A 60-year-old high school principal in Oklahoma charged an armed former student in a school lobby, took a gunshot to the right leg, and still wrestled the shooter to the ground, likely preventing a mass killing that the suspect told investigators he had modeled on…
Bishop Robert Barron, one of the most prominent Catholic voices in America and a member of the Trump administration's own Religious Liberty Commission, issued a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump's public comments about Pope Leo XIV, saying the president's words were "entirely inappropriate and…
The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline fell to $4.11 on Wednesday, marking the fifth consecutive daily decline since Friday, according to AAA data reported by the Washington Examiner. The one-cent drop from Tuesday's price is real, but so is the fact…
Florida Republican Cory Mills is refusing to step down from Congress despite mounting pressure from lawmakers in both parties, a new House Ethics Committee investigation, and a trail of allegations that includes a domestic disturbance call, a protective order, and an ex-girlfriend's accusation that he…
Two prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office showed up without warning at Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, asked to tour the site of a $2.5 billion renovation project, and were denied entry. The confrontation marks the latest escalation in an ongoing…
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used a nearly hour-long appearance at Yale Law School on Monday to publicly criticize her conservative colleagues for issuing emergency orders that allowed the Trump administration to advance key policy goals, calling their legal reasoning "scratch-paper musings" and their…
Body camera footage released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer shooting 17-year-old Emeshyon Wilkins in the back of the head as the teen ran away, directly contradicting an earlier police statement that Wilkins had pointed a gun at officers. The video, obtained through discovery…
Lea Bardon, the White House director of Cabinet Affairs, is stepping down from the Trump administration to become executive vice president at The Sovereign Advisors, a Washington-based public affairs firm founded by longtime Trump confidant Taylor Budowich. The move, first reported by Politico on Tuesday,…
House Oversight Democrats said Tuesday they will move to hold former Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt of Congress after she failed to appear for a deposition tied to the committee's Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) announced the threat on X, and the…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Semafor this week that a proposed executive order requiring banks to collect citizenship information from customers is "in process," the clearest signal yet that the Trump administration intends to close a gap that has allowed illegal immigrants to access the…
Baltimore City police confirmed Tuesday that a body pulled from the Inner Harbor belongs to Branson Oduor, a man reported missing nearly two weeks earlier after a night out in Fells Point. The grim discovery near the National Aquarium closes one chapter of a missing-person…
The House Judiciary Committee released internal Department of Homeland Security documents showing that federal officials knew a Venezuelan man had no valid asylum claim, no identification, no U.S. address, and no fear of returning home, and released him into the country anyway. Less than two…
A California woman named Lonna Drewes stood before cameras at a press conference in Beverly Hills and accused Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) of drugging her drink, raping her, and choking her until she lost consciousness during an encounter she said took place in 2018. Swalwell,…
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill on Monday adding her state to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a move that would commit Virginia's 13 electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the most votes nationwide, regardless of how Virginians themselves vote. The Virginia…
