President Trump pardoned Michele Fiore, a Republican member of the Las Vegas City Council who was convicted for using donations raised for a statue of a fallen police officer on herself instead.
WILL JUDGE DUGAN BECOME THE NEXT HERO OF THE RESISTANCE? The Trump administration’s campaign against sanctuary jurisdictions took a big step forward on Friday when federal agents arrested a county judge in Milwaukee after the judge allegedly helped an illegal immigrant accused of multiple crimes hide from federal immigration officials who had come to detain him. […]
One of the several women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking died on Friday at the age of 41. Virginia Giuffre was pronounced dead by suicide at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed to the Associated Press. “Deeply loving, wise and funny, she was a beacon to other survivors and victims,” publicist...
Former House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed the Democratic Party over its internal fractions, comparing the battle between figureheads to a “civil war.” “The party we are watching today, Democrat, is a civil war. It's the reason why there are no leaders of the party,” McCarthy said during a Friday morning appearance on Fox...
Luigi Mangione pleaded not guily to a federal judge on Friday, denying his involvement in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, a 26 year old Ivy League graduate from Maryland, could be charged with capital punishment if convicted of the violent crime. Attorney General Pam Bondi encouraged the acting U.S. Attorney for...
Bar’s affidavit paints a picture of a prime minister determined to mollify his extremist government partners and to avoid a negative outcome in his bribery trial.
Swiss Confederation President Karin Keller-Sutter on Thursday said the U.S. is planning what she called “privileged” trade negotiations with 15 countries, as President Trump's tariff agenda threatens to rattle the global marketplace. Keller-Sutter, during her visit to Washington on Thursday, told reporters that Switzerland is one of those countries that the Trump administration is looking...
President Trump said in an interview published Friday that he would "absolutely" sign legislation to ban congressional stock trading if it reached his desk. "Well, I watched Nancy Pelosi get rich through insider information, and I would be okay with it. If they send that to me, I would do it," Trump told Time Magazine...
Whole Hog Politics is a weekly newsletter from political editor Chris Stirewalt. Subscribe here or in the box below: On the menu: Partisan divide on NATO; Funky foliage; Dems clash over youth movement; McConnell replacement primary ugly already; Nobody comes out clean The late, great Charles Krauthammer famously told us that “bungled collusion is still...
President Trump in an interview published Friday was adamant that he was serious about his talk of adding Canada as the 51st state, something Canadian leaders have outright rejected. The president sat down for an interview with Time Magazine, where a reporter suggested Trump may have been “trolling a little bit” with his repeated comments...
President Trump blamed Ukraine for initiating the war with Russia by eying a NATO membership, adding that he thinks Crimea will stay under Moscow's control as part of a deal to end the war. In an interview with Time magazine published on Friday, Trump expressed optimism that Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a peace deal...
Ukraine's officials say three people were killed by a Russian drone attack early Friday, less than a day after President Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “STOP” the assaults and focus on peace negotiations. The drone hit an apartment building in the southeastern city of Pavlohrad, killing three people and injuring at least 14,...
President Trump in a new interview suggested that he won’t be looking into "loopholes" to run again for a third term, an idea he has flirted with in the past. Trump told Time magazine that he didn’t want to discuss what he meant by his previous comments that “there are methods which you could do it.” “I’d rather not...
Younger Americans are more likely than older Americans to say they’re doing better financially than they were a year ago, according to the latest “NBC News Stay Tuned” poll. In the mid-April survey, released Thursday, 27 percent of respondents aged 18-29 say their personal finance situation is “better today” than it was one year ago....
Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said he’s prepared to receive the maximum 87-month prison sentence that prosecutors are seeking when he appears for his sentencing on Friday, but said he hopes the judge extends him some grace. “Right now, my expectation is I’m going to prison for 87 months,” Santos said in a phone interview...
The Trump administration said it is “cautiously encouraged” by Yale University’s actions to combat antisemitism on campus amid the administration's crackdown on Ivy League universities. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, the administration has noticed the university has taken actions against a new “antisemitic encampment” on...
