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CNN  —  Special counsel Hampton Dellinger says he is dropping his lawsuit to try to keep his job after President Donald Trump fired him. His decision comes a day after the federal appeals court in Washington temporarily removed him from the position and ends what was poised to be a major test of Trump’s power to fire officials with some independence in the federal government. Dellinger’s case had the potential of rewriting the law around Congressionally approved protections for the federal civil service. But it is no longer going to move forward in the court system, removing the possibility of…

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CNN  —  When the Department of Government Efficiency swings an axe, it’s bound to hit a veteran who voted for President Donald Trump. Veterans make up thirty percent of the federal workforce and more than sixty percent of veterans said Trump was their candidate, according to a Pew Research survey conducted two months before the 2024 election. One veteran in Kansas who voted for Trump describes terminations that have upended the lives of many employees in his agency as a sudden military drawdown, poorly executed: “I’m sorry to put it like this: it was like the pull out of Afghanistan,”…

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CNN  —  The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoff plans last month, new data showed Thursday. US-based employers last month announced plans to slash 172,017 jobs, a 103% increase from a year ago and the highest February total since 2009, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas’s latest monthly job cuts report released Thursday. It’s the 12th highest monthly total in the 32 years Challenger has been tracking job cuts. The 11 others (four came during the Covid-19 pandemic) all occurred when the US was in a recession, Challenger…

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New York CNN  —  After Canada pulled American-made spirits off its shelves following President Donald Trump’s implementation of tariffs on Canadian imports, the CEO of Brown-Forman, which makes Jack Daniel’s whiskey and other liquors, blasted the move as “disproportionate.” “That’s worse than a tariff because it’s literally taking your sales away,” said Lawson Whiting in an earnings call Wednesday, noting the “very disproportionate response” to the 25% tariffs applied this week. Provinces across Canada have pulled American-made spirits, beer and wine off their shelves. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario said in a statement that it’s pushing shoppers to seek…

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CNN  —  House Republicans are moving quickly to punish the Texas Democrat who was removed from the House chamber for repeatedly disrupting President Donald Trump’s speech. GOP Rep. Daniel Newhouse on Wednesday formally introduced a censure resolution against Rep. Al Green, who was removed by the House sergeant at arms after standing up and shouting during the opening minutes of Trump’s speech to Congress. Speaking on the House floor, Newhouse, a Washington state Republican, said he was seeking punishment against Green — a formal condemnation once considered rare in the House chamber — for his “numerous interruptions” of the president’s…

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Bitcoin Foundation Chairman Brock Pierce joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss Trump’s ‘crypto strategic reserve’ plan.  White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks claimed Thursday that the federal government’s lack of a “long-term strategy” on cryptocurrency has negatively impacted American taxpayers. “Over the past decade, the federal government sold approximately 195,000 bitcoin for proceeds of $366 million. If the government had held the bitcoin, it would be worth over $17 billion today,” he claimed in an X post. “That’s how much it has cost American taxpayers not to have a long-term strategy.” He pointed to calculations by Grok,…

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A Florida man allegedly threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump and launch missiles to destroy New York in a series of 911 calls.Justin Blaxton, 34, of Loxahatchee, made multiple 911 calls to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office on Feb. 26, WPEC-TV reported, citing an arrest report from the sheriff’s office.”I need a ride to the airport to be taken to the White House to assassinate the President,” Blaxton allegedly said in one of the calls.”I’m about to launch the missiles to destroy New York,” he allegedly said in another call. “I’m a Confederate soldier and I’m looking to get revenge.…

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FIRST ON FOX: An engineering firm working on the Obama Presidential Center says that claims it racially discriminated against a Black-owned subcontractor on the project are baseless and amount to smears – and that simply criticizing the subcontractors’ work does not amount to racism.Thornton Tomasetti, a New York-City-based structural engineering firm, was responding to an explosive $40.75 million lawsuit accusing it of acting with racist intent when it criticized the alleged underperformance of a Black-owned concrete subcontracting firm at the sprawling 19.3-acre site at Chicago’s Jackson Park.The lawsuit has drawn national attention to the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals underpinning…

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John Cena’s heel turn at WWE’s Elimination Chamber transcended the world of sports entertainment.Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe debated about the ordeal on ESPN while Jon Stewart brought it up on “The Daily Show.” It was truly a moment no pro wrestling fan thought they would see – ever.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM John Cena hugs Cody Rhodes during WWE Elimination Chamber at Rogers Centre on March 1, 2025, in Toronto, Canada. (Georgiana Dallas/WWE via Getty Images)Cena even talked about the idea of turning heel in 2012 on Chris Van Vliet’s podcast last year. But the…

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Adam “Pacman” Jones revealed in a recent interview how he was able to beat NFL drug tests when he was playing in the league for the Cincinnati Bengals and other teams.Jones admitted on Deion Sanders’ Tubi show, “We Got Time Today,” that he “cheated” the league’s drug program. He said his way was “really good.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Bengals cornerback Adam Jones warms up for the Chicago Bears at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Dec. 10, 2017. (David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports)”People don’t know how smart I am, but like, I can say it now. I don’t…

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