NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed protesters outside Delaney Hall as “fake” and “paid for” as demonstrations continued at the Newark ICE detention facility and Democratic lawmakers increased pressure over conditions inside.”These aren’t protesters; these people are fake, they’re all paid for,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. “We run the finest facilities anywhere in the world of their type.”Trump’s comments came after days of protests outside Delaney Hall, where detainees and family members have alleged overcrowding, poor living conditions and inadequate medical care inside the facility. Some detainees have also…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico said he believes state laws have stacked the deck against him as he looks to become the first Democrat to win statewide office since 1994.”Means you’re probably going to have to win by a little more than we would have to in a completely free and fair election,” Talarico said in a recent podcast interview.Talarico’s posture towards Texas voting laws reflects a broader Democratic belief that Republican dominance in the Lone Star State is due to low turnout brought on by election security measures rather than…

Everybody is talking about $4.50 gasoline at the pump. And all the usual suspects from the lefty press, and of course the Democratic party, and even the business press that ought to know better, anyway, they’re all talking about recession. Of course they’re against President Trump. They’re against the Iran war. And they love to crow about high energy prices destroying the Trumpian economy.Only trouble is, not only are we not going into a recession — the economy is booming. It is picking up steam. Profits are the mothers’ milk of stocks and the lifeblood of the economy. And right…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Major League Baseball’s next labor fight officially has its opening proposal.The MLB Players Association made its first formal offer to owners Wednesday as the sport begins working toward a new collective bargaining agreement, and the union’s initial wishlist is exactly what fans might expect: higher salaries, more player protections and a new mechanism aimed at forcing lower-spending teams to put more money into the on-field product (cough, Pirates, cough).Among the biggest pieces of the proposal is a massive increase to the league minimum salary. The MLBPA is seeking a $1.5 million minimum…

Did you know that Ana Gasteyer has starred in six Broadway shows? This season, she’s bringing her very special brand of comedy to the Nederlander Theatre stage eight times a week in the most nominated show of the season, Schmigadoon!. “[Being here] means so much to me. I’ve been at this for 25 years. I wear a lot of wigs and lot of glasses and I play a lot of comedy people, but it means everything to me,” she told BroadwayWorld. “I’m a musical theater person! It’s like what you dream of. I don’t have words.” Watch in this video as…

Los Angeles pizza lovers and fans of Disney Pixar’s Toy Story franchise will be in for a tasty treat next month, timed to the release of the highly-anticipated “Toy Story 5.” Papa Johns is teaming up with the upcoming sequel to launch a Papa Johns Pizza Planet pop-up in Los Angeles, according to a press release. Fans will be transported back to the iconic Pizza Planet, featured in the original 1995 animated classic “Toy Story,” bringing the fictional animated pizza chain into the real world. Los Angeles pizza lovers and fans of Disney Pixar’s Toy Story franchise will be in…

Washington — Inside FEMA Headquarters’ National Response Coordination Center, as a hypothetical Category 2 hurricane bore down near Creole, Louisiana, maps of the storm glowed on television screens. Staff announcements rang out on a PA system. Emergency managers leaned over laptops and traded updates in sidebars. FEMA staff, the Salvation Army, the American Red Cross, the Department of Interior, the National Guard, the Coast Guard and state and local coordinators sat in rows — a whole disaster response ecosystem rehearsing days before the 2026 hurricane season begins on June 1.But the exercise, dubbed “Silent Echo,” unfolded at a moment when FEMA itself…

Artificial intelligence is “an unstoppable force” that is being weaponised in ways that fall just short of traditional warfare, Britain’s cyberspying chief warned on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Anne Keast-Butler, director of the communications intelligence agency GCHQ, also said Britain and its allies are in “a space between peace and war” as Russia increases its “daily hybrid activity” against the West, even as Russian combat deaths in Ukraine approach 500,000. She said the West risks losing the conflict in cyberspace against Russia and other adversaries unless citizens, companies and governments treat cybersecurity with greater urgency. “I’ve spent three decades working in…

Ciara Miller’s future on Summer House remains unclear amid the fallout from Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s relationship. “Ciara is thinking about coming back to the house,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “Likely for one last season to prove a point.” The insider points out that Ciara, 30, is “going to be busy with Dancing With the Stars and Love Island, so she hasn’t made a final decision yet.” (Ciara will compete on season 35 of DWTS this fall and is set to cohost Love Island USA Aftersun alongside Tefi Pessoa.) As of now, Ciara is “leaning towards going back…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The privileged Princeton graduate who gunned down his millionaire hedge-fund father inside the family’s luxury Manhattan apartment after a fight over money is speaking out publicly nearly a decade after the grisly killing that horrified New York’s elite.Thomas Gilbert Jr., once dubbed Manhattan’s “golden boy,” resurfaced in a new Court TV prison interview in which he bizarrely maintained his innocence despite overwhelming evidence and despite his own mother identifying him as the killer moments after the 2015 shooting.Gilbert, now imprisoned at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, appeared gaunt and withdrawn…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Speaking with Fox News Digital at the site of a multi-day confrontation between anti-ICE protesters and federal law enforcement, Republican state lawmaker Paul Kanitra ripped into Democrats for demanding what he described as “five-star accommodations” for illegal immigrants.Just days after many top New Jersey Democrats, including Gov. Mikie Sherrill and Sen. Cory Booker, joined protesters outside of ICE’s Delaney Hall, Kanitra called Democrats’ handling of illegal immigration a “disgrace.””Democrats created this chaos with all their laws. Gov. Sherrill was in office for a couple of weeks before she passed three radical…

As a parent, one thing I often try to emphasize to my kids is the importance of hard work. Study a little bit for a test, and you might walk away with a 95. Study harder, and you could score 100 instead. I’m also no stranger to hard work. There’s a reason I spend 40 or more hours a week at my desk as a freelance writer when I could probably get away with working less. I’m a big fan of the payoff.But when it comes to investing, I happen to think it’s OK to be a little lazy. While…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — The shocking death of NASCAR’s Kyle Busch is being felt across the world, with many still in disbelief that the legendary driver passed away last week due to complications from pneumonia, including Tennessee’s Rick Barnes.After a weekend filled with tributes from across multiple sports leagues that include the NHL, MLB, IndyCar and the PGA, the news is still shocking to grasp.For some, watching NASCAR put together a beautiful tribute to the driver last weekend at the Coca-Cola 600 was just the type of thing needed to help the…

You can now get a first look at Girl, Interuppted, now playing Off-Broadway at The Public Theater.  Girl, Interrupted, which officially opens on June 4, has now been extended through Sunday, July 12. The complete cast of Girl, Interrupted includes Leela Bassuk (Understudy), Ta’Rea Campbell (Valerie), Gabi Campo (Tori), Juliana Canfield (Susanna), Eileen Doan (Understudy), Manoel Felciano (Man/Musician), King Princess (Lisa), Gunnar Manchester (Understudy), Mia Pak (Grace), Katherine Reis (Daisy), Anna Roman (Understudy), Sally Shaw (Polly), Emily Skinner (Dr. Wick), Rachel Stern (Understudy), and Lauren Jeanne Thomas (Judy/Musician). Girl, Interrupted features scenic design by dots, costume design by Sarah Laux,…

California’s battered wine industry is spiraling deeper into crisis as vineyard values across wine country plunge, buyers vanish, and experts warn the pain could drag on for years. At an AWG Wine Advisors conference in Santa Rosa on May 21, industry insiders called this downturn one of the toughest in decades. Vineyard owners are now rushing to sell land in a market crowded with sellers and very few buyers. “It’s like catching a falling knife,” Sonoma-based agricultural land appraiser Tony Correia said of the collapsing vineyard market. “The market’s moving faster than the appraiser does.” California’s battered wine industry is…