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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, D, told South Side voters they should not vote at all if they do not vote to re-elect her, but she now insists that she misspoke during the heat of the moment. During a campaign event over the weekend in Grand Crossing, the mayor said anyone from the South Side voting for “somebody not named Lightfoot is a vote for Chuy Garcia or Paul Vallas,” referring to her challengers.  U.S. Rep.

Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who announced his candidacy for president Tuesday during an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, has revealed what actions he intends to take on day one if elected president. On Twitter Tuesday evening, just hours after becoming the third Republican in the 2024 race alongside former President Donald Trump and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Ramaswamy said he would end Affirmative Action on the first day of a potential administration.

FIRST ON FOX: The Biden administration is considering a rule that would open the door to allow temporary agricultural and seasonal workers to be able to apply for permanent residency in the United States, Fox News Digital has learned.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi responded Saturday to former President Jimmy Carter entering hospice. Guglielmi said the agency, which has protected Carter and his family for decades, “will be forever by your side.” “Rest easy Mr. President. We will be forever by your side,” Guglielmi stated in a tweet.  The tweet came after the Carter Center announced the 39th president would spend his “remaining time” at home.

Tributes and heartfelt responses are pouring in following news that former President Jimmy Carter has been entered into hospice care. “While bedeviled by myriad problems during his years in office, Carter has had one of the greatest second acts in American history,” acclaimed historian and conservative political consultant Craig Shirley told Fox News Digital on Saturday afternoon.

Politicians are reacting to former President Jimmy Carter entering hospice care, saying that he’s a “model of kindness.” Carter will spend his “remaining time” in his Georgia home receiving hospice care, according to a statement from The Carter Center on Saturday. “After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S.

Former Vice President Mike Pence took to social media on Friday to share how his experience at Asbury College more than four decades ago moved him spiritually, as the evangelical service at the central Kentucky college known as the “Asbury revival” entered its tenth straight day of worship. “As a college student, I too traveled to Asbury in 1978 for a Christian music festival. There it was as though I heard the gospel for the very first time,” Pence wrote in a tweet.

Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter Thursday to criticize President Joe Biden for ordering an F-22 fighter jet to shoot down what may have been a hobby club’s science project off the coast of Alaska earlier last week.

EXCLUSIVE – Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says that a controversial parental rights bill that bans teachers from giving classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last year needs to be more stringent.

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-New York) introduced a resolution expressing the House of Representatives believe Social Security should be preserved and protected for current beneficiaries, and for future generations to come. The resolution comes after President Biden accused Republicans of trying to cut the program during his State of the Union address at the beginning of the month. “Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage ..

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V. is hitting the Biden administration for its response to the East Palestine train derailment. A train with 50 rail cars, 10 of which were carrying vinyl chloride, derailed in East Palestine on Feb. 3. The derailment caused hazardous chemicals to spill onto the ground and sent a plume of smoke into the air. In the days after the derailment, a controlled release of chemicals was conducted because of the risk of a major explosion, officials said.

Senator Marco Rubio is demanding the resignation of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg over his handling of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment. A Norfolk Southern train with 50 rail cars, 10 of which were carrying vinyl chloride, derailed in East Palestine on Feb. 3. The derailment caused hazardous chemicals to spill onto the ground and sent a plume of smoke into the air.  Officials conducted a controlled release of chemicals to avoid the risk of an explosion.

Philadelphia mayoral candidates have begun releasing plans to try cleaning up the city’s open-air drug market, but the neighborhood’s residents are skeptical. Kensington’s streets are covered in litter and discarded needles — as well as passed out addicts. But residents say they’ve watched candidates and politicians make empty promises for decades.

FIRST ON FOX: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s family quietly sold their private jet to a New York-based hedge fund following intense criticism of the plane’s carbon footprint in light of Kerry’s work fighting global warming. The Kerry family’s private jet, a Gulfstream GIV-SP, is no longer owned by his family’s charter firm Flying Squirrel LLC.

The Tennessee Senate passed a bill prohibiting medical providers from offering gender-transitioning treatment to transgender youth.  The legislation passed Monday along party lines in a 26-6 vote, with every Republican voting for the bill. The prohibited treatment includes puberty blockers, hormone treatments and gender-transitioning surgeries. Doctors could risk losing their medical licenses if they continue providing the treatment. Republican state Sen.

For over four decades, South Carolina has played a crucial role in determining the eventual Republican presidential nominee. Voting third in the GOP’s nominating calendar — after the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary — South Carolina’s Republican contest boasts an impressive track record. Dating back to its inception in 1980, only once has the eventual GOP standard-bearer failed to carry the Palmetto State.

White House officials were adamant in a virtual briefing with governors on Monday that flying objects recently spotted over North America are not of extraterrestrial origin, according to a recording of the briefing obtained by Fox News Digital.  “There are no UFOs. This is not an invasion of the aliens,” White House Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall told governors on the half-hour call.

California’s electric grid faces years of potential blackouts and failure as state leaders continue pushing aggressive measures to transition to renewable energy sources, policy experts tell Fox News Digital.  The state’s grid, which is still mainly powered by fossil fuels, is undergoing a major shift from natural gas and coal power to renewable power like wind and solar.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took to Twitter Monday evening to address the disastrous Ohio train derailment after completely avoiding any mention of the situation while speaking at a conference earlier in the day.

North Carolina House Republicans are again proposing to modify their chamber’s operating rules on veto overrides for the next two years, only now offering Democratic colleagues some broad limits on when they could be attempted. Temporary House rules approved on a party-line vote last month omitted a rule from previous years that required chamber leaders to give at least two days’ notice before holding an override vote.