The White House on Thursday defended inviting the CEOs of two companies under federal investigation to the star-studded state dinner with Japan. “We invite an array of folks to come in,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “When another country comes, it shows bipartisanship; it shows the strength of that alliance that the U.S. has with […]
President Joe Biden’s new student loan forgiveness plan would cost $84 billion if implemented, a new analysis found. According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, which released its analysis Thursday, the $84 billion is in addition to his previously stated SAVE plan, which the organization estimates could cost taxpayers $475 billion. “We estimate that President […]
Alabama death row inmate Derrick Dearman asked to be executed despite having fought his death sentence for over five years. He pleaded guilty to capital murder charges in the grizzly 2016 killings of five people, including a pregnant woman. He first appealed his execution in October 2018, just over two years after what court records […]
Israel’s fighter pilots may soon face “challenges in other sectors” than Gaza, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited an air base in a thinly-veiled threat to Iran. “We have determined a simple rule: Whoever harms us, we will harm them,” Netanyahu told Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel on Thursday. “We are prepared […]
The White House expressed condolences to the family of former football star and actor O.J. Simpson following his Wednesday death from cancer. Simpson, who won a Heisman Trophy playing at the University of Southern California before embarking on a Hall of Fame NFL career, polarized the nation after he was charged and eventually acquitted in […]
EXCLUSIVE — A senior House Republican is poised to introduce legislation that would ban illegal immigrants from flying into the United States from abroad or from the border without the same documents that the general traveling public must have, the Washington Examiner has learned. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) will debut the […]
Former President Donald Trump’s team is demanding earlier and more frequent debates against President Joe Biden this election cycle, claiming many people have been voting earlier in recent election cycles. Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said the three debate dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates come too late in the […]
Former Star Wars actress Gina Carano criticized the Walt Disney Company for firing her in a new interview, arguing the company had a double standard when she shared her political views. Carano was fired from her role on The Mandalorian television series in February 2021, after she posted on Instagram that Jews in the Holocaust […]
Tiffany Henyard, the mayor of Dolton, Illinois, was named in a sexual assault lawsuit, as investigations continue to mount around her. A new civil lawsuit accused Henyard of retaliating against an employee who claimed she was sexually assaulted by Dolton Village Trustee Andrew Holmes on a work trip to Las Vegas, and the police officer […]
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters is urging Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to allow them to protest “within sight and sound” of the city’s convention center this summer. The coalition is asking Johnson to intervene on their behalf and allow them to protest during the Democratic National Convention in August after their request was rejected by […]
