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…
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…
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…
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.…
Caroline Mattox, the president of Turning Point USA's chapter at the University of Georgia, has stepped down with a pointed public statement alleging the conservative organization has abandoned its founding mission in the months since Charlie Kirk's death. Mattox shared her resignation on Instagram, invoking…
A 3-year-old girl lost two teeth and suffered deep bite wounds across her face after a 24-year-old illegal immigrant attacked her and her mother in a San Antonio park on April 18, and the Department of Homeland Security says the assault never should have happened.…
President Trump on Friday called for the 2020 presidential election to be "permanently wiped from the books" after federal prosecutors indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges that it funneled $3 million in donor money to white supremacist groups it publicly claimed to oppose.…
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Friday that federal prosecutors are closing their criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, shifting the inquiry over potential cost overruns at the Fed's Washington, D.C., headquarters renovation to the central bank's own inspector general. The move clears a…
Martha Odom was seventeen years old, weeks from graduation, and out with friends on a senior skip day when two groups opened fire inside the food court of the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge on Thursday afternoon. She died from a gunshot wound to…
Two federal judges appointed by Democratic presidents struck down President Donald Trump's border restrictions on asylum seekers in a split decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, setting up a likely showdown before the Supreme Court over the scope…
Thirty-one sloths shipped from South America to stock a tourist attraction in Orlando died in an unheated warehouse or shortly after arrival, and the Florida agency that uncovered the deaths handed the operators nothing more than a verbal warning. The animals were destined for Sloth…
Michelle Obama used the latest episode of her podcast to praise her husband's willingness to accept her drive, calling it "a rare thing", a public display of marital warmth that arrives as the former first lady has spent months batting down persistent speculation that the…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are facing sharp new criticism, not from Republicans, but from a prominent voice on their own political left. Jennifer Welch, host of the "I've Had It" podcast, called the two Democratic leaders "fascist collaborators"…
Two transit buses slammed into each other head-on near a Pentagon bus stop in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday morning, injuring 23 people, 10 of them Defense Department workers heading to the nation's military headquarters during the morning commute. The collision between an Omni Ride bus…
