Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) defended FBI Director Kash Patel’s reported decision to provide his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, with an FBI security detail. Swalwell responded on Monday to a report from MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, dismissing backlash that Patel has received for protecting Wilkins, 27. “I don’t want anything to happen to @FBIDirectorKash or his girlfriend. […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) appears to be gaining a primary challenger: a progressive ally of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani who may be the Democratic leader’s first real competition in over a decade. Chi Ossé, 27, a New York City Council member, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Monday for […]
In the first two days of the Trump administration‘s immigration crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina, over 130 illegal immigrants have been arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers. The crackdown, dubbed “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” is part of a larger, tough-on-crime deployment surge of federal officers and National Guard troops nationwide in the first year of […]
President Donald Trump will meet with the White House task force on the FIFA World Cup in the Oval Office around 2 p.m. Monday. VISA DELAYS, IMMIGRATION ISSUES, AND SECURITY CONCERNS COMPLICATE FIFA 2026 WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS More than a dozen American cities will host matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, set to take […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois truckers are applauding a federal rule and hope the state enforces a pause on non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs), saying it protects American jobs and restores trust in licensing. In late-September, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered states to pause non-domiciled CDLs for drivers on temporary visas. Illinois’ Secretary of State’s […]
(The Center Square) – Tennessee’s October revenues were $48.7 million more than estimated and $115 million higher than October of last year, according to Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson. Tax revenues for the first three months of the 2026 fiscal year are up 1.59% from forecasts, according to the revenue report. Franchise and […]
(The Center Square) – Louisiana’s annual budgets swelled more than 71% over the past decade, ticking up year after year under a Democratic governor who expanded Medicaid and led the state through the COVID crisis. While the pace of spending slowed under a Republican governor elected two years ago, the bottom line keeps growing, an […]
President Donald Trump, whose recent moves appear more legacy- than MAGA-focused, is being urged to return to the strategy that helped him win back the White House: direct outreach to supporters and policies that make their lives better. Instead of gilding the White House and building a U.S. version of the Arc de Triomphe, pollsters […]
A federal magistrate judge ordered the Justice Department to hand over all grand jury materials to former FBI Director James Comey on Monday, saying the record shows unusually strong reasons to suspect irregularities in the proceedings. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, who is handling pretrial discovery disputes in the Comey case, said Comey’s team presented […]
A date is set for the California GOP’s lawsuit against the state’s redistricting plan, in which it will argue that Proposition 50 is unconstitutional. Judge Josephine L. Staton of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ordered the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against California’s redistricting plan to appear in court on Dec. […]
