Politics

Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul is ahead in the New York governor’s race, but independent voters are aligning with the GOP in critical issues like rising crime and inflation, according to a recent poll. A Marist Poll released Thursday found that Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul has a 10-point advantage over GOP challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin among all registered voters in …

EXCLUSIVE: Top Republicans are hammering Dr. Anthony Fauci over a new grant issued by the National Institutes of Health to EcoHealth Alliance to study bat coronaviruses, after a previous grant to the company drew scrutiny over its links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The $653,392 grant to EcoHealth was made through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases …

Neither the FBI nor any other intelligence agency had any corroboration for allegations included in the anti-Trump dossier that was used to justify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant and its renewals to monitor Trump campaign aide Carter Page, an FBI official testified on the second day of the Igor Danchenko trial. Special Counsel John Durham, who has been investigating …

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is raising questions about whether the Air Force broke the law by releasing personnel records for a GOP congressional candidate, which outed her as a survivor of sexual assault. Politico reported last week that Jennifer-Ruth Green, a GOP candidate for Congress in Indiana, was sexually assaulted during her time in the military. The outlet reported …

The House Jan. 6 committee will hold a hearing Thursday focusing on former President Donald Trump’s state of mind leading up to the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, despite not receiving testimony during the panel’s 15-month tenure from the ex-commander-in-chief or top associates linked to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A committee aide told Fox News Digital …

FIRST ON FOX: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky met with parents just once leading up to the release of school reopening guidance last year. Now, new documents obtained by Fox News Digital reveal the parents featured in that meeting were primarily left-wing activists, including the head of a transgender-aligned group and others at organizations funded by Democratic …

Former President Trump responded after a federal judge ordered him to sit for a deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her in the 1990s and harmed her reputation when he denied the allegation. “E. Jean Carroll is not telling the truth, is a woman who I had nothing to do with, …

Democratic Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Tim Ryan once called for an end to cash bail nationwide and called the system “inherently unfair.” Ryan made the comments during a civil liberties forum when he was running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. “A good portion of people who are in jail right now are there pretrial. Right, people who have …

Multnomah County, Oregon, which contains the city of Portland and is responsible for prosecuting criminal activity in the city, is looking to remove gender-related language from its charter. Voters in the county are set to vote on a local ballot measure that would remove language in the 1966 charter that includes “gender binary pronouns,” such as “he, she, his and …

The majority of registered voters in Wisconsin are deeply concerned about crime in their state as Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., takes the lead in a fiery Senate matchup against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes. Johnson took the lead with 52% support in the Wisconsin Senate race over Barnes, who was the candidate of choice for 46% of respondents.  The poll …