NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FLAGSTAFF, N.C. – U.S. Route 66 is celebrating 100 years since it became one of the most iconic corridors in American history.The road stretches 2,448 miles, starting in Chicago and ending in Santa Monica, California. Although the historic highway was decommissioned in the mid-1980s, towns and states created organizations to preserve what was left of the road.With hundreds of miles running through the American Southwest, some of the out-of-this-world landmarks are found in Northern Arizona. There is little doubt that Meteor Crater, considered one of the world’s best-preserved meteorite impact sites, is one of the route’s most notable cosmic stops. But in the 1950s, people also reported a UFO crash in Kingman, Arizona, on the western portion of the route. Midway across Arizona’s stretch of Route 66 is Flagstaff, which locals call a gateway to the Grand Canyon — and to outer space.FOX’S STEVE DOOCY VISITS KANSAS FOR ROUTE 66’S CENTENNIAL Before Route 66 was built, astronomer Percival Lowell moved to Flagstaff to build an observatory.”They look up, and they see what looks like a big birthday cake up on the side of the hill,” Lowell Observatory historian Kevin Schindler said.Percival Lowell believed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrats in the Michigan House have proposed a package of bills that aim to legalize medically assisted suicide for certain terminally ill adults.The package, which would create a Death with Dignity Act, would allow certain terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to request and receive medication to end their own life.As part of the package, patients would need to make multiple requests, both in written and oral form, and must wait at least 15 days between requests. They must also receive an evaluation from two doctors, potentially receive a mental health evaluation, be informed of alternatives such as hospice and pain care and be told they may change their minds at any time.”A person who without authorization of the patient willfully alters or forges a request for medication under this act or conceals or destroys a rescission of that request with the intent or effect of causing the patient’s death is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or a fine of not more than $375,000.00, or both,” the legislation reads.DELAWARE’S ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL SIGNED INTO LAW, MAKING IT THE 11TH STATE…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Marco Rubio has conquered the online world.The word most frequently associated with him is “hilarious.”He’s become a one-man meme, with endless fake images of him wearing different outfits to exaggerate his many jobs.When a top government official goes so utterly viral, it’s usually for doing something cringeworthy.WHAT RUBIO’S RISE AS THE INTERNET’S ‘FIXER’ TELLS US ABOUT TODAY’S POLITICS But here’s the difference: Rubio is in on the joke.In fact, he’s done everything he can to fan the flames of his cyberfame.The secretary of state holds many jobs, including national security adviser, and, for a time, acting national archivist, acting head of the USAID program and de facto ruler of Venezuela.VIRAL MARCO RUBIO CLIP ON HIS VISION FOR AMERICA SPARKS MORE 2028 SPECULATIONFirst, he has a really good sense of humor.Football coach, sailor, Viking, Eskimo, Canadian mountie, armed bandit, astronaut, medieval disciple, grime-covered plumber – all posted by users with funny captions.And all this comes as President Trump has been asking his advisers: JD or Marco?Not that anyone’s been thinking about 2028, right? Peak Marco came when he briefed the press while filling in for Karoline Leavitt, who just had a baby.Rubio played…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Minnesota Senate on Monday narrowly passed a bill that would restrict federal agents from concealing their identities, with exceptions, and create a path for lawsuits over alleged constitutional violations stemming from immigration enforcement in the state.The bill narrowly passed with a 34-33 party line vote. It now heads to the House, where it faces an uphill battle with the chamber evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.The legislation also instructs schools, day cares and health care facilities to deny access to agents seeking to conduct civil immigration enforcement on their premises without a signed judicial warrant, with some exceptions. And it prohibits certain civil immigration arrests of people attending court proceedings.Additionally, it gives state officials the authority to investigate deaths involving federal agents’ use of force and creates penalties or civil liability in certain cases when someone fails to render aid after a shooting.TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN IN THE SPOTLIGHT AHEAD OF MIDTERMS AS FATAL MN SHOOTINGS IGNITE BACKLASH Democratic Sen. Omar Fateh, a co-sponsor of the bill, said the federal government’s raids in Minnesota displayed “a show of force against immigrant communities,” according to The Minnesota Star Tribune.”They said agents were here…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NBC revealed Monday that “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie will be hosting a primetime “Wordle” game show, with the announcement coinciding with the 100-day mark of her mother’s disappearance.”Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, who is set to produce the game show, appeared on “Today” alongside Guthrie to promote the new program.”We’ve been developing ‘Wordle’ as a game show for the past two and a half years with The New York Times, and it’s official, we are making ‘Wordle’ game show with our host, Savannah Guthrie!” Fallon told viewers.”We’ve been holding this secret between us for, like, a long time now,” Guthrie said.SAVANNAH GUTHRIE ASKS FOR PRAYER AS HER MOTHER REMAINS MISSING: ‘WE NEED YOU’ “Wordle” is the widely-popular puzzle game that first went viral in 2021 and was later bought by The New York Times.Guthrie revealed that “Wordle” had been picked up by NBC in February and that it was supposed to be shot in March, but the network’s plans were upended by the tragic disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, from her Tuscon, Arizona, home. She thanked the network, Fallon, The Times and Universal for pausing production.AUTHORITIES TO RELEASE IMAGE OF…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Outrage erupted online following a chaotic police-involved shooting in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday, with critics pointing to the suspected gunman’s criminal history after authorities said he opened fire along a busy roadway.Video shared by FOX 25 Boston appears to show the suspect, identified by Middlesex County District Attorney Marian T. Ryan as Tyler Brown, walking down the street while firing as cars pass nearby, prompting a heavy law enforcement response.The station reported the video shows the suspect being shot, though the portion of the footage it shared does not include that moment.Massachusetts State Police said troopers responded around 1:20 p.m. to a shooting involving law enforcement in the area of Memorial Drive and River Street.FBI, POLICE INVESTIGATING AFTER SUSPECTED ARMED PERSON SEEN IN VIDEO NEAR UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELLWARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT”EMS has responded to the scene to treat at least one individual for a gunshot wound,” the agency said, adding that no additional details about the circumstances were immediately available.Cambridge Police Department (CPD) said officers were called shortly after 1:30 p.m. for reports of gunshots in the same area, noting there is no ongoing danger to the public.MASSACHUSETTS POLICE OFFICER SHOT BY…

The U.S. Navy released its fiscal 2027 shipbuilding plan Monday, laying out the possibility of the service turning to allied nations to build its vessels.The confirmation of potential outsourcing comes after President Donald Trump reportedly rejected previous Navy Secretary John Phelan’s suggestion to build Trump-class battleships abroad to meet the president’s desired delivery of 2028.“Building and maintaining ships in America is central to the president’s vision and strengthens the nation’s industrial base,” the budget document said. “While American shipbuilding remains the priority, the Navy will evaluate overseas options and whether allied and partner shipbuilding can supplement domestic production if U.S. industry cannot meet required timelines.”Phelan told reporters at the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium in April that the Navy was going to study the possibility of building warships outside the U.S.He cited labor shortages in the U.S. as a catalyst for the potential move.He was fired one day later, with the Trump administration citing a needed change in leadership.But over the coming days, reports surfaced that a brewing fissure between Trump and Phelan came to a head after Trump bristled at Phelan’s idea to build Navy battleships abroad, a sentiment that flew in the face of Trump’s previous promise to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A small Pennsylvania liberal arts college is scrubbing a professor’s name from a campus building after revelations he excavated a Native American burial site and promoted racial hierarchies.Swarthmore College, located outside Philadelphia, has already removed Spencer Trotter’s name from the building formerly known as Trotter Hall, now temporarily labeled “Old Science Hall,” as it works toward a permanent replacement. The college also removed Trotter’s name from the adjacent lawn.The push to remove Trotter’s name follows a more than two-year investigation by the college, according to the school’s student newspaper, The Phoenix. The review followed a 2022 report that highlighted the excavation of a Lenape burial site whose ownership was later returned to Native American hands, the outlet reported.According to The Phoenix, a faculty-chaired task force that includes students, faculty and staff has since spent months reviewing records, surveying the campus community and narrowing potential names, with a final recommendation due to the college president by May 1, 2026, before being sent for Board of Managers approval.CALIFORNIA TO REMOVE RACIST TERM FOR NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN FROM MORE THAN 30 PLACES The building has carried Trotter’s name since 1937, but a college review, detailed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. ​State Department ‌announced on Monday that it refused to back an ​International Migration Review Forum “progress” declaration, ​accusing the U.N. of efforts to “advocate and facilitate replacement immigration in the United States and across the broader West.”The U.S. did not participate in the second International Migration Review Forum, held May 5–8 at U.N. Headquarters in New York, and will not support the declaration, the department said in a statement on Monday.The forum is the U.N.’s main global platform for member states to review implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, according to the U.N. Network on Migration. The 2026 forum was scheduled to produce an intergovernmentally agreed “Progress Declaration.”President Donald Trump ended U.S. participation in the U.N. process to develop the Global Compact for Migration during his first term in 2017, and now the State Department says the federal government will again affirm its opposition.TRUMP PULLS US OUT OF UN-LINKED MIGRATION FORUM IN BOLD IMMIGRATION MOVE The Global Compact was adopted in 2018 after the U.S. withdrew from the process. The U.N. and International Organization for Migration describe the compact as a cooperative framework intended to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Christian college presidents are sounding the alarm about new federal regulations they say would cripple Christian higher education and effectively penalize students pursuing religious vocations.The Department of Education’s proposal, known as the Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS), introduces an earnings premium test to determine federal loan eligibility for college programs. The rule — an implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act enacted last year — is designed to protect students from low-earning degrees.Under the new metric, an undergraduate program “fails” if its graduates do not earn more than the median income of a high school graduate aged 25 to 34. For graduate programs, the benchmark is the median earnings of similarly aged adults holding only a bachelor’s degree.The Education Department plans to use IRS and U.S. Census data to evaluate these earnings four years after a student completes their degree. FAITH UNDER FIRE: HOW TRUMP’S ‘BEAUTIFUL BILL’ TARGETS CHRISTIAN EDUCATION”Programs that routinely fail to provide students with a reliable return on investment would lose access to federal student loans, and in certain cases, Pell Grants,” the Education Department said in an April 17 press release. Schools would have to disclose…