The House of Representatives’ internal watchdog is reviewing allegations made against a Texas House Republican, which he called “baseless” on Monday. Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, is being probed by the House Committee on Ethics, according to an announcement released in the afternoon. The reason for the investigation is not immediately clear, but Gooden said it was finance-related in a statement to Fox News Digital denying culpability. REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER...

Republican and Democratic senators are rejecting President Donald Trump’s call for Canada to pay damages to the U.S. over smoke from ongoing wildfires that he said have “poisoned” the air in many American cities. “I think the president’s being ridiculous,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told Fox News Digital. “Nobody can control the direction of the wind,” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said. “Even President Trump can’t do that.” TRUMP...

President Donald Trump is threatening to strike Iran’s deeply buried Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility — a site the United States previously left untouched while bombing the country’s other major nuclear sites, raising new questions about what may have changed. Estimated to lie beneath at least 100 meters of rock near Iran’s damaged Natanz nuclear enrichment complex, Pickaxe was designed to replace an above-ground plant capable of assembling roughly...