NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! America’s nuclear renaissance will not be built in Washington alone. Just as the states that had the foresight to build today’s nuclear fleet enjoy its benefits, the states that rebuild our nuclear industrial base will reap the rewards of its resurgence. President Donald Trump understands this truth, which is why he took executive action last May to give states the lead in reinvigorating our nuclear industrial base.Since then, the Department of Energy has developed a clear framework focused on driving state-led efforts to reestablish the full nuclear fuel cycle at home and revitalize the American nuclear industry.The Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus concept proposes state hubs that align local and federal resources to expand regional industrial capacity, drive economic growth and restore technological leadership in this critically important field.This state-led model builds upon America’s past success, when the nation once built a thriving, fully integrated national nuclear enterprise. At the height of America’s nuclear buildout in the 1960s and 1970s, reactors were rising from North Carolina to Arkansas while domestic enrichment in Kentucky and Ohio, fuel fabrication in Washington and South Carolina, and commercial reprocessing in New York supported a closed fuel cycle.US…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Podcaster Joe Rogan called out California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday for criticizing independent journalist Nick Shirley for doing the work his government has failed to do.Shirley, a young YouTuber filming independent investigations, broke into the national spotlight after releasing a viral investigation in Minnesota alleging fraud in state-funded daycare programs. Recently, he has continued his work by alleging similar fraudulent business schemes in California.Newsom’s office, however, was not amused, and responded by mocking Shirley’s daycare fraud investigation by posting what appeared to be a satirical, AI-generated photo of a man carrying several cameras at a daycare and asking a teacher, “Hey, can I see your kids?””Did you see what the governor posted, what Newsom’s press office posted?” Rogan asked his guest on Friday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “They posted a photo of Nick Shirley, like a fake Nick Shirley, like a meme – like Nick Shirley peeking into windows.”NICK SHIRLEY SAYS DOXXERS ARE HAMPERING HIS INVESTIGATIONS, HAS CONCERNS ABOUT HIS OWN SECURITY Rogan went on to rhetorically address Newsom, saying, “Like, Hey, he’s doing your job. He’s uncovering fraud and what you’re doing is mocking him?”Comedian Mark Normand agreed,…

When it comes to home defense training, you have to train like you intend to fight.In 2013, I hunted with some American war fighters on the U.S. Army’s base in Hohenfels, Germany. That was an interesting experience—a story for another time—and it has nothing to do with home defense. However, while I was in Germany, I went to a Pond Training Academy. At that time, Pond was conducting some of the security at the gates to the Hohenfels Army base, and in the Pond Academy, they had a unique shooting range.That shooting range does have something to do with home defense.In the basement of the academy, they had a video range, where they would play video on the large movie screen and cadets could engage targets in the video. A unique light system marked their shots, and the video could be replayed to see where they hit. This was a very cool range experience, and I got to shoot on it with a rifle and with a handgun.With the rifle, I shot running boar targets, and with the handgun, I shot cartoons. (In Germany, it was against the law for non-security or law enforcement to shoot at humanoid targets.) The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! We call it “Trumpism” for short, the collection of positions, policies and preferences embraced by the president of the United States.But does all this amount to a coherent philosophy that can be carried out by future Republicans once Donald Trump is no longer in office?And where does that leave conservatism? Trump never pretended to be a classic conservative, which deeply divided the movement.There are those who quietly abandoned their previous views and have backed virtually everything Trump does, from tariffs to deportations to the war in Iran.CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST SAYS DONALD TRUMP HAS LOST THE COUNTRY. IT’S COMPLICATED. And there are those who renounced Trump from the start, who believe he betrayed conservatives – and who tend to have prime spots in cable commentary, so shows can boast they have Republican pundits (who happen to hate Trump).Some on the right bring a fierceness that eclipses the attacks by liberal critics. Former Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker, a Fox News contributor, said yesterday after the Iranians denied having talks with the White House that the “unsettling reality” is Americans have to “suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to be…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A top House Democrat is pushing back on calls for a probe into Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, hiring a wanted fugitive as a security guard before he was fatally shot in a standoff with SWAT officers. “I don’t know if that’s the House’s place to investigate,” Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. Diamon-Mazairre Robinson, 39, who used the alias “Mike King” while employed by Crockett, was shot and killed by Dallas SWAT officers earlier in March after a standoff in a hospital parking garage. Police were responding to an active warrant for him after allegedly impersonating law enforcement and recovered 11 firearms during the operation, some of which were stolen.”It depends if she was using campaign money or House resources, but that’s something for House Administration [Committee] to deal with if that’s the case,” Aguilar added.CROCKETT WARNS OF NATIONWIDE PROTESTS OVER ICE SHOOTING: ‘STATE-SANCTIONED EXECUTION’ Crockett’s office paid King at least $6,300 for security services in 2025, according to a Fox News Digital review of Crockett’s members representational allowance (MRA). The congresswoman’s House campaign account also doled out $340 to King for security services in March 2025, according…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Senate confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., as the ninth Homeland Security secretary, capping a sprint to replace embattled outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem.It also caps off a 13-year career in Congress that began in the House and saw Mullin score a seat in the Senate in 2021 where he became the de facto bridge between both chambers, helping to build trust between the House and Senate during last year’s push to pass the “big, beautiful bill.” Ahead of the vote he arrived flanked by his family, and was excited to cast his final vote on himself.  Mullin, who was picked by President Donald Trump earlier this month to lead the Department of Homeland Security, was confirmed on a largely party-line vote. Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., joined nearly every Republican to clinch his nomination.Heinrich said he bucked his party because he has seen that Mullin — who co-chairs the Senate Legislative Branch spending committee with him — “is not someone who can simply be bullied into changing his views.”MULLIN’S CONFIRMATION SURVIVES KEY TEST VOTE AS DHS REMAINS SHUT DOWN “And I look forward to having a secretary who doesn’t…

Editor’s Note: The author received a Springfield XD Mod.4 pistol on loan from the company for the purposes of writing this review. I’ve always appreciated the Springfield Armory XD series for what it is: a simple, reliable and accurate 9mm pistol. While the original may have more than two decades under its belt, I appreciate a gun with a solid reputation for performance. That’s what the XD handgun is known for: being a dependable, no-nonsense striker-fired pistol. The Springfield XD Mod.4 continues the legacy of a dependable striker-fired 9mm, blending familiar ergonomics with updated features for modern shooters. Image: Carson McDaniel With the new XD Mod.4, Springfield is clearly taking that familiar foundation and bringing it in line with what modern shooters expect — and all at an MSRP of just $399. On paper, it checks a lot of the right boxes: optics-ready capability, a 4” hammer-forged barrel, and a 16-round magazine with backward compatibility with existing full-size 9mm XD mags. But specs only tell part of the story. What really matters is how it feels in the hand and how it shoots. So, I spent some time with the XD Mod.4 to see exactly what it has to offer. Evolution…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A top strategist for former President Barack Obama said he discouraged then-Vice President Joe Biden from running in the 2016 presidential election. The University of Virginia’s Miller Center on Monday published an interview with Obama strategist David Plouffe, who was tasked with informing Biden that he should not run for president because he “could not win.” At the time, Biden was grieving the death of his son Beau Biden and was well behind Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. “What I would say is: ‘Listen, sir, first of all, I’m concerned about you as a human being. I’m not sure you’re in a state to run. But if this was six, seven months ago, it’s a different conversation. There’s no room. There’s just no room for you,’” Plouffe said.FORMER CLINTON AIDE PAUL BEGALA WARNS DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS BECOME A ‘FACULTY LOUNGE’ OF INTELLECTUAL ELITISM “Iowa is a tough state for you. New Hampshire is a tough state for you, Bernie’s going to win. And South Carolina, Hillary’s going to clean up there. There’s just no room for you,” he continued. “And by the way, Hillary’s not going to implode.” Plouffe told Biden that Sanders wouldn’t implode,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Education (ED) just took a big step closer to shutting down.The Trump administration announced on Thursday an interagency agreement between the ED and the Treasury to move student lending operations to the Treasury, which will “assume operational responsibility for collecting on defaulted Federal student loan debt and provide operational support to ED’s efforts to return borrowers to repayment,” the ED said in a release. “I think we’ve been very clear about this last week that this is a multiphase process,” Nicholas Kent, Undersecretary of Education, told Fox News Digital on Monday.DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO PULL BACK RACE-BASED CRITERIA IN FEDERAL GRANTS Throughout the 2024 campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to eliminate the Department of Education and signed an executive order directing his administration to start disbanding it. “The Secretary has been on the record saying that these interagency agreements are proof of concept, that we want to show Congress, that we want to show families, we want to show moms and dads and families that the Department of Education does not need to be here for federal grant aid and federal student loans to continue flowing to borrowers,” Kent said.Andrew Gillen…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic strategist James Carville criticized President Donald Trump and comedian Bill Maher during a recent episode of the “Politics War Room” podcast, where he responded to Trump’s remarks about former FBI Director Robert Mueller and pushed back on Maher’s comments about “Trump Derangement Syndrome.””Do me a favor, Bill. Try to get your head out of Bari Weiss’s a–,” Carville said, addressing Maher directly during the segment.Carville’s remarks came after Maher criticized him as acting like a “crazy old man” with “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” arguing that Carville represents a small segment of political media disconnected from everyday Americans.CARVILLE PREDICTS TRUMP WILL LEAVE OFFICE NEXT YEAR OUT OF FRUSTRATION AFTER MIDTERMS Carville pushed back on that characterization, summarizing Maher’s critique before responding.”The argument is basically myself and people like me are crazy… we’re just blind rage, crazy, we can’t stand Trump,” Carville said.He followed up by embracing the labels, calling himself and those like-minded crazy.”I’m going to agree with you. I’m crazy… a lot of people like me, we’re crazy,” Carville said.JAMES CARVILLE TELLS STEPHEN A SMITH DEMOCRATS ‘DO NOT KNOW HOW TO TALK TO YOUNG MEN’ Carville described his reaction to the current…