Month: May 2025

Tensions on the Supreme Court have flared this term as justices have clashed with each other and with lawyers at oral arguments amid a wave of Trump-era emergency appeals.  These exchanges at any other forum would hardly even raise an eyebrow. But at the Supreme Court, where decorum and respect are bedrock principles and underpin…

Friedrich Merz, the conservative leader who was poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, failed to win enough votes to secure the country’s top position. This leaves German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in power even though he had already delivered a farewell address. Merz’s loss marks a historic moment, as it is the first of its kind…

A group of anti-Israel protesters occupied a building at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle on Monday before police in riot gear intervened and arrested at least 30 of them, according to officials. The protesters occupied an engineering building on campus for hours and demanded that the school divest from Boeing, the large aerospace…

A Reddit user was irked when a friend of his girlfriend asked if she could come over to their place “just to use our kitchen.” “I barely know her, and it’s not like it’s an emergency,” user “Pikachu930” wrote recently on a Reddit forum.  “But what made it even weirder is that my girlfriend told…

Former Vice President Kamala Harris headlines a top-dollar Democratic National Committee fundraising dinner on Tuesday, marking the latest step back into the political spotlight by the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee. The New York City gathering of top party officials, politicians and donors, where tickets range upwards of $25,000 per person, according to an invitation obtained…

OTTAWA-While President Donald Trump was widely viewed as the major factor in securing a fourth consecutive term in office for the Liberals in last Monday’s Canadian general election, the Conservative leader played a role in his party’s defeat at the polls, according to Canadian political analysts. “Trump set the stage” for Liberal Prime Minister Mark…

New York City and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday asked a judge to block the Trump administration from eliminating the city’s congestion pricing program. Lawyers for the city’s transportation department and the MTA requested the judge issue an order to block Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s plans to kill the program and his threat to…

Are Americans ready for Biden 2.0? That’s what the country will get if they elect Kamala Harris president in 2028. During last year’s campaign, the former VP didn’t even pretend to offer the country any change of course from the disastrous Biden presidency. Harris notoriously told Sunny Hostin on The View, who asked what she…

PROGRAMMING ALERT: Watch Dr. Siegel discuss this topic and more on “Fox & Friends” and “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday, May 6.  Gain-of-function research has many purposes, including gauging the potential for treatment and vaccines to work against a particular pathogen. But this type of research is also used to manipulate a virus or other pathogen…

FIRST ON FOX: Fox News Digital has obtained surveillance footage showing the moments leading up to former Letcher County, Kentucky Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines’ suspected murder of former Kentucky 47th Judicial District Judge Kevin Mullins as Stines’ attorney shared a motive for the shooting. The pair, who had known each other for years before the…