Stephen Colbert stood before his studio audience last week and told them a story about censorship. The most powerful man in the country, he said, had reached into his network and killed an interview. The First Amendment was under assault. Democracy, presumably, was darkening. It…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an ultimatum to Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday: approve his income tax increase on the wealthy, or he will raise property taxes by nearly 10%. The threat arrived alongside his proposed 2027 city budget, a $127 billion spending…
At least a dozen Democrat lawmakers plan to boycott President Trump's State of the Union address next week, opting instead for an alternative event on the National Mall organized by progressive groups MoveOn and MeidasTouch. The counterprogramming, dubbed the "People's State of the Union," will…
Eleven suspects are now in custody over the killing of Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old mathematics student beaten to death on the sidelines of a protest in Lyon, France. Among those arrested: a parliamentary aide to a politician from La France Insoumise, the hard-left party of…
A gas explosion leveled the Abundant Life Fellowship church in Boonville, New York, on Tuesday morning, sending Pastor Brandon Pitts and four firefighters to area hospitals with burns and critical injuries. All five men were listed in stable but critical condition. According to the NY…
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. declined to renew the lease of Easy Aerial, a New York City drone manufacturer that supplies Israel's military, notifying the company in January that it was out. The decision landed roughly six weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office,…
The Supreme Court has ordered CNN to respond to a petition asking it to reconsider one of the most consequential press freedom rulings in American history. Attorneys for Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz filed a petition for a writ of certiorari urging the…
The Department of Transportation has prepared a legal change that would bar states, cities, and towns from using federal transit money for programs providing free transportation to illegal immigrants, according to a draft proposal obtained by Politico. The measure would cover every Federal Transit Administration…
Former Texas state Sen. Don Huffines is converting a New Mexico ranch once owned by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein into a Christian retreat, a move he says was the purpose behind his 2023 purchase of the property. Huffines appeared on One America News Network…
Newly released Justice Department files expose a stream of private text messages and emails between Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein spanning from late 2017 through July 2019, the month Epstein was arrested. The communications show Bannon discussing the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to…
FBI Director Kash Patel revealed Wednesday that the bureau has uncovered significant funding streams behind antifa, describing a financial investigation that treats the movement's bankrollers with the same seriousness the agency reserves for counterterrorism probes. Patel made the announcement on "The Dan Bongino Show," where…
The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, years behind schedule and still weeks from opening, has already gifted the internet its first architectural punchline. Text from a Barack Obama speech inscribed on the exterior of the center's 225-foot museum tower is, by most accounts, nearly impossible…
Three weeks into the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of TV anchor Savannah Guthrie, a key piece of physical evidence has hit a dead end. DNA recovered from gloves found near Guthrie's Pima County home was submitted to a lab in Florida, uploaded…
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has dramatically ramped up the use of Coast Guard planes for migrant deportation flights, deploying the service's aircraft at ten times the previous rate, according to NBC News reporting. The shift has created friction between Noem and the Coast Guard's…