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A Republican senator from South Carolina is drawing a line in the sand, threatening to block the Senate’s summer recess unless lawmakers take action on a major election integrity bill. Sen. Darline Graham announced Monday that she would refuse to let the Senate leave Washington until her colleagues vote on the SAVE America Act, describing …
Federal immigration officers have launched a major enforcement operation in New York City, starting in Queens on Monday before expanding to other parts of the metro area on Tuesday. The move follows weeks of warnings from White House border czar Tom Homan, who had signaled for more than a month that additional immigration enforcement resources …
Jordan Devey, a former NFL offensive lineman who won a Super Bowl ring with the New England Patriots, has died at age 38. His family confirmed the death was by suicide. The news came through a GoFundMe campaign posted this week, with his family describing the loss as leaving them to “navigate an incredibly difficult …
A former Democratic state representative from Pennsylvania is facing serious federal charges after FBI agents allegedly uncovered a large cache of child sexual abuse material at his home. Jesse White, 48, was taken into federal custody on July 21st following a search of his residence in the Mechanicsburg area of Cumberland County. Prosecutors allege agents …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A federal appeals court has handed the Trump administration a significant temporary victory in its ongoing battle to tighten oversight of mail-in voting. A unanimous three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals moved Friday to pause a lower-court ruling that had blocked a proposed U.S. Postal Service election rule. The Trump-backed proposal would …
The Trump administration has released a sweeping 100-page State Department report that traces Cuba’s decades-long effort to cultivate radical left-wing movements inside the United States, and the document is drawing attention for what it says about the early political career of former President Barack Obama. The report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” …
President Donald Trump is not waiting for Congress to act on election security. If Senate Republicans fail to pass the SAVE Act, the White House has already mapped out a sprawling alternative strategy using executive and administrative authority to reshape how Americans register and vote. The plan touches nearly every corner of the federal government. …
Chuck Schumer is facing an uncomfortable moment, and it comes courtesy of his own words. A video from 1996 has resurfaced showing the Senate Democratic leader, then serving in the House of Representatives, making a passionate case for identification requirements as a commonsense tool to fight fraud. The timing could hardly be worse for Schumer, …