Donald Trump Jr. weds Bettina Anderson in West Palm Beach ahead of private Bahamas celebration

Donald Trump Jr. married socialite Bettina Anderson in a quiet legal ceremony in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, with a private wedding celebration planned for a small island in the Bahamas over the weekend. The couple kept the Florida event intimate, a legal formality officiated by Brad McPherson, a longtime real estate attorney who […]

Hegseth halts 4,000-troop deployment to Poland, blindsiding Pentagon and allies

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth canceled the deployment of 4,000 Texas-based soldiers to Poland after an advance team and equipment had already begun arriving, a move that caught European allies, Pentagon officials, and even Republican lawmakers off guard. Hegseth personally signed a memo directing the Joint Chiefs of Staff to pull a brigade combat team out […]

House Democrat files impeachment resolution against Chief Justice John Roberts — with zero co-sponsors

Representative Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat who recently announced he will not seek reelection, introduced an impeachment resolution against Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday. The resolution contains six articles of impeachment. It has no co-sponsors. And it has no realistic path forward in a Republican-controlled House. That hasn't stopped Cohen from treating the gesture […]

Sen. Jim Banks floats Elise Stefanik as next Director of National Intelligence after Gabbard resignation

Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) wasted no time Friday naming his pick to lead America's intelligence community. Hours after Tulsi Gabbard announced she would step down as Director of National Intelligence, Banks posted on X that Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) should fill the vacancy, calling her "easily confirmable." The suggestion lands in the middle of a […]

House Republicans pull scheduled vote on Democrat war powers resolution targeting Trump's Iran campaign

House Republicans declined Wednesday to hold a vote on a Democrat-backed resolution that would have forced President Donald Trump to end military operations in Iran, shelving the measure and postponing any future attempt until June. The move drew immediate accusations of procedural gamesmanship from the resolution's sponsor, and raised questions about whether GOP leadership feared […]

Federal prosecutors indict Cuba's Raúl Castro on murder charges for 1996 shootdown of civilian planes

A federal grand jury in Miami has charged former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five others with murder and conspiracy in connection with the Cuban military's 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft that killed four people, a case that went unprosecuted for nearly three decades. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the charges at a […]

Democrats demand DNC chair Ken Martin resign after damaging 2024 election autopsy finally surfaces

Democratic members of Congress are openly calling for the resignation of Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin after the party's long-delayed 2024 election autopsy landed with a thud on Thursday, painting a picture of an organization that has drifted for more than a decade and still cannot explain what it stands for beyond opposing one […]

Trump announces 5,000 additional troops for Poland days after Vance disclosed deployment delay

President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the United States will send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, tying the decision directly to his relationship with Poland's newly elected conservative president, Karol Nawrocki. The announcement, made via Truth Social, came just two days after Vice President JD Vance told reporters that a planned U.S. troop deployment […]

White House responds after De Niro and Springsteen use Colbert farewell to take shots at Trump

Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen turned Stephen Colbert's second-to-last "Late Show" episode into a sendoff rally against President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, and the White House wasted no time responding. More than a dozen celebrities made surprise appearances on the penultimate broadcast, but only two used the spotlight to aim directly at the […]

Florida senior killed in crash outside school while heading to graduation practice

Christopher Brooks, an 18-year-old senior at South Fork High School in Martin County, Florida, died Thursday morning after rear-ending a dump truck just outside the school entrance, on the very day he was heading to graduation practice. The crash happened around 8:30 a.m. on Southwest Pratt Whitney Road at the intersection of Bulldog Way, according […]