Democrats rallied behind Eric Swalwell as Republicans raised alarms over Fang Fang — newly declassified FBI files are now casting fresh light on what agents knew.
The White House and Sen. Jon Ossoff are engaged in an increasingly nasty fight that intensified after the Georgia Democrat, a rising star in his party, invoked President Trump’s longtime aide Natalie Harp in his insults of the commander-in-chief. Ossoff ramped up the feud on Tuesday during a campaign event with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.),...
A new whistleblower complaint accuses the Department of Justice (DOJ) of having “predetermined” outcomes when it launched antisemitism investigations into Ivy League schools, writing that in some cases, investigators failed to find any violations of the law when the Trump administration demanded settlements. The whistleblowers' account accuses the Trump administration of speeding investigations, demanding a...
The state of Minnesota sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Tuesday over his refusal to extradite the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer accused of shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis earlier this year. Christian Castro, 52, was charged with four counts of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon for the non-fatal shooting and...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said Tuesday that its armed forces detected two missiles fired from Iran and that both fell into the water. The country’s air defense systems spotted Iranian ballistic missiles. One fell outside of the nation’s territorial waters, and the other fell well within its territorial waters, the UAE’s Defense Ministry said...
A group of Democratic senators accused the Trump administration of violating a court order and demanded officials immediately stop sharing Medicaid data that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use for deportation proceedings. According to Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden (Ore.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.) and Chris Van Hollen...
Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) refused to give her opinion Monday on whether Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) should keep his leadership role if Republicans hold on to their power in the 2026 midterms. In an interview with Fox Carolina's Justin Dougherty, Graham, who was appointed to the Senate following the death of her brother,...
Median Strategies, the company that released polls showing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) and former Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong ahead with wide margins in their respective races, announced Monday it has closed. A message on the company's website reads that it has "concluded its polling project and will not publish additional polls." "All...
President Trump pointed to India’s election laws in an effort to bolster support for voter registration reform outlined in the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which is backed by the White House. “Earlier this month, India’s Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, asked our Administration — How can you have Elections in the U.S....
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) addressed the outpour of commentary regarding her two tattoo sleeves during a Monday episode of her recently launched podcast. The conservative representative showed off the tattoos on her podcast, "Get MACED," where she criticized the online reaction to her appearance — saying, "the internet is losing its f‑‑‑king mind over my...
Tom Barrack, President Trump's U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria and Iraq, on Tuesday condemned Israeli air strikes on a Syrian air base as an "unnecessary escalation." Israel carried out eight airstrikes on the Abu al-Duhur base's runway and storage facilities, Syria's state-run Ekhbariya news outlet reported, according to Reuters. A military...
Former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) told FBI investigators that he had physical relations with a suspected Chinese spy, according to newly declassified documents released by the White House Transparency Task Force on Monday. Swalwell, who exited Congress in April, told the FBI in 2015 that he met a woman named Christine Fang — the suspected...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to deploy 1,000 poll monitors during the midterm elections to ensure that several laws are upheld throughout the voting process. DOJ has already deployed more than 75 monitors across five states and more than 200 polling locations this primary season, according to a release. “Election monitoring is an...
Commentator Stephen A. Smith ripped the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) after he received the "Thumbs Down" award from the organization over the weekend, calling the move "highly offensive." “I'm calling them out for it, because it makes no sense whatsoever," he told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo on Monday. "There's no truth to what they're...
