FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republican conference Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is set to meet with an embattled Trump nominee for a key position in the Department of Defense (DOD) after Cotton faced backlash from some MAGA-aligned figures over the weekend. Cotton will meet with President Donald Trump’s nominee for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge “Bridge” Colby, in the coming days, a source familiar shared with Fox...

Allegations of coziness between California’s elected state insurance commissioner and the insurance industry led to accusations flying between him, critics in Sacramento and Washington, and frustrated Californians who lost everything in the Pacific Palisades fires. Commissioner Ricardo Lara accused Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., of trying to “White mansplain” the role of insurance commissioner after the Los Angeles Times reported his criticisms of the agency. Garamendi, who was California’s...