Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) signed an executive order detailing how the Windy City will attempt to respond to President Trump’s potential deployment of the National Guard. Johnson’s executive order, which he signed on Saturday, established the “Protecting Chicago Initiative” to protect the constitutional rights of Chicago residents amid the “possibility of imminent militarized immigration...
GOP politicians backed by conservative media figures are seeking to turn the tables on “thoughts and prayers” after mass shootings, arguing that dismissing prayer minimizes the importance and comfort many find in religious faith at times of tragedy and crisis. The idea of offering “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting has been a point...
Kari Lake, President Trump’s top adviser to the U.S Agency for Global Media (USAGM), announced Friday night that 532 positions were nixed at USAGM and Voice of America. In a post on X, Lake said the layoffs were conducted at President Trump's direction "to help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service, and save the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressuring Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign after this week’s tumult at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that saw top officials depart after the agency director was ousted. Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)...
Social Security is broken and needs to be fixed with a transition plan to private accounts, which would provide higher retirement income, promote economic growth, and eliminate the government's massive unfunded liability.
President Donald Trump posted video evidence of Rose Garden damage after finding a 25-yard crack in limestone allegedly caused by a subcontractor's faulty equipment.
A federal judge tossed a California law intended to prevent fake political ads from influencing elections, finding that the measure violated the First Amendment in response to a legal challenge filed by internet personalities and the Babylon Bee.
It's a scene that has played out on the streets of Washington and Los Angeles since President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation's capital and ramped up deportations nationwide: Federal agents, some in masks, grabbing someone off the street, bundling the person into a car and driving away, ignoring questions from bystanders.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that if Russia-Ukraine peace talks don't get scheduled by President Trump's Labor Day deadline, Russian President Vladimir Putin "played" the U.S. commander in chief.