Spencer Pratt, Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate, blasted the city’s current mayor, Karen Bass, for her response to the city’s January 2025 wildfires in the candidates’ first debate on Wednesday. “I blame this person for burning my house and my parents’ house and my town and all my neighbors’ town,” Pratt said, referring to Bass. […]
President Donald Trump and his White House are pushing South Carolina lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts, according to a local report. The White House outreach comes as Trump is riding high following back-to-back wins over the last week, first from the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais and the second in […]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) publicly revealed for the first time on Wednesday that she has had an “extremely common” medical condition, called a benign essential tremor, for decades. “What I have is an extremely common condition that is called a benign essential tremor. I have had it for the entire time that I have served […]
A federal judge in New York has released a suspected suicide note purportedly authored by convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The note was allegedly found by Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein’s cellmate, and unsealed in his case by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas in the Southern District of New York. Tartaglione told the New York Times […]
Former President Barack Obama‘s presidential center is set to open to the public this Juneteenth, with ticket sales sold out through July 4, as the namesake looks toward defining his legacy as the 44th U.S. president. The 19.3-acre campus is a community-based center in Chicago‘s Jackson Park neighborhood. Barack Obama and Michelle Obama sought to […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) mocked TV host Stephen Colbert and former President Barack Obama on Wednesday for “fawning all over each other” in the duo’s interview this week. “I also got a kick out of Mr. Colbert. He and President Obama are obviously best buds. Maybe they ought to get a motel room or something. […]
A federal appeals court grilled the Department of Justice on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s bid to allow immigration officers to enter places of worship in certain circumstances, expressing concern over the effects on religious liberty that the policy may have. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit grilled […]
The Justice Department on Wednesday opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano over allegations his office gave preferential treatment to illegal immigrants in criminal cases, intensifying scrutiny of one of Virginia’s most prominent progressive prosecutors. In a letter sent Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is […]
Israel launched airstrikes on Beirut for the first time since agreeing to the ceasefire with Lebanon in mid-April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the airstrikes in a joint statement on Wednesday, saying they targeted a senior Hezbollah official whose force had launched rockets at Israeli communities and targeted […]
Secretary of State Marco is headed on a less-than-relaxing Roman holiday as he tries to smooth over a White House squabble with the Holy See that has not played well with the American public. The secretary of state will be the highest-ranking U.S. official to meet with Pope Leo XIV since he became a target […]