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President Donald Trump has defended his use of the term “shylock” at a rally this week, saying he was unaware it is considered antisemitic by some people. Trump used the term in his speech in Iowa on Thursday, shortly after his signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed by Congress earlier in the day.Shylock is the name of the villainous Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” who demands a pound of flesh from a debtor.

Prominent Democrats sent messages of doom and gloom rather than celebration on July 4, drawing ire from a multitude of critics. Many of the messages included warnings about supposed threats to the country emanating from the Trump administration.”This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now.

Eight migrants were denied a request by a Massachusetts federal judge on Friday to have their deportation to South Sudan halted.Justice Department lawyers said the men were scheduled to be flown to South Sudan on Friday at 7 p.m. ET after two courts considered their emergency request on July 4, a day when courts would otherwise be closed, Reuters reported. The migrants, who are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Burma, Sudan and Vietnam, filed new claims on Thursday after the U.S.

President Donald Trump signed his $3.3 trillion “big, beautiful bill” on Friday, after the House passed the final version of the measure Thursday to ensure it arrived at the president’s desk by his self-imposed July 4 deadline. The bill includes key provisions that would permanently establish individual and business tax breaks included in Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and incorporates new tax deductions to cut duties on tips and overtime pay.

A Florida city commissioner said she was shocked to find herself “standing alone” after her colleagues in the state’s southernmost municipality voted this week to end an agreement between the police department and federal immigration authorities.Key West city Commissioner Lissette Carey told Fox News Digital that she considered the potential consequences of severing the 287(g) agreement, which allows police officers to stop, question and detain illegal immigrants.

President Donald Trump signs the sweeping Republican-crafted domestic policy package that he and the GOP call the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” into law on Friday at the White House.The massive tax cuts and spending bill passed the House and Senate this week by razor-thin margins along near party lines. But the political battle over the bill is far from over, as it moves from Capitol Hill to the campaign trail.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo are calling for a full investigation into allegations that Zohran Mamdani falsely identified himself as African American on his Columbia University application.However, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa says the controversy is a distraction from Mamdani’s socialist agenda and only turns him into a victim, energizing his supporters and swaying undecided voters.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, identified as “Black or African American” on his 2009 Columbia University application even though he now says he does not consider himself Black, The New York Times reported Thursday.According to The Times, the internal data came from a leaked database of past Columbia applications which was part of a recent hack targeting the Ivy League school.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is calling out the hypocrisy of progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who said the agency is “acting like a terrorist force,” pointing to an earlier attempt by the congresswoman to shift blame away from an actual terrorist.In a social media post this week, Jayapal claimed “ICE is acting like a terrorist force” and that “people across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S.

President Donald Trump on Thursday celebrated Congress’ passage of his “big, beautiful bill,” describing the sweeping measure as “the biggest bill of its kind ever signed” and promising, “it’s going to make this country into a rocket ship. It’s going to be really great.

Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman secretly met with President Donald Trump and other key officials in the White House on Thursday to discuss de-escalation efforts with Iran, multiple sources confirmed with Fox News.Khalid, also known as KBS, is the younger brother of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.Multiple sources told Fox News Channel’s chief political anchor Bret Baier about the meeting.

The Supreme Court on Thursday handed President Donald Trump a key immigration win, clearing the way for the deportation of eight migrants from Djibouti to South Sudan, a country not listed in their original removal orders.In a short, unsigned opinion, the justices granted the administration’s request to “clarify” a prior ruling, confirming that their June 23 stay of a lower court injunction also blocked a follow-up remedial order issued May 21.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Thursday to call out Republicans who are still refusing to get behind a House procedural vote on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” With the vote having stalled late Wednesday – with five Republican “nays” and another eight Republicans having yet to cast a vote – the president touted the benefits the country is poised to gain with the bill’s passage.

The Senate’s version of the “one big, beautiful bill” includes a tiny, 1% tax on international cash transfers — called a remittance tax — which, according to experts, will have a major impact on immigrants working in the U.S.A remittance is a money transfer to another country outside the U.S., which is a common practice among immigrant workers who send part of their wages back to family in their native countries.

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court on Wednesday, seeking to overturn lower court rulings that blocked the administration from firing three Biden-appointed regulators.The emergency appeal asks the High Court to allow the Trump administration to fire three members of the U.S.

A Biden-appointed federal judge on Tuesday stepped in to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to dramatically reorganize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after 19 Democratic attorneys general sued to stop the reforms. HHS announced in March it would be laying off around 20,000 full-time agency employees, while also reducing the number of regional offices across the country and consolidating several HHS divisions.

Former President George W. Bush joined up with former President Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono to comfort United States Agency for International Development employees Monday, while also taking shots at President Donald Trump and his administration for shuttering the agency plagued by accusations of fraud and abuse.

The House Rules Committee has teed up President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” for a chamber-wide vote Wednesday after a nearly 12-hour-long session debating the massive piece of legislation.It now heads to the entire chamber for consideration, where several Republicans have already signaled they’re concerned with various aspects of the measure.Just two Republicans voted against reporting the bill out of committee – Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.

Los Angeles and several surrounding cities are canceling — or postponing — Fourth of July celebrations in response to increased activity by federal immigration officials in the area.The County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation postponed a summer movie and concert series, while canceling this year’s East Los Angeles Rock’n 4th of July celebration “out of caution and in response to recent ICE enforcement activity.

A federal judge shot down the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protection status (TPS) for over 520,000 Haitian immigrants currently living in the U.S.The TPS designations for Haitians were expected to expire on Aug. 3 with termination to become effective on Sept. 2.U.S.

An ICE Homeland Security Investigations probe in Maryland led to the sentencing of a man who “used his position of authority” to sexually abuse a 2-year-old and who produced and distributed child sex abuse material online.U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander sentenced Maryland man Mark Rice, 38, to 30 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing and distributing child sexual abuse material. The sentence was part of a plea deal.

The Pentagon has frozen some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine, including Patriot missile interceptors and 155 mm artillery shells, at a pivotal moment in Kyiv’s war with Russia, Fox News has confirmed.According to U.S. military officials tracking the shipments, the weapons were already staged in Poland before the order came down. The halt was driven by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby after a review of U.S.

A deal that had been reached between Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, over how states can regulate artificial intelligence has been pulled from President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill.

As the Senate continued to inch closer to finalizing President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the president took to social media early Tuesday to warn that a failure to come to an agreement would end in the largest tax increase in history.The message came after lawmakers had been in a marathon “vote-a-rama,” for several hours, submitting amendments to the megabill from either side of the aisle.

Elon Musk has not given up his criticism over what he sees as a lack of spending cuts in the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” insisting on his platform X on Monday “that we live in a one-party country” and threatening that if the bill passes a new “America Party” would be formed.

U.S. Capitol Police arrested dozens of demonstrators inside the Capitol rotunda and outside Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as members of the Senate continued to debate President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”The Associated Press said demonstrators were protesting the Republican tax and spending cut bill at two different sites.One of the sites was the Capitol Rotunda, and the other was at an intersection near the U.S. Capitol Building.U.S.

Democratic New York City mayoral candidate and self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism over remarks made at a Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, where he urged attendees not to compromise on goals like “seizing the means of production.