Former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who pursued two criminal cases against President Trump during the Biden administration, will testify publicly about the prosecutions later this month.
Hate found its way to Mississippi’s largest Jewish house of worship, Congregation Beth Israel, when an arsonist intentionally set fire to the synagogue at about 3 a.m. Saturday, damaging the only synagogue in Jackson. The alleged suspect’s name, Stephen Spencer Pittman, was released late Monday. According to the FBI, he faces charges of maliciously damaging […]
THE PRIME OF TOUGH-GUY PROGRESSIVISM. On Saturday, Larry Krasner, the elected Democratic district attorney of Philadelphia, posted a photo of himself on social media. It was a black-and-white picture of a stern-looking Krasner in a dark suit, one hand to his sunglasses. At the bottom of the photo, in all caps, was “FAFO,” which of course […]
Peter Navarro’s bid to overturn his conviction for evading a congressional subpoena appeared to receive little backing from a federal appeals court Thursday. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit grilled Navarro lawyer Stanley Brand during an unusual oral argument where only the White House trade adviser’s counsel laid out a case, after the Justice Department dropped its defense of the prosecution earlier this...
Senate leaders are nearing a deal to pass a package of five appropriations bills that would fund most of the federal government through fiscal 2026, which has the potential to largely take the threat of a government shutdown off the table early next year. Senators were waiting Thursday afternoon for a deal to set up...
The Treasury Department on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting 29 vessels that the U.S. says are part of Iran’s “shadow fleet,” used to transport oil and petroleum products through deceptive shipping practices. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the 29 entities, along with their respective management firms, which “have transported hundreds of...
President Trump’s “warrior dividends” of $1,776 will use funding appropriated for military housing subsidies under the administration’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The money for the one-time checks intended for U.S. service members, which the president announced during his Wednesday night national address, will come from the $2.9 billion Congress approved this summer to...
President Trump trumpeted his term's success so far in a rapid and aggressive speech Wednesday night that also announced a "warrior dividend" for troops. The $1,776 bonus checks will be funded by tariff revenue, Trump said in his remarks, but senior officials have since said the funding will come out of a congressionally approved housing...
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 68 more photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the Department of Justice's (DOJ) deadline to release all of its information on the disgraced financier on Dec. 19. Some photos show lines from the Vladimir Nabokov novel...
President Trump is signing an executive order Thursday from the Oval Office that will drop marijuana into a lower drug classification — but it will not equate to full legalization. The move continues efforts begun by the Biden administration, which started the process to make marijuana a Schedule III drug in 2024 but did not...
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to speed up the rescheduling of marijuana from Schedule I to the less severe Schedule III, with the stated goal of expanding cannabis research. The executive order will direct the attorney general to expedite the completion of the rescheduling process. The Biden administration had begun the rescheduling...
Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday bashed the GOP’s handling of Jack Smith’s testimony to congressional investigators earlier this week, saying Republicans were afraid to allow the former special counsel to appear in public. “They didn't have the guts to put him out there publicly, because they knew that he'd flay them, he'd destroy them,” Holder...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday that the Kennedy Center board voted unanimously to rename the building the Trump-Kennedy Center. “I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the...
Senate Republicans voted Thursday to block a resolution sponsored by Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make its rulemaking open to public comment, something that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. halted in March. King’s resolution, offered under the Congressional Review Act, would have rescinded the...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has decided against releasing its postmortem of the party’s 2024 losses it looks to build on 2025 momentum and take back power in Congress during next year’s midterms. “Here’s our North Star: does this help us win?” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement shared with The Hill on...
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua is facing blowback for an appearance he made on a livestream this week during which he promised a pair of internet personalities he would do a touchdown dance widely viewed as having antisemitic undertones. During the stream with influencers Adin Ross and N3on, the football player is seen...
Top House Democrats on Thursday called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to hold an immediate vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. The Democrats succeeded this week in forcing a vote on a three-year extension of the ObamaCare tax credits when four centrist...
