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FBI forces out former acting director, two other officials: Fox News Politics Newsletter for Aug. 7, 2025


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Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here’s what’s happening…

-Abbott, Paxton launch legal blitz on fleeing Democrats in redistricting showdown

-4 key Senate seats Senate Republicans want to win and keep Dems on their heels 

– Veteran Biden insider Anita Dunn  appears in House Oversight autopen probe

FBI forces out former acting director, two other officials in latest agency shake-up

The FBI on Thursday is ousting at least three officials, including the former acting director and an officer involved in the January 6 investigations, Fox News has learned.

Former FBI acting director, Brian Driscoll, is among those being forced out of the bureau, sources familiar with the matter told Fox News, along with Walter Giardina, a special agent at the bureau who played a role in the investigation of Trump trade advisor, Peter Navarro, and Steven Jensen, the acting director in charge of the Washington Field Office.

Driscoll, for his part, served as acting director of the FBI prior to the confirmation of FBI Director Kash Patel, and Jensen played a key role in the January 6 investigations…READ MORE

Kash Patel closeup shot at table in hearing

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI, arrives for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP/Ben Curtis)

White House

COUNT AGAIN: Trump orders work on new census, says people in US illegally ‘WILL NOT BE COUNTED’

TRANS SPORTS FUROR: Potential 2028 hopeful challenges Trump’s juvenile surgery ban while opposing women’s sports bill restrictions

Trump/Shapiro Split

Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Penn., is challenging President Donald Trump’s Department of Education for allegedly revoking $185 million in pandemic-era education funding for Pennsylvania. (AP Images)

World Stage

BUCK UP: Zelenskyy confirms he discussed Putin trilateral meeting with Trump

LEVIES RISE: World leader refuses to ‘humiliate’ himself with Trump trade negotiations

IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDE: Netanyahu’s security cabinet to meet on Gaza war, as some in Israel call to resettle enclave

Israeli soldiers on ridge looking down hill to settlement

Israeli soldiers watch the northern Gaza Strip from southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

PEACE POSSIBLE?: Trump-Putin meeting agreed upon ‘in principle’ Putin adviser reportedly indicates

Across America 

IMMIGRATION ON HIGH: Charleston bishop slams Trump’s ‘harsh’ deportations

‘NO STONE UNTURNED’: DOJ considers seeking death penalty against DC shooting suspect charged with hate crime

PROMISES KEPT: DHS scoops up criminal illegal immigrant suspected of killing man on lawnmower in ‘senseless tragedy’

SANCTUARY SHOWDOWN: Dem governor defies FBI: ‘Unwelcome’ to pursue Texas Democratic lawmakers

RUNAWAY REBELLION: FBI agrees to help locate Texas Democrats who fled state to sabotage GOP redistricting plan, Cornyn says

FBI agent and Cornyn split image

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, leaves the Senate Republicans’ lunch in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) An FBI agent watches over an immigrant after he was detained outside the Connecticut Superior Court on July 3, 2025, in Stamford, Connecticut. Masked federal officers, including ICE and FBI agents, staked out the judicial facility and detained multiple immigrants following their court appearances. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

LEAVING THE PARTY: Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan abandons GOP to join Democratic Party

‘SIGN OF THE TIMES’: Pro-life group celebrates Planned Parenthood’s closing of remaining Louisiana facilities: ‘Huge success’

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