House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), who has been missing from the lower chamber since early March due to his health, will be “back to 100% very soon.” Kean, the second-term congressman who represents northwest New Jersey, has not voted on the House floor since March 5 and has missed […]
House Republicans are escalating their response to activist-led jury nullification efforts, with Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) rolling out new legislation and advancing an appropriations directive aimed at shutting down training programs that encourage jurors to disregard evidence and the law to send a political message. Letlow on Thursday introduced the “No Rogue Jurors Act,” which […]
EXCLUSIVE — Michael Boes, Steak ’n Shake’s first “chief MAHA officer,” said he’s improving taste and going back to “what fast food was when our parents grew up” in his new role for the chain. Steak ’n Shake tapped Boes for the role on Tuesday. He previously worked in the Department of Health and Human […]
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison remains under scrutiny for his past interaction with individuals tied to the Feeding Our Future scheme, a sprawling pandemic-era scam that stole more than $250 million in federal child nutrition funds. Members of the GOP-led Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee continued to examine Ellison’s entanglement […]
China on Friday agreed to send two giant pandas to the United States in a renewed display of “panda diplomacy,” a move that comes weeks before a planned summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The announcement comes less than a month before Trump is expected to travel to Beijing for high-level […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mass round-ups of illegal immigrant workers at job sites have not made headlines for months, and immigration groups who want President Donald Trump to do more blame Republicans’ ties to Big Business for the hold-up on enforcement. Trump promised to carry out the “largest-ever” deportation operation in history, while simultaneously […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Friday that President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff are headed to Islamabad, Pakistan, for a second round of peace talks to end the Iran war. Vice President JD Vance, who led the U.S. delegation during the first round of talks, will not […]
The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death penalty, including new execution methods and efforts to speed up capital cases. The department directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to broaden its execution protocols to include additional methods beyond lethal injection, such as […]
Allies of the United States are responding to an internal Pentagon email that allegedly floated several ideas for punishing uncooperative members of NATO. Top Pentagon policy adviser Elbridge Colby allegedly wrote in an email that compliance with U.S. requests to access foreign bases is “just the absolute baseline for NATO” — a standard that multiple […]
Washington Examiner Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon said Europeans are not surprised by the latest record-high number of immigrants residing in the European Union, but it does “shock” them. “They don’t surprise because Europeans have felt that their governments and essentially the power establishments have been ignoring their concerns about this for years,” Gurdon said on […]
