Former special counsel Jack Smith made his first public statement in months amid a Hatch Act investigation, rebutting accusations of wrongdoing. Smith was prompted to respond after Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) persuaded the Office of Special Counsel to launch a Hatch Act violation investigation into Smith. Smith and his lawyers, Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski, rejected […]
Tuesday marked four years since the Abbey Gate attack, a suicide bombing that took the lives of 13 service members during the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of the Afghanistan War. In 2021, then-President Joe Biden removed U.S. troops from Afghanistan following the first Trump administration’s negotiated plan with Taliban leaders to end […]
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage promised to end the “invasion” of asylum-seekers with mass deportations and remigration policies if elected. Farage, who previously opposed mass remigration in the United Kingdom as a “political impossibility,” spoke from a hangar at Oxford Airport in London as he announced his policy plan to deport approximately 600,000 illegal migrants in […]
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has tossed a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice against every judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland over a blanket order slowing deportations. U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen on Tuesday dismissed a June lawsuit filed against the judges over a standing […]
(The Center Square) – Reports of a transgender student being accepted onto the Conant High School girls volleyball team has supporters and opponents sharing their thoughts with the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District board. While critics voiced concerns about potential injuries to female athletes, others defended the decision as a matter of inclusion and equal rights. […]
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson did not directly answer whether he would support an increase of the city’s police force Tuesday, despite MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asking multiple times. President Donald Trump hinted that he could send the National Guard to Chicago to address crime, similar to the federal takeover he enacted in the District of Columbia […]
(The Center Square) – Harjinder Singh, in St. Lucie County Jail and facing three charges each of vehicular homicide and manslaughter, is due back in a Florida courtroom Wednesday. On Aug. 12, he tried with an 18-wheeler to make a U-turn on the Florida Turnpike through a point in the divided highway marked “official use […]
First lady Melania Trump helped launch the presidential artificial intelligence challenge, encouraging communities and schools to try solving real-world problems with AI. “Take part in this nationwide initiative to discover, develop, and expand AI’s potential,” she said Tuesday in a video posted on social media. In the video, the first lady underscored her work advocating […]
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Defense Department is considering taking an equity stake in defense contractors that already receive significant business from the Pentagon. “There’s a monstrous discussion about defense. I mean, Lockheed Martin makes 97% of their revenue from the U.S. government. They are, basically, an arm of the U.S. government,” Lutnick said […]
Hyundai boosted its investment in the United States by $26 billion on the same day South Korean President Lee Jae Myung visited President Donald Trump at the White House. In a Monday press release, Hyundai Motor Group announced that it would raise its planned investments through 2028 from the $21 billion pledged in March to […]
