Kansas Republicans and cattle industry organizations have second-guessed and criticized the Trump administration following a recent flurry of arrests targeting illegal immigrants at cattle processing facilities in the state. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), who is up for reelection in November, called out U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for not giving advance notice to local police […]
A Venezuelan man who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop in Texas is facing a federal charge of assaulting, resisting, interfering with, or impeding a federal officer, according to the Justice Department. Wilber Rafael Garces-Perez, 28, was shot by an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer on Sept. […]
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says former special counsel Jack Smith obtained checks from at least 4,782 Americans as part of his “Arctic Frost” investigation, giving the Biden administration access to these individuals’ bank accounts and routing numbers. Grassley grilled Smith about the collection of these checks and the privacy consequences of those […]
Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney is shifting his argument about whether she killed her three children, telling a judge Tuesday that prosecutors have not presented enough evidence to prove that she was responsible for their deaths. The argument marked a notable change from Clancy’s first trial, in which her defense did not dispute that she killed […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a cryptic video on Tuesday warning of an “attack” planned before the national election, raising questions and accusations from his political rivals. The video, shot on the premises of Tel Nof Air Force Base, featured the premier speaking directly into the camera as he warned Israel’s “enemies” not to […]
Washington Examiner executive editor Bob Cusack said Republicans are in a challenging position on how to navigate President Donald Trump’s negative public perception. “Trump is putting these Republicans in a rough spot,” Cusack said Monday on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper. “Do they appear with him or not? They need his base, but yet […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with representatives from nine Middle Eastern and North African countries during a secret visit to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, last week, according to Israeli media. The Sunday meeting itself was confirmed by Israel and the UAE, but few details were given outside of the relaying of discussions of […]
Sen. Eric Schmitt’s (R-MO) effort to place former special counsel Jack Smith in Atlanta amid the Fani Willis controversy hit a snag on Tuesday when Smith said the basketball game he remembered attending featured Caitlin Clark in Maryland, not a supposed NBA game in the Peach State. The exchange during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s under-oath […]
A witness to Charlie Kirk’s assassination sued podcaster Candace Owens on Monday for suggesting he was involved in the Utah killing. Washington State native Robert Hild became “a target for verbal attack” and death threats by Owens’s followers over her conspiracy theories about the Turning Point USA founder’s September 2025 death, his lawyers said in […]
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