NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump is confident that his pick for U.S. Senate in the Lone Star State will easily defeat Democrat James Talarico, whom he called unelectable because “he’s a vegan in Texas.”Talarico is a prominent state lawmaker who was only recently propelled to the national stage after winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas earlier this year. He has been widely lambasted by conservatives for his history of controversial statements, including claiming, “God is non-binary” and that “sex is a spectrum.”  While speaking with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Wednesday morning,…

Podcast host Dan Le Batard declared sports journalism “dead” this week during a segment about Amazon’s studio crew criticizing ESPN insider Shams Charania for breaking the league’s MVP award before the official announcement.”I’d like that time to live forever. [Sports journalism] is dead. It’s not dying, it’s dead,” Le Batard said. “These streamers have no interest, none of them, none of them, have any interest in doing journalism and that’s why I’m telling you this war, the journalists have already lost it.”Whether sports journalism is actually dead is one topic. Hearing Dan Le Batard make the declaration is another entirely.ZERO…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Comedian Jon Stewart downplayed late-night TV’s focus on President Donald Trump during a final appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Tuesday, saying the focus on his opposition to the president was “annoying.”Stewart praised Colbert as his favorite person during the send-off interview, before turning to the president.”He can do whatever he wants to do, but the ubiquitous bloviating of the commander-in-chief has put us all as defined as who we are in opposition to him,” Stewart said. “And it’s just a ridiculous framing. Yeah, it’s a minute portion of the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The Senate is taking another step to prevent government shutdowns, this time to stop them from happening altogether. It’s a move that comes after Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., successfully changed the Senate rules to prevent lawmakers in the upper chamber from being paid during shutdowns — a play designed to ensure that senators feel the same pain as federal workers during future closures. But Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., are taking things a step further to outright prevent government shutdowns from ever happening again. SENATE TAKES MAJOR FIRST STEP…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When we suddenly hit the brakes and called off the planned military operation against the Iranian regime, it was clear that something was going on. We gave the regime 2-3 days to come to some arrangement that presumably includes no nukes. What does no nukes mean? Are their scientists going to forget what they developed? How long can we keep that in a box? What happens to the enriched uranium? We are told: 1. they have enough to make 10 bombs in 11 days, and 2. that it takes a matter of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and other Democrats responded to a Democratic congressional candidate’s “antisemitic” rant about jailing and castrating “American Zionists” by attempting to shift the blame to Republicans.After progressive Democrat Maureen Galindo stirred up a firestorm of controversy for pledging to open a “prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers,” Jeffries and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) said in a joint statement that “MAGA extremists should be ashamed of themselves.”Jeffries and the DCCC accused GOP leaders of backing Galindo, saying, “House Republican leadership…

In life, Jimmy Stewart never talked about his war. But in death, he granted his family — and now the world — a greater window into the Academy Award-winning actor turned combat pilot.“My father didn’t speak about his war experience very much,” his daughter, Kelly Stewart-Harcourt, told Military Times. “After he died, my sister found a journal, a handwritten journal that he had kept during the war” alongside his flight logbook filled with little scribbles, drawings and sketch marks from both Stewart and his men. The journal, according to Stewart-Harcourt, “described dad’s fears and his uncertainties, uncertainties about the war…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Americans and their billions in income are streaming to Southern and Sun Belt states while several coastal counterparts suffer the losses of residents, wealth and, in turn, political influence, according to IRS migration data.The relocation patterns are increasingly reshaping population pockets in the U.S. and where economic and political power is concentrated ahead of the 2026 midterms. As residents and wealth continue flowing into fast-growing red states, the shifts influence housing markets, state economies, congressional clout and the balance of power.That shift is already playing out in many Republican-led states, and there…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California Republican gubernatorial frontrunner Steve Hilton blasted Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for “fear mongering” after the governor suggested he had a contingency plan if Democrats appeared at risk of being shut out of the general election.California’s primary election is just two weeks away, and under the state’s jungle primary system — where the top two vote-getters advance regardless of party — both Democrats and Republicans fear they won’t be represented in the general election.Newsom expressed his concern about a Republican shutdown last Thursday during a news conference, explaining that he has a…

As the Pentagon requests a massive budget increase to develop autonomous weapons, some senators worry that DoD policy isn’t keeping pace. DOD’s “policy architecture really has to scale with it,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said Tuesday during a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. “And this is where we probably lag behind.” During the hearing, which focused on science priorities in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request, Ernst pointed to a massive increase proposed for the Defense Autonomous Working Group, or DAWG.The Trump administration is seeking $55 billion for DAWG, up from its $225 million budget…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The State of Alabama is the latest to crack down on recruiting within high school football, with Mary G. Montgomery head coach Zach Golson being suspended for the upcming season.You might be wondering what type of recruiting violations would end up getting a coach escorted out of the school after being placed on administrative leave when accusations started flying.Well, in my neck of the woods of Semmes, Alabama, keeping a secret or not running to social media to blast the latest gossip is essentially a rite of passage.Located just outside of Mobile,…

FIRST ON FOX — A Texas high school student who went viral after calling out an Islamic group for passing out hijabs on his campus told members of Congress last week that he has received death threats for speaking up.Marco Hunter-Lopez, a 16-year-old student at Wylie East High School and president of the campus Republican Club, told Fox News Digital he was invited by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, to testify May 13 before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government in a hearing titled, “Sharia-Free America.”Hunter-Lopez testified about an incident that occurred on Feb. 2 on his high…