FBI Director Kash Patel is facing growing criticism over his handling of a high-profile murder investigation after posting and later retracting a premature announcement about a suspect in custody for the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The backlash against Patel has been swift and multifaceted, from online critics questioning Patel’s retraction to reported frustrations among White House […]
Scandal-ridden former Republican North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn was arrested Wednesday after failing to appear in court for a traffic violation. The court date was related to a charge he received for driving while his license was suspended in Collier County, Florida. He was taken into custody and released within an hour on a $2,000 […]
Rep. Andy Barr‘s (R-KY) run for U.S. Senate is being hit with a $2 million negative advertising campaign at the hands of the Club For Growth, just as Barr released his first seven-figure TV ad spree of his own. The Republican primary to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate is heating up, and also […]
The Washington Examiner‘s Joe Concha said Thursday that he doubts the political temperature in the United States will go down, arguing that it didn’t happen after President Donald Trump narrowly avoided assassination attempts last year. Concha compared Charlie Kirk’s murder to former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, calling them both younger and “prominent” people in […]
The European Parliament refused to observe a minute of silence on Thursday after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, citing a procedural rule, provoking anger from the legislative body’s right-wing lawmakers. Charlie Weimers, a Swedish member of the European Parliament, made the request during Thursday’s plenary session in Strasbourg, France. “We must strongly condemn […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is at least 6 feet, four inches tall and, at age 63, technically only a few years from retirement age. But next to Art Laffer, the octogenarian free-market economist who clocks in at five-and-a-half feet, Bessent looks like a colossus. This, of course, is the joke that a dozen speakers in […]
Some House Republicans blamed the media for the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk despite leadership encouraging members of both parties to turn down the temperature due to the rise of political violence in the United States. Outside the Capitol on Thursday, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) accused reporters of being “complicit” in the assassination […]
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday ruled the state’s decades-long ban on openly carrying weapons in public violates constitutional rights, sparking celebration from conservatives. The First District Court of Appeal of Florida issued a decision striking down the state’s 1987 ban on the open carrying of firearms, writing that it infringes on Second Amendment rights. Offenders […]
A court upheld a New Jersey law Wednesday that bans the carrying of guns in “sensitive places,” including hospitals, schools, polling locations, and casinos. The ruling comes as many federal courts have maintained state laws that restrict where guns can be carried in public. The New Jersey law, which limits the public areas where someone […]
The FBI released a photo on Thursday of a person of interest in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The agency also offered a $100,000 reward for any “information leading to the identification and arrest” of the suspect. The X account of the FBI’s Salt Lake City office released two images of a man wearing dark […]
