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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures during a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) BERLIN – A nationalist, anti-immigration party performed strongly in a German state election Sunday in the region where Chancellor AngelaMerkelhas her political base, overtaking her conservatives to take second place amid discontent with her migrant policies, projections indicated. The three-year-old Alteative for Germany, or AfD, won 21 to 22 percent of votes in the election for the state legislature in Mecklenburg-Weste Pomerania, according to projections for ARD and ...

Sept. 1, 2016: A man tries out the Samsung's latest smartphone Galaxy Note 7 at a roadshow booth outside a shopping mall in Beijing. (AP) Samsung halted sales of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone Friday after finding batteries of some of the devices exploded while they were charged. Koh Dong-jin, president of Samsung’s mobile business, said customers who already bought Note 7s will be able to swap them for new smartphones, regardless of when they purchased them. Note 7 sales launched just two weeks ago. Samsung issued its first global recall of the flagship smartphone because it has not found ways to specify exactly which phones may endanger the user. The smartphones are being yanked from she...

Former NFL tight end Ben Utecht caught one pass from superstar quarterback Peyton Maing the night of Feb. 4, 2007, helping the Indianapolis Colts win Super Bowl XLI. But that’s not the memory he most wants to retain. Or the life experience he most wants to share. Utecht, who sustained five documented concussions during his five-year NFL career with the Colts and Cinciati Bengals, said Sunday on “Fox & Friends” that he’s already experienced some long-term memory problems since he last took the field in 2008. That reality led him to write the autobiographical “Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away: A Love Letter to My Family.” “That was the foundation of writing the book; was ...

More than seven weeks after FBI Director James Comey’s July 5 aouncement closing the case on Hillary Clinton’s personal email use, Republican calls are growing for prosecutors to take a closer look – at everything from perjury questions to the tangled dealings with Clinton Foundation donors during the candidate’s tenure leading the State Department. And on Thursday, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy pointed out another potential problem with the bureau’s original email investigation. After viewing the FBI’s tightly held file on the case, the South Carolina congressman told Fox News it doesn’t appear investigators asked Clinton about the issue that was the basis for not pursuing charges – kn...

DEVELOPING:Explosions and gunfire rang out atAmerican University of Afghanistan in Kabul Wednesday in what a police commander described as "a complex attack." Photo attributed to the attack on American University of Afghanistan in Kabul pic.twitter.com/EVunzOpyd3 — KAZEMI, Mustafa (@CombatJouo) August 24, 2016 Reporters in the area said teachers and hundreds of students took cover in classrooms and safe rooms as police and special forces surrounded the campus on the weste outskirts of Afghanistan's capital city. A car bomb had exploded outside a school for the blind next door before at least one attacker fired at the university campus from that school building, a police officer at t...

The editor of the major Louisiana newspaper that urged President Obama to cut short his summer vacation to see the devastating flooding that has damaged roughly 40,000 home said Friday he’s pleased that the president will visit the state. “Our feeling is that this is a crisis that calls for presidential leadership, and we're glad to see the president is coming,” Advocate Editor Peter Kovacs told Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “The magnitude of the devastation is something you really have to come here to see.” An editorial in the newspaper, the largest in Louisiana, on Thursday asked that Obama visit the state before his vacation ends Sunday in Martha’s Vineyard, M...

A federal judge Friday ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from a conservative watchdog group about her use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued the order as part of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. The group had sought to question Clinton under oath and in person, but the judge ruled she would only have to answer questions in writing. FBI Director James Comey aounced last month that the agency would not seek criminal charges against Clinton after an investigation into her email use, although he concluded she been "extremely careless" in her handling of sensitive material. Judicial Watch's Direct...

Dramatic footage released by the U.S. Navy shows a close call earlier this year on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. After an arresting cable broke as an E2-C Hawkeye aircraft was landing on the ship on March 18, the plane flew off the end of the carrier. The footage shows the plane, with its distinctive radar on top, disappearing over the side, but then reappearing after it recovers. The Navy awarded three pilots-- Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Browning, Lt. Cmdr. Kellen Smith, and Lt. Matthew Halliwell-- from that plane the Armed Forces' Air Medal in a ceremony aboard the Eisenhower this month. Related: US military aims to combat chemical threats with ‘smart uniform’ A close-u...

Paul Nehlen -- the Donald Trump-admiring Wisconsin businessman who tried to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan -- says he's not done with politics, or trying to oust Ryan. “We are absolutely going to make sure Paul Ryan is being held accountable to the people,” Nehlen told FoxNews.com after his loss Tuesday to Ryan in the Wisconsin GOP primary. “You’ll be hearing from me shortly.” Nehlen lost by roughly 70 percentage points in his bid to deny Ryan a 10th term in the state’s 1st Congressional District but not before attracting national attention to the race. Outside money and the national media, looking for an upset like GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s 2014 loss in Virginia, becam...

A fresh report that federal prosecutors are probing the Clinton Foundation revived speculation Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may not be past her email problems, but the Justice Department on Friday declined to confirm the account. Despite the official decline, The Daily Caller reported that several investigations were being launched including one led by U.S. Attoey Preet Bharara of the Civil Frauds Unit that will focus on Clinton Foundation in New York. “We’re declining to comment,” a spokesperson told FoxNews.com about the claims. The FBI had investigated the Clinton Foundation’s relationship with the State Department during then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure,...

A armed guard walks past a blast-proof 25-ton steel door protecting the Cheyee Mountain complex, home of NORAD. Picture taken October 14, 1999. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking) The sun, not the Soviets, was a provocateur during a little-known Cold War event, a new study reveals. A solar storm of historic proportions in May 1967 interfered with American radar installations and raised tensions, leading to aircraft being prepared for launch, according to the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The AGU is the publisher of the joual Space Weather, which will featurethe study. The solar storm was so powerful it disturbed Ballistic Missile Early Waing System sites in Alaska, Greenland, and the U.K. on May ...

Six years after ObamaCare was signed into law – and countless assurances later that the law is “working” – America’s major insurance companies are facing mounting losses and threatening to pull out of the exchanges, leaving customers facing higher costs and fewer options. In the most recent example, Teessee regulatorsare bowing to pressure to let insurers refile their 2017 rate requests, which could lead to steep hikes for customers. A state official acknowledged to The Teessean they are "not alone" in letting companies seek bigger increases -- as some insurers head for the exits. Earlier this month, Aetna, once one of ObamaCare’s biggest cheerleaders, slammed the breaks on its expans...

Six years after ObamaCare was signed into law – and countless assurances later that the law is “working” – America’s major insurance companies are facing mounting losses and threatening to pull out of the exchanges, leaving customers facing higher costs and fewer options. In the most recent example, Teessee regulatorsare bowing to pressure to let insurers refile their 2017 rate requests, which could lead to steep hikes for customers. A state official acknowledged to The Teessean they are "not alone" in letting companies seek bigger increases -- as some insurers head for the exits. Earlier this month, Aetna, once one of ObamaCare’s biggest cheerleaders, slammed the breaks on its expans...

Six years after ObamaCare was signed into law – and countless assurances later that the law is “working” – America’s major insurance companies are facing mounting losses and threatening to pull out of the exchanges, leaving customers facing higher costs and fewer options. In the most recent example, Teessee regulatorsare bowing to pressure to let insurers refile their 2017 rate requests, which could lead to steep hikes for customers. A state official acknowledged to The Teessean they are "not alone" in letting companies seek bigger increases -- as some insurers head for the exits. Earlier this month, Aetna, once one of ObamaCare’s biggest cheerleaders, slammed the breaks on its expans...

Hillary Clinton’s jobs record as a New York senator – which her campaign has made a centerpiece of her pitch to voters – is coming under fresh scrutiny, with a new report claiming her economic initiatives fell flat for workers, while benefiting deep-pocketed donors. The Washington Post report found that, as a senator from 2001-2009, the now-Democratic presidential nominee was unable to pass “big ticket legislation” that she introduced to benefit upstate New York, as job growth stagnated and manufacturing jobs fell by almost 25 percent. The Post cites U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers showing upstate New York lost jobs during Clinton’s first term, with Albany losing more than 31,0...

Hillary Clinton’s jobs record as a New York senator – which her campaign has made a centerpiece of her pitch to voters – is coming under fresh scrutiny, with a new report claiming her economic initiatives fell flat for workers, while benefiting deep-pocketed donors. The Washington Post report found that, as a senator from 2001-2009, the now-Democratic presidential nominee was unable to pass “big ticket legislation” that she introduced to benefit upstate New York, as job growth stagnated and manufacturing jobs fell by almost 25 percent. The Post cites U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers showing upstate New York lost jobs during Clinton’s first term, with Albany losing more than 31,0...

Venus Williams retus a ball in the women's teis competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics Saturday. ((Associated Press)) When VenusWilliams pushed one last forehand long to lose in the first round for the first time in her record five Olympic singles touaments, her opponent celebrated as if having claimed a gold medal, dropping down on the green hard court to plant a kiss on the white five-ring logo. This was clearly a very big deal to Kirsten Flipkens, a Belgian ranked 62nd and only once as far as the semifinals at a Grand Slam event. Just two points away from wiing on four occasions while portions of the crowd tued hostile toward her, the 36-year-old Williams faded as Saturday night's ma...

This undated photo shows Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va. (AP) Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va. said Saturday that he would support Libertarian Gary Johnson for president over GOP nominee Donald Trump. "I’ve always said I will not vote for Donald Trump and I will not vote for Hillary Clinton," Rigell told The New York Times. Rigell is the third Republican House member this week to say he would not vote for the real estate mogul, who has caused an uproar on the campaign trail with a series of controversial comments. On Tuesday, Rep. Richard Haa, R-N.Y., wrote in an op-ed that he would vote for Clinton instead of Trump, whom Haa called "offensive and narcissistic," as well as "a world-class panderer." Bot...

This undated photo shows Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va. (AP) Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va. said Saturday that he would support Libertarian Gary Johnson for president over GOP nominee Donald Trump. "I’ve always said I will not vote for Donald Trump and I will not vote for Hillary Clinton," Rigell told The New York Times. Rigell is the third Republican House member this week to say he would not vote for the real estate mogul, who has caused an uproar on the campaign trail with a series of controversial comments. On Tuesday, Rep. Richard Haa, R-N.Y., wrote in an op-ed that he would vote for Clinton instead of Trump, whom Haa called "offensive and narcissistic," as well as "a world-class panderer." Bot...

This undated photo shows Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va. (AP) Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va. said Saturday that he would support Libertarian Gary Johnson for president over GOP nominee Donald Trump. "I’ve always said I will not vote for Donald Trump and I will not vote for Hillary Clinton," Rigell told The New York Times. Rigell is the third Republican House member this week to say he would not vote for the real estate mogul, who has caused an uproar on the campaign trail with a series of controversial comments. On Tuesday, Rep. Richard Haa, R-N.Y., wrote in an op-ed that he would vote for Clinton instead of Trump, whom Haa called "offensive and narcissistic," as well as "a world-class panderer." Bot...