“I believe we, the Americans of today, are ready to act worthy of ourselves,” President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in January 1981 during his first inaugural address, “ready to do what must be done to ensure happiness and liberty for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children.” Reagan was nothing less than what the Greek philosopher […]
President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in commemoration of Thanksgiving Day, as penned by Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward. The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful […]
The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., worked with U.S. entities, including the CIA, as a member of a partner force in Afghanistan.
President Trump announced late Friday that he is ending legal protections for Somali residents living in Minnesota "effective immediately." "Minnesota, under [Gov. Tim] Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program)...
Vice President Vance on Friday defended President Trump's 28-point peace plan to bring an end to the more than three-year war in Ukraine, pushing back on criticism he said is not based on "critical reality." Vance, in a post online, outlined three things needed for a successful agreement: "1) Stop the killing while preserving Ukrainian...
A playpen sold on Amazon has been recalled for the risk of serious injury or death from suffocation and entrapment hazards, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Friday.
On the ground in Ukraine, all of my sources are giving indications it is highly tense, and they do not like where the conversation is going between the Kremlin and White House.
Senate Republicans are venting their frustration over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s management of thousands of records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and, more recently, mistakes made by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in handling a controversial indictment against former FBI Director James Comey. Several Republican senators say that controversies at the Justice Department...
House Republicans are throwing cold water on the idea of making discharge petitions harder to execute — and threatening to launch even more of the rarely used gambits to circumvent leadership. The heightened interest in the rarely used tool comes after Democrats teamed up with a small group of Republicans to force a vote on...
For former national security adviser John Bolton, a trial is a long way off. At a hearing in his criminal case Friday, a federal judge made no attempt to set a trial date on the allegations of mishandled classified material, forced instead to grapple with a pretrial schedule that will likely stretch into next fall...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell will “plead the Fifth” against congressional investigators. “Her lawyers have replied that she’s not going to answer any questions,” Comer told Politico in an interview Friday. “She’s only going to plead the Fifth.” ...
Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed an expedited motion seeking the release of the grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case amid an aggressive push by lawmakers to release all files related to the late convicted sex offender. Bondi filed the motion in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, leveraging the enactment of...
President Trump on Friday night said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) announcement that she is leaving Congress in early January is "great news for the country" — perhaps pouring salt on the wound one week after pulling his support from her. The president told ABC News's Rachel Scott that Greene, formerly one of Trump's biggest...
