A top Virginia prosecutor resigned Friday after pressure from President Donald Trump to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud. Trump had said that he wanted U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert “out” of office earlier Friday because he was confirmed by Virginia’s two Democratic senators. “When I saw that he got two senators, two […]
President Donald Trump portrayed his visa reforms as an opportunity for foreign students to remain in the United States if a company is willing to pay. Trump on Friday took two executive actions, signing one presidential proclamation that increased the fee for H1-B visa applicants to $100,000 and an executive order creating the Gold Card […]
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger appeared confident that she would succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin (D-VA) as the next chief executive of the Old Dominion on the first day of early voting. At a campaign rally outside the Fairfax Government Center, Spanberger encouraged a group of supporters to cast their ballots […]
President Donald Trump’s first-term labor secretary, Alex Acosta, told congressional investigators on Friday that he never saw the then-businessman’s name appear in any records related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to a summary readout of his transcribed interview before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Acosta, who served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida when Epstein […]
The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence the man who tried to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a minimum of 30 years in prison, calling the plot a politically motivated and “disturbed” attempt to alter the makeup of the nation’s highest court. In a sentencing memorandum filed Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland cited […]
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to strip more than 300,000 Venezuelans living in the United States of temporary protected status, after a lower court issued a new order blocking the administration from ending the protections. Solicitor General D. John Sauer noted in the petition filed to the high […]
Sunday’s stadium-sized funeral for popular conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk is expected to be a reaffirmation of the Make America Great Again movement started by President Donald Trump and not a national unity event to reach out to critics, according to some close to Kirk’s group. Turning Point USA is expected to fill State Farm […]
(The Center Square) – A northeast Ohio county fair board removed the county’s Democratic Party booth from its fair for what the board called offensive buttons. According to reports, the removal came after a fairgoer posted the display to social media. By Friday morning, the fair board’s response had nearly 2,000 views and more than 1,000 […]
The Taliban says it will not entertain any efforts by the United States to reclaim its air base that was abandoned during the fall of Afghanistan. Responding to President Donald Trump’s assertion on Thursday that the U.S. is “trying to get [Bagram Air Base] back,” foreign ministry official Zakir Jalaly complimented the president but made […]
Senior employees of a firm under fire for allegedly working to facilitate the “capture of critical standards organizations to advance Beijing’s vision for authoritarian internet control” have histories of making donations to prominent Democrats. On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of legislators sent a letter to Futurewei vice president Jason Chao demanding answers following a slew […]
