Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Department of Justice had opened an investigation into multiple acts of vandalism against Tesla dealerships, vehicles, and charging stations. For nearly two months, Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company has been targeted by violent demonstrators outraged over the work he is doing as leader of the Department of Government […]
A U.N. judge from Uganda was convicted by a British jury of forcing a woman to work as a slave. Lydia Mugambe, who was appointed as a U.N. judge of the mechanism in 2023, allegedly tricked another Ugandan woman to come to the United Kingdom and work for her as a maid and child care […]
A Finnish court found a Russian mercenary guilty on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, sentencing him to life in prison. Voislav Torden, a Russian citizen known as Yan Petrovsky, was found guilty on four of five charges related to the ambush, murder, and mutilation of Ukrainian soldiers and distributing denigrating photos […]
As House Republicans dodged holding town halls across the country in fear of Democrat-organized protests, Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) saw the consequences of not heeding House Speaker Mike Johnson’s advice to avoid holding them. Edwards said he didn’t want to “shy away” from speaking to his constituents, who then showed up in force at his […]
Democrats found themselves in the middle of an all-out civil war on Friday as the Senate prepared to advance a six-month government funding bill to avert a shutdown set for midnight. The Republican-crafted legislation dramatically split Democrats, revealing deep divisions within the party that left many questioning Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) ability to […]
Senate Republicans handed President Donald Trump a victory in the administration’s fight against the fentanyl epidemic with the passage of legislation that imposes steep penalties on smugglers caught moving fentanyl analogs into or throughout the United States. The Senate passed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act 84-16 on Friday afternoon. Sens. Bill Cassidy […]
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) became the third Senate Democrat to publicly support advancing the House-passed stopgap funding bill as a government shutdown looms. The Senate will vote on cloture Friday for the spending bill to keep the government funded at current levels through the end of September, with $8 billion more in defense spending […]
The race is on to fill the seat of Arizona’s longest-serving congressman, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), after his death left a vacancy in the solidly Democratic district. Grijalva hailed from Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, which sits along the state’s border with Mexico and includes some Western suburbs of Tucson, Yuma, and many rural border communities. He died at age 77 […]
Democrats have been praying that the economic pain some are feeling with the surge in tariffs will “collapse” support for President Donald Trump, but a key polling indicator suggests that the wait could be a long one if it ever comes. Kept high by strong and sustained GOP and MAGA support, Trump’s daily approval rating […]
President Donald Trump and Gov. Kathy Hochul‘s (D-NY) Friday morning meeting at the White House ended without any formal agreement on congestion pricing or energy policies. The White House did not release a readout of the meeting, but a Hochul spokesman released a statement calling the conversation “productive.” “Governor Hochul and President Trump covered a […]
