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President Donald Trump told a Georgia crowd that his administration had cut illegal immigrants out of Medicaid and redirected $50 billion toward rural health care, framing both moves as a dramatic reordering of federal health spending. Trump made the remarks Wednesday at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia. He appeared there to promote Trump Accounts …
The Department of Homeland Security is making a bold move against ten naturalized citizens with criminal records, launching legal proceedings to strip them of their citizenship and ultimately deport them from the United States. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the effort, alleging that each of the ten individuals obtained their citizenship fraudulently. Federal officials claim …
The Pentagon is taking steps to rename Joint Base Charleston after the late Senator Lindsey Graham, honoring the South Carolina Republican and decorated Air Force veteran for a lifetime of military and public service. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink directed officials on July 27 to begin the renaming process, with the installation set …
Some frauds are audacious enough on their own. Then there are cases like this one. Abdiaziz Shafii Farah was already facing 28 years in federal prison for masterminding the largest child nutrition fraud in American history. The scheme, known as “Feeding Our Future,” siphoned $250 million from a federally funded program meant to feed hungry …
Democrats have spent the better part of a year telling anyone who would listen that November is inevitable. The president’s party loses seats in a midterm. History is on their side. The blue wave is coming. The polls released this past Sunday suggest they might want to stop waiting. New CNN and CBS polling, not …
The Trump administration has run out of patience with federal judges blocking its election integrity measures, and it is taking the fight to the highest court in the land. At the center of the dispute is an executive order requiring states to verify voter rolls against Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration data …
The pressure is on, and it is coming straight from the top. President Trump has made his position crystal clear, publicly calling on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to cancel the upcoming August recess and eliminate the filibuster in order to pass the SAVE America Act. The message landed both at a Georgia rally last …
This is no longer a theory confined to political rallies or late-night commentary. It is firsthand testimony from a former senior CIA operations officer, on camera, with documents in hand. James Erdman III, a career intelligence professional, sat down with investigative journalist Catherine Herridge and confirmed what has been building as a central accusation against …
A Democratic Socialists of America leader just confirmed, on national television, that her organization wants to abolish the Senate, the presidency, the Supreme Court, prisons, borders, and the Pentagon. And almost nobody in the Democratic Party said a word about it. Almost nobody. On Sunday, Fox News anchor Shannon Bream asked DSA national co-chair Megan …
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 …