The White House is pulling the nomination of Dave Weldon for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director, Fox News Digital has confirmed. Weldon was expected to have his confirmation hearing on Thursday. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee announced that it canceled its hearing in a statement on Thursday morning. […]Read More

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Marty Makary, passed a key committee vote 14-9 on Thursday morning, clearing the way for a full Senate vote on his nomination.  If confirmed before the full Senate, Makary will work alongside the nominee for National Institute of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay […]Read More

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) voted Thursday morning to advance President Donald Trump’s pick to head the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.  The vote was strictly along party lines, 12 votes in favor and 11 against, but with the committee having one extra Republican member in the majority, […]Read More

China’s dominance over the U.S. in terms of shipbuilding is sending alarms through Capitol Hill, forthcoming legislation suggests. A bipartisan group of military veterans now serving in the House of Representatives – Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., and Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C. – are rolling out a bill aimed […]Read More

Eastern European countries are eyeing an exit of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines so they can place lethal underground bombs along their border to prevent Russia from invading, Fox News Digital has learned.  Poland is expected to withdraw from the treaty, together with Lithuania and Estonia, multiple eastern European officials predicted. Latvia and Finland are […]Read More

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has once again called on the U.S. to place nuclear weapons within its borders in a show of deterrence to Russia’s continued aggression just over the border in Ukraine. A similar request was apparently made to the Biden administration in 2022, which was never agreed to, but Duda has not given […]Read More

There is no clear path right now to avoid a government shutdown at 12:00:01 a.m. ET Saturday.  However, circumstances often accelerate matters just before a deadline on Capitol Hill. With Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., opposing the GOP plan, Republicans need at least eight Democrats to help break a filibuster on the House-passed bill.  Senate Republicans […]Read More

There is no clear path right now to avoid a government shutdown at 12:00:01 a.m. ET Saturday.  However, circumstances often accelerate matters just before a deadline on Capitol Hill. With Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., opposing the GOP plan, Republicans need at least eight Democrats to help break a filibuster on the House-passed bill.  Senate Republicans […]Read More

Dozens of activist and legal groups, elected officials, local jurisdictions and individuals have launched more than 100 lawsuits against the Trump administration since Jan. 20 in response to his more than 80 executive orders, as well as executive proclamations and memos, Fox News Digital found.  Trump has long been a legal target, which hit a […]Read More

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top lawyer, who was appointed to the position just this week, has resigned, according to a Thursday morning post on X. ‘Hilary K. Perkins has resigned from her position as Chief Counsel of FDA, effectively immediately,’ the FDA’s official X account posted.   Perkins – a former assistant director […]Read More