President Trump announced Friday that Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair will step away from his White House post to take the reins of the president's outside political operation, and its $300 million-plus war chest, as Republicans brace for what could be a punishing midterm…
Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin broke a long public silence this week to say that Pete Hegseth's removal of more than a dozen senior military officers "concerns" him, a carefully staged critique from a Biden-era Pentagon chief whose own tenure was hardly a model of…
Newly declassified intelligence community memos reveal that the CIA analyst whose complaint launched the first impeachment of President Donald Trump carried far deeper political biases and closer ties to Joe Biden than the public was ever told, and that he actively sought to keep his…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 375-page "Preliminary Racial Equity Plan" last week that frames nearly every arm of city government through the lens of racial disparity, and conservatives say the document is a blueprint for higher taxes, fewer cops, and race-based policymaking…
Rep. Pramila Jayapal went on national television Sunday and called for two of her congressional colleagues, one Democrat, one Republican, to be removed from the House over sexual misconduct allegations, saying both men should resign and that she would vote to expel them if the…
A 38-year-old Queens man allegedly walked into a gas station, grabbed matches, and set fire to a random apartment building in Flushing because he was angry about being fired, killing four people, including a three-year-old child, prosecutors said. Roman Amatitla now faces multiple counts of…
The Islamabad talks collapsed Sunday after twenty-one hours. Vice President Vance announced the failure. Within hours, President Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. Navy would blockade any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. The commentariat went into…
Nineteen House Republicans have signed on as co-sponsors of Rep. Maria Salazar's "Dignity Act," a sweeping immigration bill that would offer legal status to an estimated 10.5 million illegal immigrants and a path to citizenship for roughly 2.5 million more, drawing fierce opposition from conservative…
Amy Acton, the Democratic frontrunner in Ohio's gubernatorial primary, faces renewed scrutiny after a police report surfaced describing a 2019 incident at her home in which she pulled a mirror off a wall, shattering the glass, after what her campaign called a "verbal disagreement" over…
U.S. Central Command announced Saturday that American forces have begun de-mining the Strait of Hormuz, deploying two Navy guided-missile destroyers to carve a safe passage through waters that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had seeded with sea mines during the ongoing conflict. The operation marks…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated the green cards of three Iranian nationals with direct family ties to one of the most notorious figures from the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, and ICE agents arrested them this week in Los Angeles. Federal officials plan to remove…
Vice President JD Vance left Pakistan late Saturday with no agreement from Iran, telling reporters that American negotiators spent 21 hours at the table in good faith, and that Tehran refused to accept the terms put before it. The message from the administration was blunt:…
A 29-year-old Chicago man faces federal charges after prosecutors say he used the White House website to threaten President Donald Trump and his son Barron, then escalated to threatening Secret Service agents who came to investigate, all while allegedly including his own phone number and…
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared Friday that a Reconstruction-era federal ban on home distilling exceeds Congress's constitutional authority to levy taxes, ending, at the federal level, a prohibition that has been on the books since 1868 and carried penalties of up to…
