The Senate Banking Committee will vote next Wednesday to advance Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, clearing the way for a full Senate confirmation after months of delay caused by a single Republican holdout and a now-closed criminal investigation into…
Sen. Thom Tillis ended months of suspense Sunday when he announced he would allow Kevin Warsh's nomination to lead the Federal Reserve to move forward, a reversal that hands Senate Republicans the votes they need on the Banking Committee and sets up a tight sprint…
A 49-year-old Wellesley, Massachusetts, mother faces two counts of murder after police found her two children, Kai, 7, and Ella, 6, dead inside the family home on Friday night. Janette MacAusland was arrested in Vermont, where authorities said she had fled to a relative's home…
On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. stepped from a crowd at the side entrance of the Washington Hilton and fired six rounds at Ronald Reagan. A bullet bounced off the limousine and tore into Reagan’s chest. Press Secretary James Brady took a round in…
A 77-year-old retired pastor stood trial in Northern Ireland this week on criminal charges for delivering a gospel sermon near a hospital, and the U.S. State Department says it is watching the case closely. Clive Johnston appeared Wednesday at Coleraine Magistrates' Court, where prosecutors accused…
Sen. John Fetterman broke with his party again Saturday morning, praising President Donald Trump's military strikes against Iran and calling the operation necessary to produce lasting peace in the Middle East. The Pennsylvania Democrat posted his support on X while most of his caucus moved…
A California winery co-owned by Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, ceased operations on April 4, two months after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent Mynett a letter demanding answers about a staggering jump in the couple's reported wealth, the New York Post reported.…
The Pentagon fired Jacqueline Smith, the congressionally mandated ombudsman charged with protecting the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes, just six days after a group of lawmakers sent Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a letter expressing "great alarm" about political interference at the military newspaper. Smith…
The same Pima County Sheriff's Office leading the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie spent months coordinating with A&E television producers, granting ride-alongs, handing over body camera footage, and opening case files for a reality series called "Desert Law", all while the department was about to…
Rep. Ilhan Omar's longtime chief of staff married a 27-year-old legislative aide who works in the same office, and Omar herself showed up to celebrate the union, raising pointed questions about whether the Minnesota Democrat ignored a workplace power imbalance unfolding under her own roof…
Two federal judges appointed by Democratic presidents struck down President Donald Trump's border restrictions on asylum seekers in a split ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, handing open-borders advocates a win they had been shopping for and teeing…
American forces operating under Joint Task Force Southern Spear struck a vessel allegedly engaged in narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing two suspected narco-terrorists, U.S. Southern Command said. No U.S. personnel were harmed in the operation. The command described the vessel's operators…
Republicans in both chambers of the Tennessee legislature passed a bill this week that would allow property owners to use deadly force against trespassers, arsonists, burglars, and thieves, a measure that now awaits Gov. Bill Lee's signature. The Tennessee Senate approved SB1847 on April 21.…
Jose "Joe" Ceballos, a Mexican-born green card holder who served two terms as mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, pleaded guilty this week to three counts of disorderly election conduct, the culmination of a prosecution by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach's office that laid bare how a…
