Rep. Don Bacon breaks with Hegseth, says wholesale firings have damaged the Pentagon

Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska went on CNN Sunday and delivered a blunt rebuke of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's approach to senior military leadership, saying the wave of forced departures has "hurt the military" and injected politics where it doesn't belong. Bacon, a retired Air Force brigadier general, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State […]

Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii's concealed carry restriction in 6-3 ruling

The Supreme Court handed Second Amendment advocates a major win Thursday, ruling 6-3 in Wolford v. Lopez that Hawaii's law barring licensed concealed-carry holders from carrying handguns on private property open to the public violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. The decision reverses the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and sends a clear message to […]

U.S. and Iran agree to pause hostilities and open talks in Qatar, officials say

The United States and Iran have agreed to halt military strikes and send delegations to Doha, Qatar, for talks scheduled for Tuesday, a development that, if it holds, would mark the most significant diplomatic opening between Washington and Tehran in years. U.S. officials confirmed the agreement to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, who first reported the […]

Fugitive in Minnesota's $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud captured in Somalia after four years on the run

Federal agents tracked down and arrested Abdikerm Eidleh in Mogadishu, Somalia, ending a four-year manhunt for one of the alleged architects of the largest pandemic welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota history. The 42-year-old faces a 31-count federal indictment for his alleged role in the $250 million Feeding Our Future scam, a scheme that stole from […]

Ocasio-Cortez previews Democrats' plan for 'aggressive' Trump investigations after midterms

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC on Friday that Democrats intend to launch sweeping congressional investigations into President Donald Trump and his administration if they win control of the House in the midterm elections. The New York Democrat framed the effort not as political payback but as a matter of precedent, and warned that "certain committees" […]

Julia Letlow wins Louisiana GOP Senate runoff, extending Trump's endorsement streak

Rep. Julia Letlow defeated State Treasurer John Fleming in Louisiana's Republican U.S. Senate runoff on Saturday night, advancing to the fall general election and delivering another victory for President Donald Trump's endorsement record. Multiple outlets, including The Associated Press, projected Letlow as the winner. The result ended a race that began with the political downfall […]

Pete Buttigieg says anonymous hoax report led authorities to remove his children

Pete Buttigieg claims Michigan State Police and child protective services showed up at his Traverse City home, arranged forensic interviews for his four-year-old twins, and ordered him not to be alone with them, all based on an anonymous tip that authorities later determined was false. The former Transportation Secretary described the ordeal in a Substack […]

Small plane crashes into Beijing's tallest skyscraper as Chinese authorities scramble to censor the evidence

A small aircraft slammed into the side of Beijing's tallest building Friday afternoon, killing the pilot and injuring thirteen others in a crash that sent debris raining onto one of China's busiest business districts, and triggered an immediate government effort to suppress nearly every trace of it from public view. The plane, identified as a […]

Carville calls for Democratic Party split over Mamdani-backed socialist primary winners

James Carville wants a divorce. The veteran Democratic strategist said on his podcast Thursday that he can no longer share a party with candidates like Darializa Avila Chevalier, the democratic socialist who just unseated a nine-term incumbent congressman in a New York primary, and he wants the break to be formal. "Let's negotiate a terms […]

French national pleads guilty to voting illegally in 2022 midterms, blames New Jersey's automatic registration

A 39-year-old French citizen living in Toms River, New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to casting an illegal ballot in the November 2022 federal midterm election, and his attorney says the state's automatic voter registration system is what put him on the rolls in the first place. Eliezer Kadoch entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge […]