President Donald Trump turned a one-liner at a CNN anchor’s expense into a full two-day media firestorm, kicking things off with a pointed joke at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner before doubling down with an AI-generated meme that kept the story burning through the weekend. The original moment came Friday night at the rescheduled dinner, …
A congressional hearing on immigration detention took a sharp turn last week when Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) pivoted from the subject at hand to challenge the sincerity of her Republican colleagues’ Christian faith. Crockett, who serves as the ranking Democratic member on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, directed Republicans who “claim to be Christian” …
Give credit where it’s due. Jonathan Karl did something Sunday morning that almost never happens on mainstream television: he fact-checked a Democratic senator in real time, on camera, with the facts ready to go. Senator Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of the loudest critics of the SAVE America …
A federal appeals court has handed the NAACP a significant legal setback, clearing the way for a new U.S. Postal Service election-mail rule to take effect while the underlying lawsuit plays out. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay Friday, allowing the USPS rule to move forward. The rule requires states to submit …
The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has launched a formal investigation into New Jersey’s voter rolls after Governor Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, publicly admitted that thousands of non-citizens were improperly registered to vote in the state, with hundreds of them actually casting ballots. Sherrill confirmed that approximately 6,600 non-citizens were erroneously added to New …
They said the tax cuts wouldn’t work. They said manufacturing jobs weren’t coming back. They said America First economics was a fantasy dreamed up by people who didn’t understand how the global economy actually operated. One year after President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, the National Association of Manufacturers has published …
Britain’s newly sworn-in Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved continued U.S. access to key British military installations for operations against Iran, marking one of his first major foreign policy decisions in office. The approval covers two strategically significant facilities: Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England. U.K. authorities …
New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill has admitted that roughly 6,600 noncitizens were incorrectly registered to vote in the state ahead of the 2024 election. Of those, fewer than 400 actually cast ballots. The admission is a significant moment for a party that has long dismissed concerns about election integrity as fringe conspiracy theories. Sherrill …
Elaine Forbes had barely settled into her new role as Sausalito’s city manager when she found herself under arrest on suspicion of felony burglary, aboard a yacht she allegedly had no right to enter. Forbes, 53, was appointed to the top administrative job by the Sausalito City Council in May and officially started on July …
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is promising a massive expansion of government-funded legal defense for immigrants facing deportation, pledging more than $100 million in new spending and 200 additional city law employees if elected. The self-described democratic socialist made the announcement during a September 2025 appearance on MSNBC’s “The Weekend: Primetime,” framing the …
Something has shifted in American politics, and it happened faster than most people expected. A self-described communist just won a major Democratic primary in the nation’s largest city, and he did it without hiding a single part of his platform. Government-run supermarkets. Abolition of private property rights. Seizure of the means of production. It was …
Iran keeps pushing. And now it knows exactly what pushing will cost. President Donald Trump posted a new policy statement on Truth Social Wednesday morning, and the message was as direct as it gets. If Iran fires on any ship in the Strait of Hormuz, using a missile, rocket, drone, or any other weapon, the …
Oil markets jolted higher Thursday, with prices hitting their highest levels in weeks as fighting in the Middle East showed no signs of slowing down and fears of major supply disruptions gripped traders worldwide. Brent crude, the international benchmark, surged more than 6% to break above $100 a barrel in early trading, its highest price …
A freshman congresswoman from New York is drawing sharp criticism after making a sweeping claim about a major defense bill, and both Republicans and members of the Trump administration are pushing back hard. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on X ahead of a House vote on the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act, writing that the bill …
A French technology company is firing back at New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill after she blamed a software “glitch” for registering more than 6,000 non-citizens to vote in the state. Sherrill made the announcement at a press conference Tuesday, saying a software error in the Motor Vehicle Commission’s system led to roughly 6,600 non-citizens being …
A congressional hearing meant to address widespread government fraud turned into a moment of sharp political contrast when Democrats failed to show up entirely, leaving their side of the dais completely vacant. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened to hear testimony about fraud allegations, but not a single Democrat took their seat …
A husband-and-wife political team from Illinois is now facing federal criminal charges after prosecutors accused them of running a scheme involving campaign funds, state grants, payments to family members, and efforts to block investigators from doing their jobs. State Rep. Carol Ammons and Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons appeared in federal court to answer a …
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia found himself in an uncomfortable moment on national television when ABC News anchor Jon Karl stopped him cold during a live interview, correcting a factual error right to his face. The exchange happened on ABC’s “This Week” program, where the conversation centered on the SAVE America Act. The legislation would …
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill thought she had found a tidy off-ramp from a serious political mess. Blame the software. Announce an investigation. Let the story fade. The vendor she blamed had other ideas. IDEMIA, the technology company Sherrill pointed to when explaining how 6,600 noncitizens ended up on New Jersey’s voter rolls, issued a …
A suspected extremist stabbed two men in separate attacks on Manhattan’s West Side Thursday afternoon, sending shockwaves through a city already on edge about hate-motivated violence. The New York Police Department says both incidents unfolded shortly after 1:30 p.m. The first attack happened near West 84th Street and Central Park West. The second took place …
The chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party is now serving a year of probation after being arrested last month on operating under the influence charges in Southborough. Stephen Kerrigan, who has led the state party since April 2023, received a continuance without a finding on the primary OUI charge following proceedings at Westborough District Court. …
Sometimes the universe has a sense of humor. A video making the rounds on social media captures the moment a woman in the U.K. shouted an insult at a prominent right-wing politician from her car window, only to immediately crash into the vehicle stopped ahead of her. The footage shows a woman driving a grey …
The numbers are hard to argue with. Despite months of dire economic warnings, Americans launched 3,493,381 new businesses in the first half of 2026, a 12% jump compared to the same period last year. That works out to roughly 442,000 more startups than the first six months of 2025. June alone produced 548,000 new business …
There is a detail buried inside President Trump’s Thursday night primetime address on election security that deserves far more scrutiny than it has received. Federal officials discovered significant numbers of burn bags inside an FBI building, bags that contained sensitive documents from the Obama administration, documents that had been explicitly ordered for destruction and never …
The numbers are in, and they are not kind to the party that spent eighteen months convinced it was riding into November on a historic wave of anti-Trump outrage. Start with the most revealing data point: Democratic disapproval of Trump has collapsed from 90% in 2018 to 69% today. That is a 21-point drop in …
CBS News had a plan for Sunday morning, and Tom Homan wasn’t part of the script they had in mind. The network put the border czar on camera with anchor Margaret Brennan, framing the conversation around a recent incident in which an illegal alien died after fleeing from ICE agents during a vehicle pursuit. Brennan’s …
Two U.S. Army soldiers killed in an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan have been identified, as President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Tehran that every American death will be met with a severe response. The fallen soldiers are 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Pvt. Isabella …