In his Sept. 22 address to the U.N. General Assembly, President Donald Trump called the International Criminal Court an anti-American tribunal and urged countries to withdraw their membership. Washington, Beijing, Moscow, New Delhi, and Jerusalem never joined. The United States has reportedly been assembling a sanctions package against the court as an institution — if […]
Former President Barack Obama recently spoke out regarding the situation in the Middle East. In an October 2026 interview with journalist Susan McKay, Obama declared that Israel’s reliance on military and technological superiority risks undermining its moral standing. He warned that Israel has “ceded moral ground” by refusing concessions and engaging in excessive military engagements. […]
Energy costs are climbing across the country — electricity bills, gas prices, home heating costs — and those costs ripple through the rest of the economy. After years of political impasse, the Senate has finally reached a bipartisan permitting reform agreement to help address it. A deal is not a law, and Congress has a […]
Medicaid fraud can’t stay out of the news cycle. A California man was just sentenced to 30 years in prison over a massive healthcare fraud scheme. Minnesota is still in the middle of a high-profile Medicaid case. The Trump administration has already made eliminating fraud a top priority, including through the One Big Beautiful Bill […]
Following a weekend of violent anti-ICE protests in Portland and Chicago, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shared a message to federal law enforcement officials.
President Trump on Monday did not rule out a pardon for Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, saying he'd look at the case after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of her sentence.
Zohran Mamdani's insurgent campaign for New York City mayor is casting a spotlight on a rising faction within the Democratic Party and beyond -- one that rejects unconditional support for the Israeli government and is more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians.
Five years ago, Bari Weiss resigned from The New York Times, citing what she described as the newspaper's "woke" cancel culture, and started The Free Press, a media outlet known for defending free speech and challenging the sacred cows of the progressive left.
On his first visit to Virginia since returning to the White House, President Trump notably sidestepped the state's closely watched gubernatorial showdown between Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic nominee Abigail Spanberger.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an order Monday creating what he called "ICE-free zones" in his city, where federal agents are forbidden from staging to carry out immigration arrests.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday called the opinion of the judge who blocked President Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland "untethered in reality."
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear arguments in Missouri's effort to declare itself a "gun sanctuary" where federal firearms restrictions do not apply. That was one of dozens of cases the high court refused to add to its docket on the first day of its new term.
Illinois filed a lawsuit Monday to try to head off President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to quell anti-ICE protests near Chicago, saying he's using a "flimsy" pretext to militarize law enforcement.
