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FBI touts 6,000 arrests, 44% homicide drop one year into Trump’s DC crime crackdown

FBI Director Kash Patel says the Washington, D.C., crime crackdown yielded over 6,000 arrests and 1,300 illegal firearm seizures in one year.

Primary takeaways: Dems’ left-center battle intensifies as Schumer takes another hit; split decision for Trump

Democratic Senate Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer suffers a second straight primary setback as Peggy Flanagan wins Minnesota's Senate nomination by 20 points.

The far left hits a wall

After hot DSA summer comes the fall. Democratic socialist Francesca Hong’s stunning loss in...

Democrat establishment strikes back as socialist candidate downed in battleground primary

David Crowley defeated DSA member Francesca Hong in Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary, setting up a general election against Rep. Tom Tiffany.

Left wing of Democratic Party wins showdown Senate race in Minnesota

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan easily defeated Rep. Angie Craig in the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary, delivering another win for the insurgent, liberal wing of the Democratic Party.

The Federal Department of Time-Wasting Vendettas

Thank goodness we’ve ended all that politicization of the Department of Justice!

Burritogate

‘How do you think the economy is doing’ has turned into a proxy question of ‘how do you think the president’s doing?’

Court orders do-over on Biden’s gas stove rule

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Energy Department to take a do-over on President Biden's attempt to regulate gas stoves, saying the government botched the rollout by using an abbreviated process that only applies to uncontroversial policies.

Minnesota primary is latest Democratic proxy fight for Senate and a test for Trump-backed hopefuls

The factional fight gripping the Democratic Party moved to Minnesota on Tuesday, when voters are settling another moderate-versus-progressive U.S. Senate primary.

Trump secretly left Turkey on military jet; ruse involved smuggling president in catering truck

President Trump was secretly flown out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on a military jet instead of Air Force One, part of an elaborate ruse that included moving him in a catering container and making it appear as if he were on Air Force One due to a threat from Iran.

DNC to open summer meeting amid fundraising woes, socialist surge and calls for chair’s ouster

The Democratic National Committee will hold its summer meeting in Austin, Texas, this week amid a campaign cash crunch, a leadership dispute and a socialist insurgency fracturing the party.

WATCH: Does America still need a Surgeon General?

For more than a century, the office of the U.S. Surgeon General has evolved from its roots in the Marine Hospital Service into one of the nation's most recognizable voices on public health -- sounding the alarm on everything from smoking and AIDS to emerging health threats. But today, the future and influence of that office are being tested.

Trump grapples with cycle of violence, diplomacy and economic pressure as Iran war nears sixth month

President Trump predicted in March that his military "excursion" into Iran would last several weeks. Instead, he's been trapped in a doom loop of violence and negotiations for nearly half the year, hamstrung by an aversion to deploying U.S. ground troops and the tenacity of a regime that's been on a war footing for decades.

Flights to be halted for three hours at Reagan National during Freedom 250 Grand Prix

Flights out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will stop for three hours to keep the skies clear ahead of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

Peter Navarro blasts Jim Jordan for not doing more on Russia probe origins

White House adviser Peter Navarro blasted House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a longtime Trump ally, saying the lawmaker hasn't done enough to investigate the "weaponization" of the Justice Department against President Trump after he took office in 2017.

Trump warns of federal action against Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax

President Trump threatened to use the federal government to upend New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new pied-a-terre tax a day after a judge ordered an emergency pause of the new surcharge.

Appeals court revives DHS’ speedy deportation powers against Biden’s paroled migrants

A federal appeals court on Tuesday breathed new life into the Department of Homeland Security's plans to use a speedy deportation power on migrants who were paroled into the U.S., potentially giving the Trump administration a new tool to boot hundreds of thousands who were admitted by President Biden.

Trump directs CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz to end Medicaid gender transition funding for minors

Trump instructed CMS to end Medicaid funding for gender transition procedures, calling the surgeries "barbaric" in a Truth Social post.

Vulnerable Dem’s campaign pitch clashes with ‘radical’ voting record on top culture war issue

Sarah Trone Garriott's Iowa legislature votes on bathroom policy and girls' sports clash with her new campaign video opposing men in women's locker rooms.

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