NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration has proposed requiring U.S. taxpayers to disclose their citizenship and work authorization status to the IRS on the annual tax form that nearly all workers file each year.The administration claims the proposed requirement would help federal officials stop illegal migrants from collecting federal benefits they are not eligible for, which officials argue could save taxpayers up to $2 billion.The IRS posted its draft 1040 form for 2026 in late August, which includes the question, “At the time you file your return, are you, and your spouse if filing jointly, a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or an alien lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.?” The form has “Yes” and “No” checkboxes for both the filer and their spouse.A draft of a second form, Schedule 3-A, which is used to claim refundable tax credits, features a similar question.APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ORDER BLOCKING IRS FROM SHARING TAXPAYER DATA WITH ICE Under the proposal, every tax filer must certify their immigration or citizenship status to the IRS under penalty of law to file their return.The Treasury Department said the new question aims to keep illegal migrants from taking advantage of refundable tax…

Future Pro Football Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers’ NFL farewell tour continued Thursday night as the Pittsburgh Steelers faced the Cleveland Browns in what was scheduled to be his final Thursday night game.The ending was not what Rodgers likely envisioned, as the Browns continued their strong start to the season with a victory over their AFC North rivals. Deshaun Watson, an early NFL comeback of the year candidate, was efficient, throwing for 268 yards and a touchdown.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated. This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Rodgers entered the night one victory shy of tying Tom Brady’s record of 14 Thursday night wins, while Pittsburgh’s road struggles against AFC North opponents continued as the Steelers fell to 0-10 in such games.DESHAUN WATSON IS BEGINNING TO CRAFT ONE OF THE MOST IMPROBABLE COMEBACK STORIES IN SPORTS HISTORYRodgers finished with 299 passing yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions in Pittsburgh’s 27-24 loss. After the Steelers’ eight-play, 80-yard fourth-quarter drive tied the game at 24, the Browns answered with a seven-play possession of their own. Watson…

While the three other wild card series ended in two-game sweeps, the matchup between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies has delivered exceptional postseason drama.In game one, the Braves trailed late while trying to mount a comeback against typically dominant closer Jhoan Duran. With two outs in the bottom of the 8th down 3-2, third baseman Austin Riley delivered, launching a game-changing homer to give Atlanta a 5-3 lead. Raisel Iglesias closed it out to give them a 1-0 series lead.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated. This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Philadelphia turned the tables in game two, just when it seemed like the Braves would close out the sweep. With the score tied at one, Bryce Harper misplayed a routine fly ball to right field in the bottom of the 7th, allowing a run to score and setting up another to come in on a sacrifice fly. In the 8th, he made up for it. After Kyle Schwarber demolished a ball to make it 3-2, Harper followed it up with one of his…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Christa Pike’s lawyers are calling on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to commute her death sentence to life in prison after she remained alive following two doses of lethal injection drugs in what one death penalty expert described as an unprecedented event.Pike, who was sentenced to death for a 1995 murder of a classmate, was rushed to a hospital Wednesday night after surviving her planned execution. Her lawyers said on Thursday that she remains in critical condition and is receiving “lifesaving medical care.””We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment,” attorney Randy Spivey said during a news conference. “But we know she is alive right now.”The botched execution prompted Lee to halt any further efforts to carry out Pike’s execution and the state’s other execution scheduled this year. He also ordered a third-party review into Pike’s execution, which he called “deeply disturbing.”CHRISTA PIKE’S ATTORNEYS SAY SHE’S IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BOTCHED LETHAL INJECTIONS Pike’s lawyers are now calling for her death sentence to be commuted.Her lawyers filed an emergency motion with the Tennessee Supreme Court seeking to immediately halt and stay the execution, noting…

KYIV, Ukraine — The Space Force and the Pentagon have commissioned two companies to build new reconnaissance satellites capable of delivering high-resolution “space-to-space imagery” of objects more than 22,000 miles above Earth.Space Systems Command awarded the prototype contracts to Northrop Grumman and True Anomaly under the Geosynchronous High-Resolution Optical Space-Based Tactical Reconnaissance program, or GHOST-R, on Sept. 18.The deal pairs a veteran American defense prime with a four-year-old space tech company – both of which are already under contract with the Space Force to develop space-based interceptors for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative.“To be able to negate threats in space, we must be able to find, fix, track, and target those threats,” Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of U.S. Space Command, said Sept. 16 at the AMOS Conference in Maui, Hawaii, just days before the announcement. “Targeting in the space domain is maturing, but it still has a long way to go.”GHOST-R is meant to address some of these problems by using “commercially developed space vehicles, buses, and electro-optical payloads to deliver high-resolution, space-to-space imagery for characterizing resident space objects in [geostationary Earth orbit] GEO,” according to the command announcement. The new contracts are the latest major development in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., painted a far more sweeping picture of a Cornell University sexual assault case than what’s alleged in the underlying civil complaint, while also making claims the university disputes.Speaking during a town hall hosted by More Perfect University on Sunday in Ithaca, New York, Ocasio-Cortez addressed allegations outlined in a civil complaint filed last month by a former Cornell student identified as Jane Doe, who alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted by multiple fraternity members in October 2024.”Seven men drugged and gang raped a 20-year-old woman,” Ocasio-Cortez said.”They lured her in to a fraternity house,” she continued. “They drugged her with ketamine. They then posted to a group chat that she was incapacitated, and seven men took turns gang raping her for seven hours.”CONVICTED RAPIST WHO PREYED ON WOMEN AT AMERICA’S TOP PARTY SCHOOL FACES RECKONING AFTER COURTHOUSE DASH “Their fraternity knew. This was reported to Cornell University. And after looking into this matter, they expelled two of them and made the rest write essays as their form of punishment,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I want to be clear that the culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is protected…

The U.S. Air Force has ordered four more MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters, the first under full-rate production, Boeing said Thursday, just weeks after the service declared the aircraft ready for its nuclear missile security mission. The announcement comes during a busy week for Boeing. On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy selected the company to build its F/A-XX sixth-generation carrier-based fighter under a development contract worth more than $20 billion. The same day, the Air Force signed a $2.38 billion order for 22 more F-15EX Eagle II fighters. The Grey Wolf contract, worth roughly $85 million and including some sustainment work, was awarded Sept. 25, a Boeing spokesperson told Defense News. The company expects to deliver the four helicopters in 2028 or 2029. The order brings the total number under contract to 42, with 27 already delivered. Six of the earlier helicopters were test aircraft, and the rest came from production lots ordered before this first full-rate lot. “This milestone validates key readiness levels for Grey Wolf and supports the service’s fielding plans to secure vital national assets across the country’s strategic missile fields,” Kathleen Jolivette, vice president and general manager of Vertical Lift Programs at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, said…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Texas officials last week arrested a Dallas-area community college professor accused of sending sexually explicit photos and messages online to an individual he believed was a 14-year-old boy.Aaron Wood, 34, who taught drama for two years at North Central Texas College (NCTC), allegedly sent the messages on Snapchat to an undercover agent in Florida on May 22.The Denton County Sheriff’s Office arrested Wood last Friday and charged him with solicitation of a minor via computer, according to county records.The school confirmed his arrest in a statement, saying he was no longer employed as of Monday.FORMER TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER ARRESTED AFTER PROBE INTO INAPPROPRIATE STUDENT RELATIONSHIP NCTC added that the alleged offense did not involve any school staff or students.”To our knowledge, the alleged offense does not involve NCTC, its students or staff,” the college said. “We can verify that he has had no contact with NCTC students, faculty or staff since his arrest on September 25, 2026.”According to the arrest affidavit, Wood allegedly engaged in an online conversation on Snapchat with an undercover officer from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, FOX 4 Dallas reported.During their interaction, Wood reportedly told…

The Coast Guard responded to 886 marine fires between 2015 and 2025, including 206 that resulted in serious damage, vessel destruction, injuries or deaths, according to a new Government Accountability Office report that calls for changes to the service’s response and federal law.Several factors contribute to the severity of marine fires, including a lack of coordination between Coast Guard units and land-based authorities that assist in responding to the incidents.The report follows a mandate in the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to study the incidents of marine fires and Coast Guard responses.The report found several deficiencies in the Coast Guard’s responses to marine fires despite the establishment of a task force to improve such responses following the 2023 deaths of two land-based firefighters in Newark, New Jersey. Those deficiencies include a lack of coordination between local Coast Guard units and community fire response; inadequate training and coordination between Coast Guard personnel and land-based fire crews; little funding and resources for training and emergency response; lack of coordination and information sharing between Coast Guard sectors; and inadequate vessel response plans, or VRPs.Those VRPs are at the heart of the proposed congressional action. GAO recommends amending the Federal Water Pollution Control…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that formally recognizes two Muslim holidays as state holidays on Sunday, marking it the second state to formally recognize both holidays statewide.California Assembly Bill 2017 officially added Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to the list of state holidays, which would permit public schools and colleges to close and allow state employees to be eligible to observe the holidays. However, schools and businesses will not be required to close on these days, and courts will be required to stay open.This makes California the second state in the country, after Washington state, to pass statewide legislation recognizing the Muslim holidays.DEI HIRING BOOST FOR ONE BLUE STATE’S MUSLIM COMMISSION INITIATIVE FLIES IN FACE OF TRUMP’S ANTI-WOKE PUSH Before signing AB 2017, Newsom had multiple bills on his desk that provided protections and exceptions for other religious observances, including Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For example, AB 395, which reached the governor days before AB 2017, would codify these Jewish holidays, among others, into state law and require state agencies and facilities like schools to “make every reasonable effort” to avoid scheduling significant functions…