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King Harald V of Norway died Friday after 35 years on the throne, ending Europe’s longest-reigning monarchy. The Royal House of Norway confirmed that Harald passed away peacefully at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet at 6:35 a.m. His son Haakon immediately ascended the throne as King Haakon VIII. Harald was 89. He is survived by his …
Iran is publicly begging the world to defy American sanctions as Trump tightens the economic grip on Tehran. The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a formal plea Friday, calling on “all countries” to refuse enforcement of Washington’s latest sanctions push. Compliance, Tehran warned, would amount to “complicity” in imposing the “illegal will” of the United States …
Karoline Leavitt left the White House Press Secretary job at just 28 years old, making her final appearance on morning television. Her last day looked a lot like every other day she spent in that role. She was direct, composed, and fully on offense heading out the door. Her parting shot at Democrats was blunt: …
Kamala Harris, who spent $1.4 billion losing every swing state, says Trump is rigging the midterms. Harris posted a video Thursday accusing Trump of trying to cheat in the upcoming November midterms. The specific policy she targeted: a requirement that states tell the Postal Service which voters should receive federal mail-in ballots, so each envelope …
A sitting Massachusetts state lawmaker was arrested by the FBI on federal pandemic relief fraud charges Wednesday. Francisco E. Paulino, 46, a Democrat representing the 16th Essex District in the Massachusetts state legislature, was taken into federal custody following a grand jury indictment filed August 25 in U.S. District Court in Boston. The 24-page indictment …
A Senate desk gave way under Elizabeth Warren, sending her crashing to the chamber floor. The incident happened during a late-night Senate session and was captured on camera inside the chamber. Warren was standing near one of the Senate desks when she leaned back against it, expecting it to hold. It didn’t. Video from inside …
A Franklin County court tried to tell federal immigration agents where they can make arrests. Now the DOJ is suing. The Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus, Ohio issued a rule last week barring ICE agents from making arrests at or near the courthouse without a judicial warrant. The problem is straightforward: no municipal court …
The Trump administration has paused immigrant visa processing at every U.S. embassy and consulate on the planet. The State Department halted all immigrant visa interviews and processing while it retrained consular officers on how to properly evaluate public-charge risk. Applicants who already had scheduled interviews received cancellation notices. The pause is administrative in nature, relying …
Virginia’s attorney general opened a civil rights investigation into a county sheriff who cooperated with federal immigration agents. Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones sent a letter dated August 5th to Greene County Sheriff Steven Smith, informing him that his office’s traffic stops are under formal scrutiny. The investigation stems from a June 23rd operation in …
James Comey refused to hand over a key photo, forcing investigators to serve Apple with a federal warrant. That single act of withholding evidence has become one of the most damaging details in the case against the former FBI director. The file Comey refused to produce was the original image of the “86 47” seashell …
The FBI quietly built an operation specifically designed to label Biden corruption evidence as Russian disinformation. Newly declassified documents from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveal that the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, just one month after taking possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop in December 2019, informally assembled a group of analysts. …
Iranian state television aired a video offering a $10 million bounty targeting Barron Trump, the 20-year-old son of President Donald Trump. The segment ran on Channel 3 of Iranian state television and circulated through outlets connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Its title, according to opposition outlet Iran International, translates roughly to “Where to …
Two general aviation aircraft violated temporary flight restrictions over Bedminster, New Jersey, on Sunday afternoon while President Trump was attending the LIV Golf event at Trump National Golf Club. NORAD scrambled F-16 fighter jets, intercepted both aircraft, and escorted them out of the restricted zone. The FAA had established multiple active temporary flight restrictions in …
At 5 AM on a Saturday morning, John Thune moved to adjourn the United States Senate. He confirmed Todd Blanche, which needed to happen, and then immediately shepherded the entire Republican caucus out the door for a month-long recess. The SAVE America Act still is not law. The filibuster is still intact. Democrats are still …
Hillary Clinton apparently cannot stop talking about Donald Trump, and her latest comments have raised some serious eyebrows. Appearing on Kara Swisher’s “Pivot” podcast, the two-time presidential candidate offered her advice for the next Democratic president. Her core recommendation was blunt: get rid of every Trump-era appointee still lingering anywhere in the federal government. “Get …
Sara Sidner thought her cancer had come back. And for more than two weeks, she lived with the very real possibility that it had spread everywhere. The veteran CNN anchor revealed on “CNN News Central” that a recent PET scan showed what appeared to be stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, indicating the disease had spread …
President Donald Trump is reshuffling his White House legal team, tapping trusted attorney Will Scharf to serve as White House counsel just weeks before the midterm elections. Scharf, who had been serving as White House staff secretary, will step into one of the administration’s most consequential legal roles, replacing David Warrington. The timing is significant. …
It lasted less than a minute. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked onto a stage at a Staten Island police event Tuesday night and was immediately swallowed by a wave of boos so intense he could barely get a word out. The confrontation happened at the NYPD’s National Night Out Against Crime celebration on …
Cori Bush is heading home again. The former congresswoman and self-described democratic socialist failed in her bid to reclaim her seat in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, losing to incumbent Rep. Wesley Bell in a Democratic primary rematch on Tuesday. It was a bitter repeat of the 2024 race that ended her congressional career, and this …
The Department of Justice filed suit Monday against New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, three states that have been offering in-state tuition and financial aid to illegal aliens while American citizens from neighboring states paid full out-of-state rates at those same public universities. The legal argument is straightforward. Federal immigration law has long prohibited states from …
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Senate caucus have left Washington for their August recess. But before the doors closed behind them, Thune quietly arranged something that’s drawing serious scrutiny: pro forma sessions scheduled every few days, keeping the Senate technically “in session” and blocking President Trump from making recess appointments while his …
The Democratic Party’s civil war just produced one of its most colorful exchanges in recent memory, and the fallout is being felt well beyond the two men trading insults. Senator John Fetterman has made no secret of his frustration with the direction of his own party. His latest target is Abdul El-Sayed, the socialist nominee …
A British radio employee triggered a nationwide alarm when a series of prerecorded messages falsely announcing the death of King Charles III accidentally aired live, sending the worker into a panic and prompting a full regulatory investigation. The incident happened during an afternoon broadcast of The Barry Marsh Show on Radio Caroline, a community station …
President Donald Trump is pushing the Senate to make daylight saving time a permanent fixture, following a strong bipartisan House vote that would put an end to the twice-yearly clock change ritual that millions of Americans find disruptive. The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act in July by a 308-117 margin. If enacted, the bill …
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed scrutiny after writings from 2021 resurfaced in which he blamed “toxic masculinity” for deep-rooted problems in American football culture. The piece was published on Substack following the resignation of then-Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden, who stepped down after emails surfaced containing racist, homophobic, and misogynistic …
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger walked into a wall of hostility during a recent visit to Galax, Virginia. The Democratic governor was met with loud, sustained booing from a crowd of constituents who made their displeasure impossible to ignore. This was not a handful of hecklers on the fringe. Video from the event shows a broad, …
Federal immigration agents are on the ground in Springfield, Ohio, targeting Haitian nationals whose Temporary Protected Status has been terminated, according to a new report. The enforcement operation arrives as hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants across the country lose the legal shield that had allowed them to live and work in the United States. …