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President Donald Trump on Thursday saluted the heroic canines who "defend our citizens and our homeland." National K-9 Veterans Day is an annual March 13 celebration of "canine courage," and the bravery of military and police dogs."Serving on the front lines, in combat zones, and at our borders, these fearless four-legged fighters are an invaluable part of protecting America," Trump said in a Thursday message to commemorate the day. In the military, more than 30,000 "dedicated working dogs" — with 1,600 working dogs actively serving — have provided frontline support to U.S. service members, according to the White House. These warriors are trained

Columbia University on Thursday announced some students who occupied a campus building last spring during anti-Israel protests would face a range of punishments, including expulsions and suspensions.The announcement came as the Ivy League institution finds itself embroiled in controversy over the arrest of a student and the rescinding of more than $400 million in federal grants to the school by the Trump administration because of its "inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."The punishments, which include "multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring," were issued by the Columbia

Blake Lively's request for stricter guidelines surrounding the release of confidential material in her ongoing case with "It Ends With Us" director and co-star Justin Baldoni has been granted. In court documents obtained by Fox News Digital on Thursday, Judge Lewis Liman responded to Lively's "attorney's eyes only" (AEO) request for evidence in the ongoing case, granting a modified order that is expected to "protect the confidentiality of certain nonpublic and confidential material that will be exchanged pursuant to and during the course of discovery" in the case. "The designation ‘Attorneys’ Eyes Only’ shall only be utilized for Confidential Discovery Material of

President Donald Trump, speaking from the Oval Office Thursday, downplayed an upcoming nuclear summit in Beijing between Iran, Russia, and China, three chief adversaries of the U.S.The discussions, first confirmed by the Chinese foreign ministry Thursday and which come just days after Iran rebuffed Trump’s push to engage in nuclear negotiations, will coincide with a United Nations Security Council meeting regarding Tehran’s expansion of near-weapons-grade uranium. Trump suggested perhaps Beijing, Moscow and Tehran will be having their own discussions on "de-escalation.""Well, maybe they're going to talk about non-nuclear problems. Maybe they're going to be talking about the de-escalation of nuclear weapons,"

Martha Stewart wasn’t prepared for Matthew McConaughey’s intensity for his role in the Super Bowl commercial they appeared in together.In a conversation with Kate Hudson on "The Martha Stewart Podcast," Stewart said, "He got me scared actually… Oh my God, yeah, he scared me."McConaughey and Stewart appeared in an Uber Eats commercial that aired during the game, and the Oscar-winner played multiple characters in the full version.MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY’S BLUNT ADVICE TO TEENAGE SON AS HE BEGINS ACTING CAREERThey shared a scene where they both played executives in a boardroom. "He is a method actor," she explained. "He had to play 10 characters, and he got into each

President Donald Trump remains optimistic that the U.S. will acquire Greenland, despite the fact Greenland has said it’s not interested in becoming part of the U.S. Trump’s remarks coincide with a visit from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who said that he didn’t want to "drag NATO" into negotiations about the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory."I think it'll happen," Trump told reporters Thursday. "And I'm just thinking, I didn't give it much thought before, but I'm sitting with a man that could be very instrumental. You know, Mark, we need that for international security, not just security, international."Rutte said he didn’t

FIRST ON FOX: The White House has already started mapping out how to make good on its promise to slash federal spending in preparation for a six-month government funding bill to pass through Congress.Two people familiar with the conversations told Fox News Digital that President Donald Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought are working on a strategy for impounding federal funds that Congress is expected to allocate this week, before the partial government shutdown deadline on March 14.Trump and his allies have made no secret of their belief that the Impoundment Control Act of 1974

The White House said a lawsuit filed by a law firm with ties to the FBI's Russia investigation during President Donald Trump's first term – known among conservatives as the "Russia collusion hoax" – is "absurd," after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from cutting off the firm's access to federal resources Wednesday. Perkins Coie, the firm that hired the company responsible for composing the so-called "Steele dossier" released in 2017 about Trump’s alleged connections to Russia that was used to obtain a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, filed a motion in a federal court in