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A court victory for the Trump administration. I'm Sue Guzman, Fox News. And it is a legal win for the Trump administration as the Supreme Court is blocking a lower court order that would have forced the release of billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
Fox's Mark Meredith tells us the money had been put on hold after the Department of Government Efficiency discovered what it says is widespread fraud and mismanagement, particularly at USAID. When the Doge committee got to work looking at what could be cut, one of the first things was USAID, with some people believing that this program was bloated and was overspending for decades. But some supporters of USAID say the program is vital to both American security and safety. And Doge and Trump administration heads.
removed the majority of USAID staff from the job through forced leave and firings. President Trump holding his first cabinet meeting Wednesday, where he was asked if anyone on his team is unhappy with Doge member Elon Musk's presence. Fox's Christina Coleman has more. A reporter asked this question during Trump's big cabinet meeting. Take a listen to the president's response. Is anybody unhappy with Elon Musk?
If you are, we'll throw them out of here. He said he's confident they can find $1 trillion in savings within the federal government with his efforts to root out waste and fraud. The overall goal here with the Doge team is to help address
Now it's clear he definitely has the support of the president. Musk attended the meeting despite not having official cabinet status. Attorney General Pam Bondi telling Fox's Jetty Waters Primetime that some long-awaited documents on Jeffrey Epstein are expected today. You're going to see some Epstein information being released by my office. Also expected today, detailed flight logs of those who flew aboard Epstein's private jet.
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The bodies of four hostages that were held in Gaza have been handed over to Israeli authorities. This marks another step in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between the terrorist group and Israel. At the same time, Israel had released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Ukraine's president planning to visit President Trump Friday to sign a rare earth minerals and economic agreement. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will sign a framework deal with President Trump Friday, granting U.S. access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals. We've been able to make a deal where we're going to get our money back and we're
going to get a lot of money in the future and I think that's appropriate. President Trump has linked a minerals deal with U.S. military aid sent to Ukraine. He says talks are also continuing with Moscow on a potential peace agreement. I can tell you that NATO you can forget about. The president's
President Trump's director of national intelligence has fired
now more than 100 people in the intelligence community across 15 agencies over their alleged ties to these licentious conversations on an internal message board. Tulsi Gabbard told our own Jessie Waters last night she also revoked their security clearances. Now, the Manhattan Institute's Christopher Ruffo broke the story, exposing these chat logs from the National Security Agency's messaging platform, showing a group of people allegedly using it to discuss pornographic sexual fantasies under the guise of diversity, equity, inclusion.
Spokeswoman for Gabbard says DNI Gabbard will ensure the IC refuses their mission to protecting the safety, security and freedom of the American people and rid the IC of the DEI nonsense the Biden administration pushed for four years. That's Fox's Lucas Tomlinson reporting from Washington. I'm Sue Gosman. This is Fox News.