The immigrant who was shot and wounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California last week has been hit with a federal charge of assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California announced the charge in the unsealed criminal complaint ahead of his court appearance on […]
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is facing mounting pressure from Republican and conservative advocates to investigate Danco Laboratories, the primary distributor of the abortion drug mifepristone, as scrutiny intensifies over the drug’s safety and regulatory oversight. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is leading that effort, penning a letter Tuesday to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche asking […]
The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of top Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders, marking a sweeping effort to erase some of the most serious criminal judgments stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest. In a series of unopposed motions filed with the U.S. […]
Attorneys involved in the case against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) requested that the trial be delayed until February 2027. Cherfilus-McCormick, who faces over 15 charges of fraud after a House Ethics Committee hearing last month, was scheduled to stand trial in less than a week. The Florida representative allegedly stole over $15 million in Federal […]
Virginia will award its presidential electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote under a bill signed into law by Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) on Monday, marking a significant shift in how the state participates in presidential elections. The measure enters Virginia into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement among states […]
Vice President JD Vance and Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk are set to speak at an event Tuesday night as part of the organization’s tour, the latest stop of which is in Athens, Georgia. The two appeared onstage together at a TPUSA event last fall after the assassination of the late conservative activist Charlie […]
The Treasury Department has threatened to impose secondary sanctions on foreign banks that may be aiding Iran as the weekslong war persists. The secondary sanctions are part of the Trump administration’s “Economic Fury” effort, an allusion to Operation Epic Fury. “Treasury is moving aggressively with Economic Fury, maintaining maximum pressure on Iran,” the department posted […]
Furor in the House over alleged congressional ethics violations is shifting focus to two members of Florida’s delegation: Reps. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) and Cory Mills (R-FL). Heading back into session on Tuesday after a two-week recess, calls for four members to resign or be expelled from the House reached a fever pitch, resulting in the […]
Spain finalized a highly controversial move to legalize over 500,000 illegal immigrants in the country, despite stiff opposition. The Spanish Council of Ministers approved the measure, granting legal status to over half a million illegal immigrants in a country of under 50 million. The effort was pushed for months by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s […]
Olivia Troye, an adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence who became a critic of President Donald Trump, announced Tuesday that she is running for a House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. Troye became a fierce critic of Trump after she resigned from her position as Pence’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser in 2020, […]
