A federal judge permanently blocked President Donald Trump on Friday from deploying the National Guard to Portland, where the administration has cited clashes between anti-ICE protesters and federal officers as justifying the military presence. United States District Judge Karin Immergut found that the federal government violated the 10th Amendment and Title 10, Section 12406 of […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed his Republican colleagues on Friday for failing to denounce Tucker Carlson amid the fallout from the conservative pundit’s interview with Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist who has contributed to the recent rise in antisemitism online. “My colleagues, almost to a person, think what is happening is horrible, but a great […]
Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are among the individuals reportedly served with federal subpoenas on Friday related to the Department of Justice’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia inquiry and alleged intelligence abuses under the Obama administration. Brennan, Strzok, and Page were the three former […]
The Trump administration filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court asking it to quickly halt a lower court’s order to issue full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits using funds intended for child nutrition. The petition to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket came less than an hour after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit […]
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who won reelection in Long Island County earlier this week, threw cold water on Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-NY) newly launched 2026 campaign against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D-NY) reelection bid. Blakeman, a possible Republican contender for next year’s gubernatorial race, doubted Stefanik’s chances of beating Hochul based on her limited appeal […]
A federal appeals court ordered a local Ohio school district to dismantle a policy banning the use of biological sex pronouns to refer to transgender students in a ruling on Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit sided 10-7 in an en banc ruling with Defending Education, a parental rights movement group that […]
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he ordered the Department of Justice to investigate meatpacking companies that he said are artificially inflating beef prices, reflecting his broader affordability agenda. In a Truth Social post, Trump said meatpacking companies are driving up beef prices “through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation” and promised to […]
Senators appeared no closer on Friday to a resolution that could end the longest government shutdown in history, as lawmakers were prepared to remain in Washington for a rare weekend session. Tensions flared between the parties as the otherwise mild-mannered Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) traded barbs with Democrats. Republicans categorized a counteroffer from […]
The Mexican authorities thwarted an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Israeli Ambassador to Mexico Einat Kranz-Neiger earlier this year. Unit 11000 of Iran’s Quds Force initiated the plot at the end of last year, and the plot was active earlier this year, but was thwarted over the summer, according to Axios. “The plot was contained […]
Republicans are crying foul in the New Jersey gubernatorial election, viewing an influx of nearly 500,000 new Democratic voters with skepticism. The landslide Republican loss in New Jersey was one of the biggest surprises of Tuesday night, as Republican strategists had viewed the race as the more promising gubernatorial race compared to Virginia. The scale […]
