Cruz releases three bills taking on China following spy flight being shot down

FIRST ON FOX: Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz released three bills on Thursday taking on China following the communist government’s spy balloon that was shot down last week. Cruz reintroduced three bills this week after the Chinese Communist Party’s spy balloon made its way across the continental U.S. before being shot down off the coast […]

FBI searches Mike Pence Indiana home amid classified document investigation, sources say

FBI agents searched former Vice President Mike Pence’s residence Friday as federal authorities continue their classified document investigation, two sources confirmed to Fox News. Local police blocked off the entrance to the Carmel, Indiana home before federal investigators arrived in a white vehicle. The search was planned for days, the sources said, with the full […]

Iran may use Syria earthquake to smuggle arms under the guise of aid: report

Israel has reportedly taken a preemptive tone this week and warned Iran that it will strike any arms shipment traveling to Syria under the guise of international aid after a catastrophic earthquake hit Turkey and Syria this week. Rescue workers are still pulling people trapped under rubble as international aid continues to pour in. An […]

Polish bus traveling to Belgium crashes on German highway, injuring 35

A bus traveling from Poland to Belgium came off a highway in eastern Germany on Friday and overturned, injuring 35 people, six of them seriously, officials said. The accident happened on the A2 highway near Magdeburg, west of Berlin, in the early hours of the morning. Police said there were 54 people on board, aged […]

Moldova’s president names Dorin Recean as country’s new prime minister after position unexpectedly opened

Moldova’s president named businessman and former minister Dorin Recean as the country’s prime minister-designate after the top government position was left vacant Friday when Natalia Gavrilita unexpectedly resigned 18 months into her crises-wracked tenure. President Maia Sandu told a news conference that members of the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity, or PAS, accepted her […]

European Union lawmaker detained for questioning after being linked to corruption scandal

A EU lawmaker linked to a corruption scandal that rocked the bloc’s Parliament in December was detained for questioning as police conducted further raids, Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office said Friday. The office said police searched a banking safe in the city of Liege belonging to Belgian lawmaker Marc Tarabella. Offices in the town hall of […]

Protests are the true state of the nation … the government is detached from its people’

Read More South Africans feel alienated from the country’s democratic process in which they are considered mere benefactors and not roleplayers, social development activist Tessa Dooms said on Friday, during a forum on the previous evening’s annual State of the Nation address. Dooms was part of a panel discussion at the Critical Thinking Forum, hosted […]

Mantashe’s hopes of controlling Eskom dashed as a new minister is set to take over

Read More Despite the minister of minerals and energy Gwede Mantashe’s call at the elective conference for the ANC to return Eskom to his department, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address (Sona) signalled the unlikelihood of this happening. On Thursday, Ramaphosa announced that a new ministerial position will be created in the presidency […]

Ramaphosa: Just Energy Transition will be at a pace South Africa can afford

Read More The energy crisis is an “existential threat” to South Africa’s economy and social fabric, said President Cyril Ramaphosa, but South Africans must be mindful of the risks that climate change poses to its society. Delivering his State of the Nation address on Thursday, Ramaphosa said extreme weather events in the form of drought, […]