President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday to alter the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War — reverting to the agency’s former namesake, Fox News Digital has learned. Both Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently have indicated that they want to change the name of the agency. It is one of ...
A Senate Democrat compared language from one of the nation’s founding documents to that of Iran during a Senate hearing considering President Donald Trump’s nominees. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., pushed back against the opening statement of Riley Barnes, who was tapped by Trump to serve as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, during a Senate Foreign ...
China’s Xi Jinping likes getting the world stirred up with military confrontation. Perhaps that’s why he wore his Mao Zedong high-collar suit, channeling the aura of the 1949 revolution, to the first major military parade in China since 2019. With him stood Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, marking the first time in 66 years that this terrible ...
Vice President JD Vance shot back at senators who clashed withHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee Thursday, saying they are ‘full of s— and everyone knows it.’ Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., pressed Kennedy during the hearing, accusing him of endangering children with reckless decisions and conspiracy-driven policies, adding that ...
Jennifer J. Schulp and Christian Kruse From housing finance to banking regulation, financial markets are some of the most heavily regulated markets in the United States. Firms and individuals wishing to engage with financial service-related businesses face a complex regulatory regime overseen by a web of agencies that includes, on the federal level, several banking regulators, two market regulators, and ...
Neal McCluskey The Trump administration has been sending a mixed message on education: it’s not a federal job, but the administration will use federal funding to bend schools to its will. Those are contradictory positions, and one was likely to predominate. So far, it seems it has been the latter, but yesterday, a federal district court helped bolster a big obstacle ...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited his father, Robert Kennedy, a former U.S. attorney general and senator from New York, while testifying on Capitol Hill about backlash over the Trump administration’s efforts to reform the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) head signaled a dramatic course-correction at the CDC ...
The Secret Service’s counter sniper team is understaffed, jeopardizing the safety of U.S. leaders like the president, according to a new inspector general report. The report comes just over one year after the counter sniper team took out the gunman who opened fire on President Donald Trump in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and as the agency has ushered in ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended the Trump administration’s firing spree at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promising ‘new blood’ will soon take over the agency. ‘America is home to 4.2% of the world’s population, yet we had nearly 20% COVID deaths,’ Kennedy said Thursday in front of the Senate Finance Committee. ‘We literally ...
Your data is growing faster than budgets, headcount, and rack space. Backup windows feel tight. Recovery targets keep shrinking. Audits get tougher every quarter. If that sounds familiar, it is time to look hard at object storage. This is the storage model that scales cleanly, cuts operating noise, and makes ransomware-resistant backups practical for everyday teams. In plain terms, it ...