Why should taxpayers have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars prosecuting and incarcerating someone already in the country illegally, rather than deporting him?
Texas gave final approval Friday to optional biblical lesson plans for kindergarten through 5th grade classes in state public schools. The State Board of Education voted 8-7 to allow lessons on topics such as Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper, structured by the state-created Bluebonnet Learning. Schools are not required to implement the...
President-elect Trump again turned to a loyalist in tapping former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ). Trump named his choice just hours after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Thursday withdrew from consideration his nomination that was plagued by allegations that he had sexual relations with a minor, which...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is using publicity from her legislation to prevent transgender women from using women's restroom facilities in federal buildings to sell merchandise to her followers on the social platform X. Mace in a post on X is advertising t-shirts for $35. The post shows a photo of Mace next to t-shirts priced...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) blasted Republicans who said diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts were oppressing white Americans. During a markup of Rep. Michael Cloud’s (R-Texas) “Dismantle DEI" bill, Rep. Clay Higgins, (R-La.), repeatedly referred to DEI policies as “oppression.” But Crockett swiped back, arguing that white men in America have never faced oppression. “It seems you...
Now that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has withdrawn from consideration to be President-elect Trump’s attorney general, questions are swirling about whether he will return to the House — or if he even can. House rules and precedents and the manner in which Gaetz resigned mean he will not be coming back before the end of...
Former President Clinton said he was flattered when acclaimed author Toni Morrison called him America’s "first Black president." “When my friend Toni Morrison said that, you know, it was about — it was halfway serious and halfway making fun of me,” Clinton said Thursday at an event promoting his new memoir. “But I took it...
The Biden administration added more than two dozen Chinese companies to its forced labor blacklist Friday in its latest effort to combat the exploitation of China's ethnic Uyghur population. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified 29 businesses allegedly using forced Uyghur labor in the country’s Xinjiang province to produce goods for industries ranging from...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is arguing that Democrats need to embrace populism to reconnect with the working-class electorate following the 2024 election, which was a “cataclysmic event” for his party. The Connecticut senator is one of many Democrats who have reflected on a disastrous performance for the party. Democrats lost the White House to President-elect...
Dan Scavino, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, said Friday that the president-elect is not planning to install former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) as the head of the FBI. “Just spoke to resident Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI. It’s not happening — In his own words, “I have never even given it...
More than three dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to offer a classified briefing on Turkey’s support for Hamas, raising concerns that the U.S.-designated terrorist group may relocate its headquarters to the NATO-allied country. Lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Director of National Intelligence Avril...
President-elect Trump’s pick for Education secretary, Linda McMahon, is at a center of the lawsuit regarding child sexual abuse while she was in charge of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The lawsuit, which was filed last month, accuses McMahon and her husband, Vince McMahon, of knowing about a ringside announcer who allegedly abused young boys for...
"The View" co-host Ana Navarro in a recent interview praised President-elect Trump’s tapping of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to head the Justice Department (DOJ), after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) stepped aside. “I know Pam Bondi very well. Pam Bondi, like many other Republicans, is a mainstream Republican who turned MAGA,” Navarro, a...
