Democrats face ‘few opportunities’ to win back the Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections, a top non-partisan political handicapper predicts. While the Republicans are defending seats in 22 states in 2026 compared to just 13 for the Democrats, the Cook Report’s first Senate rankings of the new election cycle point to a tough road ahead for the Democrats as ...
In a recent Gallup survey of adults living in the U.S., former President Joe Biden earned the lowest favorability and the highest unfavorability of all five living presidents, while former President Barack Obama was held in the highest regard. While 57% held an unfavorable view of Biden, just 39% held a favorable view of him. But Obama’s ratings were essentially ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! There’s an old saying that if you watch the pennies and nickels, then the dollars take care of themselves. President Donald Trump is taking that dictum to heart, ordering Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to halt minting pennies because the government actually loses money on the coins. Normally, printing currency and minting coins costs ...
Vice President JD Vance will meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday after years of railing against the U.S.’ continued funding of Ukraine in the war against Russia. The vice president will meet with Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, a Vance spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital, just ahead of U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg’s trip to ...
The White House will not release visitor logs during President Donald Trump’s second term, Fox News has confirmed. The move mirrors the policy of his first administration, a White House official told the Washington Examiner. Trump’s first administration made the announcement of keeping White House visitors secret in April 2017, according to the Washington Post. ‘After four years of the ...
JERUSALEM—The president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) apparently capitulated to the Trump administration by claiming to scrap its long-standing program known as ‘pay for slay,’ which provides payments to Palestinian terrorists and their families. There are, however, conflicting reports about whether the PA ended the program or is trying to hoodwink the Trump administration. Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein ...
President Donald Trump’s team of zealous cost-cutters under Elon Musk will soon set their sights on the U.S.’s largest discretionary budget. With an annual budget of $850 billion, the Pentagon has long been plagued by accusations of waste and inefficiency in its defense programs and recently failed its seventh straight audit. ‘We’re going to find billions, hundreds of millions of ...
A group of House Republicans is pushing to give President Donald Trump more control over the federal spending process, as his administration continues to crack down on funding that does not align with the GOP agenda. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., is leading legislation to repeal the Impoundment Control Act, a 1974 Nixon-era law aimed at stopping the president from having ...
House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent House Democrats a letter Monday announcing the formation of a rapid response team and litigation group to ‘push back against the far-right extremism’ since President Donald Trump took office. In the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter, Jeffries wrote, ‘I write with respect to our ongoing effort to push back against the far-right extremism that ...
President Donald Trump welcomed Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday, a visit that comes amid contentious discussions between the U.S. and Arab nations about relocating Palestinian refugees to Jordan and other neighboring Arab countries to rebuild Gaza. Trump unveiled plans on Feb. 4 that the U.S. would seek to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip in a ...