Mark Sanford abandons congressional comeback after one month, pivots to national debt nonprofit

Mark Sanford lasted about thirty days. The 65-year-old former South Carolina governor and congressman told the Associated Press on Thursday that he is ending his latest bid to reclaim his old seat in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, a campaign he entered on the final day of candidate filing, and will instead launch a nonprofit […]

Trump lifts Scottish whisky tariff, credits King Charles visit for the deal

President Trump announced Thursday that he will remove a 10 percent tariff on Scottish whisky, framing the move as a direct result of King Charles III and Queen Camilla's White House visit this week. The decision ends a levy that had been in place since April 2025, one that the Scottish Whisky Association said drove […]

Video shows Nick Fuentes pepper-spraying and shoving Jewish woman outside his Illinois home

Doorbell camera footage from November 2024 has surfaced showing far-right influencer Nick Fuentes storming out of his Illinois home, spraying a Jewish woman in the face, hurling her down his front steps, and grabbing her phone before retreating inside. The woman, Marla Rose, has now dropped the criminal case against Fuentes and is suing him […]

Former FBI director James Comey surrenders on federal charges over "86-47" social media post

James Comey, the former FBI director who once sat atop the nation's premier law enforcement agency, walked into a federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday and surrendered to authorities. A grand jury in North Carolina had indicted him the day before on two federal counts: threatening the life of President Donald Trump and transmitting […]

House votes to renew warrantless FISA Section 702 surveillance powers as Senate deadline looms

The House on Wednesday approved a three-year renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a 235-191 vote, clearing the most contentious hurdle for a surveillance authority that backers call indispensable and critics call a license to spy on Americans without a warrant. The powers expire April 30, giving the Senate barely […]

Mamdani's handpicked candidate loses Manhattan Council race in rebuke to City Hall

Lindsey Boylan, the candidate backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a closely watched Manhattan City Council race, conceded late Tuesday night after trailing community activist Carl Wilson by a commanding 17-point margin in preliminary results. The outcome marks a sharp setback for a mayor whose political capital has been tested repeatedly since […]

Nancy Mace escalates GOP feud with expulsion resolution against Cory Mills — and he fires one right back

Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution Monday to expel fellow Republican Cory Mills from the U.S. House, accusing the Florida congressman of domestic violence, arms dealing, stolen valor, and profiting off federal contracts from his seat. Hours later, Mills filed his own expulsion resolution targeting Mace, turning an intra-party feud into one of the most […]

Trump withdraws Scott Socha's National Park Service nomination after CEO stepped aside weeks earlier

President Donald Trump formally withdrew the nomination of Scott Socha to lead the National Park Service, a move the White House confirmed on Monday, weeks after Socha himself quietly stepped away from the job for what he called "personal reasons." The sequence is straightforward but worth noting: Socha told Fox News Digital he withdrew from […]

Trump says U.S. forces seized Chinese ship carrying 'gift' to Iran as Beijing meeting looms

President Donald Trump disclosed Tuesday morning that American forces intercepted a vessel carrying what he called "a gift from China" bound for Iran, escalating tensions with Beijing just weeks before a planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The revelation, made during a CNBC interview, injected a sharp new confrontation into the already fraught U.S.-China […]

Ben Sasse, facing terminal cancer at 54, delivers a sharp rebuke to a Congress he says has lost its way

Former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, now 54 and dying of pancreatic cancer that has spread to his lungs, liver, and vascular system, sat for an extended interview in which he laid out what he believes Congress refuses to confront, and what matters most when time runs short. Given a three- to four-month life […]
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