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...

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...

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...