The Minneapolis office in charge of agency performance reviews has found that the city’s community peacekeeping program, an activist alternative to traditional policing that was born out of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, is at “increased risk of fraud, waste, and abuse.” According to a recent 60-page report from the Minneapolis City Auditor’s Office, […]
The former special counsel who twice indicted President Donald Trump, Jack Smith, is scheduled to face Senate Republicans on Tuesday morning. Smith will appear as the sole witness at a 9 a.m. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters.” His appearance will […]
A woman raised more than $13,000 on GoFundMe for her husband to escape war-torn Gaza — before the United States charged him with helping Hamas start the conflict. Palestinian man Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al Muhtadi faces terrorism charges after his arrest last year in Louisiana for allegedly invading Israel to assist in Hamas’s Oct. 7, […]
War Secretary Pete Hegseth is mobilizing the Pentagon’s cybersecurity and intelligence resources to protect against foreign interference in the 2026 midterm elections. “As we approach this election cycle, we must prove that we can and will protect the integrity of our democratic processes from any threat,” Hegseth wrote in a memo released Monday. “As President […]
The Senate passed a bill Monday night that aims to regulate college sports after several court cases in recent years dramatically overhauled NCAA rules and allowed student-athletes to earn money from their name, image, and likeness, known as NIL. The Protect College Sports Act passed 77-22 with broad bipartisan support. The legislation would establish a […]
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., barred the Trump administration from holding back certain counterterrorism grant funding from states that do not comply with select election security measures. Biden-appointed Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in his opinion that the Department of Homeland Security could not insist […]
Senate appropriators are exploring a ban on pocket rescissions as part of the next spending package after President Donald Trump clawed back $810 million in congressionally approved funding. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters on Monday she would once again try to curb the Trump administration on spending following Trump’s rescission and […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) sounded off on how senators use artificial intelligence on Tuesday, saying there is a version of ChatGPT specifically for the upper chamber. “The Senate has a version of Chat[GPT]. It’s a special Senate version of ChatGPT,” Kennedy told TMZ DC on Monday. Kennedy told the outlet that upper chamber employees must […]
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to slam what he called a “fake” Axios story about him offering up sanctions relief and currently frozen funds to Iran in exchange for promises on their nuclear program. “Axios just released a story that ‘Trump’ offered Sanctions Relief and Frozen Funds to Iran. This is […]
President Donald Trump voiced his displeasure with London after five terrorist suspects were released on bail on Monday. Trump had lavished praise on London just the day before over their swift handling of the matter, which saw five men in three vans arrested just outside a British air base, RAF Fairfield, which serves as a […]
