The U.S. Special Operations counterterrorism mission in northwest Syria Thursday that killed ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was “long planned,” and on the level and scale of the U.S. operation to take out Usama bin Laden in 2011, senior administration officials told Fox News. U.S. military forces on Thursday “successfully” moved in on the […]
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon will deploy 3,000 troops to Germany, Poland and Romania as tensions rise with Russia over Ukraine, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Wednesday. The troops are not among the 8,500 placed on heightened alert last week to support a NATO quick-reaction force if it is activated, Kirby said. More troops have […]
As President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western leaders to avoid stirring “panic” over the massive Russian troop buildup on his country’s borders, Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on the need for de-escalation. Neither Putin nor his Western counterparts had until now appeared ready to give ground in the weeks-long crisis, the worst in decades […]
The Pentagon on Friday called on Russia to stand down on Ukraine as tensions rise over the threat of a Russian military invasion. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a briefing with reporters said Moscow has for months been deploying forces along Ukraine’s border at a “consistent and steady pace,” which has been supported by Russian […]
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, Fox News confirmed, setting President Biden up with the first opportunity to fill a vacancy on the high court. A source close to Breyer told Fox News that the justice will step down at the end of the current Supreme Court term early this summer. Breyer, who is […]
The IRS has one request for Americans looking to get their tax refund as quickly as possible: File your return electronically and as soon as possible. The tax-collecting agency is staring down a tax season that promises to bring complications and potential delays for taxpayers, given an IRS worker shortage, the Herculean task of administering […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday dodged a question about whether there was “any scenario” in which U.S. troops would be deployed to defend Ukraine, saying that U.S. and European allies are looking at “practical and important” responses to Russian aggression in the region. “Do you see any scenario in which more U.S. […]
Last month, President Joe Biden announced that 500 million free at-home rapid tests for COVID would be mailed out to American homes. On Thursday, Biden announced that he was doubling that promise and would now ship out another 500 million — to make 1 billion in total. Americans can begin ordering these tests on Wed., […]
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas Tuesday to four people involved in former President Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn the 2020 election results. The committee said the four Trump allies — Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn — “publicly promoted unsupported claims about […]
The president’s chief medical advisor and his wife had $10.4 million in investments at the end of 2020, newly-released records show. That sum — including $2.3 million in unrealized gains — was held in various mutual funds. Fauci’s 2020 financial disclosure was released publicly Friday night by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who Fauci had called […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued mixed rulings in a pair of cases challenging Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandates, allowing the requirement for certain health care workers to go into effect while blocking enforcement of a mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees. The latter, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule that took […]
The Washington Post awarded President Biden its harshest fact-check rating of “Four Pinocchios” over his false claim this week that he was “arrested” for the first time as a teenager while attending a civil rights protest in Delaware. In a Thursday piece headlined, “Biden claims yet another arrest for which there’s little evidence,” Glenn Kessler, […]
