The Global Update

PROGRAMMING ALERT: Watch author Jason Chaffetz discuss this topic and more on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” at 9 pm ET. Imagine a world where every text you send, every purchase you make, and every mile you drive is quietly logged and analyzed by a government that never asked for permission. That world isn’t hypothetical; it’s…

President Donald Trump declared last week that Iran’s underground nuclear facilities bombed by the U.S. were “obliterated,” while adding the U.S. and Israeli strikes delivered “monumental damage to all nuclear sites in Iran.”  U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed that message in a briefing, saying the “CIA can confirm that a body of credible intelligence…

We are nearly halfway through the first year of the second Trump administration, and the American people are seeing something unprecedented in American politics in the 21st Century: the development and implementation of a grand strategy.  Critics and talking heads have tried to paint President Donald Trump as brash and careless, especially when it comes…

The fact-checking website PolitiFact defended Democratic New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani from President Donald Trump‘s claims he was a “communist” last week, saying the rejoinder was false. Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, effectively clinched the Democratic nomination for the 2025 mayoral race in New York last week in an upset over establishment favorite…

Some major cities have spent recent years increasing support for their police and saw a drop in homicides, something one law enforcement group says indicates an “absolute rejection” of efforts to defund them. Cities such as Philadelphia, Denver, Minneapolis and New York City have increased their police budgets and have seen lower homicide rates in…

A group of Pennsylvania residents is due in court for a series of hearings on whether they should be compelled to travel to Idaho for Bryan Kohberer’s upcoming quadruple murder trial. The 30-year-old former criminology Ph.D. student is a Pocono Mountains native who drove home from Washington State University between the slayings of four University…

Audio from the scene in Kootenai County, Idaho, where firefighters responding to a blaze were ambushed reveals the moment a call for help was made. Two firefighters were killed and another was wounded in a sniper ambush Sunday afternoon. Authorities later located the body of a deceased man with a firearm nearby and lifted the…

A man was arrested by Capitol Police on Sunday after interrupting the Senate debate on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” shouting from the Senate Galleries that the lawmakers are “horrible.” Allen D. Rogers, of Florida, was arrested for unlawful conduct after he refused to obey officers’ orders to stop the disruption, according to police….

A punk-rap duo out of the United Kingdom that shouted, “Death to the IDF,” and “Free Palestine” during their set at the Glastonbury Festival, is now being condemned by political and festival officials for their actions. London-based Bob Vylan describes itself on X as the “prettiest punk/rap/alt thing you’ll ever meet.” With songs like “We…

The United States men’s national soccer team is moving on to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup after a dramatic penalty shootout against Costa Rica.  The match was deadlocked at two goals apiece after 90-plus minutes, leading to the penalty shootout that had all the dramatics to keep everyone on the edge of their…