Sen. Jim Banks is urging key Trump administration agencies to recoup what he believes could be billions in benefits paid out to immigrants on the American taxpayer’s dime.
Mail-order abortion pills now account for one in four U.S. abortions after the Biden administration removed doctor visit requirements, a new report shows.
The Trump administration’s decision to create a national stockpile of critical minerals is long overdue and strategically essential. Critical minerals underpin the modern economy and are at the center of America’s competition with China. Washington must safeguard its supply of strategic minerals and prevent Beijing from gaining a stranglehold on them. On Feb. 2, the […]
President Donald Trump returns to the National Prayer Breakfast after pledging to protect Christians and form a Justice Department task force to combat anti-Christian discrimination.
A new survey shows parents still overwhelmingly support vaccine mandates for measles and polio, as Florida moves to remove immunization requirements for school-aged children and other states consider changes to their laws. A Washington Post-KFF poll found that 81 percent of parents support requirements for measles and polio, while 18 percent do not. One percent...
After Wednesday night’s drawing yielded no major winners, the Powerball jackpot ticked up another $300 million to a staggering $1.7 billion. That marks the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history, behind only the $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot win in November 2022 and the $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot win in October 2023. This Saturday will be the...
The U.S. and Mexico late Wednesday agreed to increase cooperation in the fight against illegal drugs, including working together to dismantle cartels and "address" illegal immigration on both sides of the border. “The aim is to work together to dismantle transnational organized crime through enhanced cooperation between our respective national security and law enforcement institutions,...
China is investing more than $140 billion in its race to dominate the semiconductor industry, aiming to close the gap with giants like TSMC and Intel. On paper, it’s an ambitious leap toward technological self-sufficiency. In reality, though, it is a race held back by something far more corrosive than American export controls or geopolitics. It’s...
A transgender college student challenging Idaho’s 2020 ban on trans athletes notified the Supreme Court this week that she would drop her case, citing personal and academic challenges and intensifying “negative public scrutiny” tied to her involvement in it. Attorneys for Lindsay Hecox told the high court on Tuesday that the Boise State University senior was withdrawing...
(NEXSTAR) – Three months after filing for bankruptcy, Texas-based home decor chain At Home is preparing to close more than two dozen stores before the end of the year. At Home Group, Inc., announced in June that it was working to restructure the company with plans to undergo “a transition of ownership” after completing the...
The attorney general for Washington, D.C. has sued the Trump administration over the deployment of National Guard troops throughout the city amid its crackdown on local crime. Brian Schwalb, the city’s attorney general, said that by sending hundreds of troops into the nation’s capital, the administration has “run roughshod” over the longstanding tenet that the...
President Donald Trump has proposed changing the name of the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, citing a historical record of never losing a war under that name, while Woodrow Wilson had previously proposed a radical reform of the Cabinet in which members could serve in both the executive and legislative branches.
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it is opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility at Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. The new ICE facility, dubbed the “Louisiana Lockup,” will expand detention capacity by more than 400 beds in the coming months and is intended to “house some of the...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says there are no plans for the upper chamber to vote on legislation to direct the Department of Justice to release all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite a fervent push in the House to do just that. Thune told reporters Thursday that he’s not aware...
The Navy has restored Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) to the retired rank of rear admiral after he received a demotion in 2022 for unethical behavior. “After finding good cause to reopen your retired grade determination, and upon review of all applicable reports and references, it is my pleasure to inform you, effective immediately, you are...
Top Senate Banking Committee Democrat Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) tested Federal Reserve Board nominee Stephan Miran’s loyalty to President Trump during his confirmation hearing Thursday, firing questions at him designed to show his lack of independence. Warren asked him if he thought President Trump lost the 2020 election. Miran, chair of the White House Council of...
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on Wednesday warned that the United States is heading towards a “credibility crisis” due to President Trump's moves to influence the Federal Reserve. “We’re on the foothills of a credibility crisis,” Summers said during a Wednesday appearance on Bloomberg Television’s “Wall Street Week” with David Westin. “We are in completely...
