Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is challenging President Trump to follow up his executive order to rename the Defense Department the "War Department" with a bigger increase in the Pentagon’s budget to deter threats from China, Russia and other adversaries. “If we call it the Department of War,...
A federal judge on Friday blocked Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem from ending temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled that Noem’s efforts to revoke the Biden administration’s extensions of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) were arbitrary and capricious and exceeded her authority, so they...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Friday he is staying in the race for another term amid reports he might be offered a job in the Trump administration. Speculation reached its peak Friday throughout the day that Adams would end his campaign after The New York Times reported President Trump’s advisers have been floating...
President Trump on Friday denied knowing about a Navy SEAL mission in North Korea in 2018 during his first term, following The New York Times reporting on the botched operation. Trump was asked if the administration has engaged with North Korea since it happened and responded, “I don’t know anything about it, no. I’d have...
Former Obama administration adviser and CNN political commentator Van Jones on Thursday slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for “making America sicker again” by encouraging the dismantling of vaccine requirements. Prior to his Senate confirmation, Kennedy launched the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda in an effort to weed out chronic...
A trial over President Trump’s attempted assassination as he golfed in south Florida last year is set to begin Monday, where the man accused of plotting the political hit is expected to defend his own case. Ryan Routh, the defendant, faces five criminal charges including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate. If convicted, he...
President Trump on Friday signed an order to formally change the Department of Defense to the Department of War, framing the rebrand as a signal of American strength and suggesting previous drawn out wars under the old moniker were the result of political correctness. Trump signed an executive order that authorizes the name change for...
A major immigration raid led to 475 people arrested at the Hyundai facility construction site that Biden previously promoted as a manufacturing win for America.
Georgia joins seven other states sending National Guard troops to Washington D.C. as part of Trump administration's mission to restore order in the capital.
Virginia Republicans accuse Democrats of playing politics after blocking 14 more of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s university board picks, bringing the total to 22.