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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois fired back at Vice President JD Vance after he likened her sparring session with Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing about America’s Venezuela policy to an argument between the fictional character Forrest Gump and Isaac Newton.”Watching Tammy Duckworth obsessively interrupt Marco Rubio during this hearing is like watching Forest Gump argue with Isaac Newton,” Vance quipped in a Wednesday post on X.Duckworth responded, “Forrest Gump ran toward danger in Vietnam. Your boss ran to his podiatrist crying bone spurs. Petty…

Suspending pupils from school will be reserved for the most serious cases of bad behaviour including violence, according to the latest government guidance to be issued to schools in England.The Department for Education (DfE) is to announce a consultation on behaviour policy to be included in the forthcoming schools white paper that is intended to keep more children sanctioned for non-violent misbehaviour in schools in units known as “internal exclusion”, rather than sending them home.School leaders and teachers said the extra clarity was welcome but that there was a risk the deterrent effect of suspensions could be weakened as a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Department of Education announced on Wednesday that a California policy allowing school districts to keep students’ gender transition from their parents violates federal law.Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said a federal investigation found that California education officials “egregiously abused” their authority by pressuring school districts to withhold information about students’ gender transitions from their parents.”Under Gavin Newsom’s failed leadership, school personnel have even bragged about facilitating ‘gender transitions,’ and shared strategies to target minors and conceal information about children from their own families,” she said in a statement. “While the…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureStarmer-Xi meeting endsThe meeting between Keir Starmer and Xi Jinping has ended, Downing Street has confirmed.ShareUpdated at 04.37 GMTBefore his meeting with Xi Jinping meeting today, Keir Starmer was welcomed by National People’s Congress chairman Zhao Leji at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People.A report from the pool of journalists travelling with the British prime minister quotes Zhao as saying it was “significant” to develop the UK-China relationship “well” amid the “changing and turbulent international landscape”.He also praised Starmer’s efforts to reach a rapprochement with China, saying relations were now…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A New Jersey township councilwoman forcefully defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a heated public meeting, criticizing disruptive protests and condemning comparisons of federal agents to Nazis as ignorant and historically offensive.Old Bridge Township councilmember Anita Greenberg-Belli made the remarks during a Jan. 27 council meeting as residents debated immigration enforcement, local police cooperation with federal authorities and protests targeting ICE operations across the country.”We have to recognize that ICE is not the problem,” Greenberg-Belli said. “There are people demonizing them when they’re doing their job trying to be safe.”Greenberg-Belli argued…

British food sector representatives have urged the government to introduce a transition period if it agrees to realign post-Brexit agriculture rules with the EU.They warned that aligning regulations overnight would create a “cliff edge” that could cost UK businesses between £500m and £810m a year, because of the divergence in standards since Brexit.David Bench, chief executive of Croplife, a trade organisation that represents the agrichemical sector, said: “If we do not have a transition period, it would have very damaging consequences.”The warning comes days after the president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) said that British oats used in cereals,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! While more than half of voters approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing on border security, a new Fox News survey finds a majority disapproves of how he is handling immigration and a growing number view the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s tactics as “too aggressive” — including significant portions of the president’s coalition.In addition, there is disagreement about how well ICE is carrying out its core mission. Twenty-nine percent of voters say ICE’s enforcement practices “almost always” reflect Trump’s pledge to focus on illegal immigrants with criminal records,…

When prime ministers travel to China, heightened security arrangements are a given – as is the quiet game of cat and mouse that takes place behind the scenes as each country tests out each other’s tradecraft and capabilities.Keir Starmer’s team has been issued with burner phones and fresh sim cards, and is using temporary email addresses, to prevent devices being loaded with spyware or UK government servers being hacked into.The employment of such tactics may sound dramatic but they are par for the course in an age of digital espionage and information security. Burner phones, for example, are routinely used…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Minnesota’s two largest counties are facing a new election integrity records probe targeting how officials verify voter eligibility, guard against potential noncitizen registrations and oversee the Election Day practice known as “vouching,” Fox News Digital has learned.Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded welfare fraud scandal has already put the Twin Cities under a national microscope. Now, watchdogs are increasingly scrutinizing other public-trust systems as well — including elections.Justin Riemer, president and CEO of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), sent public-records requests Tuesday to the Hennepin and Ramsey County, Minnesota, elections offices. He asked…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Democratic candidate for attorney general in Ohio sparked immediate backlash over a Facebook post explaining his plan to “kill Donald Trump.””I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump,” Elliot Forhan, Democratic candidate for Ohio attorney general and a former state representative, posted on Facebook Monday. Forhan continued, “I mean I’m going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence presented at a trial conducted in accordance with…