Lawyers for the Trump administration and a historic preservation group are slated to appear in court Tuesday afternoon in a bid to halt — at least temporarily — President Donald Trump’s plan to continue building out a $300 million White House ballroom on the site of the now-demolished East Wing.  ‘No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of ...

Vice President JD Vance brushed off a report from Vanity Fair that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles called him a ‘conspiracy theorist’ on Tuesday. Vance made the comments while taking questions from the press in Pennsylvania, leaning in on his conspiratorial side and suggesting Wiles didn’t intend the comment to be critical. ‘Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, ...

President Donald Trump will give an address to the nation live from the White House on Wednesday night, he announced on Tuesday. Trump teased the address in a statement on social media, saying the speech will take place at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday. He has not clarified a topic for the address. ‘My Fellow Americans: I will be giving ...

President Donald Trump’s eldest son and namesake, Donald Trump Jr., is engaged to Bettina Anderson. ‘President Trump just announced at the White House that his son @DonaldJTrumpJr and his girlfriend Bettina Anderson are getting married! They just got engaged. Congratulations to them both,’ Laura Loomer wrote in a Monday night post on X.  She shared a video of the couple ...

A moderate House Republican is raging against his own party after negotiations over a vote on extending COVID-19-era Obamacare subsidies fell apart. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., told reporters Tuesday morning that it was ‘idiotic’ and ‘political malpractice’ to not hold an ‘up-or-down vote’ on the subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of this year. He also turned ...

: The FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, but moved forward amid pressure from the Biden Justice Department, with an official saying he didn’t ‘give a damn about the optics’ of the search, newly declassified documents reviewed by Fox News Digital reveal. Fox News Digital reviewed emails between FBI ...

One Senate Republican is making the case that lawmakers aren’t using all the tools at their disposal to tackle affordability in the United States. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., wants Republicans to take another crack at budget reconciliation, the grueling, monthslong process used earlier this year to pass President Donald Trump’s crowning legislative achievement of 2025, and one that tested the ...

Romina Boccia Last week, I hosted a Cato book discussion with Kurt Couchman (Americans for Prosperity), author of Fiscal Democracy in America. We were also joined by Marc Goldwein (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget). It was one of those rare Washington conversations where political framing falls by the wayside and the real issues emerge clearly: Congress has proven incapable ...

Senior Israeli intelligence officials say warnings delivered to Australia ahead of a deadly attack at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach were part of a much broader alert: an accelerating global rise in attempts to execute terror attacks across Western countries, increasingly aimed not only at Jewish targets, but also at Christians and large gatherings especially during religious holidays. ...

Mexican lawmakers were filmed shoving each other and pulling hair on the floor of Congress in Mexico City on Monday. The viral video shows women lawmakers of rival parties jostling for position at a podium in the front of the chamber. The women’s argument escalates from shouts to pushing and ultimately to pulling each other’s hair as other lawmakers try ...