A federal appeals court rejected Rep. LaMonica McIver’s claim that congressional status shielded her from criminal prosecution. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that McIver, a New Jersey Democrat, must face trial on assault charges stemming from a confrontation at an ICE detention facility in Newark last May. The three-judge panel declined …
Lindsay Clancy’s jury asked to examine pill bottles and a bloody knife Friday morning. The request came as deliberations stretched into a second day in her Massachusetts murder trial. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington confirmed to the Daily Mail that jurors wanted to review two bags of pill bottles recovered by police and Clancy’s ex-husband, Patrick, …
Iranian hardliners have placed a $10 million bounty on Barron Trump’s head. The 20-year-old son of President Donald Trump is now living inside what insiders describe as a tight security bubble, rarely leaving and staying largely out of public view. One longtime figure in Trump’s orbit told The New York Post bluntly: “He doesn’t go …
A sitting Michigan Democratic state representative is actively campaigning for the Republican Senate nominee. Rep. Karen Whitsett of Detroit crossed party lines to appear publicly with Republican Mike Rogers as he launched a coalition aimed at recruiting Democrats who feel alienated by progressive nominee Abdul El-Sayed. The event, called “Democrats for Rogers,” was held in …
Kathy Hochul cannot break 50% support among likely New York voters, and her lead is shrinking fast. A new Siena Research Institute poll found the Democratic governor leading Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman by just ten points, 49% to 39%. That sounds comfortable until you compare it to June, when Hochul led Blakeman by twenty points …
American forces have cleared Iranian sea mines from the Strait of Hormuz’s international shipping lanes. That announcement came Thursday from Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, who posted a video to X confirming one of the more significant military developments in the ongoing standoff with Iran. “Internationally recognized transit routes in the strait …
The Supreme Court just handed Donald Trump a major win on mail-in voting, and Democratic governors lost it. The justices on Monday lifted a lower-court order that had blocked Trump’s administration from moving forward with key parts of his executive order on mail-in voting. The ruling does not settle whether the order is constitutional. But …
Four corporations control most U.S. beef processing, and Trump wants to end that. President Trump announced Friday he is directing legal documents to be drawn up that would give American farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food. The move targets what Trump called a “powerful monopoly” with significant foreign ownership that has …
A Mexican national in the country illegally was arrested Wednesday on felony battery charges after attacking ICE agents in Fort Myers, Florida. Maria Negrete Raya now faces a felony charge for battery on a law enforcement officer. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office launched the investigation and made the arrest. Her mug shot has been …
CNN aired a photo of a Las Vegas tribute performer instead of Dolly Parton during her death coverage. The network broadcast the image roughly 12 hours after Parton died on Tuesday, during the program “Laura Coates Live.” The woman shown on screen was Kelly Vohnn, a 58-year-old singer who has built a career performing as …
Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime for over four decades, has died at 85. Cullen passed away Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, according to his agent Kevin Motley, who informed The Hollywood Reporter. His family confirmed he died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, and remembered by friends and fans around the world. In …
Kacey Musgraves asked concertgoers to donate to an immigrant children’s charity and called the deportations “unfair.” The eight-time Grammy winner made the appeal on Friday during the opening night of her “Middle of Nowhere” tour at the United Center in Chicago. It also happened to be her 38th birthday. She told the crowd she wanted …
An illegal alien with a standing deportation order was living freely in Virginia when two high schoolers nearly died from his fentanyl pills. Loudoun County deputies arrested 31-year-old Isaac Melendez-Carranza on August 20th after investigating a pair of suspected fentanyl overdoses at Park View High School. Both students survived because Narcan was administered in time. …
An Italian tech collective just became a federally designated global terrorist organization over its ties to Antifa. The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the State Department has designated Autistici/Inventati, also known as the A/I Collective, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224. The move brings federal sanctions law directly to bear on …
Trump told the world exactly why Ralph Norman lost: he endorsed Nikki Haley. Norman, a South Carolina congressman, fell to Trump-backed candidate Darline Graham in the state’s Republican Senate runoff on Tuesday by roughly 52.5% to 47.5%. He used his concession speech to question why Trump got involved in a Republican-versus-Republican race in a deeply …
King Harald V of Norway died Friday after 35 years on the throne, ending Europe’s longest-reigning monarchy. The Royal House of Norway confirmed that Harald passed away peacefully at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet at 6:35 a.m. His son Haakon immediately ascended the throne as King Haakon VIII. Harald was 89. He is survived by his …
Iran is publicly begging the world to defy American sanctions as Trump tightens the economic grip on Tehran. The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a formal plea Friday, calling on “all countries” to refuse enforcement of Washington’s latest sanctions push. Compliance, Tehran warned, would amount to “complicity” in imposing the “illegal will” of the United States …
Karoline Leavitt left the White House Press Secretary job at just 28 years old, making her final appearance on morning television. Her last day looked a lot like every other day she spent in that role. She was direct, composed, and fully on offense heading out the door. Her parting shot at Democrats was blunt: …
Kamala Harris, who spent $1.4 billion losing every swing state, says Trump is rigging the midterms. Harris posted a video Thursday accusing Trump of trying to cheat in the upcoming November midterms. The specific policy she targeted: a requirement that states tell the Postal Service which voters should receive federal mail-in ballots, so each envelope …
Kacey Musgraves drew boycott calls after using a Chicago concert to solicit donations for migrant children. The eight-time Grammy winner opened her “Middle of Nowhere” tour at the United Center in Chicago, where she turned part of the show into a fundraising appeal. The concert also happened to fall on her 38th birthday. Musgraves asked …
Trump publicly called for a boycott of Bruce Springsteen’s concerts after the rocker attacked him from the stage. The feud went public after Springsteen opened his 20-date “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour” on March 31 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. He had already signaled the tour would be political. He delivered on …
A sitting Massachusetts state lawmaker was arrested by the FBI on federal pandemic relief fraud charges Wednesday. Francisco E. Paulino, 46, a Democrat representing the 16th Essex District in the Massachusetts state legislature, was taken into federal custody following a grand jury indictment filed August 25 in U.S. District Court in Boston. The 24-page indictment …
A Senate desk gave way under Elizabeth Warren, sending her crashing to the chamber floor. The incident happened during a late-night Senate session and was captured on camera inside the chamber. Warren was standing near one of the Senate desks when she leaned back against it, expecting it to hold. It didn’t. Video from inside …
A Franklin County court tried to tell federal immigration agents where they can make arrests. Now the DOJ is suing. The Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus, Ohio issued a rule last week barring ICE agents from making arrests at or near the courthouse without a judicial warrant. The problem is straightforward: no municipal court …
The Trump administration has paused immigrant visa processing at every U.S. embassy and consulate on the planet. The State Department halted all immigrant visa interviews and processing while it retrained consular officers on how to properly evaluate public-charge risk. Applicants who already had scheduled interviews received cancellation notices. The pause is administrative in nature, relying …
A pedestrian was struck and killed on Interstate 26 in South Carolina near the Buckcherry tour bus crash. The incident unfolded early Friday morning in Spartanburg County, and it was not a single event. According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, what happened that night broke down into three separate but connected crashes along the …
Virginia’s attorney general opened a civil rights investigation into a county sheriff who cooperated with federal immigration agents. Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones sent a letter dated August 5th to Greene County Sheriff Steven Smith, informing him that his office’s traffic stops are under formal scrutiny. The investigation stems from a June 23rd operation in …