Overdose deaths fall for 3rd straight year amid a changing drug supply and funding cuts

About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data. It was the third straight annual drop, making it the longest decline in decades, according to federal data released Wednesday. The 2025 total is about the same as the tally in 2019, before … Read more

Vance-led task force cuts off $1.4B from home health, hospice providers suspected of fraud

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force has withheld $1.4 billion in federal funding from home health and hospice providers nationwide, following a wave of suspensions enacted by an anti-fraud task force targeting operations in California, Minnesota and several other states. Approximately 90% of the suspended … Read more

Tax cuts collide with inflation as voters weigh Trump’s economy in the midterms

RALEIGH, N.C. — Standing behind a downtown bar, Evan Duke smiled when he thought about no longer paying federal income tax on the hundreds of dollars in tips he earns on a busy night pouring beers and mixing drinks. But the 30-year-old said he cannot afford health insurance and worries about how higher costs for … Read more

The families going hungry because of Trump’s food stamp cuts

The Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers federally funded SNAP benefits, acknowledged the drop in people receiving food stamps, including some who should be getting them. The state had to adjust to the new eligibility requirements under last year’s law and has also been stepping up efforts to reduce its payment error rate to … Read more

AI emerges as a top cause of layoffs, accounting for 26% of April’s job cuts

Artificial intelligence is the leading reason companies cite for layoffs for the second straight month, accounting for more than one in four job cuts in April, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The report found 21,490 AI-related cuts last month, or 26% of the 88,387 total, marking the second straight … Read more

Minnesota fraudster cuts no-jail plea deal with key condition tied to alleged mastermind

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Minnesota Medicaid fraud defendant is expected to avoid serving jail time under a plea deal that requires him to cooperate with authorities pursuing his fugitive co-defendant, whom a judge granted bond despite warnings from law enforcement that he may flee the country. Said Awil Ibrahim pleaded … Read more

Trump troop cuts in Europe could be blocked by Congress — here’s how he might get around it

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s effort to broadly pull U.S. troops from key NATO allies over resistance to the Iran war could run into new limits imposed by Congress, but the administration may have a way around them.  Trump ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany Friday, a … Read more

Parents in Bronx neighborhood plead for NYPD guard as Mamdani cuts cops, halts hires: ‘Horrible situation’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: NEW YORK — As New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani moves to cut the NYPD’s budget and resists calls to hire more police officers, parents in The Bronx are asking for more police, not less, saying their kids face an increase in danger.  The … Read more

Don’t count on rate cuts just yet: Warsh as Fed chair may not lead to big policy changes

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has made it clear he expects his choice for Federal Reserve chair to quickly cut interest rates once he takes office. Yet Americans shouldn’t pencil in lower borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, or business loans just yet. The odds of Kevin Warsh becoming chair by the time Jerome Powell’s … Read more