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President Donald Trump's envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, has traveled to Venezuela to deliver an in-person message to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro about accepting violent criminals deported from the United States. On a call with reporters Friday, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. special envoy to Latin America, said Grenell will tell Maduro to take back all the Venezuelan criminals and Tren de Aragua gang members that have been "exported to the United States, and to do so unequivocally and without condition."  Grenell will also demand that Venezuela immediately release American hostages being held in that country, Claver-Carone said. TRUMP TAPS RICHARD GRENELL AS PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY FOR SPECIAL MISSIONS, EDWARD S. WALSH AS IRELAND AMBASSADOR The trip "focuses on two very specific issues. That we expect that Venezuelan criminals and gangs will be returned, as they are, to every country in the world, without conditions, and two, that American hosta...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched an investigation into media outlets PBS and National Public Radio (NPR) over member stations potentially airing "prohibited commercial advertisements," according to a letter obtained by The New York Times.  "I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials," FCC chair Brendan Carr wrote, according to the Times. "In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements." The FCC allows businesses to support noncommercial radio and television stations — such as NPR, PBS or college radio stations — via on-air announcements known as underwriting sponsorships. The sponsorships, though similar to advertisements, face different FCC rules than typical TV or radio ads.  Carr sent the letters Wednesday to NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger...

The Senate voted Wednesday by a 78–20 margin to advance President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department — former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum — for a final confirmation vote.  Burgum appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in mid-January, where he told lawmakers that national security issues and the economy were his two top priorities for leading the agency.  "When energy production is restricted in America, it doesn't reduce demand," Burgum said in his opening statement Jan. 16. "It just shifts production to countries like Russia and Iran, whose autocratic leaders not only don't care at all about the environment, but they use their revenues from energy sales to fund wars against us and our allies."  TRUMP ENERGY NOMINEE HECKLED BY CLIMATE PROTESTERS, DERIDED BY DEM SENATOR AS ‘ENTHUSIAST FOR FOSSIL FUELS’ Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, questioned Burgum on whether he would seek to drill for oil in natio...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned that foreign nationals attempting to enter the U.S. illegally are not welcome under President Donald Trump’s administration.  "So to foreign nationals who are thinking about trying to illegally enter the United States, think again," Leavitt told reporters Tuesday at the White House press briefing. "Under this president, you will be detained and you will be deported. Every day, Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President Trump's administration is removing from our communities." Specifically, Leavitt pointed to recent arrests that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has conducted in January, including arresting a Honduras citizen convicted of rape and a Dominican Republic citizen with a criminal conviction for second degree murder. TRUMP-ERA SOUTHERN BORDER SEES MIGRANT ENCOUNTERS PLUMMET BY OVER 60% AS NEW POLICIES KICK IN  "These are the heinous individuals that this administra...

Attorneys general in 19 states are warning Costco "to end all unlawful discrimination imposed by the company through diversity, equity, and inclusion" policies to reflect President Donald Trump's recent executive order booting DEI out of federal agencies and warning private sectors to do the same. "Racial discrimination is both immoral and illegal. Race-based employment hiring violates state and federal law, and as the chief law enforcement officer of Kansas, I intend to enforce the law vigorously," Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach told Fox News Digital in a statement.  Trump's executive order , signed during his first week in office, will task the attorneys general with rooting out sectors and organizations that allegedly engage in discriminatory DEI practices. Recommendations will be made for potential lawsuits against violators. REPUBLICAN STATE AGS AWAIT TRUMP-BROKERED TIKTOK DEAL, REMAIN SKEPTICAL ON APP SAFETY The order encourages private-sect...

U.S. Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with suspected cartel members near the U.S.-Mexican border on Monday, as the U.S. government's response against criminal migrants continues to intensify. The gunfire exchange – which happened exactly one week after President Donald Trump began ramping up border security on his first day in office – occurred at around 2 p.m. local time near Fronton, Texas. A group of illegal aliens was attempting to cross the Rio Grande while bullets were fired, but did not make it across. Neither the Border Patrol agents nor the suspected cartel members were hit.  President Trump recently designated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.  The area where the gunfire exchange took place is near Fronton Island, also unofficially known as "Cartel Island" due to the criminal activity there. In an interview with Fox News Digital in 2023, Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said that she declared the land as Texas territory – even tho...

Erik Svendsen, 42, has started showcasing his cooking skills on social media, where he ordinarily cooks beef, pork and fish. Recently, the automotive supplies shop owner from Provo, Utah, turned his hand to cooking alligator, news agency SWNS reported.  Svendsen calls it "the turkey of the swamp" — and it costs up to $300 a piece. BARBECUE LOVERS TO ENJOY INTERACTIVE 'SMOKE, SPICE, RUB AND WOOD' DEEP-DIVE EXPERIENCE He said he leaves the animal's head and feet on "for presentation" — and props open the jaws with a wood block while it's on the grill. His most recent barbecued alligator cost $200, SWNS said.  It takes about three-and-a-half hours in total to cook.  Svendsen said he cooks the alligator at 225° for two hours, then turns it up to 350° for an hour and a half.  "I did a lot of turkey and ham content, so I wanted to test myself and make it for Thanksgiving ," he told SWNS. "When I cooked an alligator for the first ti...

The Secret Service is investigating after a Florida man was arrested in West Palm Beach and charged with calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump on Facebook. Shannon Depararro Atkins, 46, of West Palm Beach, was arrested after allegedly threatening the life of the president, West Palm Beach Police Chief Tony Araujo confirmed during a press conference Saturday. Atkins is charged with felony intimidation, drug possession and smuggling contraband in a county detention center, according to jail records.  TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT VICTIMS WITH LIFE-ALTERING INJURIES SEEK ACCOUNTABILITY: ‘IT WILL COME TO LIGHT’ A tip was called in to the FBI National Threat Operations Center late Sunday, reporting Atkins was making violent threats against the president on Facebook. A Palm Beach detective began working the case Monday and found "disturbing" posts, according to Araujo. Some of the posts included, "Lincoln, JFK, Reagan, Martin Luther King and Trump - u...

FIRST ON FOX– A Jewish Israeli Ph.D. student at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) is suing her local United Auto Workers-affiliated union (UAW) over its alleged discrimination against Israeli and Jewish union members in order to advance an anti-Israel agenda on campus.  Karin Yaniv filed suit on Friday against her local UAW chapter, alleging she and other Israeli Jews were excluded from full union participation based on their ethnicity. The suit alleges union members acted in a hostile, discriminatory and antisemitic manner, which her lawyers say is a violation of the Civil Rights Act and California law.  "The union's anti-Israel agenda has created a hostile work environment for many of us on campus," Yaniv told Fox News Digital . "They discriminated against Israeli members, including myself, from union activities and on top of all of that, they're going after our academic freedom. This targeted abuse based on our nationality and religion is antisemi...

Americans around the United States are heading to grocery stores and noticing that many egg shelves are nearly empty or empty, period.  "You can't get eggs anywhere, I mean anywhere," Fox News host Jesse Watters said on "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Wednesday evening, Jan. 22. "I can only get the bad ones that just are not yellow and aren't fluffy."  In New Jersey, said Watters, "you just can't get the good, pasture-raised, nice, organic eggs."  ​​EGG PRICES MAY SOON BE ON THE RISE, SAYS EXPERT – HERE'S WHY AND HOW MUCH "So Donald Trump , before you settle the drone issue, we need eggs," said Watters. "And we need them fast." (See the video at the top of this article.)  Eggs are indeed in short supply and Watters' favorite pasture-raised eggs are even harder to find.  "The national egg supply has been strained due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza — also known as HPAI or bird flu — which is ...

CNN anchor Jim Acosta sparred with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. , over President Donald Trump's pardons for January 6 defendants in a heated clash on the liberal network that quickly went viral on social media. On his first day in office on Monday, Trump signed pardons for approximately 1,500 defendants who were charged with crimes stemming from the riot at the U.S. Capitol, fulfilling a promise he made in December to act quickly and pardon them.  Acosta grilled Burchett over the pardons on his show Wednesday and demanded he condemn them. Burchett told Acosta that many of these defendants were not given due process and those who trespassed at the Capitol building that day should not "rot in jail for the rest of their lives in a federal penitentiary and never be charged." TRUMP PARDONS NEARLY ALL JAN. 6 DEFENDANTS ON INAUGURATION DAY As Acosta continued to press him to condemn the pardons, Burchett said that he did not know the details of each person's case but sai...

After four years of the Biden administration pushing executive policies to allow biological males into female spaces , Parents Defending Education Action (PDE) is pushing for Congress to address violence against women in athletics and calling on the NCAA to revoke its transgender policy and declare Oct. 10 "American Girls in Sports Day." The measures have been introduced as a bill and two resolutions sponsored by Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn . In an interview with Fox News Digital, Nicole Neily, president of PDE, called the Biden administration’s actions regarding girls’ sports over the previous four years "appalling." "Let's think about the original intent of Title IX ," she said "It was put in place to protect and ensure that women weren't losing out on opportunities as a result of their sex. And now we're watching that happen and we're watching girls’ sex be weaponized against them. It really turns the whole intent ...

President Trump won praise from his supporters on Monday as he vowed in his inaugural address that his government will not recognize genders aside from male and female. Trump marked his return to the Oval Office with a pledge to restore America to a "golden age." One particular quote from his address inside the Capitol lit social media on fire. TRUMP TO DEPLOY MILITARY TO BORDER, END BIDEN PAROLE POLICIES IN FLURRY OF DAY ONE EXECUTIVE ORDERS "As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States Government, that there are only two genders, male and female," Trump declared to thunderous applause. Conservative influencers and politicians across social media were quick to praise this statement as a sign of changing times.  "The radical woke gender ideology is DEAD," talk show host Graham Allen proclaimed. "Trump has declared that there are only TWO GENDERS: MALE AND FEMALE!" OutKick founder Clay Travis argued that it’...

Novak Djokovic moved to the Australian Open quarterfinals on Sunday with a straight-set victory over Jiří Lehecka in the fourth round of the tournament. But Djokovic’s dominance was overshadowed by what happened when he left the court. Djokovic refused to speak to Australia’s Channel 9, the official broadcaster of the tournament for the host country, over journalist Tony Jones’ remarks about the Serbian star . CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Djokovic said he wanted an apology from the station and Jones without mentioning Jones by name. He said, "Famous sports journalist who works for the official broadcaster, Channel 9... made a mockery of Serbian fans and also made insulting and offensive comments toward me." Jones called Djokovic overrated and a has-been. He said he will continue to boycott speaking to the network. "I leave it to Channel 9 to handle this the way they think they see fit. That’s all," he said. NFL REFS UNDER FIRE OVER QUES...

Rapper Snoop Dogg is showing his support for President-elect Trump.  The "Gin and Juice" rapper took the stage at the Crypto Ball, a pre-iauguration event, and got the crowd on its feet dancing to several hit songs.  From Journey’s "Don’t Stop Believin’" to Bob Marley’s "Three Little Birds (Don’t Worry About a Thing)," Snoop hyped up Trump supporters as the DJ and sent a positive yet inspirational message through the music. He also performed a few of his own hits, including, "Drop It Like It’s Hot." SNOOP DOGG PRAISES DONALD TRUMP: 'NOTHING BUT LOVE AND RESPECT' WATCH: SNOOP DOGG PERFORMS AT TRUMP INAUGURATION CRYPTO BALL Videos of the prolific rapper surfaced on social media of a care-free Snoop in Washington, D.C., wearing a black jacket with gold buttons and a bowtie. He completed his look with matching gold-rimmed sunglasses. Other high-profiled guests included rapper Rick Ross and UFC star Colby Covington, who both posted abo...

"The View" co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar praised former first lady Michelle Obama’s decision to skip President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Hostin gushed over the move and argued that it’s only right for the former first lady to get her digs in on Trump.  "I think when they go low, you have to meet that energy and perhaps go even lower, become small like an ant and go to the earth’s crust," Hostin told her co-hosts on Friday, putting a new spin on Obama’s famous quote, "When they go low, we go high." TRUMP, OBAMA CHATTING AND LAUGHING AT CARTER FUNERAL LIGHTS UP SOCIAL MEDIA A source close to the former first lady told People Magazine this week that Obama would not be attending the inauguration. "There's no overstating her feelings about [Trump]. She's not one to plaster on a pleasant face and pretend for protocol's sake," the source said, adding, "Michelle doesn't do anything because it's exp...

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump transition, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content. Here's what's happening… -Biden warns of 'ultra-wealthy' 'oligarchy' despite accepting donations from Dem mega-donors -'Worst farewell speech in presidential history': Biden's Oval Office goodbye panned as 'dark' -Race for DNC chair narrows after longshot candidate drops out, endorses Minnesota's Ken Martin Pam Bondi , President-elect Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Justice, was involved in a sharp clash with Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Wednesday as the California senator quizzed Bondi over whether she would prosecute Trump's political opponents. Schiff, a vocal critic of the president-elect, asked Bondi about whether she would investigate former Special Counsel Jack Smith and also former Rep. Liz Cheney. "I'm asking you sitting here today whether ...

President Biden’s proclamation removing Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terror caused an uproar in Florida, notably among the president's fellow Democrats. The rare political unity in the Sunshine State was pronounced after Biden certified on Tuesday that Havana's Miguel Diaz-Canel regime has "not provided any support for international terrorism" during the preceding six-month period. Biden’s declaration also claimed Havana provided Washington with assurances it will not support terrorism in the future, and that the U.S. maintains its "core objective" of "more freedom and democracy" for the Cuban people. However, Democratic Floridians were up in arms at the development. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, in heavily-blue Broward County, told Axios on Tuesday that the outgoing president is doing lasting political damage. "This is Joe Biden literally sinking the Democratic Party in the state of Florida," he said. "Big time." CU...