A grand jury in the nation's capital on Tuesday refused the Justice Department 's attempt to indict a group of Democratic lawmakers who encouraged U.S. military members to ignore "illegal" orders in a video posted online. The DOJ opened an investigation into the video featuring six Democratic lawmakers calling on troops and members of the intelligence community to defy illegal orders from the federal government. The lawmakers all served in the military or at intelligence agencies. The lawmakers in the video were Sens. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mark Kelly of Arizona, as well as Reps. Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Jason Crow of Colorado. "This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens," the lawmakers said in the video. "Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats c...

Ashley Farquharson raced to Olympic glory in luge on Tuesday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. The American luger became emotional when she checked the scoreboard and realized she earned her first Olympic medal. Her performance in the women's luge singles on Tuesday also marked just the second time an American has won an Olympic medal in the event. Farquharson, who started sliding as an after-school activity when she was growing up in Park City, Utah, said it was almost hard to believe what she had accomplished. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "It really didn’t feel real," Farquharson said after her victory. "And then everyone meeting me on the ice, and the whirlwind it’s been since then has really cemented it. For a couple seconds when I was coming up the outrun, I was like, ‘that’s not real.’" US FIGURE SKATER MAXIM NAUMOV HONORS LATE PARENTS IN EMOTIONAL OLYMPIC PERFORMANCE Germany’s Julia Taubitz took the gold medal, winning by a...

FIRST ON FOX: Hours before banging the gavel to commence a hearing Tuesday to investigate the dynamic of "malign foreign influence," House Committee on Ways and Means chair Jason Smith escalated his investigation into the China-based, American-born Marxist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who has allegedly been "sowing chaos and spreading Chinese propaganda, possibly in coordination with a foreign government." Fox News Digital has obtained copies of letters that Smith sent on Monday night to two U.S. nonprofits – BreakThrough BT Media Inc. and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – demanding records of their ties to Singham and alleging they are promoting propaganda aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Smith will chair a hearing called, "Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond." The hearing will be broadcast online at the committee’s website . Singham, Tricontinental and ...

This is hardly a breaking-news situation. It’s not like some horrible new information has been unearthed in the last few days about the President of the United States. (Though I don’t think he helped himself by posting the Obamas-as-apes image and refusing to apologize.)  I started thinking about this after some comments by Ross Douthat, the moderately conservative New York Times columnist, who is, shall we say, a frequent critic of Donald Trump . "I want to tell you a secret," Douthat says in the video. Well, that sounds exciting. WHITE HOUSE REMOVES SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO SHOWING OBAMAS AS APES AFTER CRITICISM "One that most conservatives on the internet don’t want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country." Is that true? He’s not just saying that the Democrats are going to crush the GOP in the midterms the same way that the Seattle Seahawks annihilated the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl .  He plays clips of pun...

The first time I spoke to Jeff Bezos , he had founded Amazon as an online bookstore and made himself available to all kinds of journalists — a "political genius," said the New York Times Magazine, a "brilliant, charming, hyper, and misleadingly goofy mastermind." In 1999, having blown past the naysayers who scoffed at the strange notion of online retailing, the 35-year-old businessman was named Time’s Person of the Year. Nearly a decade-and-a-half later, as one of the world’s richest men, Bezos spent $250 million of his personal fortune to buy the Washington Post from Katharine Graham’s family. And now he should fold his cards and sell it. It’s a different era for the industry and a very different Bezos, one who is comfortable slashing a third of the paper’s staff. EX-WASHINGTON POST FACT CHECKER HITS ‘ABSENTEE OWNER’ BEZOS, TELLS HIM TO COMMIT TO SAVING PAPER OR SELL IT Having initially declared that "the duty of the paper is to the readers, not the owner...

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show is officially behind us. Mercifully. What began with hype and outrage, and then more outrage, ended with a show most charitably described as polarizing and confusing for those who were not already Bad Bunny fans. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell promised that Bad Bunny would use the show to unite the world "in a really creative and fun way." It turns out that he was right. Most of the country, with the exception of some Democrats like California Gov. Gavin Newsom , was united in its revulsion over a show that was narrowly tailored to a niche audience despite being billed as inclusive and respectful of America. The pre-show hype around Bad Bunny’s invitation to perform at this year’s Super Bowl began with his SNL demand that viewers "learn Spanish." He walked the dig back at the pre-Super Bowl press conference, but the sentiment ended up being true. Then there was the online rumor that Bad Bunny would wear a dress during his hal...

Turning Point USA’s "All-American" Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday was met with praise. The show, featuring Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett streamed on YouTube at the same time as the Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny took place. Many praised the alternate show, with millions tuning in — with numbers soaring to as high as 5 million viewers tuning in to the livestream on YouTube. However, some called it "underwhelming," while others criticized Kid Rock's vocal ability. COUNTRY STAR GAVIN ADCOCK BACKS KID ROCK'S PATRIOTIC ALTERNATIVE TO SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW Turning Point USA’s "All-American Halftime Show" also took a moment to pay tribute to founder Charlie Kirk. The tribute took place as Kid Rock finished up a song, and read: "In remembrance of Charlie Kirk," alongside photos of Charlie’s wife Erika and their children. Kacey Musgraves slammed Kid Rock as she took to X to share her thoughts. Th...