An elk hunter in Idaho shot and killed a grizzly bear in self-defense after the animal charged directly at him in a “surprise encounter,” wildlife officials said Monday. The hunter was moving through heavy timber near Henrys Lake State Park on Saturday when the large adult female grizzly bear emerged […]

Three years after a Christopher Columbus statue was removed from a square in Providence, Rhode Island, the bronze cast has re-emerged, this time in a park in Johnston, Rhode Island, about 9 miles west of the capital. The statue had been targeted by vandals, at one point being splashed with […]

Elected in 1993 as a “mom in tennis shoes,” Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray, D-Wash., has risen to be second in line for the presidency amid the House’s speaker battle. After Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted from the speakership on Tuesday, the job passed temporarily to House Speaker Pro […]

Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic writing in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children’s books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that “give voice to the unsayable.” Fosse’s work, which is rooted in his Norwegian background, “focuses on human […]

FIRST ON FOX: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is being endorsed by 60 Florida bipartisan law enforcement officers on Thursday, a larger number than he received during his 2022 gubernatorial race.  At an event in Tampa, Florida on Thursday afternoon, the campaign is set to announce that 60 law enforcement officers […]

A tech conference for women and non-binary workers in the field last week was overrun by men, where an organizer said some unwelcome guests falsely claimed to be “non-binary” to make it in. And some onlookers watched the ensuing outcry unfold with amusement and a lack of sympathy. “You have […]

Those applying for food stamps, Medicaid and other public assistance in New York will soon be able to choose “X” as a gender option on their application. A court settlement Wednesday is a result of a 2021 lawsuit against multiple government agencies that claimed the state Office of Temporary and […]

The U.S. Central Command has announced that more than one million rounds of Iranian ammunition seized from a ship last year are now in the hands of Ukraine’s military, in a transfer Attorney General Merrick Garland says will aid the “people’s fight against another authoritarian regime.”  The transfer of the […]

A Philadelphia man accused of being the motorcyclist caught on video kicking in the rear windshield of a woman’s car with her two children inside and pointing a gun at her head has been identified and charged, authorities said Wednesday. Cody Heron, 26, faces multiple counts of aggravated assault, reckless […]

Whatever happened to competence as a standard of expected performance? Or qualifications? Or sexual privacy? These virtues that were once the cornerstone for liberal Democrats are out the door in today’s Democrat Party. As the son of a civil rights leader and former NAACP chapter president whose family desegregated our […]