The FBI under the Biden administration questioned whether it had established probable cause to search President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022, but moved forward with the raid anyway after pressure from senior Justice Department officials, according to newly declassified emails released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA). The emailed communications, which […]
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles received a torrent of support from top Trump officials led by Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday after she rebuked a Vanity Fair article quoting her apparent criticism of key members of the administration. The article quotes Wiles as labeling Vance “a conspiracy theorist for a decade” and […]
A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon which a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood. The statue will represent Virginia in the Capitol building, honoring Johns for famously taking a stand against racial segregation in education by organizing a […]
War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that a video of U.S. military strikes on a suspected Venezuelan drug boat will be made available to only select lawmakers, putting the administration at odds with Republicans who want it released to all of Congress. Hegseth, emerging from a classified all-senators briefing on the monthslong military campaign against […]
(The Center Square) – Two school districts in western North Carolina appear to be “on deck” for the strong right arm of Rep. Brenden Jones’ Committee on Oversight and Reform. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools were in front of the panel last week to answer for age-appropriate book selections. Jones on Monday indicated he’s aware Buncombe […]
Former first lady Michelle Obama said she was “supposed to be seeing them that night” as she came to the defense of her late friends Rob and Michele Reiner. Obama appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday, the day after the Reiners were found dead in their home in Brentwood, California. Rob Reiner was a well-known […]
(The Center Square) — Ohio’s elected leaders have earmarked more than $16 million to commemorate the nation’s 250th birthday next year – significantly more than some of the first U.S. states. And they have committed those funds over the course of five years to a commission that is outside of typical state oversight and that […]
(The Center Square) — One of the nation’s largest delivery companies is accused of being a “Grinch” by chiseling its seasonal workers out of holiday pay. In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court, New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges that Atlanta-based United Parcel Service “stole” wages from seasonal workers last year, including “Driver […]
A trio of little-known Biden administration immigration programs that let 774,000 illegal immigrants into the United States were plagued with “widespread” fraud that opened the door to human trafficking networks, drug cartels, and even murderers, says a new audit. In a damning review of former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy failures, the Government Accountability Office […]
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Alburtis, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday to continue the Trump administration’s end-of-the-year dash to address voters’ economic concerns. Last week, President Donald Trump regaled a crowd at the Mount Airy Casino in nearby Mount Pocono with a typical rally performance. However, the president responded to his slipping economic polling by blaming […]
