Sen. Bill Cassidy raised $1.65 million in the latest fundraising quarter and has $11 million in cash on hand, his team told POLITICO, as he seeks to ward off...
2021—A Ninth Circuit panel rules (in Tekoh v. County of Los Angeles) that when prosecutors have used a defendant’s un-Mirandized statement (i.e., a statement given...
Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said Friday a “very aggressive” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pepper-sprayed her during a raid in Tucson, Ariz. According to Grijalva, community members in Tuscon had stopped approximately 40 ICE agents, most of whom were masked, in the middle of a street near Taco Giro, which Grijalva described as a small...
Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, is slated to co-host Fox News’s “The Five” next week in an effort to promote the release of her late husband’s book "Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life." The book was finished a month prior to...
Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) said Friday he will lift his remaining holds on President Trump’s nominees to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the department approved disaster recovery funds for his state. Budd had holds on Sean Plankey, who was nominated to be director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Pedro Allende,...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said President Trump’s voters may be an issue for the Republican Party during next year’s midterms because this “big pool” of people may not show up to vote without him on the ballot. “I think Republicans have an issue that Donald Trump has created a big pool of voters, but...
The two survivors of the early September boat attack by the U.S. military did not seem to radio for backup or appear to have other communication devices available after their vessel was struck, the top official overseeing the Caribbean operation told lawmakers during Thursday's classified, closed-door briefings, CNN reported, citing three sources familiar with the...
Amnesty International said Thursday the use of a confined space called the "box" at the migrant detention facility in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz could amount to torture. The human rights organization said in a 61-page digital report that the box, a 2-by-2-foot cage located in Alligator Alcatraz's yard, keeps people restrained to the ground...
Vanity Fair will part ways with journalist Olivia Nuzzi, the reporter who wrote in a new book about a romantic relationship she says she had with Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a new report. Nuzzi's contract as a West Coast editor at Vanity Fair is set to expire at...
Vice President Vance shared a list of the three progressive politicians who he said, in an interview with NBC News published Thursday, he has come to appreciate. In a wide-ranging interview that touched on his marriage, his chances of running in 2028 and antisemitism in the United States, Vance said he has come to appreciate...
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release jury transcripts from Florida's investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith made the order in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the DOJ to release all of its information on Epstein. President Trump signed...
The New Democrat Coalition on Friday urged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign over an unclassified inspector General report that found he endangered service members by communicating about sensitive military intelligence in a Signal group chat. “Time and time again, the Secretary has lied, dodged, deflected, and shockingly scapegoated his subordinates,” New Democrat Chair Brad...
