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Fox News Hourly Update

3PM ET 04/02/2026 Newscast

02 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What recent cabinet changes are impacting the U.S. government?

2.107 - 12.898 Lisa Brady

This is a Fox News alert. The U.S. Attorney General is out on Lisa Brady. It's the second cabinet shakeup in less than a month following the ouster of the Homeland Security Secretary.

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President Trump says Pam Bondi will transition to a job in the private sector and top Justice Department Deputy Todd Blanche will serve as acting Attorney General until a new AG is confirmed. Sources tell Fox News Digital Bondi was fired by the president in an Oval Office meeting Wednesday night.

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Bondi had accompanied President Trump earlier that day to attend Supreme Court arguments over his executive order on birthright citizenship.

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The president did not announce a new role for Bondi in the administration, but says in a social media post she is a patriot and loyal friend who faithfully served as attorney general and did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in crime across the country.

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49.407 - 62.821 Lisa Brady

Fox's Jared Halpern at the White House. The president's post says Bondi's new private sector role will be announced in the near future, calling it a much needed and important new job. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posting good riddance.

62.841 - 77.136 Shannon Bream

But does it change anything for Democrats? They won't have, you know, Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi as punching bags in those positions that they were in. They demanded that they be taken out of those positions. But does that mean then that they're going to come to the table on anything regarding unemployment?

Chapter 2: How is the White House responding to the Attorney General's firing?

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ICE or anything else.

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78.398 - 95.428 Lisa Brady

Fox News Chief Legal Correspondent Shannon Bream, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says the firing isn't enough to fix an out-of-control administration. Another House Democrat says Bondi is still legally obligated to testify before the Oversight Committee's Jeffrey Epstein probe. The White House ballroom project.

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just winning final approval from a key commission, even though it's still facing some legal hurdles after a judge ordered a pause this week. A preservationist group says the president needs approval from Congress, and a federal judge agreed, but also put his injunction on hold as that legal fight continues. America is listening to Fox News.

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A crackdown on Medicare fraud in California, where federal prosecutors say a scheme included fake hospice care patients.

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128.901 - 132.686 Dr. Mehmet Oz

Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Asseli detailing Operation Never Say Die.

132.986 - 149.226 Bill Asseli

We arrested eight defendants, including medical providers such as nurses and doctors. We are announcing charges against 15 separate individuals who engaged in health care fraud, resulting in losses close to $60 million.

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Officials say the alleged scheme included defrauding Medicare by billing for end-of-life services that were either unnecessary or never provided.

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Shameful that licensed professionals would be involved in this.

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Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Chapter 3: What are the details of the Medicare fraud crackdown in California?

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Officials say the annual theft from taxpayers in the nation is estimated to be around $230 billion.

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Fox's Kristen Goodwin. These charges, as a broader federal effort continues, auditing high-billing hospice agencies around the country. It's day two of NASA's 10-day Artemis II mission.

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183.142 - 202.517 Chris Hadfield

A day after launch, the four astronauts of Artemis II are in a high Earth orbit checking out systems ahead of firing their main engine for about six minutes to send the Orion spacecraft on a path around the moon. Former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield says this engine burn, called translunar injection, is critical for the rest of the mission.

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You can't just stop and turn around and come back. You've got to coast all the way to the moon, sling around the moon using its gravity, and then come back.

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210.406 - 224.303 Chris Hadfield

When Artemis 2 passes the far side of the moon next week, the astronauts are expected to be farther from Earth than any human has gone before, breaking the record currently held by the three astronauts of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission.

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Fox's Jonathan Serri at the Kennedy Space Center.

Chapter 4: What is the significance of NASA's Artemis II mission launch?

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An hour to the close on Wall Street. Stocks are lower as oil prices soar. U.S. crude topping $111 a barrel. The Dow's down 122. I'm Lisa Brady.

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Chapter 5: How are stock market trends being affected by rising oil prices?

237.241 - 238.123 Lisa Brady

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