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EXCLUSIVE:The United States government has spent at least $113 million on the war in Ukraine, but that total could be considered much greater due to the cost of replacing weapons and munitions sent to Kyiv, as estimated by the Pentagon, Fox News Digital has learned. Fox News Digital first reported in September that the United States had spent a total …

As I write this, I’m befuddled as to how to identify the late Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. He died from a fall at age 82 in New York this week. For writing purposes, do I stylize him as “Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.?” Or do I write “Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn.?” This subject vexed me for years. It became even more …

CONCORD, N.H. — In a surprise announcement, longtime Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire says she won’t seek re-election to the House of Representatives this year. “I always said I was not going to stay in Congress forever — I will not be seeking re-election in 2024,” the six-term representative in the key general election battleground state said in …

Georgia officials picked up a key congressional endorsement Monday as they seek a federal study on whether the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah should be deepened again following a harbor expansion that was completed in 2022 and cost nearly $1 billion. U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican and chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said …

Republicans remained relatively quiet on Tuesday as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) actions to make the abortion pill Mifeprisone easier to access over the course of several years. Democratic lawmakers sounded off in apparent unison, contrasting with their partisan counterparts and bashing the arguments against the drug and the …

Congressional leaders are weighing the best way to aid in recovery efforts in Maryland following Tuesday’s nautical disaster. The Francis Scott Key Bridge along I-695 in Maryland collapsed into the Baltimore harbor following a “ship strike” early Tuesday morning. Top lawmakers are keeping abreast of the mass casualty event and remain open to providing any aid needed by local officials, …

Congressional lawmakers are expected to move quickly on an anticipated supplemental spending request to cover at least part of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore following the collapse Tuesday, Fox News has learned. It may take time to determine how much such a project would cost and what the exact needs will be. The Francis Scott Key Bridge …

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is questioning President Biden’s Department of Defense over its abortion travel assistance policies that Secretary Lloyd Austin has previously said are important for force readiness. Wicker suggested that recently-revealed data casts doubt on the Biden administration’s justifications for the policies. The Department of Defense …

“The nursing homes have seen in many ways the most intense issue here. And when you think about where this even started, it started in a nursing home in state of Washington. The vulnerable population, our senior citizens, people with comorbidities, compromised immune systems, and a nursing home is a aggregation of those people. And that’s how it started. And …

The crack of Louisville Slugger ash bats connecting with rawhide baseballs laced in Costa Rica will soon echo throughout ballparks all over North America. A dulcet-toned announcer will lunge forward from his seat in the press box, perched three tiers above home plate. The announcer will squint, looking to see if the ball hooks just inside the foul pole several …