POLICE UNION CHAIRMAN BLAMES DC CRIME PROBLEM ON ‘BAD LEGISLATION’ FROM CITY COUNCIL White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is briefing the press at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. President Donald Trump recently announced he would federalize the Washington, D.C., police to crack down on crime in the district.
The top Senate Republican super PAC projected it will cost tens of millions of dollars to defend incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) as numerous polls show he is trailing Attorney General Ken Paxton in the 2026 Senate primary. The Senate Leadership Fund gave a presentation last week, according to Punchbowl News, and urged donors to […]
The Department of State is designating a Pakistani militia responsible for a series of public attacks as a terrorist group, less than two weeks after signing a trade deal with the national government. The Balochistan Liberation Army, which operates a militarized wing under the alias “The Majeed Brigade,” was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) chose Republican state Sen. Jay Collins to be the state’s next lieutenant governor, ending a six-month absence. Former Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez left the role in February to assume the position of interim president of Florida International University. “What I was looking for is someone that can be lieutenant governor that […]
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said Tuesday he got “really lucky” that he only broke one rib from a horse kick last month, and the injury could have been much worse. Burchett said on X that he was kicked by a horse on July 27, calling his rib “collateral damage” from the animal resisting a nearby […]
The Justice Department on Tuesday accused George Washington University of showing “deliberate indifference” toward antisemitism and harassment of Jewish, American Israeli, and Israeli students and faculty, in violation of federal civil rights law. In a notice of findings sent to GWU President Ellen Granberg, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said the university failed to take meaningful action despite receiving multiple complaints […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been inundated with applications in the two weeks since it launched a major recruitment campaign. The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday morning that ICE has received 100,000 applications in less than 15 days from “patriotic Americans who want to help remove murderers, gang members, pedophiles, and terrorists” from the […]
Two juveniles charged in the attack of former Department of Government Efficiency staffer Edward Coristine will be held in custody at the District of Columbia’s Youth Services Center after a request to move them was denied. Judge Kendra Davis Briggs, a Biden-nominated associate judge for the D.C. Superior Court, denied the two Maryland juveniles’ requests […]
Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) is running for the Senate in 2026 to succeed outgoing Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). Moore announced Tuesday that he is running because Alabamians “deserve a Trump conservative,” touting his being the first elected official to endorse President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, when Moore was an Alabama state representative. “I […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is weighing a lawsuit against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for allowing the central bank’s renovation to go over budget. Estimated to cost $3.1 billion in total, the project went roughly $700 million over budget. Powell’s oversight of the pricey renovation has drawn Trump’s ire in recent weeks. […]
