Panama has denied the U.S. State Department’s claim that the country will eliminate fees for U.S. government vessels transiting the Panama Canal, just one day after the State Department initially announced a deal. The Panama Canal Authority, which is authorized to set tolls and other fees for vessels that transit the canal, said in a statement on Thursday that it ...

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from obtaining access to certain Treasury Department payment records. Treasury officials ‘will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service,’ Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a temporary restraining order. That program handles an estimated 90% ...

In President Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was rife with ‘corrruption’ as staffers were intent on ‘subverting the president’s will,’ on policy matters and sending taxpayer dollars overseas to further DEI and LGBT advocacy initiatives, a former USAID official told Fox News Digital in an interview. ‘A lot of them ...

Democrats succeeded Thursday in delaying a committee vote to advance the confirmation of FBI director nominee Kash Patel until next week at least.  The vote, which was slated to happen at 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, was pushed to next week after Senate Democrats demanded a second hearing from the Trump-aligned former Defense Department official, citing concerns about his previous remarks ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as the next U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday and defended proposed tariffs from the Trump administration.  Greer told lawmakers that the U.S. government previously raked in major funding from tariff revenues until the early 1900s, a time ‘when America truly was exploding as an international industrial ...

The Senate is poised to vote on whether to confirm Russell Vought to a top administration role after Democrats held a rare overnight session to oppose his nomination. Vought was tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the office that helps create and manage the federal budget. While many Trump nominees have received ...

A nonpartisan election integrity watchdog has released a detailed report outlining what it says are must-needed reforms to be taken up in states across the country to ensure election integrity. The Honest Elections Project (HEP) released its 2025 ‘Safeguarding our Elections’ report that lists over a dozen ‘critical’ measures, ranging from voter ID to cleaning up voter rolls to banning foreign ...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Let us imagine that we are on an outback wilderness trip, snakes and river crossings and tent pitching, the whole thing. Our trusted guides are the social justice Democrats promising to thwart President Donald Trump. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might not bring a canteen of water, but she will certainly have a bottle ...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, is reintroducing a constitutional amendment to cap the number of Supreme Court Justices at nine, amid calls to expand the court.  Cruz, now joined by 15 cosponsors including Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy (LA), Chuck Grassley (IA), Mike Crapo (ID), Thom Tillis (NC) and John Cornyn (TX), previously introduced the amendment in 2021 and in 2023.  In ...

A pro-Trump group is changing its name after President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. ‘take over’ Gaza. The group formerly known as Arab Americans for Trump, is now going by the name Arab Americans for Peace. ‘We believe that his ideas, as well-intentioned as they might be, rubbed a lot of people the wrong way,’ Bishara Bahbah, the founder ...