Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump transition, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content. The House Ethics Committee has decided to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. Lawmakers on the secretive panel voted to make the report public after the final votes of this year – which are slated for Thursday. The House Ethics Committee's multi-year investigation into Gaetz, involving allegations of sex with a minor and illicit drug use, came to an abrupt halt last month after he resigned from Congress hours after President-elect Trump tapped him to be his attorney general…Read more Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (R) and Andy Ogles (R-TN) listen as former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 16, 2024 in New York City. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records last year, which prosecutors say was an effort to hide a potential sex scandal, both before and after the 2016 presidential election.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., tells Fox News Digital he's frustrated by U.S. officials not being forthcoming about the drone incursions over Langley Air Force Base. Nearly one year after mysterious drones hovered near a top-secret military base in Virginia for 17 days, Sen. Tim Kaine says he is "very frustrated" with "so many unanswered questions" that remain. The Virginia Democrat said his state delegation will get a classified briefing on the situation Thursday. For more than two weeks in December 2023, the mystery drones flew into restricted airspace over the installation, home to key national security sites and the F-22 Raptor stealth fighters. The Pentagon has said little about the incidents other than to confirm they occurred after a Wall Street Journal report in October.

Kristina Cooper, vice president at Travelmation in Florida, is sharing her smart tips and tricks to avoid frustrating flight delays and cancellations when traveling this holiday season. As Americans brace for holiday travel, flyers might be thinking about whether the uptick in drone sightings will affect take-off and landing. Drone sightings across the northeast skies have been reported with some spotted near or over airport spaces. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects nearly 40 million people to fly over the holidays, according to the agency's website. Sightings have been reported near airports in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, according to several airports in those states that confirmed the sightings to Fox News Digital.

A recent influx of videos supposedly showing "drones" or other spooky unidentified aerial phenomena flying over darkened US skylines appears to be the result, in part, of AI-trickery. Since late November, residents in New Jersey and at least five other states have reported spotting bright objects flying overhead. The sightings have stirred speculation, amplified by celebrities, commentators, and prominent public officials, that this is nefarious, experimental technology. Now, several of the viral videos surfacing on TikTok and X over the past week are capitalizing on the panic; they also appear to exhibit the hallmark calling cards of generative AI manipulation. Almost none of the videos reviewed by Popular Science had any official label or disclosure from social media platforms warning users about possible digital editing.

Mayor Michael Melham of Belleville, New Jersey, gives an update on the mysterious drone sightings across the Garden State on'The Faulkner Focus.' Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked a Senate bill Wednesday that would have authorized resources for state and local authorities to track drones that have mystified residents across New Jersey and the Northeast in recent weeks. Paul objected to the passage of the bill, citing his long-standing concerns over expanding governmental powers. "This body must not rush to grant sweeping surveillance powers without proper consideration and debate by the committees of jurisdiction," he said. Sen. Rand Paul, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, blocked a bill Wednesday that would have allowed local law enforcement agencies to track aerial drones.

For a brief moment in November, the TheoBros, a network of militant Christian nationalist influencers, made news when Trump nominated one of their allies, former Fox News commentator Pete Hegseth, to lead the Department of Defense. Hegseth attends a church that is affiliated with the TheoBro movement, and he has cited TheoBro patriarch Doug Wilson, a pastor in Moscow, Idaho, as someone who has had a major influence on him. While the controversies surrounding Hegseth's alleged alcohol abuse and mismanagement of funds meant for veterans continue to make the news, the TheoBros have receded into the background. But as it turns, out, they are embroiled in a major controversy of their own. A simmering divide over how Christians should regard Judaism has ignited into a conflagration.

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Payton May joins'Fox & Friends Weekend' and sheds light on being reunited with his former military service dog Yyacob. The Senate voted to pass the 895 billion annual defense policy bill that includes a pay raise for U.S. servicemembers and a provision that restricts transgender care. The bill passed 85 to 14, and now heads to President Biden's desk for his signature. The legislation scored a more bipartisan vote in the Senate than it did in the House, where more Democrats voted no on the legislation in protest of the transgender provisions. The bill prohibits military health care provider Tricare from paying for transgender care "that could result in sterilization" for children under 18.

Raj Goyle, CEO of intelligence firm Bodhala and former Democratic Kansas state representative, told Fox News Digital it is encouraging to see members of both parties come together to try and determine the source of these drones. SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks during an America PAC town hall on October 26, 2024, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. AI WARS: OpenAI is pushing back against Elon Musk's latest attempt to rework his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant that seeks to prevent the company from moving to a for-profit structure, noting in a blog post and legal filing that Musk had argued for it to do so years ago. AGE OF AI: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is joining the list of U.S. tech titans donating to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund, a spokesperson exclusively told Fox News Digital. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: The House task force on artificial intelligence is urging the U.S. government to aim for "a flexible sectoral regulatory framework" for the technology in a nearly 300-page report released Tuesday morning.

'Fox & Friends First' host Carley Shimkus discusses the Fox Flight Team joining the search for UAPs in the Northeast and a classified briefing for lawmakers stating nothing'nefarious' is happening in New Jersey skies. Congress is set to pass legislation to avert a government shutdown that will reauthorize the government's ability to intercept and track unauthorized drones and crack down on U.S. investment in China. The 1,500 page continuing resolution (CR), which will fund the government until March 14, includes a provision reauthorizing a Department of Homeland Security program allowing agencies to coordinate and counter threats from drones. That authority, passed in 2018, was set to expire Friday – at a time when concerns about drone incursions are at an all-time high. However, it is a simple reauthorization of a program many drone experts say is outdated.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., joins'Fox & Friends' to discuss the disagreement over the House spending bill, Paris Hilton's push to pass a bill cracking down on abusive youth facilities, and concerns over mystery drone sightings. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has compared America's practice of doling out aid to foreign countries to a preposterous hypothetical scenario in which an individual waters their neighbor's yard while their own house burns. "US foreign aid spending is like watering the neighbor's yard while your house is on fire," he tweeted. The congressman followed up his initial comment by sharing an AI-generated image of House Speaker Mike Johnson holding a hose as flames emerge from a house behind him. Fox News Digital reached out to request comment from Massie and a spokesperson confirmed that the image was created using AI, specifically, Grok.