A federal judge lifted his block on ending temporary protected status for immigrants from Ethiopia on Tuesday, meaning all of the Trump administration’s orders terminating TPS for various countries are now allowed to go into effect after the Supreme Court gave the green light earlier this summer. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of […]
A former senior staffer for outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has joined Democratic Texas state Sen. James Talarico’s U.S. Senate campaign in an unexpected cross-party move. Jacob Smith previously served as Cornyn’s deputy legislative director and policy adviser for five years. But now he is working for Talarico’s campaign as deputy policy director. “I’ve worked […]
Sammy “The Bull” Gravano revealed why he turned on John Gotti in a new interview with Sean Hannity. “I said, ‘F*** the Mafia, f*** the oath, and f*** John Gotti. I’m switching sides,’” Gravano said. Gravano, Gotti’s former underboss, discussed the hit against Paul “Big Paul” Castellano, the Mafia’s blood oath, his prison years, and […]
Two Democratic sheriffs in Georgia crossed party lines to endorse Republican candidate Rick Jackson to be the Peach State’s next governor over Democratic candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms. Sheriffs Ashley Paulk of Lowndes County, a central county on the state’s border with Florida, and Craig Peavy of Dooly County, in the central southern part of the […]
A judge on Monday ordered the release of the woman accused of vandalizing the World War II Memorial on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall. Melissa Farris was arrested after appearing to livestream herself on Aug. 13 vandalizing the monument, sparking outcry from President Donald Trump and leading U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro […]
An accused killer’s escape from the country is renewing outrage toward leftist Virginia prosecutor Steve Descano’s reliance on insanity pleas in violent cases. Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda boarded a plane to Turkey in July after the Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney gave him an insanity plea agreement over a landlord’s 2019 killing, leading to loose restrictions requiring him […]
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is insisting that the conversations he had with a scammer impersonating a top White House official were of “zero consequence” and did not present a security concern despite a recent leak of multiple ministers’ phone numbers. Burnham messaged back and forth with a phone number claiming to be White House […]
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld limits on warrantless U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests at churches affiliated with a coalition of religious groups, ruling that the Trump administration’s policy likely violated a federal religious freedom law. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a February preliminary injunction issued last year by U.S. […]
The National Park Service submitted a proposal to transfer control of the D.C. Armory, the longtime hub of the D.C. National Guard, to the district’s government. Within the Interior Department, the federal agency is asking the National Capital Planning Commission to transfer “administrative jurisdiction” to Washington, D.C., while the U.S. government retains title to the […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving forward with a plan to provide liability insurance for state and local police who assist the federal agency with immigration enforcement, according to a new report. If successful, the move could ease the possible legal burden on nonfederal police and encourage more law enforcement departments to cooperate with […]
