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NSC Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby said that the United States does not think that Ukraine's nuclear power plant "should be militarized in any way whatsoever" Wednesday on " Your World ." UKRAINE NUCLEAR PLANT WORKER SAYS RUSSIA EVACUATED ITS PERSONNEL AHEAD OF ATTACKS ON ZAPORIZHZHIA JOHN KIRBY: As of this morning, Neil, our assessment was that the plant was operational - not all the reactors, but at least some of them. That it's Ukrainian technical workers [who] are actually on the controls. But clearly, the plant has been for many months now in Russian military control. And as we've said very clearly, we don't think that a nuclear power plant should be militarized in any way whatsoever. And we don't want military operations conducted from or near that nuclear power plant . Which is why, again, it's so important to get these inspectors from the IAEA in there so that we can get a little bit better readout on how that p...

German General Eberhard Zorn said Wednesday the Bundeswehr will send warships to the Indo-Pacific and join allies in drills as China ramps up operations around Taiwan.  "We do not want to provoke anyone with our presence but rather send a strong sign of solidarity with our allies," Zorn told Reuters. "We stand for the freedom of navigation and the safeguarding of international norms." Germany, which has been frugal on military spending in the second half of the 20th century, pledged to hike defense spending above 2% of its total GDP in February after Russia invaded Ukraine.  Chancellor Olaf Scholz said last week that Germany's own stock of arms is depleted due to sending weapons to Ukraine, but pledged Monday to support Kyiv for "as long as it takes."  SEN. BLACKBURN IN TAIWAN: CHINA'S 'BULLYING' TACTICS MUST STOP, US MUST CURB CCP'S 'AGGRESSION' Now, the country is also turning its attention to China, which has sent war...

The Tampa Bay Rays placed their ace, left-hander Shane McClanahan, on the 15-day injured list Wednesday with a left shoulder impingement.  McClanahan was scheduled to start Tuesday night, but his bullpen session in preparation for his outing didn’t go as planned.  The 25-year-old, who was named an All-Star in only his second season with the Rays, was noticeably frustrated as his bullpen session ended.  The Rays had to go with a bullpen game instead, starting Shawn Armstrong, and manager Kevin Cash worked his bullpen from there.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM McClanahan was relieved the diagnosis wasn't more serious.  "We made the right decision yesterday," he said via Bally Sports Florida. "It was a sigh of relief. I’m already itching to get back. I was out in the field today running sprints." McClanahan is an American League Cy Young candidate, owning a 2.20 ERA over his 24 starts (147.1 innings), which is good for fourth in MLB an...

Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro reacted to the Department of Justice's motion to block former President Donald Trump's request for a special master on " Jesse Watters Primetime ," deeming it "another witch hunt." JUDGE JEANINE: If you're not convinced this is just another witch hunt, well, new reports say the DOJ is waiting past the midterms to reveal any Trump charges . This is a blatantly political move. The DOJ has a policy of not bringing charges against political figures so close to an election, but they don't have to charge Trump in order to affect the election. TRUMP FBI RAID: WHAT IS A COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER?   The simple act of raiding the former president's home casts a major shadow over the Republican Party less than three months before the midterms. Instead of focusing on Joe Biden's crime-infested cities, empty grocery shelves, high gas prices and inflation, everyone is talking about Trump. The border, inflation, h...

Witnesses have reportedly come forward saying no racial slurs were heard during the BYU-Duke women’s volleyball match last Friday, in which Duke’s Rachel Richardson , the only Black starter for the Blue Devils, said she was heckled throughout "the entirety of the match." Richardson said in a statement that BYU officials were not quick enough to address the situation upon the initial grievance from the Duke bench. BYU noted that the fan, who the Salt Lake Tribune said was a Utah Valley University student sitting in the student section, was banned from all athletic venues on campus.  The BYU Cougar Chronicle — a conservative-leaning student newspaper at the university — said "a source inside the BYU athletic department" said: "Ms. Richardson complained of hearing a racial slur during the second set but didn’t not point anyone out. Officials discussed briefly and stationed policemen there…there were no more complaints until after the match." CLICK HERE F...

The Kenley City Council voted to fire its recently-hired town manager on Tuesday, about one month after the entire police department for the 2,400-person North Carolina town resigned, citing increased stress and a hostile work environment for their decision.  Justine Jones beat a field of 30 candidates to become the new town manager in June. The Kenley City Council cited her 16-year career in public service at the time with local governments in Minnesota, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, saying Jones was their "unanimous choice."  About two months later in late July, all five police officers and two town clerks suddenly resigned from their positions .  MISSOURI CITY POLICE CHIEF 'UNEXPECTEDLY' RESIGNS ALONG WITH EVERY SINGLE OFFICER "In my 21 years at the Kenly Police Department, we have seen ups and downs. But, especially in the last 3 years, we have made substantial progress that we had hoped to continue," the former police chief, Josh Gi...

A school choice advocate said on Wednesday that Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist will lose after tapping a teachers’ union head as his running mate.  American Federation for Children spokesperson Denisha Allen told " America’s Newsroom " that "Charlie Crist has been a flip-flopper since I can remember. My first engagement with Charlie Crist was in high school when he signed the expansion bill for Florida School Choice Program into law. I was there behind him with the signing pin, and he flip-flopped."  Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist has selected the president of the Miami-Dade County teachers union to be his running mate, placing education at the forefront of his campaign as he seeks to defeat incumbent GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in November. United Teachers of Dade President Karla Hernandez-Mats was announced as Crist’s running mate on Saturday during a campaign event held in Miami. CHARLIE CRIST SELECTS MIAMI TEACHERS UNION LE...

A Northern California middle school student who was shot this week was not the intended victim, authorities said Tuesday.  The student was injured Monday when shots rang out at Madison Park Academy in Oakland. A 12-year-old suspect was in custody, police said.  "Update to the shooting in the 400 block of Capistrano Drive. Evidence shows the incident was not a deliberate school shooting," The Oakland Police Department tweeted.  The victim was taken to a hospital but the extent of their injuries were not disclosed. The gun used in the shooting was recovered.  2 ADULTS, 2 YOUNG GIRLS WOUNDED IN A DENVER SHOOTING On Tuesday, the school said the student remains hospitalized.  "Yesterday, we had a serious incident on campus in which an individual with a firearm discharged a round, and one of our students was hit," the school wrote in an Instagram post. "The student is currently in the hospital receiving treatment for their injury, and we are thankful to be ab...

A three-legged alligator in Florida has gained some viral fame after appearing in a TikTok video . The gator was spotted by Amanda Leigh Demuth, a longtime Cape Coral resident, as she was on her way to the entertainment destination Topgolf Fort Myers, Demuth told Fox News Digital. Demuth, 28, said she began filming the large reptile as she arrived to the venue. She later posted the video onto TikTok. PENNSYLVANIA EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ALLIGATOR IS UP FOR 'AMERICA'S FAVORITE PET'   In the 25-second clip, Demuth asks the gator if it would like to "whack some golf balls." Then, her tone sounds like it changes once she realizes the gator is missing a front leg. "That’s really sad," Demuth can be heard saying in the footage. "That’s actually heartbreaking. Now I feel bad for taking a video of you." Demuth told Fox News Digital that she captured the video on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at around 9 p.m. ALLIGATOR REMOVED FROM NEW MEXICO HOME GETS SETTLED ...

President Biden appeared at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania Tuesday to roll out his "Safer America Plan" to tackle crime in the U.S. After warming up the crowd, the president invoked the simpler times of his childhood, when families didn’t have to worry about crime or drugs on the street.  "Too many families (today) haven't had that peace of mind. They watch the news. They see kids being gunned down in schools and on the streets almost every single night. You turn the news on, that's what you see," Biden said.  He added: "They see their neighbors lose their loved   ones to drugs like fentanyl . They see hate and anger and violence just walking the streets of America, and they just want to feel safe again. They want to feel a sense of security. And that's what my crime plan is all about."  Fentanyl has been flooding into the United States across the U.S-Mexico border since Biden took office and moved to rescind many Trump-era policies. T...

Political reporter Dave Weigel is leaving the Washington Post to join the news start-up Semafor, Fox News Digital has confirmed. A source familiar with the situation said Weigel would join Semafor – the brainchild of journalists Ben Smith and Justin Smith with lofty ambitions – after the 2022 midterms. He exits the Post after he was part of one of their many internal dramas this year. Weigel is a well-known political reporter in Washington, but he made headlines for other reasons in June when the Post slapped him with a stunning, one-month suspension for retweeting a joke that mocked women. Weigel swiftly apologized at the time and deleted it, but his then-Washington Post colleague Felicia Sonmez, who initially drew attention to retweet, continued lambasting him on Twitter as well as other Post colleagues who pushed back at her tweetstorm. That touched off a bizarre saga at the paper that ultimately led to Sonmez's firing as she repeatedly, publicly roasted the newspaper and it...

President Biden traveled to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to hold an event to tout his "Safer America" agenda and his administration's policies surrounding support for law enforcement and crime, but instead shifted his tone and attacked Republicans as he urged those in attendance to vote for Democratic candidates running for positions in the Keystone State. Shortly after taking the stage, Biden touted two prominent Democrats running for positions in Pennsylvania , the first being Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who is running to serve as the state's next governor, and the second being John Fetterman, the state's Democratic nominee for Senate. "Josh Shapiro is a champion for the rule of law as your attorney general and he's going to make one hell of a governor," Biden said to applause. "I really mean it." Prior to the event, Biden said he spoke with Fetterman, a man he considered to be a "powerful voice." BIDEN TO SPOTLIGHT FIGHT TO ...

Greg Gutfeld is the new king of late-night television, marking the first time in history that a cable program achieved the lofty benchmark of most-watched late-night show for an entire month as "Gutfeld!" finished August atop all competitors.  "Gutfeld!" averaged 2.19 million viewers to defeat CBS’ "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," which averaged 2.15 viewers. It was the first month since January 2017 that Colbert didn’t finish as the No. 1 late-night program between broadcast and cable.  August was the most-watched month for "Gutfeld!" since it launched in April 2021, as the Fox News program also outdrew ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," NBC’s "Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" and Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show."  GREG GUTFELD: THE LEFT WILL LITERALLY CALL ANYTHING RACIST "Gutfeld!" more than doubled the average audience for CNN’s most-watched show, as "Anderson Cooper 360" averaged only...

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle praised Democrats for "fighting" back and "shaming" Republicans in light of the student debt handout plan announced by President Biden last Wednesday. Monday’s "The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle" featured a segment opening with a clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declaring on ABC in February that the Democrats "have decided to win and that’s what we’re going to do." Ruhle suggested that the latest move by Biden to handout $10,000 of student loan debt for holders earning under $125,000 per year is the Democrats finally choosing to win. "Democrats are doing something many voters have been begging for, for quite a while. They are fighting like Republicans. Take the recent GOP criticism of the Biden Administration's student debt relief. Republican lawmakers were all over social media complaining the relief was for elites, it was reckless, it was unfair," Ruhle said. PAUL KRUGMAN ARGUES ‘STUDENT DEBT RELIEF...

Andy Murray came away with the upset against 24th-ranked Francisco Cerundolo from Argentina to advance to the second round of the US Open on Monday in New York.  The 35-year-old Murray didn’t just win, he dominated. He went 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 to take the first-round victory in straight sets.  "It felt like five sets to me, it was tricky conditions, very humid and hot," Murray said after the match .  CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM In these conditions, Murray didn’t cramp, which was a positive sign considering that has been an issue for him recently.  Now he will go on to play 20-year-old American Emilio Nava.  NICK KYRGIOS INDIFFERENT ON US OPEN RESULT: ‘IT’S A WIN-WIN FOR ME' Murray, a former world No. 1, has been dealing with the decline of his tennis career, most notably having to bounce back from hip surgery four years ago. He has tried to stay consistent and string together wins, but has failed to do so as he battles to capture that gl...

University professor and critical race theory advocate Ibram X. Kendi attacked an attempt to defend standardized testing by a New York Times opinion writer on his Twitter account Sunday. Kendi argued that the newsletter op-ed, penned by Black linguist John McWhorter, was a "merry-go-round of denial" that attacked Black citizens while claiming to defend them. "John McWhorter rejects the notion: when Black folk get lower standardized test scores, either the tests are racist or something is wrong w/ Black folk. Calls this ‘an artificially narrowed realm of choices.’ Then he explains what's wrong w/ Black folk," Kendi tweeted. McWhorter’s piece specifically argued against the notion that discrepancies in standardized test scores are due to racial bias. He further explained that the real difference comes from community discrepancies between middle class and working-class people in both Black and White populations. NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED BLASTS PETITION TO ELIMINAT...

A group of protesters gathered outside the U.S. Open entry gates at Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York, on Monday to call for an end to vaccine mandates for travelers after 21-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic , who is unvaccinated against COVID-19, announced last week that he would not be able to participate in the tournament. Demonstrators greeted U.S. Open goers with signs that read "End the travel mandate now!" and "Novak’s body, Novak’s Choice!"  Members of Families are Essential and Children’s Health Defense and Teachers for Choice were among the demonstrators. JOHN MCENROE ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC POTENTIALLY MISSING US OPEN OVER COVID VAX RULES: ‘I THINK IT’S BS’ Djokovic announced on social media that he would not be traveling to New York as a result of travel restrictions that prevent any non-U.S. citizens from entering the country without having received the COVID-19 vaccine. "Sadly, I will not be able to travel to NY this time for US Open,...

CNN’s soon-to-be "re-imagined" morning show is struggling to attract viewers with major changes on the horizon.  A revamped morning show is expected in place of the current version of "New Day," before the end of the year, but the existing edition isn’t exactly going out on top. "New Day" has averaged a dismal 398,000 total viewers during the month of August, compared to 1.3 million for Fox News’ time slot competition "FOX & Friends." "New Day" has also struggled among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54, averaging only 80,000 each morning compared to 212,000 for "FOX & Friends." The poor August turnout is an improvement from the disappointing program’s quarter-to-date viewership.  REP. BYRON DONALD'S OFFICE: ‘WHITE LIBERALS’ LIKE CNN'S BRIANNA KEILAR ‘CAN’T COMPREHEND' BLACK REPUBLICANS "New Day" averaged only 380,000 total viewers from June 27 through Aug. 25 to trail ...

The federal government cannot force Christian medical organizations to perform abortions or gender transition surgeries under the Affordable Care Act, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.  In a unanimous ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s permanent order shielding the Christian groups from anti-discrimination lawsuits under a provision known as Section 1557 in the ACA.  Those groups in the lawsuit were Christian Medical and Dental Associations , Specialty Physicians of Illinois, and Catholic hospital system Franciscan Alliance Inc. Each said performing an abortion or gender reassignment surgery would violate their religious freedoms.  The judges wrote that the providers faced harm because the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had "repeatedly refused to disavow enforcement" against them.  CNN, NBC PANELS ON GOP MIDTERM ROE V. WADE IMPACT: REPUBLICANS CAUGHT ‘FLAT-FOOTED’ "In its brief on appeal, HHS simply say...

Country music and famous political commentators are embroiled in a battle of words in the aftermath of Brittany Aldean's message in which she thanked her parents for "not changing" her gender when she enjoyed a "tomboy phase" in her youth. The controversy, which predominantly surrounded what some believe to be hateful and transphobic comments by Aldean, caught the attention of two female country music stars, Marren Morris and Cassadee Pope.  Aldean, who is married to Grammy-nominated singer Jason Aldean, doubled down when she was met with criticism from Pope, sharing to her Instagram story, "Advocating for the genital mutilation of children under the disguise of love and calling it ‘gender affirming care,’ is one of the worst evils. I will always support my children and do what I can do protect their innocence." Originally, Pope and Morris took to their Twitter's to share their distaste of Aldean's comments. Pope questioned why a beauty-own...

Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches on its own, according to a study released Monday. Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That's because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. "It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet," Colgan said in an interview. "This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now." Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is "more like one foot in the grave." GREENLAND ICE SHEET HAS REACHED 'POINT OF NO RETURN,' DISTURBING STUDY SAYS The unavoidable ten inches in t...

More than 100,000 people had moved to safer areas by Monday as heavy rains brought flood risks to a region of southwest China that was devastated by a heatwave and drought for most of the summer. Heavy rain was forecast for parts of Sichuan province and Chongqing city through at least Tuesday. Chongqing, a megacity built in a hilly area and that also oversees the surrounding mountains and countryside, issued a flash flood warning for both days. But China’s meteorological agency maintained a national orange alert for drought, the second highest level, as the heat persisted in many parts of the country's south, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It recommended strict water conservation and using emergency water sources to supply people and livestock. CHINA FLOODS LEAVE AT LEAST 12 DEAD, THOUSANDS EVACUATED The Sichuan emergency management administration said Monday that 119,000 people have been evacuated. One village under the jurisdiction of Guangyuan city recorded 7.4 inche...

Social media, as we currently have experienced it in the COVID-19 era , mostly exists to police thought and insist on uniformity of opinion on all COVID issues. That’s been the overarching principle that has governed since March of 2020 in this country. The "experts" in science and medicine at the CDC and the NIH made a determination about what the COVID science was and then attempted to destroy anyone who challenged that consensus opinion by deploying their assets in the mainstream media. The government , in conjunction with major tech companies and the media, has colluded to censor anyone who has challenged the consensus opinion when it comes to masks, the safety of opening schools, whether lockdowns made sense, whether sports could be played, the efficacy of the COVID shot, and where COVID came from. We were told what an acceptable narrative was and then anyone who challenged that narrative was relentlessly attacked by powerful media interests and hammered by social media...