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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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. 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…
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.…
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…
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,…
Customs and Border Protection officers arrested three men wanted on felony sex-crime warrants as they attempted to cross the Texas border on April 30, the agency disclosed, the latest catches in a broader federal push to intercept criminal fugitives at ports of entry. The arrests…
Jake Hall, the former model and fashion designer who rose to fame on the British reality series "The Only Way Is Essex," was found dead in a pool of blood at a rented villa in Spain after reportedly smashing his head into a glass door…
Rep. Jim Costa, a longtime California Democrat from Fresno, was investigated in 2023 after a former House staffer filed a complaint alleging he made unwanted advances toward her and behaved inappropriately toward another young woman, both interns on Capitol Hill. The Office of Congressional Conduct…
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.…
