House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to former Social Security Administrator Martin O’Malley requesting that he testify on telework standards he set for the agency just before his departure. The hearing will focus on the relationship between the rising number of hours that SSA employees are working from home and the […]
A federal judge postponed the trial of Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course, to September, nearly a year after the chaotic attempt on the president-elect’s life. The delay comes as defense counsel and prosecutors navigate the complexities of additional charges and jurisdictional disputes between state and federal […]
President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates has sparked an uproar in the legal and political worlds, with critics calling the move a blatant overreach of executive power. The action, taken in Biden’s final days in office, converted the sentences of those on federal death row to life imprisonment […]
The suspect believed to be behind the automotive attack on a Christmas market in Germany made multiple threats to commit terrorist attacks in the years before the massacre. Taleb al Abdulmohsen, a Saudi Arabian national and doctor granted asylum in Germany in 2016, is accused of driving an SUV through an outdoor Christmas marketplace Friday […]
A spokesman for President-elect Donald Trump expressed his distaste for President Joe Biden‘s decision to commute the sentences of 37 prisoners on federal death row. “These are among the worst killers in the world and this abhorrent decision by Joe Biden is a slap in the face to the victims, their families, and their loved ones,” Trump […]
President Joe Biden will finish his term with more lifetime appointed federal judges than his predecessor after securing 235 last week, just one more than President-elect Donald Trump‘s first-term total. But while the number may suggest comparable influence, Biden’s judicial legacy has been less transformative than Trump’s reshaping of the federal judiciary for several key […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) celebrated efforts to combat crime in New York City’s subway system on the same weekend several “barbaric” crimes occurred there. Two people were stabbed at a transit station in Queens, with one of them dying, and a woman was set on fire and died on a subway car in Brooklyn. On […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Sunday because it allows transgender athletes to compete. Paxton alleged that transgender athletes violate the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act in marketing female sports when biological men are allowed to compete. As attorney general, he is suing for a permanent injunction that would […]
This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a network critic of President-elect Donald Trump taking offense at ally Elon Musk’s lobbying Congress on behalf of the Republican. CBS’s Margaret Brennan, host of Face the Nation, hit Musk as an “unelected” influencer, which, of course, she is, too. Brennan called Musk’s role in the budget talks last […]
The United Kingdom is looking to fend off Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he showed his political mettle in the United States and Germany. Musk wielded a decisive hand in the U.S. 2024 election, throwing his fortune behind President-elect Donald Trump. He has since begun commenting more on international politics, voicing his support for the […]
