NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Pentagon unveiled details of its $961 billion budget request on Thursday, a budget roadmap that may deprioritize new F-35 fighter jets in favor of next-generation aircraft and drones. The budget would reach that figure through $848.3 billion in its discretionary defense budget and an additional $113 billion…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump said he’s open to conducting additional strikes against Iran, should Tehran pick up its nuclear program again to a level that is concerning to the U.S. “Sure. Without question, absolutely,” Trump told reporters Friday when asked about the possibility of subsequent strikes. Trump has…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a Navy oil tanker named after gay rights leader Harvey Milk will be renamed after Medal of Honor winner Oscar V. Peterson. “We are taking the politics out of ship naming,” he wrote on X along with a video announcing the move. …
Lesson plans: SCOTUS debates parental rights in classroom Fox News correspondent David Spunt breaks down the Supreme Court hearing arguments over parental and religious rights regarding an opt-out policy for those who oppose their children learning from LGBTQ-themed books on ‘Special Report.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Supreme Court held Friday…
Kate Whannel Political reporter Jack Fenwick Political correspondent PA Media Sir Keir Starmer has said his welfare reforms strike “the right balance” after making concessions to his own backbench MPs. The government’s initial plans, aimed at bringing down the welfare bill, would have made it harder for people to claim personal independence payment (Pip), a…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Justice Department has announced it is investigating the University of California (UC) for alleged Title VII discrimination violations in its hiring practices. The agency announced Thursday that its Civil Rights Division is looking into the university’s individual campuses regarding potential race- and sex-based discrimination in employment…
Joshua Nevett Political reporter PA Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he regrets saying the UK risked becoming “an island of strangers” in a speech about immigration. The prime minister was accused by some critics of using divisive language when he made a speech to announce plans to cut immigration in May. Some MPs…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A year ago Friday, President Joe Biden took the debate stage against then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and drove one of the final nails in his reelection campaign’s coffin as traditional allies turned their backs on the 46th president and subsequently rallied to replace him as the…
Labour’s original plan to reform the welfare system was a hasty effort to try to make billions of pounds of cuts to a rapidly growing bill in order to help the chancellor meet her self-imposed rules on government borrowing. But this latest U-turn raises significant questions about just how stability and credibility-enhancing it really is…
Getty Images Downing Street is holding talks with backbench MPs about its planned changes to benefits, as it faces a growing rebellion ahead of a vote on Tuesday. More than 120 Labour MPs have signed an amendment calling for the proposals, affecting personal independence payment (Pip) and universal credit (UC), to be scrapped. Ministers say…
