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House passes Trump-backed bill to raise penalties for illegal border crossers

The House has passed a Trump-endorsed Republican bill that significantly enhances the punishment for illegal immigrants who cross the border, particularly those who have previously been deported. House lawmakers on Thursday passed House Rule 3486, which would allow the Trump administration to impose harsher punishments on illegal immigrants. House Republican leadership had fast-tracked the bill since Reps. […]

Vance to fly with Charlie Kirk’s casket on Air Force Two with his family and friends

Vice President JD Vance will fly with the casket carrying Charlie Kirk‘s body on Air Force Two from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Phoenix, Arizona, later Thursday. Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, will also meet with Kirk’s family and close friends in Salt Lake City. They will then travel to Phoenix with […]

Charlie Kirk and Charlotte slayings ending political correctness

Years of looking the other way at Left on Right violence, excusing shootings by mentally disturbed transgender assailants, and shrugging off black on white crime may be ending with the assassinations of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk and Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska. Fed up with being victims and the political correctness that required silence, pollsters […]

Kash Patel faces public scrutiny over handling of Charlie Kirk assassination

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 […]

Former North Carolina representative arrested for failure to appear in court

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 […]

Andy Barr drops first TV ad campaign as he gets hit with $2 million negative ad spree

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 […]

Joe Concha says US will ‘go right back’ to same political discourse after Charlie Kirk’s death

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 […]

EU Parliament denies right-wing request for moment of silence for Charlie Kirk

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 […]

Scott Bessent knows how to throw a punch to keep the global economy afloat

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 […]

House Republicans blame media for Charlie Kirk’s death: ‘You are responsible for this’

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 […]
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