Philadelphia mayoral candidates have begun releasing plans to try cleaning up the city’s open-air drug market, but the neighborhood’s residents are skeptical. Kensington’s streets are covered in litter and discarded needles — as well as passed out addicts. But residents say they’ve watched candidates and politicians make empty promises for decades.

FIRST ON FOX: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s family quietly sold their private jet to a New York-based hedge fund following intense criticism of the plane’s carbon footprint in light of Kerry’s work fighting global warming. The Kerry family’s private jet, a Gulfstream GIV-SP, is no longer owned by his family’s charter firm Flying Squirrel LLC.

The Tennessee Senate passed a bill prohibiting medical providers from offering gender-transitioning treatment to transgender youth.  The legislation passed Monday along party lines in a 26-6 vote, with every Republican voting for the bill. The prohibited treatment includes puberty blockers, hormone treatments and gender-transitioning surgeries. Doctors could risk losing their medical licenses if they continue providing the treatment. Republican state Sen.

For over four decades, South Carolina has played a crucial role in determining the eventual Republican presidential nominee. Voting third in the GOP’s nominating calendar — after the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary — South Carolina’s Republican contest boasts an impressive track record. Dating back to its inception in 1980, only once has the eventual GOP standard-bearer failed to carry the Palmetto State.

White House officials were adamant in a virtual briefing with governors on Monday that flying objects recently spotted over North America are not of extraterrestrial origin, according to a recording of the briefing obtained by Fox News Digital.  “There are no UFOs. This is not an invasion of the aliens,” White House Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall told governors on the half-hour call.