An 18-year-old social media influencer with roughly 350,000 TikTok followers faces 15 counts of possessing child sexual abuse material after his girlfriend found the images on his phone while he slept, Sarasota County authorities said. Mason Hull was arrested Wednesday in Sarasota County, Florida, after…
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it is seeking to denaturalize 12 naturalized American citizens accused of crimes ranging from terrorism support and murder to marriage fraud, firearms trafficking, and child sexual abuse. The cases, filed in federal courts across nine states and Washington,…
Eight Senate Democrats broke ranks to end the government shutdown, and the fallout landed squarely on Chuck Schumer. Now the Senate minority leader faces open calls for his removal, furious allies in the House, and a party fracturing over whether his strategy accomplished anything at…
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is traveling to Canada this Saturday for a gathering of center-left politicians organized around a single question: how to defeat conservatives on pocketbook issues. The summit, organized by the Center for American Progress, will bring the Michigan Democrat together with Canadian…
A Utah judge denied Tyler Robinson's bid to ban cameras from the courtroom and delayed his preliminary hearing to July, setting the stage for a publicly visible reckoning in the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Judge Tony Graf Jr. of the 4th…
Former House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz laid out six recommendations to fix the United States Secret Service more than ten years ago. Not one of them stuck. Now, after a string of security failures culminating in multiple attempts on President Donald Trump's life, a bipartisan…
President Trump announced Friday that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire running from May 9 through May 11, paired with a prisoner exchange of 1,000 captives from each side, a development the president framed as a direct result of his personal diplomacy…
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tore into House Democratic leadership on Tuesday after Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., openly described her efforts to coordinate with foreign ambassadors, including those from Mexico, to find ways to deliver oil to Cuba despite U.S. sanctions targeting the island's communist regime.…
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to invalidate Democrats' mid-decade redistricting effort, finding that the legislature violated the state constitution's procedural requirements when it rushed a map-redrawing amendment onto the ballot. The decision wipes out a plan that would have redrawn Virginia's congressional districts to…
Health officials working under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed whether certain drugs in the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants could face additional restrictions, two people familiar with the conversations told Newsmax, even as the department publicly denied any talk of an outright ban.…
TMZ Sports published video this week showing New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel and former NFL reporter Dianna Russini together on a private boat dock in Putnam County, Tennessee, in June 2021, when Russini was visibly pregnant with her first child and both were…
Former President Barack Obama told The New Yorker that the pressure to remain politically active on behalf of the Democratic Party has created "genuine tension" in his marriage, and he pointed directly to President Donald Trump as the reason he keeps coming back to the…
Melissa Isaak, a 49-year-old Alabama lawyer who built her career defending men in custody and divorce disputes, has been appointed as an immigration judge under President Trump, a role that will require her to weigh asylum claims from women fleeing domestic violence and gender-based persecution.…
Four more employees of the United Nations' Palestinian refugee aid agency, three teachers and a social worker, participated in holding Israeli hostages or carrying out the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack, a federal watchdog has found. The USAID Office of Inspector General laid out the…
