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…
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…
On Saturday morning, Thomas Friedman went on CNN and said he didn't want America to win the Iran war. His words were softer than that. The meaning wasn't. Friedman told Michael Smerconish that Iran's regime deserved to fall. Then he added a clause. He didn't…
Alexandre Ramagem, the former intelligence chief under Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, was arrested Monday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the United States, caught up in a traffic stop in Orlando after fleeing his home country to avoid a 16-year prison sentence, The Guardian…
A former FBI agent and NewsNation contributor now says law enforcement has known from the start that 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped for ransom, and that her abductors sent notes to the family knowing full well the FBI would never recommend payment without proof she…
The New York Times published an opinion column Sunday by Ezra Klein under the headline "Hasan Piker Is Not the Enemy." By Monday morning, that headline had vanished, replaced with the softer, more generic "This Is Why There's No Liberal Joe Rogan." The paper offered…
A foreign tabloid is pushing the claim that Usha Vance harbors "growing discomfort" with her husband's political role, based not on any statement from the second lady herself, but on one body language analyst's reading of photographs. No on-the-record source close to the Vance family…
Ramsey County, Minnesota, officials announced Monday that they are investigating the January arrest of a Hmong American man by federal immigration officers as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary, and false imprisonment, a dramatic escalation of state-level resistance to federal enforcement operations that raises hard…
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social late Sunday night to declare that he preferred Pope Leo XIV's older brother over the pope himself, the latest salvo in a public clash between the White House and the Vatican that shows no sign of cooling. "I…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first city-owned grocery store will cost New York City taxpayers $30 million to build from the ground up, roughly double what experts say a comparable private-sector store would cost, and the operator who eventually runs it will pay zero rent and zero…
Congressional Democrats want President Donald Trump out of the White House. They just cannot agree on how to do it, or whether trying is worth the political cost. The result is a fractured minority party lurching between impeachment resolutions, 25th Amendment briefings, and war powers…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is working to patch things up with the same left-wing activists who pulled their endorsement of her less than two years ago, a charm offensive that coincides with her open consideration of a 2028 presidential or Senate bid. The New York Democrat…
Paul Dans, the attorney and Heritage Foundation policy architect who helped build the nearly 1,000-page Project 2025 blueprint, pulled out of the Republican primary against Sen. Lindsey Graham on Friday, the last day he could remove his name from South Carolina ballots before the June…
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…
