Michelle Obama called her daughters leaving for college their “emancipation,” her own word. The moment came during a recent podcast episode featuring Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart as her guest. When Stewart asked whether she missed having her kids around, he offered her an easy opening: “You obviously miss the energy and excitement of the kids …
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was spotted wearing a mask at a Washington, D.C. airport on Friday. The sighting drew immediate attention, coming six years after the pandemic began, four years after the last Democrat-imposed mandates ended, and two years after the last major COVID outbreak faded from public consciousness. As originally reported, Jackson, …
Iceland has voted against reopening European Union membership negotiations, with 52.84 percent opposed. Saturday’s referendum asked voters a direct question: should Iceland restart EU accession talks that have been on ice for over a decade? The answer was no, and it wasn’t especially close. Final results showed 118,040 votes against resuming negotiations and 105,339 in …
Michelle Obama told podcast listeners she does not miss her daughters now that they have left home. The former first lady made the comment during a recent episode of her podcast, IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson. Her guest was longtime Daily Show host Jon Stewart, and her brother Craig Robinson was also part …
Marco Rubio’s State Department revoked the visa of a woman Biden once honored as courageous. Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi, a former Iraqi finance minister, received the State Department’s International Women of Courage Award in 2022. Four years later, she is banned from entering the United States. Her visa was pulled after the FBI placed …
Alan Ritchson’s new film Motor City earned just $2.94 million worldwide against a $30 million budget. The Reacher star has been vocal in his criticism of Trump supporters, and conservatives have responded by staying away from his work. Motor City is the latest, and most expensive, consequence of that divide. The film is a revenge …
Pete Hegseth says NBC News published a flat-out lie about his political ambitions. The Defense Secretary fired back Friday after NBC reported he had been privately discussing a potential 2028 presidential run with friends and associates. Hegseth did not mince words. “100% false,” he wrote, adding that his only focus was leading the War Department …
Scott Jennings got a CNN anchor to admit he was right, live on air. The conservative commentator took on an entire panel of CNN cohosts who were, effectively, arguing that the Biden-era inflation crisis never happened. The exchange turned into one of the more striking moments of live cable news in recent memory. It started …
Dolly Parton died on August 25, and Tennessee is already moving to rename an airport in her honor. Gov. Bill Lee’s office announced Friday that it is actively working with Nashville International Airport on a proposal to rename the facility, known as BNA, after the country music legend. The move would create a permanent tribute …
Canada’s public broadcaster told its own journalists not to call the September 11 attacks terrorism. CBC circulated an internal memo ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks instructing reporters and editors to avoid describing those attacks as terrorist attacks in their own voice. The guidance was first reported by Toronto Sun columnist Warren …
A Michigan Democratic Senate candidate got into a heated on-air argument with Fox News host Jesse Watters over immigration enforcement. Abdul El-Sayed faced off with Watters on the Fox primetime program, with the two clashing over abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the war effort in Iran, and several other charged cultural topics. Watters opened the …
Carnival Cruise Line issued 24 lifetime bans after a mass brawl, including one against a 9-year-old child. The incident unfolded in April 2026 following a 7-day Western Caribbean cruise aboard the Carnival Jubilee. Passengers had just disembarked at a terminal in Galveston, Texas, when the chaos broke out. A separate but related incident also occurred …
Iowa Democratic candidates laughed when asked if they want Kamala Harris to campaign for them. That was the scene at the Iowa State Fair earlier this month, when Politico’s Jonathan Martin asked two Democratic candidates the same straightforward question. The answers came fast, and they did not require much thought. Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand …
Google Maps is showing “Lake America” where “Lake Ontario” used to appear for users inside the United States. The change went live this week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Great Lake, a move tied to the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada. Google confirmed the update in a …
Michigan’s attorney general says she does not feel safe attending her own party’s convention. Dana Nessel, a Democrat who has served as Michigan’s attorney general since 2019, announced she will not attend the Michigan Democratic Party’s nominating convention this Saturday. Nessel is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to the post she has held for six …
Hundreds of New York City daycares still have no funding, and the program launches in twelve days. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s universal childcare program for 2-year-olds is set to begin September 10. With less than two weeks to go, hundreds of providers across the city have not received the money they need to buy classroom furniture, …
Michigan’s Jewish Attorney General says her own party has a serious antisemitism problem. Dana Nessel has served as Michigan’s Attorney General since 2019. She is the state’s first Jewish AG, and she is a Democrat. Now she is saying publicly what her party’s leadership has avoided for months. I began to perceive an enormous amount …
A nuclear-powered spacecraft bound for Mars will launch in 2028, Trump announced Friday. The president made the announcement during a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He also signed an executive order to create a U.S. Space Academy and presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the four-member crew of the …
A prominent Iowa Democrat told Politico that Kamala Harris should not run for president again in 2028. Rob Sand, the Iowa Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nominee, made the remarks in an interview with Politico. Sand has served as Iowa’s state auditor since 2019 and is working to position himself as a moderate candidate in a state …
Federal immigration agents have launched active deportation operations in Springfield, Ohio, targeting an area home to thousands of Haitian migrants. ICE moved into the city with reported activity at an apartment complex known to house Haitian families. Local reports indicate agents have already detained dozens of people in and around Springfield. The timing is directly …
Arizona State University gave illegal immigrants $10.5 million in tuition discounts in a single year. That figure comes from a new Department of Justice lawsuit, one of four filed Friday targeting states that grant in-state tuition rates to people who entered the country illegally. The total number of states now facing federal litigation stands at …
A top Democratic strategist is warning that Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is failing to build support among Black voters. Ashley Etienne, former communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris, made the warning during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Kristen Welker. Her message was direct: without strong Black voter turnout, Democrats …
A total of 14.3 million people enrolled in ACA programs in 2024 were ineligible. That single finding sits at the center of a new Paragon Health Institute analysis, and the price tag attached to it is staggering. Improper enrollment across both the Affordable Care Act exchanges and Medicaid expansion cost the federal government $65 billion …
California’s online voter registration portal lets anyone register to vote with no driver’s license, no state ID, and no Social Security number. That is not a loophole someone discovered. It is a built-in checkbox on the state’s public-facing registration system, available right now, with 64 days remaining before the November midterms. PJ Media reporter Catherine …
Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon has publicly called ICE agents “kidnappers” and “THUGS.” Nixon, a Florida state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is challenging incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL). Abolishing ICE is the centerpiece of her immigration platform, and her attacks on the agency have grown increasingly sharp. On social …
Carnival Cruise Line permanently banned 16 passengers after a brawl erupted at a Miami customs terminal. The fight broke out around 8 a.m. on Monday, June 22nd, as passengers from the Carnival Conquest waited to clear customs at PortMiami. The ship had just returned from a three-night trip to the Bahamas, which included a stop …
Three Secret Service communications officials have been escorted out of agency headquarters and placed on administrative leave. Anthony Guglielmi, the agency’s chief spokesman, was among those removed from the building in Washington, D.C. All three worked in the communications office and held no law enforcement roles. The suspended officials also had their security clearances revoked …