A New Jersey judge dismissed the charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, harshly rebuking interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba over his arrest. U.S. Magistrate Judge André M. Espinosa dropped the charges against Baraka on Wednesday, following his May 9 arrest due to a scuffle between him and three House Democrats and law enforcement […]
Democrat Sam Sutton won a special election in New York for state Senate in a district President Donald Trump won by a vast margin in the 2024 election. Sutton defeated Republican Nachman Caller, an attorney who previously ran for state Assembly. He beat Caller 67.6% to 32.4%. Sutton’s win retains the seat for the Democrats. […]
Elon Musk appeared to cast an unfriendly gaze at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during President Donald Trump’s meeting with the foreign leader on Wednesday. The top adviser to Trump, who has grown less involved with the administration lately but showed up for Trump’s chat with Ramaphosa, stood behind a couch with Vice President JD […]
California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa accused former Vice President Kamala Harris, one of his possible competitors in the governor’s race, of being involved in a “systematic cover-up” to conceal former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline from the public eye. Villaraigosa is running for governor during the 2026 elections after spending decades building political capital […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is enjoying historically high recruiting, with agents happy the job is back to law enforcement after four years of “diaper” duty and “Uber” shuttling during former President Joe Biden’s opening of the border, according to a top official. Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, said Wednesday that the president’s […]
The No Tax on Tips Act was passed in the Senate on Tuesday after being co-sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV). The bipartisan bill was passed when Rosen brought the bill up for unanimous consent, or automatic approval as long as no member objected. […]
Romanian conservatives are pushing their nation’s highest court to overturn yet another presidential election due to foreign tampering. George Simion, the leader of the nation’s right-wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, is pressing the Constitutional Court to annul Budapest mayor Nicusor Dan’s election as president. “I officially ask Constitutional Court TO ANNUL [the May […]
Top Justice Department officials under President Donald Trump are rallying to the defense of Emil Bove, a senior DOJ political appointee and former attorney on the president’s criminal defense team, after Bove’s name was reportedly floated for nomination to a lifetime role on a federal appeals court. Bove, who worked alongside Todd Blanche in defending Trump […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed a bill Wednesday that would turn swatting attempts into “really serious offenses.” This is the second bill DeSantis has signed in Florida on swatting, or making false police reports to scare victims by sending law enforcement to their home. According to the governor, this second law will be “the strongest […]
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin consumers and businesses that rely on machine imports could face hurdles this year due to U.S. tariffs on China, despite a recent reduction in tariff rates between the countries. According to a new report by Wisconsin Policy Forum, Wisconsin residents bought $38.9 billion of imported goods in 2024, a third of which […]
