A House Ethics Committee investigation found Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) acted “inconsistent with House Rules, laws, and other standards of conduct” in relation to her 2021 Met Gala appearance and asked her to pay more than $2,700. In a report released Friday, the committee determined that there was no evidence Ocasio-Cortez intentionally underpaid for “any […]
An Arizona woman has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison for participating in a fraud scheme that helped give remote jobs to North Korean information technology specialists at over 300 companies in the United States, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. The alleged scheme generated more than $17 million in revenue for the […]
President Donald Trump suggested that he could send out rebate checks to U.S. citizens, directly distributing revenue raised from tariffs. When asked if he would consider tariff rebate checks, Trump said he was “thinking about that, actually.” “We have so much money coming in, we’re thinking about a little rebate, but the big thing we […]
The dust has not settled since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, but House Republicans have already launched an initiative to plan for a second reconciliation bill. The Republican Study Committee announced Friday the creation of its Reconciliation 2.0 Working Group, which will lead the committee’s efforts to […]
Three of Europe’s most powerful countries are holding a phone call to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip after the leader of France declared his nation will recognize a sovereign Palestinian state. French President Emmanuel Macron is speaking with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday, ostensibly to discuss […]
President Donald Trump said Friday he “knows nothing about” the new South Park episode that poked fun at his administration and portrayed Trump sharing a bed with the devil. “I don’t know anything about South Park,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. “I’ve never watched South Park.” In South Park’s season premiere, the townspeople were upset […]
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King suspended his Senate campaign on Thursday as the state’s Republican governor looks to another candidate to fulfill the GOP’s hopes of ousting Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA). The race to secure the GOP’s primary nomination ahead of the 2026 Senate election is shaping up to become a volatile free-for-all that could […]
The Trump administration has begun flying out and deporting illegal immigrants from the state-run immigrant detention site in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” according to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). “I’m pleased to report that those flights out of Alligator Alcatraz by [the Department of Homeland Security] have begun. The cadence is increasing. We’ve already […]
The Democratic National Committee, starting Friday, is launching a new digital ad campaign targeting online right-wing audiences with the demand that Congress release the Epstein files. Two ads will run before videos on right-wing YouTube and Meta accounts such as those belonging to Fox News and conservative commentators, Axios first reported. The ads will run […]
President Donald Trump danced around questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case Friday morning, including whether he would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell for cooperating with Justice Department officials. Maxwell, Epstein’s former lover and collaborator, is currently five years into a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the disgraced financier’s crimes. However, she sat for an interview […]
