Giorno: 8 Febbraio 2023

Democrats win control of Pennsylvania House for first time in over a decade after months-long stalemate

Democrats in Pennsylvania have won control of the state House of Representatives after besting Republicans in three special elections on Tuesday, reaching a majority in the chamber for the first time in 12 years. The Associated Press called the three races, all in the Pittsburgh area, ending a months-long stalemate over which party would control […]

China has ‘a lot of explaining to do’ after spy flights found ‘violating sovereignty’ on 5 continents: DOD

China has “a lot of explaining to do” after its surveillance balloons were found violating nations’ sovereignty in at least five continents, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder criticized China during a Wednesday briefing at the Pentagon. He stated that not only has the U.S. verified that China’s […]

Military: Forces Raid Hideout, Kill 12 Pakistani Taliban

Read More ISLAMABAD—Security forces acting on intelligence raided a hideout of Pakistani Taliban insurgents along the border with Afghanistan, triggering an intense shootout that left 12 terrorists dead, the country’s military said Wednesday. The pre-dawn raid came amid soaring tensions in Pakistan and in the aftermath of a mosque bombing last week that killed 101 […]

Archie Battersbee’s death was an accident, coroner concludes

Read More Archie Battersbee, whose parents fought a lengthy battle to prevent his life support being switched off, died as a result of a prank or experiment gone wrong, a coroner has concluded. After two days of evidence from Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, medical staff and police, Essex’s senior coroner, Lincoln Brookes, said on Wednesday […]

Pentagon: US Sites of Interest Visited by Past Chinese Balloons

Four previous Chinese spy balloon flights over the United States passed over sites that would be “of interest to the Chinese,” the Pentagon said on Wednesday, without elaborating on the paths the balloons took or whether the U.S. sites were military ones.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to unveil sweeping educational reforms, tackling CRT, school choice, teacher wages

FIRST ON FOX: GOP Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is proposing major overhauls to the state’s education system, tackling issues from teacher wage increases to school choice to eliminating critical race theory (CRT) in curriculum, Fox News Digital learned exclusively. On Wednesday, Sanders’ office is expected to propose legislation to be considered by the Republican-controlled […]

Cost Rises in Mishandling of COVID-19 Unemployment Payments

Nearly $30 billion more in COVID-19 unemployment benefits was incorrectly sent out than initially estimated, according to Wednesday’s testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee.

FLASHBACK: Biden introduced bill to sunset all federal programs — including Social Security

President Biden, while still a senator for Delaware, introduced legislation to sunset all federal programs, including Social Security and Medicare, Fox News Digital has learned. In 1975, while Biden was in the upper chamber of Congress, the now-president put forward a bill requiring all federal programs to sunset after four years. When pushing his bill […]

Belarusian court sentences prominent Polish journalist to 8 years in prison for ‘inciting discord’

A Belarusian court on Wednesday sentenced a journalist and prominent member of the country’s sizable Polish minority to eight years in prison, amid an ongoing crackdown on critics of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. Andrzej Poczobut, 49, was found guilty of harming Belarus’ national security and “inciting discord” in a closed trial held in the […]

Zelenskyy visits King Charles III on UK trip, asks lawmakers for jets: ‘every air force pilot is a king’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy descended upon the United Kingdom Wednesday and urged lawmakers to send warplanes to Ukraine ahead of his visit with King Charles III. “Today I will have the honor to be received by His Majesty the King,” Zelenskyy said while addressing both Houses of Parliament and U.K. Prime Minster Rishi Sunak. “It […]