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Longtime Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Thursday made her first move ahead of likely launching a 2026 race for governor in her home state of Minnesota.The senator's first steps came a couple of weeks after the stunning announcement by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz to end his re-election bid amid political fallout from the blue-leaning state's massive fraud scandal.Klobuchar, who less than 15 months ago was handily re-elected to a fourth six-year term in the U.S. Senate, filed preliminary paperwork with the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board."This is a preliminary step necessary for any candidate considering a run. The senator will make

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said podcasters and comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang were saying "the quiet part out loud" in their criticism of her Senate bid, suggesting the statement was about her race."I really do think that the host said the quiet part out loud, which basically was: If a White man couldn’t do it, then why would a Black woman even have the audacity to think that she could?" Crockett said in an interview in January, according to the Washington Post. "I don’t know however many White men, and they’ve all lost. The only thing we know for

FIRST ON FOX: Live Action, a pro-life organization, is demanding that the Trump administration take action on the distribution of and reporting on mifepristone, often colloquially called "the abortion pill." The group is holding a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday to discuss concerns surrounding the abortion drug, as well as a new investigative video from Live Action that the group says documents "the dangerous real-world distribution of this drug by Planned Parenthood and affiliated providers." The group alleges "reckless distribution" practices and argues the adverse effects of the drug are not being documented properly, if at all.In a letter

The former superintendent of Iowa's largest school district is set to plead guilty Thursday to a pair of federal charges following his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last year. Ian Roberts, a native of Guyana in South America and once the leader of Des Moines Public Schools, was detained by federal immigration officers on Sept. 26, 2025. He resigned from his position shortly afterward. In October, Roberts initially pleaded not guilty to one count of making a false statement for employment and one count of unlawfully possessing a firearm while being in the U.S. illegally. Together, the charges carry a maximum sentence

When President Donald Trump agreed to address the "World Economic Forum" in Davos, he rescued that gathering from looming irrelevance — at least for a year. If the President of the United States attends a forum, the world’s collective attention will turn to it. The American public usually squints at this collection of would-be world big wigs — drawn from the world’s wealthiest, who are mostly not from our republic, but talking about it and how it and the world should work — and doesn’t like that look at all.But President Trump came with some of his "A Team" on international

Federal immigration authorities approved the self-deportation of a suspect in a $100 million jewelry heist, allowing him to avoid trial and escape potential prison time.Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores, 42, was one of seven people charged last year with following an armored truck to a rural freeway rest stop in California and stealing diamonds, emeralds, gold, rubies and designer watches in July 2022, which is believed to be the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history.Flores was facing up to 15 years in federal prison if convicted on charges of conspiracy to commit theft from interstate and foreign shipments and theft from

A judge ruled Wednesday that the configuration of New York City’s lone congressional district represented by a Republican is unconstitutional, ordering the state to redraw the district by next month.State Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman ruled that the composition of New York's 11th Congressional District — which covers all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn — unconstitutionally diluted the votes of Black and Hispanic residents. He ordered the Independent Redistricting Commission to complete a new map by Feb. 6.The district is held by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., who won her seat in 2020. She slammed the ruling in

Reports have emerged from eyewitnesses in Iran alleging sexual assaults on teenagers held in custody, as well as authorities forcing families of those protesters killed to pay as much as 10 billion rials to recover their bodies.The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US) also told Fox News Digital Wednesday that the "barbarity continues" across the nation, with prison detainees allegedly being killed and their bodies burned.The reports came as Iran’s government claimed it had successfully crushed weeks of unrest that swept the country.Beginning Dec. 28, the protests erupted amid deep public anger over political repression, economic hardship and state