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In a sweeping move aimed at rolling back pandemic-era mandates, the Trump administration on Friday directed all federal agencies to erase any records related to employees' COVID-19 vaccination status, prior mandate noncompliance or exemption requests.The guidance, issued by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was a response to recent litigation and is part of a broader push to reverse what officials have described as "harmful pandemic-era policies" imposed under the Biden administration. "Things got out of hand during the pandemic, and federal workers were fired, punished or sidelined for simply making a personal medical decision," OPM Director Scott Kupor said

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson warns that finances in the nation's third most populous city have "reached a point of no return."The mayor said this week that the city will need to take steps to deal with looming budget shortfalls and that key systems that Chicago provides, including education, housing, health care and transportation, are "woefully underfunded."Eight-hundred miles to the east, there are concerns in the nation's most populous city that if democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani wins the election in November as New York City's next mayor, the city could be headed for a fiscal abyss similar to the crisis half

EXCLUSIVE: The highest-ranking Minnesotan in Congress is blasting Gov. Tim Walz after a man who murdered his family as a teenager was released from prison."Once again, Tim Walz proves why he is one of the worst governors in the country," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital."Not only do his soft-on-crime policies rob victims of the justice they deserve, but they also put the safety of every Minnesotan at risk. Being a self-proclaimed knucklehead doesn't excuse the chaos he has caused with his dangerous, far-left agenda."GOP LAWMAKERS CLASH OVER STRATEGY TO AVERT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN CRISISEmmer, as the

Another WNBA game was disrupted this week when a familiar and lewd object was thrown onto the court in the final seconds of a Chicago Sky game on Thursday night. The incident comes after at least two arrests were made in connection with the series of disruptions. Social media videos showed a sex toy – this time purple in color – launched onto the court in the final moments of the fourth quarter with the Atlanta Dream leading the Sky, 86-65. Another sex toy was reportedly thrown in the third quarter, but the object did not make it to the court and instead landed somewhere

While President Donald Trump previously refrained from speaking ill of Russian President Vladimir Putin, those days are over. The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has changed the nature of their dynamic. Although the two appeared to get along, at least publicly, during Trump’s first administration, their relationship has unraveled as the more recent conflict persists. In recent weeks, Trump has refused to mince his words when asked about Putin. Trump said during a Cabinet meeting July 8 he was fed up with Putin and said he was eyeing potentially imposing new sanctions on Russia. "We get a lot of bulls--- thrown at

President Donald Trump shared his thoughts on Georgia's former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan swapping political parties after the state's GOP expelled him earlier this year for disloyalty to the party.Duncan, an open critic of the president in recent years, wrote an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday stating that he was joining the Democratic Party after serving as Georgia's lieutenant governor from 2019 to 2023 as a Republican.Trump did not mince words in a Truth Social post early Friday morning, calling Duncan a "total loser" and telling him "good riddance.""Failed former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan, of Georgia, is a

Fox News' Greg Gutfeld revealed how he first met fellow late-night host Jimmy Fallon during his Thursday appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show."After giving Fallon a warm embrace, Gutfeld quipped that it "brought back memories.""This is hilarious – we've met before," Fallon began. "Yes, you have no memory of it," Gutfeld responded. "Which is understandable, because we were wasted."FOX NEWS' GREG GUTFELD DOMINATES LATE-NIGHT TELEVISION RATINGS AS CBS ENDS COLBERT'S 'LATE SHOW'The "Gutfeld!" host said their encounter took place at an "illegal speakeasy" in Hell's Kitchen roughly 15 years ago owned by their mutual friend Tracy, saying the inside looked "like

President Donald Trump has directed federal law enforcement to increase its presence throughout Washington, D.C., following a concerning surge in violent crime, including an incident in which a former DOGE worker nicknamed "Big Balls" was brutally beaten in the streets this week.Trump signed an executive order in March establishing the "Making DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force." Now the administration is taking a whole-of-government approach by deploying additional law enforcement to increase presence and improve overall public safety in the nation’s capital city, according to a source familiar with the plans.The operation, which will use both local and federal law