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Instead of dropping the ball, they bang the gong. I'm Dave Anthony. FOX news. That's how they rung in the new year. An hour ago in Seoul, South Korea, the clock just struck midnight from China to the Philippines to Singapore. And it's also already 2026 in Australia as crowds gather in New York City's Times Square where the ball will drop twice tonight, the second one at 12:04 to celebrate America's 250th birthday. And Fox's Tyro reports there's a lot of the NYPD is even employing a secondary security screening this year. In New Orleans, the National Guard will be busy patrolling the French Quarter. Deployment coming in response to last year's ISIS inspired attack that killed 15 people on Bourbon street early on New Year's Day. The 15 killed include the terrorist who drove a truck into the crowd. He was shot by police. Months after the Israel and US Attacks bombing Iran's nuclear and missile facilities, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells fox's Special they are going back to production. As far as the nuclear program, I think they're trying to do it. President Trump's warned Iran he'd strike them again.
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Meanwhile, the White House is monitoring the.
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Nationwide protests in Iran which are now stretching into day three.
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Iranians angry about the state of its.
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Country, rising inflation and falling currency, an.
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Economy that is barely growing.
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Fox's Lucas Tomlinson in West Palm beach near the Trump Florida resort. The Trump administration is withholding childcare funding from Minnesota as the investigation continues into multibillion dollar fraud allegations. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt tells.
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Fo the Department of Homeland Security is conducting door to door investigations on the ground at potential fraud sites.
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Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Waltz is responding saying this is Trump's long game. We've spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It's a serious issue. But this has been his plan all along. He's politicizing the issue. That's Fox's David Spunt. America's listening to FOX News.
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This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series the Life of.
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Jesus, a listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now@foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. You mentioned the New Year's Eve celebration in New York City. After the clock strikes 12, it'll be out with the old in with the new mayor sworn in at a private midnight ceremony.
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That's going to be a democratic socialist. Zoran Mandani, he's promised a lot of free things, free buses, free this. So let's go through it. This is what we know so far about everything that could happen here in 2026, progressive agenda like free childcare, free city buses and rent freezes. But at just 34 years old, critics are asking, can he even deliver on these promises? So Mandani's been called the new face of the Democratic Party by some, campaigning alongside Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders.
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That's Fox's Alexis McAdams Week. Yes, after the deadline mandated by Congress for the Justice Department to release all the files from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, lawmakers who threatened to hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt have to keep waiting for a lot more.
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There are 5.2 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein files left to review before they're made public, according to a government document reviewed by the New York Times and the Reuters news agency. It says the justice department is using 400 attorneys to do it. Pulled from its criminal and national security divisions, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan. Volunteers are asked to devote three to five hours a day in exchange for time off and telework options. The law passed by Congress mandated a release of Epstein files by December 19, with redactions meant to protect victims. About 100,000 pages came out that day. The remaining documents are being reviewed between January 5th and 23rd. Chris Foster, Fox News.
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We got an unemployment update this morning showing a drop in first time claims during Christmas week down to 199,000 fewer than expected. The number of people continuing to collect jobless benefits also declined to 1.86 million. Next week, we're going to get the December report on hiring and also the new unemployment rate on Wall street on the last day of the year. The dow is down 170 points, the NASDAQ dropping 77. But both have had double digit percentage gains in 2025. I'm Dave Anthony and this is FOX News.