New York may be complaining the loudest about the influx of illegal immigrants but new government data shows the migrants from the Biden border surge are reaching every corner of the country, straining communities' ability to accommodate them all.
A judge is planning a spring trial for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, who are accused of accepting bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey businessmen who sought the senator's help and influence over foreign affairs.
Ukraine had little reason to celebrate when U.S. lawmakers approved a spending bill Saturday that averted a widely expected government shutdown. The measure didn't include the $6 billion in military assistance that Ukraine said it urgently needed.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed on Monday both an energy bill and the legislature's annual regulatory reform measure, while allowing legislation directing more state government oversight of high school athletics to become law.
The Supreme Court batted away an appeal Monday from a man trying to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot and shot down a request from a Trump lawyer who wanted to erase a lower-court ruling that he had probably engaged in illegal activity surrounding his advice after the 2020 election.
The efforts of some on the Right to elevate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a sane and laudable Democrat may now be backfiring, an entirely predictable turn that most people could have seen coming.
If you were told that a prominent governor said that we need “a limit on who can come across the border” and that the border “is too open right now,” you would probably guess it was a Republican, such as Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX).
REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN'S BAD TROUBLE. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) is in his second term as a member of the House. His bio on X, formerly Twitter, notes that Bowman is a "life long educator" and a "former middle school principal" who sees his role as "causing good trouble." The phrase "good trouble," of course, comes from the late Rep. John Lewis, who described his civil rights activism in the 1960s, in which he was famously beaten and arrested, as causing "good trouble" — that is, making trouble for a good cause.
Underlining Vladimir Putin's hope of outlasting Western support for Ukraine, the Russian president's spokesman claimed on Monday that Western war "fatigue" is growing. Dmitry Peskov added, "This fatigue will lead to fragmentation of the political establishment."