NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are urging the State Department to release hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to help women and infants affected by an Ebola outbreak in East Africa.In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, the senators urged him to use $608 million in congressionally-approved international family-planning funds and distribute $1.7 million in already purchased family-planning supplies.The supplies — which the senators implied included condoms, hormonal contraception, post-rape care medicine and hemorrhage medicines — are being stored at a facility in Geel, Belgium, according to the letter.The senators said that if the supplies aren’t used, their understanding is that they will be “destroyed.” EBOLA TREATMENT CENTER SET ON FIRE IN CONGO AFTER RESIDENTS CLASH WITH AUTHORITIES OVER VICTIM’S BODY”Ebola during pregnancy is catastrophic, with a nearly 100 percent fetal loss rate and catastrophic material mortality risk due to severe hemorrhaging,” the lawmakers wrote.”By providing women with the option to voluntarily prevent unplanned pregnancies and to protect themselves from transmission of the virus and have access to clinics, the United States can prevent further deaths of women and the cruel and certain death…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! World Series champion Joe Girardi revealed what is most “disturbing” to him about politics today.Girardi, 61, has been in clubhouses for a long time as both a player and a manager. He played 15 seasons in the major leagues as a catcher and then managed for nearly 14 years. The All-Star catcher talked about the difference in politics from then to now.”I think politics unfortunately has become a hot button for the United States of America unfortunately and it separates us — before where I felt it didn’t separate us. That’s the most disturbing,” Girardi told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. The former New York Yankees manager said there were “absolutely” more conversations in the clubhouse about politics toward the end of his time in the dugout than at the beginning of his career.He said that as a manager, he would tell players to listen to each other.”I would just tell guys to be patient and listen to each other and understand that you’re going to have different views and just be respectful. I mean, you don’t have to have the same view. We all grew up different. That’s the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Applied Behavior Analysis therapy is a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of American families — helping children with autism develop communication, social and daily living skills.But as Medicaid spending on the autism therapy has exploded into the billions and with fraud on the rise, a partisan divide is emerging over how states should handle public assistance programs for the ballooning treatment option.Republican-led states like Florida have prioritized fraud enforcement and tighter oversight, while debates in states like Georgia have centered on reimbursement rates and preserving access to care. The scrutiny comes as the Trump administration has made it a focus of his second term to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse across federal programs, including Medicaid, a central policy priority.Supporters of stronger oversight argue that every dollar lost to fraud is money that cannot be used to provide care for children and families who depend on Medicaid-funded autism therapy. TRUMP ADMIN PAUSING OVER $1B IN MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO MINNESOTA, CALIFORNIA OVER FRAUD, COMPLIANCE CONCERNSAccording to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Medicaid provider spending data, Medicaid paid more than $5.15 billion between 2018 and 2024 under one of the primary billing codes…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday embraced a series of progressive policy proposals she did not campaign on in 2024, including expanding the Supreme Court and abolishing the Electoral College, as she continues weighing a potential 2028 presidential bid.Speaking at the National Urban League Conference in Nashville, Tenn., Harris endorsed several proposals she did not publicly campaign on during her 2024 White House run.”We must allow for a real conversation about revisiting certain things,” Harris said. “I know this is gonna be controversial coming from me, in particular. We need to revisit the Electoral College.”HILLARY CLINTON STILL FUMING OVER ELECTORAL COLLEGE, CALLS IT AN ‘ABOMINATION’ IN NEW NETFLIX SERIES Harris lost both the Electoral College and the popular vote to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.She also voiced support for expanding the Supreme Court.”We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said.SEN DEB FISCHER: THE LEFT’S WAR ON THE SENATE AND SUPREME COURT PUTS OUR REPUBLIC AT RISK While Harris has previously supported term limits for Supreme Court justices, expanding the court was not part of her 2024…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As President Donald Trump intensifies his push to eliminate the Senate filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, lawmakers are exposing familiar fault lines over when the chamber’s 60-vote rule should, and shouldn’t, apply.Democratic senators avoided endorsing an outright elimination of the filibuster. Some defended exceptions for certain legislation, with several arguing it should stay in place while Republicans push to pass the SAVE Act through the Senate.”I would want to know what specific measure it covered,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told Fox News Digital. “I’m in favor of eliminating the filibuster for specific measures, not across the board.”TRUMP’S VOTER ID BILL CATCHES UNLIKELY BREAK AS MCCONNELL REMAINS SIDELINED “When we wanted the Voting Rights Act passed, I was willing to do it,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash said.”It depends on constitutional issues,” she said. “If there are people that are overriding the Constitution and not following the Constitution, that would be an area where I would think about [eliminating the filibuster.]”Democrats previously pushed to create exceptions to the filibuster for legislation including voting rights bills after Republicans repeatedly blocked those measures during President Joe Biden’s administration.As the SAVE Act stalls in the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., argued the discovery that roughly 6,600 noncitizens were mistakenly eligible to vote in New Jersey does not justify passing President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act, insisting the error is unrelated to a lack of federal voter ID requirements.”Nothing in the SAVE Act would have prevented a clerical error like we’ve seen in Texas and Oregon and New Jersey,” Booker said. “We’ve got to protect our voting systems.”New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced last week that the state removed roughly 6,600 noncitizens from its voter roll who were eligible to vote in the 2024 presidential election. Sherrill blamed the issue on a “serious software error” in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System.HOUSE REPUBLICANS CONFRONT NJ GOVERNOR OVER 6,600 NONCITIZENS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN ALLEGED SOFTWARE FAILURE The scandal comes to light as Trump has been hounding Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE Act, with some GOP members not in favor of passing the legislation and Democrats overwhelmingly opposing it.”[The SAVE Act] would stop millions of Americans from voting,” Booker said about Trump’s efforts to pass the legislation.Booker argued that Sherrill and the state are actively looking into what led…

The Civilian Marksmanship Program has just announced that it will be selling true military surplus M14 rifles to the public.In a surprising but exciting twist, the Civilian Marksmanship Program has just announced that the organization has received special authorization to begin selling surplus military M14 rifles. Why is it surprising? Because the ATF has long held the position that any receiver that was once a machine gun is always a machine gun. Because original military M14s were built as select-fire rifles, most people never expected that they’d be able to be legally sold on the civilian market. Seemingly, at least for this specific case of surplus M14s, the ATF has made an exception. Whether that decision will have downstream effects on other surplus firearms is yet to be seen.According to the CMP, the surplus M14s will be “modified to be permanently and irreversibly semi-automatic rifles. The modified semi-automatic M14s will be fully compliant with CMP enabling legislation authorizing the transfer and sale of military surplus .30 caliber rifles.”The CMP says that it will begin fulfilling surplus M14 orders sometime between late 2026 and early 2027. No prices have been announced yet, but the word around the campfire is that they…

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The NCAA took a massive hit to its new five-and-five eligibility rule that was implemented earlier this month, thanks to a District Court judge in Colorado.Over the past number of weeks, a plethora of lawsuits have been filed by athletes across the country who were part of the 2022 class that entered college that say the newly introduced rule by the NCAA infringes on their rights to make a living through NIL and have an additional year of eligibility.The arguments made in court centered on the idea that players who completed their fourth year of eligibility and would have been ineligible under the previous rule should have been grandfathered in because of how the entire process unfolded this summer.PRESIDENT TRUMP PUSHES LAWMAKERS ON LEGISLATION AS ‘PROTECT COLLEGE SPORTS ACT’ HANGS ON BY A THREAD After exhausting their fourth and final season (under previous rule), their time in college would have been completed.This was essentially how lawyers were attacking the NCAA in a court of law, arguing that if the new five-and-five rule was being implemented, then athletes who exhausted their clock this past season under the old rule should be granted the same rights that players under the new guidelines…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Police are searching for a gunman after an innocent Walmart employee was shot during an apparent dispute between two men inside a Pennsylvania store Friday evening, authorities said.Officers responded to the Walmart at 50 McDade Blvd. in Darby Township, Delaware County, shortly after 7 p.m. after reports of gunfire inside the store.Darby Township Police Chief Michael Sousa told Fox News Digital investigators believe two men got into a verbal altercation in the self-checkout area before one of them pulled out a handgun and fired.CALIFORNIA MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY SENDING BOMB THREAT TO JUDGE IN NOLAN WELLS’ DEATH CASE: DOCS “It looked like, from what we’re gathering with my detectives, two males get into a verbal altercation at self-checkout,” Sousa said. “One of the males brandishes a firearm, fires a round indiscriminately and hits one of the female Walmart employees in the leg — not the subject he was arguing with.”The employee was transported to a hospital. Sousa did not immediately provide an update on her condition.The suspect fled before officers arrived and remains at large.Police are reviewing surveillance video in an effort to identify the shooter.”There is no threat to the public,”…