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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday handed out bonus checks to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents who worked during the government shutdown. Noem was in Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport where she announced that TSA workers who worked during the 43-day shutdown would receive a $10,000 bonus. "We will be looking at every single TSA official that helped serve during this government shutdown to do what we can to recognize that and help them financially with a bonus check to help them and their family get back on their feet," she said during a press conference.AMERICANS COULD FACE AIRPORT CHAOS IF

Fox News' "Antisemitism Exposed" newsletter brings you stories on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world.IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:- Student arrested after disrupting Dave Portnoy’s pizza review with hateful rant- How DOJ moved ‘swiftly and decisively’ to stop ISIS terror plot targeting Jews- Ex-Hamas hostage Emily Damari recounts 471 days of survival in GazaTOP STORY: A now-former Mississippi State University student was charged with disturbing the peace after allegedly yelling antisemitic slurs and throwing coins at Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy during a video shoot in Starkville. The incident, caught on camera, prompted a police investigation and the 20-year-old

An ammonia gas leak in Oklahoma forced hundreds of people to evacuate, while at least 36 were hospitalized, officials said.The gas release involving a tanker truck happened in Weatherford, a city of about 12,000 residents located around 70 miles west of Oklahoma City."About 10 p.m. last night, we had a tanker truck that developed a leak. It pulled into a hotel parking lot here in Weatherford. The leak got very significant, caused the evacuation of the hotel, multiple residences, and all of that," Mike Karlin, the emergency manager and director of public safety for the city of Weatherford, told Fox

The leader of a conservative group on the University of Iowa campus says his group is undeterred after a left-wing student allegedly went on a spree of destruction."To be honest, we're not really surprised that this happened," Brody Baker, chairman of the University of Iowa's Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "We're kind of used to it at this point."Baker was referencing the recent alleged actions of Iowa student Justin Calhoon, who in the span of one week was arrested for flipping a YAF table and a Turning Point USA table on campus.

Students at the College of William & Mary, the second-oldest university in the United States, are launching a Turning Point USA chapter despite social media backlash and pushback from peers.Olivia Keller, a sophomore at William and Mary, told Fox News Digital in an interview Wednesday that the school administration has been supportive, but her peers haven’t been.Most of the resistance has been on social media app YikYak, because she thinks students are more comfortable attacking the club behind a screen rather than face-to-face.STUDENTS LAUNCH CONSERVATIVE GROUP AFTER TEACHER CALLED CHARLIE KIRK 'GARBAGE' AFTER HIS ASSASSINATION"There has been a lot of

U.S. Catholic bishops voted on Wednesday to officially declare a ban on gender transition treatment for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals.The bishops, gathered in a Baltimore hotel ballroom, overwhelmingly approved revisions to their directives for the thousands of Catholic health care institutions and providers in the country, formalizing a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender treatment options.Bishops will have autonomy in putting the new directives into law for their dioceses.More than one in seven patients in the U.S. are treated each day at Catholic hospitals, according to the Catholic Health Association. In some areas, Catholic hospitals are

President Donald Trump signed legislation to fund the government again — putting an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.Trump signaled Monday the government would open soon, as consequences of a lapse in funding continued to snowball, including missed paychecks for federal workers and airline delays stemming from air traffic controller staffing shortages.The bill keeps funding the government at the same levels during fiscal year 2025 through Jan. 30 to provide additional time to hash out a longer appropriations measure for fiscal year 2026.The measure also funds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that more than 42 million

Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Harris County — home to Houston — for using county funds for programs that help migrants facing deportation obtain access to legal support.Harris County established the Immigrant Legal Services Fund program in 2020, sending money to five organizations that help migrants facing deportation obtain lawyers.Last month, the county appropriated an additional $1.3 million to support the program.Paxton said in a statement that the program is "evil and wicked," as well as unconstitutional.TEXAS AG KEN PAXTON SUES LATINO VOTER GROUP JOLT FOR ALLEGEDLY REGISTERING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS"We must stop the left-wing radicals who are