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FOX 24 US Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-MS) criticized President Donald Trump’s supposed peace deal with Iran on Thursday, saying he is concerned the agreement  “negotiates away the victories of Operation Epic Fury.” “Since day one, I have supported President Trump’s efforts to end Iran’s 47-year threat to the United States and our partners. I am concerned that the memorandum of understanding negotiates away the victories of Operation Epic Fury in ways that are completely out of step with the President’s goals,” Wicker said in a Thursday statement. Wicker’s statement comes after lawmaker complaints that they have not…

FOX 24 US The federal government is applying a McCarthy-era law to strip a Somalia-born Minneapolis man of his citizenship over actions that took place after he became a citizen.  It’s a fundamental break with how the government has attempted to denaturalize people. Bound by extensive Supreme Court precedent, the DOJ has long pursued these cases against people who lied on their citizenship applications or omitted something significant enough that, had the government known, it would have declined the person’s citizenship application: war criminals who did not disclose atrocities in which they were involved, for example, or people who omitted…

FOX 24 US A Senate hearing to start the process of confirming President Donald Trump’s pick to be the Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, went up in flames early Wednesday morning. And, though at times Wednesday it looked as if the Senate might move forward despite the president’s erratic demands, by mid-afternoon Clayton’s path to director was a hopelessly tangled mess. The fracas saw even Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR), a dependable pro-Trump voice, grumbling publicly about the White House.  It all began with a predictably lengthy social media post, sent out shortly before 4 a.m, in…

FOX 24 US Throughout his confirmation hearing, Democrats didn’t trust that President Donald Trump’s new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh could remain independent from the president. Of chief concerns were Trump’s very open attacks on the Fed’s independence, which started on social media and in the press but went far beyond that when he tried to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook and allowed his Department of Justice to launch a criminal probe into former Chair Jerome Powell.  Cook’s case is still unresolved, with the Supreme Court expected to soon rule on whether Trump has the authority to outright fire a…

FOX 24 US After a tight May primary election that saw Trump-endorsed Georgia Lt. Governor Burt Jones leading billionaire Rick Jackson by a mere six percentage points, Jackson turned the tables and prevailed in Tuesday’s runoff election. Unlike the GOP Senate race, which saw an ultra-MAGA election denier face off against a conservative election affirmer (who still wanted to make it more difficult for Georgians to vote), both Republican hopefuls for governor profess to believe that the election was stolen. A win for either candidate in November could mean a blow to democracy in the purple, southern state. With 92%…

FOX 24 US Georgia’s Senate election will be a key race this November as Democrats aim to retake the chamber, and a runoff election Tuesday determined Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D) challenger: Mike Collins (R), an extremely pro-Trump Republican whose office personnel issues are dwarfed only by the congressman’s own prolific social media presence, which is steeped in radical far-right rhetoric and violent anti-immigrant ideology. Collins led the more moderate Derek Dooley (R) after the May primary and was expected to win the runoff.  With roughly 52% of the vote counted, per the AP, Collins had 55% and Dooley had 45%.…

FOX 24 US As Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger (R) famously fought to protect the 2020 presidential election from Trump’s attempt to steal it. The events of December 2020 and January 2021, when Trump demanded the state “find” the votes he needed to win, prompted a host of Trump-aligned conspiracy theorists to attempt to seek Raffensperger’s office themselves. On Tuesday, one of the most prominent of those candidates, Vernon Jones (R), lost to state Rep. Tim Fleming (R), a candidate who has towed the line between endorsing the basic tenets of democracy and pushing the kind of restrictive voting…

FOX 24 US Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen announced an eight-count felony indictment against 15 anti-ICE protesters Tuesday, centered on a broad “antifa”-inflected conspiracy. During a Tuesday press conference, Rosen would not say whether any federal officers were actually harmed, despite one of the counts being conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer and two of the counts being assault on a federal officer.  “Whether or not they actually at the end of the day caused bodily harm is not the measure of whether or not they committed a serious federal crime,” Rosen said.  The new indictment comes as…

FOX 24 US Hal Duncan, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the deputy director for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), was in front of the Senate Budget Committee Tuesday morning for the first leg of his confirmation hearing. Democratic members of the panel grilled Duncan on the actions of OMB Director Russ Vought throughout the first year and a half of Trump’s second term, during which he impounded and — with the help of congressional Republicans — rescinded funds that had been appropriated by Congress, in the process undermining the legislative branch’s power of the purse. Duncan’s responses…

FOX 24 US In the Trump administration’s latest effort to meddle in election administration, investigate baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and sow doubt in the country’s election system ahead of the midterms, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators were reportedly granted access to voter files in counties in Texas and North Carolina. Election officials in Forsyth County in North Carolina and Webb County in Texas handed over individual voter files — which can include things like registration history, drivers license numbers, addresses, dates of birth, among other information — to ICE investigators, Axios was first to report. It’s…