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…
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…
Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress on Tuesday, ending a 13-year career in Washington that collapsed in days under the weight of sexual misconduct accusations from five women, two of whom alleged rape. His most powerful patron, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, wasted little time stepping…
The U.S. Supreme Court will convene Friday morning for a public non-argument session and may announce at least one opinion from the bench, setting the stage for what could be one of the most consequential stretches of decisions in recent memory. The justices will take…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
