At least a half-dozen House Republicans told reporters they would vote against a bipartisan Senate bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, then reversed themselves Thursday and voted yes, sending the legislation to President Donald Trump's desk. Trump signed it that afternoon,…
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday struck down the Trump administration's freeze on immigration applications for citizens of countries covered by the president's travel ban, granting an injunction and declaring the policy unlawful. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, an appointee of former President Biden,…
Barry Christian, a 54-year-old Republican running for the Oklahoma State Senate, was found dead inside his pickup truck in a remote wildlife area two days after he was reported missing, and investigators still have no public explanation for how he died. Beckham County deputies discovered…
The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to let food stamp recipients buy rotisserie chickens with their benefits. The final count was 384-35. Among the 35 who voted no: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and two other New York Democrats, as Gothamist reported. The bill in…
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate, wiped roughly 6,000 posts from her X account this week, including every post predating 2020, after a year of scrutiny over old social media comments in which she mocked Michigan, pined for California,…
The House on Thursday approved legislation to restore funding to most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending a record 76-day partial shutdown that left tens of thousands of federal employees working without guaranteed paychecks. The catch: the bill specifically zeroes out money for Immigration…
Turning Point USA hit back Friday at Vivian Kubrick, the daughter of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, after she took to X to disparage Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk, calling a pre-recorded video address by the grieving CEO "ghastly" and "inauthentic."…
President Donald Trump signed a 45-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Thursday night, keeping one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools alive, but only barely, and only temporarily. The move came after the Senate flatly rejected the House's…
George Clooney used a Hollywood awards ceremony this week to deliver a politically charged speech against President Donald Trump and his administration, then closed his remarks by calling on Americans to "truly make America great again," borrowing the president's own signature phrase in the process.…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul are demanding answers after reports that the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good during a January operation in Minneapolis has been reinstated and quietly transferred to another state. The Democratic outcry, framed around accountability, doubles…
President Trump told a reporter Friday that he would consider appointing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to a cabinet position next year, a striking signal of reconciliation between two Republicans who traded sharp blows during the 2024 presidential primary. The New York Post reported that Trump,…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday blocked the online sale and mail delivery of the abortion drug mifepristone, temporarily restoring in-person screening requirements the FDA stripped away in 2023, a ruling that could reshape abortion access across all 50 states.…
A note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein weeks before his August 2019 death has sat locked in a New York courthouse vault for nearly seven years, sealed as part of his former cellmate's criminal case and never reviewed by the investigators who scrutinized how the…
An Arkansas judge ordered Hunter Biden to turn over his tax records and sit for a deposition in a reopened child support battle with Lunden Roberts, the mother of his 7-year-old daughter Navy Joan, a ruling that could force the 56-year-old former first son to…
