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A new Washington, D.C., bill is aiming to combat high crime rates by allowing restaurants, bars and other retail stores to go cashless. The bill seeks to provide exemptions to a previously established law prohibiting retail establishments from rejecting cash payments. City Council member Christina Henderson told Fox News Digital that businesses primarily reject cash payments to protect their employees. …

Chicago Public Schools teachers were instructed by school officials to give migrant students passing grades and promote them to the next grade, “even if the students displayed severe academic deficiencies,” a new report claims. WGN News reported that “multiple” teachers from different schools within the district reached out to them to expose the troubling trend. One teacher said she was …

New York magazine placed reporter Olivia Nuzzi on leave Thursday night after an internal probe found “she had engaged in a personal relationship” with a key figure in the 2024 presidential race, reportedly former candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the …

Stars of the newest Disney+ Marvel show, “Agatha All Along,” endorsed the show as the “gayest Marvel project yet” ahead of the series premiere on the streaming platform Wednesday. “Agatha All Along” is a sequel to the popular “WandaVision” miniseries which premiered on Disney+ in 2021. It “focuses on Kathryn Hahn’s character, Agatha Harkness… as she sets off on a …

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s comments Monday denouncing ShotSpotter as “walkie-talkies on a pole” are facing criticism from city council members who want to extend the gunshot detection system‘s contract, currently set to expire on Sunday. Johnson, who campaigned in 2023 on ending the city’s contract with SoundThinking Inc., which owns ShotSpotter, said the program has not been successful in reducing …

FOX News Media CEOSuzanne Scott and PresidentJay Wallace honored the 2023FOX News Media Spotlight Awardwinners on Tuesday during an intimate luncheon. The FOX News Media Spotlight Awards are anannual tradition for the company, and management received hundreds of nominations from staff members passionate about celebrating colleagues who earned special recognition.Winners were announced last year at a company-wide town hall, and …

A Utah teen is fighting for her life after a car surfing accident, raising the alarm on a growing social media trend. 15-year-old Ava Broadhead is in a medical induced coma due to an “extreme brain injury” after falling from the top of a moving car, according to Fox 13. The teen, who was looking forward to attending homecoming, will …

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel once joked that Sean “Diddy” Combs would be a better leader than former President Trump in a clip recently unearthed on social media. On the August 1, 2018 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Kimmel asked the now-disgraced music mogul if he’d ever consider running for president. “By the way, President Trump had his own vodka, it …

China announced last week it was ending its international adoption program, devastating hundreds of families in the U.S. in the process of adopting a child. “A lot of these families have persevered, believing that there would be a way for these children, many of whom they’ve met face-to-face, to be brought home through intervention. So this announcement was a real …

FIRST ON FOX — Some American universities have claimed they would eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)ideology but instead opted to rebrand the polarizing practice, according to CriticalRace.org. CriticalRace.org, whichmonitors CRT curricula and traininginhigher education,has cataloged over 700 institutions of higher education to examine activities on campus. The group says that out of 26 universes where legislative efforts have been …