Judge Brad Schimel, the conservative candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, is coming under fire from Democrats after rallying supporters to vote early in the high-stakes contest in an effort to prevent voting fraud. Schimel urged voters to “get our votes banked, make this too big to rig so we don’t have to worry that […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) a silver-plated pager, a reference to the coordinated attack Israel conducted against Hezbollah by booby-trapping pagers. The covert operation in September, which caused thousands of pagers in the possession of Hezbollah fighters to explode, led to the deaths of 30 people and injured 3,400 others. […]
An American tourist abducted by the Taliban while traveling in Afghanistan over two years ago is now free. The State Department announced Thursday that George Glezmann is being escorted back to U.S. soil after a deal was struck with the aid of Qatari mediators. “George’s release is a positive and constructive step. It is also […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday his intention to eliminate the Generally Recognized As Safe standards for most domestic products. “We’ve launched a review of the GRAS standards, and we’re going to get rid of the GRAS standards for most products,” Kennedy told Fox News. “The GRAS standards is a standard that was […]
The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher argued that the myriad of Tesla attacks have spotlighted the difference in leadership between billionaire Elon Musk and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), with the former able to do something the U.S. government could not. Walz, who was former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 running mate, took a victory lap […]
The Department of Justice is looking to empower a decades-old law to give criminals an avenue to purchase guns. The law allows the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to restore gun rights to some convicted criminals, but congressional spending bills beginning in 1992 prevent it from doing so, according to the New York […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) defended Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer‘s (D-NY) decision to rally votes for the spending resolution that kept the government open. Schumer, who struck a deal with Senate Republicans, canceled his book tour as he faces outrage from Democrats. In the Senate, 10 Democratic senators voted for the bill, likely under Schumer’s direction. In the […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a Georgetown University student who is here on a student visa while having ties to Hamas. Badar Khan Suri is the latest international student to be detained by ICE, as the Trump administration cracks down on providing visas for students who have expressed anti-Israel sentiment. Suri is from India and […]
A judge denied former board members from the U.S. Institute of Peace’s request for a restraining order against the Department of Government Efficiency but remained sympathetic. In a Thursday ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell rejected the request by several former USIP board members, saying there was “confusion in the complaint on a number […]
Rhetoric from President Donald Trump’s top aides and allies toward unfriendly judges has reached a peak, but the Department of Justice has so far maintained deference toward the courts in its filings and hearings. The DOJ issued its most aggressive legal pushback yet on Wednesday when it argued in a motion that Judge James Boasberg’s […]
