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Pete Hegseth's luck seems to be turning around in the Senate despite several controversies he has faced as he seeks to become defense secretary in the next Trump administration.

DOJ Inspector General said there were more than two dozen confidential human sources in the crowd on Jan. 6, but only three were assigned by the FBI to be present for the event, Fox News has learned.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report last week detailing facilities in Cuba that it claims China may be using to gather signal intelligence on the U.S.

New York immigration activists are slamming an upcoming meeting between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and incoming border czar Thomas Homan, calling it "despicable."

Seven-year-old Ivory Smith was killed by Venezuelan migrant Joel Enrique Gonzalez Chacin in a late-night drunk driving accident in north Houston just two and a half months after ICE released a hold against him, court documents revealed.

The GOP-led House passed a defense bill banning taxpayer-funded transgender procedures for military minors, sparking debate as it moves to the Democrat-majority Senate.

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is demanding accountability from West Point for incorrrectly telling a reporter that Pete Hegseth was not accepted by the military academy.

Pennsylvania Congressman Dan Meuser, a potential top contender in the 2026 Pennsylvania gubernatorial sweeps, fired off a letter to UPenn overnight calling for the firing of a professor who praised Luigi Mangione.

The House passed the JUDGES Act, which authorizes 63 new federal judge positions, under threat of a veto from President Biden.

House Speaker Mike Johnson tells Fox News he is getting a classified briefing in Washington today on the mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey.

Alexander Smirnov struck a plea agreement with the office of special counsel David Weiss on Thursday morning, according to sources close to the case.

With the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and a new White House on the horizon, Iranian resistance leaders and U.S. lawmakers express hope that Iran will topple its own leadership, with U.S. help.

Producers representing 80% of the U.S. oil and gas production urged House Speaker Mike Johnson to move on permitting reform in the final legislative sprint of 2024.

New York police are investigating a fatal immigrant gang stabbing in Lower Manhattan that left one teenager dead and another injured.

Sen. John Fetterman continues supporting Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

FIRST ON FOX: Nonprofit organization Do No Harm is challenging two separate scholarship programs over their use of race in candidate qualifications.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says that violent criminals who are undocumented should be deported, and that he would meet with the Trump administration.

Fox News Digital compiled FBI Director Christopher Wray's top five scandals across his seven years of service now that he is stepping down ahead of the second Trump administration.

While a majority of American voters questioned in a new Fox News poll say they are hopeful about the re-election of former President Donald Trump, they are divided when it comes to the nominees who will likely serve in his upcoming second administration.

Washington, D.C. Councilman Trayon White, who was arrested by the FBI on federal bribery charges, is one step closer to being expelled with a new report.

Incoming border czar Tom Homan will meet with New York City Mayor Eric Adams in NYC where they will discuss the city’s ongoing migrant crisis and ways of deporting criminal illegal migrants.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said his upcoming six-year Senate term will likely be his last. The senator has had a decades-long career in Washington politics.

President Biden commuted 1,500 jail sentences and pardoned 39 others on Thursday in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern American history, according to the White House.

As President-elect Trump and his transition team steer his cabinet nominees through the landmines of the Senate confirmation process, top MAGA allies are lending a hand by putting pressure on GOP lawmakers who aren't fully on board.

Fox News Digital spoke to former congressional candidate and attorney Orlando Sonza about how President-elect Trump should implement his immigration agenda amid Democratic opposition.