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President Donald Trump decried left-wing violence on Tuesday while speaking at the ceremony to posthumously honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom."We've watched legions of far-left radicals resort to desperate acts of violence and terror because they know that their ideas and arguments are persuading no one. They know that they're failing. They have the Devil's ideology," he asserted.CHARLIE KIRK POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED MEDAL OF FREEDOM ON WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS 32ND BIRTHDAYTrump also sounded off regarding the political firestorm surrounding Democratic Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones. At the center of the controversy are Jones’

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing legislation this week that would fully ban coverage of abortion and gender transition care for minors within the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Fox News Digital has learned.While existing law prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for elective abortions under the Hyde Amendment, many plans on the ACA exchanges still offer abortion coverage via various state-level loopholes and separate bill schemes. Hawley's legislation would expressly state that no ACA healthcare plan can cover an abortion procedure, except in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the

A Missouri man who was convicted of fatally shooting a state trooper 20 years ago was executed Tuesday.Lance Shockley, 48, died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre.Shockley, who long maintained his innocence, was convicted of killing Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. in March 2005. Prosecutors said he waited for hours near Graham’s home in Van Buren before shooting him first with a rifle, then with a shotgun when the trooper exited his patrol vehicle.In the death chamber, Shockley’s head was elevated on a pillow. He lifted his head

Two illegal migrants were taken into custody on Tuesday after crashing their vehicle into a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago during an immigration enforcement operation, leading to a clash with protesters, according to the Department of Homeland Security.Luis Gerardo Pirela-Ramirez and Yonder Enrique Tenefe-Perez, both from Venezuela, were detained Tuesday morning for allegedly ramming a Border Patrol vehicle and attempting to flee the scene, according to a senior DHS source.The incident happened near South Avenue N, according to officials."This morning while conducting an immigration enforcement operation in Chicago a vehicle, driven by an illegal alien, rammed a Border Patrol vehicle

Los Angeles County leaders declared a local state of emergency in the region Tuesday, according to local officials.News of the proclamation was shared in a news release online by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath's office.The measure was said to be a response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across LA County, which is home to more than 10 million people and one of the U.S.'s largest immigrant populations.The county can now offer to support residents financially who have been impacted by the raids, including rent relief and accessing state funds for any legal aid."What’s happening in our communities is

President Donald Trump blasted ABC News host George Stephanopoulos during a Tuesday meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei."We'll take a couple of questions from the news, and I'm sure they'll be incredibly non-hostile, and friendly, like JD went through a very ‘friendly’ interview with George Slopadopoulos," Trump said with apparent sarcasm, making fun of Stephanopoulos’ name.Trump went on to reference the ABC lawsuit, joking, "He was nice enough to pay me $16 million the last time we came — he had to pay $16 million to me. Which is good. It was worth it. It was worth having somebody lie.

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Cheryl Hines clashed with co-hosts of "The View" and defended her husband, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.On Tuesday, during a discussion of Hines’ upcoming memoir, "Unscripted," the actress was pressed about her husband’s work in the Trump administration. RFK Jr. had originally run as a Democrat in the 2024 election, but eventually dropped out of the race and endorsed President Trump instead, a move many consider to have been a decisive one in the election overall. Since then, Kennedy has faced backlash from prominent Democrats and liberal commentators — including the hosts of

President Donald Trump castigated "The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin as a "joke" on Tuesday after she appeared to renege on a promise to wear a MAGA hat on the air if he got the Israeli hostages home.Asked by a reporter about her pledge, which she made last year, Trump inquired if she'd put the hat on. After two opportunities on Monday and Tuesday, she hadn't yet. Trump then claimed Griffin, who resigned as White House communications director in December 2020, had written him "beautiful" letters upon her departure and even afterward, which she's denied in the past."She used to work