Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said President Donald Trump would set the conditions regarding Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to “take him down.” Tensions with Venezuela have reached new heights over the past several weeks, with the United States conducting lethal strikes on boats the U.S. says were trafficking drugs from Venezuela in the Carribbean and rhetoric […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) urged President Donald Trump to drop his nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel after inflammatory remarks he allegedly made in a group chat were leaked to the press. Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, Paul Ingrassia, was accused of making several provocative remarks in […]
Police said they arrested a man with an AR-15 and ammunition who threatened to carry out a shooting at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. On Monday, police announced they had arrested Billy Cagle, 49, after a tip from his family that he threatened to go to the world’s busiest airport and “shoot it up.” Cagle was […]
Former FBI Director James Comey asked a federal judge on Monday to throw out his criminal case, arguing that his indictment was illegally motivated by President Donald Trump’s public demands for revenge and carried out by a prosecutor who was never lawfully appointed. In a 51-page motion to dismiss, Comey’s lawyers said a Sept. 20 […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Monday that it was time for House Republicans to reconvene and pass a new “clean” short-term funding bill amid the lack of progress toward ending the government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has kept his members out of session since passing a stopgap measure in September to fund […]
Construction crews tore down the outside wall of the East Wing of the White House on Monday to build President Donald Trump’s desired ballroom. Trump announced one of his most ambitious construction projects of his second term in late July — a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, slated to cost roughly $200 million, though none of it will come […]
A coalition of 14 Republican-led states on Monday urged the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to adopt new federal rules requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, marking the latest front in the GOP’s nationwide election integrity campaign. The multistate effort, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, backs a petition from America First Legal, […]
A panel of federal appeals court judges pressed the Trump administration on Monday over its creative use of appointment powers to keep Alina Habba in place as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a test case that could reshape how presidents install top prosecutors without Senate confirmation. During more than an hour of arguments before the […]
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced the names of two adult suspects charged with assaulting Edward Coristine, the former Department of Government Efficiency employee nicknamed “Big Balls.” Pirro named 19-year-old Laurence Cotton-Powell and 18-year-old Anthony Taylor as two of the alleged suspects in the August attack in a press conference Monday afternoon. […]
President Donald Trump’s strategy in his negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin is frustrating European allies after he has once again flipped his perspective on the Ukraine war and set up yet another series of meetings to broker peace. Trump declared Monday that his previous statement speculating that Ukraine could win back all of its […]
