House Republicans release Jack Smith transcripts revealing secret subpoenas of GOP lawmakers' phone records

House Republicans released six transcripts from Jack Smith's team that reveal investigators secretly subpoenaed phone records of more than a dozen Republican members of Congress, using gag orders to keep the lawmakers from ever finding out. The House Judiciary Committee published the transcripts on Tuesday, pulling back the curtain on how the former special counsel's […]

Jackson County grand jury clears all suspects in Nolan Wells drowning case

A Mississippi grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who vanished on Horn Island over the Fourth of July, but the teen's family and their attorney say the case is far from closed. Twenty-three Jackson County citizens reviewed the evidence and returned a unanimous "no true bill," declining to […]

Jeffries fires back after retiring Democrat endorses Republican rival on his home turf

Retiring Rep. Jared Golden handed Republican Rep. Mike Lawler a cross-party endorsement in a competitive New York district, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries responded with a blistering public attack on both men. Golden, a Maine Democrat who announced he would not seek re-election, published an op-ed endorsing Lawler for a third term representing New […]

Trump signs security deal with Denmark giving U.S. permanent military control over Greenland

President Trump signed a trilateral security agreement with Denmark and Greenland on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, expanding America's Arctic military footprint while global conflicts underscore the island's strategic value. The deal, announced Friday and signed Tuesday in New York, grants the United States permanent control over security operations in Greenland and bars […]

Fifth Circuit strikes down federal ban on interstate handgun sales as unconstitutional

A federal appeals court has ruled that the decades-old ban on direct interstate handgun sales violates the Second Amendment, the latest in a string of court victories for gun rights that is dismantling pillars of federal firearms regulation. A two-judge majority on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that provisions of […]

Trump signs Greenland military pact giving US control of two additional Arctic bases

President Trump signed a sweeping defense agreement with Denmark and Greenland that hands the United States permanent military control over two additional bases on the world's largest island, the biggest American Arctic expansion since the Cold War. The trilateral pact, inked on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, grants Washington control of the former […]

Hennepin County shuts down $2 million ICE relief fund after fraud swallows most claims

Officials in Minnesota's most populous county quietly canceled a $2 million fund meant to help businesses hurt by federal immigration enforcement after finding that the vast majority of roughly 300 applications were fraudulent, a result one commissioner says reflects a culture where scammers "feel they can get away with it." Hennepin County, home to Minneapolis, […]

Trump heads to Gracie Mansion for first meeting with Mamdani on the mayor's home turf

President Trump is set to meet New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion on Monday, the first time Trump has traveled to the self-described democratic socialist's own ground, and a striking chapter in one of American politics' most unlikely working relationships. City Hall confirmed the sit-down to Fox News Digital, saying the discussion […]

Salazar tells Trump his immigration crackdown is costing the GOP its Hispanic gains

Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar is warning President Trump that his administration's immigration enforcement is driving away the very Hispanic voters who powered his 2024 victory, and she says his own advisers are to blame. Salazar, a first-generation American and daughter of Cuban refugees who spent three decades at Telemundo before entering Congress, released […]

Shaheen, Meeks hold up $2.8 billion Israel weapons deal

The Hill reports Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has held up a $2.8 billion weapons package for Israel, adding another Democratic roadblock to the Trump administration’s planned sale. Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, placed her hold in July. Rep. Gregory Meeks, her House counterpart from New York, announced his own hold Wednesday. […]