The mayor of Arcadia, California, was charged with acting as an illegal agent for China after allegedly helping promote Beijing-backed propaganda in the United States. Eileen Wang, 58, elected to the Arcadia City Council in November 2022, was charged with one count of acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government, […]
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama officials to redraw their congressional map on Monday, weeks after striking down Louisiana’s second black-majority congressional district. Alabama officials filed petitions to the Supreme Court last month urging the justices to quickly toss out a ruling that required the state to use a congressional map with two […]
President Donald Trump is doling out a plum ambassador post to Kari Lake, tapping her to represent the United States in Jamaica after her rocky tenure leading the Voice of America. The White House announced Lake’s nomination on Monday, two months after a federal judge overturned her efforts to largely shutter the federal news service […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Democrats need to pursue judicial reform after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a victory by repealing a section of the Voting Rights Act permitting redistricting by race. Jeffries criticized the decision, saying on MS Now Saturday, it threw the “American South back into the Jim Crow era” and […]
Sen. John Cornyn’s repost of a tweet from the ‘Republicans against Trump’ account sparked backlash from the MAGA, with some labeling him a “fake Republican.” CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Margaret Brennan made an X post on the Pentagon’s classified briefing on the impact of the Iran conflict on U.S. weapons systems, prompting a response […]
The Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against more than 25 people in a nationwide crackdown targeting Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, saying the operation resulted in the seizure of more than 80 firearms and 40 pounds of narcotics across multiple states. Federal prosecutors said the defendants, many of whom they said are […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt’s campaign strategy is to be the “ultimate outsider,” noting that similar candidates stepping into politics without prior experience were successful utilizing this approach. “I never thought I would say this, but we might have a Republican or at least a right-leaning mayor of […]
The House oversight committee has a busy summer packed with interviews for its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including former Attorney General Pam Bondi and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. The committee will conduct seven interviews over the next few months as part of its Epstein inquiry. Democrats have been aiming to hold Bondi […]
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones filed a long-shot emergency petition to the Supreme Court on Monday, urging it to reinstate the voter-approved Democratic gerrymander of the state’s congressional map, which the Virginia Supreme Court struck down last week. The petition, filed on behalf of Jones and other Democratic leaders in Virginia, argued that the Virginia […]
Delcy Rodriguez said Venezuela would “never” become part of the United States after President Donald Trump floated the idea of making the country the 51st state. Trump reportedly said he was “seriously considering” turning Venezuela into the 51st U.S. state during a phone call with Fox News anchor John Roberts, citing the country’s massive oil […]
