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A two-month report card. I'm Chris Foster, Fox News. President Trump's second term in office started two months ago. Today, there are new Fox polls about how he and some members of his administration are doing. The poll shows 49% of voters like what the president is doing. As for others, Secretary of State Marco Rubio breaks even, 47% approve, 47% don't.
Vice President J.D. Vance has 45% liking the job he's doing, while Elon Musk working with Doge is at 40% approval. Speaking of making government more efficient, 51% of voters say they oppose reducing federal government employees, while 43% say the president is doing a poor job in identifying wasteful government spending.
On tariffs, 53% say they think it will hurt the U.S. economy. Grinnell Scott, Fox News. And the president this afternoon is expected to sign an executive order to dismantle the Federal Department of Education. It can only be fully eliminated, though, by...
approval of Congress. Hamas claims responsibility for rocket attacks into Israel with no injuries reported. More than 500 Palestinians are reported to have been killed since the resumption of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. The Israeli military has begun ground operations in Gaza, sending troops back in for the first time yesterday. It's been two days since Israel relaunched its military operation, marking the collapse of the ceasefire, which started two months ago. Ground forces have moved back
into the Netserim corridor. It's the roadway that splits the Gaza Strip down the middle. Fox's Alex Hogan. Ukraine's President Zelensky says he didn't feel pressured by President Trump's suggestion during their phone call yesterday that the United States take ownership of Ukrainian power plants to ensure their security. Zelensky has agreed to a limited ceasefire with Russia to not attack each other's energy infrastructure. It's not clear when that might actually take effect. America's listening to Fox News.
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There's a plan to resume the search for a missing airliner. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in China in 2014. Now the Malaysian government's agreed terms with an exploration firm to try once again to find the wreckage. More than 5,500 square miles of Indian Ocean seabed is being examined.
The Boeing 777's transponder was turned off not long after takeoff. Investigators believe the airplane's controls were likely deliberately manipulated off course. Some debris later washed ashore in Africa and on Indian Ocean islands. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. There are criminal charges for a man who got a break from former President Biden.
52-year-old Willie Frank Peterson of Dothan, Alabama, is back behind bars just two months after former President Biden commuted his sentence and released him from prison. Peterson had been convicted in 2023 of drug and theft charges and sentenced to 30 months.
Now, Jotham police have charged Peterson with possession of cocaine, hydrocodone, marijuana, and two counts of illegal firearms possession. Fox's Sue Guzman. Columbia University in New York is reportedly closer to satisfying a list of demands from the Trump administration to restore $400 million in federal funding. The demands include a mask ban and a crackdown on anti-Israel protests on campus, as well as enforcing discipline of protesters who took over Hamilton Hall last spring and formalizing the definition of anti-Semitism.
A letter from Columbia's interim president, Katrina Armstrong, was posted to the school's website on Wednesday, outlining the steps the school has taken since last year's protests, while also saying they're working, quote, around the clock to secure the future of the university. Fox's Tonya J. Powers. The University of California system, meantime, is dropping a requirement that job applicants submit so-called diversity statements, a page or two describing how they would contribute to campus diversity and how they've worked to enhance that in their fields in the past. I'm Chris Foster, Fox News.
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