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...
The 60,000 contested ballots in the North Carolina state Supreme Court race should be recounted and verified, according to a ruling Friday from a panel of the state appeals court. The 2-1 ruling is a win for Republican state Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin, who is trailing incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs by fewer...
Former President Barack Obama said Thursday he was “deeply concerned” about President Trump’s crackdown on universities and law firms. “I’m more deeply concerned with a federal government that threatens universities if they don’t give up students who are exercising their right to free speech,” Obama said Thursday during a question-and-answer session at Hamiliton College. “I...
The deadly measles outbreak in Texas is continuing to rise, now approaching 500 confirmed cases with at least 56 people facing hospitalization since late January, according to health officials. The total number of cases has increased to 481, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday in a new update. On Tuesday, the total...
Andrew Tate is a symptom of the crisis facing young men today, as the education system and mainstream culture have become increasingly hostile to traditional expressions of masculinity, leaving boys disengaged, depressed and isolated.
Former President Obama says he's trying to up the fun time with his wife, after two terms in the White House left him in a "deep deficit" with the former first lady. "I was in a deep deficit with my wife," Obama told Hamilton College President Steven Tepper, when asked about his post-White House life at a...
President Trump said Friday that he plans to give TikTok another 75-day extension as his administration nears a deal to avert a ban on the popular social media platform. “My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress,” he wrote Friday on Truth Social....
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) broke Strom Thurmond's 24-hour civil rights filibuster record with a day-long speech, but Democrats' reliance on outdated tactics in a hyperactive media environment is a missed opportunity for strategic advantage.
President Trump will not attend the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania last week, instead sending Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to Dover Air Force Base, Del., while he remains in Florida. Hegseth’s attendance was confirmed by the White House on Friday. Trump will not travel back for...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) faces a number of divisions among Senate Republicans that could derail the Senate budget resolution, a measure that will be critical to passing President Trump’s legislative agenda later this year. Key points of contention include how to calculate the cost of extending Trump’s tax cuts, Medicaid cuts, defense...
Democratic attorneys general in 16 states led by New York and Massachusetts sued the Trump administration Friday over the cancellation of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants for medical research. In March, NIH began to terminate millions of dollars in grant funding for previously approved research projects, including projects focused on diversity,...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday that the size and potential economic harm of President Trump's new tariffs were far larger than anticipated, raising new challenges as the bank attempts to end its inflation fight. In a Friday speech to a business journalism conference, Powell warned that the scope and scale of Trump's new...
President Trump urged the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and ripped the head of the independent central bank as new tariffs caused stocks to plunge. In a Friday post on his Truth Social messaging platform, Trump accused Fed Chair Jerome Powell — a fellow Republican — of refusing to cut interest rates for political...
