House Republicans pushed through a 60-day stopgap measure Friday night to fund the Department of Homeland Security, rejecting a Senate-passed version that allocated zero dollars for ICE and Customs and Border Protection. The bill cleared the lower chamber in a 213-209 vote, with three Democrats crossing the aisle to support it. The move sets up […]
Donald Trump told a Miami audience that Cuba is next on his foreign policy agenda, asked the press to forget he said it, and then said it again. Speaking at a Saudi-backed business forum in Miami, the president discussed his administration's capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January before turning his attention ninety miles […]
Vice President JD Vance accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of committing immigration fraud by allegedly marrying her brother, calling it a settled matter within the administration and revealing he has been working with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on legal remedies. Vance made the remarks on the latest episode of podcaster Benny Johnson's […]
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) will face the House Ethics Committee on Thursday in a rare public hearing that could result in her expulsion from the House of Representatives. It marks the first time the eight-member committee has held a public hearing since 2010. As reported by Breitbart, the Florida congresswoman stands accused of stealing more […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is staring down a fracture in his own caucus over Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Florida Democrat facing a public House Ethics Committee hearing Thursday while simultaneously awaiting a federal criminal trial on charges that could send her to prison for up to 53 years. The question splitting Democrats isn't whether […]
A 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico has been arrested and charged with felony hit-and-run resulting in death after allegedly striking 62-year-old Christopher Babcock, who was riding his motorcycle in Pitt County, North Carolina, on March 11. Babcock was thrown from his motorcycle. The driver fled the scene. The Pitt County Sheriff's Office arrested Erasto Lopez-Gomez […]
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, fired off two fresh criminal referrals targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday, this time alleging suspected homeowners' insurance fraud. The referrals landed at two separate U.S. Attorney offices: one in the Northern District of Illinois and another in the Southern District of Florida. […]
Senior trade adviser Peter Navarro told attendees at Politico's Economy Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday that the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision striking down President Trump's emergency tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was, paradoxically, a win for the administration. His reasoning is worth hearing out. "Even though we lost the IEEPA tariffs, […]
A Jefferson Family Court judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin after finding him in contempt for ignoring repeated orders to hand over personal financial records in a child support dispute involving his adopted son. Judge Angela Johnson sentenced Bevin to 60 days in jail unless he posts a $500 […]
An explosion tore through the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, on Monday shortly after midday, sending a towering column of black smoke over the Gulf Coast and triggering shelter-in-place orders across several surrounding communities. The cause remains unknown. Port Arthur police announced the initial advisory immediately after the blast. "Residents on the west side […]
