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A deadly inferno in Switzerland. I'm Chris Foster, FOX News. Dozens are presumed dead, dozens more injured in a fire at a bar in the Swiss Alps during a New Year's Eve celebration.
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The community is in the heart of the Swiss Alps, just 25 miles north of the Matterhorn. Ten helicopters and 40ambulances rushed to the scene after police say a blast and then fire broke out at Le Consolation Bar in Crohn's, Montana. It happened around 1:30 local time in the morning. Some new information. According to bfmtv, who interviewed two French witnesses, they say barmen were carrying waitresses on their shoulders, holding champagne bottles with lit candles on top. And they claim that the flames reached the wooden ceiling, engulfing it and collapsing that ceiling. The women say they frantically ran from the basement, up the narrow stairs and out the door. Others broke windows to escape. And officials have said the fire likely triggered the release of combustible gases, causing a flashover or a backdraft, as it's called.
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Fox's Stephanie Bennett. The Trump administration says it's freezing all federal childcare funds to all states until they provide more verification about the programs being funded. It's in response to allegations of widespread fraud in Minnesota.
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Governor Walsh has acknowledged fraud is a major issue and says he's accountable for fixing it. Multiple federal agencies are currently investigating the fraud allegations involving child daycare centers in Minnesota, which prosecutors say may have cost taxpayers billions. The U.S. department of Health and Human Services has frozen all federal childcare payments to the state. The House Oversight Committee will start holding hearings on this next week. And Chairman James Comer wants Governor Walz and his attorney general to testify in February, saying they've either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in a massive fraud involving taxpayer dollars in Minnesota's social services programs.
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Fox's Rebecca Castor. President Trump is ending efforts to keep National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. The Supreme Court stopped the deployment in Chicago. The president writes we'll come back when crime begins to soar. 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 and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now@foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. It's 2026 people packed into New York's Times Square for the big ball drop, counting it down. And the new year comes with a.
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New mayor for New York, Democrat Socialist Zohar Mamdani. Becoming the 112th mayor of New York City as he was sworn in just after midnight by New York Attorney General Letitia James. After the swearing in, he thanked New Yorkers for their support.
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This is truly the honor and the privilege of a lifetime.
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Mamdani, the city's first Muslim mayor, took his oath of office on the Quran. He's planning to hold a block party at 1pm Eastern after outside New York City hall to celebrate his swearing in. In New York, Sue Guzman, FOX News.
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The ball dropped a second time in Times Square to celebrate the start of America's 250th birthday year. The celebration in D.C. featured a projection on the Washington Monument depicting the story of America's journey, organizers say ending with the monument looking like a 250 foot tall birthday candle.
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It's been emotional for many who have been out here watching this display, this wrap around the Washington Monument that we've been seeing since 7pm showcasing those images of our founding, of our expansion, our technological advances and where the future will take us as a country. The sound of those fireworks we saw, as spectacular as this display was, those sounds 250 years ago were daunting. The the experiment in front of our patriots. It was a daunting one. We are here to celebrate now and that was really the idea behind Freedom250 and wrapping this monument. Having the birthday candle here is to say that this is all worth celebrating. These events are going to carry on all throughout the as we honor and celebrate our nation's birth.
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Fox's Alexandria Hoff in D.C. the biggest new Year's Eve celebration in the world is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 2 million people on Copacabana Beach. I'm Chris Foster. This is FOX News.