An appellate court has thrown out the $500 million civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump in the high-profile case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The New York Appellate Division overturned the penalty, ruling the disgorgement was an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment. The five-member …
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FIRST ON FOX: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a largely taxpayer-funded body that has taken in hundreds of millions in federal dollars, is facing pushback for fast-tracking a climate review that critics say is an attempt to undermine the Trump administration’s energy agenda. Earlier this month, Politico …
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The Trump administration began handing over documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case to the House Oversight Committee on Friday, a spokesperson for the panel said. House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., has committed to making the documents public in the interest of transparency, albeit after a committee review for sensitive …
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The U.S. Capitol is many things. Legislative assembly. Art museum. Historic site. And apparently now, city hall. The battle over the federal government policing the streets of Washington, D.C. – and perhaps other big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles – is headed for the biggest city council in the …
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man at the center of widely watched legal wranglings with the federal government, is making a fresh bid for asylum in the U.S., and he is also pushing back against the government’s plan to remove him to Uganda, and instead suggesting Costa Rica. “At 5pm …
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I bet you thought bunnies were nice, normal, cuddly critters — except for the vorpal bunny of “Monty Python” fame. Turns out, we were all wrong. According to The Associated Press, there’s a group of rabbits in Colorado with grotesque horn-like growths that may seem straight out of a low-budget …
Read More »Former Obama advisor Van Jones has had it with employees bringing their politics to work, saying it has gotten “ridiculous” and it is time to “move on.” Multiple companies have turned against activism in the workplace, a remarkable shift from the early 2020s when DEI, social responsibility and corporate-sponsored activism …
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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) mourned the death of a convicted murderer on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in an X post Friday. “Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur,” the CTU’s post read. “Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, …
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A Fox News survey of New Jersey voters finds Democrat Mikie Sherrill ahead of Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 8 percentage points among likely voters (50-42%) and 7 points among the larger sample of registered voters (48-41%) – both lead just outside the margin of sampling error. The candidates are vying …
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The Connecticut Republican Party on Friday accused a Democratic state education official of posting a “chilling reaction” on social media to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s death. The party shared a screenshot of what appeared to be a social media account belonging to Farmington Board of Education Chairman Bill …
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