At least a half-dozen House Republicans told reporters they would vote against a bipartisan Senate bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, then reversed themselves Thursday and voted yes, sending the legislation to President Donald Trump's desk. Trump signed it that afternoon,…
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate, wiped roughly 6,000 posts from her X account this week, including every post predating 2020, after a year of scrutiny over old social media comments in which she mocked Michigan, pined for California,…
The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to let food stamp recipients buy rotisserie chickens with their benefits. The final count was 384-35. Among the 35 who voted no: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and two other New York Democrats, as Gothamist reported. The bill in…
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…
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…
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,…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A man tried to murder the President of the United States Saturday night. He brought a shotgun, two handguns, and knives to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. He had spent three weeks planning the attack. It was the third attempt on Donald Trump's life since…
