Kari Lake, a top Trump ally and senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, defended sweeping cuts to the taxpayer-funded news agency that serves nations with restricted press freedom during a tense Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday. In her first appearance before Congress, Lake defended her leadership and argued that USAGM should be downsized, […]
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Orange County, California, registrar of voters, accusing the local election office of concealing voter information about noncitizen residents who were unlawfully registered to vote. In a 10-page complaint filed in Santa Ana, DOJ attorneys alleged that Registrar Robert Page failed to turn over unredacted voter registration records as required […]
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador whose case has become a political flashpoint for deportation efforts by the Trump administration. However, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could soon make efforts to detain him and may move to deport him for a second time, […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) offered praise for Zohran Mamdani after his victory in the Democratic primary on Wednesday, highlighting the New York City mayoral candidate’s focus on affordability while avoiding direct engagement with his socialist platform. Speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Jeffries commended Mamdani’s campaign for effectively tapping into economic anxiety across the […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt joined members of the Trump administration in firmly rebuffing reports that Iran’s nuclear sites were not completely destroyed, citing information from the two countries involved in the conflict. The administration has been adamant that a report that the recent strikes against Iran only set the nuclear program back a […]
Curtis Sliwa, the GOP nominee for New York City mayor, blasted Democrat Andrew Cuomo’s failed primary campaign on WMAL’s O’Connor & Company, accusing the former governor of laziness and arrogance in the face of rising support for socialist Zohran Mamdani. “Andrew Cuomo mailed it in. He didn’t campaign. He felt he was entitled to a […]
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) underscored the danger that the United States faces after its recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear forces, a growing sentiment among congressional lawmakers. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called for “greater visibility” on the status of the country’s homeland security, saying briefings should not be postponed until Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth returns from […]
An illegal immigrant from Egypt accused of injuring 12 people in a Molotov cocktail attack on a Jewish group was indicted Wednesday on federal hate crime charges. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, attacked Run for Their Lives, a Jewish group looking to raise awareness for hostages held by Hamas, on June 1 in Boulder, Colorado. He […]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) in a fight with the state’s Republican legislature, resulting in a decision that restricts the governor’s veto powers. The court’s justices unanimously struck down Evers’s partial veto of a GOP bill that details $50 million in spending on reading literacy programs for K-12 […]
The House unanimously passed a resolution condemning the violence against Minnesota state lawmakers last week, after two lawmakers and their spouses were targeted and shot in what Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) called a “politically motivated” attack. The chamber adopted the resolution, with 424 members voting “yes,” on Wednesday evening. The resolution, led by Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN), […]
