5PM ET 08/19/2026 Newscast

episode
Fox News Hourly Update 3 min 4 speakers 5 chapters transcribed 1 month ago
0

Transcript

jump: chapters · speakers · find in transcript
Transcript

Transcript generated automatically by AI and may contain errors.

What is President Trump's new push for cryptocurrency regulation?

Carmen Roberts 0:03
Trump talks crypto. I'm Carmen Roberts, Fox News. President Trump is urging Congress to move forward in setting clearer rules for the cryptocurrency industry. As legislation remains stalled in the Senate, he spoke to reporters today after hosting industry executives at the White House and touted some of his crypto moves, including
Donald J. Trump 0:22
I established the United States Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, making Bitcoin a permanent asset of the United States Treasury, which has turned out incredibly well. I also created the United States digital asset stockpile to hold custody of all other digital assets and that's exactly what it's done. It's been amazing.
Carmen Roberts 0:40
Democrats accused the president of using his office to enrich himself after financial disclosures showed that he earned more than one point four billion dollars from crypto adventures last year.

How is the U.S. responding to Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz?

Carmen Roberts 0:51
The president spoke again earlier about Iran's statement that the Strait of Harmuz is closed.
Donald J. Trump 0:58
We have possession, complete control of the strait. I mean outside of nuisance value and there is nuisance value when they shoot a drone every once in a while.
Carmen Roberts 1:07
Uncertainties of the straight are pushing crude oil prices higher. U.S. crude is up about one percent at 8577 a barrel. The Kennedy Center tells the Federal Court it won't attempt to restore President Trump's name to the building before at least September 8th, as a legal battle continues over the controversial name change. Opponents accuse the Trump aligned board of defying a court order.

Why is the Kennedy Center delaying the restoration of President Trump's name?

Carmen Roberts 1:30
And tragedy in Kenya, Africa. Safari helicopter crashed this morning in a remote portion of that country, killing all seven on board. US State Department says five of them were Americans. Among those killed, an executive was Telemundo, the Spanish language network owned by NBC Universal and the Director of Ecuador's National Intelligence Service. America's listening to Fox News. The suspect accused of stabbing a Virginia mother to death is believed to be an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
Bill Malugin 2:08
The suspect arrested in Fairfax County, Virginia, for allegedly stabbing a mother to death near a popular jogging trail in Great Falls on Monday, a Salvadoran illegal alien who was caught and released at the border by the Biden administration. Fairfax County police announcing the arrest this morning of 19-year-old Alexis Antonio Cedillos Campos in connection to the stabbing killing of Carmen Lissette Pooch, who local media reports was found dead next to her car near a

What are the details of the Virginia mother stabbing case and the suspect's background?

Bill Malugin 2:33
popular trail. She was forty-two years old and reportedly the mom of a young girl.
Carmen Roberts 2:37
Fox is Bill Melusion reporting from DC. Another shock for Democrats in Florida as socialist Angie Nixon upsets moderate Alec Vindman in the race for the US Senate.
Unknown 2:49
All across the state of Florida and this nation, people are demanding change. They are tired of the billionaire and corporations running this country.
Carmen Roberts 2:57
Nixon now faces a long shot battle against Republican U.S. Senator Ashley Moody.

How did socialist Angie Nixon upset the moderate in Florida's Senate race?

Carmen Roberts 3:01
Also in Florida, GOP Congressman Byron Donalds won his party's nomination for governor and will take on the Democratic nominee, David Jolly, who used to be a Republican. Donald tells Fox News.
Byron Donalds 3:12
The people in our state are sick of New York, they're sick of Chicago, they don't want the crazy of California, and that's why the uh the the Angie Nixon, David Jolly uh ticket, that's gonna be a disaster for Democrats.
Carmen Roberts 3:25
But Jolly says he is not a socialist. In fact, he says he's a capitalist. Among other winners in the primaries in three states yesterday, Wyoming Republican Harriet Hageman and Democrat James Byrd will face off for November's seat for the U.S. Senate. And three years later, Sandra Bullock breaks her silence on her partner, Ryan Randall's traumatic death and the The Oscar winner said that she appeared on Smartless Podcast and said she kept it a secret because that's what he wanted. He had a ALS.

Select any passage to copy it with its citation or turn it into a shareable card.

More from Fox News Hourly Update