist: That frustration isn’t confined to struggling families or low-income...

Lamenting Fox News' spinning Democrat narratives and "fake bad" polls against him, President Donald Trump suggested he's done with the "politically correct" network. "Fox should either get on board, or get off board, NOW, but at this point, it just doesn't make any difference to me," Trump wrote in a scathing rebuke Sunday on Truth Social. "They suck up the Ratings because of us, and then spin them in the Democrats' direction. "They refuse to put up Polls that correctly show me at 65% in Popularity, a Republican RECORD, but if I have a fake bad 'Poll,' many of which...

President Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration is "trying" to get the former U.S. Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan "back" from the Taliban.In remarks to the press while standing alongside U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the president criticized the handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden and said he had "a little breaking news.""We're trying to get it back," Trump said. "We're trying to get it back because they need things from us."

On Monday, former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey – once President Trump’s top pick to lead the FBI – will be sworn into a new power-sharing role with deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino. Bailey’s installment comes at a perilous time for FBI Director Kash Patel, whose leadership atop the nation’s premier law enforcement agency is under fire, according to ten sources from multiple federal offices granted anonymity to speak freely. The White House’s reasoning to create an unprecedented office for Bailey has not been explained and left FBI leadership confused, two people at the agency said. "The White House, Bondi,...

Protesters continue to blast the Trump administration’s takeover of policing in Washington, D.C., likening it to an "invasion" even as crime plummets. Demonstrators, who did not appear to be part of a specific organization while on a pedestrian bridge on the I-95 in Virginia near the city this week, said that "our systems are being assaulted." "What the problem is, is that these are the National Guard are like my friends' sons and daughters," one woman told Fox News Digital. "It's their time away from their family. The money being wasted to make a point is really sort of disgraceful...