Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Sen. Tom Cotton attributed increased Army recruiting numbers to “America First” leadership and “the Trump effect.”  However, data indicates that recruiting numbers began to improve months before the U.S. Presidential election, according to a former official. “You had some number of young men and women who didn’t want to join the army over the last four years under Joe Biden and Christine Wormuth,...

President Donald Trump is planning to end bans and restrictions on plastic straws, according to his recent post on Truth Social. “I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work,” Trump posted Friday. “BACK TO PLASTIC!” If signed, the executive order would affect laws in several Democratic-run states that currently have bans or restrictions on single-use plastic...

FIRST ON FOX: A top House Republican is moving to make it harder for China to procure advanced U.S. technology amid longstanding concerns about intellectual property theft by Beijing. “My proposed legislation will establish safeguards to prevent future shocks like China’s development of DeepSeek using American technology. In addition to the chips China reportedly stockpiled, it appears China used chips under the current export control threshold to achieve...