Four suspected terror attacks hit the US during DHS shutdown as Michigan Senate candidates split on funding with Republican Mike Rogers supporting reopening the department.
Virginia Democrats advance sweeping assault weapons ban while West Virginia Republicans propose allowing machine gun ownership, highlighting sharp divide.
Wealthy Americans are running scared. The multimillionaire and billionaire class increasingly fears that a revolution is coming to eat them. Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York, California’s push toward a wealth tax, and the steady radicalization of elite universities all point in the same direction. The threat isn’t merely higher taxes; it’s the normalization of socialism, […]
Unable to identify any regulatory reforms that would make things more affordable for consumers, Democrats are promising tax cuts that would not only add trillions of dollars in new debt under existing government spending levels, but they would also add trillions more once additional spending increases are tacked on. The pushback to Sen. Cory Booker’s […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi went toe-to-toe with lawmakers in a heated hearing on Wednesday as the country’s top lawyer appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time since taking office. Bondi fielded questions on issues ranging from pending investigations into adversaries of President Trump to immigration, but the most tense exchanges came amid...
Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who chairs the body, accused her of trying to “hijack” a hearing on antisemitism this week. “No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda...
A new poll from Gallup released Wednesday shows that few Americans see immigration as the country's biggest problem compared with other nations where more respondents say it's an issue. Gallup found that 8 percent of Americans said immigration was their top concern, placing the U.S. in a tie with Germany and Switzerland. Pollsters found that...
Anthropic said Wednesday that it will cover increases in consumer electricity prices that result from its data centers, becoming the latest company to make commitments in the face of growing pushback to the AI infrastructure. The company behind Claude pledged to pay for grid infrastructure upgrades required to connect its data centers, which it noted...
The State Department is planning to revoke more passports from people with large amounts of outstanding unpaid child support. Individuals who owe more than $100,000 will be among the first groups targeted by the State Department for passport revocation, a U.S. official told the Associated Press. Those who enroll in a payment plan could avoid...
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Wednesday applauded a grand jury’s decision not to indict him and five other Democratic lawmakers over their participation in a controversial video last year, arguing that the Department of Justice “failed, and they will always fail.” The failed federal indictment was pursued by the office of U.S. Attorney for the...
The federal deficit and national debt are expected to grow by trillions of dollars over the next decade, according to 10-year projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO projected that the U.S. budget deficit will reach $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2026 — around 5.8 percent of GDP — and roughly the...
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended a two-and-a-half hour meeting on Wednesday with no agreement on how to move forward with Iran. "There was nothing definitive reached other than I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a Deal can be consummated," Trump said in a TruthSocial post...
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is endorsing Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate primary, making the first Senate endorsement in his race against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). Heinrich told Semafor that Talarico is “running a really smart campaign” and making a “very accessible” pitch to voters in the Lone Star State. The outlet cited another...
House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced a bill on Wednesday that would fund every agency under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) except Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Office of the Secretary. The move comes as the stopgap measure to fund DHS at existing...
As the search for Nancy Guthrie stretches into its second week, the FBI said Wednesday that they are now examining roadways along the Catalina Foothills in Arizona. The federal agency’s Phoenix bureau said its agents are “conducting an extensive search” of this area, looking for information related to the disappearance of “Today” show host Savannah...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily closed the airspace over El Paso, Texas, and southern New Mexico on Wednesday morning, prompting disruptions for travelers and questions from lawmakers. The FAA initially imposed a 10-day stoppage, effective at 1:30 a.m. EST Wednesday, on flights into and out of El Paso International Airport (ELP) and the Doña...
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday said she is ending a task force launched last year to target politicization within different U.S. intelligence agencies, a task force she said was meant to be temporary. "The Director's Initiatives Group (DIG) was created as a temporary effort to surge resources to deliver on high-priority...
