NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani listed himself as Black on a Columbia application but later said he wasn’t, according to reporting from the New York Times.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is calling out the hypocrisy of progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who said the agency is "acting like a terrorist force."
President Donald Trump said his "big beautiful bill" will turn the U.S. into "a rocket ship" after Congress passed what he called the biggest bill of its kind ever signed.
The Trump administration pulled the most devastating lever against Columbia University on Wednesday when it announced it was targeting the school’s accreditation. A typically mundane aspect of higher education but with the ability to destroy a university, the college accreditation process gives a school the ability to qualify for federal student loans and Pell...
Massive clouds of Sahara Desert dust are moving over the Atlantic toward Central and North America, with the possibility of reaching Florida and other states, including Texas, this week. The dust has covered parts of the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Haiti, and is projected to reach states along the Gulf Coast, like...
A federal judge in Colorado has blocked the deportation of the family of the suspect in the Boulder, Colo., attack. The order came just as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced it was preparing to deport Mohamed Soliman's wife and five children. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the...
Plus: Russia prepares to retaliate after Ukraine attacks {beacon} REPUBLICAN LEADERS are working to quash a revolt over debt in President Trump’s agenda bill amid fierce criticism from Elon Musk and new projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The nonpartisan CBO said Wednesday that Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would add $2.4 trillion to...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is planning to reintroduce a bill that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group after the Boulder, Colo., attack perpetrated by Mohamed Soliman. Soliman, an Egyptian citizen, has publicly supported the group on his social media accounts, according to reports from CNN. Cruz said Tuesday that he would craft...
Elon Musk on Wednesday called for a new spending bill to be drafted after he threw a wrench into GOP leadership’s plans to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by July Fourth. “A new spending bill should be drafted that doesn’t massively grow the deficit and increase the debt ceiling by 5 TRILLION DOLLARS,” Musk...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is pressuring Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney to ramp up tariffs against the United States after President Trump doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum earlier this week. “I highly recommended to the prime minister directly that we slap another 25 percent on top of our tariffs to equal President Trump's tariffs...
A Wisconsin inmate is facing charges over allegations he forged threatening letters against President Trump in an effort to frame a potential witness in an upcoming criminal trial and get him deported before he could testify. Demetric Deshawn Scott was charged on Monday with identity theft, bail jumping and felony intimidation of a witness, according...
The BBC rejected White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claims that the news outlet took “the word of Hamas” when reporting on casualties in Gaza. During Tuesday's press briefing, Leavitt claimed the BBC retracted a story that featured statistics on deaths caused by Israeli forces in a story. “The claim the BBC took down a story after...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is proposing a carveout for his Russia sanctions bill to exempt countries that help Ukraine’s defense, protecting them from a 500 percent tariff on countries trading with Russia. The carveout could help insulate countries in Europe that still import Russian gas and have provided military support for Ukraine, as well as...
President Trump on Wednesday doubled down on calls to scrap the nation’s debt ceiling, pressing for bipartisan action to abolish it and finding common ground with Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.). “I am very pleased to announce that, after all of these years, I agree with Senator Elizabeth Warren on SOMETHING. The Debt Limit should...
