President Trump pardoned Michele Fiore, a Republican member of the Las Vegas City Council who was convicted for using donations raised for a statue of a fallen police officer on herself instead.
WILL JUDGE DUGAN BECOME THE NEXT HERO OF THE RESISTANCE? The Trump administration’s campaign against sanctuary jurisdictions took a big step forward on Friday when federal agents arrested a county judge in Milwaukee after the judge allegedly helped an illegal immigrant accused of multiple crimes hide from federal immigration officials who had come to detain him. […]
One of the several women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking died on Friday at the age of 41. Virginia Giuffre was pronounced dead by suicide at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed to the Associated Press. “Deeply loving, wise and funny, she was a beacon to other survivors and victims,” publicist...
Former House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed the Democratic Party over its internal fractions, comparing the battle between figureheads to a “civil war.” “The party we are watching today, Democrat, is a civil war. It's the reason why there are no leaders of the party,” McCarthy said during a Friday morning appearance on Fox...
Luigi Mangione pleaded not guily to a federal judge on Friday, denying his involvement in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, a 26 year old Ivy League graduate from Maryland, could be charged with capital punishment if convicted of the violent crime. Attorney General Pam Bondi encouraged the acting U.S. Attorney for...
The United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s ruling Wednesday, keeping a block on the Trump administration’s plans to freeze federal loans and grants through an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo. Chief Judge David Barron, an appointee of former President Obama, and Circuit Judges Lara...
GOP fundraiser Eric Levine called for President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to be fired over the diplomat’s recent comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing the president’s close friend was “duped” by the Palestinian militant group Hamas during hostage negotiations. Levine, who previously raised money for Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) short-lived 2024 presidential campaign,...
President Trump on Wednesday said he would ask Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to review what kinds of information should be classified, especially flight times, after they were included in the Signal group chat. The White House has insisted that no classified information was shared in the chat after The Atlantic released screenshots on Wednesday showing...
What looked like a Trump administration charm offensive in its gambit to take over Greenland, billed as a cultural heritage tour led by second lady Usha Vance, has turned into something different with the inclusion of her husband and the explosion of a national security scandal at home. Planned trips this week to Greenland’s capital,...
President Trump on Wednesday floated reducing tariffs on China to get a TikTok divestiture deal done as the April 5 deadline nears. "With respect to TikTok, and China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly in the form of an approval, maybe, and I think they'll do that," Trump told reporters...
President Trump on Wednesday announced he was imposing a 25 percent tariff on foreign-made vehicle imports, marking the latest escalation of his trade war against other nations. Trump said in the Oval Office that the 25 percent tariff would apply to "all cars not made in the United States." The tariffs will go into effect...
Canada is trying to persuade Americans to speak out against President Trump’s trade war by launching an ad campaign in 12 red-leaning states, pushing anti-tariff messages and reminding them that “nobody will win” with the approach coming from the White House. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said last week that the Canadian government started a...
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class action complaint with a federal employment board, asking them to review the firings of employees who worked on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) efforts. The filing notes that two orders signed by President Trump stretched back to Election Day, targeting employees who worked on DEIA issues...
Presented by National Council on Aging {beacon} Tensions grow as breach consumes Washington SIMMERING TENSIONS threatened to boil over Wednesday as Washington was consumed for a third day by revelations that President Trump’s national security team had inadvertently given a journalist access to a chat group discussion about a planned bombing in Yemen. The...
