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Chapter 1: Why was the head of a federal watchdog agency removed?
It can proceed. I'm Lisa Lacerra, Fox News. An appeals court will allow President Trump to remove the head of a federal watchdog agency.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruling that President Trump's firing of Hampton Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel was unlawful. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granting the Trump administration's request to put that lower court ruling on hold, allowing for Dellinger's immediate removal.
Dellinger sued the Trump administration, arguing his dismissal was illegal, citing a federal law that says special counsels can only be removed by the president for reasons like inefficiency or neglect of duty. He's likely to appeal the decision.
Chapter 2: What was the outcome of the Trump administration's appeal regarding foreign aid?
Fox's Kristen Goodwin. The Supreme Court has rejected a Trump administration push to rebuke a lower court judge who imposed a quick deadline to release billions of dollars in foreign aid for work that's already been completed. President Trump has scaled back new tariffs on Canada and Mexico, exempting the three big automakers for 30 days.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the recent tariffs on Canada and Mexico?
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt repeated the president's claim that the tariffs are not about trade, they're about illegal drugs crossing the border.
For the last four years, unfortunately, our neighbors to the north and the south, Canada and Mexico, respectively, have allowed America to be a dumping ground, not just for illegal aliens, but for illegal, poisonous, deadly fentanyl.
Chapter 4: How are automakers affected by new tariff policies?
The automakers will not be exempt when reciprocal tariffs are put in place next month. Elon Musk on Capitol Hill this afternoon meeting with Republican senators over lunch to talk about the budget. He's meeting with House members tonight as President Trump says he's working with House Republicans on a short-term plan that would fund the government through September.
Chapter 5: What was discussed in Elon Musk's meeting with Republican senators?
The president reached an estimated 36%. 6.6 million TV viewers last night for his address to a joint session of Congress, beating the 32.2 million that watched former President Biden's final State of the Union last year. America is listening to Fox News.
Chapter 6: How did President Trump's recent address compare to previous ones?
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Chapter 7: Who is Ben Domenech and what does his podcast offer?
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Florida's top prosecutor is now investigating the Tate brothers, who are infamous for misogynist postings on social media and who were recently released by authorities in Europe who claim they engaged in sex trafficking.
Internet personality brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, widely derided for social media postings in which they brag about mistreating women and denying the Holocaust, are now in Florida. They have been released from Romanian custody. where they continue to be under investigation for sex trafficking and money laundering. The Tates deny the charges.
They're also suing an accuser, reportedly a woman from Florida, claiming she defamed them. But now Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer is executing warrants and issuing subpoenas in what he calls an ongoing investigation of the Tate brothers, and in which Uthmeyer claims victims are coming forward, some of whom are minors. In Miami, Eben Brown, Fox News.
The nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health testifying before the Senate.
Jay Bhattacharya vowing to restore transparency at the NIH.
Over the last few years, top NIH officials oversaw a culture of cover-up, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differed from theirs.
President Trump's nominee to lead the NIH is a physician with multiple academic appointments at Stanford. While Republicans seem to back his approach to reforming the NIH, Democrats have concerns about his past statements against vaccines and warning recent spending cuts recommended by Doge could put certain research projects in jeopardy. On Capitol Hill, Ryan Schmelz, Fox News.
Texas Congressman Sylvester Turner has died just two months after taking office and hours after attending President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress. His family says he died at home this morning of enduring health complications. He was elected in November, filling the seat long held by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last year. I'm Lisa LaSara. This is Fox News.
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