The House on Thursday approved legislation to restore funding to most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending a record 76-day partial shutdown that left tens of thousands of federal employees working without guaranteed paychecks. The catch: the bill specifically zeroes out money for Immigration…
George Clooney used a Hollywood awards ceremony this week to deliver a politically charged speech against President Donald Trump and his administration, then closed his remarks by calling on Americans to "truly make America great again," borrowing the president's own signature phrase in the process.…
Barry Christian, a 54-year-old Republican running for the Oklahoma State Senate, was found dead inside his pickup truck in a remote wildlife area two days after he was reported missing, and investigators still have no public explanation for how he died. Beckham County deputies discovered…
President Donald Trump signed a 45-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Thursday night, keeping one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools alive, but only barely, and only temporarily. The move came after the Senate flatly rejected the House's…
The Department of Justice released a sweeping 200-page report Thursday accusing the Biden administration of systematically penalizing Christians who acted on their faith, from prosecuting elderly pro-life demonstrators to directing FBI surveillance at Catholic priests who celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass. The findings come from…
Actor Ving Rhames, the 66-year-old star of the Mission: Impossible franchise and Pulp Fiction, collapsed Wednesday afternoon while dining with his family at a North Hollywood restaurant and was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital. His representatives later said he had overheated and was released…
A federal grand jury has indicted a Minnesota father, mother, and their 20-year-old daughter for allegedly attacking a conservative journalist covering an anti-ICE rally, a case the Justice Department says was driven by nothing more than the reporter's political identity. Christopher Ostroushko, 51, his wife…
Mallory McMorrow, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, told readers in her 2025 autobiography that she "relocated permanently" to the state in 2014. Deleted social media posts and public records paint a different picture, one in which she was still calling herself a…
Ross Davidson, the 38-year-old singer who replaced Tony Hadley as frontman of Spandau Ballet, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after courts found him guilty of sexual offenses against six women committed over a six-year period. Newly released bodycam footage from his 2021 arrest…
The Department of Justice dropped its felony conspiracy charge against Kat Abughazaleh and three co-defendants this week, scaling back a case that began when the group allegedly surrounded and damaged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle during a September 2025 protest in Broadview, Illinois. The…
Rep. Lauren Boebert went from threatening to tank the House Farm Bill rule to voting yes, all in the span of a few hours, after what she described as "hard-fought, good-faith negotiations" with Speaker Johnson and senior Republican colleagues that landed her a promised spot…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum moved swiftly to block U.S. efforts to hold her own party's officials accountable after a federal indictment named Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine associates on drug trafficking charges tied to the Sinaloa Cartel. The U.S. Department of Justice announced…
Barry Christian, a 54-year-old Republican candidate for the Oklahoma state Senate, was found dead inside his pickup truck in a remote stretch of western Oklahoma on Thursday, two days after he was reported missing for failing to show up to a scheduled meeting. The circumstances…
President Trump on Thursday signed a bill restoring funding to most of the Department of Homeland Security, closing out what has been called the longest shutdown of a federal department in U.S. history, 76 days without spending authority for the agencies responsible for airport security,…
