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Fox News host Steve Doocy will take a new role with the network but remain a co-host of its morning talk program “Fox & Friends,” the network announced Thursday. Doocy, who has been a staple on the “Fox & Friends” couch for years, will take on a new “coast-to-coast” co-hosting role which will allow him […]

It has been just over 100 days since President Trump was sworn into office, with a promise to deliver for the American people. In that time, the Environmental Protection Agency has followed the president’s lead as he brings common sense and the will of the American people to the forefront of every policy decision made.    […]

Sen. Elissa Slotkin is getting a zombie-filled “Call of Duty” education, playing the bestseller with a group of young gamers. “One of the best parts of being a new senator is that I get lots of interesting invitations,” the Michigan Democrat, who won her Senate bid in November, said in a Wednesday social media post. “Last week, I got […]

The Education Department announced Thursday it would be changing how universities change college accreditors while attempting to make it easier for new accreditors to get on the scene.  College accreditation is part of the process universities go through in order to receive federal student aid, with an accreditor evaluating everything a school does from class […]

As parents, we do our best to teach our kids how to stay safe online. We put limits on screen time. We use the settings available on their devices to help protect their privacy and reduce their exposure to potential dangers.   But those steps still leave room for risk, partly because reliable age verification systems […]

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and a trio of top House Republicans are heading to the White House on Thursday to meet with President Trump about the bill full of his legislative priorities, as GOP leaders struggle to find consensus on two key issues. Johnson will be joined by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House […]

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) is set to give remarks Thursday morning as Republicans race to craft legislation to advance President Trump’s domestic agenda before the end of the month. Republicans in the lower chamber on Wednesday advanced a bill supporting Trump’s sweeping immigration priorities, including raising fees on those seeking refuge in the […]

It may surprise some to learn that more than 5,000 people in the U.S. died from work-related injuries in 2023, about 15 workers every day. And this is a drastic improvement; as recently as 1970, 38 workers died from work-related injuries every day. An important difference maker was the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, which lost nearly all […]

The shortest sentence in the Bible is “Jesus wept.” The shortest sentence to describe the president last week is “Trump blinked.” “After weeks of bluster and escalation, President Trump blinked. Then he blinked again. And again,” David Sanger wrote in the New York Times. First, Trump dialed back his threat to fire the Federal Reserve […]

Close to half of all Americans think that the U.S. government is hiding information about the existence of unidentified flying objects, or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), according to a new poll from NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ. The poll, which surveyed 521 Republicans, 559 Democrats, 349 independents and 18 “other” voters, found that 44 percent of Americans […]

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief journalists Thursday morning as concerns over the economy mount following President Trump’s sweeping tariffs and executive orders since returning to the Oval Office just over 100 days ago. During a town hall event with NewsNation on Wednesday evening that featured a call from Trump, the president asked […]

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville, during a NewsNation town hall Wednesday, went off when debating domestic manufacturing, telling the crowd that the U.S. does not “need to make t-shirts.”  “I have on six items of clothes: shoes, socks, jeans, skivvies, t-shirt, and sweatshirt. You know how many of these were made in America? None. None,” […]

The U.S. economy is being driven at full speed toward a cliff’s edge, with President Trump and the Republican Party not just pressing firmly on the accelerator but actively disabling the brakes. Between their embrace of tariffs and tax cuts for the wealthy, it is increasingly looking like the Republican Party will be headed into […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call for a three-day ceasefire from May 8 to May 10, based on “humanitarian considerations,” is a complete joke. It is solely intended to ensure Ukraine does not strike Moscow as Putin and his guests celebrate Russia’s World War II Victory Day Parade — the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany — on May […]

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It was a Sunday morning in Las Vegas in December 2023 — after a night of fights at UFC 296 — and Brian Jack marched into the Trump International Hotel suite belonging to his boss, the former and future president, with a message: He wanted to run for Congress. The seat for Georgia’s 3rd Congressional […]

Usually, I’m the one asking the questions.  But last week I flew out to California to appear on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast to talk about “FIGHT,” the new book I co-authored about the 2024 presidential election. And this time it was the governor turning the tables and asking me and my co-author Jon Allen of NBC News […]

After President Trump’s first nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) failed to gain traction with Senate Republicans, he turned to Susan Monarez, a career federal health official who has been leading the agency in an acting capacity since January.  Former colleagues told The Hill that Monarez is an effective leader […]

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has referred dozens of alleged cases of voter fraud to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for prosecution, one of his staff said Wednesday.  Antonio Gracias, a long time Musk ally who is working for DOGE in the Social Security Administration, said the cost-cutting panel had identified 57 resident […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that he has slept over at the White House, sharing that he has enjoyed late night ice cream that President Trump recommended he indulge in. “Sometimes I stay at the White House,” Musk told a small group of reporters at a briefing Wednesday. When asked where he sleeps, he responded, […]