The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday advanced Jay Clayton's nomination to serve as the next Director of National Intelligence, as GOP leaders aim to confirm him to the role before the August congressional recess.
Even in Texas, career criminals are allowed to roam free up to the point that they kill someone, proving that there needs to be a nationwide crackdown on crime to counter the national attitude shift toward criminal justice reform around 2018. Hannah Rapp, a 26-year-old rising featherweight boxer, was killed while cycling with her boyfriend […]
As a rule, reports by Washington, D.C.’s various bureaucracies are often meant to be written, not read. Many are perfunctory. To the extent they contain revelations, they are often watered down or hidden in the worst type of bureaucratic prose. But the State Department’s new report, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” should be […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) secured a win Tuesday when House Republicans voted to advance a budget framework for a third reconciliation package. But the proposal still faces significant obstacles ahead as GOP leaders work to keep conservative hardliners on board. The budget framework calls for $73 billion in defense and intelligence funding amid the conflict...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) called Congress' move to ask for more than $11 billion for the Agriculture Department (USDA) as part of supplemental funding for the Iran war “ironic” on Tuesday. “What’s ironic about that is the… bailout for the farmers was necessitated by the war with Iran,” Massie told The Hill outside the House...
Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) announced on Tuesday he would not be running for reelection in Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District after GOP-led redistricting made his seat more Republican. “After a great deal of prayer and reflection, I have decided not to seek re-election to Congress, in the 6th District or any other district in Louisiana,” Fields said in a...
Arizona voters are at the polls Tuesday to choose the Republican nominee in the state's governor's race. Incumbent Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. She narrowly defeated Trump-backed GOP nominee Kari Lake by 50.32 percent to 49.65 in a closely-watched 2022 contest to become the Grand Canyon State's governor. A...
Arizona voters are at the polls Tuesday to pick nominees for November's congressional races. There are two open House seats up for grabs, with Republican Reps. Andy Biggs and David Schweikert jostling in a GOP primary to take on Gov. Katie Hobbs this fall. Schweikert's seat in the 1st Congressional District is a prime pickup...
Rapper Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., whose stage name is Lil Wayne, on Monday praised President Trump for constructing a White House ballroom that would provide an indoor space for performers, events and diplomatic ceremonies. “I’m so glad to hear Trump say — when they was mad at him about building the ballroom — and he...
President Trump called Lebanon "a country of great intellect" and said his administration has done things regarding Hezbollah that the world will notice.
