Florida officials are in talks with the Trump administration about closing down “Alligator Alcatraz,” the cheeky term for a pop-up detention center for illegal immigrants in the Everglades, in the near future, the Washington Examiner has learned. “It is closing,” a former senior administration official with knowledge of the talks told the Washington Examiner on […]
President Donald Trump’s release of declassified UFO files on Friday drew excitement from longtime transparency advocates — and immediate skepticism from critics on both the Left and Right who argued the timing was meant to distract from the war in Iran, lingering questions surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case, and voter frustration over inflation. Trump signed […]
Public opinion polls in the United Kingdom proved accurate, as results from the recent blitz of local elections see outside parties dominating their mainstream rivals. The right-wing Reform U.K. woke up Friday to find itself the biggest winner of all in the 5,000 English council seat elections that went to a vote on Thursday. While […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said Democrats need to offer voters more than simply opposition to President Donald Trump. Fetterman, who has increasingly clashed with progressive members of his own party, said some Democratic candidates running in the midterm elections are “literally running on ‘f*** Trump,'” arguing the party needs a new path. “We have to […]
Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigned Friday amid mounting pressure from Republican state leaders and an escalating investigation into allegations of an affair with an attorney connected to a major redistricting lawsuit. Hagen submitted her resignation to Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT), ending her tenure on the state’s highest court less than four years after […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday said her goals are not confined to an office or position when asked about whether she plans to run for higher office, saying her “ambition is bigger than that.” Ocasio-Cortez, 36, made the remarks during a conversation with former Obama adviser David Axelrod at the University of Chicago’s Institute […]
Alabama officials filed a trio of petitions to the Supreme Court on Friday asking the justices to clear the way for the state to implement a redrawn congressional map ahead of the 2026 election. The three petitions from Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall asked the high court on its emergency docket to allow its 2023 […]
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened that he would up the ante on Project Freedom, the administration’s plan for the U.S. Navy to escort vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, if Iran does not agree to a ceasefire deal. The comments come one day after Iran and the United States exchanged fire in the strait […]
President Donald Trump on Friday said the culpability for a strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed over 100 school-aged children is still “under study.” The strike took place on the opening day of the war in Iran, Feb. 28, when a missile, identified in video by weapons experts as a U.S. Tomahawk, reportedly […]
A Utah judge denied a bid by Tyler Robinson’s lawyers on Friday to block cameras from the courtroom for his upcoming trial on murder charges for allegedly killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Judge Tony Graf denied Robinson’s request to bar cameras and microphones from the courtroom, rejecting arguments that allowing media access would harm Robinson’s right […]
