FIRST ON FOX: The vice chair of the Treasury Department’s newly-announced racial equity committee wants to defund the police and put racial justice at the center of all government policymaking. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday announced the formation of a 25-member committee called the Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, which will identify, monitor,…
Two never-before-seen photos of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle taken days before Queen Elizabeth II died were posted to social media by photographer and friend Misan Harriman on Monday. The photos show the Duke and Duchess of Sussex smiling and holding hands moments before they spoke at the opening of the One Young World summit…
A North Carolina woman was arrested and faces several charges after allegedly trying to castrate her 5-year-old stepson, according to authorities. Bracey Renee Byrd, 33, was arrested Friday and charged with attempted murder, felony child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury, malicious castration, first-degree kidnapping and three counts of felony child abuse with physical injury. The…
House and Senate Democrats proposed legislation this week that would establish a more robust environmental justice office and a new section focused on tackling environmental crimes within the Department of Justice. The Biden administration defines “environmental justice” as the “fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a “partial mobilization” that will compel citizens to join the fight in Ukraine could backfire on the authoritarian leader, causing unrest that risks weakening his grip on Russia’s population. “There’s a growing discontent among the Russian people with Putin’s policies,” Rebekah Koffler, a former DIA intelligence officer and the author…
The attorneys for the family of a Los Angeles Police Department officer who died during a training exercise earlier this year say he was investigating another officer involved in the exercise for gang rape. Houston Tipping, 32, died after he was injured by the officer under investigation during a bicycle training exercise in May, a…
Alec Baldwin and the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins have reached a settlement. Hutchins died when a gun Baldwin was holding fired while practicing a shot for the film “Rust” on the New Mexico movie set Oct. 21. The group had been rehearsing in a small church on the set. “We have reached a settlement,…
The American basketball world was introduced Tuesday to two possible top picks in next year’s draft in Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson, as the G League Ignite squad took on France’s Metropolitans 92. As Wembanyama scored 37 points and Henderson scored 28 points, NBA fans’ attention turned to another French basketball player – Steeve Ho…
The Supreme Court ordered a lower court ruling on a Massachusetts gun control law to be vacated and directed a lower court to reconsider the case. The case in question, Morin v. Lyver, centers around a controversial Massachusetts law that imposes strict restrictions on the possession and purchase of handguns, including the need for a…
The accused shooter in the slaying of New York father Paul Kutz, who was gunned down in the lobby of a Courtyard Marriott hotel while visiting his son at Marist College for Family Weekend, is being probed for another local murder, according to a new report. Ex-convict Roy Johnson Jr., 35, was arrested at the…