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Exterior view of the U.S. Capitol on October 23 in Washington D.C. Eric Lee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eric Lee/Getty Images With time to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace running out, Congress has yet to address expiring credits used by millions of people to afford health care coverage. The House is set to vote this week on a plan proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson that does not include an extension of the ACA credits that expire at the end of this year. GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, who supports a temporary…

Gunmen killed at least 15 people in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday. At least 42 people have been hospitalized.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Monday that a months-long federal investigation uncovered widespread misclassification of crime reports by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), making crime statistics across Washington, D.C. “artificially lower.”Pirro said the findings were based on a review of nearly 6,000 reports and interviews with more than 50 witnesses, showing that D.C.’s crime numbers were significantly understated.”It is evident that a significant number of reports had been misclassified, making crime appear artificially lower than it was,” Pirro said in a statement.Pirro said MPD’s conduct “does not…

Billy Crystal and his wife Janice saw the slain bodies of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele … because TMZ has learned they arrived at the scene in a flash after a family member called them about the horrific discovery. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Rob and Michele’s daughter Romy called Crystal and his wife not long after she called police to report finding her parents brutally murdered inside their Brentwood home Sunday. Sources with direct knowledge tell us Billy and his wife raced over to the house — and were there so quickly, one source tells us…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A day after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee, coach Andy Reid shared that the MRI scan Sunday night revealed that the star quarterback didn’t have any major damage to other ligaments.Reid also said that Mahomes is heading to Dallas to get a second opinion on his knee from Dr. Daniel Cooper, the Dallas Cowboys’ head team physician. Mahomes is expected to have surgery later this week.”He’ll attack it, just like he does everything else,” Reid said of Mahomes’ upcoming rehab. “There have been some pretty good…

Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it’s become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster announced that “slop” is its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting how the term has become shorthand for the flood of low-quality AI-generated content that has spread across social media, search results, and the web at large. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” “It’s such an illustrative word,” Merriam-Webster president Greg Barlow told the…

White House ‘A.I. and crypto czar’ David Sacks discusses President Donald Trump’s executive order on the national artificial intelligence standard on ‘Mornings with Maria.’ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said on Monday that state officials have the right to regulate artificial intelligence despite President Trump’s recent executive order aiming to require a national AI standard the president argues would overrule state laws. Speaking at Florida Atlantic University, DeSantis said Trump’s order does not block states from adopting their own AI regulations.”The president issued an executive order. Some people were saying well no, this blocks the states,” the governor said.…

ARLINGTON, Texas — Dak Prescott stared blankly for several seconds when the star quarterback was asked what the goal would be for the Dallas Cowboys over the final three games with their playoff hopes all but gone.The long pause said it all after a Minnesota team that was eliminated from postseason contention before kickoff Sunday night put Prescott’s crew in basically the same place with a 34-26 victory.Dallas (6-7-1) might be eliminated before playing its next game Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers (10-4). NFC East rival Philadelphia (9-5), the defending Super Bowl champion, likely will finish off the Cowboys…

BERLIN — The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, U.S. officials said Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin. The officials said talks with President Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, led to narrowing differences on security guarantees that Kyiv said must be provided, as well as on Moscow’s demand that Ukraine concede land in the Donbas region in the country’s east. Trump dialed into a dinner Monday evening with negotiators…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo XIV on Monday condemned “antisemitic violence” in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, in which a father and son opened fire on a crowd attending a Hanukkah celebration.The pope prayed for the victims and the “gift of peace and fraternity” this holiday season as he spoke during an audience with the donors of the Vatican’s Christmas decorations.”We pray for those who suffer from war and violence, in particular today I want to entrust to the Lord the victims of the terrorist attack in Sydney against the Jewish…