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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, …
A left-wing comedian is drawing widespread condemnation after claiming she delivered a cake bearing a vicious message to the Capitol Hill office of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham just days after his death. The comedian, Elizabeth Booker Houston, directed the stunt at Graham’s younger sister, Darline Graham Nordone, on the very day Nordone was sworn …
The State Department is making a major move to put far-left political violence on the same level as jihadist terrorism, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading the charge. Rubio convened the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, a high-level gathering that brought together governments from the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Asia. The …
Iran has launched missile strikes against critical infrastructure in Kuwait, hitting a power and desalination facility in what marks a significant and dangerous escalation against one of Washington’s closest Gulf partners. The timing was no coincidence. The attack came as American forces completed a sixth consecutive day of strikes inside Iran, with the U.S. expanding …
A comedian and social media personality is facing serious backlash after claiming she delivered a cake with a vile message to the Capitol Hill office of newly sworn-in Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, whose brother had just died days earlier. Elizabeth Booker Houston posted Tuesday on X that she had dropped off the cake following the …
The Department of Homeland Security is turning up the heat on four states after a preliminary review flagged more than 256,000 possible noncitizen registrations on voter rolls. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is now demanding action, sending formal letters to election officials in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. The timing is significant. The move comes …
Dena Karari is on her way home. While American military forces were conducting their third consecutive night of strikes against Iranian military targets, while the administration was formally notifying Congress of resumed hostilities, and while the president was preparing a primetime address to the nation, someone was also negotiating the release of an American woman …
The Trump administration is working on a proposal that would require green card applicants to post a $100,000 bond before entering the United States. The bond would only be refunded once the applicant becomes a citizen. The State Department is developing the plan. The bond amount could vary depending on individual circumstances and country of …
For years, the American political conversation around political violence ran in one direction. After federal courthouses were attacked, after Supreme Court justices required security details at their homes, after multiple assassination attempts against a sitting president, the dominant media narrative kept pointing elsewhere. Marco Rubio just changed the conversation. Speaking at a State Department ministerial …
His last recorded words were a joke. “I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudi normalization.” He said it with a laugh. A few hours later, he was dead. It is almost impossible to read that line without seeing the entire man compressed into …
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died Saturday night at the age of 71. There was no warning. No known prior health condition. He had been in Kyiv just two days before his death, meeting with President Zelenskyy on efforts to end the war in Ukraine. He was scheduled to appear Sunday morning on Meet …
Senator Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening following what his office described as a sudden illness. He had no known prior health issues. The 71-year-old had recently returned from a trip to Ukraine, where he visited a drone production facility, and had been scheduled to appear on Meet the Press the following morning. His death leaves …
A report circulating Monday afternoon suggests President Donald Trump is gearing up for a major announcement targeting Georgia’s two Democratic senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. The report, citing a “well-placed source in Georgia,” claims Trump intends to declare both senators “illegitimate because of fraud.” The announcement was said to be potentially coming as soon …
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has officially named Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, to fill his U.S. Senate seat on an interim basis. The announcement came at a 4 p.m. press conference, following hours of speculation after news of the appointment spread rapidly online. Graham passed away after suffering …
President Donald Trump has declared the United States the official guardian of the Strait of Hormuz, announcing a sweeping new plan to charge a 20% fee on all cargo shipped through the critical waterway as fresh strikes between U.S. and Iranian forces rattled an already fragile ceasefire. The announcement, made Monday on Truth Social, marks …
President Donald Trump has publicly endorsed Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to serve as South Carolina’s interim U.S. senator following the longtime Republican lawmaker’s death over the weekend. Trump announced his recommendation in a post on Truth Social, saying he had personally suggested Nordone to South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster. The president framed the …
For the third year in a row, Muhammad is the most popular name given to baby boys in England and Wales. The name beat out Noah, Leo, Luca, Arthur, Oliver, and George, and the ranking immediately sparked fierce debate about immigration, shifting demographics, and what Britain is becoming. The figures come from the Office for …
A former Obama administration official has lost his job as Minneapolis’s top communications executive after an internal investigation tied him to the alleged theft of cash and credit cards from his own colleagues. Adam Fetcher, 42, was terminated on July 1 from his role as Chief Communications Officer for the City of Minneapolis. Mayor Jacob …
President Trump is no longer negotiating with Iran. He is issuing terms. Tehran has until Saturday to publicly acknowledge that every channel in the Strait of Hormuz is open, toll-free, and that its forces will stop firing on commercial ships. The demand was delivered directly to Iran and through regional mediators. American officials made the …