How to watch 2025 Election Day coverage with Fox News on Nov. 4
Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital will be your source for up-to-the-minute election coverage as voters head to the polls in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and beyond. Follow Fox News Digital online for breaking coverage as Virginia and New Jersey decide their next governors, New York City picks a new mayor and Pennsylvania voters decide whether to retain three Democratic Supreme Court justices up for re-election. Tune into Fox News Channel on your cable or streaming service provider. You can also access Fox News Channel content on the new FOX ONE app. FIRST TIME VOTING? HERE IS THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BALLOT BOXES, CRITICAL ISSUES ON ELECTION DAY Then, on Tuesday, tune in for up-to-the-minute election coverage all day on Fox News Channel. Fox News Digital will also provide election updates at FoxNews.com and on the Fox News app. Start your day with “Fox & Friends First” at 5 a.m. ET/2 a.m. PT. Then join Brian, Ainsley, Lawrence and Steve for “Fox & Friends” at 6 a.m. ET. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ELECTION DAY 2025: CRITICAL ELECTIONS, BALLOT MEASURES AND MORE At 9 a.m. ET, Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino will cover current events, with guests pertinent to the news topics, including the crucial elections, on “America’s Newsroom.” At 11 a.m., Harris Faulkner will provide her analysis on the races and other news of the day on “The Faulkner Focus.” At noon, Faulkner joins the panel on “Outnumbered” to continue breaking coverage of all things election-related. After that, at 2 p.m., John Roberts and Sandra Smith anchor “America Reports,” followed by “The Story with Martha MacCallum” at 3 p.m. Will Cain picks up the mantle at 4 p.m., offering his take on what has transpired so far on Election Day before “The Five” takes over at their eponymous hour. Continue to get up-to-the-minute breaking news and a roundup of the day’s stories from Bret Baier and his team on an Election Day edition of “Special Report.”
Federal appeals court cancels daily Border Patrol chief check-ins
The Department of Homeland Security is celebrating a victory after an “act of judicial overreach has been paused.” On Wednesday, an appeals court blocked an order issued on Tuesday that required a senior Border Patrol official to give unprecedented daily briefings to a judge about immigration sweeps in Chicago. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis had ordered the meetings after weeks of tense encounters and increasingly aggressive tactics by government agents working on Operation Midway Blitz, which has resulted in more than 1,800 arrests and complaints of excessive force. While Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino told Fox News earlier Wednesday that he was eager to talk to Ellis, government lawyers were appealing her decision at the same time, calling it “extraordinarily disruptive.” ICE AGENTS BREAK CAR WINDOW TO ARREST RESISTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN EXCLUSIVE FOX NEWS RIDE-ALONG “The order significantly interferes with the quintessentially executive function of ensuring the Nation’s immigration laws are properly enforced by waylaying a senior executive official critical to that mission on a daily basis,” the Justice Department argued. “We are thrilled this act of judicial overreach has been paused,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to The Associated Press. OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGE SAYS SHE WANTS BODY CAMERAS FOR FEDERAL AGENTS AMID CHICAGO ANTI-ICE CLASHES On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released footage on X that appears to show Border Patrol agents under siege during an immigration raid in Chicago’s Little Village, a Southwest Side neighborhood often referred to as “La Villita” and home to one of the largest Mexican American communities in the Midwest. “VIDEO EVIDENCE,” DHS wrote in the post with the video attached. Last week, on Oct. 22, three illegal immigrants and six U.S. citizens were arrested on charges on what DHS dubbed “one of the most violent days” of Operation Midway Blitz. Fox News Digital’s Rachel Wolf and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Trump inches closer to DC federal property sell-off with Ernst’s help
FIRST ON FOX: Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst introduced legislation Thursday that would clear the way for Trump administration officials to sell underutilized federal buildings, Fox News Digital learned. “Despite President Trump calling federal employees back to work, vacant government buildings could easily be mistaken as future locations for Spirit Halloween stores,” Ernst said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “For too long, the entrenched bureaucracy has used red tape to prevent these ghost towns from being sold off,” she continued. Her Disposal Act “immediately lists six prime pieces of D.C. real estate on the auction block and slashes through pointless regulations to fast-track the sale of the government’s graveyard of lifeless real estate to generate hundreds of millions of dollars and save taxpayers billions.” Ernst is the founder and chair of the Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus, and first exposed the federal government’s lack of use of its federal buildings back in 2023 when she released a “naughty list of no-show federal agencies” following the pandemic, when federal employees worked from home amid government-mandated shutdowns. SHUTDOWN FACES TAXPAYER RECKONING AS LAWMAKER WORKS TO EXPOSE ‘TRUE COST OF DEMOCRATS’ POLITICAL STUNT’ Dubbed the “Disposing of Inactive Structures and Properties by Offering for Sale And Lease (DISPOSAL) Act,” the legislation works to renew efforts to sell six pieces of underutilized federal properties in Washington, D.C., that headquarter various federal agencies. The legislation specifically calls on the General Services Administration to sell the Frances Perkins Federal Building, home to the Department of Labor; the Department of Energy’s James V. Forrestal Building; the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, which is home to the Office of Personnel Management; Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, where Housing and Urban Development was headquartered before announcing in June it planned to move; Department of Agriculture’s headquarters at its South Building; and the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, headquarters of Health and Human Services. ERNST DEMANDS $2T IN FEDERAL CUTS, URGES TRUMP TEAM TO ‘MAKE DC SQUEAL’ AMID SHUTDOWN FIGHT There are an estimated 7,700 vacant federal buildings nationwide and another 2,265 that are largely sitting empty, according to Ernst’s office. The Office of Management and Budget reported in 2023 that the annual cost of operating federal buildings deemed “underutilized” sits at $81.346 million, while the General Services Administration reported in 2025 that deferred maintenance and repair backlogs at federal buildings exceeds $6 billion and will balloon to more than $20 billion in five years. The General Services Administration identified hundreds of “non-core” federal properties across the nation in March that could be put up for sale. Mold, cockroaches and undrinkable water also have plagued the federal buildings, according to various recent media reports. HOUSING COSTS ARE CRUSHING FAMILIES – HERE’S THE WAY OUT The legislation would clear the path for the Trump administration to make additional sales down the line, should it pass. Sales of federal buildings are wrapped in red tape and procedures, with the bill working to streamline the process by mandating the sale of up to 20 additional federal buildings per calendar year, and charging the GSA chief with determining whether a sale or ground lease would be in the “best interests of the United States.” President Donald Trump‘s DOGE efforts to slim down the size of the federal government and remove overspending have been a hallmark of his second administration. Trump repeatedly has railed against federal employees who stopped reporting to the office since the pandemic, vowing during his joint address to Congress in March that “unaccountable bureaucracy” will end. “We have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work,” he said. “My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to America again. Any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately.” Ernst and DOGE successfully mandated the sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in June, which headquartered Voice of America in a 1.2 million-square-foot building. Only 72 people worked in the building as of 2024, Fox News Digital previously reported. Fox News Digital reported in February that the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters in D.C., which can accommodate roughly 6,000 people, had become so desolate of employees during the Biden administration that it looked like an off-season Spirit Halloween store. Administration officials confirmed to Fox News Digital at the time that one HUD office even still had a business card left over from the first Trump administration still tacked on a white board when officials with the second administration reported to work following Trump’s inauguration. Ernst’s October legislation follows a bill she introduced in June that called for the sale of six federal properties that would yield at least $400 million in revenue while canceling roughly $2.9 billion in overdue maintenance at the buildings.
Ex-FBI agents say bureau used internal probes to punish whistleblowers
The FBI has a longstanding pattern of using its internal review processes to dissuade whistleblowers, a former special agent told Fox Digital. What started in 2021 as a workplace conflict for Special Agent Valentine Fertitta snowballed into a yearslong dispute when Fertitta escalated concerns about his treatment, his wife said. Emily Fertitta, who also served in the bureau under the Biden administration, believes that’s emblematic of a larger problem. “A very simple equal employment opportunity case has grown into this huge whistleblower case that has implications for everybody,” she said. “National security retaliation is huge for so many whistleblowers.” HOUSE REPUBLICANS ACCUSE BIDEN’S FBI OF RETALIATING AGAINST WHISTLEBLOWER WHO EXPOSED MISCONDUCT After a deployment overseas, Valentine Fertitta returned home with serious injuries that limited his participation at work for the FBI. After a manager took issue with his reduced productivity, the agency blocked him from consideration of a promotion in 2021 — a decision Valentine Fertitta believed violated the FBI’s policies and federal employment law, according to the family’s attorney. “Val’s supervisor at the time — this guy is just obsessed with statistics,” Matthew Crotty, the Fertitta family’s legal counsel said. “He was a troublemaker, really obsessed with advancing in his career.” But that was only the beginning of Valentine Fertitta’s conflict with the FBI. TERRY ROZIER’S ATTORNEY ACCUSES FBI OF SEEKING ‘MISPLACED GLORY’ WITH NBA PLAYER’S ARREST Believing that his management had violated government protections against injured employees among other employment safeguards for veterans, Valentine Fertitta filed a whistleblower complaint. Not long after, he received his first-ever negative work performance review, was denied access to trainings, was asked to provide past, present and future medical records and more, according to his wife. Exasperated, Valentine Fertitta appealed his case to the Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management (OARM) — the FBI’s internal body charged with acting as a backstop against whistleblower retaliation. Less than a month later, the FBI opened an evaluation of his security clearance, according to their lawyer. “The key thing is the timing,” Crotty said. “Within two weeks of Val starting this OARM process, the FBI starts to investigate Val’s suitability to hold a top secret security clearance.” “The way the FBI can essentially fire you without saying ‘you’re fired’ is to just revoke your clearance,” Crotty added. Emily Fertitta explained that the process carries with it some punitive effects. Among them: suspension of pay during the time of review. Emily Fertitta said the investigation also put pressure on her. As a part of the security clearance evaluation, she said the bureau asked her to testify against her husband in what was going to be a three-day interview. When she asked for legal counsel, she said the FBI denied her request. Emily Fertitta decided to quit the agency. She said her husband’s clearance dispute is ongoing. FBI AGENTS FIRED AFTER KNEELING AT GEORGE FLOYD PROTEST IN 2020: REPORTS The Supreme Court has granted the FBI broad powers to make decisions about its employees and their security clearances, with few exceptions. That means that for their duration at the bureau, FBI agents have no external recourse to appeal a clearance dispute. Crotty said that goes for a lot of the internal review measures inside the FBI. “It doesn’t matter who’s in the White House. It’s a structural FBI thing. It’s been going on since Hoover,” Crotty said, referring to the FBI’s original director. “This is an agency that makes loyalty part and parcel to its core — and if you go against it by trying any of these internal processes — [they] are going to get back at you.” “This is what lawmakers need to know,” Crotty said. Emily Fertitta said other whistleblowers face similar opposition, pointing to public reporting provided by the FBI. The OARM, the body that Valentine Fertitta had appealed to shortly before his clearance evaluation began, records complaints that the FBI has received from whistleblowers who believe they’ve faced some sort of retribution. In the past 10 annual reports submitted to Congress, OARM has received 107 complaints. In that time, OARM identified nine cases of retaliation. “This is much bigger than Val and Emily. It applies to so many other people who just don’t have the ability to speak up,” Emily Fertitta said. She said the Biden administration did little to address the issue and hopes that, amid Trump’s openness to retool government structures, the new administration will follow through on promises of reform. “Congress could fix this without costing the taxpayer a dime by saying hey, if you’re a reservist at the FBI, you can go to federal court — just like an Amazon worker can — you can make that claim before a federal jury in federal court. That’s what needs to change,” Crotty said. “Having a couple of jury verdicts that nail the FBI on retaliation; once the FBI starts cutting checks for millions of dollars in jury verdicts, that’s how stuff gets fixed,” he added. According to Crotty, the Fertitta family has a pending civil case against the FBI. That litigation faces delays amid pending internal FBI deliberations over Mr. Fertitta’s security clearance, he said. The FBI declined to comment on the Fertitta case.
Why is Donald Trump so interested in rare earth minerals?
The US president has struck a number of deals in his tour of Asia this week. Since coming back to the White House earlier this year, President Donald Trump has made rare earth minerals one of his top priorities. He’s focused on securing enough supply for the United States economy. In March, Trump went as far as signing an executive order, where he invoked wartime powers to increase the production of rare earths. And this week, he signed several agreements with a number of Asian countries, in the hopes of gaining access to the minerals. This is all to counter China’s global dominance in this sector and Beijing’s recent restrictions on rare earth exports. So, why are these minerals so crucial for the US economy? And can Trump break China’s monopoly? Presenter: Bernard Smith Guests: Brian Wong – Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Gracelin Baskaran – Mining Economist and Director of the Critical Minerals Security program at Center for Strategic and International Studies. Huiyao Wang – President and Founder of Center for China and Globalization. Published On 29 Oct 202529 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Adblock test (Why?)
RFK Jr walks back Trump administration’s claims linking Tylenol and autism
Kennedy, a top health official, urges ‘cautious approach’ after Trump baselessly claimed taking Tylenol is linked autism in children. United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has partially walked back his warning that taking Tylenol during pregnancy is directly linked to autism in children. In a news conference on Wednesday, Kennedy struck a more moderate tone than he generally has in his past public appearances. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “The causative association between Tylenol given in pregnancy and the perinatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism,” Kennedy told reporters. “But it’s very suggestive.” “There should be a cautious approach to it,” he added. “ That’s why our message to patients, to mothers, to people who are pregnant and to the mothers of young children is: Consult your physician.” Wednesday’s statement is closer in line with the guidance of reputable health agencies. While some studies have raised the possibility of a link between Tylenol and autism, there have been no conclusive findings. Pregnant women are advised to consult a doctor before taking the medication. The World Health Organization reiterated the point in September, noting that “no consistent association has been established” between the medication and autism, despite “extensive research”. But claims to the contrary have already prompted efforts to limit the availability of Tylenol, a popular brand of acetaminophen, a fever- and pain-reducing medication. On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a lawsuit accusing Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, the companies behind the over-the-counter pain reliever, of deceptive practices. Advertisement In doing so, he reiterated misinformation shared by President Donald Trump and government officials like Kennedy. “By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we will help Make America Healthy Again,” Paxton said in a statement, giving a nod to Kennedy’s MAHA slogan. The suit alleges that Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue violated Texas consumer protection laws by having “deceptively marketed Tylenol as the only safe painkiller for pregnant women”. It was the latest instance of scientific misinformation being perpetuated by top officials. Both Trump and Kennedy have repeatedly spread scientific misinformation throughout their political careers. Trump linked autism and the painkiller during a news conference in September, without providing reputable scientific findings to back the claim. “[Using] acetaminophen – is that OK? – which is basically, commonly known as Tylenol, during pregnancy can be associated with a very increased risk of autism,” Trump said on September 22. “So taking Tylenol is not good. I’ll say it. It’s not good.” Kennedy has offered his own sweeping statements about Tylenol and its alleged risks, despite having no professional medical background. “Anyone who takes this stuff during pregnancy, unless they have to, is irresponsible,” he said in a cabinet meeting on October 9. Kennedy also mischaracterised studies on male circumcision earlier this month. He falsely said the studies showed an increase in autism among children who were “circumcised early”. “It’s highly likely because they’re given Tylenol,” he added. Kenvue stressed in a statement on Tuesday that acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women, noting that high fevers and pain are potential risks to pregnancies if left untreated. “We stand firmly with the global medical community that acknowledges the safety of acetaminophen and believe we will continue to be successful in litigation as these claims lack legal merit and scientific support,” Kenvue said. Adblock test (Why?)
Israeli military kills two in new Gaza attack despite ‘resuming’ ceasefire
Israel’s military has carried out another deadly attack in northern Gaza despite claiming to resume the fragile ceasefire, which was already teetering from a wave of deadly bombardment it waged the night before. Israel’s latest aerial attack on Wednesday evening occurred in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya area, killing at least two people, according to al-Shifa Hospital. Israel claimed it had targeted a site storing weapons that posed “an immediate threat” to its troops. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The attack adds further uncertainty to Gaza’s fragile ceasefire, which was shaken by the fiercest episode of Israeli bombardment on Tuesday night since it entered into force on October 10. Following the reported killing of an Israeli soldier in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “powerful” retaliatory strikes on Gaza. The resulting attacks killed 104 people, mostly women and children, said Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel claimed its strikes targeted senior Hamas fighters, killing dozens, and then said it would start observing the ceasefire again mid-Wednesday. United States President Donald Trump insisted the ceasefire “is not in jeopardy” despite the latest attacks. Regional mediator Qatar expressed frustration over the violence, but said mediators are still looking towards the next phase of the truce, including the disarmament of Hamas. ‘Calm turned into despair’ In Gaza, the renewed attacks have retraumatised a population desperate to see an end to the two-year war, said Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza City, Hani Mahmoud. Advertisement “A brief hope for calm turned into despair,” said Mahmoud. “For a lot of people, it’s a stark reminder of the opening weeks of the genocide in terms of the intensity and the scale of destruction that was caused by the massive bombs on Gaza City.” Khadija al-Husni, a displaced mother living with her children at a school in Gaza’s Shati refugee camp, said the latest attacks came just as people had “started to breathe again, trying to rebuild our lives”. “It’s a crime,” she said. “Either there is a truce or a war – it can’t be both. The children couldn’t sleep; they thought the war was over.” Don’t let peace ‘slip from our grasp’, says UN On Wednesday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the UN chief strongly condemned “the killings due to Israeli air strikes of civilians in Gaza” the day before, “including many children”. UN rights chief Volker Turk also said the report of so many dead was appalling and urged all sides not to let peace “slip from our grasp”, echoing calls from the United Kingdom, Germany and the European Union for the parties to recommit to the ceasefire. Hamas, for its part, denied its fighters had any “connection to the shooting incident in Rafah” that killed an Israeli soldier and reaffirmed its commitment to the ceasefire. However, it said it would postpone transferring the remains of a deceased captive due to Israel’s latest truce violations, further fuelling Israeli claims that the group is stalling the captive handover process. Hamas warned any “escalation” from Israel would “hinder the search, excavation and recovery of the bodies”. Israel, meanwhile, officially barred Red Cross representatives from visiting Palestinian prisoners, claiming such visits could pose a security threat. Hamas said the ban, which was already effectively in place during the war in Gaza, violates the rights of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and “adds to a series of systematic and criminal violations they are subjected to”, including killing, torture and starvation. The Elders, a group of respected former world leaders, called on Wednesday for the release of one of those Palestinian prisoners – Marwan Barghouti. The Palestinian leader continues to be held by Israel despite Hamas including him in its list of prisoners for release as part of the ceasefire deal. Israel has refused to release Barghouti, who is often referred to as the Palestinian Nelson Mandela. Barghouti is serving several life sentences for what Israel says is involvement in attacks against civilians – a claim he denies. Advertisement “Marwan Barghouti has been a long-term advocate for a two-state solution by peaceful means, and is consistently the most popular Palestinian leader in opinion polls,” The Elders said in a statement, calling on US President Donald Trump to ensure the release of Barghouti. “We condemn the ill-treatment, including torture, of Marwan Barghouti and other Palestinian prisoners, many of whom are arbitrarily detained,” The Elders added. “Israeli authorities must abide by their responsibilities under international law to protect prisoners’ human rights.” Adblock test (Why?)
Who is Danish Merchant, close aide of Dawood Ibrahim and drug syndicate kingpin, arrested by NCB Mumbai?
Danish Merchant had been on the run and looked after the operations of the drug network linked to Dawood’s gang in the country.
India issues BIG statement on 500 Indians from Myanmar scam hub stranded in Thailand: ‘We are aware of…’
The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday assured that it was working to repatriate nearly 500 Indians detained in Thailand after they crossed over the border amid the Myanmar scam hub crackdown. The authorities said that they are working closely with the Thai authorities to verify their nationality and repatriate them.
Delhi Metro: DMRC takes BIG step to beat air pollution, adds 40 additional…
As the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) Stage II has been invoked in Delhi due to rising pollution levels, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has decided to run 40 additional train trips across its corridors on weekdays to provide extra passenger capacity.