Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin broke a long public silence this week to say that Pete Hegseth's removal of more than a dozen senior military officers "concerns" him, a carefully staged critique from a Biden-era Pentagon chief whose own tenure was hardly a model of…
Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., walked away uninjured Friday after an in-flight engine failure forced him to bring his plane down in a field near Ennis, Montana. His co-pilot was also unhurt. The freshman senator was at the controls during a routine training exercise when the…
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. Navy will begin blockading all ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, a dramatic escalation that came hours after marathon negotiations with Iran ended without a deal on Tehran's nuclear program. The order, delivered in a…
Newly declassified intelligence community memos reveal that the CIA analyst whose complaint launched the first impeachment of President Donald Trump carried far deeper political biases and closer ties to Joe Biden than the public was ever told, and that he actively sought to keep his…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 375-page "Preliminary Racial Equity Plan" last week that frames nearly every arm of city government through the lens of racial disparity, and conservatives say the document is a blueprint for higher taxes, fewer cops, and race-based policymaking…
A 38-year-old Queens man allegedly walked into a gas station, grabbed matches, and set fire to a random apartment building in Flushing because he was angry about being fired, killing four people, including a three-year-old child, prosecutors said. Roman Amatitla now faces multiple counts of…
The Islamabad talks collapsed Sunday after twenty-one hours. Vice President Vance announced the failure. Within hours, President Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. Navy would blockade any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. The commentariat went into…
Amy Acton, the Democratic frontrunner in Ohio's gubernatorial primary, faces renewed scrutiny after a police report surfaced describing a 2019 incident at her home in which she pulled a mirror off a wall, shattering the glass, after what her campaign called a "verbal disagreement" over…
Nineteen House Republicans have signed on as co-sponsors of Rep. Maria Salazar's "Dignity Act," a sweeping immigration bill that would offer legal status to an estimated 10.5 million illegal immigrants and a path to citizenship for roughly 2.5 million more, drawing fierce opposition from conservative…
U.S. Central Command announced Saturday that American forces have begun de-mining the Strait of Hormuz, deploying two Navy guided-missile destroyers to carve a safe passage through waters that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had seeded with sea mines during the ongoing conflict. The operation marks…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor told an audience at the University of Alabama Law School on Thursday that the Supreme Court is fielding an "unprecedented" flood of emergency appeals, a workload shift she said the justices brought on themselves. Her remarks laid bare a growing internal rift…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated the green cards of three Iranian nationals with direct family ties to one of the most notorious figures from the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, and ICE agents arrested them this week in Los Angeles. Federal officials plan to remove…
Vice President JD Vance left Pakistan late Saturday with no agreement from Iran, telling reporters that American negotiators spent 21 hours at the table in good faith, and that Tehran refused to accept the terms put before it. The message from the administration was blunt:…
Steven Garcia, a 48-year-old government contractor allegedly tied to one of the most sensitive weapons-production sites in the country, walked out of his Albuquerque home on August 28, 2025, carrying a handgun and a bottle of water. He left behind his phone, his keys, and…
