French President Emmanuel Macron warned Friday that Europe has been “too weak and too naive” in confronting foreign interference and online disinformation. Speaking at the high-profile Munich Security Conference, Macron said unregulated digital platforms allow harmful and manipulative narratives to go unchecked and warned that foreign interference poses a security risk in elections. “We are […]
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges stemming from his presence at a January protest inside a St. Paul, Minnesota church that authorities say disrupted religious worship and targeted a pastor over alleged ties to federal immigration enforcement. Lemon, 59, appeared in federal court Friday afternoon just after 12 […]
President Donald Trump used a Friday visit with special forces members at North Carolina‘s Fort Bragg to promote his hand-picked candidate for the state’s U.S. Senate seat up this fall. Trump traveled to the military base to honor the special forces members who took part in January’s raid to capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. […]
A federal appeals court ruled that a Texas law banning ballot harvesting is constitutional, reversing a lower court’s ruling and handing the Lone Star State a key victory for one of its major election integrity laws. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of Texas over […]
America’s first transgender member of Congress and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are joining forces to highlight girls’ fundamental rights at the Munich Security Conference. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), a transgender woman, will speak on a panel moderated by Clinton on Saturday, labeled “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights: Fighting the Global Pushback.” […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison came into his Senate hearing with “real vulnerabilities” ranging from the state’s welfare fraud scandal to federal immigration enforcement. Ellison testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday about Minnesota oversight. Ellison “came in with a lot of […]
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) announced Thursday he will not attend an annual meeting for governors at the White House, citing President Donald Trump’s move to disinvite him from a separate gubernatorial dinner. “If the point of the meeting that he’s singled me out and told me I’m disinvited from … is to turn it into […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) strategically danced around questioning on her political future during an event at the Munich Security Conference on Friday. At a panel focused on responding to the rise of populism, New York Times journalist Katrin Bennhold bluntly asked the New York congresswoman: “So when you run for president, are you going to […]
President Donald Trump, just hours before funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to lapse, said he will soon be personally involved in ongoing funding negotiations on Capitol Hill. The Senate failed to advance a stand-alone DHS funding package on Thursday afternoon, all but ensuring a partial government shutdown will start Saturday. DHS has been […]
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Friday against Harvard University, accusing the Ivy League school of unlawfully withholding documents about race-based admissions. The DOJ said in a news release that the information is necessary to determine whether Harvard continues to discriminate based on race in its admissions process, even after the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 […]