NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nancy Guthrie’s abduction from her home in the upscale Catalina Foothills north of Tucson, Arizona, shocked the nation. She’s the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie. She’s lived in the neighborhood for decades. And it’s not known for crime.Tucson is, however, even as Pima County crime is on the decline.NPR HOST COMPARES MASKED GUTHRIE SUSPECT TO ‘FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AGENT’Violence is widespread in the city proper, with large encampments where meth and other drugs are readily available and criminals reportedly exploit the city’s free bus system to carry out offenses. These revelations are gaining scrutiny as the search for Guthrie nears the end of its second week, and after surveillance video of a masked suspect on her front steps has led to thousands of tips but no arrests.Fox News Digital spoke with local business owner Josh Jacobson, who works with the nonprofit Tucson Crime Free Coalition, which advocates for adequate law enforcement staffing and resources, treatment for the needy and prosecution for criminals. Tucson is located in Pima County, and while he describes the county as “a relatively lower crime area,” he points to Tucson as the problem. “It’s really the city of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! This administration was handed a fiscal mess, and with that a difficult path. Our debt/GDP is in the neighborhood of 120%, the level of an emerging market in crisis, held together by the U.S. dollar still being a major reserve currency and trade currency, as well as the importance and relative stability of our economy and financial markets.Our government continues to run massive deficits — the type you might see during a recession or war, not during a time of GDP expansion. And we are now in a place where interest expense on our national debt exceeds our spending on defense. As historian Niall Ferguson’s eponymous Ferguson’s Law says, “any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defense risks ceasing to be a great power.”Given that higher interest rates beget higher debt servicing costs, and that we have an increasing amount of debt to finance, as well as trillions of dollars in debt to refinance this year, President Donald Trump is right to be concerned about interest rates.But there is no free lunch.LEAVITT ACCUSES SEN TILLIS OF HOLDING US ECONOMY ‘HOSTAGE’ OVER FED NOMINATION DISPUTE While the Fed has…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz was slammed online by Republicans after proposing a $10 million emergency relief package for small businesses across the state impacted by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.Walz unveiled the proposal Thursday after Border Czar Tom Homan announced that Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota would be ending. The proposal calls for forgivable loans ranging from $2,500 to $25,000 to be distributed to eligible businesses that are able to demonstrate “substantial revenue loss” during “specified dates” tied to the operation.”The campaign of retribution by the federal administration has been more than a short-term disruption; it has inflicted long-term damage on Minnesota communities,” Walz said in a statement. “Recovery will not happen overnight. Families, workers, and business owners are feeling the effects, and our responsibility is clear: we will help rebuild, stabilize these businesses, protect jobs, and ensure Minnesota’s economy can recover and thrive.”Republicans quickly criticized the proposal as Minnesota continues to face extensive fraud allegations.CONVICTED MINNESOTA FRAUDSTER ALLEGES WALZ, ELLISON WERE AWARE OF WIDESPREAD FRAUD President Donald Trump previously claimed that fraud in Minnesota exceeded $19 billion.Dozens of people have been prosecuted in Minnesota in recent years for alleged large-scale…

BLADE Show Texas will kick off the ’26 show slate in style.Knives and knifemakers planetwide and most everything else keen, utilitarian and covetable will inundate the 5th Annual BLADE Show Texas March 20-21 in the Fort Worth Convention Center.The show will host over 400 exhibitors and thousands of knives from such countries as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and elsewhere, not to mention top American custom knifemakers, ABS master and journeyman smiths and knifemaking members of the Knifemakers’ Guild; the lion’s share of members of the South Texas Slipjoint Cartel; the BLADE Show Texas custom and factory knife judging awards; and some of the world’s leading factory knife companies, including current and past winners of BLADE Magazine Knife-Of-The-Year® Awards.Get ready for some Texas steel set on sizzle.The Fort Worth Convention Center will be crawling with cutters, with gobs of custom and factory knives—from low end to high end, stock removal to forged, fixed blade to folder—tomahawks, swords, sharpeners and more. And if the exhibiting makers don’t have what you want, the exhibiting custom knife purveyors and factory retailers probably will—and if they don’t, they can put you in touch with who…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The overwhelming media consensus is that Pam Bondi turned in an atrocious performance at a House hearing in which she hurled personal insults at Democratic lawmakers.And sure, she succeeded in virtually avoiding questions by repeating, like a mantra, “Merrick Garland” – as in, why did they never question Joe Biden’s AG about the Jeffrey Epstein case? (Some members conceded she had a point but couldn’t get an answer about her own tenure.)Still, the Democrats played a major role in the meltdown as well. Members repeatedly used four minutes out of their allotted five to make angry speeches, then clashed with Bondi as she tried to deflect their questions while the final seconds ticked off.In short, they treated the proceedings as a circus on steroids as well – yet were largely let off the hook by the mainstream media.BONDI HEARING DEVOLVES INTO CHAOS OF SHOUTS AS AG ACCUSES TOP DEMOCRATS OF ‘THEATRICS’ Everyone looked awful. And yet, in this hyperpartisan age, neither side believed that substantive information would be unearthed. The goal these days is to create a viral moment that can be replayed on television, online, or on videos they post on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday asked a court to revoke the Israeli citizenship of two Palestinian men convicted of terrorism offenses.The effort appears to be the first use of a law enacted three years ago allowing the revocation of citizenship and subsequent deportation of Palestinian citizens who were convicted of certain violent crimes such as terrorism and received financial support from the Palestinian Authority as a reward.Netanyahu filed court documents arguing that the severity of the crimes, along with payments the men reportedly received from a Palestinian Authority fund, justify pulling their citizenship and expelling them from the Jewish State.The prime minister has long claimed the fund rewards violence, including attacks on civilians.TRUMP SAYS HE WOULD ‘ABSOLUTELY’ REVOKE CITIZENSHIP FROM NATURALIZED CRIMINALS — IF HE HAS THE AUTHORITY But Palestinian officials have contended that it is a safety net for the broad cross‑section of society with family members in Israeli detention. They also accused Netanyahu of focusing on the relatively small number of beneficiaries who carried out the attacks.When the law passed, critics argued that it allowed Israel’s legal system to treat Jewish and Palestinian people differently. Civil rights groups…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The USS Gerald R. Ford has been ordered to move from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East, as President Donald Trump weighs whether to take military action against Iran amid tensions in the region, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News.This will put two aircraft carriers and their accompanying warships in the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and three guided-missile destroyers arrived in the Middle East more than two weeks ago.The USS Ford, which set out on deployment in June 2025, was sent from the Mediterranean Sea to the Caribbean last fall as the administration established a significant military presence ahead of the operation to strike Venezuela and capture its president, Nicolás Maduro.SCOTT BESSENT SAYS IRAN UNDERSTANDS ‘BRUTE FORCE’ AS TRUMP WEIGHS OPTIONS AMID NUCLEAR STANDOFF On Thursday, Trump warned Iran that failure to reach a deal with the U.S. regarding its nuclear program would be “very traumatic” after the two countries held indirect talks in Oman last week.”It should happen quickly. They should agree very quickly,” he told reporters. Trump held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and said he insisted to the Israeli leader…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Switzerland is set to vote this summer on a proposal aimed at capping the country’s population at 10 million, the latest effort by the nation’s leading right-wing party to restrict immigration.The Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which holds the most seats in parliament, announced the referendum on Wednesday after gathering enough support through petition signatures.  The measure, which will be put on the national ballot on June 14, comes just as the population neared 9.1 million, according to the Federal Statistics Office.The anti-immigration campaign was proposed as officials noted that foreign-born residents now make up about 27 percent of the population.DUBLIN PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE, BURN VEHICLE AFTER MIGRANT ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING IRISH GIRL The SVP, which has long sought to curb rising migration, said that more than 1 million immigrants from the European Union (EU) came to Switzerland in 2024.The party called the situation “uncontrolled immigration,” saying that “the majority of the Swiss population suffers” from increased demand on environmental resources and infrastructure.”Our small country is bursting at the seams,” the party said. “Nature is being paved over. There are ever more traffic jams on the roads, overburdened public transport, overburdened schools,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Prince William’s Earthshot Prize is facing scrutiny after its founding partner was linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest Department of Justice files release. However, one expert says it’s “a bit of a stretch” to suggest the Prince of Wales received funding for his charity through any connection to Epstein.Although William is the face of Earthshot Prize — which is a global environmental prize that is awarded to five winners each year for their contributions towards environmentalism — he recruited partners before launching the organization in 2020.One of those partners is DP World, and their CEO, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, was named in the latest batch of Epstein files.William has not been named or implemented in the Epstein files. Representatives for Buckingham Palace and Earthshot Prize did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. On Wednesday, William’s Earthshot Prize was reported to the Charity Commission by the anti-monarchy group Republic. In a press release, the organization clearly shared an email Epstein wrote Sulayem while serving his prison sentence in Palm Beach, Florida in April 2009.ANDREW DODGES POLICE PROBE BUT KING CHARLES’ EPSTEIN ‘NIGHTMARE’ ISN’T OVER: EXPERTSEpstein emailed Sulayem: “Where…

The Army held an activation ceremony for its Futures and Concepts Command on Thursday at Fort Eustis, Virginia, marking the headquarters’ transition to full command status.The move represents the organization’s shift from a center to a command under the Army’s Transformation and Training Command, reaffirming its authority in force design and development as the Army accelerates modernization efforts. The official activation order, read during the ceremony, said the unit was formally activated in October 2025. The Futures and Concepts Command, or FCC, is charged with determining what the Army will look like years from now by developing how its units are organized, what kinds of capabilities they will need and how they will be expected to fight.According to the service, FCC serves as the “architect of the Army,” by developing operational concepts, experimenting with them and translating those findings to decide what the force will need years down the road. The activation follows a sweeping reorganization in 2025 in which the Army merged its modernization and training headquarters into a new command, known as the Transformation and Training Command, or T2COM, under which FCC will fall. Lifting the FCC to command status gives the organization more institutional weight and resources.“Operating…