EAGLE PASS, Texas — Former President Donald Trump called the record-setting surge of immigrants crossing the border the “Joe Biden invasion” in a dueling border visit with the president Thursday in Texas. Trump, in remarks delivered near the border, directly blamed Biden for the recent alleged kidnapping and murder of Laken Riley, a University of Georgia […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened “the destruction of civilization” in the event that NATO powers deploy forces into the war in Ukraine. “There is talk about the possibility of sending NATO military forces to Ukraine, but we must remember the fate of previous armies deployed on our country’s territory,” Putin said Thursday in an annual […]
Texas school officials claimed a group of students who placed a full serving of peanuts in an allergic student’s locker as a prank are not guilty of bullying, according to a report. Carter Mannon was 15 when he discovered peanuts among his football gear in the locker room last year, shortly after disclosing his severe […]
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) will deliver the GOP response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address next week, Republican leaders announced on Thursday. The news was revealed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) one week before the address, which historically features a rebuttal speech by a […]
The Department of Justice is planning to begin its annual process of renewing a powerful surveillance program that Congress has vowed to reform after revelations surfaced in recent years that the FBI has abused its access to it. Matthew Olsen, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement the DOJ is “taking the […]
Critics of President Joe Biden’s open borders agenda that has seen millions of illegal immigrants cross into the United States today ripped his characterization of them as simply “newcomers.” To complement his visit to the Texas border today, the White House released highlights of the unpassable comprehensive border legislation in the Senate. In it, they […]
Former President Donald Trump appealed an Illinois court ruling barring him from the state’s primary election ballot on the grounds of the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause, while the Supreme Court is mulling a challenge that could upend dozens of similar ballot removal efforts against the former president. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Tracie Porter’s Wednesday evening order removing Trump from […]
Seattle, Washington, tops a new poll of the least religious cities in the nation. Almost two-thirds of people living in the Emerald City identify as non-religious. The exact percentage of those who are non-religious is 63.8%, making up 1.98 million adults out of the 3.1 million residents. Of these 1.98 million, they either never go […]
X reversed its policy on allowing users to “misgender” people, a policy apparently at odds with owner Elon Musk’s stated goal of prioritizing free speech on the platform. X added a section titled “Use of Prior Names and Pronouns” to its policies on abusive behavior sometime in late January, according to the Wayback Machine. The […]
The Republican Party of Missouri is removing gubernatorial candidate Darrell Leon McClanahan III from the primary ballot over his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan. “The Missouri Republican Party has been made aware that Darrell Leon McClanahan III filed for Governor as a Republican despite his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, which fundamentally contradicts […]
