Another Trump win, at least for now. I'm Chris Foster. Fox News, a federal judge blocks the release of special counsel reports on two investigations. President-elect Trump's handling of classified documents and trying to overturn the 2020 election results until an appeals court considers a challenge. President-elect at a press conference in Florida calls that great news and also says he'll undo President Biden's new ban on new oil and gas drilling in most federal waters. They took away...
625 million acres of offshore drilling. Nobody else does that. And they think they have it, but we'll put it back. I'm going to put it back on day one. I'm going to have it revoked on day one. He also says he'd like to have the Gulf of Mexico renamed Gulf of America.
The White House says President Biden will have protected more land and water than any other president with the creation of two more national monuments. President Biden in Southern California today is expected to establish 644,000 acres near Joshua Tree National Park and roughly 200,000 acres in Northern California near the Oregon border as national monuments. That would also restrict mining and other development. Fox's Jeff Manasso.
President Jimmy Carter's body is being moved from his presidential center in Atlanta to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. today. The public viewing, which opens at 7 p.m. Eastern tonight, will last until Thursday when the body of the nation's 39th president will be taken to Washington National Cathedral for a funeral service.
President Carter is set to be buried in Plains, Georgia, his place of birth and nearly lifelong home. The last former president to lie in state was George H.W. Bush in 2018. On Capitol Hill, Ryan Schmelz, Fox News. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, says it's ending a program to fact-check users' posts, leaving it up to users themselves to leave notes flagging possibly false or misleading information. That's how it's done on X, formerly Twitter. America's listening to Fox News.
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The first bill passed by the House in this new Congress is expected to be the Lake and Riley Act this afternoon. House Speaker Mike Johnson. We're going to detain and deport illegal aliens who commit burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, certainly vicious and violent crimes. And I can't believe anybody would be opposed to that. Lake and Riley was murdered in Georgia by a man in the country illegally who'd been arrested before. Three special elections in Georgia, Virginia that is today, for two state Senate seats and a House of Delegates seats.
Determined party controlled the state legislature. Democrats currently have a 20 to 18 majority in the Senate there, 50 to 49 in the House of Delegates. Two bodies are recovered from the wheel well of a jet in Florida. Deputies are now investigating after two people were found dead by maintenance workers at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport inside the wheel well of a jet blue airplane that flew in from New York JFK Monday night. The incident comes just weeks later.
After a similar one involving a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Maui, federal regulators say stowaways often attempt to ride flights in wheel wells without realizing the compartment has no room for them after the landing gear retracts and they can be crushed to death. In Broward County, Florida, Eben Brown, Fox News.
New sign of strength in the job market. Job creation was much stronger than expected at the end of last year, the highest levels since May. The job openings and labor turnover survey taken the last business day of November found more than 8 million open positions. Economists were expecting 7.7 million. The number of people quit
Quitting declined to 3.1 million. Layoffs and discharges changed little at 1.8 million. Openings increased in professional and business services, finance, insurance, and private educational services. The monthly employment report for December is released on Friday. Fox's Jenny Kosola on Wall Street. The Dow's down 54. The Nasdaq's down 274. The S&P's down 39. I'm Chris Foster, Fox News.
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