Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is moving to cool House tensions as a band of hard-line Republicans weigh whether to set in motion an attempt at his ouster. Conservatives are livid with Johnson over a series of bills he put on the floor, most recently foreign aid for Ukraine that a majority of Republicans opposed. Rep. […]
The terrorist organization Hamas released a video on Wednesday showing Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Reuters reported. In response, the boys’ parents made a video of their own. The video was posted on Hamas’s official Telegram account, The Times of Israel reported. Goldberg-Polin, 23, was missing the bottom half of his left arm in the video. The video featured Goldberg-Polin identifying […]
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) clashed over the latter’s “shameful” comment on Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Moskowitz has emerged as a prominent defender of Israel and has criticized many on the Left over their response to the war in Gaza. On Wednesday, he criticized Sanders for allegedly not properly condemning antisemitism, a […]
Eighteen allies of former President Donald Trump were indicted by an Arizona grand jury for alleged election interference in the 2020 presidential election. Of the 18 total, 11 Republicans were named, while seven names were redacted. However, the document makes some names clear by describing their roles. This includes former White House chief of staff […]
The National Republican Congressional Committee is selling a “F*** Hamas” T-shirt, starting Wednesday. “We got tired of saying it, so we slapped it on a T-shirt,” NRCC national press secretary Will Reinert said to the Washington Examiner. The limited-quantity shirt is raising money for the NRCC, a political committee that works to raise funds and […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized Columbia University for sending in New York City police to manage pro-Palestinian protesters. It was a rare defense from a member of Congress of the protesters, who have seen strong bipartisan condemnation in recent days. The New York Democrat denounced the university for sending in the police against the protesters, […]
A Democratic Minnesota state senator’s story appears to have changed after being arrested and charged with first-degree burglary Monday. Sen. Nicole Mitchell snuck into her stepmother’s house through a window dressed in all black, according to a police complaint. During the arrest, Mitchell allegedly admitted to her stepmother that she was “just trying to get […]
Former President Donald Trump was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Michigan election interference case that accused more than a dozen Republicans of acting as fake electors in the 2020 election, a state investigator revealed Wednesday in court. Last year, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged 16 Republicans with forgery and conspiracy to commit […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced chants and boos from pro-Palestinian protesters who attempted to drown out House Republicans‘ speeches as they called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign over rising antisemitism on campus. Johnson was joined by Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), and Virginia Foxx (R-NC) on Wednesday to blast […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced Wednesday that Florida has rescued over 700 United States residents from Haiti, which has become increasingly hostile. The 722 rescues come a little more than a month since Florida’s Division of Emergency Management began its operations on March 20. The division will ensure that those rescued will have access to […]
