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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Ramsey County, Minnesota, officials announced Monday that they are investigating the January arrest of a Hmong American man by federal immigration officers as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary, and false imprisonment, a dramatic escalation of state-level resistance to federal enforcement operations that raises hard…
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social late Sunday night to declare that he preferred Pope Leo XIV's older brother over the pope himself, the latest salvo in a public clash between the White House and the Vatican that shows no sign of cooling. "I…
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…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first city-owned grocery store will cost New York City taxpayers $30 million to build from the ground up, roughly double what experts say a comparable private-sector store would cost, and the operator who eventually runs it will pay zero rent and zero…
Congressional Democrats want President Donald Trump out of the White House. They just cannot agree on how to do it, or whether trying is worth the political cost. The result is a fractured minority party lurching between impeachment resolutions, 25th Amendment briefings, and war powers…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is working to patch things up with the same left-wing activists who pulled their endorsement of her less than two years ago, a charm offensive that coincides with her open consideration of a 2028 presidential or Senate bid. The New York Democrat…
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…
