Trump signs twin executive orders to fast-track quantum computing and shore up cryptographic defenses

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders in the Oval Office on June 22, 2026, directing federal agencies to accelerate quantum computing development and launch a nationwide migration to encryption systems designed to withstand the technology's code-breaking power. The orders mark the most aggressive federal push into quantum technology to date, backed by $2 billion […]

Gavin Newsom's donors scored coveted state appointments after writing big checks to his PACs and wife's nonprofit

One day. That's how long it took for Mark Arabo, CEO of Refined Management, to go from political donor to gubernatorial appointee. Federal Election Commission records show Arabo made a $25,000 donation on February 29, 2024. On March 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed him to the State Racetrack Leasing Commission. Arabo's case is not an […]

Whoopi Goldberg demands Trump face jail time over Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation

Whoopi Goldberg used her seat on ABC's "The View" Monday to call for President Donald Trump to be jailed or sued over the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a project that has drawn controversy after alleged vandalism left the site damaged and five people under arrest. The co-host's on-air demand came days after […]

Judge rejects WHCD shooting suspect's bid to disqualify Pirro and Blanche from prosecution

A federal judge in Washington denied the accused White House Correspondents' Association Dinner gunman's attempt to force U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche off his case, ruling Monday that neither their presence at the attack nor Pirro's friendship with President Trump creates a disqualifying conflict of interest. U.S. District Judge Trevor […]

Joy Reid pledges to withhold her vote from Democrats who back the U.S.-Israel relationship

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid declared during a podcast interview that she will refuse to vote for any Democrat who does not commit to severing the United States' relationship with Israel, the latest in a string of public broadsides she has launched against her own party, the media industry, and the current president since losing […]

Obama Presidential Center opens in Chicago — as critics call it an activism headquarters, not a library

The $1 billion Obama Presidential Center opened its doors in Chicago's Jackson Park on June 19, with Barack Obama declaring the sprawling campus was "designed not to be some lifeless mausoleum." Critics agree it is no mausoleum. They say it is something the country has never seen before: a privately operated political headquarters built on […]

Jackson pushes to discard the Bruen test — and her own oral-argument record shows why conservatives should resist

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used a unanimous Supreme Court firearms ruling to launch her sharpest attack yet on the standard that protects Second Amendment rights from regulatory overreach. In a concurring opinion filed June 18, Jackson called the historical-tradition test established in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen "unworkable" and urged the […]

Georgia Senate votes to keep QR code ballots through 2028, adds manual recount mandate

The Georgia Senate approved legislation on a party-line vote Saturday to extend the state's use of QR code-based ballot tabulation through 2028, pushing past a looming July 1 deadline that would have banned the technology with no replacement system funded or ready to deploy. The bill now heads to the Georgia House, where committee hearings […]

Malia Obama drops her famous last name from film credits — but the family connections remain

When Malia Ann Obama debuted her short film The Heart at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, her name appeared in the credits as "Malia Ann." Not "Malia Obama." The 27-year-old daughter of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama had quietly shed the most recognizable surname in American […]

Gabbard uses final hours as intelligence chief to release declassified Fauci documents on COVID origins

Tulsi Gabbard spent her last night atop the U.S. intelligence community doing what she said she came to do, pulling back the curtain. The outgoing Director of National Intelligence released nearly 500 pages of newly declassified documents Thursday night, all aimed at one target: Dr. Anthony Fauci's role in shaping how America's spy agencies assessed […]