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Russia threatens full ban on WhatsApp

Russia’s state communications watchdog warned Friday that it may impose a full nationwide ban on WhatsApp if the platform fails to comply with Russian data and security laws, according to multiple Russian news agencies. The regulator, Roskomnadzor, issued the threat amid escalating tensions between Moscow and foreign-owned tech platforms. In August, Russian authorities began restricting Read More…

Starbucks Workers’ Union Expands Black Friday Strike to Over 120 Stores

Starbucks’ workers’ union significantly widened its ongoing strike on Black Friday, extending the walkout to more than 120 stores nationwide—nearly double the number that began the action earlier this month—amid demands for better pay and improved staffing levels. The strike, which the union says is now the longest in Starbucks’ history, began on Nov. 13 Read More…

FAA Awards $10K Bonuses to Controllers and Technicians With Perfect Attendance During Shutdown

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday that only 776 air traffic controllers and technicians will receive $10,000 bonuses for maintaining perfect attendance during the recent government shutdown — leaving nearly 20,000 other employees without the incentive despite having worked through the same period of financial strain. The month-long shutdown pushed thousands of FAA personnel into Read More…

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DOGE prepares to literally drain the swamp by banishing Biden’s ‘overreaching’ water rule

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: After scoring a victory in her effort to undo the Biden-era expansion of clean water regulations that led to outrage from farmers and homesteaders, Senate DOGE Chairwoman Joni Ernst put forward permanent policy exclusions Thursday to prevent future Democratic administrations from “overreach.” “If you try to Read More…

College tennis player, 21, dies after collapsing during Pennsylvania half-marathon

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Toby Atwood, a rising senior at Thiel College and a member of the women’s tennis team, suddenly died over the weekend after collapsing during a half-marathon in Pennsylvania, school officials confirmed.  The 21-year-old Pennsylvania native was participating in the Presque Isle Half Marathon in Erie on Sunday when she Read More…

Hamas ‘hardens’ stance in ceasefire talks as Netanyahu recalls negotiation team

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ceasefire negotiations between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization hit a setback Thursday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled Israel’s negotiating delegation from Doha following what officials described as a hardening of Hamas’ demands. “In light of the response Hamas delivered this morning, it has been decided Read More…

Food Network star Anne Burrell died by suicide at 55: medical examiner

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Anne Burrell’s death was ruled a suicide, Fox News Digital can confirm. The New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner noted the celebrity chef’s cause of death was acute intoxication due to the combined effects of diphenhydramine, ethanol, cetirizine and amphetamine. Burrell was found unconscious and unresponsive inside Read More…

Ex-Biden chief of staff giving ‘credible’ answers in House Oversight cover-up probe, lawmakers say

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain is cooperating with congressional investigators seeking information into former President Joe Biden‘s mental health during his time in office, a pair of lawmakers suggested Thursday. Klain, who ran Biden’s White House for the first two years of his term, Read More…

‘Star Wars bar of leftists’: Weingarten, Hunter, Mamdani prove Dems led by extreme figures, senator says

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The prominence within the Democratic Party of AFT union boss Randi Weingarten, New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani and Hunter Biden proves it is being led by “a Star Wars bar of leftists,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said Wednesday. Weingarten’s appearance with democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Read More…

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan once called Trump the ‘toughest of them all’ at Republican National Convention

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan died Thursday in Florida at the age of 71 after being hospitalized in the morning for cardiac arrest, according to TMZ Sports.  Hogan, who revolutionized the world of wrestling and attracted interest in the sport that was ultimately dubbed “Hulkamania” in the Read More…

Skunked: Mayor Eric Adams wants restrictions on where New Yorkers smoke recreational pot

Mayor Eric Adams has diagnosed New York City with a chronic problem: too much recreational marijuana. The criticism is ostensibly fueled by frustration with the smell of marijuana stinking up the streets and public spaces. Still, it is also a swipe at former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who signed off on legislation legalizing recreational marijuana in Read More…

Appeals Court rules Trump’s birthright citizenship order violates Constitution

President Trump’s attempt to block the U.S. from recognizing birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants runs afoul of the Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, becoming the highest court to reach that conclusion. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born in the Read More…

Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220M in deal with Trump to restore federal funding

NEW YORK — Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus, the university announced Wednesday. Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay the $200 million Read More…

Longtime critic of voting machines charged in firebombing of Colorado election office

DENVER — A longtime critic of voting machines and local government has been charged with arson for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail-like device into the office holding the voting equipment in his Colorado mountain community. William Wayne Bryant, in a brief court appearance Wednesday, was advised of the charges presented against him in the June Read More…

House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files

WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy Trump and Republican leadership to support the action. Democrats on a subcommittee of the powerful House Committee on Oversight made a motion for Read More…