The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy banning hormone therapy and accommodations for transgender inmates.
Andrew Bailey cited family reasons for his FBI resignation, expressing confidence that Kash Patel will continue reform efforts and restore public trust.
A congressional delegation, which traveled to Taiwan Monday to meet with newly elected Taiwan President William Lai Ching-te, vowed support for the island nation against increasing tension with China. Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), the co-chair of the Taiwan caucus, said the U.S. is committing to supporting Taiwan’s military both diplomatically and economically, The Associated Press...
Former President Trump and Manhattan prosecutors are gearing up to make their final pitch to a jury before beginning deliberations over whether to convict Trump for a hush money scheme that led to charges of falsifying business records in New York. Both sides will deliver their closing arguments Tuesday, attempting to weave together testimony from...
On May 25, 2020, the world watched as 46-year-old George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd’s last words of “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry for millions around the globe. People poured into the streets to demand police reform — and an...
Bill Maher has come under fire from Democrats who claim his rhetoric toward them has flipped — but he says it's the left that has changed. “I haven’t turned. Yes, people have said to me, 'You made fun of the left more than you used to,’ and guilty, I have, because the left has changed,”...
President Biden is set to deliver remarks Monday on the 156th observance of Memorial Day from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. He will also participate in the annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Solder. The White House flag is flying half-staff in honor of the holiday. Biden posted a graphic Monday on...
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in recovery after he was shot four times in an attempted assassination earlier this month, the government and hospital said Monday. Fico, 59, was shot at close range while greeting supporters in Handlova, in central Slovakia, on May 15. He was quickly rushed to a nearby hospital and underwent...
Installing an air defense system in the Kurdistan Region, a beacon of stability and democracy in a turbulent region, serves the best interests of both the United States and the Kurdistan Region.
Television host Piers Morgan backed a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war Monday morning, saying in a string of social media posts that a recent Israeli strike in a Rafah “safe zone” that killed more than 40 people was too far. “The scenes from Rafah overnight are horrific,” Morgan wrote on the social platform X. “I’ve...
Former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok compared former President Trump’s recent attacks on the Department of Justice, in reference to the classified documents case, to that of authoritarians "around the world." “The problem isn’t so much that, you know, he immediately turns to try and fundraise from it, the problem is he’s doing what authoritarians...
Posting the Ten Commandments is an essentially religious act — not only because it favors religion over non-religion, but also because it invariably favors one faith tradition over others.
Lanny Davis, a former attorney to Michael Cohen, said Monday that the evidence against former President Trump in his criminal hush money trial could be enough to convict him, brushing aside concerns over Cohen’s reliability as the case heads to closing arguments and jury deliberations this week. Davis, in an MSNBC interview with guest host...
Sarah Matthews, an ex-spokesperson for former President Trump, criticized former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley for choosing to “bend the knee” and vote for her former boss. “She was building momentum, and she really could have been, maybe in a post-Trump Republican Party, been the leader, but instead, she chooses to bend the knee, kiss the...
