Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, telling him to “shut up” for suggesting that psychiatric drugs taken by children could be connected to school shootings, including the shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday. A gunman opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School, killing two children and injuring […]
South Carolina filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court this week requesting that the state be allowed to enforce its law requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to his or her biological sex. The emergency request came on Thursday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit blocked the state from enforcing […]
(The Center Square) – Plaintiffs challenging Cook County’s ban on semi-automatic firearms are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case. Filed in 2021, Viramontes v. Cook County challenges the county’s ordinance banning certain firearms. The lower courts sided with the county and against the plaintiffs. Second Amendment Foundation’s Alan Gottlieb said the case […]
About two-thirds of people think crime is a “major” problem in the United States, according to a poll, after President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., this month. A new Associated Press-NORC poll found that 66% of respondents categorized crime as a major problem nationwide, while 32% said it was a minor […]
President Donald Trump baffled Beverly Hills residents after saying the wealthy West Coast city is so crime-ridden that people leave their car doors and trunks unlocked to avoid having their windows or other parts of their vehicles damaged when thieves show up. Trump, who once owned a five-bedroom home in Beverly Hills that he sold in […]
The University of Pittsburgh Barco Law School is the latest college to experience an active shooter threat. “In conjunction with City of Pittsburgh Police, the University of Pittsburgh Police Department responded to a report on Thursday of a possible armed individual near the Barco Law Building that was determined to be unfounded. The University takes […]
Vice President JD Vance leaned into the Trump administration’s law-and-order message during a Wisconsin campaign stop Thursday, defending the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and leaving the door open to similar deployments in Milwaukee despite local pushback. Pressed by reporters about President Donald Trump’s new executive order creating a rapid-response force of […]
The deceased transgender shooter who opened fire on students and teachers at a Catholic church and school in Minneapolis on Wednesday “expressed hate” for nearly “every group imaginable,” said a federal prosecutor overseeing the investigation. Joseph Thompson, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, said on Thursday that 23-year-old Robin Westman, who was […]
The Department of Homeland Security posted on X to “pray without ceasing” on Thursday, one day after a mass shooting at Minneapolis Annunciation Church. Two children were reported dead after a shooter opened fire at the church while children were attending the opening school mass. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, slammed calls for prayer […]
President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum Thursday afternoon ordering an investigation into whether federal grant funding was being used to lobby the government. United States law prohibits any funds distributed through federal grants from being diverted to lobby government employees or lawmakers, but Trump wrote Thursday that “funding reviews by my Administration have revealed […]
