President Trump turned up his rhetoric Monday against Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and a longtime ally, after she dropped the case against a former Olympian who was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
More than 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday to block it from getting wide access to the personal information of millions of recipients of a benefits program for low-income families.
In negotiations with Republican senators whose support he needs to be confirmed as attorney general, Todd Blanche formally rescinded a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate President Donald Trump's political allies.
President Trump on Monday voiced frustration after the Justice Department officially rescinded a proposed $1.8 billion fund for people who claimed they were victims of political prosecutions, including defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Bank accounts held by President Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
President Donald Trump deported a staggering 46,000 illegal aliens in July, a record unparalleled by any other president. That same month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 51,000 immigrants, an astonishing average of 1,645 a day. Indeed, more immigrants were issued deportation orders by a judge in the past 18 months than in the four years […]
WHAT IF REPUBLICANS LOSE BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE? The odds are Republicans will lose control of the House in the coming midterm elections, for five reasons: 1) their current majority is so narrow that losing a literal handful of seats would cost them control; 2) they will be hurt by President Donald Trump’s low job approval […]
Apologists for backward peoples invading wealthy developed nations can’t get their story straight. One lot dismisses the irruption of 50,000 fighting-age men into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta as a nothingburger. Because most of the intruders quickly returned to Morocco, bien pensents suggest an apology would be appropriate from people outraged at the […]
Democrats gerrymander just as much as Republicans, but Democrats claim their party has the moral high ground because, according to liberal journalists, Democrats have tried to “ban gerrymandering.” This claim has a dozen things wrong with it — for instance, Democrats tied their gerrymandering legislation to other measures including banning voter ID — but the […]
A new agentic AI assistant called Orchid is making waves from a viral advertisement that claims humans are incompetent at managing their everyday lives. The ad has sparked outrage on both sides of the aisle, showing just how widespread the opposition to AI taking over our lives is. Orchid, an AI assistant that you can […]
Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Monday urged American universities to outline their commitments to a set of Trump administration priorities by the end of this year. In an open letter to university presidents and board members, McMahon lamented that higher education institutions, in her view, have “drifted from the principles that built up so much...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been sticking to his original story that vandals were responsible for damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, despite a court filing from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro saying the department had evidence a "botched" installation was to blame. President Trump, who has repeatedly railed against the alleged vandalism and efforts to hinder...
David Venturella, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), sent a letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) saying he has divested of his Geo Group stocks and "fully recused himself from all contracts and obligations related to detention." The letter to Warren, sent Thursday, did not share specifics about ICE's contracting process. Venturella added that...
